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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
FORM 8-K
 
CURRENT REPORT
 
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
 
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported):  August 20, 2020
 
Ontrak, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
 
 
Delaware
001-31932
88-0464853
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation)
(Commission File Number)
(IRS Employer
Identification No.)
 
 
2120 Colorado Ave., Suite 230
Santa MonicaCA
90404
(Address of principal executive offices)
(Zip Code)
 
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code   (310) 444-4300
 
 
 
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)
 
 
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
 
Title of each class
Trading Symbol(s)
Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, $0.0001 par value
OTRK
The NASDAQ Capital Market
 
 
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instructions A.2. below):
 
Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
 
Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
 
Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
 
Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))
 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).
 
Emerging growth company  ☐
 
If an emerging growth company, 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.  ☐
 
 

 
Item 1.01
Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
 
On August 20, 2020, Ontrak, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with B.Riley Securities, Inc., as representative of the several underwriters identified therein (the “Underwriters”) relating to public offering (the “Offering”) of 1,700,000 shares (the “Shares”) of its 9.50% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock (the “Series A Preferred Stock”) with a liquidation preference of $25.00 per share.
 
The Underwriters agreed to purchase the Shares from the Company at a price of $23.50 per share. The Company has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 15% of the shares of Series A Preferred Stock initially sold to the public. The Shares were offered, issued and sold under a prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement filed with the SEC on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-230475) pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).
 
The Underwriting Agreement contained customary representations, warranties and agreements by the Company, customary conditions to closing, indemnification obligations of the Company and the Underwriters, including for liabilities under the Securities Act, other obligations of the parties and termination provisions. The representations, warranties and covenants contained in the Underwriting Agreement were made only for purposes of such agreement and as of specific dates, were solely for the benefit of the parties to such agreement and were subject to limitations agreed upon by the contracting parties.
 
The Underwriting Agreement is filed as Exhibit 1.1 hereto and is incorporated herein by reference. The foregoing description of the terms of the Underwriting Agreement is qualified in its entirety by reference to such exhibit. A copy of the opinion of Loeb & Loeb LLP relating to the legality of the issuance and sale of the Shares in the Offering is attached as Exhibit 5.1 hereto.
 
Item 3.03
Material Modification to Rights of Security Holders.
 
On August 21, 2020, the Company filed a Certificate of Designations (the “Series A Designations”) with the Delaware Secretary of State designating 1,955,000 shares of the Company’s authorized preferred stock as 9.50% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, par value $0.0001 per share, with a liquidation preference of $25.00 per share, and further establishing the voting rights, powers, preferences and privileges, and the relative, participating, optional or other rights, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, of the Series A Preferred Stock.
 
Under the terms of the Series A Preferred Stock, the ability of the Company to pay dividends on, make distributions with respect to, or to repurchase, redeem or acquire its common stock or any preferred stock ranking on parity with or junior to the Series A Preferred Stock, is subject to restrictions in the event that the Company does not declare and either pay or set aside a sum sufficient for payment of dividends on the Series A Preferred Stock for the immediately preceding dividend period.
 
The terms of the Series A Preferred Stock are more fully described in the Series A Designations which is filed as Exhibit 3.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference herein
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Item 5.03
Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.
 
On August 21, 2020, the Company filed the Series A Designations with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware to establish the voting rights, powers, preferences and privileges, and the relative, participating, optional or other rights, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, of the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock. The terms of the Series A Designations are more fully described in the Series A Designations which is included as Exhibit 3.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference herein.
 
 

 
Item 7.01
Regulation FD Disclosure.

On August 21, 2020, the Company issued a press release announcing that it had priced the Offering. A copy of this press release is attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report and incorporated by reference into this Item 7.01.
 
 
Item 9.01
Financial Statements and Exhibits.
 
(d) Exhibits.
 
Exhibit No.
Description
 
 
1.1
3.1
5.1
23.1
99.1
104
Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL).
 
 

 
SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
 
 
ONTRAK, INC.
 
  
 
 
 
Date:  August 21, 2020
By:
/s/ Brandon LaVerne
 
 
 
Brandon LaVerne
 
 
 
Chief Financial Officer
 
 
 

Exhibit 1.1

 

1,700,000 Shares


ONTRAK, INC.

9.50% SERIES A CUMULATIVE PERPETUAL PREFERRED STOCK








UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT

 

August 20, 2020

 

 

 

August 20, 2020

 

B. Riley Securities, Inc.
As representative of the several Underwriters

c/o B. Riley Securities, Inc.

299 Park Avenue, 7th Floor

New York, NY 10171

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

ONTRAK, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), proposes to issue and sell to the several Underwriters named in Schedule I hereto (the “Underwriters”) 1,700,000 shares of its 9.50% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock (the “Firm Shares”). The Company also proposes to issue and sell to the several Underwriters not more than an additional 255,000 shares of its 9.50% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock (the “Additional Shares”) if and to the extent that B. Riley Securities, Inc. (“B. Riley”), as sole representative of the Underwriters, shall have determined to exercise, on behalf of the Underwriters, the right to purchase such shares of Preferred Stock granted to the Underwriters in Section 2 hereof. The Firm Shares and the Additional Shares are hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Shares.” The shares of 9.50% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company to be outstanding after giving effect to the sales contemplated hereby are hereinafter referred to as the “Preferred Stock.

 

The Company has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-230475), including a preliminary prospectus supplement, relating to the Shares. The registration statement as amended at the time it becomes effective, including the information (if any) deemed to be part of the registration statement at the time of effectiveness pursuant to Rule 430A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) and the documents and information otherwise deemed to be a part thereof or included therein pursuant to Rule 430B under the Securities Act (the “Rule 430B Information”), is hereinafter referred to as the “Registration Statement.” The prospectus in the form in which it was filed with the Commission in connection with the initial filing of the Registration Statement is herein called the “Base Prospectus.” Each preliminary prospectus supplement to the Base Prospectus (including the Base Prospectus as so supplemented) that described the Shares and omitted the Rule 430B Information and that was used prior to the filing of the final prospectus supplement referred to in the following sentence is herein called a “Preliminary Prospectus.” Promptly after the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Company will prepare and file with the Commission a final prospectus supplement to the Base Prospectus relating to the Shares in accordance with the provisions of Rule 430B and Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act Regulations. Such final prospectus supplement (including the Base Prospectus as so supplemented), in the form filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act is herein called the “Prospectus.”   If the Company has filed an abbreviated registration statement to register additional shares of Preferred Stock pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act (a “Rule 462 Registration Statement”), then any reference herein to the term “Registration Statement” shall be deemed to include such Rule 462 Registration Statement.

 

 

 

For purposes of this Agreement, “free writing prospectus” has the meaning set forth in Rule 405 under the Securities Act, “Time of Sale Prospectus” means the Preliminary Prospectus together with the documents and pricing information set forth in Schedule II hereto, and “broadly available road show” means a “bona fide electronic road show” as defined in Rule 433(h)(5) under the Securities Act that has been made available without restriction to any person. As used herein, the terms “Registration Statement,” “preliminary prospectus,” “Time of Sale Prospectus” and “Prospectus” shall include the documents, if any, incorporated by reference therein as of the date hereof. The terms “supplement,” “amendment” and “amend” as used herein with respect to the Registration Statement, the Prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus shall include all documents subsequently filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), that are deemed to be incorporated by reference therein.

 

1.       Representations and Warranties. The Company represents and warrants to and agrees with each of the Underwriters that:

 

(a)     The Registration Statement has become effective; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement is in effect, and no proceedings for such purpose or pursuant to Section 8A under the Securities Act are pending before or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened by the Commission.

 

(b)      Each document, if any, filed or to be filed pursuant to the Exchange Act and incorporated by reference in the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus complied or will comply when so filed in all material respects with the Exchange Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, the Registration Statement, when it became effective, did not contain and, as amended or supplemented, if applicable, will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, the Registration Statement and the Prospectus comply and, as amended or supplemented, if applicable, will comply in all material respects with the Securities Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, the Time of Sale Prospectus does not, and at the time of each sale of the Shares in connection with the offering when the Prospectus is not yet available to prospective purchasers and at the Closing Date (as defined in Section 4), the Time of Sale Prospectus, as then amended or supplemented by the Company, if applicable, will not, contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, each broadly available road show, if any, when considered together with the Time of Sale Prospectus, does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading and the Prospectus does not contain and, as amended or supplemented, if applicable, will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, except that the representations and warranties set forth in this paragraph do not apply to statements or omissions in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus based upon information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through B. Riley expressly for use therein.

 

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(c)     The Company is not an “ineligible issuer” in connection with the offering pursuant to Rules 164, 405 and 433 under the Securities Act. Any free writing prospectus that the Company is required to file pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act has been, or will be, filed with the Commission in accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder. Each free writing prospectus that the Company has filed, or is required to file, pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act or that was prepared by or on behalf of or used or referred to by the Company complies or will comply in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder. Except for the free writing prospectuses, if any, identified in Schedule II hereto, and electronic road shows, if any, each furnished to B. Riley before first use, the Company has not prepared, used or referred to, and will not, without B. Riley ’s prior consent, prepare, use or refer to, any free writing prospectus.

 

(d)     The Company has been duly incorporated, is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, has the corporate power and authority to own or lease its property and to conduct its business as described in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus and is duly qualified to transact business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which the conduct of its business or its ownership or leasing of property requires such qualification, except to the extent that the failure to be so qualified or be in good standing would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a material adverse effect on the Company and its Subsidiaries (as defined below), taken as a whole.

 

(e)     Each subsidiary that is a significant subsidiary (as such term is defined in Rule 1-02 of Regulation S-X promulgated by the Commission)(each, a “Subsidiary,” collectively, the “Subsidiaries”), of the Company has been duly incorporated, organized or formed, is validly existing as a corporation or other business entity in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation, organization or formation, has the corporate or other business entity power and authority to own or lease its property and to conduct its business as described in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus and is duly qualified to transact business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which the conduct of its business or its ownership or leasing of property requires such qualification, except where the failure to be so qualified or in good standing or have such power or authority would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the assets, business, operations, earnings, properties, condition (financial or otherwise), prospects, stockholders’ equity or results of operations of the Company and the Subsidiaries taken as a whole, or prevent the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby (“Material Adverse Effect”); all of the issued shares of capital stock or other equity interests of each Subsidiary of the Company have been duly and validly authorized and issued, are fully paid and non-assessable and are owned directly or indirectly by the Company, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, equities or claims.

 

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(f)     This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by the Company.

 

(g)     The authorized capital stock of the Company conforms as to legal matters to the description thereof contained in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus.

 

(h)     The Shares have been duly authorized and, when issued, delivered and paid for in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable, and the issuance of the Shares will not be subject to any preemptive or similar rights.

 

(i)     The execution and delivery by the Company of, and the performance by the Company of its obligations under, this Agreement will not contravene any provision of applicable law or the certificate of incorporation or by-laws of the Company or any agreement or other instrument binding upon the Company or any of its Subsidiaries that is material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or any judgment, order or decree of any governmental body, agency or court having jurisdiction over the Company or any Subsidiary, and no consent, approval, authorization or order of, or qualification with, any governmental body, agency or court is required for the performance by the Company of its obligations under this Agreement, except such as may be required by the securities or Blue Sky laws of the various states in connection with the offer and sale of the Shares.

 

(j)     There has not occurred any material adverse change, or any development involving a prospective material adverse change, in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business or operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, from that set forth in the Time of Sale Prospectus.

 

(k)     There are no legal or governmental proceedings pending or threatened to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or to which any of the properties of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is subject  other than proceedings accurately described in all material respects in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus and proceedings that would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, or on the power or ability of the Company to perform its obligations under this Agreement or to consummate the transactions contemplated by each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus or  that are required to be described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus and are not so described; and there are no statutes, regulations, contracts or other documents that are required to be described in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus or to be filed as exhibits to the Registration Statement that are not described or filed as required.

 

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(l)     Each Preliminary Prospectus filed as part of the Registration Statement or filed pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act, complied when so filed in all material respects with the Securities Act and the applicable rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.

 

(m)     The Company is not, and after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Shares and the application of the proceeds thereof as described in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus will not be, required to register as an “investment company” as such term is defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

 

(n)     The Company and each of its Subsidiaries  are in compliance with any and all applicable foreign, federal, state and local laws and regulations relating to the protection of human health and safety, the environment or hazardous or toxic substances or wastes, pollutants or contaminants (“Environmental Laws”),  have received all permits, licenses or other approvals required of them under applicable Environmental Laws to conduct their respective businesses and  are in compliance with all terms and conditions of any such permit, license or approval, except where such noncompliance with Environmental Laws, failure to receive required permits, licenses or other approvals or failure to comply with the terms and conditions of such permits, licenses or approvals would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(o)     There are no costs or liabilities associated with Environmental Laws (including, without limitation, any capital or operating expenditures required for clean-up, closure of properties or compliance with Environmental Laws or any permit, license or approval, any related constraints on operating activities and any potential liabilities to third parties) which would, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(p)     Except as disclosed in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus, there are no contracts, agreements or understandings between the Company and any person granting such person the right to require the Company to file a registration statement under the Securities Act with respect to any securities of the Company or to require the Company to include such securities with the Shares registered pursuant to the Registration Statement.

 

(q)     (i) None of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or, to the Company’s knowledge, any affiliate or director, officer, or employee thereof, or, to the Company’s knowledge, any agent or representative of the Company or of any of its Subsidiaries, has taken or will take any action in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization or approval of the payment, giving or receipt of money, property, gifts or anything else of value, directly or indirectly, to any government official (including any officer or employee of a government or government-owned or controlled entity or of a public international organization, or any person acting in an official capacity for or on behalf of any of the foregoing, or any political party or party official or candidate for political office) (“Government Official”) in order to influence official action, or to any person in violation of any applicable anti-corruption laws; (ii) the Company and each of its Subsidiaries and affiliates have conducted their businesses in compliance with applicable anti-corruption laws and have instituted and maintained and will continue to maintain policies and procedures reasonably designed to promote and achieve compliance with such laws and with the representations and warranties contained herein; and (iii) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries will use, directly or indirectly, the proceeds of the offering 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 any applicable anti-corruption laws.

 

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(r)     The operations of the Company and each of its Subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in material compliance with all applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements, including those of the Bank Secrecy Act, as amended by Title III of the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (USA PATRIOT Act), and the applicable anti-money laundering statutes of jurisdictions where the Company and each of its Subsidiaries conduct business, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency (collectively, the “Anti-Money Laundering Laws”), and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to the Anti-Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened.

 

(s)     (i) None of the Company, any of its Subsidiaries, or any director, officer, or employee thereof, or, to the Company’s knowledge, any agent, affiliate or representative of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, is an individual or entity (“Person”) that is, or is owned or controlled by one or more Persons that are:

 

(A) the subject of any sanctions administered or enforced by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, Her Majesty’s Treasury, or other relevant sanctions authority (collectively, “Sanctions”), or

 

(B) located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject of Sanctions (including, without limitation, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria).

 

(ii) The Company 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:

 

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(A) to fund or facilitate any activities or business of or with any Person or in any country or territory that, at the time of such funding or facilitation, is the subject of Sanctions; or

 

(B) in any other manner that will result in a violation of Sanctions by any Person (including any Person participating in the offering, whether as underwriter, advisor, investor or otherwise).

 

(iii) The Company and each of its Subsidiaries have not knowingly engaged in, are not now knowingly engaged in, and will not engage in, any dealings or transactions with any Person, or in any country or territory, that at the time of the dealing or transaction is or was the subject of Sanctions.

 

(t)     (i) The Company and its Subsidiaries own or have a valid license to all patents, inventions, copyrights, know how (including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or procedures), trademarks, service marks and trade names (collectively, “Intellectual Property Rights”) used in or reasonably necessary to the conduct of their respective businesses as conducted as of the date hereof, except to the extent that the failure to own or possess adequate rights to use such Intellectual Property would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; (ii) the Intellectual Property Rights owned by the Company and its Subsidiaries and, to the Company’s knowledge, the Intellectual Property Rights licensed to the Company and its Subsidiaries, are valid, subsisting and enforceable, and there is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the validity, scope or enforceability of any such Intellectual Property Rights which action, suit, proceeding or claim, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.; (iii) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any notice alleging any infringement, misappropriation or other violation of Intellectual Property Rights which, singly or in the aggregate, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, would have a Material Adverse Effect; (iv) to the Company’s knowledge, no third party is infringing, misappropriating or otherwise violating, or has infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated, any Intellectual Property Rights owned by the Company; (v) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries infringes, misappropriates or otherwise violates, or has infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated, any Intellectual Property Rights which, singly or in the aggregate, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, would have a Material Adverse Effect; (vi) all employees or contractors engaged in the development of Intellectual Property Rights on behalf of the Company or any subsidiary of the Company have executed an invention assignment agreement whereby such employees or contractors presently assign all of their right, title and interest in and to such Intellectual Property Rights to the Company or the applicable subsidiary, and to the Company’s knowledge no such agreement has been breached or violated; and (vii) the Company and its Subsidiaries use, and have used, commercially reasonable efforts to appropriately maintain all information intended to be maintained as a trade secret.

 

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(u)     (i) The Company and its Subsidiaries use and have used any and all software and other materials distributed under a “free,” “open source,” or similar licensing model (including but not limited to the MIT License, Apache License, GNU General Public License, GNU Lesser General Public License and GNU Affero General Public License) (“Open Source Software”) in compliance with all material license terms applicable to such Open Source Software; and (ii) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries uses or distributes or has used or distributed any Open Source Software in any manner that requires or has required (A) the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to permit reverse engineering of any software code or other technology owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (B) any software code or other technology owned by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries to be (1) disclosed or distributed in source code form, (2) licensed for the purpose of making derivative works or (3) redistributed at no charge.

 

(v)     (i) The Company and each of its Subsidiaries have complied in all material respects and are presently in compliance with all material internal and external privacy policies, contractual obligations, industry standards, applicable laws, statutes, judgments, orders, rules and regulations of any court or arbitrator or other governmental or regulatory authority and any other legal obligations, in each case, relating to the collection, use, transfer, import, export, storage, protection, disposal and disclosure by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of personal, personally identifiable, household, sensitive, confidential or regulated data (“Data Security Obligations”, and such data, “Data”); (ii) the Company has not received any notification of or complaint regarding and is unaware of any other facts that, individually or in the aggregate, would reasonably indicate non-compliance with any Data Security Obligation; and (iii) of there is no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body pending or threatened alleging non-compliance with any Data Security Obligation.

 

(w)     The Company and each of its Subsidiaries have taken all technical and organizational measures necessary to protect the information technology systems and Data used in connection with the operation of the Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ businesses. Without limiting the foregoing, the Company and its Subsidiaries have used reasonable efforts to establish and maintain, and have established, maintained, implemented and complied with, reasonable information technology, information security, cyber security and data protection controls, policies and procedures, including oversight, access controls, encryption, technological and physical safeguards and business continuity/disaster recovery and security plans that are designed to protect against and prevent breach, destruction, loss, unauthorized distribution, use, access, disablement, misappropriation or modification, or other compromise or misuse of or relating to any information technology system or Data used in connection with the operation of the Company’s and its Subsidiaries’ businesses (“Breach”). There has been no such Breach, and the Company and its Subsidiaries have not been notified of and have no knowledge of any event or condition that would reasonably be expected to result in, any such Breach that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(x)     The Company and each of its Subsidiaries have filed all federal, state, local and foreign tax returns required to be filed through the date of this Agreement or have requested extensions thereof (except where the failure to file would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect) and have paid all taxes required to be paid thereon (except for cases in which the failure to file or pay would not, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, or, except as currently being contested in good faith and for which reserves required by generally accepted accounting principles (“U.S. GAAP”) have been created in the financial statements of the Company), and no tax deficiency has been determined adversely to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries which, singly or in the aggregate, has had (nor does the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries have any notice or knowledge of any tax deficiency which could reasonably be expected to be determined adversely to the Company or its Subsidiaries and which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(y)     The financial statements included or incorporated by reference in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus, together with the related schedules and notes thereto, comply as to form in all material respects with the applicable accounting requirements of the Securities Act and present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of the Company and its subsidiaries as of the dates shown and its results of operations and cash flows for the periods shown, and such financial statements have been prepared in conformity with U.S. GAAP applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods covered thereby except for any normal year-end adjustments in the Company’s quarterly financial statements. The other financial information included in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus has been derived from the accounting records of the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries and presents fairly in all material respects the information shown thereby. The statistical, industry-related and market-related data included in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus are based on or derived from sources which the Company reasonably and in good faith believes are reliable and accurate and such data is consistent with the sources from which they are derived, in each case in all material respects.

 

(z)     EisnerAmper, LLP, who have certified certain financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries and delivered its report with respect to the audited consolidated financial statements and schedules filed with the Commission as part of the Registration Statement and included in each of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus, is an independent registered public accounting firm with respect to the Company within the meaning of the Securities Act and the applicable rules and regulations thereunder adopted by the Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States).

 

(aa)     The Company and each of its Subsidiaries maintain a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that  transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations;  transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP and to maintain asset accountability;  access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization;  the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences; and  the interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement is accurate. Since the end of the Company’s most recent audited fiscal year, there has been (i) no material weakness in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting (whether or not remediated) and (ii) no change in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.

 

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(bb)     The interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language included or incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement fairly presents the information called for in all material respects and has been prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto.

 

(cc)     The Company has not alone engaged in any Testing-the-Waters Communication with any person and has not authorized anyone other than B. Riley to engage in Testing-the-Waters Communications. The Company reconfirms that B. Riley has been authorized to act on its behalf in undertaking Testing-the-Waters Communications. The Company has not distributed any Testing-the-Waters Communication that is a written communication within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act. “Testing-the-Waters Communication” means any communication with potential investors undertaken in reliance on Section 5(d) or Rule 163B of the Securities Act.

 

(dd)     As of the time of each sale of the Shares in connection with the offering when the Prospectus is not yet available to prospective purchasers, none of the Time of Sale Prospectus, any free writing prospectus, when considered together with the Time of Sale Prospectus, and any individual Testing-the-Waters Communication, when considered together with the Time of Sale Prospectus, included, includes or will include an untrue statement of a material fact or omitted, omits or will omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

 

2.     Agreements to Sell and Purchase. The Company hereby agrees to sell to the several Underwriters, and each Underwriter, upon the basis of the representations and warranties herein contained, but subject to the terms and conditions hereinafter stated, agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase from the Company the respective numbers of Firm Shares set forth in Schedule I hereto opposite its name at $23.50 a share (the “Purchase Price”).

 

On the basis of the representations and warranties contained in this Agreement, and subject to its terms and conditions, the Company agrees to sell to the Underwriters the Additional Shares, and the Underwriters shall have the right to purchase, severally and not jointly, up to 255,000 Additional Shares at the Purchase Price, provided, however, that the amount paid by the Underwriters for any Additional Shares shall be reduced by an amount per share equal to any dividends declared by the Company and payable on the Firm Shares but not payable on such Additional Shares. B. Riley may exercise this right on behalf of the Underwriters in whole or from time to time in part by giving written notice not later than 30 days after the date of this Agreement. Any exercise notice shall specify the number of Additional Shares to be purchased by the Underwriters and the date on which such shares are to be purchased. Each purchase date must be at least one business day after the written notice is given and may not be earlier than the closing date for the Firm Shares or later than ten business days after the date of such notice. Additional Shares may be purchased as provided in Section 4 hereof solely for the purpose of covering sales of shares in excess of the number of the Firm Shares. On each day, if any, that Additional Shares are to be purchased (an “Option Closing Date”), each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to purchase the number of Additional Shares (subject to such adjustments to eliminate fractional shares as B. Riley may determine) that bears the same proportion to the total number of Additional Shares to be purchased on such Option Closing Date as the number of Firm Shares set forth in Schedule I hereto opposite the name of such Underwriter bears to the total number of Firm Shares.

 

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3.     Terms of Public Offering. The Company is advised by B. Riley that the Underwriters propose to make a public offering of their respective portions of the Shares as soon after the Registration Statement and this Agreement have become effective as in B. Riley’s judgment is advisable. The Company is further advised by B. Riley that the Shares are to be offered to the public initially at $25.00 a share (the “Public Offering Price”) and to certain dealers selected by B. Riley at a price that represents a concession not in excess of $0.90 a share under the Public Offering Price.

 

4.     Payment and Delivery. Payment for the Firm Shares shall be made to the Company in Federal or other funds immediately available in New York City against delivery of such Firm Shares for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters at 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on August 25, 2020, or at such other time on the same or such other date, not later than August 25, 2020, as shall be designated in writing by B. Riley. The time and date of such payment are hereinafter referred to as the “Closing Date.”

 

Payment for any Additional Shares shall be made to the Company in Federal or other funds immediately available in New York City against delivery of such Additional Shares for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters at 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the date specified in the corresponding notice described in Section 2 or at such other time on the same or on such other date, in any event not later than October 2, 2020, as shall be designated in writing by B. Riley.

 

The Firm Shares and Additional Shares shall be registered in such names and in such denominations as B. Riley shall request not later than one full business day prior to the Closing Date or the applicable Option Closing Date, as the case may be. The Firm Shares and Additional Shares shall be delivered to B. Riley on the Closing Date or an Option Closing Date, as the case may be, for the respective accounts of the several Underwriters, with any transfer taxes payable in connection with the transfer of the Shares to the Underwriters duly paid, against payment of the Purchase Price therefor.

 

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5.     Conditions to the Underwriters’ Obligations.

 

The several obligations of the Underwriters are subject to the following further conditions:

 

(a)     Subsequent to the execution and delivery of this Agreement and prior to the Closing Date:

 

(i)     no order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall be in effect, and no proceeding for such purpose or pursuant to Section 8A under the Securities Act shall be pending before or threatened by the Commission;

 

(ii)     there shall not have occurred any downgrading, nor shall any notice have been given of any intended or potential downgrading or of any review for a possible change that does not indicate the direction of the possible change, in the rating accorded any of the securities of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries by any “nationally recognized statistical rating organization,” as such term is defined in Section 3(a)(62) of the Exchange Act; and

 

(iii)     there shall not have occurred any change, or any development involving a prospective change, in the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business or operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, from that set forth in the Time of Sale Prospectus that, in B. Riley’s judgment, is material and adverse and that makes it, in B. Riley’s judgment, impracticable to market the Shares on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Time of Sale Prospectus.

 

(b)     The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date a certificate, dated the Closing Date and signed by an executive officer of the Company, to the effect set forth in Sections 5(a)(i) and 5(a)(ii) above and to the effect that the representations and warranties of the Company contained in this Agreement are true and correct as of the Closing Date and that the Company has complied with all of the agreements and satisfied all of the conditions on its part to be performed or satisfied hereunder on or before the Closing Date.

 

The officer signing and delivering such certificate may rely upon the best of his or her knowledge as to proceedings threatened.

 

(c)     The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion and negative assurance letter of Loeb & Loeb LLP, outside counsel for the Company, dated the Closing Date, in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters.

 

(d)     The Underwriters shall have received on the Closing Date an opinion and negative assurance letter of Duane Morris LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, dated the Closing Date, in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Underwriters.

 

With respect to the negative assurance letters to be delivered pursuant to Section 5(c) above, Loeb & Loeb LLP may state that their opinions and beliefs are based upon their participation in the preparation of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus, the Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto and review and discussion of the contents thereof, but are without independent check or verification, except as specified. With respect to opinions and negative assurance letters to be delivered pursuant to Section 5(d) above, Duane Morris LLP may state that their opinions and beliefs are based upon their participation in the preparation of the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto (other than the documents incorporated by reference) and upon review and discussion of the contents thereof (including documents incorporated by reference), but are without independent check or verification, except as specified.

 

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(e)     The Underwriters shall have received, on each of the date hereof and the Closing Date, a letter dated the date hereof or the Closing Date, as the case may be, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters, from EisnerAmper LLP, independent public accountants, containing statements and information of the type ordinarily included in accountants’ “comfort letters” to underwriters with respect to the financial statements and certain financial information contained in the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus and the Prospectus; provided that the letter delivered on the Closing Date shall use a “cut-off date” not earlier than the date hereof.

 

(f)     [OMITTED]

 

(g)     The several obligations of the Underwriters to purchase Additional Shares hereunder are subject to the delivery to B. Riley on the applicable Option Closing Date of the following:

 

(i)     a certificate, dated the Option Closing Date and signed by an executive officer of the Company, confirming that the certificate delivered on the Closing Date pursuant to Section 5(b) hereof remains true and correct as of such Option Closing Date;

 

(ii)     an opinion and negative assurance letter of Loeb & Loeb LLP outside counsel for the Company, dated the Option Closing Date, relating to the Additional Shares to be purchased on such Option Closing Date and otherwise to the same effect as the opinion required by Section 5(c) hereof;

 

(iii)     an opinion and negative assurance letter of Duane Morris LLP, counsel for the Underwriters, dated the Option Closing Date, relating to the Additional Shares to be purchased on such Option Closing Date and otherwise to the same effect as the opinion required by Section 5(d) hereof;

 

(iv)     a letter dated the Option Closing Date, in form and substance satisfactory to the Underwriters, from EisnerAmper, independent public accountants, substantially in the same form and substance as the letter furnished to the Underwriters pursuant to Section 5(e) hereof; provided that the letter delivered on the Option Closing Date shall use a “cut-off date” not earlier than two business days prior to such Option Closing Date; and

 

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(v)     such other documents as B. Riley may reasonably request with respect to the good standing of the Company, the due authorization and issuance of the Additional Shares to be sold on such Option Closing Date and other matters related to the issuance of such Additional Shares.

 

6.     Covenants of the Company. The Company covenants with each Underwriter as follows:

 

(a)     To furnish to B. Riley upon request, without charge, signed copies of the Registration Statement (including exhibits thereto and documents incorporated by reference) and for delivery to each other Underwriter a conformed copy of the Registration Statement (without exhibits thereto but including documents incorporated by reference) and to furnish to B. Riley in New York City, without charge, prior to 10:00 a.m. New York City time on the business day next succeeding the date of this Agreement and during the period mentioned in Section 6(e) or 6(f) below, as many copies of the Time of Sale Prospectus, the Prospectus, any documents incorporated by reference therein and any supplements and amendments thereto or to the Registration Statement as B. Riley may reasonably request.

 

(b)     Before amending or supplementing the Registration Statement, the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus, to furnish to B. Riley a copy of each such proposed amendment or supplement and not to file any such proposed amendment or supplement to which B. Riley reasonably objects, and to file with the Commission within the applicable period specified in Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act any prospectus required to be filed pursuant to such Rule.

 

(c)     To furnish to B. Riley a copy of each proposed free writing prospectus to be prepared by or on behalf of, used by, or referred to by the Company and not to use or refer to any proposed free writing prospectus to which B. Riley reasonably objects.

 

(d)     Not to take any action that would result in an Underwriter or the Company being required to file with the Commission pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act a free writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf of the Underwriter that the Underwriter otherwise would not have been required to file thereunder.

 

(e)     If the Time of Sale Prospectus is being used to solicit offers to buy the Shares at a time when the Prospectus is not yet available to prospective purchasers and any event shall occur or condition exist as a result of which it is necessary to amend or supplement the Time of Sale Prospectus in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances, not misleading, or if any event shall occur or condition exist as a result of which the Time of Sale Prospectus conflicts with the information contained in the Registration Statement then on file, or if, in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters, it is necessary to amend or supplement the Time of Sale Prospectus to comply with applicable law, forthwith to prepare, file with the Commission and furnish, at its own expense, to the Underwriters and to any dealer upon request, either amendments or supplements to the Time of Sale Prospectus so that the statements in the Time of Sale Prospectus as so amended or supplemented will not, in the light of the circumstances when the Time of Sale Prospectus is delivered to a prospective purchaser, be misleading or so that the Time of Sale Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, will no longer conflict with the Registration Statement, or so that the Time of Sale Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, will comply with applicable law.

 

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(f)     If, during such period after the first date of the public offering of the Shares as in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters the Prospectus (or in lieu thereof the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) of the Securities Act) is required by law to be delivered in connection with sales by an Underwriter or dealer, any event shall occur or condition exist as a result of which it is necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances when the Prospectus (or in lieu thereof the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) of the Securities Act) is delivered to a purchaser, not misleading, or if, in the opinion of counsel for the Underwriters, it is necessary to amend or supplement the Prospectus to comply with applicable law, forthwith to prepare, file with the Commission and furnish, at its own expense, to the Underwriters and to the dealers (whose names and addresses B. Riley will furnish to the Company) to which Shares may have been sold by B. Riley on behalf of the Underwriters and to any other dealers upon request, either amendments or supplements to the Prospectus so that the statements in the Prospectus as so amended or supplemented will not, in the light of the circumstances when the Prospectus (or in lieu thereof the notice referred to in Rule 173(a) of the Securities Act) is delivered to a purchaser, be misleading or so that the Prospectus, as amended or supplemented, will comply with applicable law.

 

(g)     To endeavor to qualify the Shares for offer and sale under the securities or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions as B. Riley shall reasonably request.

 

(h)     To make generally available to the Company’s security holders and to B. Riley as soon as practicable an earnings statement covering a period of at least twelve months beginning with the first fiscal quarter of the Company occurring after the date of this Agreement which shall satisfy the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.

 

(i)     Whether or not the transactions contemplated in this Agreement are consummated or this Agreement is terminated, to pay or cause to be paid all expenses incident to the performance of its obligations under this Agreement, including:  the fees, disbursements and expenses of the Company’s counsel and the Company’s accountants in connection with the registration and delivery of the Shares under the Securities Act and all other fees or expenses in connection with the preparation and filing of the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus, the Prospectus, any free writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf of, used by, or referred to by the Company and amendments and supplements to any of the foregoing, including all printing costs associated therewith, and the mailing and delivering of copies thereof to the Underwriters and dealers, in the quantities hereinabove specified,  all costs and expenses related to the transfer and delivery of the Shares to the Underwriters, including any transfer or other taxes payable thereon, the cost of printing or producing any Blue Sky or Legal Investment memorandum in connection with the offer and sale of the Shares under state securities laws and all expenses in connection with the qualification of the Shares for offer and sale under state securities laws as provided in Section 6(g) hereof, including filing fees and the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in connection with such qualification and in connection with the Blue Sky or Legal Investment memorandum, all filing fees and the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel to the Underwriters incurred in connection with the review and qualification of the offering of the Shares by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, all costs and expenses incident to listing the Shares on the NASDAQ Capital Market, the cost of printing certificates representing the Shares, the costs and charges of any transfer agent, registrar or depositary, the costs and expenses of the Company relating to investor presentations on any “road show” undertaken in connection with the marketing of the offering of the Shares, including, without limitation, expenses associated with the preparation or dissemination of any electronic road show, expenses associated with the production of road show slides and graphics, fees and expenses of any consultants engaged in connection with the road show presentations with the prior approval of the Company, travel and lodging expenses of the representatives and officers of the Company and any such consultants, and the cost of any aircraft chartered in connection with the road show, the document production charges and expenses associated with printing this Agreement; the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel to the Underwriters in connection with the transactions contemplated in this Agreement, in an amount not to exceed $100,000, and all other costs and expenses incident to the performance of the obligations of the Company hereunder for which provision is not otherwise made in this Section. It is understood, however, that except as provided in this Section, Section 8 entitled “Indemnity and Contribution” and the last paragraph of Section 10 below, the Underwriters will pay all of their costs and expenses, including stock transfer taxes payable on resale of any of the Shares by them and any advertising expenses connected with any offers they may make.

 

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(j)     If requested, the Company will deliver to each Underwriter (or its agent), on the date of execution of this Agreement, a properly completed and executed Certification Regarding Beneficial Owners of Legal Entity Customers, together with copies of identifying documentation, and the Company undertakes to provide such additional supporting documentation as each Underwriter may reasonably request in connection with the verification of the foregoing Certification.

 

The Company also covenants with each Underwriter that, without the prior written consent of B. Riley on behalf of the Underwriters, it will not, and will not publicly disclose an intention to, during the period ending 30 days after the date of the Prospectus (the “Restricted Period”),  offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, lend, or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, any shares of Preferred Stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Preferred Stock, or  enter into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of the Preferred Stock, whether any such transaction described in clause 1 or 2 above is to be settled by delivery of Preferred Stock or such other securities, in cash or otherwise or  file any registration statement with the Commission relating to the offering of any shares of Preferred Stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Preferred Stock. The restrictions contained in the foregoing sentence shall not apply to (A) the Shares to be sold hereunder, (B) the issuance by the Company of shares of Preferred Stock upon the exercise of an option or warrant or the conversion of a security outstanding on the date hereof as described in each of the Time of Sale Prospectus and Prospectus, or (C) facilitating the establishment of a trading plan on behalf of a shareholder, officer or director of the Company pursuant to Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act, for the transfer of shares of Preferred Stock, provided that (i) such plan does not provide for the transfer of Preferred Stock during the Restricted Period and (ii) to the extent a public announcement or filing under the Exchange Act, if any, is required of or voluntarily made by the Company regarding the establishment of such plan, such announcement or filing shall include a statement to the effect that no transfer of Preferred Stock may be made under such plan during the Restricted Period.

 

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7.     Covenants of the Underwriters. Each Underwriter, severally and not jointly, covenants with the Company not to take any action that would result in the Company being required to file with the Commission under Rule 433(d) a free writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf of such Underwriter that otherwise would not be required to be filed by the Company thereunder, but for the action of the Underwriter.

 

8.     Indemnity and Contribution. The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Underwriter, each person, if any, who controls any Underwriter within the meaning of either Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act and each affiliate of any Underwriter within the meaning of Rule 405 under the Securities Act from and against any and all losses, claims, damages and liabilities (including, without limitation, any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with defending or investigating any such action or claim) that arise out of, or are based upon, any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in the Registration Statement or any amendment thereof, any preliminary prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto, any issuer free writing prospectus as defined in Rule 433(h) under the Securities Act, any Company information that the Company has filed, or is required to file, pursuant to Rule 433(d) under the Securities Act, any “road show” as defined in Rule 433(h) under the Securities Act (a “road show”), the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto, or any Testing-the-Waters Communication, or arise out of, or are based upon, any omission or alleged omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, except insofar as such losses, claims, damages or liabilities arise out of, or are based upon, any such untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with any information relating to any Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through B. Riley expressly for use therein, it being understood and agreed that the only such information furnished by the Underwriters through B. Riley consists of the information described as such in paragraph (b) below.

 

(b)     Each Underwriter agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its directors, its officers who sign the Registration Statement and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of either Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act to the same extent as the foregoing indemnity from the Company to such Underwriter, but only with reference to information relating to such Underwriter furnished to the Company in writing by such Underwriter through B. Riley expressly for use in the Registration Statement, any preliminary prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus, any issuer free writing prospectus, road show, or the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto, which information consists solely of: the information contained in paragraphs four (relating to the terms of the offering by the Underwriters), ten (relating to passive market making), eleven, twelve and thirteen (relating to stabilizing transactions, short positions, and penalty bids), and fourteen (relating to other relationships and conflicts of interests).

 

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(c)     In case any proceeding (including any governmental investigation) shall be instituted involving any person in respect of which indemnity may be sought pursuant to Section 8(a) or 8(b), such person (the “indemnified party”) shall promptly notify the person against whom such indemnity may be sought (the “indemnifying party”) in writing and the indemnifying party, upon request of the indemnified party, shall retain counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party to represent the indemnified party and any others the indemnifying party may designate in such proceeding and shall pay the fees and disbursements of such counsel related to such proceeding. In any such proceeding, any indemnified party shall have the right to retain its own counsel, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such indemnified party unless the indemnifying party and the indemnified party shall have mutually agreed to the retention of such counsel or the named parties to any such proceeding (including any impleaded parties) include both the indemnifying party and the indemnified party and representation of both parties by the same counsel would be inappropriate due to actual or potential differing interests between them. It is understood that the indemnifying party shall not, in respect of the legal expenses of any indemnified party in connection with any proceeding or related proceedings in the same jurisdiction, be liable for the fees and expenses of more than one separate firm (in addition to any local counsel) for all such indemnified parties and that all such fees and expenses shall be reimbursed as they are incurred. Such firm shall be designated in writing by B. Riley, in the case of parties indemnified pursuant to Section 8(a), and by the Company, in the case of parties indemnified pursuant to Section 8(b). The indemnifying party shall not be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent, but if settled with such consent or if there be a final judgment for the plaintiff, the indemnifying party agrees to indemnify the indemnified party from and against any loss or liability by reason of such settlement or judgment. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, if at any time an indemnified party shall have requested an indemnifying party to reimburse the indemnified party for fees and expenses of counsel as contemplated by the second and third sentences of this paragraph, the indemnifying party agrees that it shall be liable for any settlement of any proceeding effected without its written consent if (i) such settlement is entered into more than 30 days after receipt by such indemnifying party of the aforesaid request and (ii) such indemnifying party shall not have reimbursed the indemnified party in accordance with such request prior to the date of such settlement. No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the indemnified party, effect any settlement of any pending or threatened proceeding in respect of which any indemnified party is or could have been a party and indemnity could have been sought hereunder by such indemnified party, unless such settlement includes an unconditional release of such indemnified party from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such proceeding.

 

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(d)     To the extent the indemnification provided for in Section 8(a) or 8(b) is unavailable to an indemnified party or insufficient in respect of any losses, claims, damages or liabilities referred to therein, then each indemnifying party under such paragraph, in lieu of indemnifying such indemnified party thereunder, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages or liabilities in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other hand from the offering of the Shares or if the allocation provided by clause 8(d)(i) above is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause 8(d)(i) above but also the relative fault of the Company on the one hand and of the Underwriters on the other hand in connection with the statements or omissions that resulted in such losses, claims, damages or liabilities, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other hand in connection with the offering of the Shares shall be deemed to be in the same respective proportions as the net proceeds from the offering of the Shares (before deducting expenses) received by the Company and the total underwriting discounts and commissions received by the Underwriters, in each case as set forth in the table on the cover of the Prospectus, bear to the aggregate Public Offering Price of the Shares. The relative fault of the Company on the one hand and the Underwriters on the other hand shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Company or by the Underwriters and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission. The Underwriters’ respective obligations to contribute pursuant to this Section 8 are several in proportion to the respective number of Shares they have purchased hereunder, and not joint.

 

(e)     The Company and the Underwriters agree that it would not be just or equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 8 were determined by pro rata allocation (even if the Underwriters were treated as one entity for such purpose) or by any other method of allocation that does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in Section 8(d). The amount paid or payable by an indemnified party as a result of the losses, claims, damages and liabilities referred to in Section 8(d) shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth above, any legal or other expenses reasonably incurred by such indemnified party in connection with investigating or defending any such action or claim. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Section 8, no Underwriter shall be required to contribute any amount in excess of the amount by which the total price at which the Shares underwritten by it and distributed to the public were offered to the public exceeds the amount of any damages that such Underwriter has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation. The remedies provided for in this Section 8 are not exclusive and shall not limit any rights or remedies which may otherwise be available to any indemnified party at law or in equity.

 

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(f)     The indemnity and contribution provisions contained in this Section 8 and the representations, warranties and other statements of the Company contained in this Agreement shall remain operative and in full force and effect regardless of any termination of this Agreement, any investigation made by or on behalf of any Underwriter, any person controlling any Underwriter or any affiliate of any Underwriter or by or on behalf of the Company, its officers or directors or any person controlling the Company and acceptance of and payment for any of the Shares.

 

9.     Termination. The Underwriters may terminate this Agreement by notice given by B. Riley to the Company, if after the execution and delivery of this Agreement and prior to or on the Closing Date or any Option Closing Date, as the case may be, trading generally shall have been suspended or materially limited on, or by, as the case may be, any of the New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE American, the NASDAQ Capital Market, the Chicago Board of Options Exchange, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange or the Chicago Board of Trade or other relevant exchanges, trading of any securities of the Company shall have been suspended on any exchange or in any over-the-counter market, a material disruption in securities settlement, payment or clearance services in the United States shall have occurred, any moratorium on commercial banking activities shall have been declared by Federal or New York State authorities or there shall have occurred any outbreak or escalation of hostilities, or any change in financial markets, or any calamity or crisis that, in B. Riley’s judgment, is material and adverse and which, singly or together with any other event specified in this clause (v), makes it, in B. Riley’s judgment, impracticable or inadvisable to proceed with the offer, sale or delivery of the Shares on the terms and in the manner contemplated in the Time of Sale Prospectus or the Prospectus.

 

10.     Effectiveness; Defaulting Underwriters. This Agreement shall become effective upon the execution and delivery hereof by the parties hereto.

 

If, on the Closing Date or an Option Closing Date, as the case may be, any one or more of the Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase Shares that it has or they have agreed to purchase hereunder on such date, and the aggregate number of Shares which such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed or refused to purchase is not more than one-tenth of the aggregate number of the Shares to be purchased on such date, the other Underwriters shall be obligated severally in the proportions that the number of Firm Shares set forth opposite their respective names in Schedule I bears to the aggregate number of Firm Shares set forth opposite the names of all such non-defaulting Underwriters, or in such other proportions as B. Riley may specify, to purchase the Shares which such defaulting Underwriter or Underwriters agreed but failed or refused to purchase on such date; provided that in no event shall the number of Shares that any Underwriter has agreed to purchase pursuant to this Agreement be increased pursuant to this Section 10 by an amount in excess of one-ninth of such number of Shares without the written consent of such Underwriter. If, on the Closing Date, any Underwriter or Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase Firm Shares and the aggregate number of Firm Shares with respect to which such default occurs is more than one-tenth of the aggregate number of Firm Shares to be purchased on such date, and arrangements satisfactory to B. Riley and the Company for the purchase of such Firm Shares are not made within 36 hours after such default, this Agreement shall terminate without liability on the part of any non-defaulting Underwriter or the Company. In any such case either B. Riley or the Company shall have the right to postpone the Closing Date, but in no event for longer than seven days, in order that the required changes, if any, in the Registration Statement, in the Time of Sale Prospectus, in the Prospectus or in any other documents or arrangements may be effected. If, on an Option Closing Date, any Underwriter or Underwriters shall fail or refuse to purchase Additional Shares and the aggregate number of Additional Shares with respect to which such default occurs is more than one-tenth of the aggregate number of Additional Shares to be purchased on such Option Closing Date, the non-defaulting Underwriters shall have the option to (i) terminate their obligation hereunder to purchase the Additional Shares to be sold on such Option Closing Date or (ii) purchase not less than the number of Additional Shares that such non-defaulting Underwriters would have been obligated to purchase in the absence of such default. Any action taken under this paragraph shall not relieve any defaulting Underwriter from liability in respect of any default of such Underwriter under this Agreement.

 

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If this Agreement shall be terminated by the Underwriters, or any of them, because of any failure or refusal on the part of the Company to comply with the terms or to fulfill any of the conditions of this Agreement, or if for any reason the Company shall be unable to perform its obligations under this Agreement, the Company will reimburse the Underwriters or such Underwriters as have so terminated this Agreement with respect to themselves, severally, for all out-of-pocket expenses (including the fees and disbursements of their counsel) reasonably incurred by such Underwriters in connection with this Agreement or the offering contemplated hereunder.

 

11.     Entire Agreement. This Agreement, together with any contemporaneous written agreements and any prior written agreements (to the extent not superseded by this Agreement) that relate to the offering of the Shares, represents the entire agreement between the Company and the Underwriters with respect to the preparation of any preliminary prospectus, the Time of Sale Prospectus, the Prospectus, the conduct of the offering, and the purchase and sale of the Shares.

 

(b)     The Company acknowledges that in connection with the offering of the Shares: the Underwriters have acted at arms length, are not agents of, and owe no fiduciary duties to, the Company or any other person, the Underwriters owe the Company only those duties and obligations set forth in this Agreement, any contemporaneous written agreements and prior written agreements (to the extent not superseded by this Agreement), if any, and the Underwriters may have interests that differ from those of the Company. The Company waives to the full extent permitted by applicable law any claims it may have against the Underwriters arising from an alleged breach of fiduciary duty in connection with the offering of the Shares.

 

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12.     Recognition of the U.S. Special Resolution Regimes. In the event that any Underwriter that is a Covered Entity becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, the transfer from such Underwriter of this Agreement, and any interest and obligation in or under this Agreement, will be effective to the same extent as the transfer would be effective under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if this Agreement, and any such interest and obligation, were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United State.

 

(b)     In the event that any Underwriter that is a Covered Entity or a BHC Act Affiliate of such Underwriter becomes subject to a proceeding under a U.S. Special Resolution Regime, Default Rights under this Agreement that may be exercised against such Underwriter are permitted to be exercised to no greater extent than such Default Rights could be exercised under the U.S. Special Resolution Regime if this Agreement were governed by the laws of the United States or a state of the United States.

 

For purposes of this Section a “BHC Act Affiliate” has the meaning assigned to the term “affiliate” in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. § 1841(k). “Covered Entity” means any of the following: (i) a “covered entity” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 252.82(b); (ii) a “covered bank” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 47.3(b); or (iii) a “covered FSI” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 382.2(b). “Default Right” has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. §§ 252.81, 47.2 or 382.1, as applicable. “U.S. Special Resolution Regime” means each of (i) the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder and (ii) Title II of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

13.     Counterparts. This Agreement may be signed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be an original, with the same effect as if the signatures thereto and hereto were upon the same instrument.

 

14.     Applicable Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York.

 

15.     Headings. The headings of the sections of this Agreement have been inserted for convenience of reference only and shall not be deemed a part of this Agreement.

 

16.     Notices. All communications hereunder shall be in writing and effective only upon receipt and if to the Underwriters shall be delivered, mailed or sent to B. Riley in care of B. Riley Securities, Inc., 299 Park Avenue, 7th Floor New York, New York 10171, Attention: Equity Syndicate Desk, with a copy to the Legal Department; and if to the Company shall be delivered, mailed or sent to 2120 Colorado Avenue., Suite 230, Santa Monica, CA 90404.

 

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Very truly yours,

ONTRAK, INC.

 

 

 
 

By:

/s/ Brandon LaVerne

 
   

Name: Brandon LaVerne

 
   

Title:   Chief Financial Officer

 

 

 

 

 

Accepted as of the date hereof

B. RILEY SECURITIES, INC.

 

Acting severally on behalf of themselves and the several Underwriters named in Schedule I hereto.

 
     

By:

B. Riley Securities, Inc.

 
     
     

By:

/s/ Patrice McNicoll

 
 

Name:Patrice McNicoll

 
 

Title:Co-Head of Investment Banking

 

 

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Schedule I

 

Underwriter

 

Number of Firm Shares To Be Purchased

 
       

B. Riley Securities, Inc.

  824,500  

Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc.

  306,000  

William Blair & Company, L.L.C.

  306,000  

ThinkEquity, a division of Fordham Financial Management, Inc.

  8,500  

Incapital LLC.

  93,500  

The Benchmark Company, LLC

  85,000  

Boenning & Scattergood, Inc..

  17,000  

Colliers Securities, LLC

  17,000  

Kingswood Capital Markets, a division of Benchmark Investments, Inc.

  42,500  
       
       
       
       

Total:

  1,700,000  

 

I-1

 

Schedule II

 

Time of Sale Prospectus

 

Preliminary Prospectus issued August 20, 2020

 

Free Writing Prospectus issued August 20, 2020 under Rule 433(d) of the Securities Act

 

Time of Sale: 4:30 PM New York Time

 

 

 

 

II-2

Exhibit 3.1

 

ONTRAK, INC.

 

CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATIONS OF RIGHTS AND PREFERENCES

 

9.50% SERIES A CUMULATIVE PERPETUAL PREFERRED STOCK

 

August 21, 2020

 

Pursuant to Section 151(g) of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”) and Article Fourth of the Ontrak, Inc. (the Corporation) Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the Certificate of Incorporation):

 

WHEREAS, Article Fourth of the Certificate of Incorporation authorizes the issuance of up to 50,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Corporation (“Preferred Stock”) in one or more series, and expressly authorizes the Board of Directors of the Corporation (the “Board”), subject to limitations prescribed by law, to provide, out of the unissued shares of Preferred Stock, one or more series of Preferred Stock, and, with respect to each such series, to establish and fix the number of shares to be included in any series of Preferred Stock and the designation, rights, preferences, powers, restrictions and limitations of the shares of such series;

 

WHEREAS, it is the desire of the Board to thereafter establish and fix the number of shares to be included in a new series of Preferred Stock and the designation, rights, preferences and limitations of the shares of such new series; and

 

WHEREAS, the Board, pursuant to the authority conferred upon it by Article Fourth of the Certificate of Incorporation and in accordance with Section 151(g) of the DGCL, acting through a unanimous written consent on August 20, 2020, adopted the following resolutions:

 

RESOLVED, that pursuant to the authority vested in the Board by the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company (the “Certificate of Incorporation”) and the Delaware General Corporation Law, the Board does hereby designate, create, authorize and provide for the issue of up to two million (2,000,000) shares of Preferred Stock, having substantially the voting powers and such designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional and other special rights, and qualifications, limitations and restrictions that are substantially in the form of the Certificate of Designation, Preferences and Rights of Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock of the Company, in the form attached hereto as Annex A (the “Certificate of Designation”), and constituting an amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation.

 

RESOLVED, that each Authorized Officer be, and hereby is, authorized, empowered and directed, for and in the name and on behalf of the Company, upon determination of the final terms of the Public Offering and the Preferred Stock, to execute the Certificate of Designation and cause it to be filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware.

 

Section 1. Number of Shares and Designation. This series of Preferred Stock shall be designated as the “9.50% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock”). The Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock shall be perpetual, subject to the provisions of Sections 4 and 5 hereof, and the authorized number of shares of the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock shall be 1,955,000 shares. The number of shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock may be increased from time to time pursuant to the provisions of Section 13 hereof and any such additional shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock shall form a single series with the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock. Each share of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock shall have the same designations, rights, preferences, powers, restrictions and limitations as every other share of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock.

 

 

 

Section 2. Dividends.

 

(a)     Dividend Rate. Holders of shares of the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock are entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board, out of funds legally available for the payment of dividends, cumulative cash dividends at an annual rate of 9.50%, which is equivalent to $2.375 per annum per share, based on the $25.00 liquidation preference (the “Dividend Rate”). The Dividend Rate shall accrue from, and including, the date of original issuance to, but not including, such date as may fixed for redemption. “Business Day” shall mean any day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, that is neither a legal holiday nor a day on which banking institutions in New York, New York are authorized or required by law, regulation or executive order to close.

 

(b)     Dividend Payment Date; Dividend Record Date. Dividends on the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock shall accrue daily and be cumulative from, and including, the date of original issue and shall be payable quarterly every February 28, May 30, August 31, and November 30 (each such payment date, a “Dividend Payment Date,” and each such quarterly period, a “Dividend Period”); provided that if any Dividend Payment Date is not a Business Day, then the dividend which would otherwise have been payable on that Dividend Payment Date may be paid on the next succeeding Business Day, and no interest, additional dividends or other sums will accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after that Dividend Payment Date to that next succeeding Business Day. The first dividend on the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock is scheduled to be paid on November 30, 2020 (in the amount of $0.6333333 per share) to the persons who are the holders of record of the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock at the close of business on the corresponding record date, which will be November 15, 2020. Any dividend payable on the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock, including dividends payable for any partial Dividend Period, will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months. Dividends will be payable to holders of record as they appear in the Corporation’s stock records for the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock at the close of business on the applicable record date, which shall be the 15th day of each February, May, August and November, whether or not a Business Day, in which the applicable Dividend Payment Date falls (each, a “Dividend Record Date”).

 

(c)     Limiting Documents. No dividends on shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock shall be authorized by the Board or paid or set apart for payment by the Corporation at any time when the payment thereof would be unlawful under the laws of the State of Delaware or when the terms and provisions of any agreement of the Corporation, including any agreement relating to the Corporation’s indebtedness (the “Limiting Documents”), prohibit the authorization, payment or setting apart for payment thereof or provide that the authorization, payment or setting apart for payment thereof would constitute a breach of the Limiting Documents or a default under the Limiting Documents, or if the authorization, payment or setting apart for payment shall be restricted or prohibited by law.

 

(d)     Dividend Accrual. Notwithstanding the foregoing, dividends on the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock will accrue regardless of whether (i) the terms of any Senior Stock (as defined in Section 7) the Corporation may issue or agreements the Corporation may enter into, including any documents governing the indebtedness of the Corporation, at any time prohibit the current payment of dividends; (ii) the Corporation has earnings; (iii) there are funds legally available for the payment of such dividends; or (iv) such dividends are declared by the Board. No interest, or sum in lieu of interest, will be payable in respect of any dividend payment or payments on the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock which may be in arrears, and holders of the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock will not be entitled to any dividends in excess of full cumulative dividends described above. Any dividend payment made on the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock shall first be credited against the earliest accumulated but unpaid dividend due with respect to those shares.

 

(e)     Dividends on Junior Stock or Parity Stock. Unless full cumulative dividends on the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock have been or contemporaneously are declared and paid or declared and a sum sufficient for the payment thereof is set apart for payment for all past Dividend Periods, no dividends (other than in shares of the Corporation’s Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”) or in shares of any series of Preferred Stock that the Corporation may issue ranking junior to the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock as to dividends and upon liquidation) shall be declared or paid or set aside for payment upon shares of any Junior Stock (as defined in Section 7) or Parity Stock (as defined in Section 7) the Corporation may issue. Nor shall any other dividend be declared or made upon such shares of Junior Stock or Parity Stock.

 

 

 

(f)     Pro Rata Dividends. When dividends are not paid in full (or a sum sufficient for such full payment is not so set apart) upon the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock and the shares of any other series of Preferred Stock that the Corporation may issue ranking on parity as to dividends with the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock, all dividends declared upon the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock and any other series of Preferred Stock ranking on parity that the Corporation may issue as to dividends with the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock shall be declared pro rata so that the amount of dividends declared per share of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock and such other series of Preferred Stock that the Corporation may issue shall in all cases bear to each other the same ratio that accrued dividends per share on the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock and such other series of Preferred Stock that the Corporation may issue (which shall not include any accrual in respect of unpaid dividends for prior Dividend Periods if such Preferred Stock does not have a cumulative dividend) bear to each other. No interest, or sum of money in lieu of interest, shall be payable in respect of any dividend payment or payments on the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock which may be in arrears.

 

(g)     Payment of Accrued and Unpaid Dividends. Holders of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock shall not be entitled to any dividend in excess of all accumulated accrued and unpaid dividends on the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock as described in this Section 2. Any dividend payment made on the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock shall first be credited against the earliest accumulated accrued and unpaid dividend due with respect to such shares which remains payable at the time of such payment.

 

Section 3. Liquidation Preference. Upon the voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation’s affairs, then, before any distribution or payment shall be made to the holders of any Common Stock or any other class or series of Junior Stock, the holders of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive out of the Corporation’s assets legally available for distribution to stockholders, liquidating distributions in the amount of the liquidation preference, or $25.00 per share, plus an amount equal to all dividends (whether or not declared) accrued and unpaid thereon to and including the date of payment. After payment of the full amount of the liquidating distributions to which they are entitled, the holders of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock will have no right or claim to any of the Corporation’s remaining assets. In the event that, upon any such voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up, the Corporation’s available assets are insufficient to pay the amount of the liquidating distributions on all outstanding shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock and the corresponding amounts payable on all Senior Stock and Parity Stock, then after payment of the liquidating distribution on all outstanding Senior Stock, the holders of the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock and all other such classes or series of Parity Stock shall share ratably in any such distribution of assets in proportion to the full liquidating distributions to which they would otherwise be respectively entitled. For such purposes, any consolidation or merger of the Corporation with or into any other entity, or the sale, lease or conveyance of all or substantially all of the property or business of the Corporation, or a statutory share exchange shall not be deemed to constitute the voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation.

 

Section 4. Redemption.

 

(a)     Optional Redemption. On and after August 25, 2025, the Corporation may, at its option, upon not less than thirty (30) days nor more than sixty (60) days’ written notice, redeem the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock, in whole or in part, at any time or from time to time, for cash at a redemption price of $25.00 per share of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock, plus any accumulated and unpaid dividends thereon to, but not including, the date fixed for redemption. If the Corporation elects to redeem any shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock as described in this paragraph, the Corporation may use any available cash to pay the redemption price.

 

(b)     Special Optional Redemption. Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control or Delisting Event, provided no Limiting Document may prohibit it, the Corporation may, at its option, upon not less than thirty (30) days nor more than sixty (60) days’ written notice, redeem the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock, in whole or in part, within one hundred twenty (120) days, in the case of Change of Control, or ninety days (90), in the case of a Delisting Event, after the first date on which such Change of Control or Delisting Event occurred, in each case for cash at a redemption price of $25.00 per share, plus any accumulated and unpaid dividends thereon to, but not including, the date fixed for redemption. If, prior to the Special Exchange Date, the Corporation has provided notice of its election to redeem some or all of the shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock (whether pursuant to its optional redemption right described in Section 4(a) above or this special optional redemption right), the holders of shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock will not have the Special Exchange Right (as defined and described in Section 5(a)) with respect to the shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock called for redemption. If the Corporation elects to redeem any shares of the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock as described in this paragraph, the Corporation may use any available cash to pay the redemption price.

 

 

 

A “Change of Control” is deemed to occur when, after the original issuance of the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock, the following have occurred and are continuing:

 

(i)     the acquisition by any person, including any syndicate or group deemed to be a “person” under Section 13(d)(3) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, (the “Exchange Act”), of beneficial ownership, directly or indirectly, through a purchase, merger or other acquisition transaction or series of purchases, mergers or other acquisition transactions of the Corporation’s stock entitling that person to exercise more than 50% of the total voting power of all the Corporation’s stock entitled to vote generally in the election of the Corporation’s directors (except that such person will be deemed to have beneficial ownership of all securities that such person has the right to acquire, whether such right is currently exercisable or is exercisable only upon the occurrence of a subsequent condition); and

 

(ii)     following the closing of any transaction referred to above, neither the Corporation nor the acquiring or surviving entity has a class of common securities (or American Depositary Receipts representing such securities) listed on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”), the NYSE American LLC (the “NYSE American”) or Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”), or listed or quoted on an exchange or quotation system that is a successor to the NYSE, the NYSE American or Nasdaq.

 

A “Delisting Event” is deemed to occur when, after the original issuance of the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock, the following have occurred and are continuing:

 

(i)     the Shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock are no longer listed on the NYSE, the NYSE American or Nasdaq, or listed or quoted on an exchange or quotation system that is a successor to the NYSE, the NYSE American or Nasdaq; and

 

(ii)     the Corporation is no longer subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, but Shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock are still outstanding.

 

Special Exchange Date” means the date the shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock are to be exchanged, which will be a Business Day that is no fewer than twenty (20) days nor more than thirty-five (35) days after the date on which the Corporation provides the notice described in Section 5(f) below to the holders of shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock.

 

(c)          Redemption Procedures.

 

(i)     Notice of redemption will be mailed upon not less than thirty (30) days nor more than sixty (60) days before the redemption date to each holder of record of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock at the address shown on the share transfer books of the Corporation. Each notice shall state: (i) the redemption date; (ii) the number of shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock to be redeemed; (iii) the redemption price of $25.00 per share of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock, plus any accrued and unpaid dividends to and including the date of redemption; (iv) the place or places where any certificates issued for Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock other than through The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) book entry described below, are to be surrendered for payment of the redemption price; (v) that dividends on the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock will cease to accrue on such redemption date; (vi) whether such redemption is being made pursuant to the provisions described above under Section 4(a) or Section 4(b); (vii) if applicable, that such redemption is being made in connection with a Change of Control or Delisting Event and, in that case, a brief description of the transaction or transactions constituting such Change of Control or Delisting Event, as the case may be, and (viii) any other information required by law or by the applicable rules of any exchange upon which the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock may be listed or admitted for trading. If fewer than all outstanding shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock are to be redeemed, the notice mailed to each such holder thereof shall also specify the number of shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock to be redeemed from each such holder.

 

 

 

(ii)     At the Corporation’s election, on or prior to the redemption date, the Corporation may irrevocably deposit the redemption price (including accrued and unpaid dividends) of the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock so called for redemption in trust for the holders thereof with a bank or trust company, in which case the notice to holders of shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock will (i) state the date of such deposit, (ii) specify the office of such bank or trust company as the place of payment of the redemption price, and (iii) require such holders to surrender any certificates issued for shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock other than through the DTC book entry described below at such place on or about the date fixed in such redemption notice (which may not be later than such redemption date) against payment of the redemption price (including all accrued and unpaid dividends to the redemption date). Any interest or other earnings earned on the redemption price (including all accrued and unpaid dividends) deposited with a bank or trust company will be paid to the Corporation. Any monies so deposited that remain unclaimed by the holders of shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock at the end of six months after the redemption date will be returned to the Corporation by such bank or trust company. If the Corporation makes such a deposit, shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock shall not be considered outstanding for purposes of voting or determining shares entitled to vote on any matter on or after the date of such deposit.

 

(iii)     On or after the date fixed for redemption, each holder of shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock that holds a certificate other than through the DTC book entry described below must present and surrender each certificate representing his or her Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock to the Corporation at the place designated in the applicable notice and thereupon the redemption price of such shares will be paid to or on the order of the person whose name appears on such certificate representing the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock as the owner thereof, each surrendered certificate will be canceled and the shares will be retired and restored to the status of undesignated, authorized shares of Preferred Stock.

 

(iv)     If the Corporation redeems any shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock and if the redemption date occurs after a Dividend Record Date and on or prior to the related Dividend Payment Date, the dividend payable on such Dividend Payment Date with respect to such shares called for redemption shall be payable on such Dividend Payment Date to the holders of record at the close of business on such Dividend Record Date, and shall not be payable as part of the redemption price for such shares.

 

Section 5. Limited Exchange Rights Upon a Change of Control or Delisting Event.

 

(a)     Special Exchange Right. Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control or Delisting Event, each holder of shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock will have the right (unless, prior to the Special Exchange Date, the Corporation has provided or provides irrevocable notice of its election to redeem the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock as described in Section 4 above, in which case such holder will only have the right with respect to the shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock not called for redemption (unless the Corporation defaults in the payment of the redemption price and accumulated and unpaid dividends in which case such holder will again have an exchange right with respect to the shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock subject to such default in payment) to exchange some or all of the shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock held by such holder (the “Special Exchange Right”) on the Special Exchange Date for a number of shares of Common Stock per share of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock (the “Common Stock Exchange Consideration”), which is equal to the lesser of:

 

(i)     the quotient obtained by dividing (i) the sum of the $25.00 liquidation preference per share of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock plus the amount of any accumulated and unpaid dividends (whether or not declared) to, but not including, the Special Exchange Date (unless the Special Exchange Date is after a record date for a Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock dividend payment and prior to the corresponding Dividend Payment Date, in which case no additional amount for such accumulated and unpaid dividend will be included in this sum) by (ii) the Common Stock Price (such quotient, the “Exchange Rate”); and

 

(ii)     0.7653 shares of Common Stock (the “Share Cap”), subject to certain adjustments described below.

 

 

 

Common Stock Price” means (i) if the consideration to be received in a Change of Control by the holders of shares of Common Stock is solely cash, the amount of cash consideration per share of Common Stock or (ii) if the consideration to be received in the Change of Control by holders of shares of Common Stock is other than solely cash or in the event of a Delisting Event (x) the average of the closing sale prices per share of the Common Stock (or, if no closing sale price is reported, the average of the closing bid and ask prices or, if more than one in either case, the average of the average closing bid and the average closing ask prices) for the ten (10) consecutive trading days immediately preceding, but not including, the effective date of the Change of Control as reported on the principal U.S. securities exchange on which the Common Stock is then traded, or (y) the average of the last quoted bid prices for Common Stock in the over-the-counter market as reported by OTC Market Group Inc. or similar organization for the ten consecutive trading days immediately preceding, but not including, the effective date of the Change of Control, if the Common Stock is not then listed for trading on a U.S. securities exchange.

 

The Share Cap is subject to pro rata adjustments for any share splits (including those effected pursuant to a distribution of the Corporation’s Common Stock), subdivisions or combinations (in each case, a “Share Split”) with respect to the Corporation’s Common Stock as follows: the adjusted Share Cap as the result of a Share Split will be the number of shares of Common Stock that is equivalent to the product obtained by multiplying (i) the Share Cap in effect immediately prior to such Share Split by (ii) a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding after giving effect to such Share Split and the denominator of which is the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to such Share Split.

 

(b)     Exchange Consideration. In the case of a Change of Control pursuant to which the Common Stock will be converted into cash, securities or other property or assets (including any combination thereof) (the “Alternative Form Consideration”), a holder of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock will receive upon exchange of such shares the kind and amount of Alternative Form Consideration which such holder would have owned or been entitled to receive upon the Change of Control had such holder held a number of shares of the Corporation’s Common Stock equal to the Common Stock Exchange Consideration immediately prior to the effective time of the Change of Control (the “Alternative Exchange Consideration,” and the Common Stock Exchange Consideration or the Alternative Exchange Consideration, as may be applicable to a Change of Control, is referred to as the “Exchange Consideration”).

 

If the holders of the Common Stock have the opportunity to elect the form of consideration to be received in the Change of Control, the Exchange Consideration will be deemed to be the kind and amount of consideration actually received by holders of a majority of the Common Stock that voted for such an election (if electing between two types of consideration) or holders of a plurality of the Common Stock that voted for such an election (if electing between more than two types of consideration), as the case may be, and will be subject to any limitations to which all holders of such Common Stock are subject, including, without limitation, pro rata reductions applicable to any portion of the consideration payable in the Change of Control.

 

(c)     Fractional Shares. The Corporation will not issue fractional shares of Common Stock upon the exchange of shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock. Instead, the Corporation will pay the cash value of such fractional shares.

 

(d)     Effect of Redemption Notice on Exchange. If the Corporation provides a redemption notice, whether pursuant to its special optional redemption right in connection with a Change of Control or Delisting Event as described in Section 4(b) above, or its optional redemption right as described in Section 4(a) above, holders of shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock will not have any right to exchange such shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock that the Corporation has so elected to redeem or subsequently selected for redemption, and any such shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock that have been surrendered for exchange pursuant to the Special Exchange Right will be redeemed on the related redemption date instead of exchanged on the Special Exchange Date.

 

If the Corporation elects to redeem shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock that would otherwise be exchanged for the applicable Exchange Consideration on a Special Exchange Date, such shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock will not be so exchanged and the holders of such shares will be entitled to receive on the applicable redemption date $25.00 per share of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock, plus any accumulated and unpaid dividends thereon to, but not including, the redemption date.

 

 

 

(e)     Limitations. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the holders of shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock will not have the Special Exchange Right in connection with a Change of Control if the acquiror has shares listed or quoted on the NYSE, the NYSE American or the Nasdaq or listed or quoted on an exchange or quotation system that is a successor to the NYSE, the NYSE American or the Nasdaq, and the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock becomes convertible into or exchangeable for such acquiror’s listed shares upon a subsequent Change of Control of the acquiror.

 

(f)     Notice to Holders. Upon not less than thirty (30) days nor more than sixty (60) days following the occurrence of a Change of Control or Delisting Event, the Corporation will provide to holders of shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock a notice of occurrence of the Change of Control or Delisting Event that describes the resulting Special Exchange Right. This notice will state the following:

 

(i)     the events constituting the Change of Control or Delisting Event, as applicable;

 

(ii)     the date of the Change of Control or Delisting Event, as applicable;

 

(iii)     the last date on which the holders of shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock may exercise their Special Exchange Right;

 

(iv)     the method and period for calculating the Common Stock Price;

 

(v)     the Special Exchange Date;

 

(vi)     that if, prior to the Special Exchange Date, the Corporation has provided or provide irrevocable notice of its election to redeem all or any shares of the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock, holders will not be able to exchange their shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock designated for redemption and such shares will be redeemed on the related redemption date, even if such shares have already been tendered for exchange pursuant to the Special Exchange Right (unless the Corporation defaults in payment of the redemption price and all accumulated and unpaid dividends);

 

(vii)     if applicable, the type and amount of Alternative Form Consideration entitled to be received per share of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock;

 

(viii)     the name and address of the paying agent and the exchange agent;

 

(ix)     the procedures that the holders of shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock must follow to exercise the Special Exchange Right; and

 

(x)     the last date on which holders of shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock may withdraw shares surrendered for exchange and the procedures such holders must follow to effect such a withdrawal.

 

The Corporation will issue a press release for publication on the Dow Jones & Company, Inc., Business Wire, PR Newswire or Bloomberg Business News (or, if these organizations are not in existence at the time of issuance of the press release, such other news or press organization as is reasonably calculated to broadly disseminate the relevant information to the public), or post a notice on the Corporation’s website, in any event prior to the opening of business on the first Business Day following any date on which the Corporation provides the notice described above to the holders of shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock.

 

 

 

(g)     Exercise of Special Exchange Right. To exercise the Special Exchange Right, the holders of shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock will be required to deliver, on or before the close of business on the Special Exchange Date, the certificates (if any) representing the shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock to be exchanged, duly endorsed for transfer, together with a written exchange notice completed, to American Stock Transfer & Trust, LLC, or such other transfer agent as the Corporation may designate from time to time (such transfer agent, the “Transfer Agent”), or, in the case of shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock held in global form, comply with the applicable procedures of DTC. The exchange notice must state:

 

(i)     the relevant Special Exchange Date;

 

(ii)     the number of shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock to be exchanged; and

 

(iii)     that such shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock are to be exchanged pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock are held in global form, the exchange notice and/or the notice of withdrawal, as applicable, must comply with applicable procedures of DTC.

 

Holders of shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock may withdraw any notice of exercise of a Special Exchange Right (in whole or in part) by a written notice of withdrawal delivered to the Transfer Agent prior to the close of business on the Business Day prior to the Special Exchange Date. The notice of withdrawal must state:

 

(i)     the number of withdrawn shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock;

 

(ii)     if certificated Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock has been issued, the certificate numbers of the withdrawn shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock; and

 

(iii)     the number of shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock, if any, which remain subject to the exchange notice.

 

(h)     Exchange. Shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock as to which the Special Exchange Right has been properly exercised and for which the exchange notice has not been properly withdrawn will be exchanged for the applicable Exchange Consideration in accordance with the Special Exchange Right on the Special Exchange Date, unless prior to the Special Exchange Date the Corporation has provided or provide notice of its election to redeem such shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock.

 

Section 6. Status of Acquired Shares. All shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock redeemed by the Corporation in accordance with Section 4 or Section 5 hereof, or otherwise acquired by the Corporation, shall be restored to the status of authorized but unissued shares of undesignated Preferred Stock of the Corporation.

 

Section 7. Ranking. The Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock will rank: (i) senior to all of the Corporation’s Common Stock and any other equity securities that the Corporation may issue in the future, the terms of which specifically provide that such equity securities rank junior to the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock, in each case with respect to payment of dividends and amounts upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up (“Junior Stock”); (ii) equal to any shares of equity securities that the Corporation may issue in the future, the terms of which specifically provide that such equity securities rank on par with such Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock, in each case with respect to payment of dividends and amounts upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up (“Parity Stock”); (iii) junior to all other equity securities the Corporation issues, the terms of which specifically provide that such equity securities rank senior to the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock, in each case with respect to payment of dividends and amounts upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up (any such issuance would require the affirmative vote of the holders of at least two-thirds of the outstanding shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock) (“Senior Stock”); and (iv) junior to all of the Corporation’s existing and future indebtedness (including indebtedness convertible to our common stock or preferred stock) and to any indebtedness and other liabilities of our existing subsidiaries.

 

 

 

Section 8. Voting Rights. The Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock shall have no voting rights, except as set forth in this Section 8 or as otherwise required by law.

 

(a)     During the period any shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock remain outstanding, unless the Corporation has received the approval of two-thirds of the votes entitled to be cast by the holders of outstanding Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock (voting together as a single class with the holders of any other series of Parity Stock upon which like voting rights have been conferred and are exercisable), either at a meeting of stockholders or by written consent, the Corporation will not:

 

(i)     authorize or create, or increase the authorized or issued amount of, any class or series of capital stock ranking senior to the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock with respect to payment of dividends or the distribution of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up or reclassify any of the Corporation’s authorized capital stock into such shares, or create, authorize or issue any obligation or security convertible into or evidencing the right to purchase any such shares; or

 

(ii)     amend, alter, repeal or replace its Certificate of Incorporation, including by way of a merger, consolidation or otherwise in which we may or may not be the surviving entity, so as to materially and adversely affect and deprive holders of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock of any right, preference, privilege or voting power of the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock.

 

For purposes of the foregoing voting requirements, the increase in the amount of the authorized preferred stock, including the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock, or the creation or issuance of any additional Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock or other series of preferred stock that the Corporation may issue, or any increase in the amount of authorized shares of such series, in each case ranking on a parity with or junior to the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock with respect to payment of dividends or the distribution of assets upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up, outstanding at the time (voting together as a class) shall not be deemed to materially and adversely affect the rights, preferences or voting powers of the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock. 

 

(b) Special Voting Right.

 

(i)     If and whenever dividends on the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock or any other class or series of preferred stock that ranks on parity with Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock as to payment of dividends, and upon which voting rights equivalent to those granted by this Section 8(b)(i) have been conferred and are exercisable, have not been paid in an aggregate amount equal to, as to any class or series, the equivalent of at least six or more quarterly Dividend Periods (whether consecutive or not), the number of directors constituting the Board of Directors shall be increased by two, and the holders of the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock (together with holders of any class of the Corporation’s authorized preferred stock having equivalent voting rights, whether or not the holders of such preferred stock would be entitled to vote for the election of directors if such default in dividends did not exist), shall have the right, voting separately as a single class without regard to series, to the exclusion of the holders of common stock, to elect two directors of the Corporation to fill such newly created directorships (and to fill any vacancies in the terms of such directorships), provided that the election of such directors must not cause the Corporation to violate the corporate governance requirements of Nasdaq (or other exchange on which the Corporation’s securities may be listed) that listed companies must have a majority of independent directors and further provided that the Board of Directors shall at no time include more than two such directors. Each such director elected by the holders of shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock and any other class or series of preferred stock that ranks on parity with Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock as to payment of dividends having equivalent voting rights is a “Preferred Director.”

 

(ii)     The election of the Preferred Directors will take place at any annual meeting of stockholders or any special meeting of the holders of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock and any other class or series of the Corporation’s stock that ranks on parity with Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock as to payment of dividends and having equivalent voting rights and for which dividends have not been paid, called as provided herein. At any time after the special voting power has vested pursuant to Section 8(b)(i) above, the secretary of the Corporation may, and upon the written request of any holder of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock (addressed to the secretary at the Corporation’s principal office) must (unless such request is received less than 90 days before the date fixed for the next annual or special meeting of the stockholders, in which event such election shall be held at such next annual or special meeting of stockholders), call a special meeting of the holders of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock and any other class or series of preferred stock that ranks on parity with Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock as to payment of dividends and having equivalent voting rights and for which dividends have not been paid for the election of the two directors to be elected by them as provided in Section 8(b)(iii) below. The Preferred Directors shall each be entitled to one vote per director on any matter.

 

 

 

(iii)     Notice for a special meeting to elect the Preferred Directors will be given in a similar manner to that provided in the Corporation’s By-laws for a special meeting of the stockholders. If the secretary of the Corporation does not call a special meeting within 20 days after receipt of any such request, then any holder of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock may (at the Corporation’s expense) call such meeting, upon notice as provided in this Section 8(b)(iii), and for that purpose will have access to the stock register of the Corporation. The Preferred Directors elected at any such special meeting will hold office until the next annual meeting of the Corporation’s stockholders unless they have been previously terminated or removed pursuant to Section 8(b)(iv). In case any vacancy in the office of a Preferred Director occurs (other than prior to the initial election of the Preferred Directors), the vacancy may be filled by the written consent of the Preferred Director remaining in office, or if none remains in office, by the vote of the holders of the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock (together with holders of any other class of the Corporation’s authorized preferred stock having equivalent voting rights, whether or not the holders of such preferred stock would be entitled to vote for the election of directors if such default in dividends did not exist) to serve until the next annual meeting of the stockholders.

 

(iv)     Whenever full dividends have been paid regularly on the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock and any other class or series of preferred stock that ranks on parity with Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock as to payment of dividends, if any, for the equivalent of at least four quarterly Dividend Periods, then the right of the holders of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock to elect the Preferred Directors will cease (but subject always to the same provisions for the vesting of the special voting rights in the case of any similar non-payment of dividends in respect of future Dividend Periods). The terms of office of the Preferred Directors will immediately terminate, and the number of directors constituting the Board of Directors will be reduced accordingly. Any Preferred Director may be removed at any time without cause by the holders of record of a majority of the outstanding shares of the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock (together with holders of any other class of the Corporation’s authorized preferred stock having equivalent voting rights, whether or not the holders of such preferred stock would be entitled to vote for the election of directors if such default in dividends did not exist) when they have the voting rights described in this Section 8(b).

 

(c)     The above voting provisions will not apply with respect to shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock if, at or before the time when the act with respect to which the vote would otherwise be required is effected, such outstanding shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock either are subject to (1) a notice of redemption pursuant to the provisions in Section 4(a) or Section 4(b) above and funds sufficient to pay the applicable redemption price, including accumulated and unpaid dividends, for all of such shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock called for redemption have been set aside for payment or (2) a Special Exchange Right which has been properly exercised and not withdrawn.

 

(d)      When the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock is entitled to vote, such shares are entitled to one vote per share. In any matter in which the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock may vote as a single class with any other series of Preferred Stock (as may be required by law), each share of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock shall be entitled to one vote per $25.00 of stated liquidation preference. However, the Corporation may create additional series or classes of Parity Stock and Junior Stock, increase the authorized number of shares of Parity Stock (including the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock) and Junior Stock and issue additional series of Parity Stock and Junior Stock without the consent of any holder of the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock.

 

(e)      The holders of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock are not entitled to vote separately as a class or series on an amendment to this Certificate or the Certificate of Incorporation, except as would be unlawful under the laws of the State of Delaware.

 

Section 9. Information Rights. During any period in which the Corporation is not subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act and any shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock are outstanding, the Corporation shall use its best efforts to (a) transmit by mail to all holders of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock, as their names and addresses appear in the Corporation’s record books and without cost to such holders, copies of the annual reports and quarterly reports that the Corporation would have been required to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act if the Corporation was subject to such sections (other than any exhibits that would have been required) and (b) promptly upon written request, supply copies of such reports to any prospective holder of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock. The Corporation shall mail the reports to the holders of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock within 30 days after the respective dates by which the Corporation would have been required to file the reports with the SEC if the Corporation were then subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, assuming the Corporation is a “accelerated filer” in accordance with the Exchange Act.

 

 

 

Section 10. Record Holders. The Corporation and the Transfer Agent shall deem and treat the record holder of any shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock as the true and lawful owner thereof for all purposes, and neither the Corporation nor the Transfer Agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.

 

Section 11. Sinking Fund. The Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock shall not be entitled to the benefits of any retirement or sinking fund.

 

Section 12. Preemptive Rights. No holders of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock will, as holders of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock, have any preemptive rights to purchase or subscribe for the Corporation’s Common Stock or any of its other securities.

 

Section 13. Amendment of Resolution. The Board reserves the right from time to time to increase (but not in excess of the total number of authorized shares of Preferred Stock) or decrease (but not below the number of shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock then outstanding) the number of shares that constitute the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock by further resolution adopted by the Board or a duly authorized committee of the Board and by the filing of a certificate pursuant to the provisions of the DGCL stating that such increase or decrease, as the case may be, has been so authorized and in other respects to amend this Certificate within the limitations provided by law, this resolution and the Certificate of Incorporation.

 

Section 14. Book Entry.

 

(a)     Global Certificates. The Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock shall be issued initially in the form of one or more fully registered global certificates (“Global Preferred Shares”), which shall be deposited on behalf of the purchasers represented thereby with the Transfer Agent, as custodian for DTC, or with DTC’s nominee, Cede & Co., or such other depositary of the Corporation’s choosing that is a “clearing corporation” within the meaning of the New York Uniform Commercial Code and a clearing agency under Section 17A of the Exchange Act (the “Depositary”) (or with such other custodian as the Depositary may direct), and registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee, duly executed by the Corporation and authenticated by the Transfer Agent. The number of shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock represented by Global Preferred Shares may from time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Transfer Agent and the Depositary as hereinafter provided. Members of, or participants in, the Depositary (“Agent Members”) shall have no rights under these terms of the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock with respect to any Global Preferred Shares held on their behalf by the Depositary or by the Transfer Agent as the custodian of the Depositary or under such Global Preferred Shares, and the Depositary may be treated by the Corporation, the Transfer Agent and any agent of the Corporation or the Transfer Agent as the absolute owner of such Global Preferred Shares for all purposes whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the Corporation, the Transfer Agent or any agent of the Corporation or the Transfer Agent from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by the Depositary or impair, as between the Depositary and its Agent Members, the operation of customary practices of the Depositary governing the exercise of the rights of a holder of a beneficial interest in any Global Preferred Shares.

 

(b)       Direct Registration System. The Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock will be registered in book-entry form through the Direct Registration System (the “DRS”). The DRS is a system administered by DTC pursuant to which the depositary may register the ownership of uncertificated shares, which ownership shall be evidenced by periodic statements issued by the depositary to the holders of shares of Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock entitled thereto. This direct registration form of ownership allows investors to have securities registered in their names without requiring the issuance of a physical stock certificate, eliminates the need for you to safeguard and store certificates and permits the electronic transfer of securities to effect transactions without transferring physical certificates.

 

 

 

Section 15. No Conflict; Article Eight to Govern.

 

(a)     Corporation Securities  The Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock shall be treated as “Corporation Securities” as defined in and subject to the provisions of Article Eight of the Certificate of Incorporation.

 

(b)     Restrictions on Issuance, Transfer and Exchanges  The provisions of Article Eight of the Certificate of Incorporation shall govern the issuance, transfer, exchange and redemption of the Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock in all respects. In the event of a conflict between the requirements of such Article Eight and this Certificate of Designation, the provisions of Article Eight of the Certificate of Incorporation shall prevail.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Ontrak, Inc. has caused this Certificate of Designations to be signed by the undersigned as of the date first written above.

 

 

 

ONTRAK, INC.

 

 

 

 

 

By:

 /s/ Brandon LaVerne

 

 

 

Name: Brandon LaVerne

 

 

 

Title: Chief Financial Officer

 

  

[Signature Page to Series A Certificate of Designation]

 

 

Exhibit 5.1

 

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August 21, 2020

 

Ontrak, Inc.
2120 Colorado Ave., Suite 230
Santa Monica, CA 90404

 

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

We have acted as counsel to Ontrak, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the Underwriting Agreement, dated August 20, 2020 (the “Underwriting Agreement”) by and between the Company and B.Riley FBR, Inc., as representative of the several underwriters identified therein (the “Underwriters”), relating to the public offering (the “Offering”) of up to 1,955,000 shares of the Company’s 9.50% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Shares”), by the Company.

 

In connection with rendering our opinion, we have:

 

(a)          examined and are familiar with originals or copies, certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction of:

 

1.       the Underwriting Agreement;

 

2.       the Certificate of Designation relating to the Shares;

 

3.     the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-230475) of the Company relating to the Shares and other securities of the Company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on March 22, 2019, under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Notice of Effectiveness of the Commission posted on its website declaring such registration statement effective on April 1, 2019 (such registration statement being hereinafter referred to as the “Registration Statement”);

 

4.      the base prospectus, dated April 1, 2019, which forms a part of and is included in the Registration Statement;

 

5.      the prospectus supplement, dated August 21, 2020, relating to the offering of the Shares, in the form filed by the Company pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act, which forms a part of and is included in the Registration Statement (the “Prospectus Supplement”);

 

6.      such other corporate records, certificates and other records and documents that we have deemed appropriate;

 

 

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(b)          made such inquiries of officers and representatives of the Company and the Selling Shareholder; and

 

(c)          investigated such questions of law as we have deemed necessary or appropriate as a basis for the opinions set forth below.

 

In connection with our examination and in rendering the opinions expressed below, we have assumed, with your approval and without any independent investigation, the genuineness of signatures on all original documents, the legal capacity of natural persons, and the conformity to original documents of all copies submitted to us as certified, conformed, photographic or telecopied copies. As to certain factual matters, unless otherwise indicated, we have relied, to the extent we have deemed proper, only on certificates of public officials and the factual representations set forth in the Underwriting Agreement. We have assumed, with your approval and without any independent investigation, (x) the due authorization, execution, delivery and performance of the Underwriting Agreement by the parties thereto (other than with respect to such execution and delivery by the Company), and (y) the extension of consideration under the Underwriting Agreement by the parties thereto.

 

Based on the foregoing assumptions, and subject to the qualifications and exceptions stated below, we are of the opinion that the Shares, when delivered and paid for in accordance with the terms of the Underwriting Agreement, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.

 

We express no opinion herein as to the law of any state or jurisdiction other than the laws of the State of Delaware and the federal laws of the United States of America. We are not rendering any opinion as to compliance with any federal or state antifraud law, rule, or regulation relating to securities, or to the sale or issuance thereof.

 

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion letter with the Commission as an exhibit to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K being filed on the date hereof and incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement and to the reference to our firm therein and in the Prospectus and the Prospectus Supplement under the caption “Legal Matters.” In giving such consent, we do not thereby admit that this firm is within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder.

 

 

 

Very truly yours,

 

 

/S/ LOEB & LOEB LLP

 

 
 

Exhibit 99.1

 

News Release

 

For Immediate Release

 

 

Ontrak Announces Pricing of Public Offering of Non-Convertible Preferred Stock
Company to use non-dilutive capital for working capital,

M&A, investment in technology

 

 

Santa Monica, CA – August 21, 2020 – Ontrak, Inc. (NASDAQ: OTRK) (“Ontrak” or the “Company”), a leading AI-powered and telehealth enabled, virtualized outpatient healthcare treatment company, today announced that it has priced its previously announced underwritten public offering of 1,700,000 shares of its 9.50% Series A Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock (the “Series A Preferred Stock“) at $25.00 per share, for gross proceeds to the Company of $42.5 million. B. Riley FBR, Ladenburg Thalmann and William Blair are acting as book-running managers for the offering. ThinkEquity, a division of Fordham Financial Management, Inc. is acting as Lead Manager. Incapital, The Benchmark Company, Boenning & Scattergood, Colliers Securities and Kingswood Capital Markets, a Division of Benchmark Investments, Inc. are acting as co-managers. The Company has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 255,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock initially sold to the public. The Company has filed an application to list the shares of the Series A Preferred Stock to be sold in the offering on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “OTRKP.” The offering is expected to close on or about August 25, 2020, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.

 

Holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock are entitled to receive cumulative cash dividends at the rate of 9.50% per annum of the $25.00 per share liquidation preference (equivalent to $2.375 per annum per share). Dividends on the Series A Preferred Stock are cumulative and payable quarterly every February 28, May 30, August 31, and November 30; provided that if any dividend payment date is not a business day, then the dividend may be paid on the next succeeding business day. Dividends are payable to holders of record on the applicable record date, which shall be every February 15, May 15, August 15, and November 15, beginning November 15, 2020, whether or not a business day.

 

After deducting underwriting fees and other offering expenses payable by the Company, the net proceeds to the Company are anticipated to be approximately $39.3 million prior to any exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares.

 

The Company intends to use the net proceeds of this offering to fund a segregated dividend account for the payments of the first eight quarterly dividend payments on the Series A Preferred Stock and to use the remaining net proceeds for general corporate purposes, which may include working capital, M&A, and investments in technology.

 

The offering of the Series A Preferred Stock was made under the Company’s existing effective shelf registration statement, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). The offering was made by means of a prospectus supplement and prospectus, which will be filed with the SEC. Before you invest, you should read the applicable prospectus supplement and prospectus for more complete information about the Company and the offering. You may obtain these documents free of charge by visiting the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, you may obtain copies, when available, by contacting B. Riley FBR, Inc. at 299 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10171, by telephone at (703) 312-9580 or by email at prospectuses@brileyfbr.com.

 

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, nor shall there be any sale of any securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.

 

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About Ontrak, Inc.

 

Ontrak, Inc. (f/k/a Catasys, Inc.) is a leading AI and telehealth enabled, virtualized outpatient healthcare treatment company, whose mission is to help improve the health and save the lives of as many people as possible. The company’s PRE™ (Predict-Recommend-Engage) platform predicts people whose chronic disease will improve with behavior change, recommends effective care pathways that people are willing to follow, and engages people who aren’t getting the care they need. By combining predictive analytics with human engagement, Ontrak delivers improved member health and validated outcomes and savings to healthcare payers.

 

The company’s integrated, technology-enabled Ontrak™ solutions, a critical component of the PRE platform, are designed to treat members with behavioral conditions that cause or exacerbate chronic medical conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, coronary artery disease, COPD, and congestive heart failure, which result in high medical costs.

 

Ontrak has a unique ability to engage these members, who do not otherwise seek behavioral healthcare, leveraging proprietary enrollment capabilities built on deep insights into the drivers of care avoidance.

 

Ontrak integrates evidence-based psychosocial and medical interventions delivered either in-person or via telehealth, along with care coaching and in-market Community Care Coordinators who address the social and environmental determinants of health, including loneliness. The company’s programs improve member health and deliver validated cost savings to healthcare payers of more than 50 percent for enrolled members. Ontrak solutions are available to members of leading national and regional health plans in 30 states and in Washington, D.C.

 

Learn more at www.ontrak-inc.com

 

Forward-Looking Statements

 

Except for statements of historical fact, the matters discussed in this press release are forward-looking and made pursuant to the Safe Harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements reflect numerous assumptions and involve a variety of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control, which may cause actual results to differ materially from stated expectations. These risk factors include, among others, changes in regulations or issuance of new regulations or interpretations, limited operating history, our inability to execute our business plan, increase our revenue and achieve profitability, lower than anticipated eligible members under our contracts, our inability to recognize revenue, lack of outcomes and statistically significant formal research studies, difficulty enrolling new members and maintaining existing members in our programs, the risk that treatment programs might not be effective, difficulty in developing, exploiting and protecting proprietary technologies, intense competition and substantial regulation in the health care industry, the risks associated with the adequacy of our existing cash resources and our ability to continue as a going concern, our ability to raise additional capital when needed and our liquidity. You are urged to consider statements that include the words "may," "will," "would," "could," "should," "believes," "estimates," "projects," "potential," "expects," "plan," "anticipates," "intends," "continues," "forecast," "designed," "goal," or the negative of those words or other comparable words to be uncertain and forward-looking. For a further list and description of the risks and uncertainties we face, please refer to our most recent Securities and Exchange Commission filings which are available on its website at http://www.sec.gov. Such forward-looking statements are current only as of the date they are made, and we assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

 

 

Contact

 

For Investors:

Ontrak, Inc.

 

Westwicke

Bob East

Phone: 443-213-0502

Email:  bob.east@westwicke.com

 

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