UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 10-Q

 

QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

For the quarterly period ended June 30, 2019

 

OR

 

TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

For the transition period from___________ to __________

 

Commission file number 1-38519

 

AgeX Therapeutics, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware   82-1436829

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

 

965 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 101

Alameda, California 94501

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code

(510) 871-4190

 

Title of each class   Trading Symbol   Name of exchange on which registered
Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share   AGE   NYSE American

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. ☒ Yes ☐ No

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). ☒ Yes ☐ No

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

Large accelerated filer ☐ Accelerated filer ☐
Non-accelerated filer ☒ Smaller reporting company ☒
  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 to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☒

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act). ☐ Yes ☒ No

 

The number of shares common stock outstanding as of August 6, 2019 was 37,630,000, par value $0.0001 per share.

 

 

 

 
 

 

PART 1—FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

This Report on Form 10-Q (“Report”) contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. We make such forward-looking statements pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other federal securities laws. All statements other than statements of historical facts contained in this Report are forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “seek,” “should,” “target,” “will,” “would,” or the negative of these words or other comparable terminology.

 

Any forward-looking statements in this Report reflect our current views with respect to future events or to our future financial performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations include, among other things, those discussed in this Report under Item 1 of the Notes to Condensed Financial Statements, under Risk Factors in this Report and those listed under Part I, Item 1A. Risk Factors of our Annual Report on Form 10-K as filed with the Securities Exchange Commission on April 1, 2019. Given these uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Except as required by law, we assume no obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements for any reason, even if new information becomes available in the future.

 

References to “AgeX,” “our” or “we” mean AgeX Therapeutics, Inc.

 

The description or discussion, in this Form 10-Q, of any contract or agreement is a summary only and is qualified in all respects by reference to the full text of the applicable contract or agreement.

 

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Item 1. Financial Statements

 

AGEX THERAPEUTICS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PAR VALUE AMOUNTS)

 

    June 30, 2019     December 31, 2018  
    (Unaudited)        
             
ASSETS                
CURRENT ASSETS                
Cash and cash equivalents   $ 5,813     $ 6,707  
Accounts and grants receivable, net     208       131  
Prepaid expenses and other current assets     659       1,015  
Total current assets     6,680       7,853  
                 
Property and equipment, net     951       90  
Deposits and other long-term assets     196       19  
Intangible assets, net     2,430       2,709  
TOTAL ASSETS   $ 10,257     $ 10,671  
                 
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY                
CURRENT LIABILITIES                
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities   $ 1,584     $ 1,366  
Related party payables, net     62       132  
Deferred revenues     266       317  
Right-of-use lease liability, current portion     407       -  
Insurance premium liability and other current liabilities     310       625  
Total current liabilities     2,629       2,440  
                 
Right-of-use lease liability, net of current portion     221       -  
TOTAL LIABILITIES   $ 2,850     $ 2,440  
                 
Commitments and contingencies (Note 8)                
                 
STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY                
Preferred stock, $0.0001 par value, authorized 5,000 shares; none issued and outstanding as of June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018     -       -  
Common stock, $0.0001 par value, 100,000 shares authorized; 37,630 and 35,830 shares issued and outstanding as of June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively     4       4  
Additional paid-in capital     86,975       81,499  
Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)     44       (2 )
Accumulated deficit     (80,276 )     (74,054 )
AgeX Therapeutics, Inc. stockholders’ equity     6,747       7,447  
Noncontrolling interest     660       784  
Total stockholders’ equity     7,407       8,231  
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY   $ 10,257     $ 10,671  

 

See accompanying notes to the condensed consolidated interim financial statements.

 

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AGEX THERAPEUTICS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE DATA)

(UNAUDITED)

 

   

Three Months Ended

June 30,

   

Six Months Ended

June 30,

 
    2019     2018     2019     2018  
REVENUES:                        
Subscription and advertising revenues   $ 305     $ 333     $ 650     $ 572  
Grant revenues     47       -       62       -  
Other revenues     28       131       56       131  
Total revenues     380       464       768       703  
                                 
Cost of sales     (53 )     (79 )     (116 )     (188 )
                                 
Gross profit     327       385       652       515  
                                 
OPERATING EXPENSES:                                
Research and development     (1,650 )     (1,384 )     (2,988 )     (2,975 )
Acquired in-process research and development     -       -       -       (800 )
General and administrative     (2,119 )     (1,135 )     (4,228 )     (2,425 )
Total operating expenses     (3,769 )     (2,519 )     (7,216 )     (6,200 )
Loss from operations     (3,442 )     (2,134 )     (6,564 )     (5,685 )
                                 
OTHER INCOME/(EXPENSES):                                
Interest income, net     33       27       45       45  
Gain on sale of equity method investment in Ascendance     -       -       -       3,215  
Other income, net     257       156       229       153  
Total other income, net     290       183       274       3,413  
                                 
NET LOSS BEFORE INCOME TAXES     (3,152 )     (1,951 )     (6,290 )     (2,272 )
Income tax provision     (3 )     -       (76 )     -  
                                 
NET LOSS     (3,155 )     (1,951 )     (6,366 )     (2,272 )
Net loss attributable to noncontrolling interest     66       21       144       107  
                                 
NET LOSS ATTRIBUTABLE TO AGEX   $ (3,089 )   $ (1,930 )   $ (6,222 )   $ (2,165 )
                                 
NET LOSS PER COMMON SHARE: BASIC AND DILUTED   $ (0.08 )   $ (0.06 )   $ (0.17 )   $ (0.06 )
WEIGHTED AVERAGE NUMBER OF COMMON SHARES OUTSTANDING: BASIC AND DILUTED     37,630       34,225       36,891       34,004  

 

See accompanying notes to the condensed consolidated interim financial statements.

 

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AGEX THERAPEUTICS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE LOSS

(IN THOUSANDS)

(UNAUDITED)

 

   

Three Months Ended

June 30,

   

Six Months Ended

June 30,

 
    2019     2018     2019     2018  
NET LOSS   $ (3,155 )   $ (1,951 )   $ (6,366 )   $ (2,272 )
Other comprehensive income (expense), net of tax:                                
Foreign currency translation adjustment     20       (45 )     46       (46 )
COMPREHENSIVE LOSS     (3,135 )     (1,996 )     (6,320 )     (2,318 )
Less: Comprehensive loss attributable to noncontrolling interest     66       21       144       107  
COMPREHENSIVE LOSS ATTRIBUTABLE TO AGEX   $ (3,069 )   $ (1,975 )   $ (6,176 )   $ (2,211 )

 

See accompanying notes to the condensed consolidated interim financial statements.

 

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AGEX THERAPEUTICS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(IN THOUSANDS)

(UNAUDITED)

 

    Six Months Ended June 30,  
    2019     2018  
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:                
Net loss attributable to AgeX   $ (6,222 )   $ (2,165 )
Net loss attributable to noncontrolling interest     (144 )     (107 )
Adjustments to reconcile net loss attributable to AgeX to net cash used in operating activities:                
Gain on sale of equity method investment in Ascendance     (277 )       (3,215 )
Acquired in-process research and development     -       800  
Depreciation expense     22       25  
Amortization of intangible assets     279       214  
Amortization of right-of-use asset     99       -  
Stock-based compensation     996       312  
Stock-based compensation allocated from BioTime     -       150  
Subsidiary stock-based compensation     -       4  
Foreign currency remeasurement gain (loss) and other     49       (51 )
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:                
Accounts and grants receivable, net     (77 )     (17 )
Prepaid expenses and other current assets     359       (92 )
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities     121       150  
Related party payables     (71 )     (156 )
Insurance premium liability     (448 )     -  
Deferred revenues and other current liabilities     (63 )     (18 )
Net cash used in operating activities     (5,377 )     (4,166 )
                 
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:                
Proceeds from the sale of equity method investment in Ascendance     277       3,215  
Purchase of in-process research and development     -       (800 )
Security deposit paid     (77 )     -  
Purchase of equipment and other     (109 )     (13 )
Net cash provided by investing activities     91     2,402  
                 
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:                
Proceeds from issuance of common shares     -       5,000  
Proceeds from exercise of warrants     4,500       -  
Repayment of financing lease liability     (9 )     -  
Proceeds from sale of warrants     -       737  
Net cash provided by financing activities     4,491       5,737  
                 
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents     1       7  
                 
NET INCREASE (DECREASE) IN CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS AND RESTRICTED CASH     (794 )     3,980  
                 
CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS AND RESTRICTED CASH:                
At beginning of the period     6,707       7,375  
At end of the period   $ 5,913     $ 11,355  

 

See accompanying notes to the condensed consolidated interim financial statements.

 

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AGEX THERAPEUTICS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED INTERIM FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(UNAUDITED)

 

1. Organization, Business Overview and Liquidity

 

AgeX Therapeutics, Inc. (“AgeX”) was incorporated in January 2017 in the state of Delaware. Its common shares trade on the NYSE American Stock Exchange under the symbol “AGE.”

 

AgeX is a biotechnology company focused on the development and commercialization of novel therapeutics targeting human aging , with proprietary technology, based on telomerase-mediated cellular immortality and regenerative biology, which allows it to utilize telomerase-expressing regenerative pluripotent stem cell (“PSCs”) for the manufacture of cell-based therapies to regenerate tissues afflicted with age-related chronic degenerative disease. AgeX owns or has licenses to a number of patents and patent applications used in the generation of these product candidates, including intellectual property related to PSC-derived clonal progenitor cell lines ( PureStem ® technology), HyStem ® delivery matrices and UniverCyte™ (HLA-G) Technology.

 

AgeX’s initial discovery and pre-clinical programs focus on utilizing brown adipose tissue (“brown fat”) in targeting diabetes and obesity; using AgeX’s proprietary PureStem ® progenitor cells to generate vascular cells to treat vascular disorders and ischemic heart disease; and induced tissue regeneration (“iTR”) in utilizing the human body’s own abilities to scarlessly regenerate tissue damaged from age or trauma . AgeX may over time determine to abandon the development of one or more of these product candidates, or may change the prioritization of the development of certain product candidates, or may select or acquire and prioritize the development of new product candidates.

 

UniverCyte (HLA-G) Technology : In August 2018, AgeX acquired from Escape Therapeutics patents and patent applications related to HLA-G-modified cells and methods of generating allogeneic cells with reduced risk of being rejected by patients regardless of the HLA class I haplotype. AgeX intends to use the UniverCyte™ technology in the development of its two lead product candidates, AGEX-BAT1 and AGEX-VASC1 for the treatment of Type II diabetes and cardiovascular aging, respectively. In addition, AgeX may seek to license out or form collaborations for the use of its UniverCyte™ technology.

 

AgeX is an “emerging growth company” as defined in the Jumpstart our Business Startups Act of 2012.

 

BioTime’s sale of significant ownership interest in AgeX to Juvenescence – Juvenescence Limited (“Juvenescence”) is currently AgeX’s largest stockholder holding approximately 44% of AgeX’s issued and outstanding shares of common stock as of June 30, 2019. AgeX was originally incorporated as a subsidiary of Lineage Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (formerly known as BioTime, Inc. (“BioTime”)), a publicly-traded, clinical-stage biotechnology company. On June 7, 2018, AgeX sold 2.0 million shares of common stock to Juvenescence for $2.50 per share for aggregate cash proceeds to AgeX of $5.0 million. On August 30, 2018, BioTime consummated the sale of 14,400,000 shares of common stock of AgeX owned by BioTime to Juvenescence. Prior to the transaction, Juvenescence owned 5.6% of AgeX’s issued and outstanding common stock. Upon completion of the transaction, BioTime’s ownership in AgeX was reduced from 80.4% to 40.2% of AgeX’s issued and outstanding shares of common stock, and Juvenescence’s ownership in AgeX was increased from 5.6% to 45.8% of AgeX’s issued and outstanding shares of common stock. AgeX did not receive any proceeds from the transaction.

 

As a result of the sale of AgeX shares to Juvenescence by BioTime, on August 30, 2018, AgeX ceased to be a subsidiary of BioTime because on that date, BioTime experienced a “loss of control” of a subsidiary, as defined by generally accepted accounting principles in the U.S. (“GAAP”). Loss of control is deemed to have occurred when, among other things, a parent company owns less than a majority of the outstanding common stock in the subsidiary, lacks a controlling financial interest in the subsidiary and, is unable to unilaterally control the subsidiary through other means such as having, or being able to obtain, the power to elect a majority of the subsidiary’s Board of Directors based solely on contractual rights or ownership of shares holding a majority of the voting power of the subsidiary’s voting securities. All of these loss-of-control factors were present with respect to BioTime’s ownership interest in AgeX as of August 30, 2018. Accordingly, BioTime deconsolidated AgeX’s consolidated financial statements and results from its consolidated financial statements and results beginning on August 30, 2018.

 

On November 28, 2018 (the “Distribution Date”), BioTime owned 14,416,000 shares of AgeX common stock, representing approximately 40.2% of the shares of the common stock issued and outstanding on the Distribution Date. On the Distribution Date, BioTime distributed to its shareholders, on a pro rata basis, 12,697,028 shares of the AgeX common stock it then held (the “Distribution”). Immediately after the Distribution, BioTime retained 1,718,972 shares of AgeX common stock, representing approximately 4.8% of the common stock then issued and outstanding. Following the Distribution, AgeX common stock began publicly trading on the NYSE American under the symbol “AGE”.

 

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Liquidity

 

Since inception, AgeX has financed its operations through contributions and advances from its former parent company, BioTime, the sale of its common stock and warrants, exercises of warrants, a loan facility by Juvenescence to advance funds, and research grants. BioTime has also provided AgeX with the use of BioTime facilities and services under a Shared Facilities and Services Agreement as described in Note 4. Although BioTime may continue to provide administrative support to AgeX on a reimbursable basis, AgeX does not expect BioTime to provide future financing. On May 7, 2019, AgeX provided written notice that it would terminate its use of BioTime’s office and laboratory facilities on July 31, 2019, and on July 3, 2019, AgeX provided written notice that the shared services from BioTime will terminate on September 30, 2019 (see Note 4). AgeX has incurred operating losses and negative cash flows since inception and had an accumulated deficit of $80.3 million as of June 30, 2019. AgeX expects to continue to incur operating losses and negative cash flows.

 

AgeX has made certain adjustments to its operating plans and budgets to reduce its projected cash expenditures in order to extend the period over which it can continue its operations with its available cash resources. Some of these adjustments will entail the deferral of certain work on the development of AgeX’s product candidates and technologies, which is likely to delay progress in those research and development efforts. Based on AgeX’s most recent projected cash flows AgeX believes that its cash and cash equivalents of $5.8 million as of June 30, 2019, plus the loan facility by Juvenescence to advance up to $2.0 million to AgeX for operating capital discussed in Note 9, provide sufficient cash, cash equivalents, and liquidity to carry out AgeX’s operations through at least twelve months from the issuance date of the consolidated financial statements included herein. AgeX will need to obtain substantial additional funding in connection with its continuing operations after that date. If AgeX is unable to raise capital when needed or on attractive terms, AgeX would be forced to further delay, reduce or eliminate its research and development programs.

 

2. Basis of Presentation and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

 

The unaudited condensed consolidated interim financial statements presented herein, and discussed below, have been prepared in accordance with GAAP for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 8 of Regulation S-X. In accordance with those rules and regulations certain information and footnote disclosures normally included in comprehensive consolidated financial statements have been condensed or omitted. The condensed consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2018 was derived from the audited consolidated financial statements at that date but does not include all the information and footnotes required by GAAP. These condensed consolidated interim financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in AgeX’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018.

 

The accompanying condensed consolidated interim financial statements, in the opinion of management, include all adjustments, consisting only of normal recurring adjustments, necessary for a fair presentation of AgeX’s financial condition and results of operations. The condensed consolidated results of operations are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for any other interim period or for the entire year.

 

For periods prior to August 30, 2018, BioTime consolidated the results of AgeX and AgeX’s subsidiaries into BioTime’s consolidated results based on BioTime’s ability to control AgeX’s operating and financial decisions and policies through the majority ownership of AgeX common stock throughout the periods presented. As discussed above, beginning on August 30, 2018, BioTime deconsolidated AgeX’s consolidated financial statements and results from its consolidated financial statements and results.

 

To the extent AgeX does not have its own employees, human resources or facilities for its operations, BioTime or BioTime commonly controlled and consolidated subsidiaries provide certain employees for administrative or operational services, including laboratory space and administrative facilities, as necessary, for the benefit of AgeX, under a Shared Facilities and Services Agreement (the “Shared Facilities Agreement”) with BioTime (see Note 4). Accordingly, BioTime allocates expenses such as salaries and payroll related expenses incurred and paid on behalf of AgeX based on the amount of time that particular employees devote to AgeX affairs. Other expenses such as legal, accounting and financial reporting, marketing, and travel expenses are allocated to AgeX to the extent that those expenses are incurred by or on behalf of AgeX. BioTime also allocates certain overhead expenses such as rent and utilities, property taxes, insurance, laboratory expenses and supplies, telecommunications and other indirect expenses. These allocations are made based upon activity-based allocation drivers such as time spent, percentage of square feet of office or laboratory space used, headcount and percentage of personnel devoted to AgeX’s operations or management. Management evaluates the appropriateness of the allocations on a periodic basis and believes that this basis for allocation is reasonable.

 

Juvenescence also provides the services of certain of its employees to AgeX on a cost reimbursement basis.

 

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Principles of consolidation

 

AgeX’s condensed consolidated interim financial statements include the accounts of its subsidiaries. The following table reflects AgeX’s ownership, directly or through one or more subsidiaries, of the outstanding shares of its operating subsidiaries as of June 30, 2019.

 

Subsidiary   Field of Business   AgeX Ownership     Country  
ReCyte Therapeutics, Inc.   Early stage pre-clinical research and development involved in stem cell-derived endothelial and cardiovascular related progenitor cells for the treatment of vascular disorders, ischemic conditions and brown adipocytes for type-2 diabetes and obesity     94.8 %    

USA

 
                     
LifeMap Sciences, Inc. (1)   Biomedical, gene, and disease databases and tools     81.7 %     USA  

 

(1) Includes LifeMap Sciences, Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiary LifeMap Sciences, Ltd. an Israeli company.

 

All material intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. As of June 30, 2019, AgeX consolidated its direct and indirect wholly-owned or majority-owned subsidiaries because AgeX has the ability to control the subsidiary operating and financial decisions and policies through its share ownership, and the noncontrolling interest is reflected as a separate element of stockholders’ equity on AgeX’s consolidated balance sheets.

 

Revenue recognition

 

During the first quarter of 2018, AgeX adopted Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) ASU 2014-09, Revenues from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606) , which created a single, principle-based revenue recognition model that supersedes and replaces nearly all existing U.S. GAAP revenue recognition guidance. AgeX adopted ASU 2014-09 using the modified retrospective transition method applied to those contracts which were not completed as of the adoption date. Results for reporting periods beginning on January 1, 2018 and thereafter are presented under Topic 606, while prior period amounts are not adjusted and continue to be reported in accordance with AgeX’s historical revenue recognition accounting under Topic 605. AgeX’s largest source of revenue is currently sourced from subscription and advertising revenues generated by its majority-owned subsidiary, LifeMap Sciences, Inc. (“LifeMap Sciences”)

 

AgeX recognizes revenue in a manner that depicts the transfer of control of a product or a service to a customer and reflects the amount of the consideration it expects to receive in exchange for such product or service. In doing so, AgeX follows a five-step approach: (i) identify the contract with a customer, (ii) identify the performance obligations in the contract, (iii) determine the transaction price, (iv) allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations, and (v) recognize revenue when (or as) the customer obtains control of the product or service. AgeX considers the terms of a contract and all relevant facts and circumstances when applying the revenue recognition standard. AgeX applies the revenue recognition standard, including the use of any practical expedients, consistently to contracts with similar characteristics and in similar circumstances.

 

Subscription and advertising revenues – LifeMap Sciences sells subscription-based products, including research databases and software tools, for biomedical, gene, and disease research. LifeMap Sciences sells these subscriptions primarily through the internet to biotech and pharmaceutical companies worldwide. LifeMap Sciences’ principal subscription product is the GeneCards ® Suite, which includes the GeneCards ® human gene database, and the MalaCards™ human disease database.

 

LifeMap Sciences’ performance obligations for subscriptions include a license of intellectual property related to its genetic information packages and premium genetic information tools. These licenses are deemed functional licenses that provide customers with a “right to access” to LifeMap Sciences’ intellectual property during the subscription period and, accordingly, revenue is recognized over a period of time, which is generally the subscription period. Payments are typically received at the beginning of a subscription period and revenue is recognized according to the type of subscription sold.

 

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For subscription contracts in which the subscription term commences before a payment is due, LifeMap Sciences records an accounts receivable as the subscription is earned over time and bills the customer according to the contract terms. LifeMap Sciences continuously monitors collections and payments from customers and maintains a provision for estimated credit losses and uncollectible accounts based upon its historical experience and any specific customer collection issues that have been identified. Amounts determined to be uncollectible are written off against the allowance for doubtful accounts. LifeMap Sciences has not historically provided significant discounts, credits, concessions, or other incentives from the stated price in the contract as the prices are offered on a fixed fee basis for the type of subscription package being purchased. LifeMap Sciences may issue refunds only if the packages cease to be available for reasons beyond its control. In such an event, the customer will get a refund on a pro-rata basis. Both the customer and LifeMap Sciences expect the subscription packages to be available during the entire subscription period, and LifeMap Sciences has not experienced any significant issues with the availability of the product and has not issued any material refunds. Using the most likely amount method for estimating refunds under Topic 606, including historical experience, LifeMap Sciences determined that the single most likely amount of variable consideration for refunds is immaterial as LifeMap Sciences does not expect to pay any refunds.

 

LifeMap Sciences performance obligations for advertising are overall advertising services and represent a series of distinct services. Contracts are typically less than a year in duration and the fees charged may include a combination of fixed and variable fees with the variable fees tied to click throughs to the customer’s products on their website. LifeMap Sciences allocates the variable consideration to each month the click through services occur and allocates the annual fee to the performance obligation period of the initial term of the contract because those amounts correspond to the value provided to the customer each month. For click-through advertising services, at the time the variable compensation is known and determinable, the service has been rendered. Revenue is recognized at that time. The annual fee is recognized over the initial subscription period because this is a service and the customer simultaneously receives and consumes the benefit of LifeMap Sciences’ performance.

 

LifeMap Sciences deferred subscription revenues primarily represent subscriptions for which cash payment has been received for the subscription term, but the subscription term has not been completed as of the balance sheet date. For the three months ended June 30, 2019 and 2018, LifeMap Sciences recognized $305,000 and $333,000, respectively, in subscription and advertising revenues. For the six months ended June 30, 2019 and 2018, LifeMap Sciences recognized $650,000 and $572,000, respectively, in subscription and advertising revenues. As of June 30, 2019, there was $266,000 included in deferred revenues in the consolidated balance sheet which is expected to be recognized as subscription revenue over the next twelve months.

 

LifeMap Sciences has licensed from third parties the databases and software it commercializes and has a contractual obligation to pay royalties to the licensor on subscriptions sold. These costs are included in cost of sales on the condensed consolidated statements of operations when the cash is received, and the royalty obligation is incurred as the royalty payments do not qualify for capitalization of costs to fulfill a contract under ASC 340-40, Other Assets and Deferred Costs - Contracts with Customers .

 

Grant revenues – In applying the provisions of Topic 606, AgeX has determined that government grants are out of the scope of Topic 606 because the government entities do not meet the definition of a “customer”, as defined by Topic 606, as there is not considered to be a transfer of control of good or services to the government entities funding the grant. AgeX accounts for grants received to perform research and development services in accordance with ASC 730-20, Research and Development Arrangements , which requires an assessment, at the inception of the grant, of whether the grant is a liability or a contract to perform research and development services for others. If AgeX or a subsidiary receiving the grant is obligated to repay the grant funds to the grantor regardless of the outcome of the research and development activities, then AgeX is required to estimate and recognize that liability. Alternatively, if AgeX or a subsidiary receiving the grant is not required to repay, or if it is required to repay the grant funds only if the research and development activities are successful, then the grant agreement is accounted for as a contract to perform research and development services for others, in which case, grant revenue is recognized when the related research and development expenses are incurred.

 

In September 2018, AgeX was awarded a grant of up to approximately $225,000 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH grant provides funding for continued development of AgeX technologies for treating osteoporosis. The grant funds will be made available by the NIH as allowable expenses are incurred. For the three and six months ended June 30, 2019, AgeX incurred approximately $47,000 and $62,000, respectively, of allowable expenses under the NIH grant and recognized a corresponding amount of grant revenues . AgeX had no grant revenues for the three and six months ended June 30, 2018.

 

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Research and development

 

Research and development expenses include both direct expenses incurred by AgeX or its subsidiaries and indirect overhead costs allocated by BioTime that benefit or support AgeX’s research and development functions. Direct research and development expenses consist primarily of personnel costs and related benefits, including stock-based compensation, amortization of intangible assets, outside consultants and suppliers, and license fees paid to third parties to acquire patents or licenses to use patents and other technology. Indirect research and development expenses allocated by BioTime to AgeX under the Shared Facilities Agreement (see Note 4), are primarily based on headcount or space occupied, as applicable, and include laboratory supplies, laboratory expenses, rent and utilities, common area maintenance, telecommunications, property taxes and insurance. Research and development expenses incurred and reimbursed by grants from third parties or governmental agencies, including service revenues from co-development projects with customers, if any and as applicable, approximate the respective revenues recognized in the condensed consolidated statements of operations.

 

General and administrative

 

General and administrative expenses include both direct expenses incurred by AgeX and indirect overhead costs allocated by BioTime that benefit or support AgeX’s general and administrative functions. Direct general and administrative expenses consist primarily of compensation and related benefits, including stock-based compensation, for executive and corporate personnel, and professional and consulting fees. Indirect general and administrative expenses allocated by BioTime to AgeX under the Shared Facilities Agreement (see Note 4) are primarily based on headcount or space occupied, as applicable, and include costs for financial reporting and compliance, rent and utilities, common area maintenance, telecommunications, property taxes and insurance.

 

Basic and diluted net loss per share attributable to common stockholders

 

Basic loss per share is calculated by dividing net loss attributable to AgeX common stockholders by the weighted average number of shares of common shares outstanding, net of unvested restricted stock or restricted stock units, subject to repurchase by AgeX, if any, during the period. Diluted loss per share is calculated by dividing the net income attributable to AgeX common stockholders, if any, by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding, adjusted for the effects of potentially dilutive common shares issuable under outstanding stock options and warrants, using the treasury-stock method, and convertible preferred stock, if any, using the if-converted method , and treasury stock held by subsidiaries, if any .

 

For the three and six months ended June 30, 2019 and 2018, b ecause AgeX reported a net loss attributable to common stockholders, all potentially dilutive common stock, comprised of stock options, restricted stock units and warrants, is antidilutive.

 

The following weighted average common stock equivalents were excluded from the computation of diluted net loss per common share for the periods presented because including them would have been antidilutive (in thousands):

 

   

Three Months Ended

June 30, (Unaudited)

   

Six Months Ended

June 30, (Unaudited)

 
    2019     2018     2019     2018  
Stock options     2,836       1,349       2,620       1,349  
Warrants (1)     -       -       -       1,474  
Restricted stock units     50       -       31       -  

 

(1) The warrants were either exercised or expired on March 18, 2019 (see Note 5).

 

Recently adopted accounting pronouncements

 

Leases

 

On January 1, 2019, AgeX adopted ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842, “ASC 842”) and its subsequent amendments affecting AgeX: (i) ASU 2018-10, Codification Improvements to Topic 842, Leases, and (ii) ASU 2018-11, Leases (Topic 842): Targeted improvements, using the modified retrospective method.

 

AgeX management determines if an arrangement is a lease at inception. Leases are classified as either financing or operating, with classification affecting the pattern of expense recognition in the consolidated statements of operations. When determining whether a lease is a financing lease or an operating lease, ASC 842 does not specifically define criteria to determine “major part of remaining economic life of the underlying asset” and “substantially all of the fair value of the underlying asset.” For lease classification determination, AgeX continues to use (i) 75% or greater to determine whether the lease term is a major part of the remaining economic life of the underlying asset and (ii) 90% or greater to determine whether the present value of the sum of lease payments is substantially all of the fair value of the underlying asset. Under the available practical expedients, and as applicable, AgeX accounts for the lease and non-lease components as a single lease component. AgeX recognizes right-of-use (“ROU”) assets and lease liabilities for leases with terms greater than twelve months in the condensed consolidated balance sheet.

 

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ROU assets represent an entity’s right to use an underlying asset during the lease term and lease liabilities represent an entity’s obligation to make lease payments arising from the lease. Operating lease ROU assets and liabilities are recognized at commencement date based on the present value of lease payments over the lease term. If the lease agreement does not provide an implicit rate in the contract, an entity uses its incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at commencement date in determining the present value of lease payments. The operating lease ROU asset also includes any lease payments made and excludes lease incentives. The lease terms may include options to extend or terminate the lease when it is reasonably certain that the entity will exercise that option. Lease expense for lease payments is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term.

 

Upon adoption of ASC 842 and based on the practical expedients available under that standard, AgeX did not reassess any expired or existing contracts, reassess the lease classification for any expired or existing leases and reassess initial direct costs for exiting leases. AgeX also elected not to capitalize leases that have terms of twelve months or less.

 

The adoption of ASC 842 had no impact on AgeX’s consolidated balance sheet as of January 1, 2019 as AgeX did not have operating leases as of December 31, 2018 (see Note 8). AgeX’s new sublease, which commenced on April 2, 2019, is subject to ASC 842. AgeX recognized this lease as a right-of-use asset and operating lease liability on its balance sheet in accordance with ASC 842 as of June 30, 2019 (see Note 8).

 

Stock-based compensation

 

In June 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-07, Compensation - Stock Compensation (Topic 718): Improvements to Nonemployee Share-Based Payment Accounting , which simplifies the accounting for non-employee share-based payment transactions. The new standard expands the scope of Topic 718 to include share-based payment transactions for acquiring goods and services from non-employees. ASU 2018-07 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018 (including interim periods within that fiscal year). AgeX adopted ASU 2018-07 on January 1, 2019. As AgeX has one stock option grant issued to a nonemployee in October 2018, the application of the new standard did not have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.

 

Reclassifications

 

A reclassification was made from amounts included in accounts payable and accrued liabilities to related party payables, net, on the condensed consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2018 to conform and be comparable to the presentation on the condensed consolidated balance sheet as of June 30, 2019. The reclassification had no impact to the condensed consolidated financial statements for any period presented.

 

Recently issued accounting pronouncements not yet adopted

 

The recently issued accounting pronouncements applicable to AgeX that are not yet effective should be read in conjunction with the recently issued accounting pronouncements, as applicable and disclosed in AgeX’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018.

 

In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-13, Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820): Disclosure Framework – Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Fair Value Measurement , which modifies certain disclosure requirements for reporting fair value measurements. ASU 2018-13 is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2019. Early adoption is permitted. AgeX will adopt this standard on January 1, 2020 and is currently evaluating the disclosure requirements and its effect on the consolidated financial statements.

 

3. Selected Balance Sheet Components

 

Property and equipment, net, and construction in progress

 

At June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, property and equipment was comprised of the following (in thousands):

 

   

June 30, 2019

   

December 31, 2018

 
      (unaudited)          
Equipment, furniture and fixtures   $ 335     $ 245  
Right-of-use assets (1)     726       -  
Accumulated depreciation and amortization     (280 )     (155 )
Property and equipment, net     781       90  
Construction in progress     170       -  
Property and equipment, net, and construction in progress   $ 951     $ 90  

 

(1) AgeX adopted ASC 842 on January 1, 2019. For additional information on this standard and right-of-use assets and liabilities see Notes 2 and 8.

 

Depreciation and amortization expense amounted to $12,000 and $10,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2019 and 2018, and $22,000 and $25,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively.

 

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Construction in progress of $170,000 as of June 30, 2019 entirely relates to the leasehold improvements made at AgeX’s new office and research facility (see Note 8).

 

Intangible assets, net

 

As of June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, intangible assets, primarily consisting of acquired in-process research and development and patents, and accumulated amortization were as follows (in thousands):

 

    June 30, 2019 (unaudited)     December 31, 2018  
Intangible assets   $ 5,586     $ 5,586  
Accumulated amortization     (3,156 )     (2,877 )
Total intangible assets, net   $ 2,430     $ 2,709  

 

AgeX recognized $140,000 and $107,000 in amortization expense of intangible assets, included in research and development expenses, for the three months ended June 30, 2019 and 2018, and $279,000 and $214,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively.

 

Accounts payable and accrued liabilities

 

As of June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, accounts payable and accrued liabilities were comprised of the following (in thousands):

 

    June 30, 2019 (unaudited)     December 31, 2018  
Accounts payable   $ 437     $ 150  
Accrued compensation     404       254  
Accrued vendors and other expenses     743       962  
Total accounts payable and accrued liabilities   $ 1,584     $ 1,366  

 

4. Related Party Transactions

 

Shared Facilities and Service Agreement

 

On August 17, 2017, AgeX and BioTime executed the Shared Facilities Agreement. Under the terms of the Shared Facilities Agreement, BioTime agrees to permit AgeX to use its premises and equipment located at Alameda, California for the purpose of conducting business. BioTime will also provide accounting, billing, bookkeeping, payroll, treasury, payment of accounts payable, and other similar administrative services to AgeX. BioTime may also provide the services of attorneys, accountants, and other professionals who may also provide professional services to BioTime and its other subsidiaries. BioTime may also provide AgeX with the services of its laboratory and research personnel, including BioTime employees and contractors, for the performance of research and development work for AgeX at the premises.

 

BioTime charges AgeX a “Use Fee” for services received and usage of facilities, equipment, and supplies. For each billing period, BioTime prorates and allocates as a Use Fee costs incurred, as applicable, to AgeX. Such costs generally include services of BioTime employees, consultants, and contractors; equipment use, insurance, lease expense, fees for services of accountants, lawyers, and other professionals; software; supplies; and utilities. Allocation depends on key cost drivers including actual documented use, square footage of facilities used, time spent, costs incurred by or for AgeX, or upon proportionate usage by BioTime and AgeX, as reasonably estimated by BioTime. BioTime, at its discretion, has the right to charge AgeX a 5% markup on such allocated costs and BioTime has charged this markup since the August 17, 2017 inception of the Shared Facilities Agreement with AgeX. The allocated cost of BioTime employees and contractors who provide services is based upon records maintained of the number of hours or percentage of time of such personnel devoted to the performance of services.

 

The Use Fee is determined and invoiced to AgeX on a monthly basis for each calendar month of each calendar year. If the Shared Facilities Agreement terminates prior to the last day of a billing period, the Use Fee will be determined for the number of days in the billing period elapsed prior to the termination of the Shared Facilities Agreement. Each invoice will be payable in full by AgeX within 30 days after receipt. Any invoice, or portion thereof, not paid in full when due will bear interest at the rate of 15% per annum until paid, unless the failure to make a payment is due to any inaction or delay in making a payment by BioTime employees from AgeX funds available for such purpose, rather than from the unavailability of sufficient funds legally available for payment or from an act, omission, or delay by any employee or agent of AgeX. To date BioTime has not charged AgeX any interest.

 

In addition to the Use Fees, AgeX will reimburse BioTime for any out of pocket costs incurred by BioTime for the purchase of office supplies, laboratory supplies, and other goods and materials and services for the account or use of AgeX, provided that invoices documenting such costs are delivered to AgeX with each invoice for the Use Fee. Furthermore, BioTime will have no obligation to purchase or acquire any office supplies or other goods and materials or any services for AgeX, and if any such supplies, goods, materials or services are obtained for AgeX, BioTime may arrange for the suppliers thereof to invoice AgeX directly.

 

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The Shared Facilities Agreement will remain in effect from year to year, unless either party gives the other party written six months notice to terminate, which BioTime may not give to AgeX prior to September 1, 2020, or unless the agreement is otherwise terminated under another provision of the agreement. The Shared Facilities Agreement is not considered a lease under the provisions of ASC 842 discussed in Note 2, because, among other factors, a significant part of the Shared Facilities Agreement is a contract for services, not a tangible asset, and is cancelable by either party without penalty.

 

On May 7, 2019, AgeX provided written notice that it would terminate its use of BioTime’s office and laboratory facilities on July 31, 2019, and on July 3, 2019, AgeX provided written notice that the shared services from BioTime will terminate on September 30, 2019 (see Notes 8 and 9).

 

In aggregate, BioTime charged such Use Fees to AgeX and subsidiaries as follows (in thousands) :

 

   

Three Months Ended

June 30, (unaudited)

   

Six Months Ended

June 30, (unaudited)

 
    2019     2018     2019     2018  
Research and development   $ 280     $ 293     $ 566     $ 611  
General and administrative     65       96       179       166  
Total Use Fees   $ 345     $ 389     $ 745     $ 777  

 

AgeX accounts for payables to an affiliate, net of receivables from that affiliate, if any, for shared services and other transactions that AgeX may enter into with that affiliate. AgeX records those payables and receivables on a net basis since AgeX and the affiliate intend to exercise a right of offset of the payable and the receivable and to settle the balances net by having the party that owes the other party pay the net balance owed . AgeX treats BioTime and Juvenescence as affiliates for this purpose.

 

AgeX had $78,000 in related party receivables from BioTime and $34,000 in related party payables due to BioTime, included in related party payables, net, on the condensed consolidated balance sheets as of June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively.

 

Transactions with Juvenescence

 

Since October 2018, AgeX’s Chief Operating Officer (“COO”), who is also an employee of Juvenescence, is devoting a majority of his time to AgeX’s operations for which AgeX reimburses Juvenescence for his services on an agreed upon annual amount of approximately $273,000. As of June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, AgeX had approximately $139,000 and $98,000, respectively, payable to Juvenescence for COO services rendered, included in related party payables, net, on the condensed consolidated balance sheets.

 

Transactions with Ascendance

 

On March 21, 2018, AgeX and Ascendance entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement (the “Asset Agreement”) in which AgeX purchased for $800,000 in cash certain assets consisting in value primarily of in-process research and development assets related to stem cell derived cardiomyocytes (heart muscle cells) to be developed by AgeX. The transaction was considered an asset acquisition rather than a business combination in accordance with ASC 805-50. The $800,000 purchase price was expensed on the acquisition date as acquired in-process research and development in accordance with ASC 730-10-25(c) as those assets have no alternative future uses.

 

Disposition of ownership interest in Ascendance

 

On March 23, 2018, Ascendance was acquired by a third party in a merger through which AgeX received approximately $3.2 million in cash for its shares of Ascendance common stock. AgeX recognized a $3.2 million gain on sale of its equity method investment in Ascendance, which is included in other income and expenses, net, for the six months ended June 30, 2018. At the close of the merger, $955,000 of cash that otherwise would have been payable to the Ascendance stockholders on a pro rata basis based on share ownership was deposited into an escrow account where it was held through the term of the escrow, which expired in June 2019. The funds were held in the escrow account to cover certain potential indemnity payments and other obligations that might arise after the merger. On June 21, 2019, the escrow funds were paid to the former Ascendance shareholders and AgeX received $277,000 as its pro rata share of the funds, as additional proceeds from the sale of the Ascendance investment included in other income and expenses, net, for the three and six months ended June 30, 2019.

 

Sale and exercise of AgeX warrants

 

In February 2018, AgeX sold warrants, as described in Note 5, to certain investors, including to Alfred D. Kingsley, who was at the time AgeX’s Executive Chairman and the Chairman of BioTime’s Board of Directors. On March 18, 2019, Mr. Kingsley purchased a total of 248,600 shares of AgeX common stock through the exercise of his warrants at an exercise price of $2.50 per share and paid a total purchase price of $621,500.

 

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5. Stockholders’ Equity

 

Preferred Stock

 

AgeX is authorized to issue up to 5,000,000 shares of $0.0001 par value preferred stock. To date, no preferred shares are issued and outstanding.

 

Common Stock

 

AgeX has 100,000,000 shares of $0.0001 par value common stock authorized.

 

See Note 4 for related party transactions with BioTime that impacted AgeX’s condensed consolidated statements of stockholders’ equity.

 

On February 28, 2018, AgeX sold warrants to purchase 1,473,600 shares of AgeX common stock (the “Warrants”) for $0.50 per warrant for aggregate cash proceeds to AgeX of $736,800. On July 10, 2018, AgeX sold additional Warrants to purchase 526,400 shares of common stock for $0.50 per warrant for aggregate net cash proceeds to AgeX of $263,200. The Warrants were exercisable at $2.50 per share.

 

On March 18, 2019, holders of the Warrants purchased a total of 1,800,000 shares of AgeX common stock through the exercise of Warrants at an exercise price of $2.50 per share, for total proceeds to AgeX of $4.5 million. Any unexercised Warrants expired on that date. As of June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, there were 37,630,000 and 35,830,000 shares of AgeX common stock issued and outstanding, respectively.

 

Reconciliation of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity

 

The following tables provide the activity in stockholders’ equity for the periods from March 31, 2019 to June 30, 2019, and January 1, 2019 to June 30, 2019 (unaudited and in thousands):

 

    Common Stock                       Accumulated      
    Number
of
Shares
    Par Value     Additional
Paid-In Capital
    Accumulated Deficit     Noncontrolling Interest     Other Comprehensive Income    

 Total Stockholders’ Equity
 
BALANCE AT MARCH 31, 2019     37,630     $       4     $ 86,480     $ (77,187 )   $ 706     $                24     $             10,027  
Stock-based compensation     -       -       515       -       -       -       515  
Lapse of subsidiary options     -       -       (20 )     -       20       -       -  
Foreign currency translation adjustment     -       -       -       -       -       20       20  
Net loss     -       -       -       (3,089 )     (66 )             (3,155 )
BALANCE AT JUNE 30, 2019     37,630     $ 4     $ 86,975     $ (80,276 )   $ 660     $ 44     $ 7,407  

 

    Common Stock                     Accumulated        
    Number
of
Shares
    Par Value     Additional Paid-In Capital     Accumulated Deficit     Noncontrolling Interest     Other
Comprehensive Income/(Loss)
   

Total
Stockholders’ Equity

 
BALANCE AT JANUARY 1, 2019     35,830     $      4     $ 81,499     $ (74,054 )   $             784     $                 (2 )   $              8,231  
Issuance of common stock from exercise of warrants     1,800       -       4,500       -       -       -       4,500  
Stock-based compensation     -       -       996       -       -       -       996  
Lapse of subsidiary options     -       -       (20 )     -       20       -       -  
Foreign currency translation adjustment     -       -       -       -       -       46       46  
Net loss     -       -       -       (6,222 )     (144 )     -       (6,366 )
BALANCE AT JUNE 30, 2019     37,630     $ 4     $ 86,975     $ (80,276 )   $ 660     $ 44     $ 7,407  

 

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The following tables provide the activity in stockholders’ equity for the periods from March 31, 2018 to June 30, 2018, and January 1, 2018 to June 30, 2018 (unaudited and in thousands):

 

    Common Stock                       Accumulated        
    Number
of
Shares
    Par Value     Additional Paid-In Capital     Accumulated Deficit     Noncontrolling Interest     Other Comprehensive Income     Total
Stockholders’ Equity
 
BALANCE AT MARCH 31, 2018     33,750     $ 3     $ 74,731     $ (66,787 )   $ 955     $ 67     $ 8,969  
Issuance of shares     2,000       1       5,000       -       -       -       5,001  
Stock-based compensation     -       -       167       -       -       -       167  
Stock-based compensation allocated from BioTime     -       -       62       -       -       -       62  
Stock-based compensation in subsidiaries     -       -       -       -       2       -       2  
Foreign currency translation adjustment     -       -       -       -       -       (45 )     (45 )
Net loss     -       -       -       (1,930 )     (21 )     -       (1,951 )
BALANCE AT JUNE 30, 2018     35,750     $ 4     $ 79,960     $ (68,717 )   $ 936     $ 22     $ 12,205  

 

    Common Stock                       Accumulated        
    Number
of
Shares
    Par Value     Additional Paid-In Capital     Accumulated Deficit     Noncontrolling Interest     Other Comprehensive Income     Total
Stockholders’ Equity
 
BALANCE AT JANUARY 1, 2018     33,750     $ 3     $ 73,761     $ (66,552 )   $ 1,039     $ 68     $ 8,319  
Issuance of shares     2,000       1       5,000       -       -       -       5,001  
Sale of warrants     -       -       737       -       -       -       737  
Stock-based compensation     -       -       312       -       -       -       312  
Stock-based compensation allocated from BioTime     -       -       150       -       -       -       150  
Stock-based compensation in subsidiaries     -       -       -       -       4       -       4  
Foreign currency translation adjustment     -       -       -       -       -       (46 )     (46 )
Net loss     -       -       -       (2,165 )     (107 )     -       (2,272 )
BALANCE AT JUNE 30, 2018     35,750     $ 4     $ 79,960     $ (68,717 )   $ 936     $ 22     $ 12,205  

 

6. Stock-Based Awards

 

Equity Incentive Plan Awards

 

AgeX adopted its 2017 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) under which a maximum of 4,000,000 shares of common stock are available for the grant of stock options, the sale of restricted stock, the settlement of restricted stock units, and the grant of stock appreciation rights. The Plan also permits AgeX to issue such other securities as its Board of Directors or the Compensation Committee administering the Plan may determine.

 

On March 11, 2019, AgeX granted 50,000 restricted stock units and stock options to purchase 600,000 shares of common stock with an exercise price of $4.28 to its employees, directors and a consultant under the Plan. These grants are subject to customary vesting terms and conditions in accordance with the Plan.

 

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A summary of AgeX stock option activity under the Plan and related information follows (in thousands, except weighted average exercise price):

 

    Shares Available for Grant     Number of Options Outstanding     Number of RSUs Outstanding     Weighted Average Exercise Price  
December 31, 2018     1,731       2,269       -     $ 2.42  
Restricted stock units granted     (100 )     -       50       -  
Options granted     (567 )     567       -       4.28  
Options exercised     -       -       -       -  
Options forfeited/cancelled     -       -       -       -  
June 30, 2019     1,064       2,836       50     $ 2.79  
Options exercisable at June 30, 2019             949             $ 2.22  

 

Stock-based Compensation Expense

 

The fair value of each option award is estimated on the date of grant using a Black-Scholes option pricing model applying the weighted-average assumptions noted in the following table :

 

   

Three Months Ended

June 30, (unaudited)

   

Six Months Ended

June 30, (unaudited)

 
    2019 (1)     2018     2019     2018  
Expected life (in years)     -       5.54       5.65       5.80  
Risk-free interest rates     N/A       2.74 %     2.44 %     2.68 %
Volatility     N/A       75.19 %     78.45 %     74.85 %
Dividend yield     - %     - %     - %     - %

 

(1) There were no option grants during the three months ended June 30, 2019.

 

Operating expenses include stock-based compensation expense as follows (in thousands):

 

   

Three Months Ended

June 30, (unaudited)

   

Six Months Ended

June 30, (unaudited)

 
    2019     2018     2019     2018  
Research and development   $ 35     $ 42     $ 62     $ 93  
General and administrative     480       189       934       373  
Total stock-based compensation expense   $ 515     $ 231     $ 996     $ 466  

 

7. Income Taxes

 

The provision for income taxes for interim periods is determined using an estimated annual effective tax rate in accordance with ASC 740-270, Income Taxes, Interim Reporting. The effective tax rate may be subject to fluctuations during the year as new information is obtained, which may affect the assumptions used to estimate the annual effective tax rate, including factors such as valuation allowances against deferred tax assets, the recognition or de-recognition of tax benefits related to uncertain tax positions, if any, and changes in or the interpretation of tax laws in jurisdictions where AgeX conducts business.

 

On March 23, 2018, Ascendance was acquired by a third party in a merger through which AgeX received approximately $3.2 million in cash for its shares of Ascendance common stock. For financial reporting purposes, AgeX recognized a $3.2 million gain on the sale of its equity method investment in Ascendance (see Note 4). The sale was a taxable transaction to AgeX generating a taxable gain of approximately $2.2 million. AgeX had sufficient current year losses from operations to offset the entire gain resulting in no income taxes due. At the close of the merger, $955,000 of cash that otherwise would have been payable to the Ascendance stockholders on a pro rata basis based on share ownership was deposited into an escrow account where it was held through the term of the escrow, which expired in June 2019. The funds were held in the escrow account to cover certain potential indemnity payments and other obligations that might arise after the merger. On June 21, 2019, the escrow funds were paid to the former Ascendance shareholders and AgeX received $277,000 as its pro rata share of the funds as additional proceeds from the sale of its Ascendance investment (see Note 4) included in other income and expenses, net, for the three and six months ended June 30, 2019. AgeX has sufficient current year losses from operations to offset this gain resulting in no income taxes due.

 

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As further discussed in Note 1, on August 30, 2018, BioTime consummated the sale of 14,400,000 shares of common stock of AgeX owned by BioTime to Juvenescence. AgeX received no proceeds from that transaction. Prior to the transaction, Juvenescence owned 5.6% of AgeX’s issued and outstanding common stock. Upon completion of the transaction, BioTime’s ownership in AgeX was reduced from 80.4% to 40.2% of AgeX’s issued and outstanding shares of common stock, and Juvenescence’s ownership in AgeX was increased from 5.6% to 45.8% of AgeX’s issued and outstanding shares of common stock. Accordingly, beginning on August 31, 2018, AgeX will no longer be included in BioTime’s consolidated federal and state income tax returns as AgeX will file its own, standalone returns with its subsidiaries.

 

Beginning in 2018, the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“2017 Tax Act”), subjects a U.S. stockholder to tax on Global Intangible Low Tax Income “GILTI” earned by certain foreign subsidiaries. In general, GILTI is the excess of a U.S. shareholder’s total net foreign income over a deemed return on tangible assets. The provision further allows a deduction of 50% of GILTI, however this deduction is limited to the company’s pre-GILTI U.S. income. For the year ended December 31, 2018, AgeX included an immaterial amount of GILTI in U.S. gross income related to LifeMap Sciences, Ltd., which was fully offset by operating losses For the three and six months ended June 30, 2019, our foreign income inclusion was less than the deemed return on tangible assets, therefore no GILTI was included in income for the first six months of 2019. Current interpretations under ASC 740 state that an entity can make an accounting policy election to either recognize deferred taxes for temporary basis differences expected to reverse as GILTI in future years or to provide for the tax expense related to GILTI in the year the tax is incurred as a period expense. AgeX has elected to account for GILTI as a current period expense when incurred.

 

For the three and six months ended June 30, 2019, AgeX generated a domestic loss from continuing operations but generated foreign income attributable primarily to foreign currency transaction gains for the current periods. This foreign income was principally related to the remeasurement of the U.S. dollar denominated intercompany advances in the form of services provided by LifeMap Sciences, Ltd. to LifeMap Sciences, Inc., for which a foreign income tax provision of $76,000 was recorded for the six months ended June 30, 2019.

 

Due to losses incurred for all periods presented, AgeX did not record a domestic provision or benefit for income taxes. A valuation allowance is provided when it is more likely than not that some portion of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. AgeX established a full valuation allowance for all of its domestic deferred tax assets for all periods presented due to the uncertainty of realizing future tax benefits from its net operating loss carryforwards and other deferred tax assets.

 

8. Commitments and Contingencies

 

Lease Agreement

 

On April 2, 2019, the term of a sublease that AgeX entered into during March 2019 went into effect for an office and research facility (the “New Facility”) comprising approximately 23,911 square feet of space in a building in an office and research park at 965 Atlantic Avenue, Alameda, California. AgeX plans to operate its principal offices and research laboratory at the New Facility.

 

Base monthly rent is $35,866.50 for the initial 12 months of the sublease term and then will increase to $36,942.50. In addition, AgeX will pay real property taxes, insurance and operating expenses pertaining to the building in which the New Facility is located. The sublease term will expire on December 31, 2020.

 

AgeX is responsible for the maintenance and repair of the New Facility, including electrical, plumbing, HVAC and other systems serving the New Facility but excluding structural and other external portions of the building in which the New Facility is located, and other external areas such as parking, landscaping and walkways associated with the building.

 

AgeX will be in default under the sublease, and the sublandlord may terminate the sublease and may exercise other remedies against AgeX for losses and damages under the sublease and applicable law, if any one or more of the following events occurs: (a) AgeX fails to pay any rent or any other sum required to be paid under the sublease for a period of ten (10) days after written notice of delinquency is delivered by the sublandlord; provided, however, that if AgeX fails to pay rent or other sums due within ten (10) days of the date due three or more times during any twelve month period, then any subsequent failure to pay any rent or other sum when due shall constitute a default without the requirement of any written notice; (b) a material default by AgeX in the performance of any other terms, covenants or conditions of the sublease where the failure continues for thirty (30) days after written notice from the sublandlord; provided that if AgeX defaults in the performance of the same obligation three or more times in any twelve month period and notice from the sublandlord was given in each instance, no cure period shall thereafter be applicable; (c) AgeX becomes bankrupt or insolvent, makes an assignment for the benefit of creditors, bankruptcy or reorganization proceedings are commenced by or against AgeX, and in the case of an involuntary proceeding are not discharged within 60 days, the appointment of a receiver for a substantial part of AgeX’s assets, or the levy upon the sublease or AgeX’s estate in the sublease by attachment or execution, or (d) AgeX abandons the New Facility.

 

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AgeX has agreed to indemnify the sublandlord against certain liabilities arising under laws pertaining to hazardous materials. The indemnity of the sublandlord will pertain to any deposit, spill, discharge or release of hazardous materials that occurs during the term of the sublease or from AgeX’s failure to comply with requirements of governmental authorities.

 

The sublease requires AgeX to maintain certain liability and other insurance and contains customary provisions pertaining to matters such as damage or destruction of the New Facility, taking by eminent domain or similar process, restrictions on subletting and assignment, and other matters.

 

In connection with the sublease, as of June 30, 2019 AgeX incurred $170,000 in tenant improvement expenses that it funded and will be amortize over the term of the lease when completed.

 

Adoption of ASC 842

 

The tables below provide the amounts recorded in connection with the adoption of ASC 842 as of, and during, the six months ended June 30, 2019, for AgeX’s operating lease. AgeX recorded a right-of-use asset of $726,000 and a right-of-use liability for the same amount for the sublease in April 2019, which is considered a noncash investing activity.

 

The following table presents supplemental cash flow information related to the operating lease for the six months ended June 30, 2019 (in thousands):

 

Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:      
Operating cash flows for operating lease   $ 108  

 

The following table presents supplemental balance sheet information related to the operating lease as of June 30, 2019 (in thousands, except lease term and discount rate):

 

Operating lease      
Right-of-use asset, net   $ 627  
         
Right-of-use lease liability, current   $ 407  
Right-of-use lease liability, noncurrent     221  
Total operating lease liabilities   $ 628  

 

Weighted average remaining lease term        
Operating lease     1.5 years  
Weighted average discount rate        
Operating lease     6.0 %

 

The following table presents future minimum lease commitments as of June 30, 2019 (in thousands):

 

    Operating Lease Payments  
Year Ending December 31,      
2019   $ 215  
2020     440  
Total lease payments     655  
Less imputed interest     (27 )
Total   $ 628  

 

Litigation – General

 

AgeX is subject to various claims and contingencies in the ordinary course of its business, including those related to litigation, business transactions, employee-related matters, and others. When AgeX is aware of a claim or potential claim, it assesses the likelihood of any loss or exposure. If it is probable that a loss will result and the amount of the loss can be reasonably estimated, AgeX will record a liability for the loss. If the loss is not probable or the amount of the loss cannot be reasonably estimated, AgeX discloses the claim if the likelihood of a potential loss is reasonably possible and the amount involved could be material. AgeX is not aware of any claims likely to have a material adverse effect on its financial condition or results of operations.

 

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Employment Contracts

 

AgeX has entered into employment contracts with certain executive officers. Under the provisions of the contracts, AgeX may be required to incur severance obligations related to certain terminations of employment.

 

Indemnification

 

In the normal course of business, AgeX may provide indemnifications of varying scope under AgeX’s agreements with other companies or consultants, typically for AgeX’s pre-clinical programs. Pursuant to these agreements, AgeX will generally agree to indemnify, hold harmless, and reimburse the indemnified parties for losses and expenses suffered or incurred by the indemnified parties arising from claims of third parties in connection with AgeX’s pre-clinical programs. Indemnification provisions could also cover third party infringement claims with respect to patent rights, copyrights, or other intellectual property pertaining to AgeX’s pre-clinical programs. The term of these indemnification agreements will generally continue in effect after the termination or expiration of the particular research, development, services, or license agreement to which they relate. The potential future payments AgeX could be required to make under these indemnification agreements will generally not be subject to any specified maximum amount. Historically, AgeX has not been subject to any claims or demands for indemnification. AgeX also maintains various liability insurance policies that limit AgeX’s financial exposure. As a result, AgeX believes the fair value of these indemnification agreements is minimal. Accordingly, AgeX has not recorded any liabilities for these agreements as of June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018.

 

9. Subsequent Events

 

Shared Facilities Agreement

 

On July 3, 2019, AgeX provided written notice that the shared services from BioTime under the Shared Facilities Agreement will terminate on September 30, 2019 (See Note 4).

 

Sublease

 

On July 15, 2019, AgeX, as a sublessor, entered into a sublease agreement with an unrelated party (the “Sublessee”) to lease approximately 9,062 square feet of space at AgeX’s New Facility discussed in Note 8 (the “AgeX Sublease”). The Sublessee will pay AgeX $15,405.40 per month for the first twelve months of the AgeX Sublease and $16,311.60 per month for the duration of the AgeX Sublease, which will expire on December 31, 2020. The Sublessee will also be responsible to reimburse AgeX for Sublessee’s pro rata portion of the maintenance and repair of the New Facility, including electrical, plumbing, HVAC and other systems serving the New Facility but excluding structural and other external portions of the building in which the New Facility is located, and other external areas such as parking, landscaping and walkways associated with the building. The effectiveness of the sublease agreement is conditioned upon receipt of consents from AgeX’s sublessor and the original lessor of the building.

 

Loan Facility and Issuance of Warrants

 

On August 13, 2019 AgeX and Juvenescence entered into a Loan Facility Agreement (the “Loan Agreement”) pursuant to which Juvenescence has agreed to provide to AgeX a $2.0 million line of credit for a period of 18 months. AgeX will initially draw $500,000 of the line of credit, and may draw additional funds from time to time, upon 60 days advance notice, prior to the Repayment Date in February 2021. AgeX may not draw down funds if an “Event of Default” under the Loan Agreement has occurred and is continuing and AgeX may not draw down more than $700,000 during any 30 day period.

 

In lieu of accrued interest, AgeX will issue to Juvenescence 19,000 shares of AgeX common stock concurrently with the first draw down of funds under the Loan Agreement. However, if AgeX fails to repay the loan when due, interest at the rate of 10% per annum, compounded daily, will accrue on the unpaid balance from the date the payment was due.

 

In lieu of repayment of funds borrowed, AgeX or Juvenescence may convert the loan balance (including principal and accrued interest, if any) into AgeX common stock or “units” if AgeX consummates a “Qualified Offering” which means a sale of common stock (or common stock paired with warrants or other convertible securities in “units”) in which the gross sale proceeds are at least $7.5 million.

 

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Events of Default under the Loan Agreement include: (i) AgeX fails to pay any amount in the manner and at the time provided in the Loan Agreement and the failure to pay is not remedied within 10 business days; (ii) AgeX fails to perform any of its obligations under the Loan Agreement and if the failure can be remedied it is not remedied to the satisfaction of Juvenescence within 10 business days after notice to AgeX; (iii) other indebtedness for money borrowed in excess of $100,000 becomes due and payable or can be declared due and payable prior to its due date or if indebtedness for money borrowed in excess of $25,000 is not paid when due; (iv) AgeX stops payment of its debts generally or discontinues its business or becomes unable to pay its debts as they become due or enters into any arrangement with creditors generally, (v) AgeX becoming insolvent or in liquidation or administration or other insolvency procedures, or a receiver, trustee or similar officer is appointed in respect of all or any part of its assets and such appointment continues undischarged or unstayed for sixty days, (vi) it becomes illegal for AgeX to perform its obligations under the Loan Agreement or any governmental permit, license, consent, exemption or similar requirement for AgeX to perform its obligations under the Loan Agreement or to carry out its business is not obtained or ceases to remain in effect; (vii) the issuance or levy of any judgment, writ, warrant of attachment or execution or similar process against all or any material part of the property or assets of AgeX if such process is not released, vacated or fully bonded within sixty calendar days after its issue or levy; (viii) any injunction, order or judgement of any court is entered or issued which in the opinion of Juvenescence materially and adversely affects the ability of AgeX to carry out its business or to pay amounts owed to Juvenescence under the Loan Agreement, and (ix) there is a change in AgeX’s financial condition that in the opinion of Juvenescence materially and adversely affects, or is likely to so affect, its ability to perform any of its obligations under the Loan Agreement.

 

As consideration for the line of credit under the Loan Agreement, AgeX issued to Juvenescence warrants to purchase 150,000 shares of AgeX common stock. The exercise price of the warrants is $2.60 per share, which was the volume weighted average price on the NYSE American (VWAP) of AgeX common stock over the twenty trading days prior to the date the warrants were issued. The warrants will expire at 5:00 p.m. New York time three years after the date of issue. The number of shares issuable upon exercise of the warrants and the exercise price per share are subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of certain events such as a stock split or reverse split or combination of the common stock, stock dividend, recapitalization or reclassification of the common stock, and similar events.

 

AgeX has entered into a Registration Rights Agreement to use commercially reasonable efforts to register the 19,000 shares issuable under the Loan Agreement and the 150,000 warrants and underlying shares for resale under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), upon request of Juvenescence if Form S-3 is available to AgeX. Juvenescence will also have “piggy-back” registration rights if AgeX files a registration statement for the sale of shares for itself or other stockholders. AgeX will bear the expenses of the registration statement but not underwriting or broker’s commissions related to the sale of warrants or shares. AgeX and Juvenescence will indemnify each other from certain liabilities in connection the registration, offer, and sale of securities under a registration statement, including liabilities arising under the Securities Act.

 

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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

 

The matters addressed in this Item 2 that are not historical information constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including statements about any of the following: any projections of earnings, revenue, cash, effective tax rate, use of net operating losses, or any other financial items; the plans, strategies and objectives of management for future operations or prospects for achieving such plans, and any statements of assumptions underlying any of the foregoing. Any statements contained herein that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Without limiting the foregoing, the words “believes,” “anticipates,” “plans,” “expects,” “seeks,” “estimates,” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. While AgeX may elect to update forward-looking statements in the future, it specifically disclaims any obligation to do so, even if the AgeX estimates change and readers should not rely on those forward-looking statements as representing AgeX views as of any date subsequent to the date of the filing of this Quarterly Report. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, such statements are inherently subject to risks and AgeX can give no assurances that its expectations will prove to be correct. Actual results could differ materially from those described in this report because of numerous factors, many of which are beyond the control of AgeX. A number of important factors could cause the results of the company to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements, including those detailed under the heading “Risk Factors” in this Form 10-Q, our Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018, and our other reports filed with the SEC from time to time.

 

The following discussion should be read in conjunction with AgeX’s condensed interim financial statements and the related notes provided under “Item 1- Financial Statements” above.

 

Critical Accounting Policies

 

This Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations discusses and analyzes data in our unaudited condensed consolidated interim financial statements, which we have prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Preparation of the financial statements requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenue and expenses, and related disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities. Management bases its estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that it believes to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Senior management has discussed the development, selection and disclosure of these estimates with the Audit Committee of our Board of Directors. Actual conditions may differ from our assumptions and actual results may differ from our estimates.

 

An accounting policy is deemed critical if it requires an accounting estimate to be made based on assumptions about matters that are highly uncertain at the time the estimate is made, if different estimates reasonably could have been used, or if changes in the estimate are reasonably likely to occur, that could materially impact the financial statements. Management believes that there have been no significant changes during the six months ended June 30, 2019 to the items that we disclosed as our critical accounting policies and estimates in Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018, except as disclosed in Note 2 of our condensed consolidated interim financial statements included elsewhere in this Report.

 

Results of Operations

 

Comparison of Three and Six Months Ended June 30, 2019 and 2018

 

Revenues and Cost of Sales

 

The amounts in the table below show our consolidated revenues by source and cost of sales for the periods presented (in thousands).

 

    Three Months Ended
June 30, (unaudited)
    $ Increase/     % Increase/  
    2019     2018     (Decrease)     (Decrease)  
Subscription and advertising revenues   $ 305     $ 333     $ (28 )     (8.4 )%
Grant revenues     47       -       47       * %
Other     28       131       (103 )     (78.6 )%
Total revenues     380       464       (84 )     (18.1 )%
Cost of sales     (53 )     (79 )     (26 )     (32.9 )%
Gross profit   $ 327     $ 385     $ (58 )     (15.1 )%

 

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    Six Months Ended
June 30, (unaudited)
    $ Increase/     % Increase/  
    2019     2018     (Decrease)     (Decrease)  
Subscription and advertising revenues   $ 650     $ 572     $ 78       13.6 %
Grant and other revenues     62       -       62       * %
Other     56       131       (75 )     (57.3 )%
Total revenues     768       703       65       9.2 %
Cost of sales     (116 )     (188 )     (72 )     (38.3 )%
Gross profit   $ 652     $ 515     $ 137       26.6 %

 

* Not meaningful.

 

Our revenues were primarily generated by LifeMap Sciences, as subscription and advertising revenues from its GeneCards ® online database. Subscription and advertising revenues amounted to $305,000 and $333,000 for the three months ended June 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively, and $650,000 and $572,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively, remaining relatively unchanged from the prior periods.

 

During the three and six months ended June 30, 2019, we recognized income of approximately $47,000 and $62,000 from a grant from the NIH. We had no grant revenue during the three and six months ended June 30, 2018. Other revenues of $131,000 for the three and six months ended June 30, 2018 were generated entirely from non-recurring service revenues associated with LifeMap Sciences’ online database business primarily related to its GeneCards ® database.

 

Cost of sales for the three and six months ended June 30, 2019 as compared to the same period in 2018 decreased primarily due to decreased royalty payments made or incurred by LifeMap Sciences due to a change in the applicable royalty fee terms from a percentage of net collections from customers to a fixed annual fee effective January 1, 2019.

 

Operating Expenses

 

The following table shows our consolidated operating expenses for the periods presented (in thousands).

 

    Three Months Ended
June 30, (unaudited)
    $ Increase/     % Increase/  
    2019     2018     (Decrease)     (Decrease)  
Research and development expenses   $ 1,650     $ 1,384     $ 266       19.2 %
General and administrative expenses     2,119       1,135       984       86.7 %

 

    Six Months Ended
June 30, (unaudited)
    $ Increase/     % Increase/  
    2019     2018     (Decrease)     (Decrease)  
Research and development expenses   $ 2,988     $ 2,975     $ 13       0.4 %
Acquired in-process research and development     -       800       (800 )     * %
General and administrative expenses     4,228       2,425       1,803       74.4 %

 

* Not meaningful.

 

Research and development expenses

 

Research and development expenses increased by $0.3 million to $1.7 million during the three months ended June 30, 2019 from $1.4 million during the same period in 2018. The increase was primarily attributable to an increase in expenses in our programs utilizing PureStem ® cell lines and iTR technology.

 

Research and development expenses and acquired in-process research and development (“IPR&D”) decreased by $0.8 million to $3.0 million during the six months ended June 30, 2019 from $3.8 million during the same period in 2018. The decrease was primarily attributable to the non-recurrence of in-process research and development expense that was incurred during March 2018 in connection with the purchase of certain assets primarily related to stem cell derived cardiomyocytes (heart muscle cells) to be developed by us.

 

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The following tables show the amounts and percentages of our total research and development expenses, including acquired in-process research and development expenses incurred during 2018, allocated to our primary research and development programs during the three and six months ended June 30, 2019 and 2018 (amounts in thousands).

 

        Three Months Ended June 30, (unaudited)  
        Amount (1)     Percent of Total  
Company   Program   2019     2018     2019     2018  
AgeX including ReCyte Therapeutics, Inc. (2)   PureStem ® progenitor cell lines, brown adipose fat, iTR technology, and pre-clinical cardiovascular therapy research and development   $ 1,284     $ 967       77.8 %     69.9 %
                                     
LifeMap Sciences   Biomedical, gene, and disease databases and tools     366       417       22.2 %     30.1 %
Total research and development expenses and acquired IPR&D       $ 1,650     $ 1,384       100.0 %     100.0 %

 

        Six Months Ended June 30, (unaudited)  
        Amount (1)     Percent of Total  
Company   Program   2019     2018     2019     2018  
AgeX including ReCyte Therapeutics, Inc. (3)   PureStem ® progenitor cell lines, brown adipose fat, iTR technology, and pre-clinical cardiovascular therapy research and development   $ 2,253     $ 2,179       75.4 %     57.7 %
                                     
AgeX   Acquired in-process research and development     -       800       * %     21.2 %
                                     
LifeMap Sciences   Biomedical, gene, and disease databases and tools     735       796       24.6 %     21.1 %
Total research and development expenses and acquired IPR&D       $ 2,988     $ 3,775       100.0 %     100.0 %

 

* Not meaningful.

 

(1) Amount includes research and development expenses incurred both directly by us or the named subsidiary. Amount also includes indirect expenses allocated from BioTime for certain general research and development expenses, such as lab supplies, lab expenses, rent and insurance allocated to research and development expenses, incurred directly by BioTime on behalf of AgeX or a subsidiary. See Notes 2 and 4 to our condensed consolidated interim financial statements included elsewhere in this Report.

 

(2) Includes approximately $4,000 and $39,000 of ReCyte Therapeutics expenses for the three months ended June 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively.

 

(3) Includes approximately $23,000 and $68,000 of ReCyte Therapeutics expenses for the six months ended June 30, 2019 and 2018, respectively.

 

General and administrative expenses

 

The following tables show the amount of general and administrative expenses of AgeX and named subsidiaries during the three and six months ended June 30, 2019 and 2018 (in thousands):

 

    Three Months Ended June 30, (unaudited)  
    Amount (1)     Percent of Total  
Company   2019     2018     2019     2018  
AgeX including ReCyte Therapeutics   $ 1,892     $ 962       89.3 %     84.8 %
LifeMap Sciences     227       173       10.7 %     15.2 %
Total general and administrative expenses   $ 2,119     $ 1,135       100.0 %     100.0 %

 

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    Six Months Ended June 30, (unaudited)  
    Amount (1)     Percent of Total  
Company   2019     2018     2019     2018  
AgeX including ReCyte Therapeutics   $ 3,783     $ 2,044       89.5 %     84.3 %
LifeMap Sciences     445       381       10.5 %     15.7 %
Total general and administrative expenses   $ 4,228     $ 2,425       100.0 %     100.0 %

 

(1) Amount includes direct expenses incurred by us or the named subsidiary. Amount also includes indirect general and administrative expenses allocated by BioTime to us under the Shared Facilities Agreement. See Notes 2 and 4 to our condensed consolidated interim financial statements included in this Report.

 

General and administrative expenses for the three months ended June 30, 2019 increased by $1.0 million to $2.1 million as compared to $1.1 million during the same period in 2018. This increase was primarily attributable to the following increases in expenses: $0.3 million of noncash stock-based compensation expense; $0.2 million in insurance premiums; $0.3 million in professional fees for consulting, legal and accounting services; and $0.2 million in personnel and related costs.

 

General and administrative expenses for the six months ended June 30, 2019 increased by $1.8 million to $4.2 million as compared to $2.4 million during the same period in 2018. This increase was primarily attributable to the following increases in expenses: $0.6 million of noncash stock-based compensation expense; $0.4 million in insurance premiums; $0.4 million in professional fees for consulting, legal and accounting services; and $0.4 million in personnel and related costs.

 

Other income (expense), net

 

Other income and expenses, net, in 2019 and 2018 consist primarily of net foreign currency transaction gains and losses recognized by LifeMap Sciences for intercompany payables and receivables denominated in currency other than the functional currency of the entity, gain on disposition of assets, and interest income and interest expense, net.

 

Gain on sale of equity method investment in Ascendance

 

On March 23, 2018, Ascendance Biotechnology, Inc. (“Ascendance”), a company in which we held shares of common stock accounted for on the equity method, was acquired by a third party in a merger and we received $3.2 million in cash for our Ascendance common stock. We recognized a gain on sale for the same amount included in other income and expenses, net, during the six months ended June 30, 2018. We recognized an additional $277,000 on sale of our Ascendance common stock for the three and six months ended June 30, 2019, when we received a final payment for our Ascendance common stock in June 2019.

 

Income taxes

 

For Federal and California purposes, our activity for the three and six months ended June 30, 2018 was included in BioTime’s federal consolidated and California combined tax returns. For the three and six months ended June 30, 2019, the provision for income taxes has been presented on a separate federal consolidated tax return and a California combined tax return using the separate return method as we will file separately from BioTime for periods after August 30, 2018, the date in which BioTime deconsolidated AgeX as discussed in Note 7 to our condensed consolidated interim financial statements included elsewhere in this Report.

 

Beginning in 2018, the 2017 Tax Act subjects a U.S. stockholder to tax on Global Intangible Low Tax Income “GILTI” earned by certain foreign subsidiaries. In general, GILTI is the excess of a U.S. shareholder’s total net foreign income over a deemed return on tangible assets. The provision further allows a deduction of 50% of GILTI, however this deduction is limited to the company’s pre-GILTI U.S. income. For the year ended December 31, 2018, we included an immaterial amount of GILTI in U.S. gross income related to LifeMap Sciences, Ltd., which was fully offset by current year operating losses. For the three and six months ended June 30, 2019, our foreign income inclusion was less than the deemed return on tangible assets, therefore no GILTI was included in income for the first six months of 2019. Current interpretations under ASC 740 state that an entity can make an accounting policy election to either recognize deferred taxes for temporary basis differences expected to reverse as GILTI in future years or to provide for the tax expense related to GILTI in the year the tax is incurred as a period expense. We have elected to account for GILTI as a current period expense when incurred.

 

For the three and six months ended June 30, 2019, we experienced a domestic loss from continuing operations but generated foreign income attributable primarily to foreign currency transaction gains for the current periods. This income was principally related to the remeasurement of the U.S. dollar denominated intercompany advances payable by LifeMap Sciences, Ltd. to LifeMap Sciences, Inc., for which a foreign income tax provision of $76,000 was recorded for the six months ended June 30, 2019.

 

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Due to losses incurred for all periods presented, we did not record a domestic provision or benefit for income taxes. A valuation allowance will be provided when it is more likely than not that some portion of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. We established a full valuation allowance for all domestic deferred tax assets for the periods presented due to the uncertainty of realizing future tax benefits from our net operating loss carryforwards and other deferred tax assets.

 

Liquidity and Capital Resources

 

Since inception, we have financed our operations through contributions and advances from our former parent company, BioTime, the sale of our common stock, the sale and exercise of warrants, a loan facility by Juvenescence to advance us funds, and research grants. BioTime has also provided us with the use of BioTime facilities and services under the Shared Facilities Agreement. Although BioTime may continue to provide administrative support to us on a reimbursable basis until September 30, 2019, we do not expect BioTime will provide future financing. We have incurred operating losses and negative cash flows since inception and had an accumulated deficit of $80.3 million as of June 30, 2019. We expect to continue to incur operating losses and negative cash flows.

 

We expect our expenses to increase in the near term in connection with our ongoing activities, including costs related to our recent move to a new office and laboratory facility in Alameda, California under a sublease from a third party that replaced our use of BioTime’s facilities. We will also incur additional costs of hiring our own internal administrative personnel and ending our reliance on services provided by BioTime under the terms of the Shared Facilities Agreement on September 30, 2019 (see Notes 4 and 9 to our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Report). Furthermore, now that we are a public company, we will incur additional costs associated with operating as a public company. In the longer term, we expect our expenses to increase as we continue our pre-clinical research and development activities and, if we initiate clinical trials and seek marketing approval for our product candidates. In addition, if we obtain marketing approval for any of our product candidates, we expect to incur significant commercialization expenses related to product sales, marketing, manufacturing and distribution to the extent that such sales, marketing and distribution are not the responsibility of potential collaborators. Accordingly, we will need to obtain substantial additional funding in connection with our continuing operations.

 

We have made certain adjustments to our operating plans and budgets to reduce our projected cash expenditures in order to extend the period over which we can continue our operations with our available cash resources. Some of these adjustments will entail the deferral of certain work on the development of our product candidates and technologies, which is likely to delay our progress in those research and development efforts. Based on our most recent projected cash flows, we believe that our cash and cash equivalents of $5.8 million as of June 30, 2019, plus the loan facility by Juvenescence to advance us up to $2.0 million for operating capital (discussed in Note 9 to our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Report), will provide sufficient cash, cash equivalents, and liquidity to carry out our operations through at least twelve months from the issuance date of the condensed consolidated interim financial statements included elsewhere in this Report. However, it is likely that we will need to raise additional capital in the near term to be able to meet our operating expenses beyond that twelve-month period. If we are unable to raise capital when needed or on attractive terms, we would be forced to delay, reduce or eliminate our research and development programs.

 

The amount of our future capital requirements will depend on many factors. In the near term these factors will include:

 

  the scope, progress, results and costs of research and development work on product candidates;
     
  the scope, prioritization and number of our research and development programs we conduct;
     
  our ability to establish and maintain collaborations on favorable terms, if at all;
     
  the costs of preparing, filing and prosecuting patent applications, maintaining and enforcing our intellectual property rights and defending intellectual property-related claims;
     
  the costs of maintaining our laboratory and administrative facilities and equipment; and
     
  the cost of employing our own administrative personnel rather than relying on services provided by BioTime or Juvenescence.

 

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We do not have any committed sources of funds for additional financing, and we cannot assure that we will be able to raise additional financing on favorable terms or at all. To the extent that we raise additional capital through the sale of equity or convertible debt securities, the ownership interest of our present stockholders will be diluted, and the terms of any securities we issue may include liquidation or other preferences that adversely affect their rights as common stockholders. Additional debt financing, if available, may involve agreements that include covenants limiting or restricting our ability to take specific actions, such as incurring additional debt, making capital expenditures or declaring dividends, and may involve the issuance of convertible debt or stock purchase warrants that would dilute the equity interests of our stockholders. If we raise funds through additional strategic partnerships or licensing arrangements with third parties, we may have to relinquish valuable rights to our technologies, future revenue streams, research programs or product candidates or to grant licenses on terms that may not be favorable to us.

 

Cash used in operating activities

 

During the six months ended June 30, 2019, our total research and development expenses were $3.0 million and our general and administrative expenditures were $4.2 million. Net loss attributable to us for the six months ended June 30, 2019 amounted to $6.2 million. Net cash used in operating activities during this period amounted to $5.4 million. The difference between the net loss attributable to us and net cash used in operating activities during the six months ended June 30, 2019 was primarily attributable to the following non-cash items: $1.0 million in stock-based compensation expense and $0.4 million in depreciation and amortization. These changes were partially offset by $0.1 million in net loss attributable to noncontrolling interest, $0.3 million we received for our Ascendance common stock in June 2019, and $0.2 million as a net use of cash from changes in working capital.

 

Cash provided by in investing activities

 

During the six months ended June 30, 2019, net cash provided by investing activities amounted to $0.1 million, which was attributable to $0.3 million we received for our Ascendance common stock in June 2019 offset by $0.2 million payments made for the purchase of equipment, construction in progress and security deposit for our new office and research facility.

 

Cash provided by financing activities

 

During the six months ended June 30, 2019, net cash provided by financing activities amounted to $4.5 million, which was attributable to proceeds received from the exercise of warrants to purchase 1,800,000 shares of AgeX common stock at an exercise price of $2.50 per share.

 

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

 

As of June 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018, we did not have any off-balance sheet arrangements, as defined in Item 303(a)(4)(ii) of SEC Regulation S-K.

 

Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk

 

Under SEC rules and regulations, as a smaller reporting company, we are not required to provide the information required by this item.

 

Item 4. Controls and Procedures

 

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

 

It is management’s responsibility to establish and maintain adequate internal control over all financial reporting pursuant to Rule 13a-15 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Exchange Act”). Our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, have reviewed and evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this report. Following this review and evaluation, the principal executive officer and principal financial officer determined that our disclosure controls and procedures are effective to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act (i) is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in SEC rules and forms, and (ii) is accumulated and communicated to management, including our principal executive officer, and principal financial officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

 

Changes in Internal Controls

 

There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

 

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PART II - OTHER INFORMATION

 

Item 1. Legal Proceedings.

 

From time to time, we may be involved in routine litigation incidental to the conduct of our business. We are not presently involved in any material litigation or proceedings, and to our knowledge no such litigation or proceedings are contemplated.

 

Item 1A. Risk Factors

 

Our business, financial condition, results of operations and future growth prospects are subject to various risks, including those described in Item 1A “Risk Factors” of our Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 1, 2019 (the “2018 Form 10-K”), which we encourage you to review. There have been no material changes from the risk factors disclosed in the 2018 Form 10-K, except as follows:

 

We are subject to laws and regulations governing corruption, which will require us to develop, maintain, and implement costly compliance programs.

 

We must comply with a wide range of laws and regulations to prevent corruption, bribery, and other unethical business practices, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act or FCPA, anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws in other countries, particularly China where our subsidiary LifeMap Sciences does business, including business with hospitals. The creation and implementation of international business practices compliance programs is costly and such programs are difficult to enforce, particularly where reliance on third parties is required.

 

Anti-bribery laws prohibit us, our employees, and some of our agents or representatives from offering or providing any personal benefit to covered government officials to influence their performance of their duties or induce them to serve interests other than the missions of the public organizations in which they serve. Certain commercial bribery rules also prohibit offering or providing any personal benefit to employees and representatives of commercial companies to influence their performance of their duties or induce them to serve interests other than their employers. The FCPA also obligates companies whose securities are listed in the U.S. to comply with certain accounting provisions requiring us to maintain books and records that accurately and fairly reflect all transactions of the corporation, including international subsidiaries, and devise and maintain an adequate system of internal accounting controls for international operations. The anti-bribery provisions of the FCPA are enforced primarily by the United States Department of Justice. The SEC is involved with enforcement of the books and records provisions of the FCPA.

 

Compliance with these anti-bribery laws is expensive and difficult, particularly in countries in which corruption is a recognized problem. In addition, the anti-bribery laws present particular challenges in the medical industry because in many countries including China, hospitals are state-owned or operated by the government, and doctors and other hospital employees are considered foreign government officials. Furthermore, in certain countries (China in particular), hospitals and clinics are permitted to sell pharmaceuticals to their patients and are primary or significant distributors of pharmaceuticals. Certain payments to hospitals in connection with clinical studies, procurement of pharmaceuticals and other work have been deemed to be improper payments to government officials that have led to vigorous anti-bribery law enforcement actions and heavy fines in multiple jurisdictions, particularly in the U.S. and China.

 

It is not always possible to identify and deter violations, and the precautions we take to detect and prevent this activity may not be effective in controlling unknown or unmanaged risks or losses or in protecting us from governmental investigations or other actions or lawsuits stemming from a failure to be in compliance with such laws or regulations.

 

In the medical industry, corrupt practices include, among others, acceptance of kickbacks, bribes or other illegal gains or benefits by the hospitals and medical practitioners from manufacturers of pharmaceutical or other products, distributors or their third party agents in connection with the prescription of certain pharmaceuticals or sale of products. If our employees, affiliates, distributors or third party marketing firms violate these laws or otherwise engage in illegal practices with respect to their sales or marketing of our products or other activities involving our products, we could be required to pay damages or heavy fines by multiple jurisdictions where we operate, which could materially and adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations. The Chinese government has also sponsored anti-corruption campaigns from time to time, which could have a chilling effect on any future marketing efforts by us to new hospital customers. There have been recent occurrences in which certain hospitals have denied access to sales representatives from pharmaceutical companies because the hospitals wanted to avoid the perception of corruption. If this attitude becomes widespread among our potential customers, our ability to promote our products to hospitals may be adversely affected.

 

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As we and our subsidiaries expand operations in China and other jurisdictions internationally, we will need to increase the scope of our compliance programs to address the risks relating to the potential for violations of the FCPA and other anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws. Our compliance programs will need to include policies addressing not only the FCPA, but also the provisions of a variety of anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws in multiple foreign jurisdictions, including China, provisions relating to books and records that apply to us as a public company, and include effective training for our personnel throughout our organization. The creation and implementation of anti-corruption compliance programs is costly and such programs are difficult to enforce, particularly where reliance on third parties is required. Violation of the FCPA and other anti-corruption laws can result in significant administrative and criminal penalties for us and our employees, including substantial fines, suspension or debarment from government contracting, prison sentences, or even the death penalty in extremely serious cases in certain countries. The SEC also may suspend or bar us from trading securities on U.S. exchanges for violation of the FCPA’s accounting provisions. Even if we are not ultimately punished by government authorities, the costs of investigation and review, distraction of our personnel, legal defense costs, and harm to our reputation could be substantial and could limit our profitability or our ability to develop or commercialize our product candidates. In addition, if any of our competitors are not subject to the FCPA, they may engage in practices that will lead to their receipt of preferential treatment from foreign hospitals and enable them to secure business from foreign hospitals in ways that are unavailable to us.

 

Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds

 

The information included in Part II, Item 5 of this Report regarding AgeX’s issuance of warrants to purchase 150,000 shares of AgeX common stock to Juvenescence, and AgeX’s agreement to issue 19,000 shares of AgeX common stock under the Loan Agreement described in Item 5, including information on exemptions from registration under the Securities Act, is incorporated by reference.

 

Item 3. Default Upon Senior Securities

 

None.

 

Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures

 

Not Applicable.

 

Item 5. Other Information

 

Shared Facilities Agreement

 

On July 3, 2019, we provided written notice that the shared services from BioTime under the Shared Facilities Agreement will terminate on September 30, 2019 (See Note 4). We ended our use of BioTime’s office and laboratory facilities on August 1, 2019 when we relocated our operations to a facility which we subleased from a third party.

 

Loan Facility Agreement and Warrant Agreement

 

On August 13, 2019 AgeX and Juvenescence entered into a Loan Facility Agreement (the “Loan Agreement”) pursuant to which Juvenescence has agreed to provide AgeX a $2 million line of credit for a period of 18 months. AgeX will initially draw $500,000 of the line of credit, and may draw additional funds from time to time, upon 60 days advance notice, prior to the Repayment Date in February 2021. AgeX may not draw down funds if an “Event of Default” under the Loan Agreement has occurred and is continuing and AgeX may not draw down more than $700,000 during any 30 day period.

 

In lieu of accrued interest, AgeX will issue to Juvenescence 19,000 shares of AgeX common stock concurrently with the first draw down of funds under the Loan Agreement. However, if AgeX fails to repay the loan when due, interest at the rate of 10% per annum, compounded daily, will accrue on the unpaid balance from the date the payment was due.

 

In lieu of repayment of funds borrowed, AgeX or Juvenescence may convert the loan balance (including principal and accrued interest, if any) into AgeX common stock or “units” if AgeX consummates a “Qualified Offering” which means a sale of common stock (or common stock paired with warrants or other convertible securities in “units”) in which the gross sale proceeds are at least $7.5 million.

 

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Events of Default under the Loan Agreement include: (i) AgeX fails to pay any amount in the manner and at the time provided in the Loan Agreement and the failure to pay is not remedied within 10 business days; (ii) AgeX fails to perform any of its obligations under the Loan Agreement and if the failure can be remedied it is not remedied to the satisfaction of Juvenescence within 10 business days after notice to AgeX; (iii) other indebtedness for money borrowed in excess of $100,000 becomes due and payable or can be declared due and payable prior to its due date or if indebtedness for money borrowed in excess of $25,000 is not paid when due; (iv) AgeX stops payment of its debts generally or discontinues its business or becomes unable to pay its debts as they become due or enters into any arrangement with creditors generally, (v) AgeX becoming insolvent or in liquidation or administration or other insolvency procedures, or a receiver, trustee or similar officer is appointed in respect of all or any part of its assets and such appointment continues undischarged or unstayed for sixty days, (vi) it becomes illegal for AgeX to perform its obligations under the Loan Agreement or any governmental permit, license, consent, exemption or similar requirement for AgeX to perform its obligations under the Loan Agreement or to carry out its business is not obtained or ceases to remain in effect; (vii) the issuance or levy of any judgment, writ, warrant of attachment or execution or similar process against all or any material part of the property or assets of AgeX if such process is not released, vacated or fully bonded within sixty calendar days after its issue or levy; (viii) any injunction, order or judgement of any court is entered or issued which in the opinion of Juvenescence materially and adversely affects the ability of AgeX to carry out its business or to pay amounts owed to Juvenescence under the Loan Agreement, and (ix) there is a change in AgeX’s financial condition that in the opinion of Juvenescence materially and adversely affects, or is likely to so affect, its ability to perform any of its obligations under the Loan Agreement.

 

As consideration for the line of credit under the Loan Agreement, AgeX issued to Juvenescence warrants to purchase 150,000 shares of AgeX common stock. The exercise price of the warrants is $2.60 per share, which was the volume weighted average price on the NYSE American (VWAP) of AgeX common stock over the twenty trading days prior to the date the warrants were issued. The warrants will expire at 5:00 p.m. New York Time three years after the date of issue. The number of shares issuable upon exercise of the warrants and the exercise price per share are subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of certain events such as a stock split or reverse split or combination of the common stock, stock dividend, recapitalization or reclassification of the common stock, and similar events.

 

AgeX has entered into a Registration Rights Agreement to register the 19,000 shares issuable under the Loan Agreement and the 150,000 warrants and underlying shares for resale under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), upon request of Juvenescence if Form S-3 is available to AgeX. Juvenescence will also have “piggy-back” registration rights if AgeX files a registration statement for the sale of shares for itself or other stockholders. AgeX will bear the expenses of the registration statement but not underwriting or broker’s commissions related to the sale of warrants or shares. AgeX and Juvenescence will indemnify each other from certain liabilities in connection the registration, offer, and sale of securities under a registration statement, including liabilities arising under the Securities Act.

 

The warrants were issued, and the shares of common stock issuable under the Loan Agreement will be issued, without registration under the Securities Act in reliance on the exemption from registration under Section 4(a)(2) and Regulation S.

 

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Item 6. Exhibits

 

Exhibit Numbers   Exhibit Description
     
3.1   Certificate of Incorporation (Incorporated by reference to AgeX Therapeutics, Inc.’s Form 10-12(b) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 8, 2018)
     
3.2   Bylaws (Incorporated by reference to AgeX Therapeutics, Inc.’s Form 10-12(b) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 8, 2018)
     
4.1   Warrant dated August 13, 2019*
     
10.1   Loan Facility Agreement, dated August 13, 2019, between AgeX Therapeutics, Inc. and Juvenescence, Ltd.*
     
10.2   Warrant Agreement, dated August 13, 2019, between AgeX Therapeutics, Inc. and Juvenescence, Ltd.*
     
10.3   Registration Rights Agreement, dated August 13, 2019, between AgeX Therapeutics, Inc. and Juvenescence, Ltd.*
     
31   Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) Certification*
     
32   Section 1350 Certification*
     
101.INS   XBRL Instance Document*
     
101.SCH   XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema*
     
101.CAL   XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase*
     
101.DEF   XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Document*
     
101.LAB   XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase*
     
101.PRE   XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase*

 

* Filed herewith

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

  AGEX THERAPEUTICS, INC.
   
Date: August 14, 2019 /s/ Michael D. West
  Michael D. West
  Chief Executive Officer
   
Date: August 14, 2019 /s/ Russell L. Skibsted
  Russell L. Skibsted
  Chief Financial Officer

 

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THIS WARRANT HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR UNDER APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THIS WARRANT MAY NOT BE EXERCISED, SOLD, PLEDGED, HYPOTHECATED, TRANSFERRED OR ASSIGNED EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS, OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION. HEDGING TRANSACTIONS INVOLVING THIS WARRANT OR ANY COMMON STOCK OR OTHER SECURITIES ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE OF THIS WARRANT MAY NOT BE CONDUCTED UNLESS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT.

 

VOID AFTER 5:00 P.M. NEW YORK TIME ON THE EXPIRATION DATE

 

  Certificate No. AGE 2019-1   Warrant to Purchase
      150,000
     

Shares of Common Stock

 

AGEX THERAPEUTICS, INC.

COMMON STOCK PURCHASE WARRANTS

 

This certifies that, for value received, or its registered assigns (the “Holder”), is entitled to purchase from AgeX Therapeutics, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), at a purchase price per share of Two Dollars and Sixty cents ($2.60) (the “Warrant Price”), One Hundred Fifty Thousand (150,000) shares of its Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”). The number of shares purchasable upon exercise of the Common Stock Purchase Warrants (the “Warrants”) and the Warrant Price are subject to adjustment from time to time as set forth in the Warrant Agreement referred to below. Outstanding Warrants not exercised prior to 5:00 p.m., New York time, on the Expiration Date as defined in the Warrant Agreement shall thereafter be void.

 

Subject to restriction specified in the Warrant Agreement, Warrants may be exercised in whole or in part on or after the date hereof by presentation of this Warrant Certificate with the Exercise Notice on the reverse side hereof duly executed, and simultaneous payment of the Warrant Price (or as otherwise set forth in Section 6.4 of the Warrant Agreement) at the principal office of the Company (or if a warrant agent is appointed, at the principal office of the warrant agent). Payment of the Warrant Price shall be made by bank wire transfer to the account of the Company or by bank cashier’s check as provided in Section 3.1 of the Warrant Agreement. As provided in the Warrant Agreement, the Warrant Price and the number or kind of shares which may be purchased upon the exercise of the Warrant evidenced by this Warrant Certificate are, upon the happening of certain events, subject to modification and adjustment.

 

This Warrant Certificate is issued under and in accordance with a Warrant Agreement dated as of August 13, 2019 (the “Warrant Agreement”), and is subject to the terms and provisions contained in the Warrant Agreement, to all of which the Holder of this Warrant Certificate by acceptance of this Warrant Certificate consents. A copy of the Warrant Agreement may be obtained by the Holder hereof upon written request to the Company.

 

 
     

 

Upon any partial exercise of the Warrant evidenced by this Warrant Certificate, there shall be issued to the Holder hereof a new Warrant Certificate in respect of the shares of Common Stock as to which the Warrant evidenced by this Warrant Certificate shall not have been exercised to the extent provided in the Warrant Agreement. This Warrant Certificate may be exchanged at the office of the Company (or the warrant agent, if appointed) by surrender of this Warrant Certificate properly endorsed either separately or in combination with one or more other Warrant Certificates for one or more new Warrant Certificates evidencing the right of the Holder thereof to purchase the aggregate number of shares as were purchasable on exercise of the Warrants evidenced by the Warrant Certificate or Certificates exchanged. No fractional shares will be issued upon the exercise of any Warrant, but the Company will pay the cash value thereof determined as provided in the Warrant Agreement. This Warrant Certificate is transferable at the office of the Company (or the warrant agent, if appointed) in the manner and subject to the limitations set forth in the Warrant Agreement.

 

The Holder hereof may be treated by the Company, the warrant agent (if appointed), and all other persons dealing with this Warrant Certificate as the absolute owner hereof for any purpose and as the person entitled to exercise the rights represented hereby, or to the transfer hereof on the books of the Company, any notice to the contrary notwithstanding, and until such transfer on such books, the Company (and the warrant agent, if appointed) may treat the Holder hereof as the owner for all purposes.

 

Neither the Warrant nor this Warrant Certificate entitles any Holder to any of the rights of a stockholder of the Company.

 

  DATED: August 13, 2019    
       
    AGEX THERAPEUTICS, INC.
       
       
    By: /s/ Michael D. West
      Michael D. West
    Title: Chief Executive Officer

 

Attest: /s/ Russell L. Skibsted  
Name: Russell L. Skibsted  
Title: Chief Financial Officer  

 

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FORM OF EXERCISE NOTICE

 

(To be executed upon exercise of Warrant)

 

To AgeX Therapeutics, Inc.:

 

The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise the right of purchase represented by the within Warrant Certificate for, and to purchase thereunder, _______ shares of Common Stock, as provided for therein, and tenders herewith payment of the Warrant Price in full in the form of a bank wire transfer to the account of the Company or by bank cashier’s check in the amount of $______________.

 

The undersigned hereby represents that (check any that apply):

 

[  ] The undersigned is an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501 under the Securities Act.

 

[  ] The undersigned is not a “U.S. person” as defined in Rule 902 under the Securities Act.

 

Please issue a certificate or certificates for such shares of Common Stock in the name of, and pay any cash for any fractional share to:

 

____________________________________

(Please Print Name)

 

____________________________________

(Please Print Address)

 

____________________________________

(Social Security Number or

Other Taxpayer Identification Number)

 

____________________________________

(Signature)

 

NOTE: The above signature should correspond exactly with the name on the face of this Warrant Certificate or with the name of the assignee appearing in the assignment form below.

 

And, if said number of shares shall not be all the shares purchasable under the within Warrant Certificate, a new Warrant Certificate is to be issued in the name of said undersigned for the balance remaining of the share purchasable thereunder, to the extent provided in the Warrant Agreement, less any fraction of a share paid in cash.

 

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ASSIGNMENT

 

(To be executed only upon assignment of Warrant Certificate)

 

For value received, _____________ hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto _______________ the within Warrant Certificate, together with all right, title and interest therein, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint _________________ attorney, to transfer said Warrant Certificate on the books of the within-named Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated:___________________  
   
   
(Signature)  

 

NOTE: The above signature should correspond exactly with the name on the face of this Warrant Certificate.

 

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DATED: August 13, 2019

 

AGEX THERAPEUTICS INC.

 

(as Borrower)

 

- and -

 

JUVENESCENCE LIMITED

 

(as Lender)

 

 

 

LOAN FACILITY AGREEMENT

 

 

 

     

 

 

THIS LOAN FACILITY AGREEMENT is made on August 13, 2019

 

BETWEEN

 

(1) AGEX THERAPEUTICS INC., a company incorporated in Delaware (the “ Borrower ”); and
   
(2) JUVENESCENCE LIMITED, a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands with company number 1925731 and its registered office at Craigmuir Chambers, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands (the “ Lender ”),

 

each a “ party ” and together the “ parties ”.

 

PRELIMINARY

 

The Lender has agreed to provide a nil interest unsecured loan facility to the Borrower in the aggregate principal amount of up to US$2,000,000 (two million dollars) on the terms and conditions set out in this Agreement.

 

OPERATIVE PROVISIONS

 

1 Interpretation
   
1.1 Definitions in this Agreement:

 

Address for Service ” means the address shown in Clause 11.2 or such other address as the Borrower may from time to time designate by written notice to the Lender;

 

Advance ” means each amount advanced or to be advanced by the Lender under this Agreement;

 

Availability Period ” means the period starting on the date of this Agreement and ending on the date falling eighteen (18) months after the date of this Agreement or, if earlier, on the date a Qualified Offering is consummated by the Borrower as contemplated by Clause 6;

 

Business Day ” means a day other than (i) a Saturday or Sunday or (ii) public holiday in London or New York on which banks are closed or are permitted to be closed open for general business;

 

Commitment ” means US$2,000,000;

 

“Conversion Date” means, in the event that the Borrower elects the conversion option described in Clause 6, the date of consummation of a Qualified Offering.

 

Default ” means an Event of Default that remains uncured beyond any cure period provided in Clause 8.1;

 

Drawdown Notice ” means a request for an Advance substantially in the form set out in Schedule part 1 (Form of Drawdown Notice) of this Agreement ;

 

Drawdown Shares ” 19,000 fully paid Shares issued to the Lender for nil consideration on the date of delivery by the Borrower of the first Drawdown Notice under the terms of this Agreement;

 

Event of Default ” means any one of the events mentioned in Clause 8 (Events of Default) of this Agreement ;

 

Facility ” means the facility made available to the Borrower by the Lender under Clause 2 (The Facility) of this Agreement ;

 

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Indebtedness ” includes any obligation for the payment or repayment of money borrowed (whether borrowed by Borrower or as to which Borrower is a surety or guarantor of payment) but excluding trade payables and similar obligations arising in the ordinary course of business;

 

“Initial Drawdown” means the initial Advance of US$500,000 to the Borrower pursuant to Clause 3.1.

 

Investment Representations Schedule ” means representations required to be made by the Lender at the request of the Borrower as set out in Schedule 2 (Investment Representations) of this Agreement ;

 

Loan ” means the aggregate principal amount outstanding from time to time under this Agreement;

 

“Qualified Offering” means the sale of Shares (or Units as contemplated by Clause 6.3) to third party investors in a bona fide investment transaction in which the aggregate sales price to the Borrower of the Shares (or Units) sold in such offering, before deduction of underwriting discounts and commissions, placement agent fees and offering expenses, is not less than US$7.5 million.

 

Repayment Date ” means the day falling on the eighteen (18) month anniversary of the date of this Agreement or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next Business Day;

 

Tax ” includes any form of taxation, levy, duty, charge, contribution or impost of whatever nature (including any applicable fine, penalty, surcharge or interest);

 

Term ” means the period commencing the date of this Agreement and expiring on the Repayment Date;

 

“Termination Notice” means a notice from Lender to Borrower given pursuant to Clause 8.2 terminating this Agreement and the Facility.

 

Shares ” shares of common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Borrower.

 

Units ” means units consisting of Shares together with warrants or any other security convertible into Shares, sold in a Qualified Offering.

 

VAT ” means value added tax as provided for in the Value Added Tax Act 1996 and any other tax of a similar nature; and

 

Warrants ” means warrants issued pursuant to the Warrant Agreement in the form of Exhibit A, to acquire up to 150,000 Shares for a period of three years from the date of this Agreement at the price and on the other terms set out in such Warrant Agreement.

 

1.2 References in this Agreement to:

 

  (a) any document is deemed to include a reference to such document as amended, novated, supplemented, substituted or replaced from time to time;
     
  (b) any person includes its respective successors, assigns and transferees;
     
  (c) a provision of a statute is, unless otherwise indicated, deemed to include a reference to such provision as amended, modified or re-enacted from time to time;
     
  (d) a time of day is the time in London on the specified date;
     
  (e) the singular, where the context so admits, is deemed to include the plural and vice versa; and

 

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  (f) a person is deemed to include a reference to a company, partnership, unincorporated body and any other entity and vice versa.

 

1.3 Titles – Clause headings shall not affect the meaning of that or any other provision.
   
2 The Facility
   
2.1 Subject to the irrevocable grant of the Warrants on the date of this Agreement the Lender has agreed to make an unsecured loan facility available to the Borrower of up to the Commitment on terms set out in this Agreement.
   
2.2 Any amounts drawn down under the Facility will be used by the Borrower for the purpose of its research and development work, professional and administrative expenses, and for general working capital.
   
3 Drawings
   
3.1 Mechanics – Within three (3) Business Days after Borrower and Lender have executed this Agreement (a) the Lender shall make the Initial Drawdown Advance to the Borrower in the amount of US$500,000 and (b) concurrently therewith, the Borrower shall issue to the Lender the Drawdown Shares. Other than in respect of the Initial Drawdown, the Lender shall make each additional Advance to the Borrower if:

 

  (a) the Lender has received a duly completed Drawdown Notice from the Borrower not less than thirty (30) Business Days prior to the proposed drawdown date;
     
  (b) the proposed drawdown date is a Business Day falling within the Availability Period;
     
  (c) no Termination Notice is served by the Lender within three Business Days prior to the Drawdown Notice;
     
  (d) no Default is continuing on the date the Drawdown Notice is received by the Lender or on the proposed drawdown date;
     
  (e) the amount to be drawn down under the Drawdown Notice is in denominations of US$100,000; and
     
  (f) unless agreed otherwise in writing by the Lender not more than US$700,000 has previously been drawn down by the Borrower in the previous 30 days.

 

3.2 Disbursement – The Lender shall make each Advance available to the Borrower by payment to the account specified in writing prior to the Initial Drawdown or in the relevant Drawdown Notice.

 

4 Draw-Down Fee and Interest
   
4.1 Interest Rate – No interest shall be charged on any sums outstanding under the Loan Facility (unless repayment by the Lender is in arrears in which case a default interest rate of 10 per cent. per annum (accruing and compounding daily) shall be due and payable on sums outstanding from the date of first draw-down by the Lender).
   
5 Repayment
   
5.1 The Borrower will repay the Loan to the Lender on the earlier of:

 

  (a) on or before the Repayment Date; or
     
  (b) in accordance with Clause 13.4 or in accordance with Clause 8.2 following an Event of Default.

 

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6 Conversion
   
6.1 At the Borrower’s election, in lieu of repayment, the amount of the drawn down Loan (including the principal thereof and any accrued but unpaid interest thereon) may be converted, in whole but not in part except as provided in Clause 6.6, into a number of fully paid and non-assessable Shares, subject to and determined as provided in Clause 6.3 below, as of the date of, and in all cases subject to the consummation of, a Qualified Offering provided, that no Event of Default shall at the time exist and be continuing.
   
6.2 In order to elect to convert the Loan into Shares in connection with a Qualified Offering in accordance with this Clause 6, the Borrower shall give Lender notice of such election not less than five (5) Business Days prior to the anticipated Conversion Date, specifying the anticipated Conversion Date, the anticipated aggregate proceeds to the Borrower and the other anticipated terms of the Qualified Offering.
   
6.3 Subject to Clause 6.6, the number of Shares or Units issuable upon conversion of the Loan shall be the quotient of (x) the outstanding principal amount of the Loan, plus any accrued but unpaid interest thereon, divided by (y) the lowest price per Share or Unit paid by investors for Shares or Units in the Qualified Offering before deducting underwriting commissions and discounts, placement agent commissions and fees, and other expenses of the Qualified Offering. In lieu of any fractional Share or Unit to which the Lender would otherwise be entitled, the Company shall pay cash equal to the product of such fraction multiplied by the price of such Share or Unit in the Qualified Offering.
   
6.4 Subject to Clause 6.6, upon the consummation of a Qualified Offering, in the event that the Borrower does not elect to convert the Loan into Shares in accordance with Clause 6.1: (a) the Availability Period shall terminate and the Lender will not be required to make any further Advances; and (b) upon the Repayment Date (or any other date on which the Loan is to be repaid, in whole or in part), the Lender shall have the right to elect to receive, in its sole discretion, in lieu of any cash repayment of the Loan, a number of Shares (or Units, if Units are sold in the Qualified Offering) equal to the principal amount of the Loan being so repaid, divided by the lowest price per Share or Unit paid by investors for Shares or Units in the Qualified Offering before deducting underwriting commissions and discounts, placement agent commissions and fees, and other expenses of the Qualified Offering. In lieu of any fractional Share or Unit to which the Lender would otherwise be entitled, the Borrower shall pay cash equal to the product of such fraction multiplied by the price of such Share or Unit in the Qualified Offering. The Borrower shall give the Lender written notice five (5) Business Days prior to making any repayment of the Loan under this Agreement in order to permit the Lender to make such an election.
   
6.5 Upon the conversion of the Loan and the issuance to the Lender of the Shares or Units in accordance in accordance with Clause 6, and upon delivery to the Lender of a valid share certificate for the Shares and other securities comprising Units if Units are issued, (or in lieu of certificates, evidence of direct registration in the records of the transfer agent in the case of the Shares and records of Borrower in the case of other securities comprising Units), this Agreement shall terminate and the Borrower shall be forever released from its obligations under this Agreement, except to the extent that any obligations of the Borrower under Clauses 7 ( Tax ), 9 ( Liability ), 10 ( Payments ) and 13 ( Miscellaneous ) shall survive such termination and remain be valid and effective.
   
6.6 If under the rules of the NYSE American or any other stock exchange on which the Shares are listed (an “Applicable Exchange” ), approval by the stockholders of the Borrower would be required in connection with the issuance of Shares or Units upon any conversion under this Clause 6, then unless and until such stockholder approval has been obtained, the maximum amount of the Loan (including principal and any accrued interest) that may be converted into Shares or Units shall not exceed an amount that would result in the number of Shares (including Shares issued separately or as a part of a Unit) so issued (together with Shares issued upon the consummation of a Qualified Offering in the case of a conversion under Clause 6.1 or that is otherwise deemed by the Applicable Exchange to be in connection with the consummation of the Qualified Offering) exceeding 19.9% of the number of Shares outstanding immediately before such conversion (and before consummation of the Qualified Offering in the case of a conversion under Clause 6.1 or that is otherwise deemed by the Applicable Exchange to be in connection with the consummation of a Qualified Offering).

 

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7 Tax
   
7.1 Withholdings – If at any time the Borrower is required by law to make any deduction or withholding from any payment due from the Borrower to the Lender, the Borrower shall simultaneously pay to the Lender whatever additional amount is necessary to ensure that the Lender receives a net sum equal to the payment it would have received had no deduction or withholding been made.
   
7.2 Increased costs – If any change in law or in its interpretation or administration by any relevant governmental authority or any request from or requirement of any other fiscal, monetary or other authority:

 

  (a) subjects the Lender to a cost in relation to its performance of this Agreement, its maintenance of its Commitment or its advance of the Loan or increases any such cost; or
     
  (b) imposes or changes any reserve or other requirement against or in respect of any commitments or assets of the Lender (including the Commitment or the Loan); or
     
  (c) imposes on the Lender any other condition or payment obligation in relation to the Commitment, the Loan or any other matter arising under this Agreement or affects the manner in which the Lender allocates its capital resources to its obligations under this Agreement,

 

and the result of any of the above is to increase the cost to the Lender of making or maintaining all or any part of the Commitment or the Loan or otherwise to reduce the Lender’s expected return from all or any part of the Loan, then:

 

  (a) the Lender will promptly notify the Borrower of that event; and
     
  (b) the Borrower will pay to the Lender on demand from time to time such amount (as determined by the Lender) necessary to compensate it for such increased cost or for such reduced return.

 

8 Events of Default
   
8.1 Events – Each of the following will be an Event of Default:

 

  (a) Payment – the Borrower fails to pay any amount payable by it in the manner and at the time provided under this Agreement and the failure is not remedied within ten (10) Business Days following the date the payment was to be made;
     
  (b) Obligations – if the Borrower fails to perform any of its obligations under this Agreement and, such failure (if capable of remedy) remains unremedied to the satisfaction of the Lender for ten (10) Business Days after notice requiring its remedy has been given by the Lender to the Borrower;
     
  (c) Other Indebtedness – if any Indebtedness of the Borrower in excess of US$100,000 becomes due and payable or capable of being declared due and payable prior to its due date or any Indebtedness of the Borrower in excess of US$25,000 is not paid on its due date;
     
  (d) Carrying on Business – if the Borrower stops payment of its debts generally or ceases or threatens to cease to carry on its business or is unable to pay its debts as they fall due or is deemed by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unable to pay its debts as they come due, or enters into any arrangements with its creditors generally;

 

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  (e) Insolvency – if the Borrower becomes insolvent or is in liquidation or administration or subject to any other insolvency procedure in any jurisdiction (other than a proceeding instituted by Lender or an affiliate of Lender), or a receiver, manager, trustee, custodian or analogous officer is appointed in respect of all or any material part of its property or assets and such appointment continues undischarged or unstayed for a period of sixty (60) days;
     
  (f) Illegality – if it becomes unlawful for the Borrower to perform all or any of its obligations under this Agreement or any authorisation, approval, consent, licence, exemption, filing, registration or other requirement of any governmental, judicial or public body or authority necessary to enable the Borrower to comply with its obligations under this Agreement or to carry on its business is not obtained or, having been obtained, is modified in a manner that precludes Borrower from conducting its business in a material respect, or is revoked, suspended, withdrawn or withheld or fails to remain in full force and effect;
     
  (g) Expropriation – the issuance or levy of any judgment, writ, warrant of attachment or execution or similar process against all or any material part of the property or assets of Borrower if such process is not released, vacated or fully bonded within sixty (60) calendar days after its issue or levy;
     
  (h) Court Action – if any injunction, order, judgment or decision of any court is entered or issued which, in the opinion of the Lender, materially and adversely affects, or is likely so to affect, the ability of the Borrower to carry on its business or to pay amounts owed to Lender under this Agreement; and
     
  (i) Financial Condition – if there is any change in the financial condition of the Borrower which, in the opinion of the Lender, materially and adversely affects, or is likely so to affect, the ability of the Borrower to perform any of its obligations under any this Agreement.

 

8.2 Remedies – While an Event of Default is continuing and provided it has not been remedied in ten (10) Business Days following notice of the Default given by the Lender to the Borrower, the Lender may do all or any of the following:

 

  (a) by notice to the Borrower, declare the Loan and all accrued fees and other sums owed by the Borrower under this Agreement to be immediately due and payable and the same will become so due and payable; and
     
  (b) by notice to the Borrower, declare the outstanding balance of the Commitment to be immediately reduced to zero and the same will be so reduced.

 

9 Liability
   
9.1 General Costs – The Borrower will from time to time on demand reimburse the Lender for all reasonable costs and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) and any VAT chargeable on them incurred in the preservation and enforcement of this Agreement.
   
9.2 Stamp duties – The Borrower will pay on demand all stamp and other duties and Taxes, if any, to which this Agreement may be subject or give rise and indemnify the Lender on demand against any and all liabilities with respect to or resulting from any delay or omission on the part of the Borrower to pay any such duties or Taxes.
   
9.3 Default – In the event of any lawsuit or other action to enforce any right or remedy of Lender under this Agreement, or to resolve any dispute arising from or in connection with this Agreement, the prevailing party shall be entitled to recover its costs and expenses of such lawsuit or proceeding, including without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees.

 

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9.4 Liability – The Lender shall have no liability whatsoever to the Borrower should it deliver a Termination Notice under Clause 8.2 of this Agreement (in particular it shall have no liability to fund or pay any costs or liabilities incurred by the Borrower prior to the date of the Termination Notice where such costs and liabilities were incurred by the Borrower in reliance on the availability of funds under this Agreement).
   
10 Payments
   
10.1 Currency – The Borrower shall discharge each obligation in the currency in which it is due under this Agreement. If at any time the Lender receives any payment (including by set-off) referable to any of the liabilities of the Borrower under this Agreement from any source in a currency other than the currency in which it is due then such payment shall take effect as a payment to the Lender of the amount in the due currency which the Lender is able to purchase (after deduction of any relevant costs) with the amount of the payment so received in accordance with its usual practice.
   
10.2 Indemnity – If a payment is made under a court order and is treated as a payment of an amount which falls short of the relevant liability of the Borrower expressed in the currency in which it is due, the Borrower as a separate and independent obligation shall on demand from time to time indemnify the Lender against such shortfall and shall pay interest on such shortfall from the date of such payment to the date the shortfall is paid. Interest will be calculated as if that shortfall were an overdue amount.
   
10.3 Funds – All payments made by the Borrower to the Lender shall be made in immediately available cleared funds on its due date (and, if such date is not a Business Day, on the immediately preceding Business Day) to the credit of such account as the Lender may designate. Such payments shall be made in full without set-off or counterclaim and free and clear of any deduction or withholding for or on account of any Tax (save for such deductions or withholdings as are required by law) or any other matter.
   
11 Communications
   
11.1 Written – All communications under this Agreement must be in writing.
   
11.2 Addresses – Any communication may be sent by prepaid post, or email or delivered to the Lender or the Borrower at its address or email address shown below or as may otherwise by notified to the relevant party in writing. Communications to the Borrower may also be sent to a place of business for it last known to the Lender or delivered to one of its officers.

 

  To the Lender : Juvenescence Limited
    Fourth Floor, Viking House
    Nelson Street
    Isle of Man IM1 2AH
    Attention: Gregory Bailey
    Email: greg@juvenescence.ltd
     
  To the Borrower : AgeX Therapeutics, Inc.
    965 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 101
    Alameda, California 94501
    Attention: Russell Skibsted, Chief Financial Officer
    Email: rskibsted@agexinc.com

 

11.3 Delivery – A communication by either of the parties, if sent by post, will be deemed made on the day after posting by first class post, postage prepaid (but, if to another country, five (5) days after posting by airmail, postage prepaid). Any communication sent by email will be deemed effective on the date of transmission if sent on a Business Day not later than 5:00 p.m. local time at the location of the recipient, or the next Business Day if sent on a day other than a Business Day or later than 5:00 p.m. local time at the location of the recipient..

 

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12 Assignation and Transfer
   
12.1 Transfer by Lender – The Lender may transfer any of its rights to payment but not its obligations under this Agreement.
   
12.2 No transfer by Borrower – The Borrower may not transfer any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement.
   
13 Miscellaneous
   
13.1 Costs and Expenses – The Borrower shall be responsible for its own costs in relation to the preparation and execution of this Agreement and shall pay the reasonable and proper costs of the Lender in preparing and finalising this Agreement.
   
13.2 Delays – The rights and powers of the Lender under this Agreement will not be affected or impaired by any delay or omission by the Lender in exercising them or by any previous exercise of any such rights or powers.
   
13.3 Severability – Each of the provisions of this Agreement shall be severable and distinct from one another and if at any time anyone or more of these provisions (or any part of them) is or becomes invalid, illegal or unenforceable the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired.
   
13.4 Illegality – If at any time it becomes unlawful for the Lender to allow the Commitment to remain in effect or to make, fund or allow the Loan to remain outstanding then the Lender will promptly notify the Borrower and:

 

  (a) the Lender will not be required to make the Loan and the Commitment will be reduced to zero; and
     
  (b) if the Lender so requires by notice to the Borrower, the Borrower will repay the Loan and pay to the Lender all other sums owed by the Borrower under this Agreement, all on such date as the Lender may reasonably specify.

 

14 Counterparts
   
  This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, which shall together constitute one agreement. Any party may enter into this Agreement by signing any such counterpart. This Loan Agreement and any Drawdown Notice or other notice or communication may be executed with signatures transmitted among the parties by pdf attached to an electronic mail, and no party shall deny the validity of a signature or this Loan Agreement signed and transmitted by pdf attached to an electronic mail on the basis that a signed document is represented by a copy or facsimile and not an original.
   
15 Law and Jurisdiction
   
15.1 Law - This Agreement and any non-contractual obligations arising from or in connection with it shall in all respects be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.
   
15.2 Jurisdiction - The parties irrevocably agree that the Courts of England are to have jurisdiction to settle any dispute arising from or in connection with this Agreement or relating to any non-contractual obligations arising from or in connection with this Agreement.

 

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IN WITNESS whereof these presents consisting of this and the preceding pages and the Schedules is executed as follows.

 

Executed and Delivered as a Deed by /s/ Gregory Bailey
a duly authorised Director, for and on behalf   (Director)
of JUVENESCENCE LIMITED  
   

at Toronto, Canada

 

on 13 August 2019

 

in the presence of:  
     
Witness Signature _______________________  
Witness Name _______________________  
Address _______________________  
  _______________________  
  _______________________  

 

Executed and Delivered as a Deed by /s/ Russell Skibsted

a duly authorised officer, for and on behalf

of AGEX THERAPEUTICS, INC.

(Chief Financial Officer)

 

at

 

On August 13, 2019

 

in the presence of:  
     
Witness Signature /s/ Judith Segall  
Witness Name Judith Segall  
Address ________________________  
  ________________________  

 

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Schedule – Part 1 Form of Drawdown Notice

 

To: JUVENESCENCE LIMITED From: AGEX THERAPEUTICS INC.

 

Date: [●]

 

Dear Sirs

 

Unsecured Loan Facility Agreement dated [●] (the “Loan Agreement”)

 

We refer to the Loan Agreement. Terms defined in the Loan Facility Agreement have the same meaning in this notice.

 

This is a Drawdown Notice.

 

We request the following Advance: Amount of Proposed Advance: [●] Proposed drawdown date: [●]

 

Please credit the Advance to the following account: [●]

 

As at the date of this notice no Default is continuing or will occur as a result of the draw down of this Advance.

 

Yours faithfully

 

Name: ___________________________
  Chief Financial Officer [or Chief Executive Officer]
  AGEX THERAPEUTICS INC.

 

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Schedule 2

 

Investment Representations

 

1.1. Investment Representations . Terms defined in the Loan Facility Agreement have the same meaning in this notice. Lender makes the following representations, given as of the date of the Loan Facilities Agreement, in connection with the Loan and its acquisition of the Warrants:

 

1.1.1. Lender has made such investigation of Borrower as Lender deemed appropriate for determining to acquire (and thereby make an investment in) the Warrants, and in making such investigation Lender has had access to such financial and other information concerning Borrower as Lender requested.

 

1.1.2. Lender understands that the Warrants and shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of the Warrants (“Warrant Shares”) are being offered and sold without registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities Act ”), or registration or qualification under the California Corporate Securities Law of 1968, as amended, or under the securities laws of any other state, country, or other jurisdiction in reliance upon the exemptions from such registration and qualification requirements for nonpublic offerings.

 

1.1.3. Lender understands that (i) the Warrants, and any Warrant Shares issued upon exercise of Warrants not be sold, offered for sale or transferred by Lender unless subsequently registered under the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws, or unless sold or transferred pursuant to an exemption from such registration, and (ii) Warrants and Warrant Shares will carry a legend to such effect.

 

1.1.4. Lender is acquiring the Warrants and Warrant Shares issued upon exercise of Warrants, solely for Lender’s own account, for long-term investment purposes, and not with a view to, or for sale in connection with, any public distribution of the Warrants or Warrant Shares.

 

1.1.5. Lender is an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501 under the Securities Act and is not a “U.S. Person” under Regulation S under the Securities Act.

 

1.2. Financial Statements and Disclosure .

 

1.2.1. Borrower has delivered to Lender a copy of its Annual Report on Form 10-K filed pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “ Exchange Act ”) containing the following consolidated financial statements of Borrower and its subsidiaries (the Annual Financial Statements ): (a) balance sheets as at December 31, 2018 and 2017; and (b) statements of operations, comprehensive loss, cash flow, and stockholders’ equity as of December 31, 2018 and 2017.

 

1.2.2. Borrower has delivered to Lender a draft copy of the following condensed interim consolidated financial statements of Borrower and its subsidiaries (the Interim Financial Statements ): (a) a balance sheet as at June 30, 2019; and (b) statements of operations, comprehensive loss, cash flow, and stockholders’ equity as of June 30, 2019 and 2018. The Interim Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles consistently applied and are subject to final adjustments and revisions, which Borrower does not expect to be material, before being filed with Borrower’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q under the Exchange Act for the three months ended June 30, 2019. Lender agrees to keep the Interim Financial Statements confidential until Borrower files the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

 

LENDER:

 

JUVENESCENCE LIMITED

 

By:  _________________________________________  
Location:  _________________________________________  
Title:  _________________________________________  

 

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EXHIBIT A

 

 

 

Warrant Agreement

 

Dated as of August 13, 2019

 

 

 

     
 

 

WARRANT AGREEMENT, (this “Agreement”) dated as of August 13, 2019, by AgeX Therapeutics, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), for the benefit of Juvenescence Limited which, along with any permitted successor Holder of a Warrant is referred to herein as a “Lender”.

 

Section 1. Issuance of Warrants .

 

1.1 Number of Warrants . Pursuant to the Loan Agreement, the Company has agreed to issue to Lender Warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 150,000 shares of Company Common Stock (“Warrant Shares”), subject to adjustment as provided herein . The certificates representing the Warrants shall be issued to the Lender upon the execution and delivery of the Loan Agreement by Lender and Borrower.

 

1.2 Expiration Date. The right to exercise the Warrants shall expire on, and the Warrants may not be exercised after, 5:00 p.m. New York time on August 12, 2022 (the “Expiration Date”).

 

1.3 Form of Warrant . The text of the Warrants and of the Exercise Notice shall be substantially as set forth in Exhibit A attached hereto.

 

1.4 Signatures; Date of Warrants . The Warrants shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chief Executive Officer and attested by its Chief Financial Officer or Secretary or any Assistant Secretary. The signature of any such officers on the Warrants may be manual or facsimile. Warrants bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any one of them shall have ceased to hold such offices prior to the delivery of such Warrants or did not hold such offices on the date of this Agreement. In the event that the Company shall appoint a warrant agent to act on its behalf in connection with the division, transfer, exchange or exercise of Warrants, the Warrants issued after the date of such appointment shall be dated as of the date of countersignature thereof by the warrant agent upon division, exchange, substitution or transfer. Until such time as the Company shall appoint a warrant agent, Warrants shall be dated as of the date of execution thereof by the Company either upon initial issuance or upon division, exchange, substitution or transfer.

 

1.5 Countersignature of Warrants . In the event that the Company shall appoint a warrant agent to act on its behalf in connection with the division, transfer, exchange or exercise of Warrants, the Warrants issued after the date of such appointment shall be countersigned by the warrant agent (or any successor to the warrant agent then acting as warrant agent) and shall not be valid for any purpose unless so countersigned. Warrants may be countersigned, however, by the warrant agent (or by its successor as warrant agent hereunder) and may be delivered by the warrant agent, notwithstanding that the persons whose manual or facsimile signatures appear thereon as proper officers of the Company shall have ceased to be such officers at the time of such countersignature, issuance or delivery. The warrant agent (if so appointed) shall, upon written instructions of the Chief Executive Officer or the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, countersign, issue and deliver the Warrants as provided in this Agreement.

 

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Section 2. Warrant Price . Subject to any adjustments required by Section 6, the price per share at which Warrant Shares shall be purchasable upon exercise of a Warrant (the “Warrant Price”) shall be Two Dollars and Sixty cents ($2.60) per share.

 

Section 3. Exercise of Warrants; Restrictions .

 

3.1 Exercise of Warrants . Subject to the terms of this Agreement, Holder shall have the right, which may be exercised in whole or in part, to purchase from the Company, at the Warrant Price then in effect, the number of fully paid and nonassessable Warrant Shares determined as provided in this Agreement. The Warrants may not be exercised or transferred after the Expiration Date. A Warrant may be exercised by (i) surrender of the certificate evidencing the Warrant to be exercised, together with the Exercise Notice duly completed and signed, to the Company at its principal office (or if appointed, the principal office of the warrant agent) and (ii) payment of the Warrant Price to the Company (or if appointed, to the warrant agent for the account of the Company), for the number of Warrant Shares in respect of which the Warrant is then being exercised. Payment of the aggregate Warrant Price shall be made by bank wire transfer to the account of the Company or by bank cashier’s check.

 

3.2 Issuance of Warrant Shares. Subject to Section 3.3 and the Holder’s payment of any taxes or deposit funds with the Company sufficient to pay any taxes payable by the Holder pursuant to Section 5, following the surrender of the Warrant with the Exercise Notice duly completed and signed, and provided that payment of the Warrant Price has been received, the Company (or if appointed, the warrant agent) shall promptly cause to be issued and delivered to or upon the written order of the Holder and in such name or names as the Holder may designate, a certificate or certificates for the number of full Warrant Shares so purchased upon the exercise of such Warrant, together with cash, as provided in Section 8, in respect of any fractional Warrant Shares otherwise issuable upon such exercise. Such Warrant Share certificate or certificates shall be deemed to have been issued and any person so designated to be named therein shall be deemed to have become a Holder of record of such Warrant Shares as of the date on which the Warrant with the duly completed and signed Exercise Notice and payment of the Warrant Price, as aforesaid, shall have been received by the Company (or if appointed, to the warrant agent for the account of the Company), for such Warrant Shares. Except for cash payable in respect of any fractional share, under no circumstances shall the Company be required to settle any exercises of this Warrant by cash payment or otherwise “net cash settle” this Warrant. In the event that a certificate evidencing the Warrant is exercised in respect of less than all of the Warrant Shares purchasable on such exercise at any time prior to the tenth Business Day prior to the Expiration Date, a new certificate evidencing the unexercised portion of the Warrant will be issued, and the warrant agent (if so appointed) is hereby irrevocably authorized to countersign and to deliver the required new Warrant certificate or certificates. The Company, whenever required by the warrant agent (if appointed), will supply the warrant agent with Warrant certificates duly executed on behalf of the Company for such purpose.

 

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3.3 Restrictions on Exercise of Warrants .

 

(a) The Warrants may not be exercised unless the issuance of the Warrant Shares thereunder is registered under the Securities Act or an exemption from such registration is available.

 

(b) Unless the Warrant and Warrant Shares have been registered under the Securities Act and under any applicable state securities laws, each Person who is exercising a Warrant and who does not certify in the applicable Exercise Notice that such Person either is an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501 under the Securities Act or is not a “U.S. person” as defined in Rule 902 under the Securities Act, may be required to provide a written opinion of counsel, acceptable to the Company and to the transfer agent of the Warrant Shares, to the effect that exercise of the Warrant and the issuance of the Warrant Shares are exempt from registration under the Securities Act and under any applicable state securities laws.

 

(c) The Company shall be entitled to obtain, as a condition precedent to its issuance of any certificates representing Warrant Shares or any other securities issuable upon any exercise of a Warrant, a letter or other instrument from the Holder containing such representations or warranties by the Holder as reasonably deemed necessary by the Company to effect compliance by the Company with the requirements of the Securities Act and any other applicable United States federal and/or state securities laws.

 

(d) Any exercise, attempt to exercise, or purported exercise of a Warrant in violation of the restrictions set forth in this Section 3.3 shall be deemed null and void and of no binding effect.

 

(e) The Company will refuse to issue, and will issue instructions to the transfer agent and registrar of its Warrant Shares to refuse to issue, any Warrant Shares upon any exercise not made pursuant to registration under the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws, or pursuant to an available exemption from registration under the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws.

 

Section 4. Transferability of Warrants and Warrant Shares; Restrictions on Transfer .

 

4.1 Registration . Each Warrant shall be numbered and shall be registered on the books of the Company (the “Warrant Register”) as issued. The Company and the warrant agent (if appointed) shall be entitled to treat the registered holder of any Warrant appearing in the Warrant Register as the owner in fact of the Warrant for all purposes and shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim or interest in the Warrant on the part of any other person, and shall not be liable for any registration of transfer of any Warrant which is registered or to be registered in the name of a fiduciary or the nominee of a fiduciary upon the instruction of such fiduciary, unless made with the actual knowledge that a fiduciary or nominee is committing a breach of trust in requesting such registration of transfer, or with such knowledge of such facts that its participation therein amounts to bad faith. Each Warrant shall initially be registered in the name of the Person to whom it is originally issued.

 

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4.2 Transfer . Subject to Section 4.3, the Warrants shall be transferable only on the Warrant Register upon delivery of the Warrant certificate duly endorsed by the Holder of the Warrant or by such Holder’s duly authorized attorney or representative, or accompanied by proper evidence of succession, assignment or authority to transfer. In all cases of transfer by an attorney, the original power of attorney or a duly certified copy thereof shall be deposited and remain with the Company (or the warrant agent, if appointed). In case of transfer by executors, administrators, guardians or other legal representatives, duly authenticated evidence of their authority shall be produced, and may be required to be deposited and remain with the Company (or the warrant agent, if appointed) in its discretion. Upon any registration of transfer, the Company shall execute and deliver (or if appointed, the warrant agent shall countersign and deliver) a new Warrant or Warrants to the Persons entitled thereto.

 

4.3 Restrictions on Transfer of Warrants and Warrant Shares .

 

(a) The Warrants, and any Warrant Shares issued upon the exercise of the Warrants, may not be sold, pledged, hypothecated, transferred or assigned, in whole or in part, unless a registration statement under the Securities Act, and under any applicable state securities laws, is effective therefor, or an exemption from such registration is then available and an opinion of counsel, acceptable to the Company and to the transfer agent or warrant agent, if any, has been rendered stating that such sale, pledge, hypothecation, transfer or assignment will not violate the Securities Act or any other United States federal or state securities laws; provided, that no such opinion of counsel shall be required in the event of a sale to (i) a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, (ii) pursuant to the applicable provisions of Rule 144 under the Securities Act, or (iii) to an “affiliate” of the Holder, as such term is defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act.

 

(b) As a condition precedent to the registration of transfer and issuance of any certificates representing Warrants or Warrant Shares upon transfer, the Company shall be entitled to obtain a letter or other instrument from the Holder and the proposed transferee containing such representations or warranties by such Holder and proposed transferee as reasonably deemed necessary by the Company to effect compliance by the Company with the requirements of the Securities Act and any other applicable federal and/or state securities laws.

 

(c) Any sale, pledge, hypothecation, transfer, or assignment of a Warrant or Warrant Shares in violation of the foregoing restrictions shall be deemed null and void and of no binding effect.

 

(d) The Company will issue instructions to any warrant agent that may be appointed, and to the transfer agent and registrar of its Warrant Shares, to refuse to register the transfer of any Warrant and Warrant Shares not made pursuant to registration under the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws, or pursuant to an available exemption from registration under the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws.

 

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Section 5. Payment of Taxes . The Company will pay all documentary stamp taxes, if any, attributable to the initial issuance of Warrant Shares upon the exercise of Warrants; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to pay any tax or taxes which may be payable in respect of any transfer involved in the issue or delivery of any Warrant or certificates for Warrant Shares in a name other than that of the Holder of such Warrants or Warrant Shares.

 

Section 6. Adjustment of Warrant Price and Number of Warrant Shares . The number and kind of securities purchasable upon the exercise of each Warrant and the Warrant Price shall be subject to adjustment from time to time upon the happening of certain events, as provided in this Section 6.

 

6.1 Adjustments . If the Company shall (i) pay a dividend in shares of Common Stock or make a distribution in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivide its outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combine its outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares of Common Stock or (iv) reclassify or change its Common Stock (including any such reclassification or change in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the surviving corporation), the number of Warrant Shares purchasable upon exercise of each Warrant immediately prior thereto shall be adjusted so that the Holder of each Warrant shall be entitled to receive the kind and number of Warrant Shares or other securities of the Company or other property which the Holder would have owned or have been entitled to receive after the happening of any of the events described above, had such Warrant been exercised immediately prior to the happening of such event or any record date with respect thereto. An adjustment made pursuant to this paragraph 6.1 shall become effective immediately after the effective date of such event retroactive to the record date, if any, for such event.

 

(a) No adjustment in the number of Warrant Shares purchasable hereunder shall be required unless such adjustment would require an increase or decrease of at least one percent (1%) in the number of Warrant Shares purchasable upon the exercise of each Warrant; provided, however, that any adjustments which by reason of this paragraph (a) are not required to be made shall be carried forward and taken into account in the determination of any subsequent adjustment. All calculations shall be made with respect to the number of Warrant Shares purchasable hereunder, to the nearest tenth of a share and with respect to the Warrant Price payable hereunder, to the nearest whole cent.

 

(b) Whenever the number of Warrant Shares purchasable upon the exercise of each Warrant is adjusted, as herein provided, the Warrant Price payable upon exercise of each Warrant shall be adjusted by multiplying such Warrant Price immediately prior to such adjustment by a fraction, of which the numerator shall be the number of Warrant Shares purchasable upon the exercise of each Warrant immediately prior to such adjustment, and of which the denominator shall be the number of Warrant Shares purchasable immediately thereafter.

 

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6.2 Notice of Adjustment . Whenever the number of Warrant Shares purchasable upon the exercise of each Warrant or the Warrant Price of such Warrant Shares is adjusted, as herein provided, the Company shall, or in the event that a warrant agent is appointed, the Company shall cause the warrant agent to, promptly and in any event within ten (10) days send to each Holder notice of such adjustment or adjustments. Such notice shall set forth the number of Warrant Shares purchasable upon the exercise of each Warrant and the Warrant Price after such adjustment, setting forth a brief statement of the facts requiring such adjustment and setting forth the computation by which such adjustment was made.

 

6.3 No Adjustment for Dividends . Except as set forth in Section 6.1, no adjustment in respect of any dividends shall be made during the term of a Warrant or upon the exercise of a Warrant.

 

6.4 Preservation of Purchase Rights Upon Merger, Consolidation, etc . In case of any consolidation of the Company with or merger of the Company into another corporation or in case of any sale, transfer or lease to another Person of all or substantially all the assets of the Company, or any other transaction constituting, resulting in, or giving effect to a Change of Control, the Company or such successor or purchasing corporation, as the case may be, shall execute an agreement that each Holder shall have the right thereafter, upon such Holder’s election, either (i) upon payment of the Warrant Price in effect immediately prior to such action, to purchase upon exercise of each Warrant the kind and amount of shares and other securities and property (including cash) which the Holder would have owned or have been entitled to receive after the happening of such consolidation, merger, sale, transfer, lease or other transaction had such Warrant been exercised immediately prior to such transaction (such shares and other securities and property (including cash) being referred to as the “Sale Consideration”) or (ii) to receive, in cancellation of such Warrant (and in lieu of paying the Warrant Price and exercising such Warrant), the Sale Consideration less a portion thereof having a fair market value (as reasonably determined by the Company) equal to the Warrant Price (it being understood that, if the Sale Consideration consists of more than one type of shares, other securities or property, the amount of each type of shares, other securities or property to be received shall be reduced proportionately); provided, however, that except as set forth in Section 6.1, no adjustment in respect of dividends, interest or other income on or from such shares or other securities and property shall be made during the term of a Warrant or upon the exercise of a Warrant. The Company shall mail by first class mail, postage prepaid, to each Holder, notice of the execution of any such agreement. Such agreement shall provide for adjustments, which shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the adjustments provided for in this Section 6. The provisions of this paragraph shall similarly apply to successive consolidations, mergers, sales, transfers or leases or other transactions constituting, resulting in, or giving effect to a Change of Control. The warrant agent (if appointed) shall be under no duty or responsibility to determine the correctness of any provisions contained in any such agreement relating to the kind or amount of shares of stock or other securities or property receivable upon exercise of Warrants or with respect to the method employed and provided therein for any adjustments and shall be entitled to rely upon the provisions contained in any such agreement.

 

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Section 7. Reservation of Warrant Shares; Purchase and Cancellation of Warrants .

 

7.1 Reservation of Warrant Shares . There have been reserved, and the Company shall at all times keep reserved, out of its authorized Common Stock, a number of shares of Common Stock sufficient to provide for the exercise of the rights of purchase represented by the outstanding Warrants. The Company will keep a copy of this Agreement on file with the transfer agent for the Warrant Shares. The warrant agent, if appointed, will be irrevocably authorized to requisition from time to time from such transfer agent the stock certificates required to honor outstanding Warrants upon exercise in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. The Company will supply such transfer agent with duly executed stock certificates for such purposes and will provide or otherwise make available any cash which may be payable as provided in Section 8. The Company will furnish such transfer agent a copy of all notices of adjustments and certificates related thereto, transmitted to each Holder pursuant to Section 6.2.

 

7.2 Purchase of Warrants by the Company . The Company shall have the right, except as limited by law or by other agreements, with the consent of the Holder (such consent to be given or withheld in the Holder’s sole discretion), to purchase or otherwise acquire Warrants from the Holder at such times, in such manner and for such consideration as it and the Holder may deem appropriate.

 

7.3 Cancellation of Warrants . In the event the Company shall purchase or otherwise acquire Warrants, the same shall thereupon be cancelled and retired. The warrant agent (if so appointed) shall cancel any Warrant surrendered for exchange, substitution, transfer or exercise in whole or in part.

 

Section 8. Fractional Interests . The Company shall not be required to issue fractional Warrants upon the transfer of any Warrant, or fractional Warrant Shares upon the exercise of Warrants. If more than one Warrant shall be presented for exercise at the same time by the same Holder, the number of full Warrant Shares which shall be issuable upon the exercise thereof shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate number of Warrant Shares purchasable on exercise of the Warrants so presented. If any fraction of a Warrant Share would, except for the provisions of this Section 8, be issuable on the exercise of any Warrant (or specified portion thereof), the Company shall pay an amount in cash equal to the Current Market Price per Warrant Share determined as of one business day prior to the date the Warrant is presented for exercise, multiplied by such fraction.

 

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Section 9. Exchange of Warrant Certificates . Each Warrant certificate may be exchanged, at the option of the Holder thereof, for another Warrant certificate or Warrant certificates in different denominations (but not for any fractional Warrant or any denomination that would, but for Section 8, result in the issuance of a fractional share upon exercise) entitling the Holder or Holders thereof to purchase a like aggregate number of Warrant Shares as the certificate or certificates surrendered then entitle the Holder to purchase. Any Holder desiring to exchange a Warrant certificate or certificates shall make such request in writing delivered to the Company at its principal office (or, if a warrant agent is appointed, the warrant agent at its principal office) and shall surrender, properly endorsed, the certificate or certificates to be so exchanged. Thereupon, the Company (or, if appointed, the warrant agent) shall execute and deliver to the person entitled thereto a new Warrant certificate or certificates, as the case may be, as so requested, in such name or names as such Holder shall designate.

 

Section 10. Mutilated or Missing Warrants . In case any of the certificates evidencing the Warrants shall be mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company may in its discretion issue and deliver (and, if appointed, the warrant agent shall countersign and deliver) in exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation of the mutilated Warrant certificate, or in lieu of and substitution for the Warrant certificate lost, stolen or destroyed, a new Warrant certificate of like tenor, but only upon receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company and the warrant agent (if so appointed) of such loss, theft or destruction of such Warrant, and an indemnity or bond, if requested, also reasonably satisfactory to them. An applicant for such a substitute Warrant certificate shall also comply with such other reasonable requirements and pay such reasonable charges as the Company (or the warrant agent, if so appointed) may prescribe.

 

Section 11. No Rights as Stockholders; Notices to Holders . Nothing contained in this Agreement or in any of the Warrants shall be construed as conferring upon the Holders or their transferees the right to vote or to receive dividends or to consent or to receive notice as stockholders in respect of any meeting of stockholders for the election of directors of the Company or any other matter, or any rights whatsoever as stockholders of the Company. If, however, at any time prior to the Expiration Date, any of the following events shall occur: (a) the Company shall declare any dividend payable in any securities upon its shares of Common Stock or make any distribution (other than a regular cash dividend, as such dividend may be increased from time to time, or a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock for which an adjustment to the number of Warrant Shares is to be made pursuant to Section 6.1) to the holders of its shares of Common Stock; or (b) the Company shall distribute rights, options or warrants to all holders of its outstanding Common Stock, without any charge to such holders, entitling them to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock or the Company shall otherwise offer to the holders of its shares of Common Stock on a pro rata basis any cash, additional shares of Common Stock or other securities of the Company or any right to subscribe for or purchase any thereof; (c) a consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the Company’s property, assets, and business as an entirety, or (d) a dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Company, or (e) a transaction between the Company and any other Person that will result in a Change of Control shall be proposed, then in any one or more of said events the Company shall give notice in writing of such event as provided in Section 12, such giving of notice to be completed at least 10 days prior to the date fixed as a record date or the date of closing the transfer books for the determination of the stockholders entitled to such dividend or distribution or for the determination of stockholders entitled to vote on such proposed merger, consolidation, sale of assets, dissolution, liquidation or winding up or the date on which a transaction to which the Company is a party and which will cause or result in a Change of Control will be consummated. Such notice shall specify such record date or the date of closing the transfer books, as the case may be. Failure to publish, mail or receive such notice or any defect therein or in the publication or mailing thereof shall not affect the validity of any action in connection with such dividend, distribution or subscription rights, or such proposed dissolution, liquidation or winding up.

 

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Section 12. Notices; Principal Office . Any notice pursuant to this Agreement by the Company or by any Holder to the warrant agent (if so appointed), or by the warrant agent (if so appointed) or by any Holder to the Company, shall be in writing and shall be delivered in person, or mailed first class, postage prepaid, or sent by air delivery service (a) to the Company, at its office, Attention: Chief Financial Officer, or (b) to the warrant agent, at its offices as designated at the time the warrant agent is appointed. The address of the principal office of the Company is 1010 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 102, Alameda, California 94051. Any notice given pursuant to this Agreement by the Company or the warrant agent to the Holder shall be in writing and shall be mailed first class, postage prepaid, or sent by air delivery service, or delivered personally to such Holder at the Holder’s address on the books of the Company or the warrant agent, as the case may be. A notice shall be deemed given on the date deposited in the United States mail, first class postage prepaid, or on date deposited with an air delivery service, or on the date delivered if personally delivered. The Company, the warrant agent (if appointed), and any Holder may from time to time change the address to which notices to it are to be delivered or mailed hereunder by notice given as provided in this Section 12.

 

Section 13. Successors . Except as expressly provided herein to the contrary, all the covenants and provisions of this Agreement by or for the benefit of the Company, the warrant agent (if appointed) and the Holder shall bind and inure to the benefit of their respective successors and permitted assigns hereunder.

 

Section 14. Legends . The Warrants shall bear an appropriate legend, conspicuously disclosing the restrictions on exercise under Section 3.3, and the Warrants and Warrant Shares shall bear an appropriate legend, conspicuously disclosing the restrictions on transfer under Section 4.3 until the same are registered for sale under the Securities Act or are transferred in a transaction exempt from registration under the Securities Act entitling the transferee to receive securities that are not deemed to be “restricted securities” as such term is defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act. The Company agrees that upon the sale of the Warrants and Warrant Shares pursuant to a registration statement or an exemption entitling the transferee to receive securities that are not deemed to be “restricted securities,” or at such time as registration under the Securities Act shall no longer be required, upon the presentation of the certificates containing such a legend to the transfer agent or warrant agent, if any, it will remove such legend; provided, that unless the request for removal of the legend is in connection with a sale registered under the Securities Act or a sale meeting the applicable requirements of Rule 144 under the Securities Act, the Holder shall have provided an opinion of counsel, acceptable to the Company and the transfer agent or warrant agent, as applicable, to the effect that such legend may be removed in compliance with the Securities Act.

 

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Section 15. Applicable Law . This Agreement and each Warrant issued hereunder shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, without giving effect to principles of conflict of laws.

 

Section 16. Benefits of this Agreement . This Agreement shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the Company, the warrant agent (if appointed), and the Holders. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to give to any Person other than the Company, the warrant agent (if appointed), and the Holders any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Agreement.

 

Section 17. Amendments . No amendment, modification or other change to, or waiver of any provision of, this Warrant Agreement or any Warrant may be made unless such amendment, modification or waiver is set forth in writing and is signed by the Company and the Holder (and, if appointed, the warrant agent).

 

Section 18. Counterparts . This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts (including by separate counterpart signature pages) and each of such counterparts shall for all purposes be deemed to be an original, and all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

 

Section 19. Captions . The captions of the Sections and subsections of this Agreement have been inserted for convenience only and shall have no substantive effect.

 

Section 20. Certain Definitions . For purposes of this Warrant Agreement and the Warrants, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

 

20.1 “Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in The City of New York are authorized or required by law to remain closed.

 

20.2 “Change of Control” means (a) a merger or consolidation of the Company with another Person other than (i) a merger in which the Company is the surviving Person and the holders of Common Stock immediately before the merger hold more than 50% of the Common Stock immediately after the merger or consolidation, or (ii) a merger solely for the purpose of changing the state of the Company’s incorporation, (b) a tender offer or similar transaction through which a Person (not including the Holder or a “group” within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, of which the Holder is a member) acquires more than 50% of the outstanding Common Stock, or (c) a sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company.

 

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20.3 “Common Stock” means the common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company and any other capital stock of the Company issued in exchange therefor or into which such common stock may be converted through any reclassification or recapitalization of such common stock of the Company; but excluding shares of any other Person into which Company common stock may be converted or exchanged in connection with a merger or consolidation other than a merger or consolidation solely for the purpose of changing the state of the Company’s incorporation.

 

20.4 “Company” means AgeX Therapeutics, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

 

20.5 “Current Market Price” per Warrant Share for any date shall be determined by the Board of Directors as follows: (a) if the class of Warrant Shares are listed on a national securities exchange, the Current Market Price shall be the average of the last reported sale price of the class of Warrant Shares on such exchange for the last five consecutive trading days prior to such date; or (b) if the class of Warrant Shares are not so listed, the Current Market Price shall be the last reported sale on the OTC Markets Group, Inc. electronic inter-dealer quotation system, including OTCQX, OTCQB and OTC Pink (the “Pink OTC Markets”), or, if not so reported, on the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority OTC Bulletin Board electronic inter-dealer quotation system (the “OTC Bulletin Board) or similar quotation system or association, on the last five trading days prior to such date; or (c) if there have been no sales of such class of security on the Pink OTC Markets, the OTC Bulletin Board or similar quotation system or association on such days, the average of the highest bid and ‎lowest asked prices for such class of security quoted on the Pink OTC Markets, the OTC Bulletin Board, or ‎similar quotation system or association at the end of such days (and averaged over such five trading day period), or‎ (d) if the class of Warrant Shares are not so listed or quoted and closing or bid and asked prices are not so reported, the Current Market Price shall be an amount determined in such reasonable manner as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors of Borrower, irrespective of any accounting treatment.

 

20.6 “Exercise Notice” shall mean the form of exercise notice on the reverse of the Warrant.

 

20.7 “Expiration Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 1.2.

 

20.8 “Holder” means a registered holder of a Warrant as reflected on the Warrant Register.

 

20.9 “Loan Agreement” means that certain Loan Agreement, dated as of the date hereof between the Company and Lender.

 

20.10 “Person” means an individual, a limited liability company, a partnership, a joint venture, a corporation, a trust, an unincorporated organization, any other entity and a government or any department or agency thereof.

 

20.11 “Sale Consideration” shall have the meaning ascribed in Section 6.4

 

20.12 “Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

20.13 “Warrants” mean the Common Stock purchase warrants issuable and governed pursuant to this Agreement.

 

20.14 “Warrant Register” shall have the meaning ascribed in Section 4.1.

 

20.15 “Warrant Share” shall have the meaning ascribed in Section 1.1.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Warrant Agreement to be duly executed, all as of the day and year first above written.

 

AGEX THERAPEUTICS, INC.

 

By:  
  Michael D. West  
  President and Chief Executive Officer  

 

Attest:

 

By:  
  Russell L. Skibsted,  
  Chief Financial Officer  

 

JUVENESCENCE LIMITED

 

By:    
  Authorized Signatory

 

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EXHIBIT A

 

THIS WARRANT HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR UNDER APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THIS WARRANT MAY NOT BE EXERCISED, SOLD, PLEDGED, HYPOTHECATED, TRANSFERRED OR ASSIGNED EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS, OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION. HEDGING TRANSACTIONS INVOLVING THIS WARRANT OR ANY COMMON STOCK OR OTHER SECURITIES ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE OF THIS WARRANT MAY NOT BE CONDUCTED UNLESS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT.

 

VOID AFTER 5:00 P.M. NEW YORK TIME ON THE EXPIRATION DATE

 

  Certificate No._______________ Warrant to Purchase

 

[Insert number of Shares]

 

Shares of Common Stock

 

AGEX THERAPEUTICS, INC.

 

COMMON STOCK PURCHASE WARRANTS

 

This certifies that, for value received, or its registered assigns (the “Holder”), is entitled to purchase from AgeX Therapeutics, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), at a purchase price per share of [       ] Dollars and [      ] cents ($[       ]) (the “Warrant Price”), One Hundred Fifty Thousand (150,000) shares of its Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”). The number of shares purchasable upon exercise of the Common Stock Purchase Warrants (the “Warrants”) and the Warrant Price are subject to adjustment from time to time as set forth in the Warrant Agreement referred to below. Outstanding Warrants not exercised prior to 5:00 p.m., New York time, on the Expiration Date as defined in the Warrant Agreement shall thereafter be void.

 

Subject to restriction specified in the Warrant Agreement, Warrants may be exercised in whole or in part on or after the date hereof by presentation of this Warrant Certificate with the Exercise Notice on the reverse side hereof duly executed, and simultaneous payment of the Warrant Price (or as otherwise set forth in Section 6.4 of the Warrant Agreement) at the principal office of the Company (or if a warrant agent is appointed, at the principal office of the warrant agent). Payment of the Warrant Price shall be made by bank wire transfer to the account of the Company or by bank cashier’s check as provided in Section 3.1 of the Warrant Agreement. As provided in the Warrant Agreement, the Warrant Price and the number or kind of shares which may be purchased upon the exercise of the Warrant evidenced by this Warrant Certificate are, upon the happening of certain events, subject to modification and adjustment.

 

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This Warrant Certificate is issued under and in accordance with a Warrant Agreement dated as of August _______, 2019 (the “Warrant Agreement”), and is subject to the terms and provisions contained in the Warrant Agreement, to all of which the Holder of this Warrant Certificate by acceptance of this Warrant Certificate consents. A copy of the Warrant Agreement may be obtained by the Holder hereof upon written request to the Company.

 

Upon any partial exercise of the Warrant evidenced by this Warrant Certificate, there shall be issued to the Holder hereof a new Warrant Certificate in respect of the shares of Common Stock as to which the Warrant evidenced by this Warrant Certificate shall not have been exercised to the extent provided in the Warrant Agreement. This Warrant Certificate may be exchanged at the office of the Company (or the warrant agent, if appointed) by surrender of this Warrant Certificate properly endorsed either separately or in combination with one or more other Warrant Certificates for one or more new Warrant Certificates evidencing the right of the Holder thereof to purchase the aggregate number of shares as were purchasable on exercise of the Warrants evidenced by the Warrant Certificate or Certificates exchanged. No fractional shares will be issued upon the exercise of any Warrant, but the Company will pay the cash value thereof determined as provided in the Warrant Agreement. This Warrant Certificate is transferable at the office of the Company (or the warrant agent, if appointed) in the manner and subject to the limitations set forth in the Warrant Agreement.

 

The Holder hereof may be treated by the Company, the warrant agent (if appointed), and all other persons dealing with this Warrant Certificate as the absolute owner hereof for any purpose and as the person entitled to exercise the rights represented hereby, or to the transfer hereof on the books of the Company, any notice to the contrary notwithstanding, and until such transfer on such books, the Company (and the warrant agent, if appointed) may treat the Holder hereof as the owner for all purposes.

 

Neither the Warrant nor this Warrant Certificate entitles any Holder to any of the rights of a stockholder of the Company.

 

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[This Warrant Certificate shall not be valid or obligatory for any purpose until it shall have been countersigned by the warrant agent.]*

 

DATED:

 

    AGEX THERAPEUTICS, INC.
                           
  (Seal) By:  
                                  Title:  

 

  Attest:  
  [COUNTERSIGNED:  
  WARRANT AGENT          
     
  By: _________________________]*  
  Authorized Signature  
  _______________________________  

 

* To be part of the Warrant only after the appointment of a warrant agent pursuant to the Warrant Agreement.

 

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FORM OF EXERCISE NOTICE

 

(To be executed upon exercise of Warrant)

 

To AgeX Therapeutics, Inc.:

 

The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise the right of purchase represented by the within Warrant Certificate for, and to purchase thereunder, _______ shares of Common Stock, as provided for therein, and tenders herewith payment of the Warrant Price in full in the form of a bank wire transfer to the account of the Company or by bank cashier’s check in the amount of $______________.

 

The undersigned hereby represents that (check any that apply):

 

  The undersigned is an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501 under the Securities Act.
     
  The undersigned is not a “U.S. person” as defined in Rule 902 under the Securities Act.

 

Please issue a certificate or certificates for such shares of Common Stock in the name of, and pay any cash for any fractional share to:

 

     
  (Please Print Name)  
     
     
  (Please Print Address)  
     
     
  (Social Security Number or  
  Other Taxpayer Identification Number)  
     
     
  (Signature)  

 

NOTE: The above signature should correspond exactly with the name on the face of this Warrant Certificate or with the name of the assignee appearing in the assignment form below.

 

And, if said number of shares shall not be all the shares purchasable under the within Warrant Certificate, a new Warrant Certificate is to be issued in the name of said undersigned for the balance remaining of the share purchasable thereunder, to the extent provided in the Warrant Agreement, less any fraction of a share paid in cash.

 

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ASSIGNMENT

 

(To be executed only upon assignment of Warrant Certificate)

 

For value received, _____________ hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto _______________ the within Warrant Certificate, together with all right, title and interest therein, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint _________________ attorney, to transfer said Warrant Certificate on the books of the within-named Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated:___________________

 

       
  (Signature)    
       
    NOTE: The above signature should correspond exactly with the name on the face of this Warrant Certificate.

 

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Warrant Agreement

 

Dated as of August 13, 2019

 

 

 

 
 

 

WARRANT AGREEMENT, (this “Agreement”) dated as of August 12, 2019, by AgeX Therapeutics, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), for the benefit of Juvenescence Limited which, along with any permitted successor Holder of a Warrant is referred to herein as a “Lender”.

 

Section 1. Issuance of Warrants .

 

1.1 Number of Warrants . Pursuant to the Loan Agreement, the Company has agreed to issue to Lender Warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 150,000 shares of Company Common Stock (“Warrant Shares”), subject to adjustment as provided herein . The certificates representing the Warrants shall be issued to the Lender upon the execution and delivery of the Loan Agreement by Lender and Borrower.

 

1.2 Expiration Date. The right to exercise the Warrants shall expire on, and the Warrants may not be exercised after, 5:00 p.m. New York time on August 12, 2022 (the “Expiration Date”).

 

1.3 Form of Warrant . The text of the Warrants and of the Exercise Notice shall be substantially as set forth in Exhibit A attached hereto.

 

1.4 Signatures; Date of Warrants . The Warrants shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chief Executive Officer and attested by its Chief Financial Officer or Secretary or any Assistant Secretary. The signature of any such officers on the Warrants may be manual or facsimile. Warrants bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any one of them shall have ceased to hold such offices prior to the delivery of such Warrants or did not hold such offices on the date of this Agreement. In the event that the Company shall appoint a warrant agent to act on its behalf in connection with the division, transfer, exchange or exercise of Warrants, the Warrants issued after the date of such appointment shall be dated as of the date of countersignature thereof by the warrant agent upon division, exchange, substitution or transfer. Until such time as the Company shall appoint a warrant agent, Warrants shall be dated as of the date of execution thereof by the Company either upon initial issuance or upon division, exchange, substitution or transfer.

 

1.5 Countersignature of Warrants . In the event that the Company shall appoint a warrant agent to act on its behalf in connection with the division, transfer, exchange or exercise of Warrants, the Warrants issued after the date of such appointment shall be countersigned by the warrant agent (or any successor to the warrant agent then acting as warrant agent) and shall not be valid for any purpose unless so countersigned. Warrants may be countersigned, however, by the warrant agent (or by its successor as warrant agent hereunder) and may be delivered by the warrant agent, notwithstanding that the persons whose manual or facsimile signatures appear thereon as proper officers of the Company shall have ceased to be such officers at the time of such countersignature, issuance or delivery. The warrant agent (if so appointed) shall, upon written instructions of the Chief Executive Officer or the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, countersign, issue and deliver the Warrants as provided in this Agreement.

 

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Section 2. Warrant Price . Subject to any adjustments required by Section 6, the price per share at which Warrant Shares shall be purchasable upon exercise of a Warrant (the “Warrant Price”) shall be Two Dollars and Sixty cents ($2.60) per share.

 

Section 3. Exercise of Warrants; Restrictions .

 

3.1 Exercise of Warrants . Subject to the terms of this Agreement, Holder shall have the right, which may be exercised in whole or in part, to purchase from the Company, at the Warrant Price then in effect, the number of fully paid and nonassessable Warrant Shares determined as provided in this Agreement. The Warrants may not be exercised or transferred after the Expiration Date. A Warrant may be exercised by (i) surrender of the certificate evidencing the Warrant to be exercised, together with the Exercise Notice duly completed and signed, to the Company at its principal office (or if appointed, the principal office of the warrant agent) and (ii) payment of the Warrant Price to the Company (or if appointed, to the warrant agent for the account of the Company), for the number of Warrant Shares in respect of which the Warrant is then being exercised. Payment of the aggregate Warrant Price shall be made by bank wire transfer to the account of the Company or by bank cashier’s check.

 

3.2 Issuance of Warrant Shares. Subject to Section 3.3 and the Holder’s payment of any taxes or deposit funds with the Company sufficient to pay any taxes payable by the Holder pursuant to Section 5, following the surrender of the Warrant with the Exercise Notice duly completed and signed, and provided that payment of the Warrant Price has been received, the Company (or if appointed, the warrant agent) shall promptly cause to be issued and delivered to or upon the written order of the Holder and in such name or names as the Holder may designate, a certificate or certificates for the number of full Warrant Shares so purchased upon the exercise of such Warrant, together with cash, as provided in Section 8, in respect of any fractional Warrant Shares otherwise issuable upon such exercise. Such Warrant Share certificate or certificates shall be deemed to have been issued and any person so designated to be named therein shall be deemed to have become a Holder of record of such Warrant Shares as of the date on which the Warrant with the duly completed and signed Exercise Notice and payment of the Warrant Price, as aforesaid, shall have been received by the Company (or if appointed, to the warrant agent for the account of the Company), for such Warrant Shares. Except for cash payable in respect of any fractional share, under no circumstances shall the Company be required to settle any exercises of this Warrant by cash payment or otherwise “net cash settle” this Warrant. In the event that a certificate evidencing the Warrant is exercised in respect of less than all of the Warrant Shares purchasable on such exercise at any time prior to the tenth Business Day prior to the Expiration Date, a new certificate evidencing the unexercised portion of the Warrant will be issued, and the warrant agent (if so appointed) is hereby irrevocably authorized to countersign and to deliver the required new Warrant certificate or certificates. The Company, whenever required by the warrant agent (if appointed), will supply the warrant agent with Warrant certificates duly executed on behalf of the Company for such purpose.

 

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3.3 Restrictions on Exercise of Warrants .

 

(a) The Warrants may not be exercised unless the issuance of the Warrant Shares thereunder is registered under the Securities Act or an exemption from such registration is available.

 

(b) Unless the Warrant and Warrant Shares have been registered under the Securities Act and under any applicable state securities laws, each Person who is exercising a Warrant and who does not certify in the applicable Exercise Notice that such Person either is an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501 under the Securities Act or is not a “U.S. person” as defined in Rule 902 under the Securities Act, may be required to provide a written opinion of counsel, acceptable to the Company and to the transfer agent of the Warrant Shares, to the effect that exercise of the Warrant and the issuance of the Warrant Shares are exempt from registration under the Securities Act and under any applicable state securities laws.

 

(c) The Company shall be entitled to obtain, as a condition precedent to its issuance of any certificates representing Warrant Shares or any other securities issuable upon any exercise of a Warrant, a letter or other instrument from the Holder containing such representations or warranties by the Holder as reasonably deemed necessary by the Company to effect compliance by the Company with the requirements of the Securities Act and any other applicable United States federal and/or state securities laws.

 

(d) Any exercise, attempt to exercise, or purported exercise of a Warrant in violation of the restrictions set forth in this Section 3.3 shall be deemed null and void and of no binding effect.

 

(e) The Company will refuse to issue, and will issue instructions to the transfer agent and registrar of its Warrant Shares to refuse to issue, any Warrant Shares upon any exercise not made pursuant to registration under the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws, or pursuant to an available exemption from registration under the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws.

 

Section 4. Transferability of Warrants and Warrant Shares; Restrictions on Transfer .

 

4.1 Registration . Each Warrant shall be numbered and shall be registered on the books of the Company (the “Warrant Register”) as issued. The Company and the warrant agent (if appointed) shall be entitled to treat the registered holder of any Warrant appearing in the Warrant Register as the owner in fact of the Warrant for all purposes and shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim or interest in the Warrant on the part of any other person, and shall not be liable for any registration of transfer of any Warrant which is registered or to be registered in the name of a fiduciary or the nominee of a fiduciary upon the instruction of such fiduciary, unless made with the actual knowledge that a fiduciary or nominee is committing a breach of trust in requesting such registration of transfer, or with such knowledge of such facts that its participation therein amounts to bad faith. Each Warrant shall initially be registered in the name of the Person to whom it is originally issued.

 

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4.2 Transfer . Subject to Section 4.3, the Warrants shall be transferable only on the Warrant Register upon delivery of the Warrant certificate duly endorsed by the Holder of the Warrant or by such Holder’s duly authorized attorney or representative, or accompanied by proper evidence of succession, assignment or authority to transfer. In all cases of transfer by an attorney, the original power of attorney or a duly certified copy thereof shall be deposited and remain with the Company (or the warrant agent, if appointed). In case of transfer by executors, administrators, guardians or other legal representatives, duly authenticated evidence of their authority shall be produced, and may be required to be deposited and remain with the Company (or the warrant agent, if appointed) in its discretion. Upon any registration of transfer, the Company shall execute and deliver (or if appointed, the warrant agent shall countersign and deliver) a new Warrant or Warrants to the Persons entitled thereto.

 

4.3 Restrictions on Transfer of Warrants and Warrant Shares .

 

(a) The Warrants, and any Warrant Shares issued upon the exercise of the Warrants, may not be sold, pledged, hypothecated, transferred or assigned, in whole or in part, unless a registration statement under the Securities Act, and under any applicable state securities laws, is effective therefor, or an exemption from such registration is then available and an opinion of counsel, acceptable to the Company and to the transfer agent or warrant agent, if any, has been rendered stating that such sale, pledge, hypothecation, transfer or assignment will not violate the Securities Act or any other United States federal or state securities laws; provided, that no such opinion of counsel shall be required in the event of a sale to (i) a “qualified institutional buyer” within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act, (ii) pursuant to the applicable provisions of Rule 144 under the Securities Act, or (iii) to an “affiliate” of the Holder, as such term is defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act.

 

(b) As a condition precedent to the registration of transfer and issuance of any certificates representing Warrants or Warrant Shares upon transfer, the Company shall be entitled to obtain a letter or other instrument from the Holder and the proposed transferee containing such representations or warranties by such Holder and proposed transferee as reasonably deemed necessary by the Company to effect compliance by the Company with the requirements of the Securities Act and any other applicable federal and/or state securities laws.

 

(c) Any sale, pledge, hypothecation, transfer, or assignment of a Warrant or Warrant Shares in violation of the foregoing restrictions shall be deemed null and void and of no binding effect.

 

(d) The Company will issue instructions to any warrant agent that may be appointed, and to the transfer agent and registrar of its Warrant Shares, to refuse to register the transfer of any Warrant and Warrant Shares not made pursuant to registration under the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws, or pursuant to an available exemption from registration under the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws.

 

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Section 5. Payment of Taxes . The Company will pay all documentary stamp taxes, if any, attributable to the initial issuance of Warrant Shares upon the exercise of Warrants; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to pay any tax or taxes which may be payable in respect of any transfer involved in the issue or delivery of any Warrant or certificates for Warrant Shares in a name other than that of the Holder of such Warrants or Warrant Shares.

 

Section 6. Adjustment of Warrant Price and Number of Warrant Shares . The number and kind of securities purchasable upon the exercise of each Warrant and the Warrant Price shall be subject to adjustment from time to time upon the happening of certain events, as provided in this Section 6.

 

6.1 Adjustments . If the Company shall (i) pay a dividend in shares of Common Stock or make a distribution in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivide its outstanding shares of Common Stock, (iii) combine its outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares of Common Stock or (iv) reclassify or change its Common Stock (including any such reclassification or change in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the surviving corporation), the number of Warrant Shares purchasable upon exercise of each Warrant immediately prior thereto shall be adjusted so that the Holder of each Warrant shall be entitled to receive the kind and number of Warrant Shares or other securities of the Company or other property which the Holder would have owned or have been entitled to receive after the happening of any of the events described above, had such Warrant been exercised immediately prior to the happening of such event or any record date with respect thereto. An adjustment made pursuant to this paragraph 6.1 shall become effective immediately after the effective date of such event retroactive to the record date, if any, for such event.

 

(a) No adjustment in the number of Warrant Shares purchasable hereunder shall be required unless such adjustment would require an increase or decrease of at least one percent (1%) in the number of Warrant Shares purchasable upon the exercise of each Warrant; provided, however, that any adjustments which by reason of this paragraph (a) are not required to be made shall be carried forward and taken into account in the determination of any subsequent adjustment. All calculations shall be made with respect to the number of Warrant Shares purchasable hereunder, to the nearest tenth of a share and with respect to the Warrant Price payable hereunder, to the nearest whole cent.

 

(b) Whenever the number of Warrant Shares purchasable upon the exercise of each Warrant is adjusted, as herein provided, the Warrant Price payable upon exercise of each Warrant shall be adjusted by multiplying such Warrant Price immediately prior to such adjustment by a fraction, of which the numerator shall be the number of Warrant Shares purchasable upon the exercise of each Warrant immediately prior to such adjustment, and of which the denominator shall be the number of Warrant Shares purchasable immediately thereafter.

 

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6.2 Notice of Adjustment . Whenever the number of Warrant Shares purchasable upon the exercise of each Warrant or the Warrant Price of such Warrant Shares is adjusted, as herein provided, the Company shall, or in the event that a warrant agent is appointed, the Company shall cause the warrant agent to, promptly and in any event within ten (10) days send to each Holder notice of such adjustment or adjustments. Such notice shall set forth the number of Warrant Shares purchasable upon the exercise of each Warrant and the Warrant Price after such adjustment, setting forth a brief statement of the facts requiring such adjustment and setting forth the computation by which such adjustment was made.

 

6.3 No Adjustment for Dividends . Except as set forth in Section 6.1, no adjustment in respect of any dividends shall be made during the term of a Warrant or upon the exercise of a Warrant.

 

6.4 Preservation of Purchase Rights Upon Merger, Consolidation, etc . In case of any consolidation of the Company with or merger of the Company into another corporation or in case of any sale, transfer or lease to another Person of all or substantially all the assets of the Company, or any other transaction constituting, resulting in, or giving effect to a Change of Control, the Company or such successor or purchasing corporation, as the case may be, shall execute an agreement that each Holder shall have the right thereafter, upon such Holder’s election, either (i) upon payment of the Warrant Price in effect immediately prior to such action, to purchase upon exercise of each Warrant the kind and amount of shares and other securities and property (including cash) which the Holder would have owned or have been entitled to receive after the happening of such consolidation, merger, sale, transfer, lease or other transaction had such Warrant been exercised immediately prior to such transaction (such shares and other securities and property (including cash) being referred to as the “Sale Consideration”) or (ii) to receive, in cancellation of such Warrant (and in lieu of paying the Warrant Price and exercising such Warrant), the Sale Consideration less a portion thereof having a fair market value (as reasonably determined by the Company) equal to the Warrant Price (it being understood that, if the Sale Consideration consists of more than one type of shares, other securities or property, the amount of each type of shares, other securities or property to be received shall be reduced proportionately); provided, however, that except as set forth in Section 6.1, no adjustment in respect of dividends, interest or other income on or from such shares or other securities and property shall be made during the term of a Warrant or upon the exercise of a Warrant. The Company shall mail by first class mail, postage prepaid, to each Holder, notice of the execution of any such agreement. Such agreement shall provide for adjustments, which shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the adjustments provided for in this Section 6. The provisions of this paragraph shall similarly apply to successive consolidations, mergers, sales, transfers or leases or other transactions constituting, resulting in, or giving effect to a Change of Control. The warrant agent (if appointed) shall be under no duty or responsibility to determine the correctness of any provisions contained in any such agreement relating to the kind or amount of shares of stock or other securities or property receivable upon exercise of Warrants or with respect to the method employed and provided therein for any adjustments and shall be entitled to rely upon the provisions contained in any such agreement.

 

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Section 7. Reservation of Warrant Shares; Purchase and Cancellation of Warrants .

 

7.1 Reservation of Warrant Shares . There have been reserved, and the Company shall at all times keep reserved, out of its authorized Common Stock, a number of shares of Common Stock sufficient to provide for the exercise of the rights of purchase represented by the outstanding Warrants. The Company will keep a copy of this Agreement on file with the transfer agent for the Warrant Shares. The warrant agent, if appointed, will be irrevocably authorized to requisition from time to time from such transfer agent the stock certificates required to honor outstanding Warrants upon exercise in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. The Company will supply such transfer agent with duly executed stock certificates for such purposes and will provide or otherwise make available any cash which may be payable as provided in Section 8. The Company will furnish such transfer agent a copy of all notices of adjustments and certificates related thereto, transmitted to each Holder pursuant to Section 6.2.

 

7.2 Purchase of Warrants by the Company . The Company shall have the right, except as limited by law or by other agreements, with the consent of the Holder (such consent to be given or withheld in the Holder’s sole discretion), to purchase or otherwise acquire Warrants from the Holder at such times, in such manner and for such consideration as it and the Holder may deem appropriate.

 

7.3 Cancellation of Warrants . In the event the Company shall purchase or otherwise acquire Warrants, the same shall thereupon be cancelled and retired. The warrant agent (if so appointed) shall cancel any Warrant surrendered for exchange, substitution, transfer or exercise in whole or in part.

 

Section 8. Fractional Interests . The Company shall not be required to issue fractional Warrants upon the transfer of any Warrant, or fractional Warrant Shares upon the exercise of Warrants. If more than one Warrant shall be presented for exercise at the same time by the same Holder, the number of full Warrant Shares which shall be issuable upon the exercise thereof shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate number of Warrant Shares purchasable on exercise of the Warrants so presented. If any fraction of a Warrant Share would, except for the provisions of this Section 8, be issuable on the exercise of any Warrant (or specified portion thereof), the Company shall pay an amount in cash equal to the Current Market Price per Warrant Share determined as of one business day prior to the date the Warrant is presented for exercise, multiplied by such fraction.

 

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Section 9. Exchange of Warrant Certificates . Each Warrant certificate may be exchanged, at the option of the Holder thereof, for another Warrant certificate or Warrant certificates in different denominations (but not for any fractional Warrant or any denomination that would, but for Section 8, result in the issuance of a fractional share upon exercise) entitling the Holder or Holders thereof to purchase a like aggregate number of Warrant Shares as the certificate or certificates surrendered then entitle the Holder to purchase. Any Holder desiring to exchange a Warrant certificate or certificates shall make such request in writing delivered to the Company at its principal office (or, if a warrant agent is appointed, the warrant agent at its principal office) and shall surrender, properly endorsed, the certificate or certificates to be so exchanged. Thereupon, the Company (or, if appointed, the warrant agent) shall execute and deliver to the person entitled thereto a new Warrant certificate or certificates, as the case may be, as so requested, in such name or names as such Holder shall designate.

 

Section 10. Mutilated or Missing Warrants . In case any of the certificates evidencing the Warrants shall be mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company may in its discretion issue and deliver (and, if appointed, the warrant agent shall countersign and deliver) in exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation of the mutilated Warrant certificate, or in lieu of and substitution for the Warrant certificate lost, stolen or destroyed, a new Warrant certificate of like tenor, but only upon receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company and the warrant agent (if so appointed) of such loss, theft or destruction of such Warrant, and an indemnity or bond, if requested, also reasonably satisfactory to them. An applicant for such a substitute Warrant certificate shall also comply with such other reasonable requirements and pay such reasonable charges as the Company (or the warrant agent, if so appointed) may prescribe.

 

Section 11. No Rights as Stockholders; Notices to Holders . Nothing contained in this Agreement or in any of the Warrants shall be construed as conferring upon the Holders or their transferees the right to vote or to receive dividends or to consent or to receive notice as stockholders in respect of any meeting of stockholders for the election of directors of the Company or any other matter, or any rights whatsoever as stockholders of the Company. If, however, at any time prior to the Expiration Date, any of the following events shall occur: (a) the Company shall declare any dividend payable in any securities upon its shares of Common Stock or make any distribution (other than a regular cash dividend, as such dividend may be increased from time to time, or a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock for which an adjustment to the number of Warrant Shares is to be made pursuant to Section 6.1) to the holders of its shares of Common Stock; or (b) the Company shall distribute rights, options or warrants to all holders of its outstanding Common Stock, without any charge to such holders, entitling them to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock or the Company shall otherwise offer to the holders of its shares of Common Stock on a pro rata basis any cash, additional shares of Common Stock or other securities of the Company or any right to subscribe for or purchase any thereof; (c) a consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the Company’s property, assets, and business as an entirety, or (d) a dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the Company, or (e) a transaction between the Company and any other Person that will result in a Change of Control shall be proposed, then in any one or more of said events the Company shall give notice in writing of such event as provided in Section 12, such giving of notice to be completed at least 10 days prior to the date fixed as a record date or the date of closing the transfer books for the determination of the stockholders entitled to such dividend or distribution or for the determination of stockholders entitled to vote on such proposed merger, consolidation, sale of assets, dissolution, liquidation or winding up or the date on which a transaction to which the Company is a party and which will cause or result in a Change of Control will be consummated. Such notice shall specify such record date or the date of closing the transfer books, as the case may be. Failure to publish, mail or receive such notice or any defect therein or in the publication or mailing thereof shall not affect the validity of any action in connection with such dividend, distribution or subscription rights, or such proposed dissolution, liquidation or winding up.

 

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Section 12. Notices; Principal Office . Any notice pursuant to this Agreement by the Company or by any Holder to the warrant agent (if so appointed), or by the warrant agent (if so appointed) or by any Holder to the Company, shall be in writing and shall be delivered in person, or mailed first class, postage prepaid, or sent by air delivery service (a) to the Company, at its office, Attention: Chief Financial Officer, or (b) to the warrant agent, at its offices as designated at the time the warrant agent is appointed. The address of the principal office of the Company is 1010 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 102, Alameda, California 94051. Any notice given pursuant to this Agreement by the Company or the warrant agent to the Holder shall be in writing and shall be mailed first class, postage prepaid, or sent by air delivery service, or delivered personally to such Holder at the Holder’s address on the books of the Company or the warrant agent, as the case may be. A notice shall be deemed given on the date deposited in the United States mail, first class postage prepaid, or on date deposited with an air delivery service, or on the date delivered if personally delivered. The Company, the warrant agent (if appointed), and any Holder may from time to time change the address to which notices to it are to be delivered or mailed hereunder by notice given as provided in this Section 12.

 

Section 13. Successors . Except as expressly provided herein to the contrary, all the covenants and provisions of this Agreement by or for the benefit of the Company, the warrant agent (if appointed) and the Holder shall bind and inure to the benefit of their respective successors and permitted assigns hereunder.

 

Section 14. Legends . The Warrants shall bear an appropriate legend, conspicuously disclosing the restrictions on exercise under Section 3.3, and the Warrants and Warrant Shares shall bear an appropriate legend, conspicuously disclosing the restrictions on transfer under Section 4.3 until the same are registered for sale under the Securities Act or are transferred in a transaction exempt from registration under the Securities Act entitling the transferee to receive securities that are not deemed to be “restricted securities” as such term is defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act. The Company agrees that upon the sale of the Warrants and Warrant Shares pursuant to a registration statement or an exemption entitling the transferee to receive securities that are not deemed to be “restricted securities,” or at such time as registration under the Securities Act shall no longer be required, upon the presentation of the certificates containing such a legend to the transfer agent or warrant agent, if any, it will remove such legend; provided, that unless the request for removal of the legend is in connection with a sale registered under the Securities Act or a sale meeting the applicable requirements of Rule 144 under the Securities Act, the Holder shall have provided an opinion of counsel, acceptable to the Company and the transfer agent or warrant agent, as applicable, to the effect that such legend may be removed in compliance with the Securities Act.

 

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Section 15. Applicable Law . This Agreement and each Warrant issued hereunder shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, without giving effect to principles of conflict of laws.

 

Section 16. Benefits of this Agreement . This Agreement shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the Company, the warrant agent (if appointed), and the Holders. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to give to any Person other than the Company, the warrant agent (if appointed), and the Holders any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Agreement.

 

Section 17. Amendments . No amendment, modification or other change to, or waiver of any provision of, this Warrant Agreement or any Warrant may be made unless such amendment, modification or waiver is set forth in writing and is signed by the Company and the Holder (and, if appointed, the warrant agent).

 

Section 18. Counterparts . This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts (including by separate counterpart signature pages) and each of such counterparts shall for all purposes be deemed to be an original, and all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

 

Section 19. Captions . The captions of the Sections and subsections of this Agreement have been inserted for convenience only and shall have no substantive effect.

 

Section 20. Certain Definitions . For purposes of this Warrant Agreement and the Warrants, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

 

20.1 “Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in The City of New York are authorized or required by law to remain closed.

 

20.2 “Change of Control” means (a) a merger or consolidation of the Company with another Person other than (i) a merger in which the Company is the surviving Person and the holders of Common Stock immediately before the merger hold more than 50% of the Common Stock immediately after the merger or consolidation, or (ii) a merger solely for the purpose of changing the state of the Company’s incorporation, (b) a tender offer or similar transaction through which a Person (not including the Holder or a “group” within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, of which the Holder is a member) acquires more than 50% of the outstanding Common Stock, or (c) a sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company.

 

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20.3 “Common Stock” means the common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company and any other capital stock of the Company issued in exchange therefor or into which such common stock may be converted through any reclassification or recapitalization of such common stock of the Company; but excluding shares of any other Person into which Company common stock may be converted or exchanged in connection with a merger or consolidation other than a merger or consolidation solely for the purpose of changing the state of the Company’s incorporation.

 

20.4 “Company” means AgeX Therapeutics, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

 

20.5 “Current Market Price” per Warrant Share for any date shall be determined by the Board of Directors as follows: (a) if the class of Warrant Shares are listed on a national securities exchange, the Current Market Price shall be the average of the last reported sale price of the class of Warrant Shares on such exchange for the last five consecutive trading days prior to such date; or (b) if the class of Warrant Shares are not so listed, the Current Market Price shall be the last reported sale on the OTC Markets Group, Inc. electronic inter-dealer quotation system, including OTCQX, OTCQB and OTC Pink (the “Pink OTC Markets”), or, if not so reported, on the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority OTC Bulletin Board electronic inter-dealer quotation system (the “OTC Bulletin Board) or similar quotation system or association, on the last five trading days prior to such date; or (c) if there have been no sales of such class of security on the Pink OTC Markets, the OTC Bulletin Board or similar quotation system or association on such days, the average of the highest bid and ‎lowest asked prices for such class of security quoted on the Pink OTC Markets, the OTC Bulletin Board, or ‎similar quotation system or association at the end of such days (and averaged over such five trading day period), or‎ (d) if the class of Warrant Shares are not so listed or quoted and closing or bid and asked prices are not so reported, the Current Market Price shall be an amount determined in such reasonable manner as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors of Borrower, irrespective of any accounting treatment.

 

20.6 “Exercise Notice” shall mean the form of exercise notice on the reverse of the Warrant.

 

20.7 “Expiration Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 1.2.

 

20.8 “Holder” means a registered holder of a Warrant as reflected on the Warrant Register.

 

20.9 “Loan Agreement” means that certain Loan Agreement, dated as of the date hereof between the Company and Lender.

 

20.10 “Person” means an individual, a limited liability company, a partnership, a joint venture, a corporation, a trust, an unincorporated organization, any other entity and a government or any department or agency thereof.

 

20.11 “Sale Consideration” shall have the meaning ascribed in Section 6.4

 

20.12 “Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

20.13 “Warrants” mean the Common Stock purchase warrants issuable and governed pursuant to this Agreement.

 

20.14 “Warrant Register” shall have the meaning ascribed in Section 4.1.

 

20.15 “Warrant Share” shall have the meaning ascribed in Section 1.1.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Warrant Agreement to be duly executed, all as of the day and year first above written.

 

AGEX THERAPEUTICS, INC.

 

By: /s/ Michael D. West  
  Michael D. West  
  President and Chief Executive Officer  

 

Attest:

 

By: /s/ Russell L. Skibsted  
  Russell L. Skibsted,  
  Chief Financial Officer  

 

JUVENESCENCE LIMITED

 

By:  /s/ Gregory Bailey  
  Authorized Signatory  

 

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EXHIBIT A

 

THIS WARRANT HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR UNDER APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THIS WARRANT MAY NOT BE EXERCISED, SOLD, PLEDGED, HYPOTHECATED, TRANSFERRED OR ASSIGNED EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS, OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION. HEDGING TRANSACTIONS INVOLVING THIS WARRANT OR ANY COMMON STOCK OR OTHER SECURITIES ISSUABLE UPON EXERCISE OF THIS WARRANT MAY NOT BE CONDUCTED UNLESS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT.

 

VOID AFTER 5:00 P.M. NEW YORK TIME ON THE EXPIRATION DATE

 

Certificate No. ____ Warrant to Purchase
   
  [Insert number of Shares]
   
  Shares of Common Stock

 

AGEX THERAPEUTICS, INC.

COMMON STOCK PURCHASE WARRANTS

 

This certifies that, for value received, or its registered assigns (the “Holder”), is entitled to purchase from AgeX Therapeutics, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), at a purchase price per share of [        ] Dollars and [       ] cents ($[       ]) (the “Warrant Price”), One Hundred Fifty Thousand (150,000) shares of its Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”). The number of shares purchasable upon exercise of the Common Stock Purchase Warrants (the “Warrants”) and the Warrant Price are subject to adjustment from time to time as set forth in the Warrant Agreement referred to below. Outstanding Warrants not exercised prior to 5:00 p.m., New York time, on the Expiration Date as defined in the Warrant Agreement shall thereafter be void.

 

Subject to restriction specified in the Warrant Agreement, Warrants may be exercised in whole or in part on or after the date hereof by presentation of this Warrant Certificate with the Exercise Notice on the reverse side hereof duly executed, and simultaneous payment of the Warrant Price (or as otherwise set forth in Section 6.4 of the Warrant Agreement) at the principal office of the Company (or if a warrant agent is appointed, at the principal office of the warrant agent). Payment of the Warrant Price shall be made by bank wire transfer to the account of the Company or by bank cashier’s check as provided in Section 3.1 of the Warrant Agreement. As provided in the Warrant Agreement, the Warrant Price and the number or kind of shares which may be purchased upon the exercise of the Warrant evidenced by this Warrant Certificate are, upon the happening of certain events, subject to modification and adjustment.

 

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This Warrant Certificate is issued under and in accordance with a Warrant Agreement dated as of August _______, 2019 (the “Warrant Agreement”), and is subject to the terms and provisions contained in the Warrant Agreement, to all of which the Holder of this Warrant Certificate by acceptance of this Warrant Certificate consents. A copy of the Warrant Agreement may be obtained by the Holder hereof upon written request to the Company.

 

Upon any partial exercise of the Warrant evidenced by this Warrant Certificate, there shall be issued to the Holder hereof a new Warrant Certificate in respect of the shares of Common Stock as to which the Warrant evidenced by this Warrant Certificate shall not have been exercised to the extent provided in the Warrant Agreement. This Warrant Certificate may be exchanged at the office of the Company (or the warrant agent, if appointed) by surrender of this Warrant Certificate properly endorsed either separately or in combination with one or more other Warrant Certificates for one or more new Warrant Certificates evidencing the right of the Holder thereof to purchase the aggregate number of shares as were purchasable on exercise of the Warrants evidenced by the Warrant Certificate or Certificates exchanged. No fractional shares will be issued upon the exercise of any Warrant, but the Company will pay the cash value thereof determined as provided in the Warrant Agreement. This Warrant Certificate is transferable at the office of the Company (or the warrant agent, if appointed) in the manner and subject to the limitations set forth in the Warrant Agreement.

 

The Holder hereof may be treated by the Company, the warrant agent (if appointed), and all other persons dealing with this Warrant Certificate as the absolute owner hereof for any purpose and as the person entitled to exercise the rights represented hereby, or to the transfer hereof on the books of the Company, any notice to the contrary notwithstanding, and until such transfer on such books, the Company (and the warrant agent, if appointed) may treat the Holder hereof as the owner for all purposes.

 

Neither the Warrant nor this Warrant Certificate entitles any Holder to any of the rights of a stockholder of the Company.

 

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[This Warrant Certificate shall not be valid or obligatory for any purpose until it shall have been countersigned by the warrant agent.] *

 

DATED:

 

  AGEX THERAPEUTICS, INC.
   
(Seal) By:                              
  Title:  

 

Attest: ____________________  
[COUNTERSIGNED:  
WARRANT AGENT  

 

By: ______________________]*  
Authorized Signature  
 _________________________  

 

* To be part of the Warrant only after the appointment of a warrant agent pursuant to the Warrant Agreement.

 

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FORM OF EXERCISE NOTICE

 

(To be executed upon exercise of Warrant)

 

To AgeX Therapeutics, Inc.:

 

The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise the right of purchase represented by the within Warrant Certificate for, and to purchase thereunder, _______ shares of Common Stock, as provided for therein, and tenders herewith payment of the Warrant Price in full in the form of a bank wire transfer to the account of the Company or by bank cashier’s check in the amount of $______________.

 

The undersigned hereby represents that (check any that apply):

 

  [  ] The undersigned is an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501 under the Securities Act.
     
  [  ] The undersigned is not a “U.S. person” as defined in Rule 902 under the Securities Act.

 

Please issue a certificate or certificates for such shares of Common Stock in the name of, and pay any cash for any fractional share to:

 

____________________________________

(Please Print Name)

 

____________________________________

(Please Print Address)

____________________________________

(Social Security Number or

Other Taxpayer Identification Number)

 

____________________________________

(Signature)

 

NOTE: The above signature should correspond exactly with the name on the face of this Warrant Certificate or with the name of the assignee appearing in the assignment form below.

 

And, if said number of shares shall not be all the shares purchasable under the within Warrant Certificate, a new Warrant Certificate is to be issued in the name of said undersigned for the balance remaining of the share purchasable thereunder, to the extent provided in the Warrant Agreement, less any fraction of a share paid in cash.

 

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ASSIGNMENT

 

(To be executed only upon assignment of Warrant Certificate)

 

For value received, _____________ hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto _______________ the within Warrant Certificate, together with all right, title and interest therein, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint _________________ attorney, to transfer said Warrant Certificate on the books of the within-named Company, with full power of substitution in the premises.

 

Dated:___________________

___________________________

(Signature)

 

NOTE: The above signature should correspond exactly with the name on the face of this Warrant Certificate.

 

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REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

 

This Registration Rights Agreement (“ Agreement ”) is entered into as of August 13, 2019 by and between AgeX Therapeutics, Inc., a California corporation (the “ Company ”) and the Juvenescence Limited, a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands (“ Holder ”).

 

NOW, THEREFORE, the parties agree as follows:

 

1. Certain Definitions . As used in this Agreement the following terms shall have the following respective meanings:

 

(a) “ Act ” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any similar federal statute and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, all as the same shall be in effect at the time.

 

(b) “ Commission ” shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission or any other federal agency at the time administering the Act.

 

(c) “ Holder ” shall mean Juvenescence Limited, a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, and its transferees as permitted by Section 6.

 

(d) The terms “ register ,” “ registered ” and “ registration ” refer to a registration effected by preparing and filing a registration statement in compliance with the Act, and the declaration or ordering of the effectiveness of such registration statement.

 

(e) “ Loan Agreement ” means the Loan Facility Agreement between the Company and Holder, dated August 13, 2019, pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue the Shares and the Warrants.

 

(f) “ Registrable Securities ” means the Shares, Warrants, and Warrant Shares. Any securities that are (i) distributed as a dividend or otherwise with respect to Registrable Securities, (ii) issuable upon the exercise or conversion of Registrable Securities, or (iii) issued or issuable in exchange for or through conversion of Registrable Securities pursuant to a recapitalization, reorganization, merger, consolidation or other transaction shall also constitute Registrable Securities.

 

(g) “ Shares ” means 19,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company issued by the Company upon the Company’s first draw down from the credit line under the Loan Agreement.

 

(h) “ Warrants ” means up to 150,000 common stock purchase warrants governed by that certain Warrant Agreement, dated August 13, 2019.

 

(i) “ Warrant Shares ” means shares of common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company issuable by the Company pursuant to the exercise of Warrants.

 

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2. Registration Rights.

 

(a) Filing of Registration Statement with Respect to Shares and Warrant Shares . The Company agrees, at its expense, to file a registration statement with the Commission to register Registrable Securities under the Act, and to take such other actions as may be necessary to allow the Registrable Securities to be freely tradable, without restrictions under the Act, provided that the Company is eligible to register such Registrable Securities on Form S-3. Such registration statement shall be filed following a written request for registration from the Holder. The Company will use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the registration statement to become effective as promptly as practicable after filing. The Company will make all filings required under applicable state securities or “blue sky” laws so that the Registrable Securities being registered shall be registered or qualified for sale under the securities or blue sky laws of New York, California and such jurisdictions as shall be reasonably appropriate for distribution of the Shares and Warrant Shares covered by the registration statement. The registration statement shall be a “shelf” registration pursuant to Rule 415 (or similar rule that may be adopted by the Commission) and shall provide that the Holder’s plan of distribution is to offer and sell Shares or Warrant Shares from time to time at market prices or prices related to market prices; provided, that a registration statement may be amended to provide for an underwritten public offering of Registrable Securities included in the registration statement (excluding Warrants except as provided in Section 2(e)) if the Holder submits to the Company a written notice to such effect with a copy of the applicable underwriting documents and such other relevant information concerning the offering as the Company may request. The Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to keep each such registration statement effective until the earlier of (i) completion of the distribution or distributions being made pursuant thereto, and (ii) such time as the Holder is eligible to sell its Shares and Warrant Shares under Rule 144 under the Act without application of the manner of sale and volume limitations under Rule 144. The Company will furnish to the Holder such numbers of copies of a prospectus, including a preliminary prospectus, in conformity with the requirements of the Act and such other related documents as the Holder may reasonably request in order to effect the sale of its Registrable Securities.

 

(b) “ Piggy-Back Registration” of Shares . If, at any time the Company proposes to register any of its securities under the Act (otherwise than pursuant to (i) this Agreement, (ii) a registration statement pertaining to subscription rights distributed to Company shareholders, and (iii) a registration on a Form S-8 or any other form if such form cannot be used for registration of the Registrable Securities pursuant to its terms), and the Shares and Warrant Shares shall not then be eligible for sale by the Holder under Rule 144 under the Act, the Company shall, as promptly as practicable, give written notice to the Holder. The Company shall include in such registration statement the Registrable Securities proposed to be sold by the Holder, subject to the provisions of Section 2(e) if the offering is made through underwriters. If the registration by the Company pertains to an offering by the Company without underwriters, Holder shall not be entitled to participate as a party to any stock sale or purchase agreement entered into by the Company for the sale of securities for its own account or to otherwise sell Registrable Securities to any prospective purchaser to whom the Company offers registered securities for the Company’s account other than in “at-the-market” transactions as defined in Rule 415 promulgated under the Act.

 

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(c) Costs of Registration . The Company shall pay the cost of the registration statements filed pursuant to this Agreement, including without limitation all registration and filing fees, fees and expenses of compliance with securities or blue sky laws (including counsel’s fees and expenses in connection therewith), printing expenses, messenger and delivery expenses, internal expenses of the Company, listing fees and expenses, and fees and expenses of the Company’s counsel, independent accountants and other persons retained or employed by the Company. Holder shall pay any underwriters discounts applicable to the Registrable Securities.

 

(d) Other Securities . Any registration statement filed pursuant to this Agreement may include other securities of the Company which are held by other persons who, by virtue of agreements with the Company or permission given, are entitled to include their securities in such registration.

 

(e) Underwriting . If Holder wishes to include Shares, Warrant Shares, or other Registrable Securities (but not Warrants) in a registration under Section 2(b), or if Holder intends to distribute Shares by means of an underwriting to be registered under Section 2(a), Holder shall so advise the Company prior to the effective date of the registration statement filed by the Company. Holder shall not have the right to include Warrants in an underwriting unless either (i) the inclusion of such Warrants in the registration is for the purpose of permitting the underwriters to exercise the Warrants and sell the Registrable Securities issued upon such exercise, or (ii) the Company expressly consents in writing to such inclusion in its sole discretion.

 

The Company shall enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the managing underwriter selected for such underwriting the Holder, in the case of a registration under Section 2(a), or selected by the Company in its sole discretion in the case of a registration under Section 2(b). Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, if the managing underwriter advises the Holder and the Company in writing that marketing factors require a limitation of the number of shares to be underwritten, then, the number of Registrable Securities that may be included in the registration and underwriting shall be allocated first to the Company in a registration under Section 2(b), and then, in a registration under Section 2(a) or Section 2(b), among Holder and any other holders of securities having rights to include their securities in the registration, at the time of filing the registration statement. No Registrable Securities excluded from the underwriting by reason of the managing underwriter’s marketing limitation shall be included in such registration.

 

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If Holder or any other holder of securities eligible for inclusion in the registration disapproves of the terms of the underwriting, such person may elect to withdraw from the underwriting and registration by written notice to the Company and the managing underwriter. The Registrable Securities and/or other securities so withdrawn shall also be withdrawn from the registration; provided, however, that, if by the withdrawal of such Registrable Securities or other securities a greater number of Registrable Securities held by other securities held by persons having rights to participate in such registration may be included in such registration (up to the maximum of any limitation imposed by the underwriters), then the Company shall offer to Holder and other persons who have included Registrable Securities or other securities in the registration the right to include additional Registrable Securities (excluding Warrants except as permitted in Section 2(e)) or other securities in the same proportion used in determining the underwriter limitation.

 

(f) Waiver . Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the rights of the Holder under Section 2(b) may be waived by the Holder.

 

(g) Limitation on Company Liability . The Company shall have no obligation to make any cash settlement or payment to Holder, or to issue any additional Registrable Securities or other securities to Holder, in the event that the Company is unable to effect or maintain in effect the registration of any Registrable Securities under the Act or any state securities law despite the Company’s commercially reasonable efforts so to do.

 

3. Indemnification.

 

(a) The Company will indemnify, defend and hold harmless Holder, each of its officers, directors and partners, and each person who controls Holder within the meaning of the Act, and each underwriter, if any, and each person who controls any underwriter within the meaning of the Act from and against all expenses, claims, losses, damages and liabilities (or actions commenced or threatened in respect thereof), including any of the foregoing incurred in settlement of any litigation commenced or threatened (other than a settlement effected without the consent of the Company, which consent will not unreasonably be withheld), to the extent such expenses, claims, losses, damages and liabilities (or actions commenced or threatened in respect thereof) arise out of or are based on (i) any untrue statement (or alleged untrue statement) of a material fact contained in any registration statement or prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, offering Registrable Securities, or any omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances in which they were made, not misleading, or (ii) any violation, by the Company, of any rule or regulation promulgated under the Act and applicable to the Company and relating to any registration of Registrable Securities by the Company under the Act. The Company will reimburse Holder, each of its officers, directors and partners, and each person controlling Holder, each such underwriter and each such person who controls any such underwriter, for any legal and any other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with investigating or defending any such claim, loss, damage, liability or action; provided that the Company will not be liable in any such case to the extent that any such claim, loss, damage, liability or expense arises out of or is based on any untrue statement or omission based upon written information furnished to the Company by Holder or underwriter or controlling person specifically for use in connection with the registration or offering of Registrable Securities.

 

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(b) Holder will, if Registrable Securities held by Holder are included in a registration under the Act or under any state securities law, indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Company, each of its directors and officers, and each independent accountant of the Company, each underwriter, if any, of the Company’s securities covered by such a registration statement, each person who controls the Company or such underwriter within the meaning of the Act, from and against all claims, losses, damages and liabilities (or actions commenced or threatened in respect thereof) arising out of or based on (i) any untrue statement (or alleged untrue statement) of a material fact contained in any such registration statement or prospectus, or any amendment or supplement offering Registrable Securities, or any omission (or alleged omission) to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances in which they were made, not misleading, or (ii) any violation, by Holder, of any rule or regulation promulgated under the Act applicable to Holder and relating to action or inaction required of Holder in connection with any registration of Registrable Securities. Holder will reimburse the Company and its directors, officers, partners, persons, accounting firms, underwriters, or control persons for any legal or any other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with investigating or defending any such claim, loss, damage, liability, or action, in each case to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statement (or alleged untrue statement) or omission (or alleged omission) is made in such registration statement or prospectus in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company or any underwriter by Holder specifically for use therein; provided, however, that the obligations of Holder under this Section 3(b) shall be limited to an amount equal to the net proceeds to Holder from the sale of Registrable Securities pursuant to such registration.

 

(c) Each party entitled to indemnification under this Section 3 (the “ Indemnified Party ”) shall give notice to the party required to provide indemnification (the “ Indemnifying Party ”) promptly after such Indemnified Party has actual knowledge of any claim as to which indemnity may be sought, and shall permit the Indemnifying Party to assume the defense of any such claim or any litigation resulting therefrom; provided that counsel for the Indemnifying Party, who shall conduct the defense of such claim or any litigation resulting therefrom, shall be approved by the Indemnified Party (whose approval shall not unreasonably be withheld). The Indemnified Party may participate in such defense at the Indemnified Party’s own expense. The failure of any Indemnified Party to give notice as provided herein shall not relieve the Indemnifying Party of its obligations under this Section 3 except to the extent such failure is prejudicial to the ability of the Indemnifying Party to defend such action, but such failure shall not relieve the Indemnifying Party of any liability that the Indemnifying Party may have to any Indemnified Party otherwise than under this Section 3. No Indemnifying Party, in the defense of any such claim or litigation, shall, except with the consent of each Indemnified Party, consent to entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement which does not include as an unconditional term thereof the giving by the claimant or plaintiff to such Indemnified Party of a release from all liability in respect to such claim or litigation.

 

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4. Information by Holder . Holder shall furnish to the Company and to each underwriter, upon the Company’s request, such information regarding Holder and the distribution proposed by Holder as shall be required in connection with any registration of Registrable Securities.

 

5. Rule 144 Reporting . With a view to making available the benefits of certain rules and regulations of the Commission which may permit the sale of the Registrable Securities to the public without registration, the Company agrees to:

 

(a) Use commercially reasonable efforts to file with the Commission in a timely manner all reports and other documents required of the Company under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “ Exchange Act ”) at such times as the Company is subject to the reporting requirements under Section 13 of the Exchange Act; and,

 

(b) So long as Holder owns any Registrable Securities, furnish to Holder forthwith upon written request a written statement by the Company as to its compliance with the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, a copy of the most recent annual or quarterly report of the Company, and such other reports and documents so filed by the Company under the Exchange Act as Holder may reasonably request in availing itself of any rule or regulation of the Commission allowing Holder to sell any such securities without registration.

 

6. Transfer of Registration Rights . The rights to cause the Company to register securities under this Agreement may be assigned: (a) to an “affiliate” (defined as an entity that controls, is controlled by, or under common control with the transferor); (b) to one or more of its general partners, limited partners, or members if the transferor is a partnership or limited liability company; or (c) to any other transferee or assignee of an aggregate of twenty-five percent (25%) or more of the transferor’s Registrable Securities; provided, that as a condition to any transfer of such rights the transferor must give the Company written notice at the time or within a reasonable time after said transfer, stating its desire to transfer such rights, the name and address of the transferee or assignee, and identifying the securities with respect to which such registration rights are being assigned; provided, further, that nothing in this Section shall be construed in any way to limit any restriction or condition on transfer of any Registrable Securities imposed by any other agreement between Holder and the Company, the Act, any rule or regulation promulgated under the Act, or any state securities or blue sky law or any rule or regulation thereunder. In the event of any such transfer, the transferee shall have the rights and obligations of Holder, provided that the rights under Section 2(a) may be exercised only by holders of not less than 50% of the Registrable Securities.

 

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7. Computation of Certain Percentages . Where any provision of this Agreement provides for the exercise, waiver, or amendment of any rights upon the action of a holder of a specified percentage of Registrable Securities, such percentage shall be determined based upon the aggregate number of Registrable Securities issued and outstanding, and any holders of Warrants shall be deemed to own the Registrable Securities issuable upon the exercise of such Warrants.

 

8. Miscellaneous .

 

(a) Governing Law . This Agreement shall be governed in all respects by the laws of the State of California, as applied to contracts entered into in California between California residents and to be performed entirely within California.

 

(b) Successors and Assigns . Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, the provisions hereof shall inure to the benefit of, and be binding upon, the successors, assigns, heirs, executors and administrators of the parties hereto.

 

(c) Entire Agreement; Amendment . This Agreement constitutes the full and entire understanding and agreement between the parties with regard to the subject matter hereof. Neither this Agreement nor any term hereof may be amended, waived, discharged or terminated orally, but only by a written instrument signed by the Company and Holder.

 

(d) Notices, etc . All notices and other communications required or permitted hereunder shall be in writing and shall be mailed by first-class mail, postage prepaid, or otherwise delivered by hand, by messenger or next business day air freight services, addressed (i) if to Holder at Holder’s address set forth on the signature page hereto, or at such other address as Holder shall have furnished to the Company in writing, or (ii) if to the Company, at 1010 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 102, Alameda, California 94501; attention: Chief Financial Officer, or at such other address as the Company shall have furnished to Holder in writing.

 

(e) Delays or Omissions . No delay or omission to exercise any right, power or remedy accruing to any party, upon any breach or default of any other party under this Agreement, shall impair any such right, power or remedy, nor shall it be construed to be a waiver of or acquiescence in any such breach or default or any similar breach or default thereafter occurring. A waiver of any single breach or default shall not be deemed a waiver of any other breach or default theretofore or thereafter occurring. Any waiver, permit, consent or approval of any kind or character of any breach or default under this Agreement, or any waiver of any provisions or conditions of this Agreement, must be made in writing and shall be effective only to the extent specifically set forth in such writing. All remedies, either under this Agreement, or by law or otherwise afforded to any party, shall be cumulative and not alternative.

 

(f) Severability . In case any provision of this Agreement shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

 

(g) Titles and Subtitles . The titles of the sections and subparagraphs of this Agreement are for convenience of reference only and are not to be considered in construing this Agreement.

 

(h) Counterparts . This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts (including by separate counterpart signature pages), each of which shall be an original, but all of which together shall constitute one instrument. Any counterpart of this Agreement may be signed by electronic or facsimile, and such electronic or facsimile signature shall be deemed an original signature.

 

[Signature page follows.]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.

 

COMPANY:

 

AGEX THERAPEUTICS, INC.  
   
By: /s/ Russell L. Skibsted  
  Russell L. Skibsted,  
  Chief Financial Officer  
     
By: /s/ Judith Segall  
  Judith Segall, Secretary  

 

HOLDER:

 

JUVENESCENCE LIMITED  
   
By:   /s/ Gregory Bailey  
     
Name: Gregory Bailey  
     
Title: Authorized Signatory  

 

Address for Notice: 4th Floor Viking House  
     
  Nelson Street  
     
  Isle of Man IMI2AH  

 

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Registration Rights Agreement

 

 

 

Exhibit 31

 

CERTIFICATION

 

I, Michael D. West, certify that:

 

1. I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of AgeX Therapeutics, Inc.;

 

2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

 

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

 

4. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:

 

  (a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this periodic report is being prepared;
     
  (b) Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
     
  (c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and
     
  (d) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

 

5. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

 

  (a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and
     
  (b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

 

Date: August 14, 2019

 

/s/ Michael D. West  
Michael D. West  
Chief Executive Officer  

 

 
 

 

Exhibit 31

 

CERTIFICATION

 

I, Russell Skibsted, certify that:

 

1. I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of AgeX Therapeutics, Inc.;
   
2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;
   
3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;
   
4. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:

 

  (a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this periodic report is being prepared;
     
  (b) Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;
     
  (c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and
     
  (d) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

 

5. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

 

  (a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and
     
  (b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

 

Date: August 14, 2019

 

/s/ Russell L. Skibsted  
Russell L. Skibsted  
Chief Financial Officer  

 

 
 

 

Exhibit 32

 

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,

AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO

SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

 

In connection with the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of AgeX Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Company”) for the quarter ended June 30, 2019, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), we, Michael D. West, Chief Executive Officer, and Russell Skibsted, Chief Financial Officer, of the Company, certify pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that:

 

1. The Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; and
   
2. The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.

 

Date: August 14, 2019

 

/s/ Michael D. West  
Michael D. West  
Chief Executive Officer  
   
/s/ Russell L. Skibsted  
Russell L. Skibsted  
Chief Financial Officer