1.	Organization and Operations

The Company

Cytori Therapeutics (NASDAQ: CYTX) develops cell therapies uniquely formulated and optimized for specific diseases and medical conditions with a primary focus on impaired hand function in scleroderma, in addition to our other pipeline areas, such as osteoarthritis of the knee, stress urinary incontinence, and full thickness thermal burns including those complicated by radiation exposure, and chronic heart failure.

Principles of Consolidation

The accompanying consolidated financial statements include our accounts and those of our subsidiaries. All significant intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated.

We have five subsidiaries located in Japan, United Kingdom, Switzerland, India and Spain that have been established primarily to support our sales and marketing activities in these regions.

Certain Risks and Uncertainties

Our prospects are subject to the risks and uncertainties frequently encountered by companies in the early stages of development and commercialization, especially those companies in rapidly evolving and technologically advanced industries such as the biotech/medical device field. Our future viability largely depends on our ability to complete development of new products and receive regulatory approvals for those products. No assurance can be given that our new products will be successfully developed, regulatory approvals will be granted, or acceptance of these products will be achieved. The development of medical devices for specific therapeutic applications is subject to a number of risks, including research, regulatory and marketing risks. There can be no assurance that our development stage products will overcome these hurdles and become commercially viable and/or gain commercial acceptance.

Capital Availability

We incurred net losses of $18.7 million, $37.4 million and $26.2 million for the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013, respectively. We have an accumulated deficit of $357.0 million as of December 31, 2015. Additionally, we have used net cash of $20.5 million, $30.3 million and $34.6 million to fund our operating activities for years ended December 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013, respectively. At December 31, 2015, we had $14.3 million of cash and had a Joint Venture purchase obligation of $1.8 million and our Loan and Security Agreement contains cash liquidity requirements to maintain at least $5 million of cash on hand to avoid an event of default. The combination of these facts and the balance of cash and cash equivalents at December 31, 2015 raises substantial doubt as to the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.

To date, these operating losses have been funded primarily from outside sources of invested capital and gross profits. We have had, and we will likely continue to have, an ongoing need to raise additional cash from outside sources to fund our future operations. However, our ability to raise capital was adversely affected once FDA put a hold on our Athena trials in mid-2014, which had an adverse impact to stock price performance and our corresponding ability to restructure our debt. More recently, a continued downward trend in our stock price resulting from general economic and industry conditions as well as the market’s unfavorable view of our recent equity financings (which financings were priced at a discount to market and included 100% warrant coverage) and our Nasdaq listing deficiency, have made it more difficult to procure additional capital on terms reasonably acceptable to us. The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. If we are unsuccessful in our efforts to raise outside capital in the near term, we will be required to significantly reduce our research, development, and administrative operations, including reduction of our employee base, in order to offset the lack of available funding.

We are pursuing financing opportunities in both the private and public debt and equity markets as well as through strategic corporate partnerships. We have an established history of raising capital through these platforms, and we are currently involved in negotiations with multiple parties. Our efforts in 2014 to raise capital took longer than we initially anticipated. We expect to continue to utilize our cash and cash equivalents to fund operations at least through September of 2015, subject to minimum cash and cash liquidity requirements of the Loan and Security Agreement with the Lender, which requires that we maintain at least $5 million of cash on hand to avoid an event of default under the Loan and Security Agreement. We continue to seek additional cash through product revenues, strategic collaborations, and future sales of equity or debt securities. Although there can be no assurance given, we hope to successfully complete one or more additional financing transactions and corporate partnerships in the near-term. Without this additional capital, current working capital and cash generated from sales and containment of operating costs will not provide adequate funding for research, sales and marketing efforts, clinical and preclinical trials, and product development activities at their current levels. If sufficient capital is not raised, we will at a minimum need to significantly reduce or curtail our research and development and other operations, and this could negatively affect our ability to achieve corporate growth goals.

Specifically, we have prepared an operating plan that calls for us to reduce operations to focus almost entirely on one US clinical program and the supply of current products to existing or new distribution channels. In addition, as part of this plan, there would be minimal expenditures for ongoing scientific research, product development or clinical research. This impacts research and development headcount, external subcontractor expenditures, capital outlay and general and administrative expenditures related to the supervision of such activities. In parallel, we would significantly reduce administrative staff and salaries consistent with the overall reduction in scope of operations. In aggregate, such reductions could result in eliminations of roles for the majority of the Company’s current staff and the deferral or elimination of all ongoing development projects until such time that cash resources were available from operations or outside sources to re-establish development and growth plans. Management is currently reviewing contractual obligations related to the pre-clinical and clinical commitments along with minimum purchase requirements to include deferral of such commitments as part of this plan. While management is actively pursuing it’s near term financial and strategic alternatives it is also, in parallel, continuing to evaluate the timing of implementation of the alternative operating plan and the initiation of the identified reductions.