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Description of Business and Corporate History
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2014
Description of Business and Corporate History  
Description of Business and Corporate History

 

1.Description of Business and Corporate History

 

RestorGenex Corporation (“Company”) is a specialty biopharmaceutical company focused on developing products for ophthalmology, oncology and dermatology.  The Company’s lead product is a novel PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway inhibitor which has completed two Phase I clinical trials for age-related macular degeneration and is in pre-clinical development in oncology, specifically glioblastoma multiforme.  The Company’s current pipeline also includes a “soft” anti-androgen compound for the treatment of acne vulgaris.  The Company’s novel inhibition of the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway and unique targeting of the androgen receptor show promise in a number of additional diseases, which the Company is evaluating for the purpose of creating innovative therapies that are safe and effective treatments to satisfy unmet medical needs.

 

Prior to the Company repositioning itself as a specialty biopharmaceutical company in 2013, the Company operated various entertainment and sports events which it acquired in a series of acquisitions beginning in March 2008.

 

In March 2008, pursuant to an agreement and plan of merger dated August 20, 2007 between Feris International, Inc. (“Feris”) and Pro Sports & Entertainment, Inc. (“PSEI”), Feris issued 495,000 shares of its common stock for all issued and outstanding shares of PSEI, resulting in PSEI becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Feris and the surviving entity for accounting purposes.  In July 2008, Feris’s corporate name was changed to Stratus Media Group, Inc.  PSEI specialized in various entertainment and sports events that it owned and operated.  PSEI also owned Stratus Rewards LLC that planned to operate a credit card rewards program.  In June 2011, Stratus Media acquired shares of series A convertible preferred stock of ProElite, Inc. (“ProElite”) that organized and promoted mixed martial arts (“MMA”) matches.  These holdings of series A convertible preferred stock provided Stratus Media voting rights on an as-converted basis equivalent to a 95% ownership in ProElite.  During the first quarter of 2013, Stratus Media decided to focus on the MMA business and temporarily suspended development of its other businesses.  Because of lack of working capital at that time, Stratus Media suspended operations of ProElite effective June 30, 2013.  Following the Company’s repositioning as a specialty biopharmaceutical company, the Company’s Board of Directors voted to discontinue the operations of ProElite effective March 31, 2014.  The Company intends to dissolve ProElite during 2015.

 

In 2013, in order to reposition the Company as a specialty biopharmaceutical company, the Company’s Board of Directors authorized management to pursue acquisition opportunities in the life sciences sector in view of the experience and expertise in that area of the Company’s largest stockholders and the Company’s current chairman and vice chairman, respectively, Sol J. Barer and Isaac Blech.  On November 18, 2013, the Company completed the acquisition of Canterbury Laboratories, LLC and Hygeia Therapeutics, Inc.  On March 28, 2014, the Company completed the acquisition of Paloma Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and VasculoMedics, Inc.

 

Effective September 30, 2013, the Company entered into an agreement and plan of merger with Canterbury Acquisition LLC, Hygeia Acquisition, Inc., Canterbury Laboratories, LLC (“Canterbury”), Hygeia Therapeutics, Inc. (“Hygeia”) and Yael Schwartz, Ph.D., as holder representative, pursuant to which the Company agreed to acquire by virtue of two mergers all of the outstanding capital stock of Canterbury and Hygeia, with Canterbury and Hygeia becoming wholly owned subsidiaries of the Company.  The consideration paid by the Company in connection with such mergers was the issuance by the Company of an aggregate of 1,150,116 shares of common stock issued to the stakeholders of Canterbury and Hygeia.  The mergers were completed on November 18, 2013.  For accounting purposes, the acquisition date was deemed to be September 30, 2013, the date the Company assumed oversight and control of the activities of the acquired companies.

 

On March 3, 2014, the Company entered into an agreement and plan of merger with Paloma Acquisition, Inc., Paloma Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Paloma”) and David Sherris, Ph.D., as founding stockholder and holder representative, pursuant to which the Company agreed to acquire by virtue of a merger all of the outstanding capital stock of Paloma, with Paloma becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company.  On March 28, 2014, the merger with Paloma was effected and the Company issued an aggregate of 2,500,000 shares of common stock to the holders of Paloma’s common stock and its derivative securities, which included the assumption of promissory notes of Paloma in the aggregate amount (including both principal amount and accrued interest) of approximately $1,151,725, to be paid on the first anniversary of the closing date of the Paloma merger.  For accounting purposes, the acquisition date was deemed to be March 3, 2014, the date the Company assumed oversight and control of the activities of Paloma and VasculoMedics.

 

Also on March 3, 2014, the Company entered into an agreement and plan of merger with VasculoMedics Acquisition, Inc., VasculoMedics, Inc. (“VasculoMedics”) and David Sherris, Ph.D. pursuant to which the Company agreed to acquire by merger all of the outstanding capital stock of VasculoMedics, with VasculoMedics becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company.  The VasculoMedics merger was concurrently closed with and as a condition to the closing of the Paloma merger on March 28, 2014 and the Company issued an aggregate of 220,000 shares of common stock to the VasculoMedics stockholders.

 

On March 7, 2014, the Company changed its corporate name from Stratus Media Group, Inc. to RestorGenex Corporation.