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Leap Tide Financing Transaction
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2016
Leap Tide Financing Transaction  
Leap Tide Financing Transaction

NOTE 5—LEAP TIDE FINANCING TRANSACTION

 

On August 13, 2015, the Company executed a Loan and Security Agreement with Leap Tide Capital Partners III, LLC (“Leap Tide”), pursuant to which the Company borrowed $2,000 from Leap Tide (the “LT Loan”). Principal and accrued interest was due and payable on August 13, 2016. Interest accrued and was payable quarterly at a rate of 10% per annum. On April 29, 2016, following the receipt of the net proceeds from the DSIT Transaction (see Note 3), the Company repaid in full the $2,000 of principal and all accrued interest in full satisfaction of the cash due to Leap Tide under the LT Loan.

 

In addition to the interest payable in cash described above, Leap Tide received 850,000 shares of the Company’s common stock (the “Initial Shares”) at the closing and was entitled to vested rights to receive 179,167 additional shares of the Company’s common stock (each vested right to receive one share, a “Vested Share Right”) per month for each full month that the full principal amount of the LT Loan was outstanding. The number of Vested Share Rights that accrued in a given month was prorated to the extent less than the full principal amount was outstanding and/or for any partial month in which no principal amount was outstanding. Through April 29, 2016, the date of repayment, Leap Tide earned 1,531,396 Vested Share Rights.

 

Under the terms of the LT Loan, the Company had the right on or prior to 30 days after the repayment of the LT Loan (the “Cash Settlement Period”) to repurchase any or all Initial Shares and settle any or all Vested Share Rights accrued under the LT Loan for cash in lieu of stock. The cash repurchase/settlement price would have been $0.30 for each Initial Share so repurchased and each Vested Share Right so settled. The Company did not repurchase any of the Initial Shares or settle any of the accrued Vested Share Rights for cash and all 1,531,396 Vested Share Rights were converted into 1,531,396 shares of Common Stock of the Company after the expiration of the Cash Settlement Period. At December 31, 2015, the Company recorded a liability (and interest expense) of $86 with respect to the market value of the common stock to be granted upon vesting of the Vested Share Rights. During the year ended December 31, 2016, the Company recorded additional interest expense of $281 with respect to the vesting of the Vested Share Rights.

 

The value of the Initial Shares ($162) at closing was treated as a discount to the loan and was being amortized to interest expense over the one-year period of the LT Loan. Through December 31, 2015, $62 of the discount associated with the Initial Shares was amortized and the remaining discount of $100 was amortized in the year ended December 31, 2016.

 

Concurrent with the LT Loan, Jan H. Loeb, Manager of Leap Tide, joined the Board of Directors of the Company. Effective January 28, 2016, Acorn engaged Jan H. Loeb to be the Company’s President and CEO.

 

Certain members of the management of DSIT (including its CEO and its CFO - who also serves as CFO of the Company) invested in Leap Tide (which is a special entity formed to make the loan) on the same terms as the other investors in Leap Tide. None of these persons had any role in the management of Leap Tide.