Note 8 – Convertible Promissory Notes

Convertible Promissory Notes

During July and August 2015, Aytu closed on note purchase agreements with institutional and high net worth individual investors for the purchase and sale of convertible promissory notes (“Notes”) with an aggregate principal amount of $5.2 million. The sale of the Notes was pursuant to a private placement. Debt issuance costs totaled $401,000 which included the $103,000 fair value of the warrants.

The Notes are an unsecured obligation. Unless earlier converted, the Notes will mature 18 months from their respective dates of issuance which will be on January 22, February 11 and February 28, 2017, with an option to extend the maturity date up to six months at Aytu’s discretion (provided that in the event Aytu exercises such extension option, the then applicable interest rate shall increase by 2% for such extension period). Aytu does not have the right to prepay the Notes prior to the maturity date. Interest will accrue on the Notes in the following amounts: (i) 8% simple interest per annum for the first six months and (ii) 12% simple interest per annum thereafter if not converted during the first six months. If there had not been a registration statement on Form S-1 filed with the SEC for the registration of the shares of common stock underlying the Notes by the expiration of the first six-month period then (a) the interest rate would have increased to 14% for the remainder of the period in which the Notes remain outstanding and (b) any Notes held by officers and directors of the Company would have been subordinated to the remaining Notes. Interest will accrue, is payable with the principal upon maturity, conversion or acceleration of the Notes and may be paid in kind or in cash, in Aytu’s sole discretion.

The 4% increase in the interest rate is triggered automatically with the passage of time and is not a contingent feature, thus, there is no initial accounting for this feature. However, the periodic interest cost will be calculated using a constant effective interest over the life of the Notes. As management does not intend to utilize the extension option, the expected life of the Notes is 18 months.

The Company did not give recognition to the registration rights arrangement as management did not believe at issuance that probable payment under the contingent escalation clause would be required, thus there was no impact on the initial measurement of the Notes. The Company satisfied the registration rights arrangement in October 2015 upon the effectiveness of a registration statement on Form S-1.

The Notes are convertible at any time at the noteholder’s discretion into that number of shares of Aytu common stock equal to 120% of the number of shares of common stock calculated by dividing the then outstanding principal and accrued interest by $4.63. A holder of Notes will be obligated to convert on the terms of Aytu’s next public offering of its stock resulting in gross proceeds of at least $5,000,000 (excluding indebtedness converted in such financing) prior to the maturity date of the Notes (a “Qualified Financing”). The principal and accrued interest under the Notes will automatically convert into a number of shares of such equity securities of the Company sold in the Qualified Financing equal to 120% of the principal and accrued interest under such Note divided by the lesser of (i) the lowest price paid by an investor in the Qualified Financing or (ii) $4.63. In the event that Aytu sells equity securities to investors at any time while the Notes are outstanding in a financing transaction that is not a Qualified Financing, then the noteholders will have the option to convert in whole the outstanding principal and accrued interest as of the closing of such financing into a number of shares of Aytu capital stock in an amount equal to 120% of the number of such shares calculated by dividing the outstanding principal and accrued interest by the lesser of (i) the lowest cash price per share paid by purchasers of shares in such financing, or (ii) $4.63.

The Company determined that the conversion option is not required to be bifurcated and accounted for as an embedded derivative liability. There was no intrinsic value to the beneficial conversion feature as it was determined that the effective conversion price exceeded the commitment date valuation price.

The Notes contain a purchase premium option in the event of a sale transaction by the Company as defined in the Notes. A holder of the Notes will be entitled to receive, at the holder’s option, (i) repayment of the Note balance plus the amount equal to 25% of the original purchase amount or (ii) the consideration the holder would have received on an as-converted basis. Given that the payment under the purchase premium is contingent upon a sale transaction and involves a substantial premium of 25%, the purchase premium is an embedded derivative that must be bifurcated and accounted for as an embedded derivative. No value was recorded related to this derivative at issuance and December 31, 2015.

Placement agents for the offerings sold the institutional portion of the offering of the Notes. Aytu sold the balance of the Notes to individuals and entities with whom Aytu has an established relationship. For Notes sold by the placement agent, Aytu paid the placement agent 8% of the gross proceeds of Notes sold by the placement agents and is obligated to issue warrants for an amount of shares to be equal to 8% of the gross number of shares of the Company stock issuable upon conversion of the Notes issued to investors introduced to the Company by the private placement agents in the private placement, in addition to a previously paid non-refundable retainer fee of $20,000. The placement agent warrants have a term of five years, will have an exercise price equal to the lowest conversion price per share at which the Notes are converted into common stock. Change in fair value is recorded in earnings. Fair value at the grant date was recorded as a debt discount and amortized over the term of the debt.

The warrants were recorded at fair value as long-term liabilities on the Balance Sheet (see Note 6).

Upon Aytu’s adoption of ASU 2015-3, the costs associated with the Notes were recorded as a long–term liability and are presented in the Balance Sheet as a direct reduction of the carrying amount of the Notes on their inception date.

As of December 31, 2015, the carrying value of the Notes was $4.9 million inclusive of an unamortized debt discount of $253,000.