Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

Loans Payable

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Loans Payable

 

6. Loans Payable

        In September 2014, the Company entered into a loan and security agreement with Oxford Finance LLC and Pacific Western Bank (formerly Square 1 Bank), or the lenders, pursuant to which the lenders agreed to lend the Company up to $35.0 million in a three-tranche series of term loans (Term Loans A, B, and C). Upon initially entering into the agreement, the Company borrowed $2.0 million under Term Loan A. On April 13, 2015, the Company amended the agreement with the lenders to change the draw period for Term Loan B. On December 23, 2015, the Company further amended the agreement with the lenders to, among other things, change the draw period for Term Loan C, modify the interest only period, and modify the maturity date of the loan. In December 2015, the Company borrowed the Term Loan B tranche of $16.5 million. The Company may now, at its sole discretion, borrow from the lenders an additional $16.5 million under Term Loan C, at any time on or before December 31, 2016, subject to the satisfaction of specified conditions related to the results of the Company's Phase 2b clinical trial of TRV027.

        The proceeds from Term Loan A and Term Loan B, and future proceeds, if any, from Term Loan C, may be used to satisfy the Company's future working capital needs, potentially including the development of its clinical and preclinical product candidates.

        Borrowings accrue interest at a fixed rate of 6.50% per annum. The Company is required to make payments of interest only on borrowings under the loan agreement on a monthly basis through and including January 1, 2017 (the interest only termination date), after which payments of principal in equal monthly installments and accrued interest will be due until the loan matures on March 1, 2020. Both the interest only termination date and the maturity date may be further modified as follows if the Company meet the conditions related to the Phase 2b trial of TRV027 by December 31, 2016:

 

 

 

           

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the interest only termination date will be extended until January 1, 2018, and

           

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the maturity date will be extended to December 1, 2020 if the Company also has received net cash proceeds of at least $50.0 million from its existing option and license with Allergan or another strategic partnership satisfactory to the lenders.

        The Company paid the lenders a facility fee of $175,000 in connection with the execution of the original agreement and an amendment fee of $20,000 in connection with the execution of the second amendment to the agreement. Upon the last payment date of the amounts borrowed under the agreement, the Company will be required to pay a final payment fee ranging from 6.1% to 7.0% of the aggregate amounts borrowed. In addition, if the Company repays Term Loan A and Term Loan B prior to the applicable maturity date, it will pay the Lenders a prepayment fee of 3.00% of the total amount prepaid if the prepayment occurs prior to December 23, 2016, 2.00% percent of the total amount prepaid if the prepayment occurs between December 23, 2016 and December 23, 2017, and 1.00% percent of the total amount prepaid if the prepayment occurs on or after December 24, 2017.

        The Company's obligations under the loan and security agreement are secured by a first priority security interest in substantially all of the assets of the Company, other than intellectual property. The Company has agreed not to pledge or otherwise encumber its intellectual property, other than through grants of certain permitted non-exclusive or exclusive licenses or other conveyances of its intellectual property.

        The loan and security agreement includes affirmative and restrictive covenants, including: (a) financial reporting requirements; (b) limitations on the incurrence of indebtedness; (c) limitations on liens; (d) limitations on certain merger and acquisition transactions; (e) limitations on dispositions of certain assets; (f) limitations on fundamental corporate changes (including changes in control); (g) limitations on investments; (h) limitations on payments and distributions and (i) other covenants. The agreement also contains certain events of default, including for payment defaults, breaches of covenants, a material adverse change in the collateral, the Company's business, operations or condition (financial or otherwise), certain levies, attachments and other restraints on the Company's business, insolvency, defaults under other agreements and misrepresentations.

        Three Point Capital, LLC served as a placement agent in connection with the term loans. The Company paid the agent $65,000 upon execution of the agreement and $87,500 upon its draw of Term Loan B; the Company will be obligated to pay up to an additional $87,500 if it draws on Term Loan C.

        In connection with entering into the agreement, the Company issued to the lenders and the placement agent warrants to purchase an aggregate of 7,678 shares of Trevena common stock. These detachable warrant instruments have qualified for equity classification and have been allocated upon the relative fair value of the base instrument and the warrants, according to the guidance of ASC 470-20-25-2. These warrants are exercisable immediately and have an exercise price of $5.8610 per share. The warrants may be exercised on a cashless basis and will terminate on the earlier of September 19, 2024 or the closing of a merger or consolidation transaction in which the Company is not the surviving entity. In connection with the draw of Term Loan B, the Company issued to the lenders and the placement agent additional warrants to purchase an aggregate of 34,961 shares of Trevena common stock. These warrants have substantially the same terms as those noted above, have an exercise price of $10.6190 per share and an expiration date of December 23, 2025. If the Company draws on Term Loan C, it will issue additional warrants to purchase shares of Trevena common stock on substantially the same terms as those contained in the initial warrants. The number of shares underlying these additional warrants will depend on the amount of additional borrowings.

        As of December 31, 2015, Term Loans A and B have been issued, all of which remains outstanding as of such date. Interest expense of $164,667 and $36,833 was recorded during the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively. The Company incurred lender and third party costs of $225,988 and $106,545, respectively, related to the issuance of Term Loan A. The Company incurred lender and third party costs of $44,058 and $87,500, respectively, related to the issuance of Term Loan B. The lender costs are classified as a debt discount and the third party costs are classified as debt issuance costs. Per ASU 2015-03, debt discount and debt issuance costs are to be presented as a contra-liability to the debt on the balance sheet. These costs will be amortized to interest expense over the life of Term Loan A using the effective interest method. A total of $124,572 and $25,417 of debt discount and debt issuance costs was amortized to interest expense during the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively.

        The following table summarizes how the issuance of Term Loans A and B are reflected on the balance sheet at December 31, 2015:

                                                                                                                                                                                    

 

 

December 31,
2015

 

Gross proceeds

 

$

18,500,000

 

Debt discount

 

 

(168,501

)

Debt issuance costs

 

 

(145,601

)

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Carrying value

 

$

18,185,898

 

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        Aggregate maturities of long term debt as of December 31, 2015 are as follows:

                                                                                                                                                                                    

2016

 

 

 

2017

 

 

5,692,308

 

2018

 

 

5,692,307

 

2019

 

 

5,692,308

 

2020

 

 

1,423,077

 

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18,500,000

 

Debt Discount and deferred financing costs

 

 

(314,102

)

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18,185,898

 

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