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Stockholders’ equity:

Common Stock

In November 2013, the Company filed a shelf registration statement which registered up to $75 million of the Company’s securities for potential future issuance, and such registration statement was declared effective on December 18, 2013.

Concurrent with the filing of such registration statement, the Company established an “at-the-market” offering program utilizing the universal shelf registration for up to $15 million of Common Stock. In January 2014, the Company sold 658,489 shares of Common Stock under such offering program for approximate net proceeds of $3.9 million. In September and October 2014, the Company sold 529,010 and 116,911 shares of Common Stock, respectively, under such offering program for approximate net proceeds of $8.7 million and $1.9 million, respectively.

On February 7, 2014, the Company entered into a definitive Securities Purchase Agreement with certain institutional investors relating to a registered direct offering by the Company of 7,500,000 shares of the Company’s Common Stock, par value $.001 per share. The shares were sold at a price of $8.00 per share, yielding net offering proceeds of $58.2 million. The offering price per share was determined based on an approximately 3.1% discount to the closing price of the Common Stock on February 7, 2014.

On July 2, 2015, the Company filed a shelf registration statement which registered up to $150 million of the Company’s securities for potential future issuance, and such registration statement was declared effective on July 13, 2015. Concurrent with the filing of such registration statement, the Company established an “at-the-market” offering program utilizing the universal shelf registration for up to $40 million of Common Stock.

During the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013, Company employees, directors and affiliates exercised approximately 0.2 million, 1.3 million and 0.1 million stock options, respectively, with net proceeds to the Company of approximately $0.8 million, 4.6 million and $0.4 million, respectively.

Preferred Stock

The Company had authorized five million “blank check” shares of $.001 par value convertible preferred stock. On December 3, 2012, the Company closed a registered direct offering, issuance and sale of Series A Preferred. The final amount of Series Preferred issued in the offering was an aggregate of 2,709,300 shares of Series A Preferred. In the event of the Company’s liquidation, dissolution or winding up, holders of the Series A Preferred will receive a payment equal to $.001 per share of Series A Preferred before any proceeds are distributed to the holders of common stock. After the payment of this preferential amount, and subject to the rights of holders of any class or series of capital stock hereafter created specifically ranking by its terms senior to the Series A Preferred, the holders of Series A Preferred will participate ratably in the distribution of any remaining assets with the common stock and any other class or series of our capital stock hereafter created that participates with the common stock in such distributions.

During the year ended December 31, 2015, 45,845 shares of Series A Preferred were converted to equal shares of the Company’s common stock. At December 31, 2015, 2,093,155 shares of Series A Preferred were outstanding and 2,290,700 shares of “blank check” preferred stock remain authorized but undesignated. During the year ended December 31, 2014, 570,300 shares of Series A Preferred were converted to equal shares of the Company’s common stock. There were no conversions of Series A Preferred during the year ended December 31, 2013.

Restricted Stock Units

During the year ended December 31, 2015, 2,421,911 RSUs, were granted to members of the Company’s executive officers, board of directors and employees, with a fair market value of approximately $33.5 million. The fair value of restricted units is determined using quoted market prices of the Common Stock and the number of shares expected to vest. These RSUs were issued under the Company’s 2011 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended, and vest in equal installments over three years for executive officers and employees, and vest half in August 2015 and half in the following year for the board of directors. Restricted stock activity during the year ended December 31, 2015 was as follows:


	Number of Restricted Shares			Weighted Average Fair Market Value Per RSU
Outstanding at January 1, 2015		2,849,076		$	7.91
Granted:
Executive officers		2,102,615			14.63
Directors		150,000			9.31
Employees		169,296			8.03
Vested		(857,677	)		13.06
Forfeitures		(115,156	)		10.85

Outstanding at December 31, 2015		4,298,154		$	10.23

Performance Long Term Incentive Plan

In December 2012, the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) approved the BDSI Performance Long Term Incentive Plan (“LTIP”). The LTIP is designed as an incentive for the Company’s senior management to generate revenue for the Company. The LTIP consists of RSUs (which are referred to in this context as Performance RSUs) which are rights to acquire shares of Common Stock. All Performance RSUs granted under the LTIP will be granted under the Company’s 2011 Equity Incentive Plan (as the same may be amended, supplemented or superseded from time to time) as “Performance Compensation Awards” under such plan. The participants in the LTIP are either named executive officers or senior officers of the Company.

The term of the LTIP began with the Company’s fiscal year ended December 31, 2012 and lasts through the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019. The total number of Performance RSUs covered by the LTIP is 1,078,000, of which 978,000 were awarded in 2012 (with 100,000 Performance RSUs being reserved for future hires and of that reserve, 35,000 Performance RSUs were awarded in 2015). The Performance RSUs under the LTIP did not vest upon granting, but instead are subject to potential vesting each year over the 8 year term of the LTIP depending on the achievement of pre-defined revenue amounts by the Company, as reported in its Annual Report on Form 10-K. During the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013, a total of 21,356, 4,447 and 8,986 RSUs vested, respectively, subject to performance criteria.

Stock options

The Company has a 2011 Equity Incentive Plan. During the 2015 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”), stockholders approved an amendment to the Company’s 2011 Equity Incentive Plan to increase the number of shares of common stock authorized for issuance under the plan by 2,250,000 shares from 8,800,000 to 11,050,000.

An additional 1,938,039 shares of Common Stock underlying options previously granted under the Company’s Amended and Restated 2001 Incentive Plan remain outstanding and exercisable. The Company’s Amended and Restated 2001 Incentive Plan expired in July 2011 and no new securities may be issued thereunder. Options may be awarded during the ten-year term of the 2011 Equity Incentive Plan to Company employees, directors, consultants, sales force and other affiliates.

Stock option activity for the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013 is as follows:


	Number of Shares			Weighted Average Exercise Price Per Share		Aggregate Intrinsic Value
Outstanding at January 1, 2013		4,279,919		$	3.70	$	4,572

Granted in 2013:
Officers and Directors		55,659		$	5.39
Others		223,135			4.47
Exercised		(115,667	)		3.25
Forfeitures		(250,119	)		2.89

Outstanding at December 31, 2013		4,192,927		$	3.82	$	9,146

Granted in 2014:
Others		420,480			13.86
Exercised		(1,332,563	)		3.48
Forfeitures		(84,744	)		5.26

Outstanding at December 31, 2014		3,196,100		$	4.32	$	22,881

Granted in 2015:
Others		684,629			8.14
Exercised		(235,480	)		3.52
Forfeitures		(247,720	)		12.65

Outstanding at December 31, 2015		3,397,529		$	5.42	$	3,124

Options outstanding at December 31, 2015 are as follows:


Range of Exercise Prices	Number Outstanding		Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life (Years)		Weighted Average Exercise Price		Aggregate Intrinsic Value
$1.00 – 5.00		1,722,191		3.96	$	2.98
$5.01 – 10.00		1,411,006		5.28	$	6.69
$10.01 – 15.00		131,797		9.07	$	12.59
$15.01 – 20.00		132,535		8.76	$	16.38

		3,397,529					$	3,124

Options exercisable at December 31, 2015 are as follows:


Range of Exercise Prices	Number Outstanding		Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life (Years)		Weighted Average Exercise Price		Aggregate Intrinsic Value
$1.00 – 5.00		1,689,064		3.90	$	2.95
$5.01 – 10.00		799,926		2.06	$	6.33
$10.01- 15.00		7,915		8.56	$	12.44
$15.01- 20.00		6,279		8.74	$	15.95

		2,503,184					$	3,114

The weighted average grant date fair value of options granted during the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013 was $4.99, $7.18 and $3.28, respectively. There were no options granted during the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014 or 2013 whose exercise price was lower than the estimated market price of the stock at the grant date.

Nonvested stock options as of December 31, 2015, and changes during the year then ended, are as follows:


Nonvested Shares	Shares			Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value		Intrinsic Value
Nonvested at January 1, 2015		655,547
Granted		684,629
Vested		(207,797	)
Forfeited		(238,034	)

Nonvested at December 31, 2015		894,345		$	9.12	$	10

As of December 31, 2015, there was approximately $25.22 million of unrecognized compensation cost related to unvested share-based compensation awards granted. These costs will be expensed over the next four years.

Warrant:

The Company has granted warrants to purchase shares of Common Stock. Warrants may be granted to affiliates in connection with certain agreements.

The Company issued warrants to purchase 357,356 shares of Common Stock at a price of $4.20 in connection with a loan financing in July 2013 (note 9). The warrants had a fair value of approximately $1 million at the date of the grant. These warrants were exercised during 2014 and are no longer outstanding.

Reclassification of derivative liability to equity

During the year ended December 31, 2014, warrants by various investors were exercised to purchase 2,217,520 shares of Common Stock at prices ranging from $3.12 to $5.00 per share. Until the time of exercise, 1,999,153 of the aforementioned warrants were treated as a derivative liability. Upon exercise of the warrants, these amounts were reclassified to equity based on the fair value on the date of exercise.

During the year ended December 31, 2013, warrants by an investor were exercised to purchase 10,000 shares of Common Stock at $5.00 per share. Until the time of exercise, the aforementioned warrants were treated as a derivative liability. Upon exercise of the warrants, these amounts were reclassified to equity based on the fair value on the date of exercise.

Earnings Per Share

During the year ended December 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013, outstanding stock options, RSUs, warrants and convertible preferred stock of 9,788,838, 8,184,460 and 11,406,369, respectively, were not included in the computation of diluted earnings per share, because to do so would have had an antidilutive effect.

Recovery of Stockholder Short Swing Profit

During the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014, an executive officer of the Company paid a total of approximately $0.006 million to the Company and three executive officers of the Company paid a total of approximately $0.08 million to the Company, respectively, representing the disgorgement of short swing profits under Section 16(b) under the Exchange Act. The amount was recorded as additional paid-in capital.