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DERIVATIVE INSTRUMENTS
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2020
DERIVATIVE INSTRUMENTS  
DERIVATIVE INSTRUMENTS

13.     DERIVATIVE INSTRUMENTS

 

The warrants issued in connection with the Company’s 2018 underwritten public offering had provisions that precluded the Company from classifying them as equity instruments (See Note 12). Accordingly, these warrants had been accounted for as derivative warrant liabilities. The Company used the Black-Scholes model and assumptions that considered, among other factors, the fair value of the underlying stock, risk-free interest rate, volatility, expected life, and dividend rates in estimating fair value for these warrants.

 

At inception, the fair value of the Series B pre-funded warrants issued in 2018 was estimated at $11.5 million using a Black-Scholes model with the following assumptions: expected volatility of 202.51%, risk free interest rate of 2.95%, expected life of 20 years and no dividends.

 

At inception, the fair value of the Series A warrants issued in 2018 was estimated at $13.7 million using a Black-Scholes model with the following assumptions: expected volatility of 202.51%, risk free interest rate of 2.75%, expected life of 5 years and no dividends.

 

The Company allocated $13.2 million of the net proceeds to record the relative fair value of the warrant liability, with the remaining amount of $287 thousand recorded to permanent equity. The Company subsequently recorded the fair value of the warrant liability at $25.2 million with the loss of $12 million being recorded as a derivative loss on the Company’s consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive loss during the second quarter of 2018. 

 

In September 2018, the Company entered into the Ladenburg Warrant Amendment. As a result of the amendment, the Company reassessed the warrant classification and concluded that the warrants qualified for equity classification. The fair value of the amended 2018 Warrants was re-measured immediately prior to the date of the Ladenburg Warrant Amendment with changes in fair value recorded as a loss of $764 thousand in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations and $14.7 million was reclassified to equity.