Note 12.

12.5 % Senior Secured Notes and Loans Payable

12.5% Senior Secured Notes

On July 15, 2019, the Company completed the private placement of up to $100 million aggregate principal of its 12.5% Senior Secured Notes due 2025 (the “Notes”) and issued warrants for two million shares of common stock (the “Warrants”), $.001 per value, per share, through its structuring agent, Morgan Stanley & Co., LLC, and entered into a purchase agreement and related indenture (the “Purchase Agreement” or “Indenture”) governing these Notes. The Company simultaneously entered into related agreements including a Collateral Agreement with U.S. Bank National Association as trustee and collateral agent, and a Lien Subordination and Intercreditor Agreement for the benefit of Madryn Health Partners, other institutional noteholders and U.S. Bank National Association in dual roles providing terms governing an asset-based loan facility.

Upon closing, the Company issued $70,000 of the principal of the Notes (the “Initial Notes”) along with the Warrants and rights of first offer (the “First Offer Rights”) to the lenders participating in this transaction for Notes and Warrants (the “Lenders”). Issuance of the Initial Notes and Warrants provided net proceeds of $66,082. In addition to the Initial Notes, the Indenture may provide access to further loans of up to $30,000 that may become available in two tranches of Additional Notes tied to the NDA filing for and FDA approval of Libervant, an important part of our drug candidate pipeline. Provided that no events of default exist, the Company may elect, subject to approval of the holder of a majority of the outstanding principal amount of the Notes to offer to the Lenders participation in a $10,000 additional offering of 12.5% senior secured notes (the “First Additional Offering”) under terms similar to the Initial Notes, on or before March 31, 2021, upon the filing of the Libervant NDA with the FDA. A second identical funding opportunity would allow, on or before March 31, 2021, the Company to obtain an additional $20,000 if the first option has been elected and funded, or, if not elected or funded, an additional $30,000 may be offered for issuance following FDA approval of Libervant. There can be no assurance that any such additional financing will be consummated.

Proceeds from issuance of the Initial Notes and Warrants were used to fully repay the Company’s $52,092 outstanding indebtedness to Perceptive Credit Holdings, LP, related early repayment fees and legal and other fees incurred in executing this Indenture. Remaining proceeds of $13,990 are being used to support the advancement of Aquestive’s late-stage development pipeline, ongoing proprietary product commercialization and for general corporate operations.

The Notes provide a stated fixed rate of 12.5%, payable quarterly in arrears, with the initial quarterly principal repayment of the Initial Notes due on September 30, 2021 and the final quarterly payment due at maturity on June 30, 2025. Principal payments are scheduled to increase annually from 10% of the face amount of the debt then outstanding during the first four quarters to 40% of the initial loan principal during the final four quarters.

A debt maturity table is presented below:

Remainder of 2019	$	-
2020		-
2021		3,500
2022		10,500
2023		17,500
2024 and thereafter		38,500
Total	$	70,000

The Company may elect, at its option, to prepay the Notes at any time at premiums that range from 101.56% of outstanding principal if prepayment occurs on or after the 5^th anniversary of the issue date of the Notes to 112.5% if payment occurs during the third year after the issuance of the Notes. In the event that redemption occurs within the two years after the issuance of the Notes, a make-whole fee is required, based on the present value of remaining interest payments using an agreed-upon discount rate linked to the then-current U.S. Treasury rate. The Indenture also includes change of control provisions under which the Company may be required to repurchase the Notes at 101% of the remaining principal plus accrued interest at the election of the lenders.

Collateral for the loan consists of a first priority lien on substantially all property and assets, including intellectual property, of the Company. This secured obligation provides payment rights that are senior to all existing and future subordinated indebtedness of the Company and provides Lenders with perfected security interests in substantially all of the Company’s assets. In the event that asset-based loans of up to $10,000 (“ABL Facility”) may be obtained, subject receivables and inventory assets will provide a second priority lien to senior secured note holders. The Company’s license of its IP to a third-party drug development enterprise (specifically, Sunovion Pharmaceutical’s APL-130277 product) is one of the various assets serving as collateral for this loan. The loan indenture permits the Company to monetize this asset while specifying that a portion of the proceeds, up to $40,000 if the First Additional Offering has not been elected or funded, or, $50,000 if it has been elected and funded, must be applied to prepay the Initial Notes, at 112.5% of the principal amount of the Notes being repurchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, thereon to the date of repurchase, to the extent elected by the Note holders, assuming that such monetization, up to such $40,000 or $50,000 level, as applicable, equals or exceeds those levels and if such monetization does not equal or exceed such level, such prepayment would be pro-rated among the Note holders. To the extent that Lenders do not elect repayment of the debt at the date of monetization, the amount not elected up to $40,000 (or $50,000 if an additional tranche is issued) will be held in a collateral account until approval of Libervant by the FDA, at which time this cash collateral is to be released to the Company. Proceeds in excess of $40,000 (or $50,000 if an additional tranche is issued) can be used immediately for general corporate purposes.

Affirmative and negative covenants specified in the Indenture are considered typical for loans of this nature, including, but not limited to, specifications relating to preservation of corporate existence, publicly traded status, intellectual property and business interests; limitations or prohibitions of dividend payments or other distributions, repurchases of shares, asset transfers or dispositions, creation or occurrence of additional liens, entering into licensing or monetization arrangements other than as permitted under the Indenture, and perfection of security interests. The Company was in compliance with its debt covenants under the Indenture as of September 30, 2019. Also, as of that date, the carrying value of the Company’s loan payable approximated its market value.

The Indenture also restricts the incurrence of additional indebtedness except only such indebtedness as is expressly permitted under the terms of the Indenture (which includes the ABL Facility) on the terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture and such indebtedness as may be permitted under limitations set forth in the Indenture. The Indenture also restricts the issuance of any “Disqualified Stock”, including, generally, mandatorily redeemable securities or securities redeemable at the option of the holder or securities convertible or exchangeable at the option of the holder for indebtedness of the Company or for other Disqualified Stock

Events of default include various commonly specified conditions, including but not limited to, bankruptcy, insolvency, material adverse changes, failure to meet Indenture payment or other obligations, compliance with regulatory requirements and preservation of corporate existence and business operations.

The Company capitalizes legal and other third-party costs incurred in connection with obtaining debt as deferred debt issuance costs and applies the unamortized portion as a reduction of the outstanding face amount of the related loan in accordance with ASU 2015-03, Interest – Imputation of Interest: Simplifying the Presentation of Debt Issuance Costs. Similarly, the Company amortizes debt discounts, such as those represented by warrants issued to its lenders, and offsets those as a direct reduction of its outstanding debt. Amortization expense arising from deferred debt issuance costs and debt discounts associated with its 12.5% Senior Secured Notes for the three and nine-month periods ended September 30, 2019 were $493.

Unamortized deferred debt issuance costs and deferred debt discounts totaled $10,225 as of September 30, 2019.

Perceptive Loan

On August 16, 2016, the Company entered into a Loan Agreement and Guaranty (the “Loan Agreement”) with Perceptive Credit Opportunities Fund, LP (“Perceptive”). Upon closing, the Company borrowed $45,000 from Perceptive and was permitted to borrow up to an additional $5,000 within one year of the closing date based upon achievement of a defined milestone which was met in March 2017 and the balance of the facility was borrowed at that time. The initial loan proceeds were used to pay the existing debt obligation of $37,500 due to White Oak Global Advisors, LLC, with the balance available for general business purposes. On July 15, 2019, this loan from Perceptive was repaid in full as part of a refinancing transaction.

On May 21, 2018, the Company and Perceptive agreed to make certain amendments to the loan agreement then in effect. In the event that a qualified IPO could be consummated on or before December 31, 2018, the Company and Perceptive agreed to postpone the initial loan principal payments, delay the loan maturity date to December 16, 2020 and retain interest rate terms, payable monthly, at one-month LIBOR or approximately 2% plus 9.75%, subject to a minimum rate of 11.75%. Accordingly, commencing on May 31, 2019, seven monthly loan principal payments were due in the amount of $550. Thereafter, monthly principal payments in the amount of $750 were due through the maturity date, December 16, 2020, at which time the full amount of the remaining outstanding loan balance was due. As noted above, on July 15, 2019, the Company fully repaid its outstanding indebtedness under the Loan Agreement, and there was no outstanding debt related to Perceptive as of September 30, 2019. At December 31, 2018, $4,600 was classified as current debt. The Company’s tangible and intangible assets were subject to first priority liens to the extent of the outstanding debt. Further, under the Loan Agreement, as amended, the Company was permitted, subject to Perceptive’s consent, to monetize the royalty and fees derived from sales of certain Apomorphine products and, in connection with such monetization, Perceptive had agreed to release liens related to these royalties and fees. Other significant terms of the Loan Agreement, as amended, included financial covenants, change of control triggers and limitations on additional indebtedness, asset sales, acquisitions and dividend payments. Financial covenant requirements included (1) minimum liquidity under which a $4,000 minimum cash balance must be maintained at all times and (2) a minimum revenue requirement for the trailing twelve consecutive months, measured at the end of each calendar quarter. As of July 15, 2019, the Company was in compliance with all financial covenants under the Loan Agreement, as amended. Also, as of that date, the carrying value of the Company’s loan payable approximated its market value. At closing of the Loan Agreement, as amended, Perceptive received a warrant to purchase senior common equity interests representing 4.5% of the fully diluted common units of the Company on an as converted basis, which was automatically exercised in full at the time of the IPO (see Note 13).

The Company capitalizes legal and other third-party costs incurred in connection with obtaining debt as deferred debt issuance costs and applies the unamortized portion as a reduction of the outstanding face amount of the related loan in accordance with ASU 2015-03, Interest – Imputation of Interest: Simplifying the Presentation of Debt Issuance Costs. Similarly, the Company amortizes debt discounts, such as those represented by warrants issued to its lenders, and offsets those as a direct reduction of its outstanding debt. Amortization expense arising from deferred debt issuance costs and debt discounts associated with the Perceptive Loan for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2019 and 2018 were $847 and $1,297, respectively; for the corresponding three-month periods these expenses totaled $64 and $374, respectively.

The Company recorded during the three-month period ended September 30, 2019 a $4,896 loss on the extinguishment of debt associated with the early retirement of the Perceptive Loan. The $4,896 loss on the extinguishment of debt is comprised of the following: $2,944 in prepayment premiums paid to Perceptive to settle the outstanding debt and $1,952 in unamortized deferred debt issuance costs and deferred debt discounts associated with the Perceptive Loan.

There were no unamortized deferred debt issuance costs and deferred debt discounts related to the Perceptive Loan as of September 30, 2019, while unamortized deferred debt issuance costs and deferred debt discounts amounted to $2,797 as of December 31, 2018.