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Related Party Transactions
6 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2016
Notes to Financial Statements  
Related Party Transactions

Cato Holding Company (CHC), doing business as Cato BioVentures (CBV), is the parent of Cato Research Ltd (CRL) . CRL is a contract research, development and regulatory services organization (CRO) engaged by us for certain aspects of the development of AV-101. CBV is among our largest institutional stockholders at September 30, 2016, holding approximately 7.5% of our outstanding common stock. Shawn Singh, our Chief Executive Officer and member of our Board of Directors, served as Managing Principal of CBV and Chief Business Officer and General Counsel of CRL from February 2001 to August 2009. On October 10, 2012, we issued to CBV an unsecured promissory note in the principal amount of $310,400 (the 2012 CBV Note) and a five-year warrant to purchase 12,500 restricted shares of our common stock at a price of $30.00 per share (the CBV Warrant).  Additionally, on October 10, 2012, we issued to CRL: (i) an unsecured promissory note in the initial principal amount of $1,009,000, payable solely in restricted shares of our common stock and which accrued interest at the rate of 7.5% per annum, compounded monthly (the CRL Note), as payment in full for all contract research and development services and regulatory advice rendered to us by CRL through December 31, 2012 with respect to CRO services, including regulatory strategy and preclinical and clinical development of AV-101, and (ii) a five-year warrant to purchase, at a price of $20.00 per share, 50,450 restricted shares of our common stock, such number of shares to be adjusted in relation to accrued interest on the CRL Note (CRL Warrant). The Cato Notes and additional amounts payable to CRL for CRO services were extinguished in June 2015 in exchange for our issuance of an aggregate of 328,571 shares of Series B Preferred to CBV, which shares of Series B Preferred were automatically converted into an equal number of registered shares of our common stock in connection with the May 2016 Public Offering. CBV also participated in our February 2016 warrant exchange, exchanging the CBV Warrant and the CRL Warrant, as adjusted to reflect accrued interest, for an aggregate of 54,894 shares of our unregistered common stock.

 

Under the terms of our CRO arrangement with CRL related to the development of AV-101, we incurred expenses of $27,800 and $10,900 for the quarters ended September 30, 2016 and 2015, respectively, and $78,200 and $22,100 in the six month periods ended September 30, 2016 and 2015, respectively. Total interest expense, including amortization of note discount, on the notes payable to CBV and CRL was $28,200 for the three-month period ended June 30, 2015 during which the notes were extinguished.