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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 6, 2016.

Registration No. 333-            

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM S-1

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Under

The Securities Act of 1933

 

 

Nant Health, LLC

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   7374   27-3019889
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)   (Primary Standard Industrial Classification Code Number)   (I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

9920 Jefferson Blvd,

Culver City, California 90230

(310) 883-1300

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of Registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

 

Patrick Soon-Shiong, M.D., FRCS (C), FACS

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Nant Health, LLC

9920 Jefferson Blvd,

Culver City, California 90230

(310) 883-1300

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

 

Copies to:

 

Jeffrey D. Saper

Martin J. Waters

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C.

633 West Fifth Street, 15th Floor

Los Angeles, California 90071

(323) 210-2900

 

Charles C. Kim

General Counsel

Nant Health, LLC

9920 Jefferson Blvd,
Culver City, California 90230

(310) 883-1300

 

Charles S. Kim

Sean M. Clayton

David Peinsipp

Andrew S. Williamson

Cooley LLP

1333 2nd Street, Suite 400

Santa Monica, California 90401

(310) 883-6400

 

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: As soon as practicable after this registration statement becomes effective.

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933 check the following box:  ¨

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  ¨

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  ¨

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer”, “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):

 

Large accelerated filer  ¨   Accelerated filer  ¨   Non-accelerated filer (Do not check if a smaller reporting company)  x   Smaller reporting company  ¨

 

 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

 

TITLE OF EACH CLASS OF
SECURITIES TO BE REGISTERED
 

PROPOSED

MAXIMUM

AGGREGATE
OFFERING PRICE (1)(2)

  AMOUNT OF
REGISTRATION FEE (3)

Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share

  $92,000,000   $9,264.40

 

 

(1)   Includes any additional shares that the underwriters have the option to purchase.
(2)   Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(o) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
(3)   Calculated pursuant to Rule 457(o) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, based on an estimate of the proposed maximum aggregate offering price.

 

 

The registrant hereby amends this registration statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this registration statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 or until the registration statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

 

 

 


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The information in this preliminary prospectus is not complete and may be changed. We may not sell these securities until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This preliminary prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and we are not soliciting offers to buy these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted.

 

SUBJECT TO COMPLETION, DATED                 , 2016

PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS

             Shares

LOGO

Common Stock

 

 

We are offering              shares of our common stock. This is our initial public offering and no public market currently exists for our common stock. We expect the initial public offering price to be between $             and $            per share.

We intend to apply to list our common stock on The NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol “NH.” We are an “emerging growth company” as defined under the federal securities laws and, as such, have elected to comply with certain reduced public company reporting requirements.

Following this offering, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and entities affiliated with him, will control approximately         % of the voting power of our common stock (assuming no exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares, the purchase of $         million of shares in this offering described below and the conversion of certain indebtedness described elsewhere in this prospectus). As a result of their ownership, they will be able to control any action requiring the general approval of our stockholders, including the election of our board of directors, the adoption of amendments to our certificate of incorporation and bylaws and the approval of any merger or sale of substantially all of our assets. We will be a “controlled company” within the meaning of the NASDAQ Global Market corporate governance rules. See “Management—Controlled Company Exemption.”

Investing in our common stock involves a high degree of risk. See “Risk Factors” beginning on page 14 of this prospectus.

Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any other regulatory body has approved or disapproved of these securities or passed upon the accuracy or adequacy of this prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

 

 

 

     PER SHARE      TOTAL  

Initial Public Offering Price

   $                    $                

Underwriting Discounts and Commissions (1)

   $         $     

Proceeds to, before expenses, to us

   $         $     

 

 

(1)   See “Underwriting” for a description of the compensation payable to the underwriters.

 

 

Certain of our investors, including entities affiliated with Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, have indicated an interest in purchasing up to an aggregate of $         million of shares of our common stock in this offering at the initial public offering price. However, because indications of interest are not binding agreements or commitments to purchase, the underwriters may determine to sell more, fewer or no shares in this offering to any of these parties, or any of these parties may determine to purchase more, fewer or no shares in this offering.

Delivery of the shares of common stock in this offering is expected to be made on or about             , 2016. We have granted the underwriters an option for a period of 30 days to purchase up to an additional                  shares of common stock. If the underwriters exercise the option in full, the total underwriting discounts and commissions will be $             and the total proceeds to us, before expenses, will be $            .

Joint Book-Running Managers

Jefferies    Cowen and Company

Co-Managers

First Analysis Securities Corp.

   FBR

Prospectus dated                         , 2016


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Prospectus Summary

     1   

Risk Factors

     14   

Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

     57   

Trademarks

     59   

Market, Industry and Other Data

     59   

Dividend Policy

     59   

Use of Proceeds

     60   

Capitalization

     61   

Dilution

     64   

Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Information

     66   

Selected Consolidated Financial and Other Data

     75   

Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

     77   

Business

     96   

Management

     145   

Executive and Director Compensation

     152   

Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions

     162   

Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management

     168   

Description of Securities

     170   

Shares Eligible for Future Sale

     173   

Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Consequences to Non-U.S. Holders

     175   

Underwriting

     179   

Legal Matters

     187   

Experts

     187   

Where You Can Find Additional Information

     187   

Index to Financial Statements

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Neither we nor the underwriters have authorized anyone to provide any information or to make any representations other than those contained in this prospectus or in any free writing prospectuses we have prepared. We take no responsibility for, and can provide no assurance as to the reliability of, any other information that others may give you. This prospectus is an offer to sell only the shares offered hereby, but only under circumstances and in jurisdictions where it is lawful to do so. The information contained in this prospectus is current only as of its date.

For investors outside the United States: Neither we nor any of the underwriters have done anything that would permit this offering or possession or distribution of this prospectus in any jurisdiction where action for that purpose is required, other than in the United States. You are required to inform yourselves about, and to observe any restrictions relating to, this offering and the distribution of this prospectus.

 

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

Nant Health, LLC, the registrant whose name appears on the cover page of this registration statement, is a Delaware limited liability company. Prior to the sale and issuance of any shares of common stock subject to this registration statement, Nant Health, LLC will convert into a Delaware corporation and change its name from Nant Health, LLC to NantHealth, Inc. Shares of the common stock of NantHealth, Inc. are being offered by the prospectus that forms a part of this registration statement.


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PROSPECTUS SUMMARY

The following summary highlights selected information contained elsewhere in this prospectus and is qualified in its entirety by the more detailed information and financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus. It does not contain all the information that may be important to you and your investment decision. You should carefully read this entire prospectus, including the matters set forth under “Risk Factors,” “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Conditions and Results of Operations,” “Unaudited Pro forma Condensed Combined Financial Information,” “Selected Consolidated Financial and Other Data” and our financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this prospectus. In this prospectus, unless the context otherwise requires, the terms “NantHealth,” “our company,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer, prior to the conversion discussed below, to Nant Health, LLC, and, after the conversion, to NantHealth, Inc., in each case together with its consolidated subsidiaries as a combined entity.

Overview

We are a leading next-generation, evidence-based, personalized healthcare company enabling improved patient outcomes and more effective treatment decisions for critical illnesses. Our unique systems-based approach to personalized healthcare applies novel diagnostics tailored to the specific molecular profiles of patient tissues and integrates this molecular data in a clinical setting with large-scale, real-time biometric signal and phenotypic data to track patient outcomes and deliver precision medicine. For nearly a decade, we have developed an adaptive learning system, CLINICS, which includes our unique software, middleware and hardware systems infrastructure that collects, indexes, analyzes and interprets billions of molecular, clinical, operational and financial data points derived from novel and traditional sources, continuously improves decision-making and further optimizes our clinical pathways and decision algorithms over time. As a pioneer in the era of big data and augmented intelligence, we believe we are uniquely positioned to benefit from multiple significant market opportunities as healthcare providers and payors transition from fee-for-service to value-based reimbursement models and accelerate their pursuit of evidence-based clinical practice.

Our mission is to empower providers to seamlessly act on the best evidence-based information available to better fulfill their roles as caregivers rather than as financial managers, to provide payors with the necessary tools to better fulfill their roles as stewards of an increasingly complex and rapidly evolving healthcare system, to facilitate biopharmaceutical companies to accelerate development of drugs for critical illnesses based upon the unique biology and specific health conditions of patients, and to empower patients with the knowledge to enable active participation in the management of their own health, or self-care.

 



 

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Our unique systems-based approach to the science and delivery of precision care is powered by our integrated and adaptive Systems Infrastructure, Knowledge Platform, Provider Platform and Payor Platform, which we refer to collectively as our Comprehensive Learning Integrated NantHealth Intelligent Clinical System, or CLINICS.

 

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Our Systems Infrastructure includes software, middleware and hardware modules, NantOS, that organize and integrate the data streams that form the foundation of our adaptive learning system. Our Knowledge Platform is comprised of a comprehensive set of advanced molecular diagnostics and decision support solutions that enable evidence-based clinical practice, including Genomic Proteomic Spectrometry Cancer, or GPS Cancer, which we obtained exclusive access to from our affiliate NantOmics, LLC, or NantOmics. GPS Cancer enables diagnosis at the molecular level by measuring the whole genome and proteome of a patient and thereby potentially predicting the patient’s response and resistance to particular therapeutics.

Our Provider Platform is comprised of solutions, including our NantOS apps and app suites, that are designed to better enable the delivery of the right medicine to the right patient at the right time by the right caregiver. Our Payor Platform includes solutions, including our NantOS apps and app suites, that implement payment-for-value, which we believe positions us as a next-generation, third-party intermediary to facilitate evidence-based treatment regimens that can improve patient outcomes and lower costs. The unique integration of CLINICS provides the healthcare providers and payors we serve with a new level of insight into the way they manage their operations and risks and deliver care amid the challenges of increasingly complex and rapidly evolving healthcare and technology environments.

Our technologies and infrastructure:

 

  n   extract, normalize, assemble, analyze and interpret traditional and novel sources of patient data;

 

  n   integrate such patient data with data from basic- and drug-discovery research; and

 

  n   match and prioritize these data through the application of diagnostic discoveries with precisely targeted patient populations.

We believe other organizations have not yet been able to integrate these components in a comparable near real-time and continuous manner. Our personalized, evidenced-based, molecular approach, combined with CLINICS, significantly differentiates us from our competitors. In addition, third parties may use our solutions to deliver drugs to patients in a more predictive, preventative and evidence-based manner, potentially improving patient outcomes and pharmacoeconomics.

 



 

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Our Opportunity to Address Transformative Shifts Across the Healthcare Continuum

The efficiency and effectiveness of the current healthcare system is often hindered by the complex, dynamic interplay of three uncoordinated and segregated domains: the knowledge domain, the care delivery domain and the payor domain. The disparate nature of these domains, and their often inconsistent incentives and conflicting priorities, can inhibit interoperability and coordination. We believe two simultaneous transformative shifts are highlighting these critical deficiencies of the current healthcare environment:

 

  n   A rapid evolution from traditional fee-for-service to patient-centered and patient-empowered, value-based models driven by quantifiable measures of outcomes relative to cost.

 

  n   A paradigm shift to molecularly precise and real-time, biometric-driven medicine, with both massive volumes and rapidly expanding repositories of complex data from traditional and novel sources, in the face of higher cancer incidence rates amongst an aging population.

We believe these shifts and the associated challenges require next-generation and advanced technology systems to implement molecularly precise, biometrically monitored medicine and effectively transition to value-based care. We believe CLINICS uniquely positions us to address these transformative shifts and places us at the forefront of multiple large and growing market opportunities.

We derive revenue from sales of licensed software and maintenance, software-as-a-service, hardware, services, and GPS Cancer to healthcare providers, payors and self-insured employers. We estimate that the potential global market for CLINICS, including GPS Cancer, exceeds $50 billion.

For the year ended December 31, 2015, our total net revenue was $58.3 million and our net loss was $72.0 million. On an unaudited pro forma condensed combined basis giving effect to our equity method investment in NantOmics, the acquisition of NaviNet, Inc., or NaviNet, and the LLC Conversion (defined below). For the year ended December 31, 2015, our total revenue was $112.9 million and our net loss was $97.7 million. See “Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Information.”

Our Unique Systems-Based Approach to the Science and Delivery of Value-Based Precision Care: CLINICS

We are creating and applying a scaled, adaptive learning system that is designed to address many of the specific limitations and complexities of the current segregated healthcare system. CLINICS is a highly differentiated, integrated and adaptive model for the delivery of healthcare, targeting each of the three key healthcare domains, and is comprised of:

Systems Infrastructure. Our Systems Infrastructure serves as the foundation of our platforms and products, and provides critical data and inter- and intra-domain interoperability to coordinate otherwise disorganized and siloed healthcare data. Our Systems Infrastructure features access to next-generation, genomic and proteomic sequencing technologies with near real-time bioinformatics and actionable reports; access to a secure HIPAA-compliant cloud environment; an open architecture, service-oriented software platform-as-a-service with over 250 clinical, financial and operational systems connectors and 300 infrastructure and healthcare services, enabling the integration and interoperability of disparate electronic medical records; and device connectivity in more than 350 hospital systems to what we estimate to be more than 30,000 unique medical devices, which collect tens of billions of vital signs annually through 500 medical device and health and wellness sensors.

 

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Knowledge Platform. Our comprehensive set of interoperability, advanced diagnostics and decision support solutions enable our clients to improve decision-making and determine the right treatment before treatment begins. Our clinical comprehensive molecular profiling solution, GPS Cancer, is the only comprehensive and commercially available clinical cancer platform incorporating and integrating whole genome (comparing both a patient’s normal and tumor tissue), RNA, proteomic and molecular pathways information into a clinical report that analyzes this data and identifies actionable targets and potential clinical treatment decisions. GPS Cancer compares 6 billion DNA base pairs (normal tissue

 



 

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and tumor tissue), sequences 200,000 RNA expressing proteins, provides analysis for over 15,000 nodes within approximately 1,500 protein pathways, and quantitatively analyzes targeted proteins at the attomolar level.

 

  n   Provider Platform. Our provider solution software and middleware, NantOS, leverages the data available on our Systems Infrastructure to enable patient-centered engagement and coordination across care locations. Our web-based and mobile NantOS apps include patient, provider and collaboration portals for advanced care coordination, including real-time vitals connectivity, clinical and administrative workflow, eligibility and benefits, claims, referral and readmissions management solutions, secure messaging and analytical applications to measure outcomes and costs. Our database of clinical pathways and decision algorithms is continuously being enhanced, enabling the delivery of evidence-based clinical decision support. Our device connectivity modules and flexible applications analyze and interpret patient- and provider-specific information and deliver critical clinical and administrative insights.

 

  n   Payor Platform. Our payor NantOS apps establish daily access to the clinical practice and caregiver and leverage the data available on our Systems Infrastructure to facilitate payment for value. Our multipayor collaboration NantOS app, NaviNet Open, offers provider end users a uniform set of workflows and services across many or all of the payors with whom they routinely collaborate. Our NantOS apps also identify high-risk patient populations, implement advanced diagnostics and real-time biometric patient monitoring solutions to identify opportunities for precision medicine and preventative interventions, and enable provider and payor engagement in integrated and coordinated value-based models.

CLINICS powers our unique systems-based approach, which features:

 

  n   Advanced Molecular Diagnosis. Our solutions enable diagnosis, population-level analytics, and risk stratification at the individual molecular signature level, including genomic and proteomic analysis through GPS Cancer.

 

  n   Define Right Treatment Before Treatment Begins. Our solutions support decision-making with near real-time bioinformatics and evidence-based protocols using our eviti solution, enabling the clinician to potentially make more optimal treatment decisions.

 

  n   Patient Engagement. Our solutions inform the patient, patient advocate and caregivers to improve patient engagement, satisfaction and compliance and encourage active participation in the management of their own health, or self care.

 

  n   Care Coordination and Delivery of Care. Our solutions enable point-of-care connectivity, engagement, coordination and delivery of care with clinical and administrative workflow collaboration portals, care coordination applications and clinical intervention engagement, which we refer to as mission control.

 

  n   Real-time Clinical Learning. Our solutions implement advanced analytics and real-time clinical learning while monitoring and measuring outcomes to enrich data sets and implement proactive and preventative clinical intervention engagement.

 

  n   Payment for Value. Our solutions facilitate payment for value, better outcomes at lower cost, using our evidence-based approach to the clinical practice of medicine through our inter-domain collaboration portal NaviNet Open.

The integration inherent in our systems-based approach continually enhances our database, clinical pathways and decision algorithms, which we believe leads to critical mass and network effects that further our competitive advantage.

Our Unique Scale and Adoption across the Healthcare Continuum

We designed CLINICS and its components to enable providers, payors and self-insured employers to overcome challenges encountered across the knowledge, care delivery and payor domains within the healthcare continuum. We are a leading vendor of payor-provider collaboration solutions, viewed by approximately

 



 

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450,000 active users (users of our NaviNet Open Platform transacting at least once in the last 90 days as of the first quarter of 2016) located in all 50 states. CLINICS or its components have been widely adopted, with over 100 million lives (individuals and their eligible dependents enrolled in a particular insurance program (within the payor domain) and unique patients where clinical data can be accessed by our solution (within the care delivery domain)) on our Provider and Payor Platforms, processing nearly 30 million payor-provider transactions per month:

 

  n   Knowledge Platform (GPS Cancer and eviti). Our decision support platform (eviti) provides value to our clients through its access to nearly 13,000 active clinical trials updated weekly and over 2,500 evidence-based treatment regimens for the treatment of cancer arising from over 40 different anatomical locations. eviti is typically being sold to health plans on a per member (or life) per month basis, who in turn sponsor the solution and provide it free of charge to oncologists and their staffs. Currently, ten large health plan contracted entities sponsor eviti. In addition, more than ten large, national self-insured entities have access to eviti through our reseller relationships. We estimate that over 75% of all oncology practices in the United States have used eviti, demonstrating its scale of adoption and relevance for users. Our recently launched GPS Cancer solution can be deployed to assist treatment of a broad range of cancers, representing a potential market of millions of cancer patients globally.

 

  n   Provider Platform (NantOS, NantOS App Suites, and NantOS Apps). Approximately 450 revenue-generating clients, including the National Health Service in the United Kingdom, the Canadian Health System and hospital systems throughout the United States, have implemented our NantOS and/or NantOS patient and provider app solutions, covering over 30 million lives. This includes over 350 hospitals that leverage our device connectivity offering. We recently launched our new NantOS app, NaviNet Open All-Payer Access, which is targeted towards providers and which provides access to eligibility and benefits information for more than 750 health plans.

 

  n   Payor Platform (NantOS App NaviNet). When combined with eviti, we have client relationships with more than 70 healthcare payors in the United States, representing over 70 million lives and growing. We are a leader in payor-provider collaboration solutions, with approximately 35 health plan revenue-generating clients and over 2,000 hospitals and greater than 60% of physicians’ offices nationwide connected to our NaviNet Open app during the first quarter of 2016. Our payor-provider collaboration portal is typically contracted by health plans on a per member (or life) per month basis, who in turn sponsor the solution and provide it free of charge to healthcare providers.

Our Competitive Strengths

We have invested significant capital and healthcare and biotechnology expertise over nearly a decade to develop, acquire and integrate the necessary components to establish a comprehensive, adaptive learning system to address many of the challenges faced by stakeholders across the healthcare continuum.

We believe our success is based on the following key strengths and advantages:

 

  n   A highly scaled systems infrastructure and deep expertise across the healthcare ecosystem spanning the knowledge domain, the care delivery domain and the payor domain.

 

  n   A highly scaled, next-generation, near real-time learning system enabling novel insights and continuous improvement spanning a single patient to a large population.

 

  n   A comprehensive clinical genome and quantitative proteomic molecular analysis solution.

 

  n   A healthcare-specific, interoperable, scaled and real-time operating system and applications.

 

  n   Advanced, evidence-based, clinical decision support and business intelligence analytics.

 

  n   A successful track record of identifying and integrating acquisitions and strategic partnerships.

 



 

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Our Strategy

Our goal is to become the leading evidence-based, personalized healthcare company. To accomplish this goal we plan to deploy CLINICS to address and accelerate the two transformational shifts occurring in healthcare: rapid evolution from traditional fee-for-service to value-based models and the paradigm shift to molecularly precise and real-time biometric driven medicine using massive data. The key elements of our strategy include:

 

  n   Driving awareness, adoption and reimbursement of GPS Cancer. We are increasing recognition of GPS Cancer through engaging and educating key oncology stakeholders, pursuing reimbursement for our products and services and communicating patient outcomes through peer-reviewed journals and conference presentations. We believe these efforts will drive further validation and adoption of GPS Cancer and generate increased revenue.

 

  n   Increasing sales of CLINICS, NantOS and NantOS apps to healthcare providers, payors, self-insured employers and others. We are marketing CLINICS, NantOS and NantOS apps to healthcare providers transitioning from fee-for-service reimbursement models to value-based care models. We believe we are positioning our company as a next-generation payor intermediary and partner with healthcare payors and self-insured employers as they roll out value-based model partnerships and transition to value-based precision care.

 

  n   Broadening usage of our solutions among existing clients. We plan to draw upon our deep knowledge of our existing clients’ unmet needs and established relationships with their key decision makers to further expand adoption of CLINICS, including GPS Cancer, NantOS and NantOS apps. Many of our clients are already successfully using certain of our solutions as we continue to work to demonstrate the full value of our integrated Systems Infrastructure and platforms.

 

  n   Developing new features and functionality for CLINICS. We plan to continue to leverage CLINICS, and in particular our NantOS middleware solution, to create new solution features and functionality that our clients can use to drive improved patient outcomes and lower the cost of care. Our NantOS can be utilized on a stand-alone basis, bundled as part of a more comprehensive solution with NantOS apps, or used as a platform-as-a-service to develop industry specific applications. We also plan to develop new NantOS apps and enable third parties to use our platform to develop their own customized applications.

 

  n   Expanding our business in international markets. We plan to expand aggressively in Canada, the United Kingdom and Southeast Asia and opportunistically in other international markets where we or our strategic partners have established relationships and our clients have healthcare business interests. Although an immaterial amount of our total revenue was generated outside the United States in the year ended December 31, 2015, we recognize the opportunity that international expansion provides. We have already initiated projects with clients outside the United States and we expect that over time our revenue from international operations will make up a greater portion of our overall revenue.

 

  n   Complementing internal growth with strategic acquisitions. We believe opportunities exist for us to enhance our competitive position by acquiring additional companies with complementary products and technologies and/or acquiring rights to proprietary products or technologies from third parties.

Cancer MoonShot 2020 Network

We are a founding member of the National Immunotherapy Coalition’s Cancer MoonShot 2020 Network, a collaborative initiative seeking to accelerate the potential of combination immunotherapy as the next- generation standard of care in cancer patients with the aspirational moonshot to develop an effective vaccine-based immunotherapy to combat cancer by 2020. A foundational principle of the network is requiring patients to undergo next-generation panomic molecular fingerprinting (whole genome, transcriptome and quantitative proteomic analysis). We believe our leadership role in the Cancer MoonShot 2020 Network will accelerate the adoption and validation of GPS Cancer.

 



 

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Risks Associated with Our Business

Our business is subject to numerous risks, as more fully described in the section entitled “Risk Factors” immediately following this prospectus summary. You should read these risks before you invest in our common stock. We may be unable, for many reasons, including those that are beyond our control, to implement our business strategy. In particular, risks associated with our business include:

 

  n   We are an early, commercial-stage company attempting to integrate a complex learning ecosystem to address a wide range of healthcare issues, and we may not be successful in doing so;

 

  n   The success of our learning ecosystem is dependent upon the robustness of the information we input into it to achieve maximum network effects, and if we are unable to amass and input the requisite data to achieve these effects, our business will be adversely affected;

 

  n   We have a limited operating history, which may make it difficult to evaluate our current business and predict our future performance;

 

  n   We have a history of significant losses, which we expect to continue, and we may never achieve or sustain profitability in the future;

 

  n   We may need to raise additional capital to fund our existing operations, develop our solutions, commercialize new products and expand our operations;

 

  n   We may not be able to generate sufficient revenue from our sequencing and molecular analysis solutions, including GPS Cancer, or our relationships with customers, to achieve and maintain profitability;

 

  n   Sequencing and molecular analysis may have limited utility unless third parties are able to successfully establish links between genomic sequencing and expression analysis and disease and treatment pathways;

 

  n   Our success will depend on our ability to use rapidly changing genetic data to interpret molecular analysis results accurately and consistently, and our failure to do so would have an adverse effect on our operating results and business;

 

  n   The market for our Systems Infrastructure and platforms is new and unproven and may not grow;

 

  n   The data and information that we provide to our customers and their employees and families could be inaccurate or incomplete, which could harm both patients and our business;

 

  n   Our use of open source technology could impose limitations on our ability to commercialize our Systems Infrastructure and platforms; and

 

  n   Our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and entities affiliated with him collectively own and will own after this offering a significant majority of our common stock and will exercise significant influence over matters requiring stockholder approval, regardless of the wishes of other stockholders.

LLC Conversion

We were formed as a Delaware limited liability company. We converted from a limited liability company into a Delaware corporation on May     , 2016 and changed our name from Nant Health, LLC to NantHealth, Inc., which we refer to as the “LLC Conversion.” In conjunction with the LLC Conversion, all of our outstanding units automatically converted into shares of our common stock. Additionally, upon the LLC Conversion, holders of profits interests in Nant Health, LLC issued pursuant to the Nant Health, LLC Profits Interests Plan, or the Profits Interest Plan, received shares of restricted stock in NantHealth, Inc. Upon the completion of this offering, pursuant to the terms of the Phantom Unit Plan, we expect to issue restricted stock units to holders of phantom units. See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Critical Accounting Policies and Significant Judgments and Estimates—Phantom Unit Plan” for a more detailed description of our phantom unit obligations. See “Description of Securities” for additional information regarding a description of the terms of our common stock following the LLC Conversion and the terms of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws that will be in effect upon the closing of this offering. While operating as a limited liability company, our outstanding

 



 

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equity (including the profits interest units) was called our units. In this prospectus for ease of comparison, we refer to such units as our common stock for periods prior to the LLC Conversion, unless otherwise indicated in this prospectus. Similarly, unless otherwise indicated, we refer to members’ equity in this prospectus as stockholders’ equity. See “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—LLC Conversion.”

Corporate Information

Our business was founded in 2010 and has operated as a Delaware limited liability company under the name “About Advanced Health, LLC.” In 2011, our affiliates NantWorks, LLC, or NantWorks, and California Capital Equity, LLC, or Cal Cap, purchased certain assets from Abraxis Bioscience, LLC, which were subsequently contributed to us. We subsequently changed our name to “All About Advanced Health, LLC” and then to “Nant Health, LLC.” Our principal executive offices are located at 9920 Jefferson Blvd, Culver City, CA 90230 and our telephone number is (310) 883-1300. Our corporate website address is www.nanthealth.com. Information contained on or accessible through our website is not a part of this prospectus, and the inclusion of our website address in this prospectus is an inactive textual reference only.

Implications of Being an Emerging Growth Company

As a company with less than $1.0 billion in revenue during our last fiscal year, we qualify as an “emerging growth company” as defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, or the JOBS Act, enacted in April 2012. An “emerging growth company” may take advantage of reduced reporting requirements that are otherwise applicable to public companies. These provisions include, but are not limited to:

 

  n   being permitted to present only two years of audited financial statements and only two years of related Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in this prospectus;

 

  n   not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended;

 

  n   reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports, proxy statements and registration statements; and

 

  n   exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and stockholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved.

We may use these provisions until the last day of our fiscal year following the fifth anniversary of the closing of this offering. However, if certain events occur prior to the end of such five-year period, including if we become a “large accelerated filer,” our annual gross revenue exceeds $1.0 billion or we issue more than $1.0 billion of non-convertible debt in any three-year period, we will cease to be an emerging growth company prior to the end of such five-year period.

We have elected to take advantage of certain of the reduced disclosure obligations in the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part and may elect to take advantage of other reduced reporting requirements in future filings. As a result, the information that we provide to our stockholders may be different than you might receive from other public reporting companies in which you hold equity interests.

In addition, the JOBS Act provides that an emerging growth company can take advantage of an extended transition period for complying with new or revised accounting standards, delaying the adoption of these accounting standards until they would apply to private companies. We have irrevocably elected not to avail ourselves of this exemption and, as a result, upon completion of this offering we will adopt new or revised accounting standards on the relevant dates on which adoption of such standards is required for other public companies.

 



 

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The Offering

 

Common stock offered by us

             shares

 

Common stock to be outstanding after this offering

             shares
 

 

Underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares

We have granted the underwriters an option, exercisable for 30 days after the date of this prospectus, to purchase up to an additional              shares of common stock from us.

 

Use of proceeds

We estimate that we will receive net proceeds from this offering of approximately $             million based upon an assumed initial public offering price of $             per share, the midpoint of the estimated price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us. We expect to use the net proceeds from this offering to pay approximately $             million to cover withholding taxes for the vesting of restricted stock units at the time of the initial public offering, and the remainder for general corporate purposes, including commercializing new solutions and product extensions and pursuing targeted acquisitions. See “Use of Proceeds” for additional information.

 

Risk factors

You should carefully read “Risk Factors” in this prospectus for a discussion of factors that you should consider before deciding to invest in our common stock.

 

Controlled company

After this offering, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and entities affiliated with him, will control approximately     % of the combined voting power of our outstanding common stock (assuming no exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares, the purchase of $             million of shares in this offering described below and the conversion of $40.0 million in aggregate principal amount of a note plus accrued interest thereon owed to NantOmics, LLC, or NantOmics, described elsewhere in this prospectus). As a result, we will be a “controlled company” under the NASDAQ Global Market corporate governance standards. Under these standards, a company of which more than 50% of the voting power is held by an individual, group or another company is a “controlled company” and may elect not to comply with certain corporate governance standards. See “Management—Controlled Company Exemption.”

 

Reserved share program

At our request, the underwriters have reserved an aggregate of              of the shares of our common stock offered by this prospectus for sale, at the initial public offering price, to our directors and officers and certain employees and other parties related to us. Shares purchased by our directors and officers will be subject to the 180-day lock-up restriction described in the “Underwriting” section of this prospectus. The number of shares of common stock available for sale to the general public will be reduced to the extent these

 



 

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individuals purchase such reserved shares. Any reserved shares that are not so purchased will be offered by the underwriters to the general public on the same basis as the other shares offered by this prospectus.

 

Proposed NASDAQ Global Market trading symbol

“NH”

Certain of our investors, including entities affiliated with Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, have indicated an interest in purchasing up to $     million of shares of our common stock in this offering at the initial public offering price. However, because indications of interest are not binding agreements or commitments to purchase, the underwriters may determine to sell more, fewer or no shares in this offering to any of these parties, or any of these parties may determine to purchase more, fewer or no shares in this offering.

The number of shares of our common stock to be outstanding after this offering is based on              shares of our common stock outstanding as of December 31, 2015 after giving effect to the LLC Conversion described under the section titled “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—LLC Conversion” and the conversion of $40.0 million in aggregate principal amount of a note plus accrued interest thereon owed to NantOmics into shares of our common stock, assuming a note conversion date of                 , 2016 and an initial public offering price of $     per share, the midpoint of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, and excludes:

 

  n                shares of common stock issuable upon the vesting of restricted stock issued in connection with the LLC Conversion to the holders of profits interest units under our Profits Interests Plan that were issued as of December 31, 2015;

 

  n                shares of common stock issuable upon the vesting of restricted stock units, or RSUs, expected to be issued in connection with the completion of this offering to the holders of phantom units under our Phantom Unit Plan that were outstanding as of December 31, 2015;

 

  n                shares of common stock reserved for future issuance under our 2016 Equity Incentive Plan, or the 2016 Plan, which will become effective on the date of this prospectus, as well as any automatic increases of the number of shares of our common stock reserved for future issuance under such plan; and

 

  n   any shares issuable under our stockholders’ agreement, or the Stockholders’ Agreement, to certain of our stockholders, depending on the initial public offering price of our common stock, as described below under “—Potential Issuances Pursuant to Our Stockholders’ Agreement.”

Unless otherwise noted, the information in this prospectus reflects and assumes the following:

 

  n   the consummation of the LLC Conversion described under the section titled “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—LLC Conversion”;

 

  n   the conversion of $40.0 million in aggregate principal amount of a note plus accrued interest thereon owed to NantOmics into          shares of our common stock, assuming a note conversion date of                 , 2016 and an initial public offering price of $        per share, the midpoint of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus;

 

  n   the filing of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and the adoption of our amended and restated bylaws in connection with the completion of this offering; and

 

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Potential Issuances Pursuant to Our Stockholders’ Agreement

Pursuant to the Stockholders’ Agreement, we may be required to issue additional shares of our common stock to two of our existing stockholders identified below depending on the actual initial public offering price of our common stock. The actual initial public offering price will be determined in good faith by our board of directors shortly before the pricing of this offering. The Stockholders’ Agreement provides that if we issue shares in connection with this offering at a price below $2.7995 per share, we will be required to issue additional shares of our common stock to our stockholders NHealth Holdings, Inc. and KHealth Holdings, Inc. immediately prior to the closing of this offering. The actual number of additional shares we would be required to issue to these stockholders will depend on how far below (if at all) the actual initial public offering price per share in this offering is below $2.7995 as well as how many shares we issue in this offering. If the actual initial public offering price is equal to $                 per share, the midpoint of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus (assuming that the number of shares offered by us in this offering, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same), we would be required to issue an aggregate of                  shares of our common stock to these stockholders immediately prior to the closing of this offering. For illustrative purposes only, the table below shows the number of additional shares of our common stock that we would be required to issue to NHealth Holdings, Inc. and KHealth Holdings, Inc. based on various actual initial public offering prices (assuming the number of shares offered by us in this offering, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same):

Additional Shares of Common Stock to Be Issued

 

     Illustrative Actual Initial Public Offering Price  
   $                    $                    $
            
  
   $                    $                
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 
              

NHealth Holdings, Inc.

              

KHealth Holdings, Inc.

              
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

              
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

For illustrative purposes only, the table below shows the number of additional shares of our common stock that we would be required to issue to NHealth Holdings, Inc. and KHealth Holdings, Inc. based on various actual numbers of shares offered in this offering (assuming the initial public offering price is $     per share, the midpoint of the price range on the cover page of this prospectus):

Additional Shares of Common Stock to Be Issued

 

     Illustrative Actual Number of Shares Issued in This Offering
              
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

              

NHealth Holdings, Inc.

              

KHealth Holdings, Inc.

              
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

Total

              
  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

  

 

The discussion above does not assume the exercise by the underwriters of their option to purchase additional shares in this offering. Any additional option shares sold in this offering could similarily further impact the number of any additional shares issued pursuant to the Stockholders’ Agreement.

 



 

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Summary Consolidated Financial and Other Data

We derived the following summary consolidated and combined statements of our operations data for the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2015 and the summary consolidated balance sheet data as of December 31, 2015 from our audited consolidated and combined financial statements appearing elsewhere in this prospectus. These statements do not include the historical results of our NaviNet acquisition, which was completed in January 2016. Historical results are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected in the future and are not necessarily indicative of results to be expected for any other period. You should read the following summary financial data together with the consolidated and combined financial statements and the related notes included elsewhere in this prospectus, as well as the sections of this prospectus captioned “Selected Consolidated Financial and Other Data,” “Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Information” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.”

 

 

 

     YEAR ENDED
DECEMBER 31,
 
     2014     2015  
(in thousands)             

Consolidated Statements of Operations Data:

    

Revenue:

    

Software and hardware

   $ 8,372      $ 14,616   

Software-as-a-service

     9,778        20,734   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total software-related revenue

     18,150        35,350   

Maintenance

     5,345        10,452   

Sequencing and molecular analysis

            75   

Other services

     10,426        12,427   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total net revenue

     33,921        58,304   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cost of Revenue:

    

Software and hardware

     1,025        90   

Software-as-a-service

     8,026        7,019   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total software-related cost of revenue

     9,051        7,109   

Maintenance

     438        1,874   

Sequencing and molecular analysis

            39   

Other services

     7,047        15,202   

Amortization of developed technologies

     7,694        10,585   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total cost of revenue

     24,230        34,809   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Gross Profit

     9,691        23,495   

Operating Expenses:

    

Selling, general and administrative

     46,209        69,021   

Research and development

     16,979        23,835   

Amortization of software license and acquisition-related assets

     7,033        1,542   

Impairment of intangible asset

     24,150          
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total operating expenses

     94,371        94,398   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Loss from operations

     (84,680     (70,903

Interest expense, net

     (980     (627

Other income (expense), net

     (477     2,508   

Income (loss) from equity method investments

     1,525        (2,584
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Loss before income taxes

     (84,612     (71,606

Provision for income taxes

     5        405   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net loss

     (84,617     (72,011

Less: Net loss attributable to non-controlling interests

     (192       
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net loss attributable to NantHealth

   $ (84,425 )    $ (72,011 ) 
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Other Data:

    

Adjusted EBITDA (1)

   $ (43,173   $ (51,781

 

 

 



 

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     AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2015
(in thousands)    ACTUAL     PRO FORMA (2)    PRO FORMA
AS ADJUSTED (3)(4)
           (unaudited)

Consolidated Balance Sheet Data:

       

Cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities

   $ 7,232        

Working capital

     (10,210     

Total assets

     411,953        

Total liabilities

     60,906        

Redeemable Series F units

     166,042        

Accumulated deficit

     (291,171     

Total stockholders’ equity

     185,005        

 

 

(1)   EBITDA represents earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, a non-GAAP financial measure, and is used by us and others as a supplemental measure of performance. We use Adjusted EBITDA to assess the performance of our core operations, for financial and operational decision making, and as a supplemental or additional means of evaluating period-to-period comparisons on a consistent basis. Adjusted EBITDA is calculated as net loss adjusted to exclude depreciation and amortization, interest expense, provision for income taxes, other income/loss, income/loss from equity method investments, stock-based compensation expense, long-lived assets impairment charges and corporate restructuring. We believe Adjusted EBITDA provides investors relevant and useful information. EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA do not reflect our historical cash expenditures or future cash requirements for capital expenditures or contractual commitments. While EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are relevant and widely used measures of performance, they do not represent net income or cash flows from operations as defined by U.S. GAAP, and they should not be considered as alternatives to those indicators in evaluating performance. Other companies, including companies in our industry, may calculate EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA measures differently, which reduces their usefulness as a comparative measure. See “—Non-GAAP Financial Measures” below.

 

     YEAR ENDED
DECEMBER 31,
 
(in thousands)    2014     2015  

Net loss

   $ (84,617   $ (72,011

Depreciation and amortization

     16,178        15,788   

Interest expense, net .

     980        627   

Provision for income taxes

     5        405   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

EBITDA

     (67,454     (55,191

Other (income)/loss, net .

     477        (2,508

(Income)/Loss from equity method investments .

     (1,525     2,584   

Stock-based compensation expense .

     340        1,429   

Long-lived assets impairment charges .

     24,150          

Corporate restructuring

     839        1,905   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Adjusted EBITDA

   $ (43,173   $ (51,781
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(2)   The pro forma column reflects (i) the LLC Conversion described under the section titled “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—LLC Conversion” and (ii) the conversion of $40.0 million in aggregate principal amount of a note plus accrued interest thereon owed to NantOmics into              shares of our common stock at the time of pricing of this offering, assuming a note conversion date of                     , 2016 and an initial public offering price of $             per share, the midpoint of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus.

 

(3)   The pro forma as adjusted column reflects (i) the pro forma adjustments set forth in footnote (2) above, (ii) the sale and issuance by us of             shares of common stock in this offering at the assumed initial public offering price of $            per share, the midpoint of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses and (iii) the issuance of             shares issuable pursuant to the Stockholders’ Agreement to certain of our stockholders immediately prior to the closing of this offering (assuming the actual initial public offering price is equal to the assumed initial public offering price of $            per share, the midpoint of the price range, and the actual number of shares sold in this offering remains the same (each as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus)).

 

(4)   Each $1.00 increase (decrease) in the assumed initial public offering price of $            per share, the midpoint of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, would increase (decrease) pro forma as adjusted cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities, working capital, total assets and total stockholders’ equity by approximately $            million, assuming that the number of shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions. We may also increase or decrease the number of shares we are offering. An increase (decrease) of 1,000,000 in the number of shares we are offering would increase (decrease) pro forma as adjusted cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities, working capital, total assets and total stockholders’ equity by approximately $            million, assuming the assumed initial public offering price per share, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and
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RISK FACTORS

Investing in our common stock involves a high degree of risk. You should carefully consider the risks described below, as well as all other information included in this prospectus, including our financial statements and the related notes and the section titled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” before you decide to purchase shares of our common stock. If any of the following risks actually occurs, our business, financial condition, operating results, prospects and ability to accomplish our strategic objectives could be materially harmed. As a result, the trading price of our common stock could decline and you could lose all or part of your investment. Additional risks and uncertainties not presently known to us or that we currently deem immaterial may also impair our business operations and the market price of our common stock.

Risks related to our business approach

We are an early, commercial-stage company attempting to integrate a complex learning system to address a wide range of healthcare issues, and we may not be successful in doing so.

We are an early, commercial-stage company with a business model based upon a novel approach to healthcare. CLINICS is designed to address many of the key challenges healthcare constituents face by enabling them to acquire and store genomic and proteomic data, combine diagnostic inputs with phenotypic and cost data, analyze datasets, securely deliver that data to providers in a clinical setting to aid selection of the appropriate treatments, monitor patient biometric data and progression on a real-time basis, and demonstrate improved patient outcomes and costs. Integration across our Systems Infrastructure and platforms may take longer than we expect, or may never occur at all.

We have also recently made multiple acquisitions of businesses, technologies and service offerings including Net. Orange, Inc., or NDO, certain assets of Harris Corporation, through its Harris Healthcare Solutions business unit, or Harris Healthcare Solutions, and NaviNet, in an effort to expand the breadth of our offerings. We have not yet completed the integration of these businesses, technologies and service offering into our operations. Additionally, certain of these acquired businesses, technologies and service offerings have not yet been commercially tested or validated. We may not be able to integrate these new business, technologies and services offerings into our operations effectively or at all. Additionally, we may be unable to extract the synergies or benefits that we currently expect from these business, technologies and service offerings.

Due to the above factors, it may take longer than we expect, or we may never be able, to fully integrate our system as planned. If our integration efforts are not successful we may not be able to attract new clients and to expand our offerings to existing clients.

The success of CLINICS is dependent upon the robustness of the information we and others input into the system to achieve maximum network effects, and if we are unable to amass and input the requisite data to achieve these effects, our business will be adversely affected.

CLINICS becomes more valuable as more accurate and clinically relevant information is integrated into it, and our ultimate outputs and recommendations to a patient, provider or payor are therefore highly dependent on the information that is input into our system. As a result, we will need to consistently and continuously have access to and integrate the most medically relevant and cutting edge clinical data and research studies with patient-specific real-time genomic and proteomic sequences and biometric data. To have access to biometric data in particular, we will rely on patients, provider and payors to adopt devices that are compatible with our systems and they may not adopt such devices on a scale or at a rate sufficient to support our offerings or at all. Further, to have access to certain other datapoints, we will rely in part on third parties to develop applications to that run on NantOS operating system and to generate more data to be integrated into CLINICS. These third parties may never develop applications compatible with NantOS or may develop them slower rate and our ability to address transfer native shifts in healthcare than we expect. To the extent we are unable to amass enough data, keep an inflow of current and continuous data or integrate and access the data we currently have to continue to populate CLINICS, the network effects we expect will not be fully realized and our business may be adversely affected.

 

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We may be unable to appropriately allocate our financial and human resources across our broad array of product and service offerings.

We have a broad array of product and service offerings. Our management team will be responsible for allocating resources across these products and services, and may forego or delay pursuit of opportunities with certain products or services that later prove to have greater commercial potential. Our resource allocation decisions may cause us to fail to capitalize on attractive products or services or market opportunities. Our spending on current and future research and development programs and future products or services may not yield commercially viable products or services, or may fail to optimize the anticipated network effects of CLINICS. If our management is unable to appropriately prioritize the allocation of our resources among our broad range of products and services in an efficient manner, our business may be adversely affected.

Risks related to our financial condition and capital requirements

We have a limited operating history, which may make it difficult to evaluate our current business and predict our future performance.

We were organized as a limited liability company in Delaware and began operations in 2010. Additionally, our business has previously operated as part of the larger NantWorks group of affiliated companies. Our limited independent operating history, particularly in light of the increasingly complex and rapidly evolving healthcare and technology markets in which we operate, may make it difficult to evaluate our current business and predict our future performance. In addition, we have acquired numerous companies or businesses over the past two years, including NDO, certain assets of Harris Healthcare Solutions and NaviNet. We have had limited experience operating these businesses as a whole and as such, it may be difficult to evaluate our current business and predict our future operating performance. In light of the foregoing, any assessment of our profitability or prediction about our future success or viability is subject to significant uncertainty. We have encountered and will continue to encounter risks and difficulties frequently experienced by early, commercial-stage companies in rapidly evolving industries. If we do not address these challenges successfully, our business results will suffer.

We have a history of significant losses, which we expect to continue, and we may never achieve or sustain profitability in the future.

We have incurred significant net losses in each fiscal year since inception and expect to continue to incur net losses for the foreseeable future. We experienced net losses of $84.6 million and $72.0 million during the years ended December 31, 2014 and December 31, 2015, respectively. As of December 31, 2015, we had an accumulated deficit of $291.2 million. The losses and accumulated deficit were primarily due to the substantial investments we made to grow our business and enhance our Systems Infrastructure and platforms. We have grown our business through research and development and the acquisition of assets, businesses and customers. We anticipate that our operating expenses will increase substantially in the foreseeable future as we seek to continue to grow our business, including through strategic acquisitions, and build and further penetrate our client base and develop our product and service offerings, including GPS Cancer. These efforts may prove more expensive than we currently anticipate, and we may not succeed in increasing our revenue sufficiently to offset these higher expenses.

Our prior losses, combined with our expected future losses, have had and will continue to have an adverse effect on our stockholders’ equity and working capital. We expect to continue to incur operating losses for the foreseeable future and may never become profitable on a quarterly or annual basis, or if we do, we may not be able to sustain profitability in subsequent periods. Our failure to achieve and sustain profitability in the future would negatively affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows, and could cause the market price of our common stock to decline.

We may need to raise additional capital to fund our existing operations, develop our solutions, commercialize new products and expand our operations.

Based on our current business plan, we believe the net proceeds from this offering, together with our current cash, cash equivalents, marketable securities, and our ability to borrow from affiliated entities, will be sufficient to meet our anticipated cash requirements over at least the next 12 months. If our available cash balances, net proceeds from this offering and anticipated cash flow from operations are insufficient to satisfy our liquidity requirements, we may seek to sell common or preferred equity or convertible debt securities, enter into a credit facility or another form of third-party funding, or seek other debt financing.

 

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We may consider raising additional capital in the future to expand our business, to pursue strategic investments, to take advantage of financing opportunities, or for other reasons, including to:

 

  n   increase our sales and marketing efforts to drive market adoption of CLINICS, GPS Cancer, NantOS and NantOS apps;

 

  n   address competitive developments;

 

  n   fund development and marketing efforts of any future platforms and solutions;

 

  n   expand adoption of GPS Cancer and eviti into critical illnesses outside of oncology;

 

  n   acquire, license or invest in complimentary businesses, technologies or service offerings; and

 

  n   finance capital expenditures and general and administrative expenses.

Our present and future funding requirements will depend on many factors, including:

 

  n   our success in driving adoption and reimbursement of GPS Cancer;

 

  n   our ability to achieve revenue growth;

 

  n   the cost of expanding our products and service offerings, including our sales and marketing efforts;

 

  n   our ability to achieve interoperability across all of our acquired businesses, technologies and service offerings to deliver networking effects to our clients;

 

  n   the effect of competing technological and market developments;

 

  n   costs related to international expansion; and

 

  n   the potential cost of and delays in product development as a result of any regulatory oversight applicable to our products.

The various ways we could raise additional capital carry potential risks. If we raise funds by issuing equity securities, dilution to our stockholders could result. Any equity securities issued also could provide for rights, preferences or privileges senior to those of holders of our common stock. If we raise funds by issuing debt securities, those debt securities would have rights, preferences and privileges senior to those of holders of our common stock. The terms of debt securities issued or borrowings pursuant to a credit agreement could impose significant restrictions on our operations.

Risks related to our sequencing and molecular analysis solutions, including GPS Cancer

We may not be able to generate sufficient revenue from our sequencing and molecular analysis solutions, including GPS Cancer, or our relationships with sequencing and molecular analysis customers, to achieve and maintain profitability.

We believe our commercial success depends significantly upon our ability to successfully market and sell our sequencing and molecular analysis solutions, including GPS Cancer, to continue to expand our current relationships and develop new relationships with physicians, self-insured employers, payors and healthcare providers, and expand adoption of sequencing and molecular analysis for disease indications outside oncology. The demand for sequencing and molecular analysis may decrease or may not continue to increase at historical rates for a number of reasons. Our clients may decide to decrease or discontinue their use of sequencing and molecular analysis due to changes in research and product development plans, financial constraints or utilization of internal molecular testing resources or molecular tests performed by others, which are circumstances outside of our control. In addition to reducing our revenue, this may reduce our exposure to early stage research that facilitates the incorporation of newly developed information about cancer into GPS Cancer. Further, we may be unsuccessful in expanding our clients’ use of sequencing and molecular analysis outside of oncology.

We are currently not profitable. Even if we succeed in increasing adoption of sequencing and molecular analysis by physicians, self-insured employers, payors and healthcare providers, maintaining and creating relationships with our existing and new clients, we may not be able to generate sufficient revenue from sequencing and molecular analysis to achieve profitability.

 

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Sequencing and molecular analysis may have limited utility unless we or third parties are able to successfully establish links between genomic sequencing and expression analysis and disease and treatment pathways.

Full genomic sequencing and expression analysis may have limited utility on a stand-alone basis. We believe the real value is derived by linking genomic sequencing and RNA and proteomic analysis with disease pathways to help enable the discovery and development personalized treatments. We do not currently, and do not expect in the future to, engage in research regarding disease pathways or engage in the development or commercialization of specific therapeutics or drugs. Instead, we will rely on third parties to do so. However, if third party time and funding is not devoted to determining disease pathways or to discovering, developing and marketing therapeutics or drugs specific to such pathways, sequencing and molecular analysis and GPS Cancer will be of limited utility and our business may be adversely affected.

Our success will depend on our ability to use rapidly changing genetic data to interpret molecular analysis results accurately and consistently, and our failure to do so would have an adverse effect on our operating results and business.

Our success depends on our ability to provide reliable, high-quality molecular profiling tests that incorporate rapidly evolving information about the role of genes and gene variants in disease and clinically relevant outcomes associated with those variants. The accuracy and reproducibility we have demonstrated to date may not continue, particularly for clinical samples, as molecular analysis volume increases. Errors, including if molecular analysis fails to detect genomic variants with high accuracy, or omissions, including if we fail to or incompletely or incorrectly identify the significance of gene variants, could have a significant adverse impact on our business. Hundreds of genes can be implicated in some disorders, and overlapping networks of genes and symptoms can play a role in multiple conditions. We also rely on clinicians to interpret what we report and to incorporate specific information about an individual patient into the physician’s treatment decision. As a result, a substantial amount of judgment is required in order to interpret testing results for an individual patient and to develop an appropriate patient report. Due to such errors in judgment, patient outcomes may not be improved even if GPS Cancer performs to our expectations.

The efficiency of sequencing and molecular analysis, including GPS Cancer, and the results that we achieve depend on the design and operation of our sequencing process, which uses a number of complex and sophisticated biochemical, informatics, optical, and mechanical processes, many of which are highly sensitive to external factors. An operational or technology failure in one of these complex processes or fluctuations in external variables may result in sequencing processing efficiencies that are lower than we anticipate or that vary between sequencing runs. In addition, we are regularly evaluating and refining our sequencing process. These refinements may initially result in unanticipated issues that further reduce our sequencing process yields or increase the variability of our sequencing yields. Low sequencing yields can cause variability in our operating results and damage our reputation. In addition, although we believe GPS Cancer is a comprehensive molecular profiling solution, no solution is fully comprehensive and it will need to be continually improved in line with improvements in science and technology and potential developments by our competitors. If GPS Cancer proves to not be fully comprehensive now or in the future, customer demand for GPS Cancer may be adversely affected.

GPS Cancer can determine whether specific genes are over- or under-expressed which can affect protein levels and, as a result, cancer phenotype and drug efficacy in a particular patient. Such gene expression can also capture the effect of post-translational modifications, which can have equally significant implications on how a cancer is expressed in a patient and in turn may impact treatment decisions. GPS Cancer represents a novel and largely unproven approach to the diagnosis of cancer and may not be accurate based on the evolving understanding of how genomic sequences and proteomic analysis relate to disease progression and drug efficacy and resistance. As a result, the marketing, sale and use of molecular analysis and GPS Cancer could subject us to liability for errors in, misunderstandings of, or inappropriate reliance on, information we provide to physicians or geneticists, and lead to claims against us if someone were to allege that our solutions failed to perform as they were designed, if we failed to correctly interpret results, or if the ordering physician were to misinterpret our results or improperly rely on them when making a clinical decision. A product liability or professional liability claim could result in substantial financial and reputational damages and be costly and time-consuming for us to defend. Although we maintain liability insurance, including for errors and omissions, we cannot assure you that our insurance would fully protect us from the financial impact of defending against these types of claims or any judgments, fines or settlement costs arising out of any such claims. Any liability claim, including an errors and omissions liability claim, brought against us, with

 

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or without merit, could increase our insurance rates or prevent us from securing insurance coverage in the future. Additionally, any liability lawsuit could cause injury to our reputation or cause us to suspend sales of our sequencing and or molecular analysis solutions. The occurrence of any of these events could have an adverse effect on our business, reputation and results of operations.

Our sequencing and molecular analysis solutions may never achieve significant commercial market acceptance.

Our sequencing and molecular analysis solutions may never gain significant acceptance in the marketplace and, therefore, may never generate substantial revenue or profits for us. Our ability to achieve commercial market acceptance for our sequencing and molecular analysis solutions will depend on several factors, including:

 

  n   our ability to convince key thought lenders, physicians and caregivers and other key oncology stakeholders of the clinical utility of our entire product offering and its potential advantages over existing sequencing tests, specifically, the advantages of our RNA sequencing, mapping oncology disease pathways versus a patient’s own germline and our quantitative proteomic analysis;

 

  n   the willingness of physicians, self-insured employers, payors and healthcare providers to utilize GPS Cancer; and

 

  n   the willingness of commercial third-party payors and government payors to reimburse GPS Cancer, the scope and amount of which will affect patients’ willingness or ability to pay for GPS Cancer and likely heavily influence our customers’ decisions to recommend GPS Cancer.

Further, today’s most advanced diagnostics tests analyze narrow gene panels that capture only a limited number of the most common gene alterations, as compared to GPS Cancer, which sequences the patient’s whole genome (comparing both a patient’s normal and tumor tissue) and RNA and performs quantitative proteomic analysis. These narrow gene panels for specific treatments or disease areas are much less expensive than GPS Cancer. Although we believe that the advantages of sequencing the patient’s whole genome for the treatment of cancer, as well as running additional RNA and proteomic sequencing tests, outweigh the costs, key thought leaders, physicians and other caregivers, other key oncology stakeholders and payors may not agree. Further, if advances are made in the understanding of disease states and pathways do not reveal a benefit to whole genome and RNA and proteomic sequencing in areas beyond cancer then the market potential for GPS Cancer will be limited. Failure to achieve widespread commercial market acceptance for our sequencing and molecular analysis solutions could materially harm our business, financial condition and results of operations.

If we cannot compete successfully with our competitors for our sequencing and molecular analysis solutions, including GPS Cancer, we may be unable to increase or sustain our revenue or achieve and sustain profitability.

Personalized molecular analysis is a new area of science, and we face competition from companies that offer products, or have conducted research, to profile genes and gene expression in various cancers. Our principal competition for GPS Cancer comes from diagnostic companies that also offer whole genome sequencing. We also compete with diagnostic companies offering molecular diagnostic tests that capture only a single-marker or test panels that capture a limited number of the most well-known gene alterations, known as hotspot panel tests. In addition, academic research centers, diagnostic companies and next-generation sequencing, or NGS, platform developers are offering or developing NGS-based testing. NGS-based testing also has the capability to provide whole genome sequencing to compete with GPS Cancer.

Our competitors include companies such as Foundation Medicine, Inc., or Foundation Medicine, Caris Life Sciences, LLC, or Caris Life Sciences, and Personal Genome Diagnostics, Inc., or Personal Genome Diagnostics. Many hospitals and academic medical centers may also seek to perform the type of molecular testing we perform at their own facilities. As such, our competition may include entities such as the University of Michigan, Baylor Medical Genetics Laboratories, Washington University in St. Louis and other academic hospitals and research centers.

In addition to developing kits, some diagnostic companies also provide NGS platforms. Illumina, Inc., Life Technologies Corporation, Invitae Corporation, and other companies develop NGS platforms that are being sold directly to research centers, biopharmaceutical companies and clinical laboratories. While many of the applications for these platforms are focused on the research and development markets or testing for conditions outside of oncology, these companies have launched and will continue to commercialize products focused on the clinical oncology market. Although we believe GPS Cancer is a comprehensive molecular profiling solution, our competitors may develop more comprehensive or superior alternative offerings. We believe diagnostic platform providers will seek

 

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to place sequencing machines in laboratories to develop NGS-based laboratory-developed tests, or LDTs. In addition, we believe these companies will also develop their own diagnostic kits approved by the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, which can be sold to the clients who have purchased their platforms. Also, many private companies are developing information technology-based tools to support the integration of NGS-based testing into the clinical setting.

Additionally, some of our competitors’ sequencing tests are being used in FDA clinical trials as companion diagnostics. Because companion diagnostics help identify whether a patient’s disease expresses the molecular target, or biomarker, for the particular drug, they can help ensure the drug’s efficacy and are sometimes required by the FDA to be used with certain drugs. GPS Cancer may not have the genetic and proteomic analysis capability on par with a companion diagnostic to guide therapeutic treatments for certain customers. Further, the FDA requires a companion diagnostic test if a new drug works on a specific genetic or biological target that is present in some, but not all, patients with a certain cancer or disease. Even if it is shown to be on par with FDA-approved companion diagnostics, physicians and payors may still not choose to use GPS Cancer. If physicians and payors utilize and pay for these FDA-approved companion diagnostic tests instead of GPS Cancer, our business may be adversely affected.

Any of these competitors could have technological, financial and market access advantages that are not currently available to us.

The molecular diagnostics industry is subject to rapidly changing technology, which could make GPS Cancer and other products we may develop or license in the future obsolete.

Our industry is characterized by rapid technological changes, frequent new product introductions and enhancements and evolving industry standards, all of which could make GPS Cancer or our other products we develop or license obsolete. Our future success will depend on our ability to keep pace with the evolving needs of our clients on a timely and cost-effective basis and to pursue new market opportunities that develop as a result of technological and scientific advances. In recent years, there have been numerous advances in technologies relating to the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. There have also been advances in methods used to analyze very large amounts of genomic information. We must continuously enhance GPS Cancer and our other solutions, and we may also need to develop or license new technologies, to keep pace with evolving standards of care. If we do not update GPS Cancer or our other solutions to reflect new scientific knowledge about cancer biology, information about new cancer therapies, or relevant clinical trials, GPS Cancer could become obsolete and our GPS Cancer revenue growth would be limited, which would have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

If we are not able to establish relationships with, or lose the support of, key thought leaders or payors’ key decision makers, it may be difficult to establish GPS Cancer as a standard of care for patients with cancer, which may limit our revenue growth and ability to achieve profitability.

We are establishing relationships with leading oncology thought leaders and payors’ key decision makers. If we are unable to establish these relationships, or these key thought leaders or payors’ key decision makers determine that GPS Cancer, or other products or services that we develop or license, are not clinically or operationally effective or that alternative technologies and services are more effective or cost-efficient, or if they elect to use and promote internally developed products, we would encounter significant difficulty driving adoption of GPS Cancer and other technologies and services and validating GPS Cancer as a standard of care, which would limit our revenue growth and our ability to achieve profitability.

Ethical, legal and social concerns related to the use of genomic information could reduce demand for our sequencing and molecular analysis solutions, including GPS Cancer.

Genomic testing, like that conducted using GPS Cancer, has raised ethical, legal and social issues regarding privacy and the appropriate uses of the resulting information. Governmental authorities could, for social or other purposes, limit or regulate the use of genomic information or genomic testing, particularly for those that have no known cure. These concerns may lead patients to refuse to use, or clinicians to be reluctant to order, whole genome genomic tests even if permissible.

Ethical and social concerns may also influence U.S. and foreign patent offices and courts with regard to patent protection for technology relevant to our business. These and other ethical, legal and social concerns may limit market acceptance of our products or reduce the potential markets for products enabled by our sequencing and

 

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molecular analysis solutions, including GPS Cancer, either of which could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations.

Risks related to our Systems Infrastructure, NantOS and NantOS apps business

The market for our Systems Infrastructure, NantOS and NantOS apps is new and unproven and may not grow.

We believe our future success will depend in large part on establishing and growing a market for our Systems Infrastructure, NantOS and NantOS apps that are able to provide operational intelligence, particularly designed to collect and index machine data. Our Systems Infrastructure is designed to address interoperability challenges across the healthcare continuum. It integrates big data with real time resources and applies machine learning algorithms to inform and optimize treatment decisions. In order to grow our business, we intend to expand the functionality of our offering to increase its acceptance and use by the broader market. In particular, our Systems Infrastructure is targeted at those in the healthcare continuum that are transitioning from fee-for-service to a value-based reimbursement models. While we believe this to be the current trend in healthcare, this trend may not continue in the future. Our Systems Infrastructure is less effective with a traditional fee-for-service model and if there is a reversion in the industry to fee-for-service, or a shift to another model, we would need to update our offerings and we may not be able to do so effectively or at all. It is difficult to predict client adoption and renewal rates, client demand for our software, the size and growth rate of the market for our solutions, the entry of competitive products or the success of existing competitive products. Many of our potential clients may already be party to existing agreements for competing offerings that may have lengthy terms or onerous termination provisions, and they may have already made substantial investments into those platforms which would result in high switching costs. Any expansion in our market depends on a number of factors, including the cost, performance and perceived value associated with such operating system and software applications particularly in light of the aforementioned shifting market dynamics. Although we have experienced rapid adoption of our Systems Infrastructure, NantOS and NantOS apps to date, that rate may slow or decline in the future, which would harm our business and operating results. In addition, while many large hospital systems and payors use our solutions, many of these entities use only certain of our offerings, and we may not be successful in driving broader adoption of our solutions among these existing users, which would limit our revenue growth.

If the market for our offerings does not achieve widespread adoption or there is a reduction in demand for our offerings in our market caused by a lack of customer acceptance, technological challenges, lack of accessible machine data, competing technologies and products, decreases in corporate spending, weakening economic conditions, or otherwise, it could result in reduced customer orders, early terminations, reduced renewal rates or decreased revenues, any of which would adversely affect our business operations and financial results. You should consider our business and prospects in light of the risks and difficulties we encounter in this new and unproven market.

The data and information that we provide to our clients, and their constituents, could be inaccurate or incomplete, which could harm both patients and our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Our NantOS offering stores and displays data from a variety of third-party sources for use in treating patients and to search and compare options for healthcare services and treatments. As part of our eviti solution, we provide up-to-date information regarding cancer research, along with a list of potential treatments and relevant clinical trials seeking enrollment. Most of this data comes from health plans, our clients, published guidelines, peer-reviewed journals and other third parties. Because data in the healthcare industry is often fragmented in origin, inconsistent in format and often incomplete, the overall quality of certain types of data we receive can be poor. If these data are incorrect or incomplete or if we make mistakes in the capture or input of there data, or in our interpretation or analysis of such data, adverse consequences, including patient death and serious injury, may occur and give rise to product liability and other claims against us. In addition, a court or government agency may take the position that our storage and display of health information exposes us to personal injury liability or other liability for wrongful delivery or handling of healthcare services or erroneous health information. While we maintain insurance coverage, we cannot assure that this coverage will prove to be adequate or will continue to be available on acceptable terms, if at all. Even unsuccessful claims could result in substantial costs, reputational damage, and diversion of management resources. A claim brought against us that is uninsured or under-insured could harm our business, financial condition and results of operations.

 

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Our use of open source technology could impose limitations on our ability to commercialize our offerings.

Our offerings incorporate open source software components that are licensed to us under various public domain licenses. Some open source software licenses require users who distribute open source software as part of their software to publicly disclose all or part of the source code to such software or make available any derivative works of the open source code on unfavorable terms or at no cost. There is little or no legal precedent governing the interpretation of many of the terms of these licenses and therefore the potential impact of such terms on our business is not fully known or predictable. There is a risk that such licenses could be construed in a manner that imposes unanticipated conditions or restrictions on our ability to market our software products and services. While we monitor our use of open source software and try to ensure that none is used in a manner that would require us to disclose our source code or that would otherwise breach the terms of an open source agreement, such use could inadvertently occur and we may be required to release our proprietary source code, pay damages for breach of contract, re-engineer one or more of our offerings, discontinue sales of one or more of our offerings in the event re-engineering cannot be accomplished on a timely basis or take other remedial action that may divert resources away from our development efforts, any of which could cause us to breach obligations to our clients, harm our reputation, result in customer losses or claims, increase our costs or otherwise adversely affect our business and operating results.

If we are not able to enhance our Systems Infrastructure, NantOS or NantOS apps to achieve market acceptance and keep pace with technological developments, our business will be harmed.

Our ability to attract new subscribers and increase revenue from existing subscribers depends in large part on our ability to enhance and improve our existing offerings and to introduce new products and services, including products and services designed for a mobile user environment. To grow our business, we must develop products and services that reflect the changing nature of business management software and expand our NantOS offering. The success of any enhancements to our offerings depend on several factors, including timely completion, adequate quality testing and sufficient demand. Any new product or service that we develop may not be introduced in a timely or cost-effective manner, may contain defects or may not achieve the market acceptance necessary to generate sufficient revenue. If we are unable to successfully develop new products or services, enhance our existing offerings to meet subscriber requirements or otherwise gain market acceptance, our business and operating results will be harmed.

In addition, because many of our offerings are available over the Internet, we need to continuously modify and enhance them to keep pace with changes in Internet-related hardware, software, communications and database technologies and standards. If we are unable to respond in a timely and cost-effective manner to these rapid technological developments and changes in standards, our offerings may become less marketable, less competitive or obsolete, and our operating results will be harmed. If new technologies emerge that are able to deliver competitive products and applications at lower prices, more efficiently, more conveniently or more securely, such technologies could adversely impact our ability to compete. Our offerings must also integrate with a variety of network, hardware, mobile, and software platforms and technologies, and we need to continuously modify and enhance them to adapt to changes and innovation in these technologies. Any failure of our offerings to operate effectively with future infrastructure platforms and technologies could reduce the demand for such offerings. If we are unable to respond to these changes in a cost-effective manner, our offerings may become less marketable, less competitive or obsolete, and our operating results may be adversely affected.

Our data suppliers might restrict our use of or refuse to license data, which could lead to our inability to provide certain products or services.

A portion of the data that we use is either purchased or licensed from third parties or is obtained from our customers for specific customer engagements. Although we typically enter into long-term contractual arrangements with many of these suppliers of data, at the time of entry into a new contract or renewal of an existing contract, suppliers may increase restrictions on our use of such data, increase the price they charge us for data or refuse altogether to license the data to us. In addition, during the term of any data supply contract, suppliers may fail to adhere to our data quality control standards or fail to deliver data. Further, although no single individual data supplier is material to our business, if a number of suppliers collectively representing a significant amount of data that we use for one or more of our services were to impose additional contractual restrictions on our use of or access to data, fail to adhere to our quality-control standards, repeatedly fail to deliver data or refuse to provide data, now or in the future, our ability to provide those services to our clients could be materially adversely impacted, which may harm our operating results and financial condition.

 

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We believe that we have rights necessary to use the data that is incorporated into our offerings. However, in the future, data providers could withdraw their data from us if there is a competitive reason to do so, or if legislation is passed restricting the use of the data, or if judicial interpretations are issued restricting use of the data that we currently use in our products and services. If a substantial number of data providers were to withdraw their data, our ability to provide our offerings to our clients could be materially adversely impacted.

For example, in order to deliver the full functionality offered by NantOS, we need access, on behalf of our customers, to sources of pricing and claims data, much of which is managed by a limited number of health plans and other third parties. We have developed various long-term and short-term data sharing relationships with certain health plans and other third parties, including many of the largest health plans in the United States. The health plans and other third parties that we currently work with may, in the future, change their position and limit or eliminate our access to pricing and claims data, increase the costs charged to us for access to data, provide data to us in more limited or less useful formats, or restrict our permitted uses of data. Furthermore, some health plans have developed or are developing their own proprietary price and quality estimation tools and may perceive continued cooperation with us as a competitive disadvantage and choose to limit or discontinue our access to pricing and claims data. Failure to continue to maintain and expand our access to pricing and claims data will adversely impact our ability to continue to serve existing clients and expand NantOS and our other offerings to new clients.

If the validity of an informed consent from a patient enrolled in a clinical trial with one of our clients was challenged, we could be forced to stop using some of our resources, which would hinder the development efforts for our sequencing and molecular analysis solutions.

We have implemented measures designed to ensure that clinical data and genetic and other biological samples that we receive from our customers have been collected from subjects who have provided appropriate informed consent for purposes which extend to our product development activities. We seek to ensure that these data and samples are provided for processing via our molecular profiling solution in a manner that does not use readily individually identifiable information of the subject. We also have measures in place to ensure that the subjects from whom the data and samples are collected do not retain or have conferred on them any proprietary or commercial rights to the data or any discoveries derived from them. Further, our clients may conduct clinical trials in a number of different countries, and, to a large extent, we rely upon them to comply with the subject’s informed consent and with local law and international regulation. The collection of data and samples in many different countries results in complex legal questions regarding the adequacy of informed consent and the status of genetic material under a large number of different legal systems. The subject’s informed consent obtained in any particular country could be challenged in the future, and those informed consents could prove invalid, unlawful, or otherwise inadequate for our purposes. Any findings against us, or our clients, could deny us access to or force us to stop using some of our clinical samples, which would hinder our molecular profiling solution development efforts. We could become involved in legal challenges, which could consume our management and financial resources.

Failure by our clients to obtain proper permissions and waivers may result in claims against us or may limit or prevent our use of data which could harm our business.

We require our clients and business associates to provide necessary notices and to obtain necessary permissions and waivers for use and disclosure of the information that we receive, and we require contractual assurances from them that they have done so and will do so. If they do not obtain necessary permissions and waivers, then our use and disclosure of information that we receive from them or on their behalf may be limited or prohibited by state or federal privacy laws or other laws. This could impair our functions, processes and databases that reflect, contain or are based upon such data and may prevent use of such data. In addition, this could interfere with or prevent creation or use of rules, analyses or other data-driven activities that benefit us. Moreover, we may be subject to claims or liability for use or disclosure of information by reason of lack of valid notice, permission or waiver. These claims or liabilities could subject us to unexpected costs and adversely affect our operating results.

Our sales cycle can be lengthy and unpredictable, which may cause our revenue and operating results to fluctuate significantly.

Our sales cycle can be lengthy and unpredictable. Our sales efforts involve educating our customers about the use and benefits of our offerings and solutions, including the technical capabilities of our solutions and the potential cost savings and productivity gains achievable by deploying them. Additionally, many of our potential clients are typically already in long-term contracts with their current providers and face significant costs associated with

 

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transitioning to our offerings and solutions. As a result, potential customers typically undertake a significant evaluation process, which frequently involves not only CLINICS and component Systems Infrastructure and platforms, including NantOS and NantOS apps in comparison with our competitors, but also their existing capabilities and solutions, and can result in a lengthy sales cycle. We spend substantial time, effort and money on our sales efforts without any assurance that our efforts will produce any sales. In addition, purchases of CLINICS and component Systems Infrastructure and platforms, including NantOS and NantOS apps, are frequently subject to budget constraints, multiple approvals and unplanned administrative, processing and other delays. For example, at this time, hospitals in the United States face significant uncertainty over the continuing impact of federal government budgets, and continuing changes in the implementation and deadlines for compliance with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, or ACA, and other healthcare reform legislation, as well as potential future statutes and rulemaking. Many of our potential hospital clients, in particular, have used all or a significant portion of their revenues to comply with federal mandates to adopt electronic medical records in order to maintain their Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement levels. In the event we are unable to manage our lengthy and unpredictable sales cycle, our business may be adversely affected.

We bill our clients and recognize revenue over the term of the contract for certain of our products; near term declines in new or renewed agreements for these products may not be reflected immediately in our operating results and may be difficult to discern.

A portion of our revenue in each quarter is derived from agreements entered into with our clients during previous quarters. Consequently, a decline in new or renewed agreements in any one quarter may not be fully reflected in our revenue for that quarter. Such declines, however, would negatively affect our revenue in future periods and the effect of significant downturns in sales of and market demand for certain of our solutions, and potential changes in our rate of renewals or renewal terms, may not be fully reflected in our results of operations until future periods. In addition, we may be unable to adjust our cost structure rapidly, or at all, to take account for reduced revenue. Our subscription model for certain of our solutions also makes it difficult for us to increase our total revenue through additional sales in any quarterly period, as revenue from new clients for those products must be recognized over the applicable term of the agreement. Accordingly, the effect of changes in the industry impacting our business or changes we experience in our new sales may not be reflected in our short-term results of operations.

If our existing clients do not continue or renew their agreements with us, renew at lower fee levels or decline to purchase additional applications and services from us, our business and operating results will suffer.

We expect to derive a significant portion of our revenue from renewal of existing customer agreements, and sales of additional applications and services to existing clients. As a result, achieving high customer satisfaction to keep existing clients and sell additional platform offerings is critical to our future operating results.

Factors that may affect the renewal rate for our offerings and our ability to sell additional solutions include:

 

  n   the price, performance and functionality of our offerings;

 

  n   the availability, price, performance and functionality of competing solutions;

 

  n   our ability to develop complementary applications and services;

 

  n   our continued ability to access the pricing and claims data necessary to enable us to deliver reliable data in our cost estimation and price transparency offering to customers;

 

  n   the stability, performance and security of our hosting infrastructure and hosting services;

 

  n   changes in healthcare laws, regulations or trends; and

 

  n   the business environment of our clients, in particular, headcount reductions by our clients.

For our NantOS and related offerings, we typically enter into master services agreements with our clients. These agreements generally have stated terms of three to five years. Our clients have no obligation to renew their subscriptions for our offering after the term expires. In addition, our clients may negotiate terms less advantageous to us upon renewal, which may reduce our revenue from these clients. Factors that are not within our control may contribute to a reduction in our contract revenue. For instance, our clients may reduce their number of employees, which would result in a corresponding reduction in the number of employee users eligible for our offering and thus a lower aggregate monthly services fee. Our future operating results also depend, in part, on our ability to sell new solutions to our existing customers. If our clients fail to renew their agreements, renew their agreements upon less

 

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favorable terms or at lower fee levels, or fail to purchase new solutions from us, our revenue may decline or our future revenue may be constrained.

In addition, a significant number of our customer agreements allow our clients to terminate such agreements for convenience at certain times, typically with one to three months advance notice. Any cancellations of such agreements would have a negative result on our business and results of operations.

If any new applications and services we may develop or acquire are not adopted by our customers, or if we fail to continue to innovate and develop or acquire new applications and services that are adopted by customers, then our revenue and operating results will be adversely affected.

In addition to past investments made in CLINICS, and component Systems Infrastructure and platforms, including NantOS and NantOS apps, we have invested, and will continue to invest, significant resources in research and development and in acquisitions to enhance our existing offerings and introduce new high quality applications and services. If existing clients are not willing to make additional payments for such new applications, or if new clients do not value such new applications, our business and operating results will be harmed. If we are unable to predict user preferences or our industry changes, or if we are unable to modify our offering and services on a timely basis, we might lose clients. Our operating results would also suffer if our innovations and acquisitions are not responsive to the needs of our clients, are not appropriately timed with market opportunity or are not effectively brought to market.

Security breaches, loss of data and other disruptions could compromise sensitive information related to our business and/or protected health information or prevent us from accessing critical information and expose us to liability, which could adversely affect our business and our reputation.

In the ordinary course of our business, we and our clients, consultants, contractors and business associates collect and store petabytes of sensitive data, including legally protected health information, personally identifiable information, intellectual property and proprietary business information owned or controlled by ourselves or our clients, payors, providers and partners. We manage and maintain our applications and data by utilizing a combination of on-site systems, managed data center systems, and cloud-based data center systems. These applications and data encompass a wide variety of business-critical information, including research and development information, commercial information and business and financial information. We face four primary risks relative to protecting this critical information, including loss of access risk, inappropriate disclosure risk, inappropriate modification risk and the risk of being unable to adequately monitor our controls over the first three risks.

The secure processing, storage, maintenance and transmission of this critical information is vital to our operations and business strategy, and we devote significant resources to protecting such information. Although we take measures to protect sensitive information from unauthorized access or disclosure, our information technology and infrastructure, and that of our third-party billing and collections provider, may be vulnerable to attacks by hackers or viruses or breached due to employee error, malfeasance or other disruptions. Any such breach or interruption could compromise our networks and the information stored there could be accessed by unauthorized parties, publicly disclosed, lost or stolen. Any such access, disclosure or other loss of information could result in legal claims or proceedings, liability under laws that protect the privacy of personal information, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, and regulatory penalties. Although we have implemented security measures and a formal, dedicated enterprise security program to prevent unauthorized access to patient data, there is no guarantee we can continue to protect our online portal or will be able to protect our mobile applications from breach. Unauthorized access, loss or dissemination could also disrupt our operations, including our ability to conduct our analyses, provide test results, bill payors, providers or patients, process claims and appeals, provide customer assistance services, conduct research and development activities, collect, process and prepare company financial information, provide information about our products and other patient and physician education and outreach efforts through our website, manage the administrative aspects of our business and damage our reputation, any of which could adversely affect our business.

The U.S. Office of Civil Rights may impose penalties on us if we do not fully comply with requirements of HIPAA. Penalties will vary significantly depending on factors such as whether we knew or should have known of the failure to comply, or whether our failure to comply was due to willful neglect. These penalties include civil monetary penalties of $100 to $50,000 per violation, up to an annual cap of $1,500,000 for identical violations. A person who

 

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knowingly obtains or discloses individually identifiable health information in violation of HIPAA may face a criminal penalty of up to $50,000 per violation and up to one-year imprisonment. The criminal penalties increase to $100,000 per violation and up to five years imprisonment if the wrongful conduct involves false pretenses, and to $250,000 per violation and up to 10 years imprisonment if the wrongful conduct involves the intent to sell, transfer, or use identifiable health information for commercial advantage, personal gain, or malicious harm. The U.S. Department of Justice is responsible for criminal prosecutions under HIPAA. Furthermore, in the event of a breach as defined by HIPAA, we have specific reporting requirements to the Office of Civil Rights under the HIPAA regulations as well as to affected individuals, and we may also have additional reporting requirements to other state and federal regulators, including the Federal Trade Commission, and/or to the media. Issuing such notifications can be costly, time and resource intensive, and can generate significant negative publicity. Breaches of HIPAA may also constitute contractual violations that could lead to contractual damages or terminations.

In addition, the interpretation and application of consumer, health-related and data protection laws in the United States, Europe and elsewhere are often uncertain, contradictory and in flux. It is possible that these laws may be interpreted and applied in a manner that is inconsistent with our practices. If so, this could result in government-imposed fines or orders requiring that we change our practices, which could adversely affect our business. In addition, these privacy regulations vary between states, may differ from country to country, and may vary based on whether testing is performed in the United States or in the local country. Complying with these various laws could cause us to incur substantial costs or require us to change our business practices and compliance procedures in a manner adverse to our business.

We rely on Internet infrastructure, bandwidth providers, data center providers, other third parties and our own systems for providing services to our users, and any failure or interruption in the services provided by these third parties or our own systems could expose us to litigation and negatively impact our relationships with clients, adversely affecting our brand and our business.

Our ability to deliver our internet-based services is dependent on the development and maintenance of the infrastructure of the Internet by third parties. This includes maintenance of a reliable network backbone with the necessary speed, data capacity and security for providing reliable Internet access and services. Our services are designed to operate without interruption in accordance with our service level commitments. However, we expect that we will in the future experience interruptions and delays in services and availability from time to time. We rely on internal systems as well as third-party vendors, including data center providers and bandwidth providers, to provide our services. We store, process and transport petabytes of data and the nature of our business requires us to scale our storage capacity. In the event we are unable to scale appropriately, we may lose clients or fail to realize the network effects of our system and our business may be impaired. We do not maintain redundant systems or facilities for some of these services. In the event of a catastrophic event with respect to one or more of these systems or facilities, we may experience an extended period of system unavailability, which could negatively impact our relationship with users. To operate without interruption, both we and our service providers must guard against:

 

  n   damage from fire, power loss and other natural disasters;

 

  n   communications failures;

 

  n   software and hardware errors, failures and crashes;

 

  n   security breaches, computer viruses and similar disruptive problems; and

 

  n   other potential interruptions.

Any disruption in the network access or co-location services provided by third-party providers or any failure of or by third-party providers or our own systems to handle current or higher volume of use could significantly harm our business. We exercise limited control over third-party vendors, which increases our vulnerability to problems with services they provide.

Any errors, failures, interruptions or delays experienced in connection with third-party technologies and information services or our own systems could negatively impact our relationships with clients and adversely affect our business and could expose us to third-party liabilities. Although we maintain insurance for our business, the coverage under our policies may not be adequate to compensate us for all losses that may occur. In addition, we cannot provide assurance that we will continue to be able to obtain adequate insurance coverage at an acceptable cost.

 

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The reliability and performance of the Internet may be harmed by increased usage or by denial-of-service attacks. The Internet has experienced a variety of outages and other delays as a result of damages to portions of its infrastructure, and it could face outages and delays in the future. These outages and delays could reduce the level of Internet usage as well as the availability of the Internet to us for delivery of our internet-based services. Any failure to offer high-quality technical support services may adversely affect our relationships with our clients and harm our financial results.

As a result of the complexity of the issues facing healthcare providers and payors and the inherent complexity of our solutions to such issues, our clients depend on our support organization to resolve any technical issues relating to our offering. In addition, our sales process is highly dependent on the quality of our offerings, our business reputation and on strong recommendations from our existing clients. Any failure to maintain high-quality and highly responsive technical support, or a market perception that we do not maintain high-quality and highly responsive support, could harm our reputation, adversely affect our ability to sell our offering to existing and prospective clients, and harm our business, operating results and financial condition.

We offer technical support services with our offerings and we may be unable to respond quickly enough to accommodate short-term increases in customer demand for support services, particularly as we increase the size of our customer base. We also may be unable to modify the format of our support services to compete with changes in support services provided by competitors. It is difficult to predict customer demand for technical support services and if customer demand increases significantly, we may be unable to provide satisfactory support services to our clients and their constituents. Additionally, increased customer demand for these services, without corresponding revenue, could increase costs and adversely affect our operating results.

If we cannot implement CLINICS and component Systems Infrastructure and platforms, including NantOS and NantOS apps, for customers in a timely manner, we may lose customers and our reputation may be harmed.

Our clients have a variety of different data formats, enterprise applications and infrastructures, and CLINICS and component Systems Infrastructure and platforms, including NantOS and NantOS apps, must support our clients’ data formats and integrate with complex enterprise applications and infrastructures. Similarly, our connectivity devices and applications must interact with a wide variety of devices and data formats. If our platforms do not currently support a customer’s required data format or appropriately integrate with a customer’s applications and infrastructure, then we must configure our Systems Infrastructure to do so, which increases our expenses. Additionally, we do not control our clients’ implementation schedules. As a result, if our clients do not allocate internal resources necessary to meet their implementation responsibilities or if we face unanticipated implementation difficulties, the implementation may be delayed. Further, our implementation capacity has at times constrained our ability to successfully implement our offering for our clients in a timely manner, particularly during periods of high demand. If the customer implementation process is not executed successfully or if execution is delayed, we could incur significant costs, customers could become dissatisfied and decide not to increase usage of our offering, or not to use our offering beyond an initial period prior to their term commitment or, in some cases, revenue recognition could be delayed. In addition, competitors with more efficient operating models with lower implementation costs could penetrate our customer relationships.

Additionally, large and demanding enterprise clients, who currently comprise the substantial majority of our customer base, may request or require specific features or functions unique to their particular business processes, which increase our upfront investment in sales and deployment efforts and the revenue resulting from the clients under our typical contract length may not cover the upfront investments. If prospective large customers require specific features or functions that we do not offer, then the market for our offering will be more limited and our business could suffer.

In addition, supporting large clients could require us to devote significant development services and support personnel and strain our personnel resources and infrastructure. Furthermore, if we are unable to address the needs of these clients in a timely fashion or further develop and enhance our offering, or if a client or its constituents are not satisfied with the quality of work performed by us or with the offerings delivered or professional services rendered, then we could incur additional costs to address the situation, we may be required to issue credits or refunds for pre-paid amounts related to unused services, the profitability of that work might be impaired and the client’s dissatisfaction with our offerings could damage our ability to expand the number of applications and services

 

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purchased by that client. Furthermore, if a client or its constituents do not opt into or need certain aspects of our offering, there may not be enough demand for that aspect of our offering to warrant future purchases by that client, or the client may seek to terminate their relationship with us. These clients may not renew their agreements, seek to terminate their relationship with us or renew on less favorable terms. Moreover, negative publicity related to our client relationships, regardless of its accuracy, may further damage our business by affecting our ability to compete for new business with current and prospective clients. If any of these were to occur, our revenue may decline and our operating results could be adversely affected.

We face intense competition in our markets, and we may be unable to compete effectively for new clients.

Although our product offerings target the new and emerging market for evidence-based personalized healthcare technology solutions, we compete against a variety of large software vendors and smaller specialized companies, open source initiatives and custom development efforts, which provide solutions in the specific markets we address. Our principal competitors include:

 

  n   Electronic Health Record, or EHR, vendors such as Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc., or Allscripts, athenahealth, Inc., or athenahealth, Cerner Corporation, or Cerner, Epic Systems Corporation, or Epic, Flatiron Health Inc., or Flatiron, GE Healthcare, Inc., or GE Healthcare, McKesson Corporation, or McKesson, Medical Information Technology, Inc., or Meditech, and Quality Systems, Inc., or Quality Systems;

 

  n   Health Information Exchange, or HIE, and integration vendors such as Allscripts, Intersystems Corporation, or Intersystems, and Orion Health Group Limited, or Orion; and

 

  n   Healthcare information technology decision support vendors such as The Advisory Board Company, Castlight Health, Inc., or Castlight Health, HealthCatalyst, Inc., or HealthCatalyst, International Business Machines Corporation, or IBM, Inovalon Holdings, Inc., or Inovalon, and Truven Health Analytics, or Truven (acquired by IBM).

The principal competitive factors in our markets include product features, performance and support, product scalability and flexibility, ease of deployment and use, total cost of ownership and time to value. Some of our actual and potential competitors have advantages over us, such as longer operating histories, significantly greater financial, technical, marketing or other resources, stronger brand and business user recognition, larger intellectual property portfolios and broader global distribution and presence. Further, competitors may be able to offer products or functionality similar to ours at a more attractive price than we can by integrating or bundling their software products with their other product offerings. In addition, our industry is evolving rapidly and is becoming increasingly competitive. Larger and more established companies may focus on creating a learning system or solutions that could directly compete with one or more of our offerings. If companies move a greater proportion of their data and computational needs to the cloud, new competitors may emerge which offer services comparable to ours or that are better suited for cloud-based data, and the demand for one or more of our offerings may decrease. Smaller companies could also launch new products and services that we do not offer and that could gain market acceptance quickly.

In recent years, there have been significant acquisitions and consolidation by and among our actual and potential competitors. We anticipate this trend of consolidation will continue, which will present heightened competitive challenges to our business. In particular, consolidation in our industry increases the likelihood of our competitors offering bundled or integrated products, and we believe that it may increase the competitive pressures we face with respect to our solutions. If we are unable to differentiate one or more of our offerings from the integrated or bundled products of our competitors, such as by offering enhanced functionality, performance or value, we may see decreased demand for those solutions, which would adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows. Further, it is possible that continued industry consolidation may impact our clients’ and prospective clients’ perceptions of the viability of smaller or even medium-sized software firms and, consequently, their willingness to use technology solutions from such firms. Similarly, if customers seek to concentrate their technology purchases in the product portfolios of a few large providers, we may be at a competitive disadvantage regardless of the performance and features of our offerings. We believe that in order to remain competitive at the large enterprise level, we will need to develop and expand relationships with resellers and large system integrators that provide a broad range of products and services. If we are unable to compete effectively, our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows could be materially and adversely affected.

 

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The healthcare technology industry in which we operate is subject to rapidly changing technologies and trends, each of which could contribute to making our products obsolete.

The markets for cloud-based data platforms and internet-based business services such as CLINICS and component Systems Infrastructure and platforms, including our NantOS and NantOS apps and their associated offerings, are in the early stages of development, but the market is competitive even at this stage, and we expect it to attract increased competition, which could make it hard for us to succeed. We currently face competition for one or more of our offerings from a range of companies, including EHR vendors such as Allscripts, Cerner, Epic, and GE Healthcare, and healthcare IT decision support vendors such as Castlight Health, IBM, Inovalon and Truven (acquired by IBM). In addition, large, well-financed health plans, with whom we cooperate and on whom we depend in order to obtain the pricing and claims data we need to deliver our offerings to customers have in some cases developed their own cost and quality estimation tools and provide these solutions to their customers at discounted prices or often for free. If enterprises do not perceive the benefits of our services, then the market for these services may not develop at all, or it may develop more slowly than we expect, either of which would materially adversely affect our operating results. In addition, as a new company in this unproven market, we have limited insight into trends that may develop and affect our business. We may make errors in predicting and reacting to relevant business trends, which could harm our business. If any of these risks occur, it could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition or results of operations.

Healthcare industry consolidation could impose pressure on our prices, reduce our potential client base and reduce demand for one or more of our offerings.

Many hospitals, imaging centers and third-party payors have consolidated to create larger healthcare enterprises with greater market and purchasing power. In addition, group purchasing organizations and managed care organizations could increase pressure on providers of healthcare related services to reduce prices. If this consolidation trend continues, it could reduce the size of our potential customer base and give the resulting enterprises greater bargaining or purchasing power, which may lead to erosion of the prices for our software or decreased margins for our offerings.

Our offerings may experience quality problems from time to time that can result in decreased sales, decreased operating margins and harm to our reputation.

We sell complex hardware and software products and services that may contain design and manufacturing defects. Sophisticated operating system software and applications, such as those sold by us, often contain “bugs” that can unexpectedly interfere with the software’s intended operation. Our online services may from time to time experience outages, service slowdowns, or errors. Defects may also occur in components and products we purchase from third parties. There can be no assurance we will be able to detect and fix all defects in the hardware, software and services third parties sell to us. Failure to do so could result in lost revenue, significant warranty and other expenses and harm to our reputation.

Risks related to our patient monitoring solutions, including our connectivity suite of NantOS, hardware and software

We rely on third-party manufacturers to manufacture our patient monitoring devices, such as HBox, GlowPack and GlowCap. Any failure by a third-party manufacturer to produce supplies for us may delay or impair our ability to provide our patient monitoring devices, which are an integral part of our learning ecosystem.

We rely upon third-parties for the manufacture of our patient monitoring devices and intend to continue to do so in the future. We currently do not have any material agreements with third-party manufacturers for our patient monitoring devices. As demand for our products increase, we may seek to enter into long-term third-party manufacturing agreements. If our third-party manufacturers are unable to deliver sufficient quantities of products on a timely basis or we encounter difficulties in our relationships with these manufacturers, the manufacture and sale of our products may be disrupted, and our business, operating results and reputation could be adversely affected. If we are unable to arrange for third-party manufacturing sources, or unable to do so on commercially reasonable terms, we may not be able to deliver our products to clients in a timely manner, or at all.

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possibility of termination or nonrenewal of the agreement by the third party, based on its own business priorities, at a time that is costly or damaging to us. In addition, the FDA and other regulatory authorities require that our patient monitoring devices be manufactured in compliance with Quality System Regulations, or QSR, and similar standards in foreign markets where we sell our products. Any failure by our third-party manufacturers to comply with QSR or failure to scale up manufacturing processes as needed, including any failure to deliver sufficient quantities of products in a timely manner, could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, operating results and cash flows. In addition, such failure could be the basis for action by the FDA to withdraw approvals for product candidates previously granted to us and for other regulatory action.

Our patient monitoring devices, including our connectivity suite, or NantOS, hardware and software may experience design or manufacturing defects from time to time that can result in reduced network effects to CLINICS and component Systems Infrastructure and platforms, including NantOS and NantOS apps, which could materially and adversely affect our business.

We sell patient monitoring devices, including our connectivity suite, or NantOS, hardware and software that could contain design or manufacturing defects in their materials, hardware, or software. These defects could include defective materials or components, or “bugs” that can unexpectedly interfere with the products’ intended operations or result in inaccurate data. Failure to detect, prevent, or fix defects could result in a variety of consequences, including returns of products, regulatory proceedings, product recalls, and litigation, which could harm our revenue and operating results. If our products fail to provide accurate measurements and data to users, then the network effects of our adaptive clinical learning system may be materially and adversely impacted.

Our patient monitoring devices, including our connectivity suite, or NantOS, hardware and software could give rise to product liability claims and product recall events that could materially and adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.

The development, manufacturing and sale of medical devices expose us to significant risk of product liability claims, product recalls and, occasionally, product failure claims. We face an inherent business risk of financial exposure to product liability claims if the use of our patient monitoring devices, including our connectivity suite, or NantOS, hardware and software results in personal injury or death. Substantial product liability litigation currently exists within the medical device industry. Some of our patient monitoring devices may become subject to product liability claims and/or product recalls. Future product liability claims and/or product recall costs may exceed the limits of our insurance coverages or such insurance may not continue to be available to us on commercially reasonable terms, or at all. In addition, a significant product liability claim or product recall could significantly damage our reputation for producing safe, reliable and effective products, making it more difficult for us to market and sell our products in the future. Consequently, a product liability claim, product recall or other claim could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, operating results and cash flows.

The sale of medical device products in the United States is subject to government regulations and we may not be able to obtain certain necessary clearances or approvals.

The design, manufacturing, labeling, distribution and marketing of medical devices in the United States is subject to extensive and rigorous regulation by the FDA. Unless an exemption applies, we or our collaborative partners must obtain prior clearance or approval from the FDA for medical devices we intend to commercialize, which can be expensive and uncertain and can cause lengthy delays before we can begin selling our products. We cannot be sure that:

 

  n   we or any collaborative partner will make timely filings with the FDA;

 

  n   the FDA will act favorably or quickly on these submissions;

 

  n   we or any collaborative partner will not be required to submit additional information;

 

  n   we or any collaborative partner will not be required to submit an application for premarket approval, rather than a 510(k) premarket notification submission as described below; or

 

  n   other significant difficulties and costs related to obtaining FDA clearance or approval will not be encountered.

The FDA may impose strict labeling or other requirements as a condition of its clearance or approval, any of which could limit our ability to market our products. Further, if we or our collaborative partners wish to modify a product after FDA clearance of a premarket notification or approval of a premarket approval application, including changes in indications or other modifications that could affect safety and efficacy, additional clearances or approvals will be required from the FDA. Any request by the FDA for additional data, or any requirement by the FDA that we or our

 

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collaborative partners conduct clinical studies or submit to the more rigorous and lengthier premarket approval process, could result in substantial expenses and significant delays in bringing our products to market. Similarly, any labeling or other conditions or restrictions imposed by the FDA on the marketing of our products could hinder our ability to effectively market our products. Any of the above actions by the FDA could delay or prevent altogether our ability to market and distribute our products. Further, there may be new FDA policies or changes in FDA policies that could be adverse to us.

Even if we obtain clearance or approval to sell medical device products, we are subject to ongoing requirements and inspections that could lead to the restriction, suspension or revocation of our clearance.

Ongoing compliance with applicable regulatory requirements will be strictly enforced in the United States through periodic inspections by state and federal agencies, including the FDA, and in international jurisdictions by comparable regulatory authorities. In the past, we have conducted investigations designed to determine whether we meet such regulatory requirements and have identified non-conformances and areas that need improvement. Though we strive to comply with such regulations, there can be no guarantee that the applicable regulators will find that we are in compliance with such regulations in the future. Failure to comply with these regulatory requirements could result in, among other things, warning letters, fines, injunctions, civil penalties, recall or seizure of products, total or partial suspension of production, failure to obtain premarket clearance or premarket approval for devices, withdrawal of approvals previously obtained, and criminal prosecution. The restriction, suspension or revocation of regulatory clearances and approvals or any other failure to comply with regulatory requirements would limit our ability to operate and could increase our costs.

Risks related to our relationships with other companies

Our ability to achieve profitability is dependent upon the success of NantOmics.

We currently secure all of our rights to our sequencing and molecular analysis solutions, including GPS Cancer, from NantOmics. The prospects for these offerings depend in large part on the expertise, development and commercial skills, and financial strength of NantOmics, which is controlled by Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. We will rely on NantOmics to handle all aspects of producing and delivering our sequencing and molecular analysis solutions, including GPS Cancer, to us, including but not limited to:

 

  n   acquiring appropriate and cost-efficient supplies to produce our sequencing and molecular analysis solutions;

 

  n   delivering our sequencing and molecular analysis solutions in a timely manner to us;

 

  n   continuing to keep our sequencing and molecular analysis solutions up to date and on pace with current clinical and market developments;

 

  n   filing, prosecuting and maintaining patents that cover our sequencing and molecular analysis solutions;

 

  n   complying with CLIA regulations and maintaining a CLIA license and all other applicable state laboratory licenses, including through periodic inspections; and

 

  n   hiring qualified personnel experienced in completing highly complex laboratory tests.

If NantOmics is unable to successfully handle all aspects of producing and delivering our sequencing and molecular analysis solutions to us, the profitability of NantOmics, and thus our profitability, will be adversely affected.

If we are unable to renew our agreement with NantOmics or locate a suitable replacement upon expiration of such agreement at comparable prices, our business would be materially and adversely affected.

Our exclusive amended and restated reseller agreement with NantOmics, or the Reseller Agreement, expires on December 31, 2020, subject to three potential three-year renewal options if we complete specified projected GPS Cancer test thresholds. Although NantOmics generally does not have the right to terminate prior to that date, we may be unable to renew such agreement or execute a new arrangement at comparable favorable prices to provide us with molecular profiling tests. In addition, we may not be able to achieve our projected renewal thresholds. Furthermore, NantOmics currently has what we believe is the most comprehensive and clinically validated CAP- and CLIA-certified whole genome and quantitative proteomics laboratory. If we were unable to fulfill our delivery requirements for our sequencing and molecular analysis solutions to our clients, our business would be materially and adversely affected.

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genome sequencing and proteomic analysis. If we are reimbursed at an amount equal to or less than a certain threshold, our GPS Cancer solution will not be profitable and our business will be materially and adversely affected. Since we expect that pricing pressure from government and third party payors, increasing competition from companies and others offering whole genome sequencing and reductions in the costs of providing whole genome sequencing as technologies mature, will combine to drive the price of whole genome sequencing down, we cannot guarantee that the price we are able to charge for our GPS Cancer solution will continue to yield a profit under the terms of the exclusive reseller agreement.

We rely on third-party computer hardware and software that may be difficult to replace or which could cause errors or failures of our service which could damage our reputation, harm our ability to attract and maintain clients and decrease our revenue.

We rely on computer hardware purchased or leased and software licensed from third parties in order to offer our service. These licenses are generally commercially available on varying terms, however it is possible that this hardware and software may not continue to be available on commercially reasonable terms, or at all. Any loss of the right to use any of this hardware or software could result in delays in the provisioning of CLINICS, NantOS, NantOS apps and GPS Cancer until equivalent technology is either developed by us, or, if available, is identified, obtained and integrated, which could harm our business. Any errors or defects in third-party hardware or software could result in errors or a failure of our service which could damage our reputation, harm our ability to attract and maintain clients and decrease our revenue.

We are heavily dependent on our senior management, particularly Dr. Soon-Shiong, and a loss of a member of our senior management team in the future could harm our business.

If we lose members of our senior management, we may not be able to find appropriate replacements on a timely basis, and our business could be adversely affected. Our existing operations and continued future development depend to a significant extent upon the continued performance and active participation of certain key individuals, including Dr. Soon-Shiong, our Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and our principal stockholder. Although we expect Dr. Soon-Shiong will devote on average at least 20 hours per week to our company, he will primarily focus on NantKwest, Inc., or NantKwest, a publicly-traded, clinical-stage immunotherapy company, of which he is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Soon-Shiong will also devote time to other companies operating under NantWorks, a collection of multiple companies in the healthcare and technology space that Dr. Soon-Shiong founded in 2011. We do not believe Dr. Soon-Shiong has any material conflicting obligations as a result of his involvement with other companies. Additionally, we are dependent on commercial relationships with various other parties affiliated with NantWorks and with Dr. Soon-Shiong, including NantOmics, as described below under “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions,” and we may enter into additional relationships in the future. If Dr. Soon-Shiong was to cease his affiliation with us or with NantWorks, these entities may be unwilling to continue these relationships with us on commercially reasonable terms, or at all. The risks related to our dependence upon Dr. Soon-Shiong is particularly acute given his ownership percentage and role in our company. If we were to lose Dr. Soon-Shiong, we may not be able to find appropriate replacements on a timely basis and our financial condition and results of operations could be materially adversely affected. We have not entered into, nor do we intend to enter into, an employment agreement with Dr. Soon-Shiong.

We face significant competition for employees from other healthcare-related companies, which include both publicly-traded and privately-held companies, and we may not be able to hire new employees quickly enough to meet our needs. To induce valuable employees to remain at our company, in addition to salary and cash incentives, we have provided equity incentives that vest over time and, in some cases, upon the occurrence of certain events. The value to employees of these equity incentives that vest over time may be significantly affected by movements in our stock price that are beyond our control, and may at any time be insufficient to counteract more lucrative offers from other companies. Although we have employment agreements with certain of our key employees, these employment agreements provide for at-will employment, which means that any of our employees could leave our employment at any time, with or without notice. We do not maintain “key man” insurance policies on the lives of these individuals or the lives of any of our other employees.

 

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If we and NantOmics are unable to support demand for our sequencing and molecular analysis solutions, including GPS Cancer, including ensuring that we have adequate capacity to meet increased demand, or we or NantOmics are unable to successfully manage the evolution of its molecular information platform, our business could suffer.

As our volume grows, NantOmics’ will need to increase its workflow capacity for sample intake, improve its customer service, billing and general process, expand its internal quality assurance program, and with NantOmics’ assistance, we will need to extend our platform to support comprehensive genomic analyses at a larger scale within expected turnaround times. Our sequencing and molecular analysis solutions will need additional certified laboratory scientists and other scientific and technical personnel to process higher volumes of our molecular information products. Portions of our process are not automated and will require additional personnel to scale. We and NantOmics will also need to purchase additional equipment, some of which can take several months or more to procure, setup and validate, and will need to increase our software and computing capacity to meet increased demand. There is no assurance that any of these increases in scale, expansion of personnel, equipment, software and computing capacities, or process enhancements will be successfully implemented, or that we will have adequate space in our laboratory facilities to accommodate such required expansion.

As additional products are commercialized, including molecular profiling solutions for additional disease indications, NantOmics will need to incorporate new equipment, implement new technology systems and laboratory processes, and hire new personnel with different qualifications. Failure by NantOmics to manage growth or a transition to new technologies or processes could result in turnaround time delays, higher product costs, declining product quality, deteriorating customer service, and slower responses to competitive challenges. A failure in any one of these areas could make it difficult for us to meet market expectations for our products, and could damage our reputation and the prospects for our business.

Risks related to our business generally

We have in the past and may in the future acquire other companies or technologies, which could divert our management’s attention, result in dilution to our stockholders and otherwise disrupt our operations and adversely affect our operating results.

Part of our business model is the acquisition of technologies and businesses that promote our transformational vision for personalized healthcare. We have in the past and may in the future seek to acquire or invest in additional businesses, applications, services and/or technologies that we believe complement or expand our offerings, enhance our technical capabilities or otherwise offer growth opportunities. The pursuit of potential acquisitions may divert the attention of management and cause us to incur various expenses in identifying, investigating and pursuing suitable acquisitions, whether or not they are consummated.

For example, we acquired certain assets of Harris Healthcare Solutions in July 2015 to add to our comprehensive offering. In January 2016, we acquired NaviNet to bolster our payor platform. Realizing the benefits of these acquisitions will depend upon the successful integration into our existing operations, and we may not be able to integrate the acquired personnel, operations and technologies successfully, or effectively manage the combined business following the acquisition. We also may not realize the anticipated benefits from any acquired business due to a number of factors, including:

 

  n   inability to integrate or benefit from acquired technologies or services in a profitable manner;

 

  n   unanticipated costs or liabilities associated with the acquisition;

 

  n   difficulty integrating the accounting systems, operations and personnel of the acquired business;

 

  n   difficulties and additional expenses associated with supporting legacy products and hosting infrastructure of the acquired business;

 

  n   difficulty converting the customers of the acquired business onto our platform and contract terms, including disparities in the revenue, licensing, support or professional services model of the acquired company;

 

  n   difficulty in cross-selling our existing solutions and offerings to the acquired business’ customers;

 

  n   diversion of management’s attention from other business concerns;

 

  n   adverse effects to our existing business relationships with business partners and customers as a result of the acquisition;

 

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  n   the potential loss of key employees;

 

  n   use of resources that are needed in other parts of our business; and

 

  n   use of substantial portions of our available cash to consummate the acquisition.

In addition, a significant portion of the purchase price of companies we acquire may be allocated to acquired goodwill and other intangible assets, which must be assessed for impairment at least annually. If our acquisitions do not yield expected returns, we have in the past, and may in the future, be required to take charges to our operating results based on this impairment assessment process, which could adversely affect our results of operations.

Acquisitions could also result in dilutive issuances of equity securities or the incurrence of debt, which could adversely affect our operating results. In addition, if an acquired business fails to meet our expectations, our operating results, business and financial position may suffer.

We cannot assure you that we will be successful in integrating certain assets of Harris Healthcare Solutions, NaviNet or other businesses or technologies we may acquire. The failure to successfully integrate these businesses could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, or results of operations.

Business disruptions could seriously harm our future revenue and financial condition and increase our costs and expenses.

Our operations, and those of our contractors and consultants, could be subject to earthquakes, power shortages, telecommunications failures, water shortages, floods, hurricanes, typhoons, fires, extreme weather conditions, medical epidemics, acts of terrorism, acts of war and other natural or man-made disasters or business interruptions, for which we are predominantly self-insured. Our corporate headquarters are in Culver City, California near major earthquake faults and fire zones. We attempt to mitigate these risks through various means including redundant infrastructure, disaster recovery plans, separate test systems and change control and system security measures, but our precautions will not protect against all potential problems. If our clients’ access is interrupted because of problems in the operation of our facilities, we could be exposed to significant claims by clients or their patients, particularly if the access interruption is associated with problems in the timely delivery of funds due to clients or medical information relevant to patient care. The occurrence of any of these business disruptions could seriously harm our operations and financial condition and increase our costs and expenses.

As of the date of this prospectus, we serve our clients primarily from third-party data hosting facilities. We do not control the operation of these third-party facilities, and they are vulnerable to damage or interruption from earthquakes, floods, fires, power loss, telecommunications failures and similar events. They are also subject to break-ins, sabotage, intentional acts of vandalism and similar misconduct. Despite precautions taken at these facilities, the occurrence of a natural disaster or a crime, a decision to close the facilities without adequate notice or other unanticipated problems at these facilities could result in lengthy interruptions in our service. Even with the disaster recovery arrangements, our service could be interrupted.

We are planning to transition most of our data hosting to NDO, NantCloud Services, LLC, or NantCloud Services, our recently acquired cloud business and NaviNet, our recently acquired payor-provider collaboration platform. In connection with these transitions, we will be moving, transferring or installing some of our equipment, data and software to and in other facilities. Despite precautions taken during this process, any unsuccessful transfers may impair the delivery of our one or more of our offerings. Further, any damage to, or failure of, our systems generally could result in interruptions in one or more of our offerings. Interruptions in our service may reduce our revenue, cause us to issue credits or pay penalties, may cause clients to terminate one or more of our offerings and may adversely affect our renewal rates and our ability to attract new clients. Our business may also be harmed if our clients and potential clients believe one or more of our offerings are unreliable.

If we fail to develop widespread brand awareness, our business may suffer.

We believe that developing and maintaining widespread awareness of our brand is critical to achieving widespread adoption of our offering and attracting new customers. Brand promotion activities may not generate customer awareness or increase revenue, and even if they do, any increase in revenue may not offset the expenses we incur in building our brand. If we fail to successfully promote and maintain our brand, or incur substantial expenses in doing so, we may fail to attract or retain customers necessary to realize a sufficient return on our brand-building efforts, or to achieve the widespread brand awareness that is critical for broad customer adoption of our offerings.

 

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Our marketing efforts depend significantly on our ability to receive positive references from our existing customers.

Our marketing efforts depend significantly on our ability to call on our current customers to provide positive references to new, potential customers. Given our limited number of long-term customers, the loss or dissatisfaction of any customer could substantially harm our brand and reputation, inhibit the market adoption of our offerings and impair our ability to attract new customers and maintain existing customers. Any of these consequences could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

If we become subject to product liability or other litigation, we may incur substantial liabilities and may be required to limit commercialization of our current and any future products.

We are from time to time subject to legal proceedings and claims that arise in the ordinary course of business, such as claims brought by our clients in connection with commercial disputes and employment claims made by our current or former employees. For example, two of our former employees filed a complaint against us alleging they were terminated in violation of Florida’s Whistleblower Act and are seeking unspecified damages, including back pay, compensatory damages, punitive damages and attorneys’ fees. Litigation, regardless of merit, may result in substantial costs and may divert management’s attention and resources, which may harm our business. In addition, legal claims that have not yet been asserted against us may be asserted in the future.

Our services, some of which involve recommendations and advice to healthcare providers regarding complex business and operational processes, regulatory and compliance issues and patient treatment options, may give rise to liability claims by our members or by third parties who bring claims against us. In addition, third parties, including former employees, have in the past, and may in the future, file lawsuits alleging non-compliance with government regulations. Investigating and defending such claims, even if they lack merit, may require significant time and resources and could damage our reputation and harm our business.

In addition, our home healthcare services business, which includes a skilled nursing facility, employs healthcare providers in the home care setting. Healthcare providers in the home care setting increasingly are the subject of litigation, and we cannot assure you that we would not also be the subject of such litigation based on our offerings. In addition, the marketing, sale and use of our offering could lead to the filing of product liability claims were someone to allege that one or more of our offerings identified inaccurate or incomplete information regarding the genomic alterations of the tumor or malignancy analyzed, reported inaccurate or incomplete information concerning the available therapies for a certain type of cancer, or otherwise failed to perform as designed. We may also be subject to liability for errors in, a misunderstanding of, or inappropriate reliance upon, the information we provide in the ordinary course of our business activities. A product liability claim could result in substantial damages and be costly and time-consuming for us to defend.

We maintain product and other insurance, but this insurance may not fully protect us from the financial impact of defending against product liability or other claims. Any product liability or other claim brought against us, with or without merit, could increase our insurance rates or prevent us from securing insurance coverage in the future. Additionally, any product liability lawsuit could damage our reputation, or cause current clients to terminate existing agreements and potential clients to seek other vendors, any of which could impact our results of operations.

We are subject to changes in and interpretations of financial accounting matters that govern the measurement of our performance, one or more of which could adversely affect our business.

Based on our reading and interpretations of relevant guidance, principles or concepts issued by, among other authorities, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, we believe our current sales and licensing contract terms and business arrangements have been properly reported. However, there continue to be issued interpretations and guidance for applying the relevant standards to a wide range of sales and licensing contract terms and business arrangements that are prevalent in the software industry. Future interpretations or changes by the regulators of existing accounting standards or changes in our business practices could result in changes in our revenue recognition and/or other accounting policies and practices that could adversely affect our business.

Failure to manage our growth effectively could increase our expenses, decrease our revenue and prevent us from implementing our business strategy.

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systems and controls and manage expanded operations in geographically-diverse locations. We also must attract, train and retain a significant number of qualified sales and marketing personnel, professional services personnel, software engineers, technical personnel and management personnel. Failure to manage our rapid growth effectively could lead us to over invest or under invest in technology and operations, could result in weaknesses in our infrastructure, systems or controls, could give rise to operational mistakes, losses, loss of productivity or business opportunities, and could result in loss of employees and reduced productivity of remaining employees. Our growth could require significant capital expenditures and may divert financial resources from other projects, such as the development of new services. If our management is unable to effectively manage our growth, our expenses may increase more than expected, our revenue could decline or may grow more slowly than expected, and we may be unable to implement our business strategy.

The estimates of market opportunity and forecasts of market growth included in this prospectus may prove to be inaccurate, and even if the market in which we compete achieves the forecasted growth, our business could fail to grow at similar rates, if at all.

Market opportunity estimates and growth forecasts are subject to significant uncertainty and are based on assumptions and estimates that may not prove to be accurate. The estimates and forecasts in this prospectus relating to the size and expected growth of the healthcare information technology and molecular analysis markets may prove to be inaccurate. Even if the markets in which we compete meet our size estimates and forecasted growth, our business could fail to grow at similar rates, if at all. For more information regarding our estimates of market opportunity and the forecasts of market growth included in this prospectus, see the section titled “Market, Industry and Other Data.”

Risks related to intellectual property

We may be unable to adequately protect, and we may incur significant costs in enforcing, our intellectual property and other proprietary rights.

Our success depends in part on our ability to enforce our intellectual property and other proprietary rights. We rely upon a combination of trademark, trade secret, copyright, patent and unfair competition laws, as well as license and access agreements and other contractual provisions, to protect our intellectual property and other proprietary rights. In addition, we attempt to protect our intellectual property and proprietary information by requiring certain of our employees and consultants to enter into confidentiality, noncompetition and assignment of inventions agreements. However, we do not have any written contractual agreements with respect to any intellectual property and technology that relate to our business developed in the future by our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong. In the event we are unable to protect our intellectual property and proprietary information, including in particular with respect to such property or information created by Dr. Soon-Shiong, our business would be adversely affected. In addition, our attempts to protect our intellectual property may be challenged by others or invalidated through administrative process or litigation.

We have developed and acquired numerous patents and patent applications and we possess substantial know-how and trade secrets relating to the development and commercialization of healthcare technology products and services. In July 2015, we completed the acquisition of certain assets of Harris Healthcare Solutions which provide clinical systems integration. In January 2016, we acquired NaviNet, a leading payor-provider collaboration platform. As part of these acquisitions, we acquired patents and other intellectual property. As of April 26, 2016, our patent portfolio consists of five issued U.S. patents, including one issued U.S. design patent, and approximately 24 pending U.S. patent applications related to certain of our proprietary technology, inventions and improvements, one issued patent and one pending patent application in jurisdictions outside of the United States, as well as three pending Patent Cooperation Treaty, or PCT, patent applications.

In addition, if any patents are issued in the future, they may not provide us with any competitive advantages, or may be successfully challenged by third parties. Agreement terms that address non-competition are difficult to enforce in many jurisdictions and may not be enforceable in any particular case. To the extent that our intellectual property and other proprietary rights are not adequately protected, third parties might gain access to our proprietary information, develop and market products or services similar to ours, or use trademarks similar to ours, each of which could materially harm our business. Existing United States federal and state intellectual property laws offer only limited protection. Moreover, the laws of other countries in which we now, or may in the future, conduct operations or

 

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contract for services may afford little or no effective protection of our intellectual property. Further, our platforms incorporate open source software components that are licensed to us under various public domain licenses. While we believe we have complied with our obligations under the various applicable licenses for open source software that we use, there is little or no legal precedent governing the interpretation of many of the terms of certain of these licenses and therefore the potential impact of such terms on our business is somewhat unknown. The failure to adequately protect our intellectual property and other proprietary rights could materially harm our business.

The patent application process, also known as patent prosecution, is expensive and time consuming, and we and any future licensors and licensees may not be able to prepare, file and prosecute all necessary or desirable patent applications at a reasonable cost or in a timely manner. It is also possible that we or any future licensors or licensees, will fail to identify patentable aspects of inventions made in the course of development and commercialization activities before it is too late to obtain patent protection on them. Moreover, in some circumstances, we may not have the right to control the preparation, filing and prosecution of patent applications, or to maintain the patents, covering technology that we license from or license to third parties and are therefore reliant on our licensors or licensees. Therefore, these and any of our patents and applications may not be prosecuted and enforced in a manner consistent with the best interests of our business. Defects of form in the preparation or filing of our patents or patent applications may exist, or may arise in the future, for example, with respect to proper priority claims, inventorship, and the like, although we are unaware of any such defects that we believe are of material importance. If we or any future licensors or licensees, fail to establish, maintain or protect such patents and other intellectual property rights, such rights may be reduced or eliminated. If any future licensors or licensees, are not fully cooperative or disagree with us as to the prosecution, maintenance or enforcement of any patent rights, such patent rights could be compromised. If there are material defects in the form, preparation or prosecution of our patents or patent applications, such patents or applications may be invalid and unenforceable. Any of these outcomes could impair our ability to prevent competition from third parties, which may have an adverse impact on our business.

The strength of patent rights involves complex legal and scientific questions and can be uncertain. This uncertainty includes changes to the patent laws through either legislative action to change statutory patent law or court action that may reinterpret existing law or rules in ways affecting the scope or validity of issued patents. The patent applications that we own may fail to result in issued patents in the United States or foreign countries with claims that cover our products or services. Even if patents do successfully issue from the patent applications that we own, third parties may challenge the validity, enforceability or scope of such patents, which may result in such patents being narrowed, invalidated or held unenforceable. Any successful challenge to our patents could deprive us of exclusive rights necessary for the successful commercialization of our products and services. Furthermore, even if they are unchallenged, our patents may not adequately protect our products and services, provide exclusivity for our products and services, or prevent others from designing around our claims. If the breadth or strength of protection provided by the patents we hold or pursue with respect to our products and services is challenged, it could dissuade companies from collaborating with us to develop, or threaten our ability to commercialize, our products and services.

Patents have a limited lifespan. In the United States, the natural expiration of a utility patent is generally 20 years after its effective filing date and the natural expiration of a design patent is generally 14 years after its issue date, unless the filing date occurred on or after May 13, 2015, in which case the natural expiration of a design patent is generally 15 years after its issue date. Various extensions may be available; however the life of a patent, and the protection it affords, is limited. Without patent protection for our products and services, we may be open to competition. Further, if we encounter delays in our development efforts, the period of time during which we could market our products and services under patent protection would be reduced.

In addition to the protection afforded by patents, we also rely on trade secret protection to protect proprietary know-how that may not be patentable or that we elect not to patent, processes for which patents may be difficult to obtain or enforce, and any other elements of our products and services that involve proprietary know-how, information or technology that is not covered by patents. However, trade secrets can be difficult to protect. If the steps taken to maintain our trade secrets are deemed inadequate, we may have insufficient recourse against third parties for misappropriating any trade secrets. Misappropriation or unauthorized disclosure of our trade secrets could significantly affect our competitive position and may have a material adverse effect on our business. Furthermore, trade secret protection does not prevent competitors from independently developing substantially equivalent

 

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information and techniques and we cannot guarantee that our competitors will not independently develop substantially equivalent information and techniques.

Obtaining and maintaining our patent protection depends on compliance with various procedural, documentary, fee payment and other requirements imposed by governmental patent agencies, and our patent protection could be reduced or eliminated for non-compliance with these requirements.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office, or USPTO, and various foreign governmental patent agencies require compliance with a number of procedural, documentary, fee payment and other similar provisions during the patent prosecution process. Periodic maintenance fees and various other governmental fees on any issued patent and/or pending patent applications are due to be paid to the USPTO and foreign patent agencies in several stages over the lifetime of a patent or patent application. We have systems in place to remind us to pay these fees, and we employ an outside firm and rely on our outside counsel to pay these fees. While an inadvertent lapse may sometimes be cured by payment of a late fee or by other means in accordance with the applicable rules, there are many situations in which noncompliance can result in abandonment or lapse of the patent or patent application, resulting in partial or complete loss of patent rights in the relevant jurisdiction. If we fail to maintain the patents and patent applications directed to our products and services, our competitors might be able to enter the market earlier than should otherwise have been the case, which would have a material adverse effect on our business.

Litigation or other proceedings or third-party claims of intellectual property infringement could require us to spend significant time and money and could prevent us from selling our products and services.

Third parties have asserted and may in the future assert that we are employing their proprietary technology without authorization. As we continue to commercialize our products and services in their current or updated forms, launch new products and services and enter new markets, we expect that competitors will claim that our products and services infringe their intellectual property rights as part of business strategies designed to impede our successful commercialization and entry into new markets. We occasionally receive letters from third parties inviting us to take licenses under, or alleging that we infringe, their patents or trademarks. Third parties may have obtained, and may in the future obtain, patents under which such third parties may claim that the use of our technologies constitutes patent infringement.

We could incur substantial costs and divert the attention of our management and technical personnel in defending ourselves against any of these claims. Any adverse ruling or perception of an adverse ruling in defending ourselves against these claims could have a material adverse impact on our business. Furthermore, parties making claims against us may be able to obtain injunctive or other relief, which could block our ability to develop, commercialize, and sell products or services, and could result in the award of substantial damages against us, potentially including treble damages and attorneys’ fees if we are found to have willfully infringed a patent. In the event of a successful claim of infringement or misappropriation against us, we may be required to pay damages and obtain one or more licenses from third parties, or be prohibited from selling certain products or services, all of which could have a material adverse impact on our business.

In addition, we may be unable to obtain these licenses at a reasonable cost, if at all. We could therefore incur substantial costs related to royalty payments for licenses obtained from third parties, which could negatively affect our gross margins. Even if we were able to obtain a license, it could be non-exclusive, thereby giving our competitors access to the same technologies licensed to us. Moreover, we could encounter delays in product or service introductions while we attempt to develop alternative products or services. Defense of any lawsuit or failure to obtain any of these licenses on favorable terms could prevent us from commercializing products and services, and the prohibition of sale of any of our products and services would materially affect our ability to grow and maintain profitability and have a material adverse impact on our business.

We may become involved in lawsuits to protect or enforce our patents or other intellectual property, which could be expensive, time consuming and ultimately unsuccessful.

Competitors may infringe our patents, trademarks, copyrights or other intellectual property. To counter infringement or unauthorized use, we may be required to file infringement claims, which can be expensive and time consuming and divert the time and attention of our management and scientific personnel. Any claims we assert against perceived infringers could provoke these parties to assert counterclaims against us alleging that we infringe their patents, in addition to counterclaims asserting that our patents are invalid or unenforceable, or both. In any patent infringement proceeding, there is a risk that a court will decide that a patent of ours is invalid or unenforceable, in

 

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whole or in part, and that we do not have the right to stop the other party from using the invention at issue. There is also a risk that, even if the validity of such patents is upheld, the court will construe the patent’s claims narrowly or decide that we do not have the right to stop the other party from using the invention at issue on the grounds that our patent claims do not cover the invention. An adverse outcome in a litigation or proceeding involving our patents could limit our ability to assert our patents against those parties or other competitors, and may curtail or preclude our ability to exclude third parties from making and selling similar or competitive products. Any of these occurrences could adversely affect our competitive business position, business prospects and financial condition. Similarly, if we assert trademark infringement claims, a court may determine that the marks we have asserted are invalid or unenforceable, or that the party against whom we have asserted trademark infringement has superior rights to the marks in question. In this case, we could ultimately be forced to cease use of such trademarks.

Even if we establish infringement, the court may decide not to grant an injunction against further infringing activity and instead award only monetary damages, which may or may not be an adequate remedy. Furthermore, because of the substantial amount of discovery required in connection with intellectual property litigation, there is a risk that some of our confidential information could be compromised by disclosure during litigation. There could also be public announcements of the results of hearings, motions or other interim proceedings or developments. If securities analysts or investors perceive these results to be negative, it could have a material adverse effect on the price of shares of our common stock. Moreover, there can be no assurance that we will have sufficient financial or other resources to file and pursue such infringement claims, which typically last for years before they are concluded. Even if we ultimately prevail in such claims, the monetary cost of such litigation and the diversion of the attention of our management and scientific personnel could outweigh any benefit we receive as a result of the proceedings.

We may not be able to protect our intellectual property rights throughout the world.

Third parties may attempt to commercialize competitive products or services in foreign countries where we do not have any patents or patent applications where legal recourse may be limited. This may have a significant commercial impact on our foreign business operations.

Filing, prosecuting and defending patents on our products and services in all countries throughout the world would be prohibitively expensive, and our intellectual property rights in some countries outside the United States can be less extensive than those in the United States. The requirements for patentability may differ in certain countries, particularly developing countries. For example, Europe has a heightened requirement for patentability of software inventions. Thus, even in countries where we do pursue patent protection, there can be no assurance that any patents will issue with claims that cover our products. In addition, the laws of some foreign countries do not protect intellectual property rights to the same extent as laws in the United States. Consequently, we may not be able to prevent third parties from practicing our inventions in all countries outside the United States. Competitors may use our technologies in jurisdictions where we have not obtained patent protection to develop their own products and services and further, may export otherwise infringing products and services to territories where we have patent protection, but enforcement on infringing activities is inadequate. These products or services may compete with ours, and our patents or other intellectual property rights may not be effective or sufficient to prevent them from competing.

Many companies have encountered significant problems in protecting and defending intellectual property rights in foreign jurisdictions. The legal systems of certain countries, particularly certain developing countries, do not favor the enforcement of patents and other intellectual property protection, which could make it difficult for us to stop the infringement of our patents or marketing of competing products in violation of our proprietary rights generally. Proceedings to enforce our patent rights in foreign jurisdictions could result in substantial costs and divert our efforts and attention from other aspects of our business, could put our patents at risk of being invalidated or interpreted narrowly and our patent applications at risk of not issuing, and could provoke third parties to assert claims against us. We may not prevail in any lawsuits that we initiate and the damages or other remedies awarded, if any, may not be commercially meaningful. In addition, certain countries in Europe and certain developing countries, including India and China, have compulsory licensing laws under which a patent owner may be compelled to grant licenses to third parties. In those countries, we may have limited remedies if our patents are infringed or if we are compelled to grant a license to our patents to a third party, which could materially diminish the value of those patents. This could limit our potential revenue opportunities. Accordingly, our efforts to enforce our intellectual property rights around the world may be inadequate to obtain a significant commercial advantage from the

 

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intellectual property that we own or license. Finally, our ability to protect and enforce our intellectual property rights may be adversely affected by unforeseen changes in foreign intellectual property laws.

Developments in U.S. patent law could have a negative impact on our business.

As is the case with other healthcare technology companies, our success is in part dependent on intellectual property, particularly on obtaining and enforcing patents. Obtaining and enforcing patents in the healthcare technology industry involves both technological and legal complexity, and therefore, is costly, time consuming, and inherently uncertain. In addition, the United States has recently enacted and has now implemented wide-ranging patent reform legislation. Further, recent United States Supreme Court rulings have either narrowed the scope of patent protection available in certain circumstances or weakened the rights of patent owners in certain situations. In addition to increasing uncertainty with regard to our ability to obtain patents in the future, this combination of events has created uncertainty with respect to the value of patents, once obtained.

For our United States patent applications containing a claim not entitled to priority before March 16, 2013, there is a greater level of uncertainty in the patent law. In September 2011, the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, or the America Invents Act, or AIA, was signed into law. The AIA includes a number of significant changes to United States patent law, including provisions that affect the way patent applications will be prosecuted and enforced in any patent litigation. The USPTO developed regulations and procedures to govern administration of the AIA, and many of the substantive changes to patent law associated with the AIA. It is not clear what other, if any, impact the AIA will have on the operation of our business. Moreover, the AIA and its implementation could increase the uncertainties and costs surrounding the prosecution of our patent applications and the enforcement or defense of our issued patents, all of which could have a material adverse effect on our business and financial condition.

An important change introduced by the AIA is that, as of March 16, 2013, the United States transitioned to a “first-to-file” system for deciding which party should be granted a patent when two or more patent applications are filed by different parties claiming the same invention. A third party that files a patent application in the USPTO on or after March 16, 2013 before us could therefore be awarded a patent covering an invention of ours even if we were the first to conceive of the invention. This will require us to be cognizant going forward of the time from invention to filing of a patent application. Furthermore, our ability to obtain and maintain valid and enforceable patents depends on whether the differences between our technology and the prior art allow our technology to be patentable over the prior art. Because patent applications in the United States and most other countries are confidential for a period of time after filing, we cannot be certain that we were the first to either file any patent application related to our products or services, or invent any of the inventions claimed in our patents or patent applications.

Among some of the other changes introduced by the AIA are changes that limit where a patentee may file a patent infringement suit and provide opportunities for third parties to challenge any issued patent in the USPTO. This applies to all of our United States patents, even those issued before March 16, 2013. Because of a lower evidentiary standard in USPTO proceedings necessary to invalidate a patent claim compared to the evidentiary standard in United States federal court, a third party could potentially provide evidence in a USPTO proceeding sufficient for the USPTO to hold a claim invalid even though the same evidence may be insufficient to invalidate the claim if first presented in a district court action.

Two cases, one involving diagnostic method claims and the other involving “gene patents” were recently decided by the Supreme Court. On March 20, 2012, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Mayo Collaborative v. Prometheus Laboratories, or Prometheus, a case involving patent claims directed to optimizing the amount of drug administered to a specific patient. According to that decision, Prometheus’ claims failed to incorporate sufficient inventive content above and beyond mere underlying natural correlations to allow the claimed processes to qualify as patent-eligible processes that apply natural laws. On June 13, 2013, the Supreme Court subsequently decided Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, or Myriad, a case brought by multiple plaintiffs challenging the validity of patent claims held by Myriad Genetics, Inc. relating to the breast cancer susceptibility genes BRCA1 and BRCA2, holding that isolated genomic DNA that exists in nature, such as the DNA constituting the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, is not patentable subject matter, but that cDNA, which is an artificial construct created from RNA transcripts of genes, may be patent eligible.

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that claims directed to a law of nature, a natural phenomenon, or an abstract idea that do not meet the eligibility requirements should be rejected as non-statutory subject matter.

Furthermore, a case involving financial software was even more recently decided by the Supreme Court. On June 19, 2014, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank Int’l, or Alice, a case involving patent claims directed to methods of exchanging obligations as between parties so as to mitigate settlement risk in financial transactions, computer systems configured to carry out the method, and computer-readable media containing program code for performing the method. In Alice, the Court applied the analytic framework from Prometheus and extended its application to all types of claims. According to that decision, Alice Corp.’s claims failed to incorporate sufficient inventive content above and beyond the mere idea of intermediated transaction to allow the claimed processes to qualify as patent-eligible processes that apply the idea in a particular way to solve a problem.

On December 16, 2014, the USPTO issued interim guidelines for examining claims for patent eligibility in view of the Supreme Court decision in Alice. The guidance indicates that claims reciting an abstract idea that do not include significantly more than the idea itself should be rejected as non-statutory subject matter. We cannot assure you that our efforts to seek patent protection for our technology, products, and services will not be negatively impacted by the decision in Alice, rulings in other cases, or changes in guidance or procedures issued by the USPTO.

More specifically, we cannot fully predict what impact the Supreme Court’s decisions in Prometheus, Myriad and Alice may have on the ability of healthcare technology companies or other entities to obtain or enforce patents relating to genomic discoveries, diagnostic products and services or computer-implemented inventions in the future. Despite the USPTO’s guidance described above, these decisions are new and the contours of when certain claims allegedly directed to laws of nature, natural phenomenon or abstract ideas meet the patent eligibility requirements are not clear and may take many years to develop via interpretation in the courts.

There are many patents claiming diagnostic methods based on similar or related correlations that issued before Prometheus, and although some of these patents may be invalid under the standard set forth in Prometheus, until successfully challenged, these patents are presumed valid and enforceable, and certain third parties could allege that we infringe, or request that we obtain a license to, these patents. Whether based on patents issued prior to or after Prometheus, we could have to defend ourselves against claims of patent infringement, or choose to license rights, if available, under patents claiming such methods. Similarly, there are many patents claiming software and/or business methods that include an abstract idea that issued before Alice, and although some of these patents may be invalid under the standard set forth in Prometheus and Alice, until successfully challenged, these patents are presumed valid and enforceable, and certain third parties could allege that we infringe, or request that we obtain a license to, these patents. Whether based on patents issued prior to or after Alice, we could have to defend ourselves against claims of patent infringement, or choose to license rights, if available, under patents claiming such software or business methods. In any of the foregoing or in other situations involving third-party intellectual property rights, if we are unsuccessful in defending against claims of patent infringement, we could be forced to pay damages or be subjected to an injunction that would prevent us from utilizing the patented subject matter in question if we are unable to obtain a license on reasonable terms. Such outcomes could materially affect our ability to offer our products and have a material adverse impact on our business. Even if we are able to obtain a license or successfully defend against claims of patent infringement, the cost and distraction associated with the defense or settlement of these claims could have a material adverse impact on our business. Moreover, one or more of our pending United States patent applications may be rejected based on the changes in the law and the standards set forth in Prometheus, Myriad, Alice, or other cases. Our ability to secure United States patent rights could be impaired if we cannot overcome such rejections, which could have a material adverse impact on our business. In addition, one or more of our issued United States patents could be challenged on the basis of the law and the standards set forth in Prometheus, Myriad, Alice, or other cases, which could have a material adverse impact on our business. Further, on July 30, 2015, in response to the public comment on the Interim Eligibility Guidance, the USPTO issued an update pertaining to the Interim Eligibility Guidance. The Updated Eligibility Guidance includes additional examples from the case law and is intended to assist examiners in applying the Interim Eligibility Guidance during the patent examination process.

 

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We may be subject to claims that our employees, consultants or independent contractors have wrongfully used or disclosed confidential information of third parties.

We have received confidential and proprietary information from third parties. In addition, we employ individuals who were previously employed at other healthcare companies. We may be subject to claims that we or our employees, consultants or independent contractors have inadvertently or otherwise improperly used or disclosed confidential information of these third parties or our employees’ former employers. Further, we may be subject to ownership disputes in the future arising, for example, from conflicting obligations of consultants or others who are involved in developing our products and services. We may also be subject to claims that former employees, consultants, independent contractors or other third parties have an ownership interest in our patents or other intellectual property. Litigation may be necessary to defend against these and other claims challenging our right to and use of confidential and proprietary information. If we fail in defending any such claims, in addition to paying monetary damages, we may lose our rights therein. Such an outcome could have a material adverse effect on our business. Even if we are successful in defending against these claims, litigation could result in substantial cost and be a distraction to our management and employees.

We rely in part on trademarks to distinguish our products and services from those of other entities. Trademarks may be opposed or cancelled and we may be involved in lawsuits or other proceedings to protect or enforce our trademarks.

We rely on trademarks, in the United States and in certain foreign jurisdictions, to distinguish our products and services in the minds of our customers and our business partners from those of other entities. Third parties may challenge our pending trademark applications through opposition proceedings in the United States, or comparable proceedings in foreign jurisdictions, in which they seek to prevent registration of a mark. Our registered trademarks may be subject to cancellation proceedings in the United States, or comparable proceedings in foreign jurisdictions, in which a third party seeks to cancel an existing registration. To enforce our trademark rights, we may be involved in lawsuits or other proceedings which could be expensive, time-consuming and uncertain.

Our corporate name, NantHealth, and the names of our products and services have not been trademarked in each market where we operate and plan to operate. Our trademark applications for our corporate name or the name of our products and services may not be allowed for registration, and our registered trademarks may not be maintained or enforced. During trademark registration proceedings, we may receive rejections, which we may be unable to overcome in our responses. If we do not secure registrations for our trademarks, we may encounter more difficulty in enforcing them against third parties than we otherwise would.

Risks related to reimbursement and government regulation

If we fail to comply with applicable health information privacy and security laws and other state and federal privacy and security laws, we may be subject to significant liabilities, reputational harm and other negative consequences, including decreasing the willingness of current and potential customers to work with us.

We are subject to data privacy and security regulation by both the federal government and the states in which we conduct our business. HIPAA established uniform federal standards for certain “covered entities,” which include certain healthcare providers, healthcare clearinghouses, and health plans, governing the conduct of specified electronic healthcare transactions and protecting the security and privacy of protected health information, or PHI. The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, or HITECH Act, which became effective on February 17, 2010, makes HIPAA’s security standards directly applicable to “business associates,” which are independent contractors or agents of covered entities that create, receive, maintain, or transmit PHI in connection with providing a service for or on behalf of a covered entity. The HITECH Act also increased the civil and criminal penalties that may be imposed against covered entities, business associates and certain other persons, and gave state attorneys general new authority to file civil actions for damages or injunctions in federal courts to enforce HIPAA’s requirements and seek attorney’s fees and costs associated with pursuing federal civil actions.

A portion of the data that we obtain and handle for or on behalf of our clients is considered PHI, subject to HIPAA. We are also required to maintain similar business associate agreements with our subcontractors that have access to PHI of our customers in rendering services to us or on our behalf. Under HIPAA and our contractual agreements with our HIPAA-covered entity health plan customers, we are considered a “business associate” to those customers, and are required to maintain the privacy and security of PHI in accordance with HIPAA and the terms of our business

 

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associate agreements with our clients, including by implementing HIPAA-required administrative, technical and physical safeguards. We have incurred, and will continue to incur, significant costs to establish and maintain these safeguards and, if additional safeguards are required to comply with HIPAA regulations or our clients’ requirements, our costs could increase further, which would negatively affect our operating results. Furthermore, we cannot guarantee that such safeguards have been and will continue to be adequate. If we have failed, or fail in the future, to maintain adequate safeguards, or we or our agents or subcontractors use or disclose PHI in a manner prohibited or not permitted by HIPAA, our subcontractor business associate agreements, or our business associate agreements with our customers, or if the privacy or security of PHI that we obtain and handle is otherwise compromised, we could be subject to significant liabilities and consequences, including, without limitation:

 

  n   breach of our contractual obligations to clients, which may cause our clients to terminate their relationship with us and may result in potentially significant financial obligations to our clients;

 

  n   investigation by the federal and state regulatory authorities empowered to enforce HIPAA and other data privacy and security laws, which include the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS, the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general, and the possible imposition of civil and criminal penalties;

 

  n   private litigation by individuals adversely affected by any misuse of their personal health information for which we are responsible; and

 

  n   negative publicity, which may decrease the willingness of current and potential future customers to work with us and negatively affect our sales and operating results.

Further, we publish statements to end users of our services that describe how we handle and protect personal information. If federal or state regulatory authorities or private litigants consider any portion of these statements to be untrue, we may be subject to claims of deceptive practices, which could lead to significant liabilities and consequences, including, without limitation, damage to our reputation and costs of responding to investigations, defending against litigation, settling claims and complying with regulatory or court orders.

Federal or state governmental authorities may impose additional data security standards or additional privacy or other restrictions on the collection, use, maintenance, transmission and other disclosures of health information. Legislation has been proposed at various times at both the federal and the state level that would limit, forbid or regulate the use or transmission of medical information outside of the United States. Such legislation, if adopted, may render our use of off-shore partners for work related to such data impracticable or substantially more expensive. Alternative processing of such information within the United States may involve substantial delay in implementation and increased cost.

If we fail to comply with federal and state healthcare laws and regulations, including those governing submission of false or fraudulent claims to government healthcare programs and financial relationships among healthcare providers, we may be subject to civil and criminal penalties or loss of eligibility to participate in government healthcare programs.

We are subject to certain federal and state laws and regulations designed to protect patients, governmental healthcare programs, and private health plans from fraudulent and abusive activities. These laws include anti-kickback restrictions and laws prohibiting the submission of false or fraudulent claims. These laws are complex and their application to our specific products, services and relationships may not be clear and may be applied to our business in ways that we do not anticipate. Federal and state regulatory and law enforcement authorities have recently increased enforcement activities with respect to Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse regulations and other reimbursement laws and rules. From time to time in the future, we may receive inquiries or subpoenas to produce documents in connection with such activities. We could be required to expend significant time and resources to comply with these requests, and the attention of our management team could be diverted to these efforts. Furthermore, third parties have in the past alleged, and may in the future allege that we have sought federal funding in a manner that may violate federal or state law. Though we dispute such allegations, if we are found to be in violation of any federal or state fraud and abuse laws, we could be subject to civil and criminal penalties, and we could be excluded from participating in federal and state healthcare programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. The occurrence of any of these events could significantly harm our business and financial condition.

 

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Provisions in Title XI of the Social Security Act, commonly referred to as the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, prohibit the knowing and willful offer, payment, solicitation or receipt of remuneration, directly or indirectly, in cash or in kind, in return for or to reward the referral of patients or arranging for the referral of patients, or in return for the recommendation, arrangement, purchase, lease or order of items or services that are covered, in whole or in part, by a federal healthcare program such as Medicare or Medicaid. The definition of “remuneration” has been broadly interpreted to include anything of value such as gifts, discounts, rebates, waiver of payments or providing anything at less than its fair market value. Many states have adopted similar prohibitions against kickbacks and other practices that are intended to induce referrals which are applicable to all patients regardless of whether the patient is covered under a governmental health program or private health plan. We attempt to scrutinize our business relationships and activities to comply with the federal Anti-Kickback Statute and similar laws and we attempt to structure our sales and group purchasing arrangements in a manner that is consistent with the requirements of applicable safe harbors to these laws. We cannot assure you, however, that our arrangements will be protected by such safe harbors or that such increased enforcement activities will not directly or indirectly have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations. Any determination by a state or federal agency that any of our activities or those of our vendors or customers violate any of these laws could subject us to civil or criminal penalties, monetary fines, disgorgement, individual imprisonment, contractual damages, reputational harm, diminished profits and future earnings and curtailment of our operations, could require us to change or terminate some portions of operations or business, could disqualify us from providing services to healthcare providers doing business with government programs and, thus, could have an adverse effect on our business.

Our business is also subject to numerous federal and state laws, including without limitation the civil False Claims Act, that forbid the knowing submission or “causing the submission” of false or fraudulent information or the failure to disclose information in connection with the submission and payment of claims for reimbursement to Medicare, Medicaid, federal healthcare programs or private health plans. Analogous state laws and regulations may apply to our arrangements and claims involving healthcare items or services reimbursed by non-governmental third-party payors. Additionally, HIPAA also imposes criminal and civil liability for, among other things, executing a scheme to defraud any healthcare benefit program or making false statements relating to healthcare matters.

These laws and regulations may change rapidly, and it is frequently unclear how they apply to our business. Errors created by our products or consulting services that relate to entry, formatting, preparation or transmission of claim or cost report information may be determined or alleged to be in violation of these laws and regulations. Any failure of our products or services to comply with these laws and regulations could result in substantial civil or criminal liability, monetary fines, disgorgement, individual imprisonment, contractual damages, reputational harm, diminished profits and future earnings and curtailment of our operations, could adversely affect demand for our one or more of our offerings, could invalidate all or portions of some of our customer contracts, could require us to change or terminate some portions of our business, could require us to refund portions of our services fees, could cause us to be disqualified from serving clients doing business with government payors and could have an adverse effect on our business.

Our activities are also subject to state and federal self-referral laws, including the federal Physician Self-referral Law, commonly known as the Stark Law, which prohibits physicians from referring Medicare or Medicaid patients to providers of “designated health services” with whom the physician or a member of the physician’s immediate family has an ownership interest or compensation arrangement, unless a statutory or regulatory exception applies, and similar state equivalents that may apply regardless of payor. In addition, our activities may also implicate state laboratory licensure laws, as well as the corporate practice of medicine prohibition in certain states that maintain such laws or regulations. Our failure to abide by these state and federal laws could result in substantial fines and penalties.

If commercial third-party payors or government payors fail to provide coverage or adequate reimbursement, or if there is a decrease in the amount of reimbursement for our sequencing and molecular analysis solutions, including GPS Cancer, or future products we develop, if any, our revenue and prospects for profitability would be harmed.

In both domestic and foreign markets, sales of our sequencing and molecular analysis solutions, including GPS Cancer, and other products and services we develop will depend, in large part, upon the availability of reimbursement from third-party payors. These third-party payors include government healthcare programs such as Medicare, managed care providers, private health insurers, and other organizations. In particular, we believe that

 

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obtaining a positive national coverage decision and favorable reimbursement rate from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, for our sequencing and molecular analysis solutions, including GPS Cancer, will be a necessary element in achieving material commercial success. Physicians and patients may not order our sequencing and molecular analysis solutions unless commercial third-party payors and government payors pay for all, or a substantial portion, of the list price, and certain commercial third-party payors may not agree to reimburse our sequencing and molecular analysis solutions if CMS does not issue a positive coverage decision.

There is currently no national coverage decision that determines whether and how our sequencing and molecular analysis solutions, including GPS Cancer, is covered by Medicare. In the absence of a national coverage decision, local Medicare contractors, or MACs, that administer the Medicare program in various regions have some discretion in determining local coverage and therefore payment for tests. We do not currently receive any payment for our sequencing and molecular analysis solutions provided to patients covered by Medicare. If CMS or an applicable MAC does not issue a coverage decision with respect to our sequencing and molecular analysis solutions, or if CMS or an applicable MAC withdraws its coverage policies after reimbursement is obtained, reviews and adjusts the rate of reimbursement, or stops paying for our sequencing and molecular analysis solutions altogether, our revenue and results of operations would be adversely affected.

Commercial third-party payors and government payors are increasingly attempting to contain healthcare costs by demanding price discounts or rebates and limiting both coverage on which diagnostic products they will pay for and the amounts that they will pay for new molecular diagnostic products. Because of these cost-containment trends, commercial third-party payors and government payors that currently provide reimbursement for, or in the future cover, our sequencing and molecular analysis solutions, including GPS Cancer, may reduce, suspend, revoke, or discontinue payments or coverage at any time. Further, a payor’s decision to provide coverage for a product or service does not imply that an adequate reimbursement rate will be approved. Additionally, one payor’s determination to provide coverage does not assure that other payors will also provide coverage. Adequate third party reimbursement may not be available to enable us to maintain price levels sufficient to realize an appropriate return on our investment.

As a result, there is significant uncertainty surrounding whether the use of products that incorporate new technology, such as our sequencing and molecular analysis solutions, including GPS Cancer, will be eligible for coverage by commercial third-party payors and government payors or, if eligible for coverage, what the reimbursement rates will be for those products. The fact that a diagnostic product has been approved for reimbursement in the past, for any particular indication or in any particular jurisdiction, does not guarantee that such a diagnostic product will remain approved for reimbursement or that similar or additional diagnostic products will be approved in the future. Reimbursement of NGS-based cancer products by commercial third-party payors and government payors may depend on a number of factors, including a payor’s determination that products enabled by our molecular profiling solution are:

 

  n   not experimental or investigational;

 

  n   medically necessary;

 

  n   appropriate for the specific patient;

 

  n   cost-effective;

 

  n   supported by peer-reviewed publications;

 

  n   included in clinical practice guidelines; and

 

  n   supported by clinical utility studies.

As a result, our efforts to receive reimbursement on behalf of patients will take a substantial amount of time and may require the development of clinical data to demonstrate the clinical utility of our products and improve patient outcomes, or commercial third-party payors and government payors may never cover or provide adequate payment for our sequencing and molecular analysis solutions, including GPS Cancer, or future molecular profiling tools we license or develop. Our strategy to achieve broad reimbursement coverage is focused on demonstrating the clinical utility and economic benefits of our sequencing and molecular analysis solutions, engaging with thought leaders, oncologists and other caregivers, patient advocacy groups and other key oncology stakeholders and thereby increasing demand. For example, in January 2016, Independence Blue Cross announced that it would provide

 

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insurance coverage for GPS Cancer, representing the nation’s first such insurance coverage for a whole genome and proteome molecular diagnostic platform. Even in light of this announcement, however, there is no assurance that we will continue to succeed in any of these areas or that, even if we do succeed, we will receive favorable reimbursement decisions. If adequate third-party reimbursement is unavailable we may not be able to maintain price levels sufficient to realize an appropriate return on investment in product development. Furthermore, if a commercial third-party payor or government payor denies coverage, it may be difficult for us to collect from the patient, and we may not be successful.

In addition, we are generally considered a “non-contracting provider” by commercial third-party payors because we generally have not entered into specific contracts to provide GPS Cancer to their covered patients, and as a result we take on primary responsibility for obtaining reimbursement on behalf of patients. If we were to become a contracting provider with additional payors in the future, the amount of overall reimbursement we receive may decrease if we receive less revenue per product that is reimbursed at a contracted rate than at a non-contracted rate, which could have a negative impact on our revenue. Further, we may be unable to collect payments from patients beyond that which is paid by their coverage and will experience lost revenue as a result.

If we fail to comply with the way states and the FDA regulates tests that are developed, manufactured, validated and performed by laboratories like NantOmics, such failure could result in delay or additional expense in offering our tests and tests that we may develop in the future.

Several states require that we and NantOmics hold laboratory licenses to test specimens from patients in those states. Other states may have similar requirements or may adopt similar requirements in the future. We may be subject to regulation in foreign jurisdictions as we seek to expand international distribution of our offerings, which may require review of our offerings in order to offer our services or may have other limitations such as prohibitions on the export of tissue necessary for us to use our GPS Cancer solution that may limit our ability to distribute outside of the United States.

In addition, NantOmics is subject to the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988, or CLIA, a federal law that regulates clinical laboratories that perform testing on specimens derived from humans for the purpose of providing information for the diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of disease. CLIA regulations mandate specific standards in the areas of personnel qualifications, administration, and participation in proficiency testing, patient test management, quality control, quality assurance, and inspections. NantOmics has a current certificate of accreditation under CLIA to conduct our genomic sequencing and molecular analyses through our accreditation by the College of American Pathologists, or CAP. To renew this certificate, NantOmics is subject to survey and inspection every two years. Moreover, CLIA inspectors may make random inspections of NantOmics’ clinical reference laboratory.

Any sanction imposed under CLIA, its implementing regulations, or state or foreign laws or regulations governing licensure, or NantOmics’ failure to renew a CLIA certificate, a state or foreign license, or accreditation, could have a material adverse effect on our business. Most CLIA deficiencies are not classified as “condition-level” deficiencies, and there are no adverse effects upon the laboratory operations as long as the deficiencies are corrected. Remediation of these deficiencies is a routine matter, with corrections occurring within several hours or weeks. More serious CLIA deficiencies could rise to the level of “condition-level” deficiencies, and CMS has the authority to impose a wide range of sanctions, including revocation of the CLIA certification along with a bar on the ownership or operation of a CLIA-certified laboratory by any owners or operators of the deficient laboratory. There is an administrative hearing procedure that can be pursued by the laboratory in the event of imposition of such sanctions, during which the sanctions are stayed, but the process can take a number of years to complete. If NantOmics was to lose its CLIA certification or CAP accreditation, we would not be able to offer our GPS Cancer solution services, which would result in material harm to our business and results of operations.

While the FDA currently exercises its enforcement discretion for LDTs by not enforcing its regulations, the FDA has stated that it has a mandate to regulate in this field and that it intends to address LDT regulation using a risk-based, phased-in approach similar to the existing in vitro diagnostic framework. Moreover, the FDA could disagree with our current assessment that NantOmics’ sequencing services is a LDT, and could require us or NantOmics to seek clearance or approval for such sequencing services for clinical use. If the FDA requires us or NantOmics to seek clearance or approval to offer NantOmics’ sequencing services for GPS Cancer or any of our future offerings for

 

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clinical use, we may not be able to obtain such approvals on a timely basis, or at all. Failure to comply with applicable regulatory requirements can result in enforcement action by the FDA, which may include any of the following sanctions: warning letters; fines; injunctions; civil or criminal penalties; recall or seizure of current or future products; operating restrictions; partial suspension or total shutdown of production; denial of applications; or challenges to clearances or approvals. We cannot provide any assurance that FDA regulation, including premarket review, will not be required for our GPS Cancer solution or any other molecular profiling solution we offer in the future. If premarket review is required, our business could be negatively impacted if we are required to stop selling our molecular profiling solution pending its clearance or approval or if such approval is delayed by new requirements.

Healthcare policy changes, including recently enacted legislation reforming the U.S. healthcare system, may have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

In March 2010, the ACA was enacted in the United States, which made a number of substantial changes in the way healthcare is financed by both governmental and private insurers. Among other things, the ACA:

 

  n   requires each medical device manufacturer to pay an excise tax equal to 2.3% of the price for which such manufacturer sells its medical devices. This tax may apply to GPS Cancer and some or all of our products which are in development. The excise tax has been temporarily suspended for calendar years 2016 and 2017, but will be reinstated in 2018 without additional Congressional action.

 

  n   mandates a reduction in payments for clinical laboratory services paid under the Medicare Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule of 1.75% for the years 2011 through 2015. In addition, a productivity adjustment is made to the fee schedule payment amount.

 

  n   creates initiatives to promote quality indicators in payment methodologies and the coordination and promotion of research on comparative clinical effectiveness of different technologies and procedures.

We cannot predict whether future healthcare initiatives will be implemented at the federal or state level, or how any future legislation or regulation may affect us. The taxes imposed by the new federal legislation and the expansion of government’s role in the U.S. healthcare industry, as well as changes to the reimbursement amounts paid by payors for our current and future offerings or our medical procedure volumes, may reduce our profits and have a materially adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows. Moreover, Congress has proposed on several occasions to impose a 20% coinsurance on patients for clinical laboratory tests reimbursed under the Medicare Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule, which would require us to bill patients for these amounts. Because of the relatively low reimbursement for many clinical laboratory tests, in the event that Congress were to ever enact such legislation, the cost of billing and collecting for these tests would often exceed the amount actually received from the patient and effectively increase our costs of billing and collecting.

Further federal, state and foreign legislative and regulatory developments are likely, and we expect ongoing initiatives to increase pressure on pricing for certain products and services in the healthcare industry. Such reforms could have an adverse effect on our anticipated revenues.

We are subject to U.S. and foreign anti-corruption and anti-money laundering laws with respect to our operations and non-compliance with such laws can subject us to criminal and/or civil liability and harm our business.

We are subject to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, or the FCPA, the U.S. domestic bribery statute contained in 18 U.S.C. § 201, the U.S. Travel Act, the USA PATRIOT Act, and possibly other state and national anti-bribery and anti-money laundering laws in countries in which we conduct activities. Anti-corruption laws are interpreted broadly and prohibit companies and their employees, agents, third-party intermediaries, joint venture partners and collaborators from authorizing, promising, offering, or providing, directly or indirectly, improper payments or benefits to recipients in the public or private sector. We currently engage in business and sales with government and state-owned hospitals outside of the United States. In addition, we engage third-party intermediaries to promote and sell our products and solutions abroad and/or to obtain necessary permits, licenses, and other regulatory approvals. We or our third-party intermediaries may have direct or indirect interactions with officials and employees of government agencies or state-owned or affiliated entities. We can be held liable for the corrupt or other illegal activities of these third-party intermediaries, our employees, representatives, contractors, partners, and agents, even if we do not explicitly authorize or have actual knowledge of such activities.

Prior to the completion of this offering, we will adopt an anti-corruption policy, which will be effective upon the completion of this offering, and expect to prepare and implement procedures to ensure compliance with such policy.

 

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The anti-corruption policy mandates compliance with the FCPA and other anti-corruption laws applicable to our business throughout the world. However, we cannot assure you that our employees and third-party intermediaries will comply with this policy or such anti-corruption laws. Noncompliance with anti-corruption and anti-money laundering laws could subject us to whistleblower complaints, investigations, sanctions, settlements, prosecution, other enforcement actions, disgorgement of profits, significant fines, damages, other civil and criminal penalties or injunctions, suspension and/or debarment from contracting with certain persons, the loss of export privileges, reputational harm, adverse media coverage, and other collateral consequences. If any subpoenas, investigations, or other enforcement actions are launched, or governmental or other sanctions are imposed, or if we do not prevail in any possible civil or criminal litigation, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be materially harmed. In addition, responding to any action will likely result in a materially significant diversion of management’s attention and resources and significant defense and compliance costs and other professional fees. In certain cases, enforcement authorities may even cause us to appoint an independent compliance monitor which can result in added costs and administrative burdens.

We are subject to governmental export and import controls that could impair our ability to compete in international markets due to licensing requirements and subject us to liability if we are not in compliance with applicable laws.

Our products and solutions are subject to export control and import laws and regulations, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations, U.S. Customs regulations, and various economic and trade sanctions regulations administered by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Controls. Exports of our products and solutions outside of the United States must be made in compliance with these laws and regulations. If we fail to comply with these laws and regulations, we and certain of our employees could be subject to substantial civil or criminal penalties, including the possible loss of export or import privileges, fines, which may be imposed on us and responsible employees or managers and, in extreme cases, the incarceration of responsible employees or managers.

In addition, changes in our products or solutions or changes in applicable export or import laws and regulations may create delays in the introduction, provision, or sale of our products and solutions in international markets, prevent customers from using our products and solutions or, in some cases, prevent the export or import of our products and solutions to certain countries, governments or persons altogether. Any limitation on our ability to export, provide, or sell our products and solutions could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We may be subject to fines, penalties or legal liability, if it is determined that we are practicing medicine without a license through our eviti or molecular analysis solutions.

State laws prohibit the practice of medicine without a license. Our eviti reports delivered to physicians provide information regarding FDA-approved therapies and clinical trials that oncologists may use in making treatment decisions for their patients, and our GPS Cancer reports provide detailed genomic and proteomic data about a patient and can make personalized therapy recommendations based on that data. We make members of our organization available to clinicians to discuss the information provided in the report. Our customer service representatives provide support to our clients, including assistance in interpreting the results of the eviti and GPS Cancer reports. A governmental authority or third party could allege that the identification of available therapies and clinical trials in our reports and the related customer service we provide constitute the practice of medicine. A state may seek to have us discontinue the inclusion of certain aspects of our reports or the related services we provide or subject us to fines, penalties, or licensure requirements. Any determination that we are practicing medicine without a license may result in significant liability to us and harm to our reputation and eviti and GPS Cancer businesses.

Errors or illegal activity on the part of our clients may result in claims against us.

We rely on our clients, and we contractually obligate them, to provide us with accurate and appropriate data and directives for our actions. We rely upon our clients, as users of our Systems Infrastructure and NantOS, for key activities to produce proper claims for reimbursement. Failure of clients to provide these data and directives or to perform these activities may result in claims against us that our reliance was misplaced.

Our services present the potential for embezzlement, identity theft or other similar illegal behavior by our employees or subcontractors with respect to third parties.

Our services also involve the use and disclosure of personal and business information that could be used to impersonate third parties or otherwise gain access to their data or funds. If any of our employees or subcontractors takes, converts or misuses such funds, documents or data, we could be liable for damages, and our business reputation could be damaged or destroyed.

 

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Risks related to this offering and our common stock

Our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and entities affiliated with him, collectively own and will own after this offering a significant majority of our common stock and will exercise significant influence over matters requiring stockholder approval, regardless of the wishes of other stockholders.

Based upon the assumed number of shares to be sold in this offering as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Soon-Shiong, and entities affiliated with him, will collectively beneficially own     % of our outstanding shares of common stock (assuming no exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares, the purchase of $             million of shares in this offering described elsewhere in this prospectus and the conversion of $40.0 million in aggregate principal amount of a note plus accrued interest thereon owed to NantOmics also described elsewhere in this prospectus. Dr. Soon-Shiong and his affiliates will therefore have significant influence over management and significant control over matters requiring stockholder approval, including the annual election of directors and significant corporate transactions, such as a merger or other sale of our company or its assets, for the foreseeable future. This concentrated control will limit stockholders’ ability to influence corporate matters and, as a result, we may take actions that our stockholders do not view as beneficial. As a result, the market price of our common stock could be adversely affected.

Dr. Soon-Shiong, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and our principal stockholder, has significant interests in other companies which may conflict with our interests.

Our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Soon-Shiong, is the founder of NantWorks. The various NantWorks companies are currently exploring opportunities in the immunotherapy, infectious disease and inflammatory disease fields. In particular, NantOmics provides us with its sequencing and molecular analysis solution for our GPS Canter solution. NantWorks is the largest stockholder in NantOmics, holding approximately 84% of the outstanding equity and approximately 99% of the outstanding voting equity. As a result, they or other companies affiliated with Dr. Soon-Shiong may compete with us for business opportunities or, in the future, develop products that are competitive with ours. As a result Dr. Soon-Shiong’s interests may not be aligned with the interests of our other stockholders, and he may from time to time be incentivized to take certain actions that benefit his other interests and that our other stockholders do not view as being in their interest as investors in our company. Moreover, even if they do not directly relate to us, actions taken by Dr. Soon-Shiong and the companies and charitable organizations with which he is involved could have a negative impact on our business.

Further, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation contains a waiver of the corporate opportunities doctrine to the fullest extent permitted by law, and therefore Dr. Soon-Shiong and other directors have no obligation to make opportunities available to the Company.

We may have difficulty operating as a publicly traded company.

As a publicly traded company, we believe that our business will benefit from, among other things, providing direct access to equity capital and a tailored capital structure, allowing us to better focus our financial and operational resources on our specific business, allowing our management to design and implement corporate strategies and policies that are based primarily on the business characteristics and strategic decisions of our business, allowing us to more effectively respond to industry dynamics and allowing the creation of effective incentives for our management and employees that are more closely tied to our business performance. However, we may not be able to achieve some or all of the benefits that we believe we can achieve as an independent company in the time we currently expect, if at all. Because our business has previously operated as part of the larger NantWorks group of affiliated companies, we may not be able to successfully implement the changes necessary to operate independently. For example, we will need to implement and monitor new corporate governance policies and expand our board of directors to comply with SEC and NASDAQ Global Market, or NASDAQ, requirements. Implementation and monitoring of these policies and procedures may take longer than we expect. Additionally, new appointees to our board of directors will have limited familiarity with our offerings, business and strategy, and it may take time for such appointees to become conversant in our business. Implementing these changes may take longer than we expect, result in the incurrence of additional costs or divert management’s attention, which could adversely affect our business.

We do not know whether an active and liquid trading market will develop for our common stock or what the market price of our common stock will be and as a result it may be difficult for you to sell your common stock.

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have our common stock listed, or otherwise. Further, because a significant amount of our common stock after this offering will continue to be held by our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, it may be more difficult for an active and liquid trading market for our common stock to develop. If an active market for our common stock does not develop, it may be difficult for you to sell common stock you purchase in this offering without depressing the market price for the common stock or you may not be able to sell your shares at all. The initial public offering price for our common stock will be determined through negotiations with the underwriters and the negotiated price may not be indicative of the market price for our common stock after this offering. The initial public offering price may vary from the market price of our common stock after the offering. As a result of these and other factors, you may not be able to sell your common stock at or above the initial public offering price or at all. Further, an inactive market may also impair our ability to raise capital by selling additional common stock and may impair our ability to enter into strategic collaborations or acquire companies or products by using our common stock as consideration.

We expect that our trading price will fluctuate significantly and investors may not be able to resell their shares at or above the initial public offering price.

The trading price of our common stock following this offering may be highly volatile and could be subject to wide fluctuations in response to various factors, some of which are beyond our control. As a result of this volatility, you may not be able to sell your common stock at or above the initial public offering price, if at all. The market price for our common stock may be influenced by many factors, including:

 

  n   announcements by us or our competitors of new products, significant contracts, commercial relationships or capital commitments and the timing of these introductions or announcements;

 

  n   adverse regulatory or reimbursement announcements;

 

  n   announcements by us or our competitors of significant acquisitions, strategic collaborations, joint ventures or capital commitments;

 

  n   the results of our efforts to develop additional offerings;

 

  n   our dependence on our customers, partners and collaborators;

 

  n   regulatory or legal developments in the United States or other countries;
  n   reimbursement decisions regarding our future molecular profiling solutions, including GPS Cancer;

 

  n   developments or disputes concerning patent applications, issued patents or other proprietary rights;

 

  n   the recruitment or departure of key management or other personnel;

 

  n   our ability to successfully commercialize our future products;

 

  n   the level of expenses related to any of our products;

 

  n   actual or anticipated changes in estimates as to financial results, development timelines or recommendations by securities analysts;

 

  n   actual or anticipated quarterly variations in our financial results or those of our competitors;

 

  n   any change to the composition of the board of directors or key personnel;

 

  n   expiration of contractual lock-up agreements with our executive officers, directors and security holders;

 

  n   sales of common stock by us or our stockholders in the future, as well as the overall trading volume of our common stock;

 

  n   changes in the structure of healthcare payment systems;

 

  n   commencement of, or our involvement in, litigation;

 

  n   general economic, industry and market conditions and other factors that may be unrelated to our operating performance or the operating performance of our competitors, including changes in market valuations of similar companies; and

 

  n   the other factors described in this “Risk Factors” section.

In addition, the stock market in general, and NASDAQ and the healthcare industry in particular, have from time to time experienced volatility that often has been unrelated to the operating performance of the underlying companies. These broad market and industry fluctuations may adversely affect the market price of our common stock, regardless of our operating performance. In several recent situations where the market price of a stock has been volatile,

 

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holders of that stock have instituted securities class action litigation against the company that issued the stock. If any of our stockholders were to bring a lawsuit against us, the defense and disposition of the lawsuit could be costly and divert the time and attention of our management and would harm our operating results.

Future sales and issuances of our common stock or rights to purchase common stock could result in additional dilution of the percentage ownership of our stockholders and could cause our stock price to fall.

Sales of a substantial number of shares of our common stock in the public market could occur at any time. If our stockholders sell, or the market perceives that our stockholders intend to sell, substantial amounts of our common stock in the public market following this offering, the market price of our common stock could decline significantly. Substantially all of our existing stockholders are subject to lock-up agreements with the underwriters of this offering that restrict the stockholders’ ability to transfer shares of our common stock for at least 180 days from the date of this prospectus. The lock-up agreements limit the number of shares of common stock that may be sold immediately following the public offering. Subject to certain limitations, approximately             shares will become eligible for sale upon expiration of the lock-up period, as calculated and described in more detail in the section titled “Shares Eligible for Future Sale.” The representatives of the underwriters however, may, in their discretion, permit our officers, directors and other security holders who have entered into lock-up agreements in connection with this offering to sell shares prior to the expiration of the lock-up agreements. Moreover, shares issued or issuable upon exercise of options vested as of the expiration of the lock-up period will be eligible for sale at that time. Sales of stock by these stockholders could have a material adverse effect on the trading price of our common stock.

Following the closing of this offering, certain holders of approximately             shares of our common stock, including shares issuable upon the exercise of outstanding options, are entitled to certain rights with respect to the registration of their shares under the Securities Act of 1933, or the Securities Act, subject to the 180-day lock-up arrangement described above. Registration of these shares under the Securities Act would result in the shares becoming freely tradable without restriction under the Securities Act, except for shares held by our affiliates as defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act. Any sales of securities by these stockholders could have a material adverse effect on the market price of our common stock.

In addition, we expect that additional capital may be needed in the future to continue our planned operations, including commercialization efforts and costs associated with operating a public company. To raise capital, we may sell common stock, convertible securities or other equity securities in one or more transactions at prices and in a manner we determine from time to time. If we sell common stock, convertible securities or other equity securities, investors may be materially diluted by subsequent sales. Such sales may also result in material dilution to our existing stockholders, and new investors could gain rights, preferences and privileges senior to the holders of our common stock, including holders of common stock sold in this offering.

We will incur significant costs as a result of operating as a public company and our management expects to devote substantial time to public company compliance programs.

As a public company, we will incur significant legal, accounting and other expenses due to our compliance with regulations and disclosure obligations applicable to us, including compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, or the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, as well as rules implemented by the SEC and the NASDAQ. The SEC and other regulators have continued to adopt new rules and regulations and make additional changes to existing regulations that require our compliance. In July 2010, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, or the Dodd-Frank Act, was enacted. There are significant corporate governance and executive compensation related provisions in the Dodd-Frank Act that have required the SEC to adopt additional rules and regulations in these areas. Stockholder activism, the current political environment, and the current high level of government intervention and regulatory reform may lead to substantial new regulations and disclosure obligations, which may lead to additional compliance costs and impact, in ways we cannot currently anticipate, the manner in which we operate our business. Our management and other personnel will devote a substantial amount of time to these compliance programs and monitoring of public company reporting obligations and, as a result of the new corporate governance and executive compensation related rules, regulations, and guidelines prompted by the Dodd-Frank Act and further regulations and disclosure obligations expected in the future, we will likely need to devote additional time and costs to comply with such compliance programs and rules. These rules and regulations will cause us to incur significant legal and financial compliance costs and will make some activities more time-consuming and costly.

 

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To comply with the requirements of being a public company, we may need to undertake various activities, including implementing new internal controls and procedures and hiring new accounting or internal audit staff. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires that we maintain effective disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting. We are continuing to develop and refine our disclosure controls and other procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file with the SEC is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in SEC rules and forms, and that information required to be disclosed in reports under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or the Exchange Act, is accumulated and communicated to our principal executive and financial officers. Our current controls and any new controls that we develop may become inadequate and weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting may be discovered in the future. Any failure to develop or maintain effective controls could adversely affect the results of periodic management evaluations and annual independent registered public accounting firm attestation reports regarding the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting which we may be required to include in our periodic reports we will file with the SEC under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, harm our operating results, cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations, or result in a restatement of our prior period financial statements. In the event that we are not able to demonstrate compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, that our internal control over financial reporting is perceived as inadequate or that we are unable to produce timely or accurate financial statements, investors may lose confidence in our operating results and the price of our common stock could decline. In addition, if we are unable to continue to meet these requirements, we may not be able to remain listed on NASDAQ.

We are not currently required to comply with the SEC rules that implement Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and are therefore not yet required to make a formal assessment of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting for that purpose. Upon becoming a public company, we will be required to comply with certain of these rules, which will require management to certify financial and other information in our quarterly and annual reports and provide an annual management report on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting commencing with our second annual report. This assessment will need to include the disclosure of any material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting identified by our management or our independent registered public accounting firm. We are just beginning the costly and challenging process of compiling the system and processing documentation needed to comply with such requirements. We may not be able to complete our evaluation, testing and any required remediation in a timely fashion. During the evaluation and testing process, if we identify one or more material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting, we will be unable to assert that our internal control over financial reporting is effective.

Our independent registered public accounting firm may not be required to formally attest to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting until the later of our second annual report or the first annual report required to be filed with the SEC following the date we are no longer an “emerging growth company” as defined in the JOBS Act, depending on whether we choose to rely on certain exemptions set forth in the JOBS Act. We cannot assure you that there will not be material weaknesses or significant deficiencies in our internal controls in the future. If we are unable to assert that our internal control over financial reporting is effective, or if our independent registered public accounting firm is unable to express an opinion on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, we could lose investor confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports, which could have a material adverse effect on the price of our common stock.

Our ability to use our net operating loss carryforwards to offset future taxable income may be subject to certain limitations.

In general, under Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or the Code, a corporation that undergoes an “ownership change” is subject to annual limitations on its ability to use its pre-change net operating loss carryforwards or other tax attributes, or NOLs, to offset future taxable income or reduce taxes. We believe that we have recently undergone one or more ownership changes and accordingly, our ability to use our NOLs may be limited.

 

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We do not anticipate paying any cash dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future.

We do not currently intend to pay any cash dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future. We currently intend to retain all of our future earnings, if any, to finance the growth and development of our business. In addition, the terms of any future debt agreements may preclude us from paying dividends. As a result, capital appreciation, if any, of our common stock may be investors’ sole source of gain for the foreseeable future.

We are an “emerging growth company,” and the reduced disclosure requirements applicable to emerging growth companies could make our common stock less attractive to investors.

We are an “emerging growth company,” as defined in the JOBS Act, and may remain an “emerging growth company” for up to five years following the completion of this offering. We would cease to be an emerging growth company upon the earliest of: (i) the last day of the fiscal year following the fifth anniversary of the completion of this offering; (ii) the last day of the fiscal year during which we have annual gross revenue of at least $1.0 billion; (iii) the date on which we are deemed to be a ‘‘large accelerated filer’’ under the Exchange Act (we will qualify as a large accelerated filer as of the first day of the first fiscal year after we have (a) more than $700.0 million in outstanding common equity held by our non-affiliates and (b) been public for at least 12 months; the value of our outstanding common equity will be measured each year on the last business day of our second fiscal quarter); or (iv) the date on which we have, during the previous three-year period, issued more than $1.0 billion in non-convertible debt securities. For as long as we remain an “emerging growth company,” we are permitted and intend to rely on exemptions from certain disclosure requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not “emerging growth companies.” These exemptions include:

 

  n   being permitted to provide only two years of audited financial statements, in addition to any required unaudited interim financial statements, with correspondingly reduced “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” disclosure;

 

  n   not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements in the assessment of our internal control over financial reporting;

 

  n   not being required to comply with any requirement that may be adopted by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board regarding mandatory audit firm rotation or a supplement to the auditor’s report providing additional information about the audit and the financial statements;

 

  n   reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation; and

 

  n   exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and stockholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved.

We have taken advantage of reduced reporting requirements in this prospectus. In particular, in this prospectus, we have provided only two years of audited financial statements and have not included all of the executive compensation related information that would be required if we were not an emerging growth company. In addition, the JOBS Act provides that an emerging growth company can take advantage of an extended transition period for complying with new or revised accounting standards, delaying the adoption of these accounting standards until they would apply to private companies. We have irrevocably elected not to avail ourselves of this exemption and, as a result, we will adopt new or revised accounting standards on the relevant dates on which adoption of such standards is required for other public companies. We cannot predict whether investors will find our common stock less attractive as a result of our reliance on these exemptions. If some investors find our common stock less attractive as a result, there may be a less active trading market for our common stock and the market price of our common stock may be reduced or may be more volatile.

Upon the completion of this offering, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Soon-Shiong, and entities affiliated with him, will continue to control a majority of our common stock. As a result, we are a “controlled company” within the meaning of NASDAQ listing standards. Under these rules, a company of which more than 50% of the voting power is held by an individual, a group or another company is a “controlled company” and may elect not to comply with certain NASDAQ corporate governance requirements, including (1) the requirement that a majority of the board of directors consist of independent directors and (2) the requirement that we have a nominating and corporate governance committee that is composed entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the committee’s purpose and responsibilities. Following this offering, we intend to rely on certain of these exemptions. As a result, we will not have a nominating and corporate governance committee. Accordingly,

 

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you will not have the same protections afforded to stockholders of companies that are subject to all of the NASDAQ corporate governance requirements.

If you purchase our common stock in this offering, because the initial public offering price of our common stock will be substantially higher than our as adjusted net tangible book value per share following this offering, you will incur immediate and substantial dilution in the book value of your shares.

Investors purchasing common stock in this offering will pay a price per share that substantially exceeds our net tangible book value per share as of December 31, 2015. Net tangible book value is our tangible assets after subtracting our liabilities. As a result, investors purchasing common stock in this offering will incur immediate dilution of $        per share, based on the difference between the assumed initial public offering price of $        per share, which is the midpoint of the estimated offering price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, and the as adjusted net tangible book value per share of our outstanding common stock as of December 31, 2015.

This dilution is due to our investors who purchased shares prior to this offering having paid substantially less than the price offered to the public in this offering when they purchased their shares. As a result of the dilution to investors purchasing shares in this offering, investors may receive significantly less than the purchase price paid in this offering, if anything, in the event of our liquidation.

These future issuances of common stock or common stock-related securities, together with the exercise of outstanding options and any additional shares issued in connection with acquisitions, if any, may result in further dilution. For a further description of the dilution that you will experience immediately after this offering, see the section entitled “Dilution.”

In addition, pursuant to the Stockholders’ Agreement, we may be required to issue additional shares of our common stock depending on the initial public offering price of our common stock. The actual initial public offering price will be determined in good faith by our board of directors shortly before the pricing of this offering. The Stockholders’ Agreement provides that if we issue shares in connection with this offering at a price below $2.7995 per share, we would be required to issue additional shares of our common stock to our stockholders NHealth Holdings, Inc. and KHealth Holdings, Inc. immediately prior to the closing of this offering. For more details, see “Prospectus Summary—The Offering—Potential Issuances Pursuant to Our Stockholders’ Agreement.”

Participation in this offering by certain of our existing stockholders would reduce the available public float for our shares.

Certain of our investors, including entities affiliated with Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, have indicated an interest in purchasing up to $             million of shares of our common stock in this offering at the initial public offering price. Were this to occur, our executive officers, directors and stockholders owning more than 5% of our outstanding common stock prior to completion of this offering would, in the aggregate, own or control shares representing approximately     % of our outstanding common stock, and Dr. Soon-Shiong would own or control approximately     % of our outstanding common stock.

If certain of our investors, including entities associated with Dr. Soon-Shiong, are allocated all or a portion of the shares in which they have indicated an interest in this offering and purchase any such shares, such purchases would reduce the available public float for our shares because such entities would be restricted from selling the shares by a lock-up agreement entered into with our underwriters and by restrictions under applicable securities laws. As a result, any purchase of shares by such entities in this offering may reduce the liquidity of our common stock relative to what it would have been had these shares been purchased by investors that were not associated with us.

If securities or industry analysts do not publish research or publish inaccurate or unfavorable research about our business, our share price and trading volume could decline.

The trading market for our common stock will depend on the research and reports that securities or industry analysts publish about us or our business. We do not have any control over these analysts. There can be no assurance that analysts will cover us or provide favorable coverage. If one or more of the analysts who cover us downgrade our stock or change their opinion of our stock, our share price would likely decline. If one or more of these analysts cease coverage of our company or fail to regularly publish reports on us, we could lose visibility in the financial markets, which could cause our share price or trading volume to decline.

 

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We are not subject to the provisions of Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which could negatively affect your investment.

We elected in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation to not be subject to the provisions of Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, or Section 203. In general, Section 203 prohibits a publicly held Delaware corporation from engaging in a “business combination” with an “interested stockholder” for a period of three years after the date of the transaction in which the person became an interested stockholder, unless the business combination is approved in a prescribed manner. A “business combination” includes a merger, asset sale or other transaction resulting in a financial benefit to the interested stockholder. An “interested stockholder” is a person who, together with affiliates and associates, owns (or, in certain cases, within three years prior, did own) 15% or more of the corporation’s voting stock. Our decision not to be subject to Section 203 will allow, for example, Dr. Soon-Shiong, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (who, with entities affiliated with him, will beneficially own approximately         % of our common stock) to transfer shares in excess of 15% of our voting stock to a third-party free of the restrictions imposed by Section 203. This may make us more vulnerable to takeovers that are completed without the approval of our board of directors and/or without giving us the ability to prohibit or delay such takeovers as effectively.

Some provisions of our charter documents and Delaware law may have anti-takeover effects that could discourage an acquisition of us by others, even if an acquisition would be beneficial to our stockholders, and may prevent attempts by our stockholders to replace or remove our current management.

Provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws that will be effective upon the completion of this offering, as well as provisions of Delaware law, could make it more difficult for a third party to acquire us or increase the cost of acquiring us, even if doing so would benefit our stockholders. These provisions include:

 

  n   a requirement that special meetings of stockholders be called only by the board of directors, the president or the chief executive officer;

 

  n   advance notice requirements for stockholder proposals and nominations for election to our board of directors; and

 

  n   the authority of the board of directors to issue preferred stock on terms determined by the board of directors without stockholder approval and which preferred stock may include rights superior to the rights of the holders of common stock.

These anti-takeover provisions and other provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws could make it more difficult for stockholders or potential acquirors to obtain control of our board of directors or initiate actions that are opposed by the then-current board of directors and could also delay or impede a merger, tender offer or proxy contest involving our company. These provisions could also discourage proxy contests and make it more difficult for you and other stockholders to elect directors of your choosing or cause us to take other corporate actions you desire. Any delay or prevention of a change of control transaction or changes in our board of directors could cause the market price of our common stock to decline.

Claims for indemnification by our directors and officers may reduce our available funds to satisfy successful third-party claims against us and may reduce the amount of money available to us.

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws provide that we will indemnify our directors and officers, in each case to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law. In addition, as permitted by Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, our amended and restated bylaws and our indemnification agreements that we have entered into with our directors and officers provide that:

 

  n   We will indemnify our directors and officers for serving us in those capacities or for serving other business enterprises at our request, to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law. Delaware law provides that a corporation may indemnify such person if such person acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the registrant and, with respect to any criminal proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe such person’s conduct was unlawful.

 

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  n   We are required to advance expenses, as incurred, to our directors and officers in connection with defending a proceeding, except that such directors or officers shall undertake to repay such advances if it is ultimately determined that such person is not entitled to indemnification.

 

  n   We will not be obligated pursuant to our amended and restated bylaws to indemnify a person with respect to proceedings initiated by that person against us or our other indemnitees, except with respect to proceedings authorized by our board of directors or brought to enforce a right to indemnification.

 

  n   The rights conferred in our amended and restated bylaws are not exclusive, and we are authorized to enter into indemnification agreements with our directors, officers, employees and agents and to obtain insurance to indemnify such persons.

 

  n   We may not retroactively amend our bylaw provisions to reduce our indemnification obligations to directors, officers, employees and agents.

To the extent that a claim for indemnification is brought by any of our directors or officers, it would reduce the amount of funds available for use in our business.

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation designates the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware as the sole and exclusive forum for certain types of actions and proceedings that may be initiated by our stockholders, which could limit our stockholders’ ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us or our directors, officers or other employees.

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that, unless we consent in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware shall be the sole and exclusive forum for (i) any derivative action or proceeding brought on our behalf, (ii) any action asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any of our directors, officers or other employees to us or our stockholders, (iii) any action asserting a claim arising pursuant to any provision of the Delaware General Corporation Law, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation or our amended and restated bylaws, or (iv) any action asserting a claim against us governed by the internal affairs doctrine. Any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in shares of our capital stock shall be deemed to have notice of and consented to the provisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation described above. This choice of forum provision may limit a stockholder’s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that it finds favorable for disputes with us or our directors, officers or other employees, which may discourage such lawsuits against us and our directors, officers and other employees. Alternatively, if a court were to find these provisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation inapplicable to, or unenforceable in respect of, one or more of the specified types of actions or proceedings, we may incur additional costs associated with resolving such matters in other jurisdictions, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition or results of operations.

The industry- and market-related estimates included in this prospectus are based on various assumptions and may prove to be inaccurate.

Industry- and market-related estimates included in this prospectus, including, without limitation, estimates related to our market size and industry data, are subject to uncertainty and are based on assumptions which may not prove to be accurate. This may have negative consequences, such as us overestimating our potential market opportunity. For more information, see the section titled “Market, Industry and Other Data.”

We are exposed to risks related to our international operations and failure to manage these risks may adversely affect our operating results and financial condition.

We are a global company with operations both inside and outside the United States. For example, we have foreign wholly owned subsidiaries, including NantHealth UK Ltd., NantHealth Singapore Private Ltd., NantHealth Canada, Inc. and NantHealth Technologies India Private Ltd. As a result, a portion of our operations are conducted by and/or rely on entities outside the United States. We may therefore be denied access to our customers or suppliers as a result of economic, legislative, political and military conditions in such countries.

International operations are subject to a number of other inherent risks, and our future results could be adversely affected by a number of factors, including:

 

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  n   differing existing or future regulatory and certification requirements;

 

  n   management communication and integration problems resulting from cultural and geographic dispersion;

 

  n   greater difficulty in collecting accounts receivable and longer collection periods;

 

  n   difficulties in enforcing contracts;

 

  n   difficulties and costs of staffing and managing non-U.S. operations;

 

  n   the uncertainty of protection for intellectual property rights in some countries;

 

  n   tariffs and trade barriers, export regulations and other regulatory and contractual limitations on our ability to sell our products;

 

  n   greater risk of a failure of foreign employees to comply with both U.S. and foreign laws, including export and antitrust regulations, the FCPA and any trade regulations ensuring fair trade practices;

 

  n   heightened risk of unfair or corrupt business practices in certain geographies and of improper or fraudulent sales arrangements that may impact financial results and result in restatements of, or irregularities in, financial statements;

 

  n   potentially adverse tax consequences, including multiple and possibly overlapping tax structures; and

 

  n   political and economic instability, political unrest and terrorism.

In addition, the expansion of our existing international operations and entry into additional international markets has required, and will continue to require, significant management attention and financial resources. These factors and other factors could harm our ability to gain future revenues and, consequently, materially impact our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Our management team will have broad discretion to use the net proceeds from this offering and its investment of these proceeds may not yield a favorable return. They may invest the proceeds of this offering in ways with which investors disagree.

Our management team will have broad discretion in the application of the net proceeds from this offering and could spend or invest the proceeds in ways with which our stockholders disagree. Accordingly, investors will need to rely on our management team’s judgment with respect to the use of these proceeds. We intend to use the proceeds from this offering to pay approximately $         million to cover withholding taxes for the issuance of restricted stock units to holders of phantom units under our Phantom Unit Plan, and the remainder for general corporate purposes, including commercializing new solutions and product extensions and pursuing targeted acquisitions. However, we currently have no agreements or commitments to complete any such transaction. These uses may not yield a favorable return to our stockholders.

We cannot specify with certainty all of the particular uses for the net proceeds to be received upon the closing of this offering. Accordingly, we will have broad discretion in using these proceeds. Until the net proceeds are used, they may be placed in investments that do not produce significant income or that may lose value.

 

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SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This prospectus contains forward-looking statements that are based on management’s beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to management. Some of the statements in the section captioned “Prospectus Summary,” “Risk Factors,” “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” “Business” and elsewhere in this prospectus contain forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by the following words: “may,” “will,” “could,” “would,” “should,” “expect,” “intend,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “predict,” “project,” “potential,” “continue,” “ongoing” or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology, although not all forward-looking statements contain these words.

These statements involve risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from the information expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Although we believe that we have a reasonable basis for each forward-looking statement contained in this prospectus, we caution you that these statements are based on a combination of facts and factors currently known by us and our projections of the future, about which we cannot be certain. Forward-looking statements in this prospectus include, but are not limited to, statements about:

 

  n   the structural change in the market for healthcare in the United States, including uncertainty in the healthcare regulatory framework and regulatory developments in the United States and foreign countries;

 

  n   the evolving treatment paradigm for cancer, including physicians’ use of molecular information and targeted oncology therapeutics and the market size for molecular information products;

 

  n   physicians’ need for precision medicine products and any perceived advantage of our solutions over those of our competitors, including the ability of our comprehensive platform to help physicians treat their patients’ cancers;

 

  n   our ability to generate revenue from sales of products enabled by our molecular and biometric information platforms to physicians in clinical settings;

 

  n   our ability to increase the commercial success of our sequencing and molecular analysis solution;

 

  n   our plans or ability to obtain reimbursement for our sequencing and molecular analysis solution, including expectations as to our ability or the amount of time it will take to achieve successful reimbursement from third-party payors, such as commercial insurance companies and health maintenance organizations, and government insurance programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid;

 

  n   our ability to effectively manage our growth, including the rate and degree of market acceptance of our solutions;

 

  n   our ability to offer new and innovative products and services;

 

  n   our ability to attract new partners and clients;

 

  n   our ability to estimate the size of our target market;

 

  n   our ability to maintain and enhance our reputation and brand recognition;

 

  n   consolidation in the healthcare industry;

 

  n   competition which could limit our ability to maintain or expand market share within our industry;

 

  n   restrictions and penalties as a result of privacy and data protection laws;

 

  n   our use of “open source” software;

 

  n   our ability to use, disclose, de-identify or license data and to integrate third-party technologies;

 

  n   data loss or corruption due to failures or errors in our systems and service disruptions at our data centers;

 

  n   breaches or failures of our security measures;

 

  n   our reliance on Internet infrastructure, bandwidth providers, data center providers, other third parties and our own systems for providing services to our users;

 

  n   risks related to future acquisition opportunities;

 

  n   the requirements of being a public company;

 

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  n   our ability to obtain and maintain intellectual property protection for our solutions and not infringe upon the intellectual property of others;

 

  n   our expectations regarding the period during which we qualify as an emerging growth company under the JOBS Act; and

 

  n   our use of the net proceeds from this offering.

In addition, you should refer to the “Risk Factors” section of this prospectus for a discussion of other important factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. As a result of these factors, we cannot assure you that the forward-looking statements in this prospectus will prove to be accurate. Furthermore, if the forward-looking statements prove to be inaccurate, the inaccuracy may be material. In light of the significant uncertainties in these forward-looking statements, you should not regard these statements as a representation or warranty by us or any other person that we will achieve our objectives and plans in any specified time frame, or at all. The forward-looking statements made in this prospectus relate only to events as of the date on which the statements are made. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

 

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TRADEMARKS

We own or have rights to trademarks and service marks that we use in connection with the operation of our business. NantHealth, Inc. and our logo as well as other protected brands such as CareFx, our clinical operating system, cOS or NantOS, DeviceConX, FusionFX, GPS Cancer, HBox, Vitality, VitalsConX, NaviNet, CLINICS, eviti, eviti | Connect, eviti | IQ, and other marks relating to our eviti product line are used in this prospectus. Solely for convenience, the trademarks and service marks referred to in this prospectus are listed without the (sm) and (TM) symbols, but we will assert, to the fullest extent under applicable law, our rights or the rights of the applicable licensors to these trademarks, service marks and trade names. Additionally, we do not intend for our use or display of other companies’ trade names, trademarks, or service marks to imply a relationship with, or endorsement or sponsorship of us by, these other companies.

MARKET, INDUSTRY AND OTHER DATA

We obtained the industry, market and similar data set forth in this prospectus from our own internal estimates and research, industry publications and surveys and studies conducted by third parties. These data involve a number of assumptions and limitations, and you are cautioned not to give undue weight to such information and estimates.

Information that is based on estimates, forecasts, projections, market research or similar methodologies is inherently subject to uncertainties and actual events or circumstances may differ materially from events and circumstances that are assumed in this information. In some cases, we do not expressly refer to the sources from which this data is derived. In that regard, when we refer to one or more sources of this type of data in any paragraph, you should assume that other data of this type appearing in the same paragraph is derived from the same sources, unless otherwise expressly stated or the context otherwise requires.

DIVIDEND POLICY

We currently intend to retain any future earnings and do not anticipate paying any cash dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future following the completion of this offering. Any future determination to declare dividends will be made at the discretion of our board of directors and will depend on, among other factors, our financial condition, operating results, capital requirements, general business conditions and other factors that our board of directors may deem relevant.

 

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USE OF PROCEEDS

We estimate that the net proceeds to us from the sale of                 shares of our common stock in this offering will be $         million, based on an assumed initial public offering price of $         per share, which is the midpoint of the estimated offering price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us. If the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional shares in full, we estimate that our net proceeds would be $         million, after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us.

The principal purposes of this offering are to obtain additional capital to support our operations, establish a public market for our common stock and facilitate our future access to the public capital markets. More specifically, we anticipate that we will use the net proceeds from this offering, together with our existing cash, to pay approximately $             million to cover withholding taxes for the issuance of restricted stock units to holders of phantom units under our Phantom Unit Plan, and the remainder for general corporate purposes, including commercializing new solutions and product extensions and pursuing targeted acquisitions. We may also use a portion of the net proceeds from this offering and our existing cash and cash equivalents to in-license, acquire or invest in complementary business, technologies, products or assets. However, we have no current plans, commitments or obligations to do so.

We believe that the net proceeds from this offering and our existing cash, cash equivalents, marketable securities, and our ability to borrow from affiliated entities, will be sufficient to fund our operations through at least the next 12 months. This expected use of the net proceeds from the offering represents our intentions based upon our current plans and business conditions. We cannot specify with certainty all of the particular uses of the net proceeds that we will receive from this offering, or the amounts that we will actually spend on the uses set forth above. The amounts and timing of our actual expenditures will depend on numerous factors, including the success of product development efforts and market dynamics while evaluating targeted acquisitions. We may find it necessary or advisable to use the net proceeds for other purposes, and we will have broad discretion in using these proceeds. Investors will be relying on our judgment regarding the use of the net proceeds from this offering. Pending the use of proceeds as described above, we plan to invest the net proceeds that we receive in short-term and intermediate-term interest-bearing obligations, investment-grade investments, certificates of deposit or direct or guaranteed obligations of the U.S. government. We cannot predict whether the invested proceeds will yield a favorable return.

 

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CAPITALIZATION

The following table sets forth our cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities and capitalization as of December 31, 2015:

 

  n   on an actual basis;

 

  n   on a pro forma basis, giving effect to (i) the LLC Conversion described under the section titled “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—LLC Conversion” and (ii) the conversion of $40.0 million in aggregate principal amount of a note plus accrued interest thereon owed to NantOmics into              shares of our common stock at the time of pricing of this offering, assuming a note conversion date of                     , 2016 and an initial public offering price of $         per share, the midpoint of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus; and

 

  n   on a pro forma as adjusted basis to reflect (i) the pro forma adjustments discussed above, (ii) the issuance and sale of             shares of our common stock in this offering at an assumed initial public offering price of $        per share, which is the midpoint of the estimated offering price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, after deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us and (iii) the issuance of             shares issuable pursuant to the Stockholders’ Agreement to certain of our stockholders immediately prior to the closing of this offering (assuming the actual initial public offering price is equal to the assumed initial public offering price of $            per share, the midpoint of the price range, and the actual number of shares sold in this offering remains the same (each as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus)).

The pro forma as adjusted information set forth in the table below is illustrative only and will be adjusted based on the actual initial public offering price and other terms of this offering determined at pricing. You should read this table together with “Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed and Consolidated Financial Information,” “Selected Consolidated Financial and Other Data,” “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and our consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this prospectus.

 

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     AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2015  
(in thousands, except unit, share and per share data)    ACTUAL     PRO FORMA      PRO FORMA
AS ADJUSTED (1)
 
           (unaudited)  

Cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities

   $ 7,332      $                        $                    
  

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Redeemable Series F units—no par value per unit, 53,580,996 issued and outstanding, actual; no units authorized, issued or outstanding, pro forma and pro forma as adjusted

     166,042                  

Stockholders’ equity:

       

Series H units—no par value per unit, 15,513,726 issued and outstanding, actual; no units authorized, issued or outstanding, pro forma and pro forma adjusted

            

Series G units—no par value per unit, 59,099,908 issued and outstanding, actual; no units authorized, issued or outstanding, pro forma and pro forma as adjusted

     200,000                  

Series E units—no par value per unit, 35,720,664 issued and outstanding, actual; no units authorized, issued or outstanding, pro forma and pro forma as adjusted

     100,000                  

Series D units—no par value per unit, 3,572,066 issued and outstanding, actual; no units authorized, issued or outstanding, pro forma and pro forma as adjusted

     10.000                  

Series B units—no par value per unit, 19,109,603 issued and outstanding, actual; no units authorized, issued or outstanding, pro forma and pro forma as adjusted

     50.000                  

Series A units—no par value per unit, 420,255,676 issued and outstanding, actual; no units authorized, issued or outstanding, pro forma and pro forma as adjusted

     114,837                  

Series C units—no par value per unit, 3,475,308 issued and outstanding, actual; no units authorized, issued or outstanding, pro forma and pro forma as adjusted

     1,426                  

Common stock, $0.0001 par value,              shares authorized,              shares issued and outstanding, actual;             shares issued and outstanding, pro forma and pro forma as adjusted

            

Additional paid-in capital

            

Accumulated deficit

     (291,171     

Accumulated other comprehensive income

     (87     
  

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total stockholders’ equity

     185,005        
  

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total capitalization

   $ 351,047      $         $     
  

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

(1)   Each $1.00 increase (decrease) in the assumed initial public offering price of $     per share, which is the midpoint of the estimated offering price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, would increase (decrease) each of cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities, additional paid-in capital, total stockholders’ equity and total capitalization by approximately $             million, assuming that the number of shares of common stock offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same, and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions. Each increase (decrease) of 1,000,000 shares in the number of shares of common stock offered by us would increase (decrease) each of cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities, additional paid-in capital, total stockholders’ equity and total capitalization by approximately $             million, assuming that the assumed initial public offering price remains the same, and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions. The pro forma as adjusted information discussed above is illustrative only and will be adjusted based on the actual public offering price and other terms of this offering determined at pricing.

The number of shares of our common stock set forth in the table above is based on the number of shares outstanding as of December 31, 2015 after giving effect to the LLC Conversion described under the section titled “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—LLC Conversion,” and excludes:

 

  n               shares of common stock issuable upon the vesting of restricted stock to be issued in connection with the LLC Conversion to the holders of profits interest units under our Profits Interests Plan that were issued as of December 31, 2015;

 

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  n               shares of common stock issuable upon the vesting of RSUs issued in connection with the completion of this offering to the holders of phantom units under our Phantom Unit Plan that were outstanding as of December 31, 2015;

 

  n               shares of common stock reserved for future issuance under our 2016 Plan, which will become effective in connection with the completion of this offering; and

 

 

  n   any shares issuable under the Stockholders’ Agreement to certain of our stockholders, depending on the initial public offering price of our common stock.

 

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DILUTION

If you invest in our common stock, your ownership interest will be diluted to the extent of the difference between the amount per share paid by purchasers of shares of our common stock in this initial public offering and the pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value per share of our common stock immediately after completion of this offering.

Our historical net tangible book value as of December 31, 2015 was approximately $239.4 million. Our historical net tangible book value is the amount of our total tangible assets less our liabilities. As of December 31, 2015, we had $111.7 million intangible assets. Historical net tangible book value per share is our historical net tangible book value divided by the number of shares of common stock outstanding as of December 31, 2015. Our pro forma net tangible book value as of December 31, 2015 was $        million, or $        per share, based on the total number of shares of our common stock outstanding as of December 31, 2015, after giving effect to (i) the LLC Conversion described under the section titled “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—LLC Conversion” and (ii) the conversion of $40.0 million in aggregate principal amount of a note plus accrued interest thereon owed to NantOmics into              shares of our common stock at the time of pricing of this offering, assuming a note conversion date of                     , 2016 and an initial public offering price of $         per share, the midpoint of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus.

After giving effect to the pro forma adjustments set forth above and the sale of shares of common stock in this offering at an assumed initial public offering price of $             per share, which is the midpoint of the estimated offering price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us, our pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value at December 31, 2015 would have been $        million, or $        per share of common stock. This represents an immediate increase in pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value of $        per share to existing stockholders and an immediate dilution of $        per share to new investors.

The following table illustrates this dilution:

 

 

 

Assumed initial public offering price per share

      $                

Historical net tangible book value per share as of December 31, 2015

   $                     

Increase in pro forma net tangible book value per share attributable to new investors in this offering

     
  

 

 

    

Pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value per share immediately after this offering

     
     

 

 

 

Dilution in pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value per share to new investors in this offering

      $            
     

 

 

 

 

 

Each $1.00 increase (decrease) in the assumed initial public offering price of $        per share would increase (decrease) our pro forma net tangible book value per share to new investors by $            , and would increase (decrease) dilution per share to new investors in this offering by $            , assuming that the number of shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same, and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions. Each increase (decrease) of 1,000,000 shares in the number of shares of common stock offered by us would increase (decrease) each of cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities, additional paid-in capital, total stockholders’ equity and total capitalization by approximately $             million, assuming that the assumed initial public offering price remains the same, and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions. In addition, to the extent any outstanding options are exercised, new investors would experience further dilution. If the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional shares in full, the pro forma net tangible book value per share of our common stock after giving effect to this offering would be approximately $        per share, and the dilution in pro forma net tangible book value per share to investors in this offering would be approximately $        per share of common stock.

 

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The following table presents on a pro forma as adjusted basis as of December 31, 2015, after giving effect to the LLC Conversion, with respect to the number of shares purchased from us, the total consideration paid or to be paid to us, which includes net proceeds received from the issuance of common stock and the average price per share paid or to be paid to us at an assumed initial public offering price of $        per share, which is the midpoint of the estimated offering price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, before deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us.

 

 

 

     SHARES
PURCHASED
    TOTAL CONSIDERATION     WEIGHTED-
AVERAGE PRICE
PER SHARE
 
     NUMBER    PERCENT     AMOUNT      PERCENT    

Existing stockholders

               $                             $                

New investors

             $     
  

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

   

Total

        100   $           100  
  

 

  

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

Each $1.00 increase (decrease) in the assumed initial public offering price of $        per share would increase (decrease) the total consideration paid by new investors and total consideration paid by all stockholders by approximately $        million, assuming that the number of shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions. Each increase (decrease) of 1,000,000 shares in the number of shares of common stock offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, would increase (decrease) each of the total consideration paid by new investors and total consideration paid by all stockholders by approximately $         million, assuming that the assumed initial public offering price remains the same, and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions. In addition, to the extent any outstanding options are exercised or any outstanding restricted stock units have vested, new investors will experience further dilution.

Except as otherwise indicated, the above discussion and tables assume no exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares and no participation by any of our officers, directors or employees. If the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional shares in full, our existing stockholders would own     % and our new investors would own     % of the total number of shares of our common stock outstanding after this offering. In addition, certain of our investors, including entities affiliated with Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, have indicated an interest in purchasing up to $     million of shares of our common stock in this offering at the initial public offering price. However, because indications of interest are not binding agreements or commitments to purchase, the underwriters may determine to sell more, fewer or no shares in this offering to any of these parties, or any of these parties may determine to purchase more, fewer or no shares in this offering.

The number of shares of our common stock set forth in the table above is based on the number of shares outstanding as of December 31, 2015 after giving effect to the LLC Conversion described under the section titled “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—LLC Conversion,” and excludes:

 

  n                    shares of common stock issuable upon the vesting of restricted stock to be issued in connection with the LLC Conversion to the holders of profits interest units under our Profits Interests Plan that were issued as of December 31, 2015;

 

  n                    shares of common stock issuable upon the vesting of RSUs issued in connection with the completion of this offering to the holders of phantom units under our Phantom Unit Plan that were outstanding as of December 31, 2015;

 

  n                    shares of common stock reserved for future issuance under our 2016 Plan, which will become effective in connection with the completion of this offering; and

 

  n   any shares issuable under the Stockholders’ Agreement to certain of our stockholders, depending on the initial public offering price of our common stock.

 

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UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED COMBINED FINANCIAL INFORMATION

The following unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information and related notes is based on the historical financial information of our company, after giving effect to (i) our equity method investment in NantOmics, LLC, or the NantOmics Investment, (ii) our acquisition of NaviNet, or the NaviNet Acquisition, and the related debt issued to finance such acquisition and (iii) the LLC Conversion as described in “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—LLC Conversion.”

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2015 is presented as if the NantOmics Investment, the NaviNet Acquisition, the LLC Conversion and the sale of shares of common stock in this offering at the initial public offering price of $         (the midpoint of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus), or the Offering Transactions, occurred on January 1, 2015. An unaudited pro forma condensed combined balance sheet as of December 31, 2015 is presented as if the NaviNet Acquisition and the LLC Conversion occurred as of December 31, 2015. The NantOmics Investment is included in our historical consolidated balance sheet and therefore it does not require further adjustment within the December 31, 2015 pro forma condensed combined balance sheet.

The historical financial information is adjusted in the unaudited condensed combined pro forma financial statements to give effect of pro forma adjustments that are (1) directly attributable to the transactions, (2) factually supportable, and (3) with respect to the pro forma condensed combined statements of operations, expected to have a continuing impact on the combined results of NantHealth.

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined statements of operations are based on estimates and assumptions which have been made solely for the purposes of developing such pro forma information. The pro forma adjustments arising from the NantOmics Investment are derived from the application of the equity method of accounting. Pro forma adjustments arising from the NaviNet Acquisition are derived from the estimated fair value of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed in that transaction and the impacts of the debt issued to finance the acquisition. The unaudited pro forma condensed combined statements of operations also include certain purchase accounting adjustments such as increased amortization expense on acquired intangible assets and removal of transaction costs directly attributable to the NaviNet Acquisition. The pro forma adjustments are based upon available information and certain assumptions that we believe are reasonable.

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements have been presented for informational purposes only. The pro forma information is not necessarily indicative of what the combined company’s financial position or results of operations actually would have been had the transactions been completed as of the dates indicated. Since the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements related to the NaviNet Acquisition have been prepared based on preliminary estimates, the final amounts recorded at the date of the acquisition may differ materially from the information presented. These estimates are subject to change pending further review of the fair value of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed. The unaudited condensed combined pro forma financial information is not a projection of our results of operations or financial position for any future period or date. The preparation of the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information requires the use of certain estimates and assumptions, which may be materially different from our actual experience.

The unaudited pro forma combined financial statements, including the notes thereto, should be read in conjunction with our audited historical consolidated and combined financial statements and NaviNet’s historical audited consolidated financial statements, each appearing elsewhere in this prospectus.

 

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Nant Health, LLC

Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Balance Sheet

December 31, 2015

(in thousands, except per share data)

 

 

 

    HISTORICAL     PRO FORMA ADJUSTMENTS  
    NANTHEALTH     (I)
NAVINET
(AS ADJUSTED)
    NAVINET           LLC
CONVERSION
    OFFERING
TRANSACTIONS
    4F   PRO FORMA
ADJUSTMENTS
    PRO FORMA
COMBINED
 

Assets

                 

Current assets

                 

Cash and cash equivalents

  $ 5,989      $ 4,454      $        $           $             $      $ 10,443   

Marketable securities

    1,243                                     1,243   

Accounts receivable, net

    11,472        9,997                              21,469   

Inventories, net

    2,146                                     2,146   

Deferred implementation costs

    2,224        2,706        (2,706     4A              (2,706     2,224   

Related party receivables

    1,245                                     1,245   

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

    8,707        2,577                              11,284   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total current assets

    33,026        19,734        (2,706                       (2,706     50,054   

Property, plant and equipment, net

    13,899        17,265        (9,312     4A              (9,312     21,852   

Deferred implementation costs, net of current

    1,930        8,130        (8,130     4A              (8,130     1,930   

Deferred taxes, net

                                          

Goodwill

    56,718        56,534        19,638        4A              19,638        132,890   

Intangible assets, net

    54,971        31,736        61,264        4A              61,264        147,971   

Investment in related parties

    248,191                                     248,191   

Related party receivable

    1,300                                     1,300   

Other assets

    1,918        350                              2,268   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total assets

  $ 411,953     $ 133,749      $ 60,754        $      $        $ 60,754      $ 606,456   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Liabilities, Redeemable Units and Stockholders’ Equity

                 

Current liabilities

                 

Accounts payable

  $ 6,447      $ 4,584      $        $        $          $      $ 11,031   

Accrued expenses

    14,423        3,445                         17,868   

Deferred revenue

    10,656        6,552        (5,305     4B              (5,305     11,903   

Related party payables

    10,166        7,683        (7,683     4C              (7,683     10,166   

Related party promissory notes

           25,901        86,765        4C              86,765        112,666   

Notes payable

           17,021        (16,649     4C              (16,649     372   

Other current liabilities

    1,544        61                              1,605   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total current liabilities

    43,236        65,247        57,128                          57,128        165,611   

 

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    HISTORICAL     PRO FORMA ADJUSTMENTS  
    NANTHEALTH     (I)
NAVINET
(AS ADJUSTED)
    NAVINET         LLC
CONVERSION
    OFFERING
TRANSACTIONS
    PRO FORMA
ADJUSTMENTS
    PRO FORMA
COMBINED
 

Deferred revenue

    17,312        14,024        (11,713   4B     4F        4E        (11,713     19,623   

Deferred taxes, net

           1,127        16,108      4D         16,108        17,235   

Other liabilities

    358        82                440        440   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total liabilities

    60,906       80,480        61,523                        61,523        202,909   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Redeemable Series F units

    166,042                         166,042   

Stockholders’ Equity

               

Series A units

    114,837                                   114,837   

Series B units

    50,000                                   50,000   

Series C units

    1,426                                   1,426   

Series D units

    10,000                                   10,000   

Series E units

    100,000                                   100,000   

Series G units

    200,000                                   200,000   

Series H units

                  52,500      4E         52,500        52,500   

Common stock or members’ capital

           88,527        (88,527   4E         (88,527       

Additional paid in capital

                                        

Accumulated deficit

    (291,171     (35,025     35,025      4E         35,025        (291,171

Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss)

    (87     (233     233      4E         233        (87
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total stockholders’ equity

    185,005       53,269        (769   4E                   (769     237,505   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total liabilities, redeemable units and stockholders’ equity

  $ 411,953     $ 133,799      $ 60,754        $      $      $ 60,754      $ 606,456   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

(i) The historical balance sheet of NaviNet includes reclassifications of certain assets and liabilities to conform with the presentation of our historical Condensed Combined Balance Sheet.

See accompanying notes to the Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Information

 

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Nant Health, LLC

Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Statement of Operations

For the Year Ended December 31, 2015

(in thousands, except per share data)

 

 

 

    HISTORICAL     PRO FORMA ADJUSTMENTS        
    NANTHEALTH     (II)
NAVINET
(AS ADJUSTED)
    NANTOMICS
INVESTMENT
          NAVINET           LLC
CONVERSION
        TOTAL PRO
FORMA
ADJUSTMENTS
    PRO
FORMA
COMBINED
 

Revenue

                   

Software and hardware

  $ 14,616      $      $        $        $        $      $ 14,616   

Software-as-a-service

    20,734        40,240                                          60,974   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

     

 

 

     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total software-related revenue

    35,350        40,240                                          75,590   

Maintenance

    10,452                                                 10,452   

Sequencing and molecular analysis

    75                                                 75   

Other services

    12,427        14,372                                          26,799   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

     

 

 

     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total net revenue

    58,304        54,612                                          112,916   

Cost of revenue

                   

Software and hardware

    90                                                 90   

Software-as-a-service

    7,019        20,178                                          27,197   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

     

 

 

     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total software-related cost of revenue

    7,109        20,178                                          27,287   

Maintenance

    1,874                                                 1,874   

Sequencing and molecular analysis

    39                                                 39   

Other services

    15,202        3,073                                          18,275   

Amortization of developed technologies

    10,585        2,007                 2,564        4H                 2,564        15,156   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

     

 

 

     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total cost of revenue

    34,809        25,258                 2,564                   2,564        62,631   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

     

 

 

     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Gross profit

    23,495        29,354                 (2,564                (2,564     50,285   

Operating Expenses:

                   

Selling, general and administrative

    69,021        18,910                 (2,420     4I                 (2,420     85,511   

Research and development

    23,835        25,039                 (3,622     4H                 (3,622     45,252   

Amortization of software license and acquisition-related assets

    1,542        1,981                 2,911        4H                 2,911        6,434   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

     

 

 

     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total operating expenses

    94,398        45,930                 (3,131                (3,131     137,197   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

     

 

 

     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Loss from operations

    (70,903     (16,576              567                   567        (86,912

Interest expense, net

    (627     (2,799              (2,755     4J                 (2,755     (6,176

Other income (expense), net

    2,508        1,079                                          3,587   

(Loss) income from equity method investments

    (2,584            (4,831     4K                          (4,831     (7,415
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

     

 

 

     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Loss before income taxes

    (71,606     (18,291     (4,831       (2,188                (7,019     (96,916

Provision (benefit) for income taxes

    405        188                 (915     4L                 (915     (322
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

     

 

 

     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net loss

  $ (72,011   $ (18,479   $ (4,831     $ (1,273     $        $ (6,104   $ (96,594
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

     

 

 

     

 

 

     

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net loss per share

                   

Basic net loss per share

                   

Diluted net loss per share

                   

Number of shares:

                   

Basic

                   

Diluted

                   

 

 

 

(i) The historical income statement of NaviNet includes reclassifications of certain revenues and expenses to conform with the presentation of our historical Condensed Combined Statement of Operations.

See accompanying notes to the Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Information

 

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1. Basis of Presentation and Description of Transaction

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements were prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP and pursuant to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Regulation S-X Article 11, and present the pro forma financial position and results of operations of the combined transactions based upon historical information after giving effect to adjustments described in these Notes to the Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Statements. An unaudited pro forma condensed combined balance sheet as of December 31, 2015 is presented as if the transactions had occurred on December 31, 2015. The unaudited pro forma condensed combined statements of operations for the year ended December 31, 2015 is presented as if the transactions had occurred on January 1, 2015.

On November 30, 2015, NantHealth entered into a definitive agreement with 3BE Holdings, LLC to acquire 100% of the outstanding equity interest of NaviNet. NaviNet provides a secure, collaboration network connecting over 40 health plans and is utilized in more than 60% of the nation’s physicians’ offices. NaviNet Open will serve as a nationwide scalable, real-time access point and secure web-based portal for patients and providers. The NaviNet Acquisition closed on January 1, 2016.

The NaviNet Acquisition has been accounted for using the acquisition method of accounting in accordance with current accounting guidance for business combinations and non-controlling interests. Under the acquisition method, the total purchase price for the acquisition will be allocated to the net identifiable tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed based on their estimated fair values. Any excess of the preliminary purchase price over the estimated fair value of identified assets acquired and liabilities assumed is recognized as goodwill. We have performed a preliminary valuation analysis of the NaviNet assets acquired and liabilities assumed and the related allocation of the estimated consideration transferred to such items. As a result, amounts used in these unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements may differ from the actual amounts once we have determined the final allocation of the consideration transferred and completed the detailed valuation analysis and calculations necessary to finalize the required purchase price allocations. Accordingly, the final allocation of the consideration transferred and its effect on the results of operations may differ materially from the estimated allocation and unaudited pro forma combined amounts included herein.

In June 2015, we invested a substantial portion of our available capital to acquire 168.5 million Series A-2 units in NantOmics, a majority owned company of NantWorks. Our investment was completed for an aggregate purchase price of $250.0 million, consisting of $99.2 million in marketable securities and $150.8 million of cash. Additionally, NantOmics issued 611 of its Series A-2 units having an approximate fair value of $0.8 million to us on September 8, 2015 in exchange for its purchase of NantHealth’s equity interests in Translational Research Management, LLC, or TRM, for a total investment in NantOmics of $250.8 million. As a result of these transactions, our Series A-2 units represent approximately 14.3% of NantOmics’ issued and outstanding membership interests. We account for our 14.3% ownership interest in NantOmics using the equity method of accounting and the percentage of NantOmics’ net loss attributable to our 14.3% interest is shown as loss from equity method investments in our consolidated statements of operations.

2. Estimated Purchase Price Consideration

The estimated consideration for the NaviNet Acquisition is approximately $166.5 million and consisted of the issuance of 15.5 million of NantHealth’s Series H units valued at $52.5 million, $114.0 million in cash, subject to working capital adjustments, and contingent arrangements or earnouts of up to $12.3 million. The contingent arrangements or earnouts require the Company to pay up to a total of $12.3 million to certain NaviNet’s former shareholders if NaviNet’s revenues to those former shareholders exceed certain thresholds during the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2017. These contingent amounts or earnouts have been excluded from the purchase price consideration and will be accounted for as sales incentives if and when certain predefined targets are met and will be reflected as contra revenue.

In order to finance the acquisition, we executed a $112.7 million demand promissory note in favor of our affiliate, NantCapital, LLC, or NantCapital. The note bears interest at a per annum rate of 5% and is compounded annually. The unpaid principal and any accrued and unpaid interest on the note are due and payable on demand in cash, units of our membership interests (with each unit valued at $3.3841), Series A-2 units of NantOmics held by us or any combination of the foregoing at the sole discretion of NantCapital. Subject to the preceding sentence, we may prepay the outstanding amount at any time, either in whole or in part, without premium or penalty and without

 

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the consent of NantCapital. In May 2016, the promissory note was amended to provide that all outstanding principal and accrued interest is due and payable on June 30, 2021, and not on demand.

3. Estimated Purchase Price Allocation

We have performed a preliminary valuation analysis of the fair market value of NaviNet’s assets and liabilities. The following table summarizes the allocation of the preliminary purchase price as of the acquisition date:

 

 

 

     ESTIMATED
FAIR VALUE
 

Cash

   $ 4,454   

Accounts receivable, net

     9,996   

Fixed assets

     7,953   

Other assets, net

     2,572   

Accounts payable

     (2,297

Accrued expenses

     (3,883

Deferred revenue

     (3,558

Deferred tax liability

     (17,656

Trade names

     3,000   

Developed technology

     32,000   

Customer relationships

     58,000   

Goodwill

     75,940   
  

 

 

 

Total fair value of net assets acquired

   $ 166,521   
  

 

 

 

 

 

This preliminary purchase price allocation has been used to prepare pro forma adjustments in the pro forma condensed and combined balance sheet and income statement. The final purchase price allocation will be determined when we have completed the detailed valuations and necessary calculations. The final allocation could differ materially from the preliminary allocation used in the pro forma adjustments. The final allocation may include (1) changes in the fair value of property, plant and equipment, (2) changes in the allocation to intangible assets and goodwill, (3) other changes to assets and liabilities.

4. Preliminary Pro Forma Financial Statement Adjustments

The pro forma adjustments are based on our preliminary estimates and assumptions that are subject to change. The following adjustments have been reflected in the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information:

Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Balance Sheet

 

  (A) Reflects the adjustment of NaviNet’s historical intangible assets, goodwill, deferred implementation costs and internal use software classified as property, plant and equipment to their estimated fair values. As part of the preliminary valuation analysis, we identified intangible assets, including developed technology, trade names and customer relationships. The preliminary fair value of identifiable intangible assets is determined primarily using the “income approach,” which requires a forecast of all of the expected future cash flows.

The following provides a summary of the effects of the preliminary purchase accounting on these assets:

 

 

 

     NAVINET
HISTORICAL
     PRELIMINARY
FAIR VALUE
     PURCHASE
ACCOUNTING
ADJUSTMENTS
 

Deferred implementation costs, current

   $ 2,706       $       $ (2,706

Property, plant and equipment, net

     17,265         7,953         (9,312

Deferred implementation costs, non-current

     8,130                 (8,130

Goodwill

     56,534         76,172         16,638   

Intangible assets

     31,736         93,000         61,264   

 

 

 

  (B) Represents the pro forma adjustment to reduce current and non-current deferred revenue to their preliminary fair values of $1.2 million and $2.3 million, respectively, for a total of $3.5 million.

 

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  (C) Reflects the demand promissory note executed with NantCapital to finance the NaviNet Acquisition, minus the effects of the repayment of NaviNet’s historical debt upon completion of the acquisition. The net increase to debt is comprised of (in thousands):

 

 

 

Related Party Payables

  

Decrease in related party payables for repayment of customer advances made at closing

   $ (6,003

Decrease in related party interest payable upon repayment

     (1,680
  

 

 

 

Pro forma adjustment to NaviNet opening balance sheet

   $ (7,683
  

 

 

 

Related Party Promissory Notes

  

Issuance of demand promissory note

   $ 112,666   

Decrease for repayment of NaviNet related party promissory note

     (25,901
  

 

 

 

Pro forma adjustment to NaviNet opening balance sheet

   $ 86,765   
  

 

 

 

Notes Payable

  

Pro forma adjustment for repayment of bank debt

   $ (16,649

 

 

 

  (D) Represents the long term deferred tax liabilities associated with intangible assets acquired, excluding goodwill, in the stock acquisition of NaviNet, Inc.

 

  (E) Represents the elimination of the historical equity of NaviNet and the issuance of Series H units to finance the acquisition (in thousands):

 

 

 

Fair value of the Series H units

   $ 52,500   

Less reversal of NaviNet’s historical equity:

  

Members’ capital

     (88,527

Accumulated deficit

     35,025   

Accumulated other comprehensive income

     233   
  

 

 

 

Aggegate pro forma adjustment to total stockholders’ equity

   $ (769
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

  (F) Offering Transactions—Represents the sale of shares of common stock in this offering at the initial public offering price of $             (the midpoint of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus).

 

  (G) LLC Conversion—Represents the effects of our conversion from a limited liability company to a corporation, as described in “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—LLC Conversion,” including the issuance of shares of our common stock to our prior members.

 

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Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Statement of Operations

 

  (H) Reflects the change in intangible amortization expense as a result of the elimination of NaviNet’s historical intangible assets and recognition of acquired intangible assets. Historical amortization of intangible assets, deferred implementation costs, and internal use software amortization expense of $7,611 is included in amortization of developed technologies, research and development and amortization of software license and other acquisition-related assets during the year ended December 31, 2015. The following table summarizes the estimated fair values of the NaviNet identifiable intangible assets, their estimated useful lives and the change in amortization expense (in thousands):

 

 

 

     ESTIMATED
FAIR VALUE
     ESTIMATED
USEFUL LIFE
IN YEARS
     YEAR ENDED
DECEMBER 31,
2015
AMORTIZATION
EXPENSE
 

Customer relationships

   $ 58,000         14       $ 4,143   

Developed tecnoloogy

     32,000         7         4,571   

Trade name

     3,000         4         750   
  

 

 

       

 

 

 
   $ 93,000            9,464   
  

 

 

       

Historical amortization expense

           (7,611
        

 

 

 

Proforma amortization adjustment

         $ 1,853   
        

 

 

 

 

 

 

  (I) Represents the removal of $2.4 million of non-recurring transaction-related expenses incurred by us and NaviNet during the year ended December 31, 2015.

 

  (J) Represents the net increase to interest expense for the year ended December 31, 2015 resulting from interest on the new demand promissory note to finance the acquisition of NaviNet and the removal of historical interest expense on NaviNet’s debt, as follows (in thousands):

 

 

 

Interest expense on new demand promissory note

   $ 5,633   

Elimination of interest expense for NaviNet

     (2,878
  

 

 

 

Pro forma increase in interest expense

   $ 2,755   
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

  (K) To reflect a 14.3% proportionate interest in the results of NantOmics from January 1 to June 19, 2015 and the amortization of the difference between the cost of our investment in NantOmics and the amount of our underlying equity in NantOmics’ net assets. The total pro forma adjustment of $4.8 million includes $3.2 million of amortization related to the basis differences that existed at the date of our investment in NantOmics. We attributed $28.2 and $14.4 of these differences to NantOmics’ developed technologies and our reseller agreement with NantOmics, respectively, and the remaining basis differences were attributed to goodwill. We amortize the basis differences related to the developed technologies and the reseller agreement with NantOmics over their estimated useful lives of 7 and 5.5 years, respectively.

 

  (L) Represents the estimated net tax benefit from pro forma adjustments to NaviNet for the year ended December 31, 2015.

 

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  (M) Pro forma basic and diluted loss per share—Pro forma basic and diluted loss per share is calculated as follows (In thousands, except share and per share data):

 

 

 

     BASIC      DILUTED  

EPS Numerator:

     

Net loss atrributable to common stock

   $            $        

EPS Denominator:

     

Common shares offered hereby

     

Restricted common shares

     
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total common shares

     
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Loss per share

   $            $        
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

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SELECTED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL AND OTHER DATA

We derived the following selected statements of our operations data for the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2015 and selected consolidated balance sheet data as of December 31, 2014 and 2015 from our audited financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus. These statements do not include the historical results of our NaviNet acquisition which was completed in January 2016. Historical results are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected in the future and are not necessarily indicative of results to be expected any other period. You should read the following selected consolidated financial data below together with the consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this prospectus, as well as the section of this prospectus captioned “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.”

 

 

 

     YEAR ENDED
DECEMBER 31,
 
     2014     2015  
(in thousands)             
Consolidated Statements of Operations Data:             

Revenue:

    

Software and hardware

   $ 8,372      $ 14,616   

Software-as-a-service

     9,778        20,734   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total software-related revenue

     18,150        35,350   

Maintenance

     5,345        10,452   

Sequencing and molecular analysis

            75   

Other services

     10,426        12,427   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total net revenue

     33,921        58,304   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cost of Revenue:

    

Software and hardware

     1,025        90   

Software-as-a-service

     8,026        7,019   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total software-related cost of revenue

     9,051        7,109   

Maintenance

     438        1,874   

Sequencing and molecular analysis

            39   

Other services

     7,047        15,202   

Amortization of developed technologies

     7,694        10,585   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total cost of revenue

     24,230        34,809   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Gross Profit

     9,691        23,495   

Operating Expenses:

    

Selling, general and administrative

     46,209        69,021   

Research and development

     16,979        23,835   

Amortization of software license and acquisition-related assets

     7,033        1,542   

Impairment of intangible asset

     24,150          
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total operating expenses

     94,371        94,398   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Loss from operations

     (84,680     (70,903

Interest expense, net

     (980     (627

Other income (expense), net

     (477     2,508   

Income (loss) from equity method investments

     1,525        (2,584
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Loss before income taxes

     (84,612     (71,606

Provision for income taxes

     5        405   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net loss

     (84,617     (72,011

Less: Net loss attributable to non-controlling interests

     (192       
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net loss attributable to NantHealth

   $ (84,425 )    $ (72,011 ) 
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Other Data:

    

Adjusted EBITDA (1)

   $ (43,173   $ (51,781

 

 

 

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     AS OF DECEMBER 31,  
     2014     2015  
(in thousands)             

Consolidated Balance Sheet Data:

    

Cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities

   $ 225,570      $ 7,232   

Working capital

     146,221        (10,210

Total assets

     310,875        411,953   

Total liabilities

     96,074        60,906   

Redeemable Series F units

     150,000        166,042   

Accumulated deficit

     (219,160     (291,171

Total stockholders’ equity

     64,801        185,005   

 

 

(1)   EBITDA represents earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, a non-GAAP financial measure, and is used by us and others as a supplemental measure of performance. We use Adjusted EBITDA to assess the performance of our core operations, for financial and operational decision making, and as a supplemental or additional means of evaluating period-to-period comparisons on a consistent basis. Adjusted EBITDA is calculated as net loss adjusted to exclude depreciation and amortization, interest expense, provision for income taxes, other income/loss, income/loss from equity method investments, stock-based compensation expense, long-lived assets impairment charges and corporate restructuring. We believe Adjusted EBITDA provides investors relevant and useful information. EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA do not reflect our historical cash expenditures or future cash requirements for capital expenditures or contractual commitments. While EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are relevant and widely used measures of performance, they do not represent net income or cash flows from operations as defined by U.S. GAAP, and they should not be considered as alternatives to those indicators in evaluating performance. Other companies, including companies in our industry, may calculate EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA measures differently, which reduces their usefulness as a comparative measure.

We compensate for these limitations by using EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA along with other comparative tools, together with U.S. GAAP measurements, to assist in the evaluation of operating performance. These U.S. GAAP measurements include operating income (loss), net income (loss), cash flows from operations and cash flow data. EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are not intended as alternatives to net income (loss) as indicators of our operating performance, as alternatives to any other measure of performance in conformity with U.S. GAAP or as alternatives to cash flow provided by operating activities as measures of liquidity. You should therefore not place undue reliance on EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA or ratios calculated using those measures. Our U.S. GAAP-based measures can be found in our consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this prospectus. The following table presents a reconciliation of loss from operations to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA:

 

     YEAR ENDED
DECEMBER 31,
 
(in thousands)    2014     2015  

Net loss

   $ (84,617   $ (72,011

Depreciation and amortization

     16,178        15,788   

Interest expense, net .

     980        627   

Provision for income taxes

     5        405   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

EBITDA

     (67,454     (55,191

Other (income)/loss, net .

     477        (2,508

(Income)/Loss from equity method investments .

     (1,525     2,584   

Stock-based compensation expense .

     340        1,429   

Long-lived assets impairment charges .

     24,150          

Corporate restructuring

     839        1,905   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Adjusted EBITDA

   $ (43,173   $ (51,781
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

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MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION

AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

You should read the following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and notes thereto appearing elsewhere in this prospectus. In addition to historical financial information, the following discussion and analysis contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. Our actual results could differ materially from those anticipated by these forward-looking statements as a result of many factors. We discuss factors that we believe could cause or contribute to these differences below and elsewhere in this prospectus, including those set forth under “Risk Factors” and “Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements.”

Overview

We are a leading next-generation, evidence-based, personalized healthcare company focused on enabling our clients to fundamentally change the diagnosis, treatment and pharmacoeconomics of cancer and other critical illnesses. We believe a molecular-driven, systems-based approach to making clinical treatment decisions based on large-scale, real time biometric and phenotypical data will become the standard of care initially for patients with cancer and, ultimately, other critical illnesses. We derive revenue from selling GPS Cancer, to which we obtained exclusive access from an affiliate, and CLINICS, as well as NantOS and NantOS apps, to healthcare providers and payors, self-insured employers and biopharmaceutical companies. CLINICS, NantOS and NantOS apps include proprietary methods and algorithms for enabling healthcare providers to make better treatment decisions to improve patient outcomes and lower the cost of care, and allow healthcare payors to ensure that their dependents receive high quality care in a cost-effective manner. We believe that as healthcare providers and payors migrate to value-based reimbursement models and implement advances in precision medicine, our offerings position us at the forefront of multiple significant market opportunities. We are not aware of any other healthcare companies that have deployed technologies that span the disparate healthcare domains at our scale, depth or breadth.

We market CLINICS as a comprehensive integrated solution that includes GPS Cancer, NantOS and the NantOS apps. We also market GPS Cancer, NantOS, individual NantOS apps and suites of NantOS apps as stand-alone solutions. To accelerate our commercial growth and enhance our competitive advantage, we continue to:

 

  n   introduce new marketing, education and engagement efforts and foster relationships across the oncology community to drive adoption of GPS Cancer;

 

  n   pursue reimbursement of GPS Cancer from regional and national third-party payors and government payors;

 

  n   publish scientific and medical advances;

 

  n   strengthen our commercial organization to increase our CLINICS and GPS Cancer client base and to broaden usage of our solutions by existing clients who currently use only NantOS, specific NantOS apps or suites of NantOS apps; and

 

  n   develop new features and functionality for CLINICS to address the needs of current and future healthcare provider and payor, self-insured employer and biopharmaceutical company clients.

We estimate that GPS Cancer and CLINICS, including the NantOS and NantOS apps, address a potential market opportunity in excess of $50 billion globally.

Since our inception, we have devoted substantially all of our resources to the development and commercialization of CLINICS, including NantOS and the NantOS apps, as well as the commercial launch of our GPS Cancer business. We have incurred significant losses since our inception, and as of December 31, 2015 our accumulated deficit was approximately $291.2 million. We expect to continue to incur operating losses over the near term as we drive adoption of GPS Cancer, expand our commercial operations, and invest further in CLINICS.

 

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Recent Acquisitions and Investments

We have made several significant acquisitions and investments in 2014, 2015 and 2016, which have expanded the features and functionality of CLINICS, including the following:

 

  n   NDO. In June 2014, we acquired NDO, which provides healthcare interoperability and informatics solutions through its cOS platform to address population health issues. Our results of operations include the impact of the NDO acquisition as of June 2014.

 

  n   NantOmics. In June 2015, we invested a substantial portion of our available capital in NantOmics, a majority owned subsidiary of NantWorks. Our investment represents approximately 14.2% of the issued and outstanding membership interests of NantOmics. Our relationship with NantOmics provides us with access to the nation’s only CAP- and CLIA-certified whole genome and quantitative proteomics laboratory.

 

  n   Harris. In July 2015, we acquired certain assets related to Harris Healthcare Solutions business, or HCS. Once integrated with our systems, we believe the acquired assets will help complex healthcare delivery organizations achieve better patient outcomes, clinical and administrative workflow efficiency and stronger collaboration across the continuum of care.

 

  n   NaviNet. In January 2016, we acquired NaviNet, which provides a secure collaboration network connecting approximately 35 health plans and is utilized in more than 60% of the nation’s physicians’ offices as of the first quarter of 2016. NaviNet Open will serve as a nationwide scalable and secure web-based portal for patients and providers.

EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA

EBITDA represents earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, a non-GAAP financial measure, and is used by us and others as a supplemental measure of performance. We use Adjusted EBITDA to assess the performance of our core operations, for financial and operational decision making, and as a supplemental or additional means of evaluating period-to-period comparisons on a consistent basis. Adjusted EBITDA is calculated as net loss adjusted to exclude depreciation and amortization, interest expense, provision for income taxes, other income/loss, income/loss from equity method investments, stock-based compensation expense, long-lived assets impairment charges and corporate restructuring. We believe Adjusted EBITDA provides investors relevant and useful information. EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA do not reflect our historical cash expenditures or future cash requirements for capital expenditures or contractual commitments. While EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are relevant and widely used measures of performance, they do not represent net income or cash flows from operations as defined by U.S. GAAP, and they should not be considered as alternatives to those indicators in evaluating performance. Other companies, including companies in our industry, may calculate EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA measures differently, which reduces their usefulness as a comparative measure.

 

 

 

     YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31,  

(in thousands)

         2014                 2015        

Net loss

   $ (84,617   $ (72,011

Depreciation and amortization

     16,178        15,788   

Interest expense, net

     980        627   

Provision for income taxes

     5        405   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

EBITDA

     (67,454     (55,191

Other (income)/loss, net

     477        (2,508

(Income)/Loss from equity method investments

     (1,525     2,584   

Stock-based compensation expense

     340        1,429   

Long-lived assets impairment charges

     24,150          

Corporate restructuring

     839        1,905   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Adjusted EBITDA

   $ (43,173   $ (51,781
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

We plan to (i) continue investing in our infrastructure including but not limited to solution development, sales and marketing, implementation and support, (ii) continue efforts to make infrastructure investments within an overall context of maintaining reasonable expense discipline, to add new clients through maintaining and expanding sales,

 

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marketing and solution development activities, (iii) expand our relationship with existing clients through delivery of add-on and complementary solutions and services and (iv) continue our commitment of service in support of our client satisfaction programs. We believe that our growing client base using our NantOS and NantOS apps on a daily basis is a strategic asset, and we intend to expand sales of CLINICS offerings towards this client base in order to leverage this strategic asset.

Key Factors Affecting Our Performance

We believe that our performance and future success are dependent upon a number of factors, including our ability to (i) commercialize and grow acceptance and adoption of our GPS Cancer solutions, (ii) continue to expand sales of CLINICS, NantOS and NantOS apps to both new and existing clients, (iii) acquire and integrate technologies and businesses that would enhance our offering, (iv) innovate and enhance our Systems Infrastructure and platforms, including in particular, integrating our capabilities in support of growth of GPS Cancer, and (v) successfully invest in our infrastructure. While each of these areas presents significant opportunities for us, they also pose significant risks and challenges that we must address. See the section titled “Risk Factors” for more information.

Commercialize and Expand the Adoption of Our GPS Cancer Solution

Our performance depends on our ability to drive adoption of GPS Cancer and reimbursement at levels that are profitable. We also receive revenue from our sale of NantOmics’ whole genome sequencing and proteomic analysis based on certain amounts billed for the NantOmics services, as specified in our Reseller Agreement. GPS Cancer is the only comprehensive and commercially available clinical cancer platform incorporating and integrating whole genome (comparing both a patient’s normal and tumor tissue), RNA, proteomic and molecular pathways information into a clinical report that analyzes this data and identifies actionable targets and potential clinical treatment decisions. We believe the potential market for GPS Cancer is significant. We are increasing recognition of GPS Cancer by engaging and educating oncologists, cancer patients, patient advocacy groups and other key oncology stakeholders and pursuing reimbursement. In January 2016, Independence Blue Cross announced that it would provide insurance coverage for GPS Cancer, representing the nation’s first such insurance coverage for a comprehensive whole genome and proteome molecular diagnostic program in the United States.

Invest in Expansion and Further Penetration of Our Client Base

Our performance depends on our ability to continue to attract new clients and to broaden usage of CLINICS among existing clients, both domestically and internationally. We have designed CLINICS to address key challenges faced by constituents across the healthcare continuum as they require patient engagement capabilities and advanced technology systems to collect, analyze, interpret and store data and to implement comprehensive molecular analysis and value-based care models. We believe that we have an addressable market that is substantially larger than the market for traditional healthcare information technology. As a result, we believe we have the opportunity to substantially expand our current client base and broaden their usage of our solutions and services, as well as attract new clients to our integrated learning ecosystem.

Integrate Acquired Technologies and Businesses that Promote Our Mission

Our future performance will be impacted by how efficiently we integrate our acquired technologies, resources and personnel in order to accelerate our capabilities and solutions offerings. We have acquired several businesses or technologies in the years ending December 31, 2014 and 2015. We intend to continue incorporating our recent acquisitions into our Systems Infrastructure and platforms and expect to continue to pursue strategic acquisitions. We must integrate our recently acquired technologies into our NantOS and CLINICS platforms in order to promote our mission. We must also successfully integrate the workforce and our cultures as well to further benefit our future operations.

Invest in Innovation and Advancement of CLINICS

Our performance is also dependent on our research and development efforts and our ability to enhance the benefits of our Systems Infrastructure and to support the growth of our GPS Cancer solutions and address the evolving needs of healthcare constituents, and to develop new solutions and enhanced functionality within our existing platforms to address our clients’ needs. Our investments in this area include acquiring complementary businesses and solutions and increasing the number of full-time research and development associates. As of December 31, 2015, we had 249 research and development associates. We intend to continue to invest in innovation and leadership, including hiring top technical talent, focusing on core technology innovation and maintaining an agile organization that supports rapid solution release cycles.

 

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Invest in Our Infrastructure to Support Our Growth

In addition, we are building our internal administrative and information technology capabilities and transitioning away from the use of third parties to provide these functions. We must continue to invest in our internal administrative systems as well as integrate the internal administrative systems of our acquired businesses.

Components of our Results of Operations

Revenue

We generate our revenue from the sale of licensed software, maintenance, software-as-a-service, hardware and services. Our Systems Infrastructure and platforms support the delivery of both personalized comprehensive sequencing and molecular analysis and the implementation of value-based care models across the healthcare continuum. We generate revenue from the following sources:

Software, middleware and hardware—Software, middleware and hardware revenue is generated from the sale of NantOS and NantOS apps software on either a perpetual or term license basis, and the sale of our hardware. The software is installed on the client’s site or the client’s designated vendor’s site and is not hosted by us or by a vendor contracted by us. We also generate revenue from the resale of third-party software and hardware to our clients. Our software and hardware solutions sold include components of our NantOS, including FusionFX, cOS, DeviceConX and HBox.

Software-as-a-service—Software-as-a-service, or SaaS, revenue is generated from our clients’ access to and usage of our hosted software solutions on a subscription basis for a specified contract term, which is typically annually. In our SaaS arrangements, the client cannot take possession of the software during the term of the contract and generally only has the right to access and use the software and receive any software upgrades published during the subscription period. Solutions sold under a SaaS model include our eviti platform and NantOS and NantOS apps. SaaS revenue may include hosting of our software solutions on behalf of the client.

Maintenance—Maintenance revenue includes ongoing post-contract client support, or PCS, or maintenance during the paid PCS term. Additionally, PCS includes ongoing development of software updates and upgrades provided to the client on a when and if available basis. We sell NantOS, including DeviceConX and FusionFX, with maintenance contracts.

Sequencing and molecular analysis—Sequencing and molecular analysis revenue is generated by the process of performing sequencing and analysis of whole genome DNA, RNA and proteomic results, including GPS Cancer. We recognize revenue upon the delivery of the analysis and reporting of the results to the client.

Other services—Other services revenue includes revenue from professional services we provide that are generally complementary to our software and SaaS solutions and may or may not be required for the solution to function as desired by the client. When associated with software and SaaS, there services are generally provided in the form of training and implementation services during the software license period and do not include PCS. Other services revenue also includes the sale of nursing and therapy services provided to patients in a home care setting and any other services not included in the preceding revenue sources.

We have a portion of not yet established vendor-specific objective evidence, or VSOE, of fair value for any element other than PCS for our arrangements. In situations where VSOE of fair value exists for PCS but not a delivered element, the residual method is used to allocate revenue to the undelivered element equal to its VSOE value with the remainder allocated to the delivered elements. In situations where our services are essential to the functionality of our software and VSOE of fair value for PCS does not exist, we defer revenue and costs until we have delivered all elements of the arrangement and amortize revenue and costs over the initial PCS period. For our contracts with multiple elements, we defer revenue until only one undelivered element remains and then recognize the revenue following the pattern of delivery of the final undelivered element. The timing and pattern of this revenue recognition can cause variations in revenue from period-to-period.

Cost of Revenue

Cost of revenue consists primarily of personnel-related costs for associates providing services to our clients and supporting our revenue-generating platform infrastructure, including salaries, benefits and bonuses. Additional expenses include consultant costs, direct reimbursable travel expenses and other direct engagement costs associated

 

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with the design, development, sale and installation of our solutions, including system support and maintenance services. Our cost of revenue associated with each of our revenue sources is as follows:

 

  n   Software, middleware and hardware—Software and hardware cost of revenue includes third-party software and hardware costs directly associated with our solutions.

 

  n   Software-as-a-service—SaaS cost of revenue includes personnel-related and other direct costs associated with the delivery and hosting of NantOS and NantOS apps, including eviti, our cancer-decision support solution, on a subscription basis.

 

  n   Maintenance—Maintenance cost of revenue includes personnel-related and other direct costs associated with the ongoing support or maintenance we provide for our clients.

 

  n   Sequencing and molecular analysis—Sequencing and molecular analysis cost of revenue includes internal costs associated with these services and amounts due to NantOmics under our Reseller Agreement for the sequencing and analysis of whole genome, DNA, RNA and proteomic results.

 

  n   Other services—Other services cost of revenue includes personnel-related and other direct costs associated with software training and implementation services provided to our clients as well as direct expenses relating to our nursing and therapy services provided to patients in a home care setting.

Cost of revenue also includes amortization of our developed technologies used to generate revenue. We plan to continue to expand our capacity to support our growth, which will result in higher cost of revenue in absolute dollars. We expect cost of revenue to decrease as a percentage of revenue over time as we expand CLINICS and realize economies of scale.

Operating Expenses

Our operating expenses consist of selling, general and administrative, research and development, amortization of software license and acquisition-related assets, and impairment of intangible assets.

Selling, general and administrative

Selling, general and administrative expense consists primarily of shared service fees from NantWorks, personnel-related expenses for our sales and marketing, finance, legal, human resources and administrative associates, and advertising and marketing promotions of CLINICS and GPS Cancer. It also includes trade show and event costs, sponsorship costs, point of purchase display expenses and related amortization as well as legal costs, consulting and professional fees, insurance and other corporate and administrative costs.

We expect our selling, general and administrative marketing expense to increase in absolute dollars as we continue to invest in our sales and marketing activities to attract new clients broaden usage of our solutions by existing clients, and expand our brand. Additionally, we expect to incur additional costs for legal, accounting, insurance, investor relations and other costs associated with operating as a public company. These increases include additional costs we expect to incur associated with compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other regulations governing public companies as well as increased costs for directors’ and officers’ liability insurance and an enhanced investor relations function. However, we expect our selling, general and administrative expense to decrease as a percentage of revenue over the long term as our revenue increases and we realize economies of scale.

Research and development

Research and development expenses consist primarily of personnel-related costs for associates working on development of solutions, including salaries and benefits. Also included are non-personnel costs such as consulting and professional fees to third-party development resources.

Substantially all of our research and development expenses are related to developing new software solutions and improving our existing software solutions. To date, research and development expenses have been expensed as incurred as the period between achieving technological feasibility and the release of software solutions for sale has been short and development costs qualifying for capitalization have been insignificant.

We expect our research and development expenses to continue to increase in absolute dollars and as a percentage of revenue in the short term as we continue to make significant investments in developing new solutions and enhancing the functionality of our existing solutions. However, we expect our research and development expenses to decrease as a percentage of revenue over the long term as we realize economies of scale from our developed technology.

 

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Amortization of software license and acquisition related assets

Amortization of software license and acquisition related assets consists of non-cash amortization expense related to our non-revenue generating technology as well as amortization expense that we recognize on intangible assets that we acquired through our investments.

Impairment of intangible asset

Impairment of intangible asset consists of a non-cash impairment charge that we recognized during the year ended December 31 2014. In 2013, we purchased an intangible asset for $34.5 million from a vendor for the right to use, operate, reproduce and sell a software solution exclusively within the United States and co-exclusively within the United Kingdom, or the Software License. In 2014, we determined that an impairment triggering event for the Software License had occurred given the nominal sales during the year and the minimal progress made in developing and distributing the software in the licensed territories. We determined that the Software License had no fair value given the significant amount of costs required to further develop the software to a point where it could be sold in the licensed territories. We fully impaired the intangible asset in the year ended December 31, 2014 and recorded a non-cash impairment charge of $24.2 million within operating expenses.

Interest Expense, net

Interest expense, net consists primarily of interest income earned on our cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities as well as interest expense associated with our outstanding borrowings.

Other Income (Expense), net

Other income (expense), net consists primarily of unrealized and realized gains (losses) on and dividends received from our marketable securities and other non-recurring items.

Income (Loss) from Equity Method Investments

Income (loss) from equity method investments consists of our pro rata share of income and losses of the companies that we own an ownership interest in and account for under the equity method of accounting.

Provision for Income Taxes

Provision for income taxes consists of U.S. federal and state and foreign income taxes. To date, we have no significant U.S. federal and foreign cash income taxes because of our LLC status and current and accumulated net operating losses.

We record a valuation allowance when it is more likely than not that some portion or all of a deferred tax asset will not be realized. In making such a determination, we consider all the available positive and negative evidence, including future reversals of existing taxable temporary differences, projected future taxable income, and ongoing prudent and feasible tax planning strategies in assessing the amount of the valuation allowance. When we establish or reduce the valuation allowance against the deferred tax assets, our provision for income taxes will increase or decrease, respectively, in the period such determination is made.

 

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Results of Operations

The following table sets forth our consolidated and combined statements of operations data for each of the periods indicated:

 

 

 

     YEAR ENDED
DECEMBER 31,
 
     2014     2015  
(in thousands)             

Revenue:

    

Software and hardware

   $ 8,372      $ 14,616   

Software-as-a-service

     9,778        20,734   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total software-related revenue

     18,150        35,350   

Maintenance

     5,345        10,452   

Sequencing and molecular analysis

            75   

Other services

     10,426        12,427   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total net revenue

     33,921        58,304   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cost of Revenue:

    

Software and hardware

     1,025        90   

Software-as-a-service

     8,026        7,019   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total software-related cost of revenue

     9,051        7,109   

Maintenance

     438        1,874   

Sequencing and molecular analysis

            39   

Other services

     7,047        15,202   

Amortization of developed technologies

     7,694        10,585   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total cost of revenue

     24,230        34,809   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Gross Profit

     9,691        23,495   

Operating Expenses:

    

Selling, general and administrative

     46,209        69,021   

Research and development

     16,979        23,835   

Amortization of software license and acquisition-related assets

     7,033        1,542   

Impairment of intangible asset

     24,150          
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total operating expenses

     94,371        94,398   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Loss from operations

     (84,680     (70,903

Interest expense, net

     (980     (627

Other income (expense), net

     (477     2,508   

Income (loss) from equity method investments

     1,525        (2,584
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Loss before income taxes

     (84,612     (71,606

Provision for income taxes

     5        405   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net loss

     (84,617     (72,011

Less: Net loss attributable to non-controlling interests

     (192       
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net loss attributable to NantHealth

   $ (84,425 )    $ (72,011 ) 
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The following table sets forth our consolidated and combined statements of operations data as a percentage of revenue for each of the periods indicated:

 

 

 

     YEAR ENDED
DECEMBER 31,
 
     2014     2015  

Revenue:

    

Software and hardware

     24.7     25.1

Software-as-a-service

     28.8        35.6   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total software-related revenue

     53.5        60.7   

Maintenance

     15.8        17.9   

Sequencing and molecular analysis

     0.0        0.1   

Other services

     30.7        21.3   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total net revenue

     100.0        100.0   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cost of Revenue:

    

Software and hardware

     3.0        0.2   

Software-as-a-service

     23.7        12.0   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total software-related cost of revenue

     26.7        12.2   

Maintenance

     1.3        3.2   

Sequencing and molecular analysis

     0.0        0.1   

Other services

     20.7        26.1   

Amortization of developed technologies

     22.7        18.2   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total cost of revenue

     71.4        59.7   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Gross profit

     28.6        40.3   

Operating Expenses:

    

Selling, general and administrative

     136.2        118.4   

Research and development

     50.1        40.9   

Amortization of software license and acquisition related assets

     20.7        2.6   

Impairment of intangible asset

     71.2        0.0   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total operating expenses

     278.2        161.9   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Loss from operations

     (249.6     (121.6

Interest expense, net

     (2.9     (1.1

Other income (expense), net

     (1.4     4.3   

Income (loss) from equity method investments

     4.5        (4.4
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Loss before income taxes

     (249.4     (122.8

Provision for income taxes

     0.0        0.7   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net loss

     (249.4     (123.5

Less: Net loss attributable to non-controlling interests

     (0.6     (0.0
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net loss attributable to NantHealth

     (248.8 )%      (123.5 )% 
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Comparison of Years Ended December 31, 2014 and 2015

Revenue

 

 

 

 

     YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31,     PERIOD-TO-PERIOD
CHANGE
 
     2014     2015    
     AMOUNT      PERCENTAGE
OF REVENUE
    AMOUNT      PERCENTAGE
OF REVENUE
    AMOUNT      PERCENTAGE  
     (dollars in thousands)  

Software and hardware

   $ 8,372         24.7   $ 14,616         25.1   $ 6,224         74.6

Software-as-a-service

     9,778         28.8        20,734         35.6        10,956         112.0   
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

Total software-related revenue

     18,150         53.5        35,350         60.7        17,200         94.8   

Maintenance

     5,345         15.8        10,452         17.9        5,107         95.5   

Sequencing and molecular analysis

                    75         0.1        75           

Other services

     10,426         30.7        12,427         21.3        2,001         19.2   
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

Total revenue

   $ 33,921         100.0   $ 58,304         100.0   $ 24,383         71.9
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

Revenue increased $24.4 million, or 71.9%, from $33.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2014 to $58.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2015. Our revenue growth came in all of our revenue categories and was driven primarily by growth in our existing solutions including NantOS (DeviceConX and cOS), eviti and sequencing and molecular analysis as well as our acquisition of HCS in July 2015. We acquired certain assets of HCS at the beginning of the third quarter of 2015, which contributed approximately $1.0 million, $1.1 million, and $2.9 million in SaaS, maintenance and other services revenue, respectively, in 2015.

Our total software related revenue (including software, hardware, and SaaS) grew to $35.4 million in 2015 from $18.2 million in 2014, an increase of $17.2 million, or 94.8%, compared to the prior year. This growth came primarily from growth in revenue from our NantOS (DeviceConX and cOS) and eviti solutions as well as our acquisition of HCS in July 2015.

Software and hardware revenue grew to $14.6 million in 2015 compared to $8.4 million in 2014, an increase of $6.2 million, or 74.6%. This growth was primarily driven by an increased amount of completed NantOS component DeviceConX implementations. Software and hardware revenue attributed to DeviceConX is recognized upon the completion of each implementation.

Our growth in SaaS revenue was primarily tied to increased NantOS sales including our Fusion family of products, or Fusion, revenue acquired with the acquisition of HCS assets in July 2015 and eviti platform revenue. eviti platform revenue grew to approximately $13.9 million from $8.9 million in 2014, an increase of $5.0 million, or 56%, compared to 2014. eviti revenue growth was primarily tied to an expansion in volume with our existing payor customer base. cOS revenue included under SaaS was positively impacted by the recognition of approximately $4.7 million in previously deferred revenue related to a client arrangement which ended in 2015. Finally, we recognized approximately $0.9 million in acquired Fusion SaaS revenue in 2015.

Maintenance revenue grew to approximately $10.5 million in 2015 versus $5.3 million in 2014, an increase of approximately $5.1 million, or 95.5%. Maintenance revenue growth came from both in increase in customer base of DeviceConX as a result of completed implementations as well as acquired Fusion maintenance customers which contributed approximately $1.1 million in maintenance revenue in 2015.

We expect to launch our commercial sequencing and molecular analysis solution, or GPS, in the second quarter of 2016. In January 2015, we entered into an agreement to provide certain research related sequencing services to a university which is engaged in researching the genetic causes of certain hereditary diseases. The agreement provides that the university pay us $10 million in exchange for our providing sequencing services through our reseller agreement with NantOmics. In 2015, we provided $6.2 million of services, which has been recorded as a deemed capital contribution instead of revenue. At the university’s request, certain non-profit organizations provided partial

 

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funding for the sequencing and related bioinformatics costs associated with the project. Our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer serves as a member of the board of directors of, and may have influence or control over, these organizations. The university was not contractually or otherwise required to use our molecular profiling solution or any of our other products or services as part of the charitable gift. In 2016, we expect to complete another $3.8 million in services, which will also be recorded as deemed capital contributions.

The increase in other services revenue of $2.0 million was the result of both the increase in the number of completed DeviceConX implementations as well as higher volume in our home healthcare business, or Assisteo. Our Assisteo home healthcare business benefited from an expanded relationship with a skilled nursing facility.

We believe that significant opportunities exist for expanded cross-sell opportunities of our suite of solutions across our existing customer base including the recently acquired HCS and Fusion customer bases. We are also integrating the cOS, Fusion and NaviNet and believe that opportunities exist to cross sell this to existing Fusion and NaviNet customers as well as to new customers. We also believe that our customer base and our product solutions provide unique opportunities to expand the volume of GPS sequencing analysis reporting to our customer base. Maintaining our current customer base will be important to our future maintenance and SaaS recurring revenue streams.

Cost of Revenue

 

 

 

    YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31,              
    2014     2015     PERIOD-TO-PERIOD CHANGE  
    AMOUNT     PERCENTAGE OF
REVENUE
    AMOUNT     PERCENTAGE OF
REVENUE
    AMOUNT     PERCENTAGE  
    (dollars in thousands)  

Software and hardware

  $ 1,025        3.0   $ 90        0.2   $ (935     (91.2 )% 

Software-as-a-service

    8,026        23.7        7,019        12.0        (1,007     (12.5
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

Total software-related cost of revenue

    9,051        26.7        7,109        12.2        (1,942     (21.5

Maintenance

    438        1.3        1,874        3.2        1,436        327.9   

Sequencing and molecular analysis

                  39        0.1        39          

Other services

    7,047        20.7        15,202        26.1        8,155        115.7   

Amortization of developed technologies

    7,694        22.7        10,585        18.2        2,891        37.6   
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

Total cost of revenue

  $ 24,230        71.4   $ 34,809        59.7   $ 10,579        43.7
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

Cost of revenue increased $10.6 million, or 43.7%, from $24.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2014 to $34.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2015. The increase in cost of revenue was the result of an $8.2 million increase in our Other services cost of revenue and a $2.9 million increase in our amortization of developed technologies. The increase in total cost of revenue was partially offset by a decline in costs for software-related revenue of $1.9 million.

The $8.2 million increase in other services cost of revenue was primarily due to $3.7 million in amounts owed to NantOmics related to sequencing and molecular analysis performed for a research institution, incremental costs associated with the newly-acquired Fusion product revenue, and costs related to business expansion of our home health business. The increase in the amortization of developed technologies cost of revenue is due to incremental costs associated with the acquisition of HCS and full calendar year of amortization in 2015 versus a partial year of amortization in 2014 for the acquisition of NDO.

The reduction in software-related cost of revenue was a result of a reduction in costs associated with certain cOS projects in 2015 versus 2014 as well as a reduction in certain hardware costs in 2015.

 

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Selling, General and Administrative

 

 

 

    YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31,              
    2014     2015     PERIOD-TO-PERIOD CHANGE  
    AMOUNT     PERCENTAGE OF
REVENUE
    AMOUNT     PERCENTAGE OF
REVENUE
    AMOUNT     PERCENTAGE  
    (dollars in thousands)  

Selling, general and administrative

  $ 46,209        136.2   $ 69,021        118.4   $ 22,812        49.4

 

 

Selling, general and administrative expenses increased $22.8 million, or 49.4%, from $46.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2014 to $69.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2015. This increase was driven by a $8.1 million increase in personnel-related expenses due to a higher headcount, increased costs associated with severance pay, bonus accruals and stock-based compensation expense. In addition, we experienced an increase of an additional $9.6 million related to the acquisition of HCS (of which approximately $1.5 million was one-time in nature), a $3.6 million increase in professional services and internal information technology resources, and $1.5 million increase in other expenses including a donation to support an academic cancer research center in the United Kingdom.

Research and Development

 

 

 

    YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31,              
    2014     2015     PERIOD-TO-PERIOD CHANGE  
    AMOUNT     PERCENTAGE OF
REVENUE
    AMOUNT     PERCENTAGE OF
REVENUE
    AMOUNT     PERCENTAGE  
    (dollars in thousands)  

Research and development

  $ 16,979        50.1   $ 23,835        40.9   $ 6,856        40.4

Research and development expenses increased $6.9 million, or 40.4%, from $17.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2014 to $23.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2015. The increase was driven by $4.7 million of expense related to the HCS acquisition in July 2015, and $2.1 million increase due to higher headcount and associated personnel-related expenses as we invested in the development of our software and hardware solutions.

Interest Expense, net

 

 

 

    YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31,