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COMMON STOCK
9 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2014
Equity [Abstract]  
COMMON STOCK

NOTE 8. COMMON STOCK

 

Rights Offering

On December 17, 2013, we publicly announced plans to complete a rights offering to existing holders of our Common Stock, and we commenced the rights offering on March 24, 2014, pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-3 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC’). The rights offering was made through the distribution to our existing shareholders as of March 20, 2014 of non-transferable subscription rights to purchase their pro rata portion of newly issued shares of our Common Stock (the “Subscription Privilege”) at a price of $1.90 per share (the “Subscription Price”). The subscription period for exercise of the rights commenced on March 24, 2014 and expired on April 25, 2014.

 

Upon completion of the rights offering, we received gross proceeds of approximately $1.65 million, before estimated expenses of $125,000, through shareholder subscriptions for 868,732 shares of common stock.

 

Of the total amount of shares issued, 317,231 and 156,189 shares were issued to AO Partners I, LP (“AO Partners”) and Farnam Street Partners, L.P. (“Farnam Street Partners”), respectively, the Company’s two largest shareholders, who each exercised its full pro-rata allotment of rights in the offering. AO Partners, LLC is the General Partner of AO Partners, and Nicholas J. Swenson, a director of the Company, is the Managing Member of AO Partners. Raymond E. Cabillot, also a director of the Company, is the CEO of Farnam Street Partners.

 

In connection with the rights offering, we entered into a Standby Purchase Agreement with AO Partners, LLC and Farnam Street Capital, Inc. (each a beneficial shareholder of our common stock; each a “Standby Purchaser” and collectively the “Standby Purchasers”) pursuant to which the Standby Purchasers agreed to purchase, at the Subscription Price, any and all shares of Common Stock not subscribed for by shareholders in connection with the rights offering, subject to reduction by us as described below. Messrs. Swenson and Cabillot have the power to direct the affairs of AO Partners, LLC and Farnam Street Capital, respectively. No fees or other consideration were paid by us to the Standby Purchasers in exchange for their commitment to purchase any and all unsubscribed shares of Common Stock following the rights offering.

 

In the event that the exercise by a shareholder of the Subscription Privilege or the purchase of our common stock under the Standby Purchase Agreement could, in our sole discretion, have potentially resulted in a limitation of our ability to utilize our tax attributes, such as the annual utilization of net operating loss or tax credit carry forwards (see Note 7), we had the ability to reduce the exercise by such shareholder of the Subscription Privilege or the amount purchased under the Standby Purchase Agreement to such number of shares of our Common Stock as we determined advisable in order to preserve our ability to utilize such tax attributes. On the basis of the Company’s analysis of tax attributes, the Company did not reduce the subscriptions of any shareholder in the rights offering, but did reduce to zero the number of shares the Standby Purchasers could have otherwise purchased pursuant to the Standby Purchase Agreement. As a result, no shares were issued to AO Partners, LLC or Farnam Street Capital, Inc. pursuant to the Standby Purchase Agreement.

 

We intend to use the net proceeds of the rights offering to pursue strategic opportunities that may present themselves from time to time or, if not used to pursue strategic opportunities, for working capital and general corporate purposes, including to fund ongoing research and development and product initiatives. Also, to the extent the net proceeds are not deployed, some of the funds may be invested in accordance with the terms of our Surplus Capital Investment Policy.

 

Share Repurchase Program

 

In September 2013, our Board approved a share repurchase program authorizing the Company, at the direction of the Investment Committee of the Board, to repurchase up to 750,000 shares of our common stock under parameters to be determined by the Investment Committee. The repurchase program has no stated expiration date and there have been no purchases under the program.