Note - 4 Related Party Transactions

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2024

Notes to Financial Statements

Related Party Transactions Disclosure [Text Block]

4. Related Party Transactions

Convertible Promissory Note and Revolving Credit Agreement

In March 2017, ThermoGenesis Holdings entered into a Credit Agreement with Boyalife Group (USA), Inc. (the “Lender”), which is owned and controlled by the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of our Board of Directors. The Credit Agreement, as amended, grants the Company the right to borrow up to $10,000,000 (the “Loan”) at any time prior to the maturity date. On January 5, 2024, the Company entered into Amendment No. 3 (the "Note Amendment”) to its Second Amended and Restated Convertible Promissory Note with Boyalife Group Inc. (the "Note”), and Amendment No. 4 (the "Credit Agreement Amendment”) to its First Amended and Restated Revolving Credit Agreement with Boyalife Group Inc. (the "Credit Agreement”). The Note Amendment extended the maturity date of the Note from December 31, 2023 to December 31, 2024 (the “Maturity Date”), and provided that beginning January 1, 2024, accrued and unpaid interest of approximately $634,000 was due and payable on or before July 1 and December 31 of each year. Accrued and unpaid interest as of December 31, 2023, (the "December 2023 Capitalized Amount”) is to be paid in equal monthly installments of approximately $106,000 over the first six months of 2024. Any unpaid portion of the December 2023 Capitalized Amount shall bear interest at an annual rate of twenty-two percent (22%), and accrued and unpaid interest on the December 2023 Capitalized Amount shall be due and payable on July 1, 2024. The Credit Agreement Amendment updated the defined term "Termination Date” in the Credit Agreement to December 31, 2024.

The Company performed a debt extinguishment vs. modification analysis on the Note Amendment and determined that it would be considered an extinguishment, due to an increase of more than 10% to the value of the embedded conversion option. However, no gain or loss was recorded in the condensed consolidated statements of operations for the quarter ended March 31, 2024 as it was determined that the fair value of the Note Amendment and accrued interest was $7,912,000 both before and after the extension.

On March 15, 2024, the Company received a conversion notice from the Lender to convert $1,278,000 of the outstanding principal and $285,000 of the 2024 outstanding accrued interest for a total of $1,563,000. As of March 31, 2024, the outstanding principal and accrued interest of the Note was approximately $6,424,000.

The Credit Agreement Amendment and the Note Amendment, provide that the principal and all accrued and unpaid interest under the Loan will be due and payable on the Maturity Date of December 31, 2024. The Loan bears interest at 22% per annum, simple interest. The Company has five business days after the Lender demands payment to pay the interest due before the Loan is considered in default. The Loan can be prepaid in whole or in part by the Company at any time without penalty.

The following summarizes the Note:

	Maturity Date	Stated Interest Rate			Conversion Price		Face Value		Debt Discount			Carrying Value
March 31, 2024	12/31/24		22	%	$	0.38	$	6,000,000	$	(1,794,000	)	$	4,206,000
December 31, 2023	12/31/23		22	%	$	0.79	$	7,278,000	$	-		$	7,278,000

The Note includes a down-round anti-dilution provision that lowers its conversion price if the Company sells shares of common stock or issues convertible debt at a lower price per share. In 2024, the down-round provision was triggered, as noted below:

For the three months ended March 31, 2024, when the conversion price of the Note was $0.79 per share, under an At The Market Offering Agreement with H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC (“Wainwright”), pursuant to which the Company can offer and sell, from time to time, shares of its common stock, $0.001 par value, the Company sold shares of its common stock through multiple transactions with an average selling price of $0.45, resulting in a triggering event lowering the conversion price of the Note to $0.38. The triggering event created an incremental value of approximately $2,789,000 which was treated as a discount to the carrying amount of the Note and will be amortized over its remaining term.

A Black-Scholes pricing model was utilized to determine the change in the before and after incremental value of the conversion option at each triggering event, with the following inputs:

	January 2024
Conversion price before	$	0.79
Conversion price after	$	0.38
Term (years)		0.94
Volatility		122.7	%
Dividend rate		0	%
Risk free rate		4.38	%

The Company amortized $995,000 and $3,604,000 of debt discount related to triggering events for the Note to interest expense for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. In addition to the amortization, the Company also recorded interest expense related to the Note of $392,000 and $389,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023 respectively. The interest payable balance for the Note was $424,000 and $634,000 as of March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively.