Quarterly report pursuant to sections 13 or 15(d)

4. STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY

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4. STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
 9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2012
Equity [Abstract]  
4. STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY

 

Common stock

Former ADMA was originally organized as an S corporation and issued 100 shares of stock at a par value of $0.01 each. On July 16, 2007, Former ADMA merged into a C corporation and, concurrent with this merger, each of the shares of stock of the terminating S corporation converted into 23,904.38 shares of common stock of the C corporation, resulting in a total of 351,535 shares outstanding. Since the shareholders of the S corporation became the majority shareholders of the C corporation, this was accounted for as a reverse merger.  Accordingly, the pre-merger financial statements of the S corporation have become the historical financial statements of the C corporation.

 

Upon conversion of Former ADMA from an S corporation to a C corporation, Former ADMA increased its authorized common stock to 6,500,000 shares with a par value of $0.001 per share and authorized 3,400,000 shares of Series A preferred (Series A shares), with a par value of $0.001 per share. On July 17, 2007, Former ADMA completed a private placement and raised gross proceeds of $17,000,000 from the sale of 3,386,454 Series A convertible preferred shares at a sale price of $5.02 per share.

 

The 2012 Financing resulted in Former ADMA raising gross proceeds of $17.3 million in cash in connection with and immediately prior to the closing of the Merger. In the 2012 Financing, Former ADMA issued 1,828,128 shares of Former ADMA’s common stock at a price per share of $9.60 to accredited investors pursuant to a Securities Purchase Agreement. In lieu of repayment of senior secured promissory notes in the aggregate principal amount of $250,000 (plus $12,740 in accrued interest), the aggregate amount of unpaid principal and interest on the notes was invested by the holders of such notes in the 2012 Financing in exchange for shares of Former ADMA’s common stock.  The net cash proceeds from the 2012 Financing, after the payment of all expenses related to the 2012 Financing, approximated $15.6 million.

 

On February 13, 2012, ParentCo, entered into a Merger Agreement by and among ParentCo, Former ADMA, and Acquisition Sub.  Upon the closing of the Merger, Acquisition Sub was merged with and into Former ADMA, and Former ADMA, as the surviving corporation in the Merger, became a wholly-owned subsidiary of ParentCo.  ParentCo’s corporate name was changed to ADMA Biologics, Inc. and the name of Former ADMA was changed to ADMA Plasma Biologics, Inc.  Prior to the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement with Former ADMA, there were no material relationships between ParentCo and Former ADMA, or any of their respective affiliates, directors or officers, or any associates of their respective directors or officers.  For accounting purposes, the Merger was accounted for as a reverse acquisition, with Former ADMA as the accounting acquiror (legal acquiree) and ParentCo as the accounting acquiree (legal acquiror).  Consequently, the historical financial information of Former ADMA became the historical financial information of ParentCo.

 

Immediately prior to the Merger, 3,386,454 shares of Series A preferred stock of Former ADMA were converted into 11,243,748 shares of Former ADMA’s common stock after giving effect to cumulative anti-dilution adjustments and accrued dividends, and 4,835,224 shares of Former ADMA’s Series A preferred stock issued in December 2011 upon the conversion of convertible notes were converted into an equal number of shares of Former ADMA’s common stock, and the shares of common stock of Former ADMA were reverse split at a ratio of 1-for-6.8 (the “Reverse Split”).  In the Merger, all of the then issued and outstanding shares of Former ADMA’s common stock were automatically exchanged into 4,601,270 shares of ParentCo’s common stock, with a par value of $0.0001 per share, and all warrants, options and other rights to purchase or acquire shares of Former ADMA’s common stock outstanding immediately prior to the Merger, including the Placement Agent Warrants and the additional options granted to Adam S. Grossman, CEO, under his new employment agreement, were converted into warrants, options or other rights, as the case may be, to purchase an aggregate of 383,380 shares of ParentCo’s common stock at the same exercise prices; and 2,446,967 of the 2,500,000 shares of ParentCo’s common stock held by the stockholders of ParentCo immediately prior to the Merger were canceled such that these stockholders now hold 53,033 shares of common stock, not including the 87,865 shares issuable upon exercise of the Placement Agent Warrants, held by an affiliate of one of such stockholders.  See  Note 7, Subsequent Event, pertaining to the change of ownership in ParentCo’s common stock.

 

Common stock options and warrants

The fair value of employee options granted was determined on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option valuation model. The Black-Scholes model was developed for use in estimating the fair value of publicly traded options, which have no vesting restrictions and are fully transferable. In addition, option valuation models require the input of highly subjective assumptions including the expected stock price volatility. The Company's employee stock options have characteristics significantly different from those of traded options, and changes in the subjective input assumptions can materially affect the fair value estimate. Because there is no public market for the Company's stock and very little historical experience with the Company's stock options, similar public companies were used for comparison and expectations as to assumptions required for fair value computation using the Black-Scholes methodology.

 

The Company records compensation expense associated with stock options and other forms of equity compensation using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model and the following assumptions:

 

 

Nine Months Ended

September 30, 2012
Expected Term 6.25 years
Volatility 82-84%
Dividend yield 0.0%
Risk-free interest rate 0.97-1.62%

 

Guidance for stock-based compensation requires forfeitures to be estimated at the time of grant and revised, if necessary, in subsequent periods if actual forfeitures differ from those estimates. The Company currently estimates there will be no forfeitures of options.

  

A summary of the Company’s option and warrant activity under the Plan and related information is as follows:

 

   

Nine Months Ended

September 30, 2012

  
    Shares    

Weighted

Average

Exercise

Price

  
Outstanding at beginning of period     83,378     $ 3.33  
Forfeited     -     $ -  
Granted     506,559     $ 9.60  
Outstanding at end of period and expected to vest     589,937     $ 8.71  
Options exercisable     142,248     $ 6.01  
Weighted-average fair value of options granted during the period           $ 6.82  

 

The weighted average remaining contractual life of stock options outstanding and expected to vest at September 30, 2012 is 8.9 years.  The weighted average remaining contractual life of stock options exercisable at September 30, 2012 is 6.8 years.

 

Stock-based compensation expenses for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011 was:

 

   

Three months ended

September 30,

  
    2012     2011  
Research and development   $ 43,178     $ 769  
General and administrative     165,017       1,850  
Total stock-based compensation expense   $ 208,195     $ 2,619  
       
   

Nine months ended

September 30,

  
      2012       2011  
Research and development   $ 49,446     $ 2,283  
General and administrative     359,098       17,340  
Total stock-based compensation expense   $ 408,544     $ 19,623  

 

As of September 30, 2012, the total compensation expense related to unvested options not yet recognized totaled $3,050,944. The weighted-average vesting period over which the total compensation expense will be recorded related to unvested options not yet recognized at September 30, 2012 was approximately 3.5 years.