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15. Subsequent Events

Seventh Amendment to Credit Agreement

 

On April 28, 2020, the Company and its subsidiaries entered into Seventh Amendment, dated as of April 28, 2020 (the "Seventh Amendment"), to the Revolving Credit, Term Loan and Security Agreement, dated as of March 31, 2017 (as amended, amended and restated, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the "Credit Agreement"). The Seventh Amendment represents the most significant loan modification of the Company’s Credit Agreement since inception. The Company and its senior lenders previously entered into the Sixth Amendment on February 12, 2020, while negotiating and in contemplation of the larger loan modification contained in Seventh Amendment.

 

The Seventh Amendment extends the maturity of the Credit Agreement from June 30, 2021 to June 30, 2023, lowered cash interest approximately 500 basis points (5%) per annum, postponed quarterly principal payments to recommence beginning June 30, 2021, and reduced the amounts of quarterly principal payments from the current $500,000 per quarter to $445,525. The Company has agreed to pay 5% PIK (non-cash, paid-in-kind) interest on the Term Loan only, which is accrued and added to the balance of the Term Loan and to pay a restructuring fee of $3,478 and an exit fee of $1,500, which became fully earned upon the effective date, but are payable upon the occurrence of a triggering event. The triggering events include a change in control, refinancing, maturity or other termination of the senior loans, and in the case of the restructuring fee, an acquisition by the Company also is considered a triggering event. In addition, the Company has agreed that for each six month period commencing with the period ending on March 31, 2021 and for each fiscal year commencing with the fiscal year ending on September 30, 2021, it shall utilize its “Specified Excess Cash Flow Amount” (as defined in the Credit Agreement) to repay amounts outstanding under the Credit Agreement.

 

Under the Seventh Amendment, the Company also has agreed to the condition that it will pursue, negotiate and execute conversions of all of the Company’s outstanding subordinated debt and preferred stock into shares of the Company’s common stock. The Company has up to 60 days after the effective date of the Seventh Amendment (until June 27, 2020) to enter into definitive agreements with all parties to effect the conversions and up to 90 days thereafter (until September 25, 2020) to obtain required shareholder approvals and execute the conversions, with the provision that the Company may be granted another 30 days by Lenders at their discretion.

 

In the event the Company meets the conversion condition of the agreement, it will then have the option to settle the restructuring fee, exit fee, and accumulated PIK balance, each when due, in cash or in shares of the Company’s common stock. In the case of the latter, the amount or number of shares distributable to the Senior Lenders are to be determined using the most favorable conversion rate at which the holders of the Company’s subordinated indebtedness or preferred stock have converted their securities to shares of common stock of the Company in their conversion transactions. In the event the Company is unable to satisfactorily meet the conversion condition within the specified time frames, an Event of Default under the Credit Agreement will be deemed to have occurred.

 

Eighth Amendment to Credit Agreement and CARES Act Payroll Protection Program Loans

 

On May 5, 2020 the Company and its subsidiaries entered into nine (9) unsecured promissory notes payable under CARES Act Payroll Protection Program (“PPP”) and received net funds totaling $19,926 in order to obtain needed relief funds for allowable expenses under the CARES Act PPP. (See Note 15. Subsequent Events.). On May 5, 2020, the Company also entered into Eighth Amendment, dated as of May 5, 2020 (the "Eighth Amendment") to the Credit Agreement. The Eighth Amendment to the Credit Agreement serves as the conforming amendment under the Credit Agreement to enable the Company and its subsidiaries to enter into the PPP loans and additional permitted indebtedness in compliance with the Credit Agreement.