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6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2011
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April 2011 Private Placement

Concurrently with the execution of the Merger Agreement, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement with certain accredited investors under which the Company sold an aggregate of 6,846,537 units, each unit consisting of one share of its common stock and a warrant to purchase one share of its common stock, at a price of $0.75 per unit, for gross proceeds of approximately $5,135,000 (the “April Private Placement”).  The warrants have an exercise price of $0.75 and expire on March 31, 2016.  The warrant exercise price and/or the common stock issuable pursuant to such warrant will be subject to adjustment only for stock dividends, stock splits or similar capital reorganizations so that the rights of the warrant holders after such event will be equivalent to the rights of warrant holders prior to such event.  The relative fair value of the warrants issued to the investors at the date of issuance was $2,124,286 and has been included as a component of stockholders’ equity.  The Company uses the Black-Scholes option pricing model to value warrants and applies assumptions that consider, among other variables, the fair value of the underlying stock, risk-free interest rate, volatility, expected life and dividend rates in estimating fair value for the warrants. Assumptions used are generally consistent with those disclosed for stock-based compensation (see Note 7).
 
The Securities Purchase Agreement includes a requirement that the Company file with the SEC no later than October 5, 2011, a registration statement covering the resale of the shares of common stock, and the shares of common stock underlying the warrants, issued pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement that are not otherwise saleable under an available exemption from registration requirements.  The Company is also required to use our commercially reasonable efforts to have the registration statement declared effective by December 4, 2011, and to keep the registration statement continuously effective under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), until the earlier of the date when all the registrable securities covered by the registration statement have been sold or the second anniversary of the closing.

In the event the Company fails to file the registration statement within the timeframe specified by the Securities Purchase Agreement, or if it fails to obtain effectiveness of this registration on or prior to the December 4, 2011 (if there is no review by the SEC) or by January 3, 2012 (if there is review by the SEC) with respect to the maximum number of shares permitted to be registered by the SEC, the Company will be required to pay to the purchasers liquidated damages equal to 1.5% per month (pro-rated on a daily basis for any period of less than a full month) of the aggregate purchase price of the units purchased until the registration statement is filed or declared effective, as applicable, not to exceed 5% of the aggregate purchase price.  The Company will be allowed to suspend the use of the registration statement for not more than 30 consecutive days, on not more than two occasions, in any 12-month period.  The Company has also granted piggy-back registration rights with respect to any shares of common stock that it is required to exclude from the registration statement as a condition of its effectiveness, and has also agreed to file further registration statements with respect to any such shares six months after the effective date of the initial registration statement. As of June 30, 2011, and through the date of this filing, the Company has not concluded that it is probable that damages will become due; therefore, no accrual for damages has been recorded.

 
The Company paid to Rodman, the placement agent for the financing, a cash fee equal to $200,000 and issued warrants to purchase 192,931 shares of its common stock (having an exercise price of $0.75 and which expire March 31, 2016) in consideration for their advisory services with respect to the financing pursuant to the placement agency agreement between Rodman and the Company.  Rodman is entitled to registration rights with respect to the shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of these warrants.  The cash fee was recorded as a reduction of gross proceeds received.  The estimated fair value of the warrants issued to the placement agent was $112,096 and was recorded as a component of stockholders’ equity.  The Company uses the Black-Scholes option pricing model to value warrants and applies assumptions that consider, among other variables, the fair value of the underlying stock, risk-free interest rate, volatility, expected life and dividend rates in estimating fair value for the warrants. Assumptions used are generally consistent with those disclosed for stock-based compensation (see Note 7).

Common Stock Warrants   — The following table summarizes information with regard to outstanding warrants to purchase common stock as of June 30, 2011.  The Company issued warrants to purchase 7,039,468 shares of common stock in connection with the April Private Placement.  In addition, outstanding warrants to purchase 315,164 shares of common stock, originally issued in connection with Novelos equity and debt financings from 2007 through 2010, remained outstanding subsequent to the Acquisition.

Offering
 
Number of Shares
Issuable Upon
Exercise of
Outstanding
Warrants
   
Exercise 
Price
 
Expiration Date
 
                 
April 8, 2011 Private Placement
   
7,039,468
   
$
0.75
 
March 31, 2016
 
Series B Preferred Stock – placement agents
   
5,392
   
$
191.25
 
May 2, 2012
 
Series C Exchange
   
8,169
   
$
191.25
 
May 2, 2012
 
Series E Preferred Stock
   
60,330
   
$
99.45
 
December 31, 2015
 
August 2009 Private Placement
   
31,194
   
$
100.98
 
December 31, 2015
 
July 2010 Direct Offering (1)
   
77,729
   
$
0.75
 
July 27, 2015
 
Preferred Incentive Warrants
   
105,040
   
$
16.07
 
July 27, 2015
 
     
  
             
Total
   
7,327,322
             

(1)  The exercise price of these warrants was adjusted to $0.75 per share in connection with the private placement completed on April 8, 2011.  This warrant is treated as a derivative instrument as described in Note 1.

On May 4, 2011, 18,153 shares of common stock were issued in connection with the cashless exercise of warrants to purchase 27,310 shares of common stock at $0.75 per share.  The Company reclassified $48,339 from the derivative liability to additional paid-in capital upon the exercise of the warrants.