Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

Debt

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Debt
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2022
Debt Disclosure [Abstract]  
Debt Debt
The components of the Company’s debt consist of the following (in thousands):
December 31, 2022 December 31, 2021
Amount Rate Maturity
date
Amount Rate Maturity
date
Term loan, net $ —  (1) 10/31/2024 $ 5,414  (2) 1/6/2024
Line of credit, net 11,444  (1) 10/31/2024 4,856  (2) 1/6/2024
Total debt 11,444  10,270 
Less current portion —  855 
Total long-term debt $ 11,444  $ 9,415 
(1)Interest at a variable rate of the daily U.S. Federal Funds Rate plus 375 basis points with an interest rate floor of 3.75% per annum.
(2)Interest at a variable rate of LIBOR plus 250 basis points with an interest rate floor of 2.50% per annum.
Term loan and lines of credit
On January 6, 2021, Halo entered into a credit facility with Old Plank Trail Community Bank, N.A., an affiliate of Wintrust Bank, N.A. (“Wintrust”) consisting of a $6.0 million term loan and a $6.0 million revolving line of credit, each scheduled to mature on January 6, 2024 and each bore interest at a variable rate of LIBOR plus 250 basis points, with an interest rate floor of 2.50% per annum (the "Wintrust Credit Facility"). The Second Wintrust Amendment described below updated the rate at which the Wintrust Credit Facility bore interest to the greater of the daily U.S. Federal Funds Rate plus 285 basis points, or the interest rate floor, which remained unchanged. The Third Wintrust Amendment described below updated the interest rate on the Wintrust Credit Facility to the U.S. Federal Funds Rate plus 375 basis points, with an interest rate floor of 3.75% and extends the maturity date of the Wintrust Credit Facility from January 6, 2024 to October 31, 2024. Accrued interest on the Wintrust Credit Facility is payable monthly which commenced on February 1, 2021. Principal payments were required to be made monthly on the term loan commencing February 2021 with a balloon payment upon the original maturity date. The proceeds from the Wintrust Credit Facility were used (i) to repay outstanding principal, interest and fees under the previous revolving line of credit with Citizens Business Bank (the "ABL Facility") and (ii) for general corporate purposes. The Company applied extinguishment accounting to the outstanding balances of the previous term loan and ABL Facility and recorded a loss on extinguishment of debt of $0.4 million during 2021. Debt issuance costs of $0.1 million were incurred related to the Wintrust Credit Facility.
The Wintrust Credit Facility subjected the Company to certain financial covenants, including the maintenance of a fixed charge coverage ratio of no less than 1.25 to 1.00, tested as of the last day of each fiscal quarter. The numerator in the fixed charge coverage ratio was the operating cash flow of Halo, defined as Halo EBITDA less cash paid for unfinanced Halo capital expenditures, income taxes and dividends. The denominator was fixed charges such as interest expense and principal payments paid or payable on other indebtedness attributable to Halo. As of December 31, 2021, the Company failed to satisfy the fixed charge coverage ratio and entered into a default waiver agreement with Wintrust in which Wintrust waived the existing default through the next testing date, March 31, 2022. As part of the Second Wintrust Amendment described below, the financial covenants were amended to subject the Company to a minimum liquidity covenant test in lieu of a fixed charge coverage ratio which required the Company to maintain liquidity, tested on the last day of each fiscal quarter beginning March 31, 2022, of no less than (i) $13.0 million as of the last day of each fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2022, through and including the last day of the fiscal quarter ending December 31, 2022 and (ii) $12.0 million as of the last day of the fiscal
quarter ending March 31, 2023, and as of the last day of each fiscal quarter thereafter. Furthermore, as part of the Third Wintrust Amendment described below, the financial covenants were further amended to require the Company to maintain a minimum liquidity of $8.5 million tested on the last day of each fiscal quarter beginning September 30, 2022 and thereafter.
The Wintrust Credit Facility is secured by a general guaranty and security interest on the assets, including the intellectual property, of the Company and its subsidiaries. The Company has also pledged all of the capital stock of Halo held by the Company as additional collateral. Furthermore, the Wintrust Credit Facility was supported by a collateral pledge by a member of the Company’s board of directors; as a result of the First Wintrust Amendment described below, this collateral pledge was terminated and released.
On August 13, 2021, Halo entered into the first amendment to the Wintrust Credit Facility (the “First Wintrust Amendment”) to increase the revolving line of credit from $6.0 million to $7.5 million. The First Wintrust Amendment also required Halo to secure the credit facility with a pledge of a deposit account in the amount of $7.2 million, which was decreased to $6.9 million on January 1, 2022 and was to further decrease to $6.0 million on January 1, 2023. Additionally, on March 25, 2022, the Company entered into the second amendment to the Wintrust Credit Facility (the "Second Wintrust Amendment") which provided for the release of the Company's Bona Vida subsidiary as a guarantor, an update to the financial covenants as described above and an update to the rate at which the Wintrust Credit Facility bore interest, which is also described above. Furthermore, on October 24, 2022, the Company entered into the third amendment to the Wintrust Credit Facility (the "third Wintrust Amendment") which provided for an increase to the revolving line of credit from $7.5 million to $13.5 million, set the amount of Halo's obligation to pledge a deposit account with Wintrust to a fixed amount of $6.3 million throughout the remainder of the term and provided updates to the interest rate, maturity date and financial covenants as described above.
As part of the Third Wintrust Amendment described above, Halo used a portion of the increased revolving credit facility to repay and retire the outstanding term loan portion of the Wintrust Credit Facility. As of December 31, 2022, the line of credit outstanding under the Wintrust Credit Facility was $11.4 million, net of debt issuance costs of less than $0.2 million. As of December 31, 2021, the term loan and line of credit outstanding were $5.4 million and $4.9 million, respectively, net of debt issuance costs of less than $0.1 million, respectively. Debt issuance costs are amortized using the effective interest method. The carrying amount for the Company’s term loan and line of credit approximate fair value as the instruments have variable interest rates that approximate market rates.
As of December 31, 2022, the Company was in compliance with all debt covenant requirements and there were no events of default.
Notes payable
On November 4, 2019, the Company issued $2.8 million of subordinated convertible notes (the “November 2019 Notes”) which carried a 10% interest rate and a maturity date of November 4, 2021. The interest was payable in kind, in arrears on March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31 of each year. Payment in kind ("PIK") interest was payable by increasing the aggregate principal amount of the November 2019 Notes. The November 2019 Notes were convertible any time from the date of issuance and carried an initial conversion price of the lower of (a) $24.00 per share or (b) the IPO Price. The November 2019 Notes were amended on January 6, 2020. The amendment incorporated only the preferable terms of the Seller Notes as noted below, and all other terms and provisions of the November 2019 Notes remained in full force and effect. As amended, for so long as any event of default existed and was continuing, interest would accrue at the default interest rate of 12.0% per annum, and such accrued interest would be immediately due and payable.
On December 19, 2019, the Company issued $10.0 million and $5.0 million in senior subordinated convertible notes (the “Senior Seller Notes”) and junior subordinated convertible notes (the “Junior Seller Notes” and together with the Senior Seller Notes, the “Seller Notes”), respectively, to the sellers of Halo.  The Seller Notes were convertible any time from the date of issuance and carried a 10% interest rate and a maturity date of June 30, 2023. Interest was payable in kind, in arrears on March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31 of each year by increasing the aggregate principal amount of the Seller Notes. The Seller Notes carried a conversion price of the lower of (a) $24.00 per share or (b) the IPO Price.
On January 13, 2020, the Company issued $0.6 million in senior subordinated convertible notes to Authentic Brands and Elvis Presley Enterprises ("ABG") in connection with the termination of a previous licensing agreement (the "ABG Notes"). The terms of the ABG Notes were the same as the Seller Notes. In addition to issuing the ABG Notes, as part of the ABG termination on January 13, 2020, the Company paid ABG $0.1 million in cash, issued ABG 12,120 shares of the Company's common stock, agreed to pay ABG $0.1 million in cash in four equal installments each month from July 31, 2020 through October 31, 2020 and issued ABG 10,204 common stock purchase warrants (the "ABG Warrants") equal to a fair value of approximately $0.2 million. The total cost of the contract termination noted above was measured at its fair value of $1.1 million and included in SG&A expense.
The November 2019 Notes were amended for the second time and the Seller Notes and the ABG Notes were also amended on June 24, 2020 in connection with the issuance of the June 2020 Notes, discussed below. The amendments lowered the
maximum conversion price applicable to the conversion of these notes from $24.00 per share to $22.50 per share and aligned all maturity dates to be June 30, 2023. The Company accounted for the change in conversion price as a modification of the debt instruments and recognized the increase in the fair value of the conversion option as a reduction to the carrying amount of the respective debt instrument by increasing the associated debt discount or decreasing the debt premium, with a corresponding increase in Additional paid-in capital. The increase in fair value of the conversion options were $0.3 million for the November 2019 Notes, less than $0.3 million for the Seller Notes and less than $0.1 million for the ABG Notes.
On June 24, 2020, the Company issued $1.5 million in subordinated convertible promissory notes (the “June 2020 Notes”) which carried a 10% interest rate and a maturity date of June 30, 2023. Interest was payable in kind, in arrears on March 31, June 30, September 30, and December 31 of each year by increasing the aggregate principal amount of the June 2020 Notes. The June 2020 Notes were convertible any time from the date of issuance and carried a conversion price of $4.50 per share.
The Company evaluated the conversion option within the June 2020 Notes to determine whether the conversion price was beneficial to the note holders and recorded a beneficial conversion feature (“BCF”) related to the issuance of these notes. The BCF for the June 2020 Notes was recognized and measured by allocating a portion of the proceeds to the BCF, based on relative fair value, and as a reduction to the carrying amount of the convertible instrument equal to the intrinsic value of the conversion feature limited to the proceeds amount allocated to the instrument. The discount recorded in connection with the BCF valuation was being accreted as interest expense over the term of the June 2020 Notes, using the effective interest rate method. Upon the conversion of the June 2020 Notes, discussed below, the remaining discount of $1.4 million associated with the June 2020 Notes was fully accreted through interest expense.
As of December 31, 2021, all of the Notes Payable described had $0 outstanding since they were automatically converted to common stock in connection with the Company's IPO, at a price of $5.00 per share (except for the June 2020 Notes, which were converted at a price of $4.50 per share). See "Note 1 - Nature of business and summary of significant accounting policies" for additional information.
Previously, $0.1 million of the Seller Notes were held by an executive of the Company and $2.2 million of the subordinated convertible notes were held by a member of the board of directors, all of which were converted to common stock as described above. PIK interest related to these notes was $0.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2021.
PPP loans
On April 10, 2020, TruPet was granted a loan from JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. in the aggregate amount of $0.4 million, pursuant to the Paycheck Protection Program ("PPP") under Division A, Title I of the CARES Act (the "TruPet PPP Loan"). The loan matured on April 6, 2022, and had an interest rate of 0.98% per annum, with interest and principal payable monthly commencing on November 6, 2020. During 2021, the TruPet PPP loan was fully forgiven and the Company recognized a gain on extinguishment of debt of $0.4 million.
On May 7, 2020, Halo was granted a loan from Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. in the aggregate amount of $0.4 million, pursuant to the PPP (the “Halo PPP Loan”). The loan matured on May 3, 2022 and had an interest rate of 1.00% per annum, with interest and principal payable monthly, commencing on November 1, 2020. During 2021, the Halo PPP loan was fully forgiven and the Company recognized a gain on extinguishment of debt of $0.4 million.
The Company recorded interest expense related to its outstanding indebtedness of $0.6 million and $3.2 million for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. PIK interest relating to Notes Payable was $1.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2021.
Future Debt Maturities
Future debt maturities as of December 31, 2022 and for succeeding years are as follows (in thousands):
Year ending December 31:
2023 $ — 
2024 $ 11,444 
2025 $ — 
2026 $ — 
2027 $ — 
Thereafter $ — 
Total $ 11,444