10.  Commitments and Contingencies

 

Commercial Lease

On March 16, 2016, AC entered into the Fourth Amendment to Lease (“Fourth Amendment”) with SNH Medical Office Properties Trust, a Maryland real estate investment trust (“SNH”).  SNH is the landlord of AC’s currently leased 11,761 square foot corporate headquarters facility in Alachua, Florida (the “Current Premises”) pursuant to that certain lease dated as of February 6, 2007, as amended (the “Lease”).

 

The Fourth Amendment expands the Current Premises by 7,050 square feet (the “Expansion Premises”).  The Fourth Amendment also provides that the Expiration Date (as defined in the Fourth Amendment) of the Lease will be extended to approximately five years from the Occupancy Date (as defined in the Fourth Amendment) of the Expansion Premises, which Occupancy Date is anticipated to occur in June 2016.  The original expiration date of the Current Premises remains unchanged; provided, however, that AC shall have the right to extend the Current Premises Term (as defined in the Fourth Amendment) for three additional periods (the “Current Premises Extended Term”), the first such Current Premises Extended Term to commence on November 1, 2018 and end on October 31, 2019, the second such Current Premises Extended Term to commence on November 1, 2019 and end on October 31, 2020, and the third such Current Premises Extended Term to commence on November 1, 2020 and end on the Expiration Date.  AC also has the right to extend the term of the then current Leased Premises (as defined in the Fourth Amendment) for an additional period of five years commencing on the day immediately after the Expiration Date.  AC’s additional annual cost of the Expansion Premises will be approximately $123,000,  $127,000,  $131,000,  $135,000 and $139,000 for years one through five, respectively, of the Lease, with year one commencing on the Occupancy Date.

 

Processing Agreement

Until February 2016, the Company was party to that certain Amended and Restated Nerve Tissue Processing Agreement (the “LifeNet Agreement”) with LifeNet Health (“LifeNet”), whereby the Company processed and packaged Avance® Nerve Graft using its employees and equipment located at LifeNet in Virginia Beach, Virginia (the “Virginia Beach Facility”).  As a result of business requirements of LifeNet and their need for additional space, on April 16, 2015 LifeNet notified the Company that it would need to transition out of the Virginia Beach Facility and the LifeNet Agreement was terminated effective February 27, 2016.  

 

As a result of the termination of the LifeNet Agreement, on August 6, 2015 the Company entered into a License and Services Agreement (the “CTS Agreement”) with Community Blood Center (d/b/a Community Tissue Services) (“CTS”) whose headquarters are located in Dayton, Ohio.  The CTS facility and CTS Agreement provides the Company a cost effective, quality controlled and licensed facility to process and package its Avance® Nerve Graft using the Company’s employees and processing equipment. The processing that was performed at the Virginia Beach Facility has been transferred in its entirety to the CTS facility.

   

The CTS Agreement is for a five-year term, subject to earlier termination by either party for cause, or after the two-year anniversary of the CTS Agreement without cause, upon 18 months notice. Under the CTS Agreement, the Company pays CTS a facility fee for clean room/processing, storage and office space and CTS provides services in support of the Company’s processing such as routine sterilization of daily supplies, providing disposable supplies, microbial services and office support.  The service fee is based on a per donor batch rate.  However, AxoGen could reproduce a manufacturing space that would meet its needs if it no longer continued its relationship with CTS.  AxoGen’s processing methods and process controls have been developed and validated to ensure product uniformity and quality.  Pursuant to the CTS Agreement, AxoGen pays license fees on a monthly basis to CTS which total an annual amount of approximately $416,000.