craigakess asked if the bond is a collateral bond
Post# of 148278
The excerpts below are from the 10-Q which can be viewed at this link
https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/da...30x10q.htm
On page 30
Amarex Dispute
On October 4, 2021, the Company filed a complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief and motion for a preliminary injunction against NSF International, Inc. and its subsidiary Amarex Clinical Research LLC (“Amarex”), the Company’s former contract research organization (“CRO”). Over the past eight years, Amarex provided clinical trial management services to the Company and managed numerous clinical studies of the Company’s drug product candidate, leronlimab. On December 16, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland issued a preliminary injunction requiring Amarex to provide the Company with access to to all of its materials in the possession of Amarex. The court also granted CytoDyn the right to conduct an audit of Amarex’s work for CytoDyn. The order is subject to the Company’s posting of a $6.5 million bond by January 14, 2022. In order to obtain the bond, the Company will be required to tender $6.5 million in cash as collateral to the surety issuing the bond. If necessary, the Company will seek an extension of the deadline for posting the bond.
On page 49 (risk factors)
We are required to post a $6.5 million bond in the dispute with our former contract research organization, which requires us to provide cash collateral to secure the full amount of the bond.
As discussed in Note 10, Commitments and Contingencies, of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-Q, the court issued an injunction requiring Amarex to provide the Company with access to the databases and other information Amarex acquired in the course of providing services to the Company with regard to its clinical trials. As a condition to the injunction, the court ordered the Company to post a $6.5 million bond to cover a portion of disputed invoices for services in the related arbitration. To obtain the bond, the Company must tender $6.5 million in cash as collateral to the surety issuing the bond. If the Company is unable to provide the collateral in a timely fashion, its ability to review the databases and related information that Amarex holds may be delayed, potentially for several months or longer, resulting in additional delays in completion of the BLA resubmission process.