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Organization and Description of Business

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Organization and Description of Business
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2022
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
Organization and Description of Business
Note 1 – Organization and Description of Business
(a)
Description of Business
iAnthus Capital Holdings, Inc. (“ICH”, or “iAnthus”), together with its consolidated subsidiaries (the “Company”) was incorporated under the laws of British Columbia, Canada, on November 15, 2013. The Company is a vertically-integrated multi-state owner and operator of licensed cannabis cultivation, processing and dispensary facilities, and developer, producer and distributor of innovative branded cannabis and cannabidiol (“CBD”) products in the United States. Through the Company’s subsidiaries, licenses, interests and contractual arrangements, the Company has the capacity to operate dispensaries and cultivation/processing facilities, and manufacture and distribute cannabis across the states in which the Company operates in the U.S. Additionally, the Company distributes CBD products online and to retail locations across the United States.
The Company’s business activities, and the business activities of its subsidiaries, which operate in jurisdictions where the use of marijuana has been legalized under state and local laws, currently are illegal under U.S. federal law. The U.S. Controlled Substances Act classifies marijuana as a Schedule I controlled substance. Any proceeding that may be brought against the Company could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business plans, financial condition and results of operations.
(b)
Basis of Presentation
The accompanying unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements (the “financial statements”) have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) for interim financial information and in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by U.S. GAAP for complete financial statements and, therefore, certain information, footnotes and disclosures normally included in the annual financial statements, prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP, have been condensed or omitted in accordance with SEC rules and regulations.
The financial data presented herein should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes for the year ended December 31, 2021, included in the Company’s Annual Report on the Form
10-K
filed with the SEC on March 18, 2022. In the opinion of management, the financial data presented includes all adjustments necessary to present fairly the financial position, results of operations and cash flows for the periods presented. These unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements include estimates and assumptions of management that affect the amounts reported on the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements. Actual results could differ from these estimates.
The results of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2022 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the entire year ending December 31, 2022, or any other period.
Except as otherwise stated, these unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements are presented in U.S. dollars.
(c)
Going Concern
These unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared under the assumption that the Company will be able to continue its operations and will be able to realize its assets and discharge its liabilities in the normal course of business in the foreseeable future. For the three months ended March 31, 2022, the Company reported a net loss of $10.1 million, operating cash inflows of $1.8 million and an accumulated deficit of $811.7 million as of March 31, 2022. These material circumstances cast substantial doubt on the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern for a period at least 12 months from the date of this report and ultimately on the appropriateness of the use of the accounting principles applicable to a going concern.
During the three months ended March 31, 2022, due to liquidity constraints, the Company did not make interest payments due to the lenders (the “Secured Lenders”) of the Company’s
13%
senior secured convertible debentures (the “Secured Notes”) and the lenders (the “Unsecured Lenders” and together with the Secured Lenders, the “Lenders”) of the Company’s 8% convertible unsecured debentures (the “Unsecured Debentures”). The Company is currently in default with respect to certain of its long-term debt, which, as of March 31, 2022,
consists of 
$97.5 million and $60.0 million of principal amount and $34.8 million and $10.8 million in accrued interest with respect to the Secured Notes and Unsecured Debentures, respectively. In addition, as a result of the default, the Company has accrued additional fees and interest of $15.8 million in excess of the aforementioned amounts. Refer to Note 5 and Note 14 for further discussion.
As a result of the March 31, 2020 default, the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board” or the “Board of Directors”) formed a special committee comprised of the Company’s then five independent,
non-management
directors of the Company (the “Special Committee”) to, among other matters, explore and consider strategic alternatives available to the Company in light of the prospective liquidity requirements of the Company, the condition of the capital markets affecting companies in the cannabis industry, and the rapid change in the state of the economy and capital markets generally caused by the novel coronavirus known as
COVID-19
(“COVID-19”),
including, but not limited to:
 
 
 
renegotiation of existing financing arrangements and other material contracts, including any amendments, waivers, extensions or similar agreements with the Lenders and/or stakeholders of the Company and/or its subsidiaries that the Special Committee determines are in the best interest of the Company and/or its subsidiaries;
 
 
 
managing available sources of capital, including equity investments or debt financing or refinancing and the terms thereof;
 
 
 
implementing the operational and financial restructuring of the Company and its subsidiaries and their respective businesses, assets and licensure and other rights; and
 
 
 
implementing other potential strategic transactions.
The Special Committee engaged Canaccord Genuity Corp. as its financial advisor to assist the Special Committee in analyzing various strategic alternatives to address its capital structure and liquidity challenges.
On June 22, 2020, the Company received notice from Gotham Green Admin 1, LLC (the “Collateral Agent”), as collateral agent holding security for the benefit of the Secured Lenders, with a demand for repayment (the “Demand Letter”) under the Amended and Restated Secured Debenture Purchase Agreement dated October 10, 2019 (the “Secured Notes Purchase Agreement”) of the entire principal amount of the Secured Notes, together with interest, fees, costs and other allowable charges that had accrued or might accrue in accordance with the Secured Notes Purchase Agreement and the other Transaction Agreements (as defined in the Secured Notes Purchase Agreement). The Collateral Agent also concurrently provided the Company with a Notice of Intention to Enforce Security (the “BIA Notice”) under section 244 of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Canada) (the “BIA”).
On July 10, 2020, the Company and certain of its subsidiaries entered into a restructuring support agreement (as amended, the “Restructuring Support Agreement”) with the Secured Lenders and certain of the Unsecured Lenders (the “Consenting Unsecured Lenders”) to affect a proposed recapitalization transaction (the “Recapitalization Transaction”). Under the Restructuring Support Agreement, certain of the Secured Lenders agreed to provide interim financing in the amount of $14.7 million (the “Tranche Four Secured Notes”). Refer Note 14 for further details regarding the proposed transaction.
Subject to compliance with the Restructuring Support Agreement, the Secured Lenders and the Consenting Unsecured Lenders will forbear from further exercising any rights or remedies in connection with any events of default of the Company occurring under their respective agreements and will stop any current or pending enforcement actions with respect to the same, including as set forth in the Demand Letter.
Pursuant to the terms of the Restructuring Support Agreement, the Recapitalization Transaction would be implemented pursuant to arrangement proceedings (“Arrangement Proceedings”) commenced under the British Columbia Business Corporations Act, or, only if necessary, the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada) (“CCAA”). Completion of the Recapitalization Transaction through the Arrangement Proceedings is subject to, among other things, requisite stakeholder approval of the plan of arrangement (the “Plan of Arrangement”).
On September 14, 2020, the Company held meetings at which the stakeholders approved the Plan of Arrangement. Following the stakeholder vote, on September 25, 2020, the Company attended a court hearing before the Supreme Court of British Columbia (the “Court”) to receive approval of the Plan of Arrangement. On October 5, 2020, the Company received final approval from the Court for the Plan of Arrangement. On November 5, 2020, the Company received a notice of appeal with respect to the final approval for the Plan of Arrangement by the Court, and on January 29, 2021, the appeal was dismissed by the British Columbia Court of Appeal. Because the Company received the necessary approvals of the Plan of Arrangement from the Court, Secured Lenders, Unsecured Lenders and the holders of the Company’s common shares, options and warrants, the Recapitalization Transaction will be implemented through the British Columbia Business Corporations Act and not the CCAA.
The Company may be required to obtain other necessary approvals with respect to the Plan of Arrangement, including approvals by state-level regulators and the Canadian Securities Exchange (collectively, the “Requisite Approvals”). Specifically, certain of the transactions contemplated by the Recapitalization Transaction have triggered the requirement for an approval by state-level regulators in certain U.S. states with jurisdiction over the licensed cannabis operations of entities owned, in whole or in part, or controlled, directly or indirectly, by the Company in such states. On February 23, 2021, the Nevada Cannabis Compliance Board approved the proposed change of ownership and control of the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, GreenMart of Nevada NLV, LLC (“GMNV”), contemplated by the Recapitalization Transaction. On June 17, 2021, the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission (the “CCC”) approved the proposed change of ownership and control of the current licenses held by the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiaries, Mayflower Medicinals, Inc. (“Mayflower”) and Cannatech Medicinals, Inc. (“Cannatech”), contemplated by the Recapitalization Transaction (the “June 17 Approval”). On June 15, 2021, the Company and the Lenders agreed to amend the date by which the Recapitalization Transaction pursuant to the Plan of Arrangement is required to be implemented by from June 30, 2021 to August 31, 2021 (the “Outside Date”).
On August 12, 2021, Mayflower’s pending application for a Marijuana Establishment retail license for its Allston, Massachusetts retail location (the “Allston Retail License”) was approved by the CCC at its August 2021 public meeting. As a result of such August 12, 2021 approval, Mayflower was required to submit a new change of ownership and control application to the CCC in connection with the Recapitalization Transaction with respect to the Allston Retail License (the “New COC Application”). The New COC Application was submitted by Mayflower on November 10, 2021 and is currently pending before the CCC. The New COC Application must be approved by the CCC before the June 17 Approval can be effectuated.
On August 20, 2021, Gotham Green Partners, LLC and Gotham Green Admin 1, LLC (the “Applicants”) filed a Notice of Application (the “Application”) with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice Commercial List (“OSCJ”), which sought, among other things, a declaration that the Outside Date be extended to the date on which any regulatory approval or consent condition to implementation of the Plan of Arrangement is satisfied or waived. On August 24, 2021, the Company and Applicants appeared for a case conference before the OSCJ at which the OSCJ issued an endorsement (the “Stay Order”) that required the parties to the Restructuring Support Agreement to maintain the status quo until the hearing on September 23, 2021. Specifically, the Stay Order provided that the parties shall remain bound by the Restructuring Support Agreement and not take any steps to advance or impede the regulatory approval process for the closing of the Recapitalization Transaction or otherwise have any communication with the applicable state-level regulators concerning the Recapitalization Transaction or the other counterparties to the Restructuring Support Agreement. On September 23, 2021, the parties appeared before the OSCJ for a hearing on the Application. Following this hearing, the OSCJ issued an endorsement that extended the Stay Order from September 23, 2021 until 48 hours after the release of the OSCJ’s decision on the merits of the Application. On October 12, 2021, the OSCJ issued its decision granting the Applicant’s relief sought in the Application (the “Decision”). Specifically, the OSCJ granted the declaration sought by the Applicants and ordered that the Outside Date be extended to the date on which any regulatory approval or consent condition to implementation of the Plan of Arrangement is satisfied or waived. On November 10, 2021, the Company filed a Notice of Appeal with the Ontario Court of Appeal and a hearing on the appeal is scheduled for June 9, 2022.
On August 20, 2021, the Vermont Department of Public Safety (the “DPS”) confirmed that the DPS does not require prior approval of the Recapitalization Transaction, except for background checks of the prospective new directors and Interim Chief Executive Officer of the Company to be appointed upon the closing of the Recapitalization Transaction, which background checks have been completed.
On October 29, 2021, the Florida Department of Health, Office of Medical Marijuana Use (the “OMMU”) approved the proposed change of ownership and control of the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, McCrory’s Sunny Hill Nursery, LLC (“McCrory’s”) contemplated by the Recapitalization Transaction (the “Variance Request”). On November 19, 2021, a petition (as amended, the “Petition”) was filed by certain petitioners (the “Petitioners”) with the OMMU challenging the OMMU’s approval of the Variance Request and requesting a formal administrative hearing before an administrative law judge (“ALJ”) at the Florida Division of Administrative Hearings. As a result of the Petition, the OMMU informed the Company that the OMMU’s prior approval of the Variance Request is not an enforceable agency order until such time that there is a final resolution of the Petition and a final agency order is issued by the OMMU. On May 4, 2022, the OMMU issued a final agency order, accepting the recommendation of the ALJ and dismissing the Petition.
On April 1, 2022, the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission (the “MMCC”) approved the proposed change of ownership and control of the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, S8 Management, LLC (“S8”), contemplated by the Recapitalization Transaction. S8 currently controls
4 licensed entities in Maryland through management services agreements.
State-level regulatory approvals remain outstanding in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York. On January 7, 2022, the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission (“CRC”) approved the Company’s acquisition
 of 100% of the equity interest in New Jersey license holder MPX New Jersey, LLC (“MPX NJ”). On February 1, 2022, the Company closed on its acquisition of MPX NJ, which resulted in a requirement for prior regulatory approval for the change of beneficial ownership of MPX NJ that would result from the Recapitalization Transaction to be required as a condition to closing under the Restructuring Support Agreement.
The Company believes that the financing transactions received to date should provide the necessary funding for the Company to continue as a going concern. However, there can be no assurance that capital, when needed, will be available on terms acceptable to the Company, or at all. As such, these material circumstances cast substantial doubt on the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern for a period no less than 12 months from the date of this report. These unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might be necessary if the Company is unable to continue as a going concern.
(d)
Basis of Consolidation
The unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company together with its consolidated subsidiaries, except for subsidiaries which the Company has identified as variable interest entities where the Company is not the primary beneficiary.
(e)
Use of Estimates
The preparation of the unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and judgements that affect the application of accounting policies and the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Estimates and assumptions are continuously evaluated and are based on management’s experience and other factors, including expectations regarding future events that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances. Actual results may differ significantly from these estimates.
Significant estimates made by management include, but are not limited to: economic lives of leased assets; inputs used in the valuation of inventory; allowances for potential uncollectability of accounts and notes receivable; provisions for inventory obsolescence; impairment assessment of long- lived assets; depreciable lives of property, plant and equipment; useful lives of intangible assets; accruals for contingencies including tax contingencies; valuation allowances for deferred income tax assets; estimates of fair value of identifiable assets and liabilities acquired in business combinations; estimates of fair value of derivative instruments; and estimates of the fair value of stock-based payment awards.
(f)
Change in Estimates
In January 2021, the Company completed an assessment of the yield per gram that is used as an input to value the Company’s inventory. The timing of this review was based on a combination of factors accumulating over time that provided the Company with updated information to make a better estimate on the yield of its products. These factors included enhanced data gathering of crop production and yields into inventory. The assessment resulted in a revision of the Company’s production yield estimates that are used to value ending inventory. The effect of this change was an increase in costs and expenses applicable to revenues of approximately $2.9 million in the first quarter of 2021.
 
(g) Coronavirus Pandemic
In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the global emergence of the
COVID-19
pandemic. The Company continues to monitor guidance and orders issued by federal, state, and local authorities with respect to
COVID-19.
As a result, the Company may take actions that alter its business operations as may be required by such guidance and orders or take other steps that the Company determines are in the best interest of its employees, customers, partners, suppliers, shareholders, and stakeholders.
Any such alterations or modifications could cause substantial interruption to the Company’s business and could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, operating results, financial condition, and the trading price of the Company’s common shares, and could include temporary closures of one or more of the Company’s facilities; temporary or long-term labor shortages; temporary or long-term adverse impacts on the Company’s supply chain and distribution channels; and the potential of increased network vulnerability and risk of data loss resulting from increased use of remote access and removal of data from the Company’s facilities. In addition,
COVID-19
could negatively impact capital expenditures and overall economic activity in the impacted regions or depending on the severity, globally, which could impact the demand for the Company’s products and services.
It is unknown whether and how the Company may be impacted if the
COVID-19
pandemic continues to persist for an extended period of time or it there are increases in its breadth or in its severity, including as a result of the waiver of regulatory requirements or the implementation of emergency regulations to which the Company is subject. The
COVID-19
pandemic poses a risk that the Company or its employees, contractors, suppliers, and other partners may be prevented from conducting business activities for an indefinite period.
Although, the Company has been deemed essential and/or has been permitted to continue operating its facilities in the states in which it cultivates, processes, manufactures, and sells cannabis during the pendency of the
COVID-19
pandemic, subject to the implementation of certain restrictions on
adult-use
cannabis sales in both Massachusetts and Nevada, which have since been lifted, there is no assurance that the Company’s operations will continue to be deemed essential and/or will continue to be permitted to operate. The Company may incur expenses or delays relating to such events outside of its control, which could have a material adverse impact on its business, operating results, financial condition and the trading price of the common shares of the Company.
(h) Reclassification
Certain prior year amounts have been reclassified to conform with the current year’s presentation. These reclassifications adjustment had no effect on the Company’s previously reported unaudited interim condensed consolidated statement of operations.
The following table summarizes the effects of reclassification adjustment on the line items within the Company’s unaudited interim condensed consolidated statements of operations:
             
Prior Year’s Line item
  
Reclassified Amount
    
Current Year’s Line item
Depreciation and amortization
   $ 542      Selling, general and administrative expenses
Depreciation and amortization
     (542    Depreciation and amortization
(i) Revision of Prior Period Financial Statements
During the three months ended March 31, 2022, the Company determined that it had not appropriately recorded cost of inventory as of December 31, 2021. This resulted in an overstatement of the inventory balance, accrued and other current liabilities, income tax expense and accumulated deficit as of December 31, 2021, and an understatement of costs and expenses applicable to revenues for the year ended December 31, 2021.
Based on an analysis of Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 250 – “Accounting Changes and Error Corrections” (“ASC 250”), Staff Accounting Bulletin 99 – “Materiality” (“SAB 99”) and Staff Accounting Bulletin 108 – “Considering the Effects of Prior Year Misstatements when Quantifying Misstatements in Current Year Financial Statements” (“SAB 108”), the Company determined that these errors were immaterial to the previously issued financial statements, and as such no restatement was necessary. Correcting prior period financial statements for immaterial errors would not require previously filed reports to be amended.
 
The effect of the adjustments on the line items within the Company’s consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2021 is as follows:
 
 
  
December 31, 2021
 
 
  
As
previously
reported
 
  
Adjustment
 
  
As adjusted
 
Inventories
  
$
30,447
 
  
$
(1,755
  
$
28,692
 
Current assets
  
 
55,401
 
  
 
(1,755
  
 
53,646
 
Total assets
  
 
346,744
 
  
 
(1,755
  
 
344,989
 
Accrued and other current liabilities
  
 
99,446
 
  
 
(513
  
 
98,933
 
Current liabilities
  
 
285,821
 
  
 
(513
  
 
285,308
 
Total liabilities
  
 
369,141
 
  
 
(513
  
 
368,628
 
Accumulated deficit
  
 
(800,390
  
 
(1,242
  
 
(801,632
Total shareholders’ deficit
  
 
(22,397
  
 
(1,242
  
 
(23,639
Total liabilities and shareholders’ deficit
  
 
346,744
 
  
 
(1,755
  
 
344,989
 
The effect of the adjustments on the line items within the Company’s consolidated statement of operations as of December 31, 2021 is as follows:
 
 
  
Year Ended December 31, 2021
 
 
  
As
previously
reported
 
  
Adjustment
 
  
As adjusted
 
Costs and expenses applicable to revenues
  
$
(91,735
  
$
(1,755
  
$
(93,490
Gross profit
  
 
111,283
 
  
 
(1,755
  
 
109,528
 
Loss from operations
  
 
(22,025
  
 
(1,755
  
 
(23,780
Loss from operations before income tax
  
 
(53,999
  
 
(1,755
  
 
(55,754
Income tax expense
  
 
22,249
 
  
 
(513
  
 
21,736
 
Net loss
  
 
(76,248
  
 
(1,242
  
 
(77,490
Earnings per share
  
 
(0.44
  
 
(0.01
  
 
(0.45
The effect of the adjustments on the line items within the Company’s interim condensed consolidated statements of changes in shareholders’ deficit for the three months ended March 31, 2022 is as follows:
 
 
  
March 31, 2022
 
 
  
As
previously
reported
 
  
Adjustment
 
  
As adjusted
 
Accumulated deficit – Balance January 1, 2022
  
$
(800,390
  
$
(1,242
  
$
(801,632
Total Shareholders’ deficit – Balance January 1, 2022
  
 
(22,397
  
 
(1,242
  
 
(23,639