The Senior Secured Notes bear interest at an annual rate of 9.0% plus adjusted three-month LIBOR, with a LIBOR floor of 1.50% and LIBOR cap of 3.00%, payable in cash quarterly in arrears. At March 31, 2022, the interest rate applicable to the Senior Secured Notes was 10.5%.
In addition, the restrictive covenants in the Note Purchase Agreement require the Company to comply with certain minimum liquidity requirements and minimum quarterly product sales requirements. At any time, the Company is required to maintain unrestricted cash and cash equivalents greater than or equal to $15.0 million, and, as of the end of each fiscal quarter, it is required to maintain consolidated Upneeq net product sales greater than or equal to specified quarterly thresholds (beginning at $3.0 million for the quarter ending March 31, 2022, and increasing in $1.0 million increments each quarter thereafter until the quarter ending June 30, 2024, for which quarter and all subsequent quarters the threshold is $12.0 million). At March 31, 2022, the Company was in compliance with all conditions of the Note Purchase Agreement.
During the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company incurred aggregate debt issuance costs of $2.1 million related
to the Senior Secured Notes, $1.5 million and $0.6 million of which were recognized as financial commitment assets
underlying the first and second tranche notes, respectively.
The Company elected the fair value option of accounting on the senior secured notes upon issuance and, accordingly, a proportionate amount of related debt issuance costs were immediately written off. The Company’s residual financial commitment asset related to the undrawn second tranche notes, is being amortized over the relevant one-year commitment period. During the three months ended March 31, 2022, the Company recognized $1.0 million of amortization expense from the second tranche financial commitment asset with such expense being recorded within interest expense and amortization of debt discount in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss. At March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, the second tranche financial commitment asset had a carrying value of $2.1 million and $3.1 million, respectively, and was recorded within current assets in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheets. If the second tranche notes are drawn within the one-year commitment period, the Company will expense the remaining balance under the fair value option of accounting.
On a recurring basis, changes in fair value of Senior Secured Notes will be presented in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss at each reporting period (see Note 13).
In the three months ended March 31, 2022, the Company obtained waivers from the Purchaser of mandatory repayments of an aggregate of $5.0 million in principal of the Senior Secured Notes as otherwise required under the Note Purchase Agreement, in exchange for a consent fee of $0.2 million, resulting in net retained proceeds of $4.8 million.
Note 9. Share-Based Compensation
The following table presents the components of share-based compensation expense (in thousands):
| | | | | | |
| | Three Months Ended March 31, |
| | 2022 | | 2021 |
Share options | | $ | 550 | | $ | 101 |
Performance stock units | | | — | | | 225 |
Restricted stock units | | | 616 | | | 729 |
Employee share purchase plan | | | 43 | | | 19 |
Total share-based compensation expense | | $ | 1,209 | | $ | 1,074 |
At March 31, 2022, aggregate unrecognized share compensation expense related to unvested awards was $7.0 million which is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average remaining service period of 1.86 years.