History
A former oil and gas shell became a specialty drug distributor in 2012, financed itself with heavily dilutive debt, settled a lender dispute in 2014, then deregistered from SEC reporting.
2012: From shell to drug distributor
The company began as Sunpeaks Ventures, Inc., a Nevada company set up in 2009 to explore for oil and gas. It abandoned that plan and, in February 2012, bought Healthcare Distribution Specialists LLC (HDS), a distributor of hard-to-find specialty drugs that also sells Clotamin, a multivitamin. The price was 200,000,000 new common shares and 3,000,000 Class A Preferred shares, issued to HDS's owner Mackie Barch, who became CEO at $1,000 a month. Majority shareholder Scott Beaudette cancelled 200,000,000 of his own shares, and the company settled small debts and agreed to issue 50,000,000 shares to cancel a $110,000 note.
Funding came quickly through convertible notes, which are loans that can be repaid in shares at a discount. A $200,000 note followed in March, then an April note of up to $700,000 that was raised to $1,275,000 in May, with $1,050,000 outstanding by May 11. HDS also spent on promotions, including $32,000 for Portland Trail Blazers rights. The share count rose from 200,000,000 at the end of 2011 to 381,125,288 at the end of 2012.
2012-2013: TCA and a second business
In October 2012 the company signed a credit facility with TCA Global Credit Master Fund for up to $5 million, with $700,000 funded. It was secured on substantially all assets, carried 12% interest and came with 3,048,781 shares as a fee. In December a committed equity facility followed, under which TCA agreed to buy up to $7,500,000 of stock, plus another $750,000 borrowed. Fee shares of 3,030,302 and 4,545,455 were issued.
On December 13, 2012 the company bought Bryce Rx Laboratories, Inc. from Robert Guiliano for $1,100,000, paid partly over four years. In January 2013 Walgreens placed twelve orders for 21,456 bottles of Clotamin. In April, by then renamed Pharmagen, Inc., it signed a second TCA facility of up to $2 million, with $600,000 funded and 6,666,667 more fee shares.
2013: Disputes and a new direction
Relations with TCA broke down, and the company sued on August 14, 2013. Separately, a court approved a settlement on August 30 with IBC Funds, which had bought $623,758.79 of the company's overdue bills. The company issued 4,545,454 shares as a fee and agreed to pay the balance in further shares at a steep discount to market price.
In December, Richard Wolpow of Bagel Boy Equity Group II was to become Chairman and interim Chief Operating Officer and lead a planned consolidation of the secondary wholesale and sterile compounding markets. The company also sold Series C Convertible Preferred shares, $125,000 in that filing. Barch's Class A Preferred shares were exchanged for 5,100,000 Series B Convertible Preferred shares carrying 51% of the voting power. Shares on issue reached 434,408,072 by year end.
2014: Settlement and exit from reporting
On March 14, 2014 the TCA lawsuit was settled. The company agreed to pay $2,433,182.68 under one of two schedules, with the choice due by September 30, 2014, and TCA agreed to return about 10,624,538 shares for cancellation. Boyd Relac became Chief Operating Officer from April 1, and in June he was given 14.2 million shares. Shares on issue stood at 504,451,417 at the end of 2014.
On August 7, 2014, Pharmagen deregistered its securities, ending its obligation to file reports with the SEC. At that point the settlement payments, the planned acquisitions and the question of whether Clotamin sales would become meaningful revenue were all still unresolved.
Written from the 15 story beats below (2012 to 7 Aug 2014), which come from the company's own announcements and filings.