Leonard J. Brandt
July 28, 2009
VIA EDGAR AND VIA FACSIMILE [(202) 772-9203]
Mellissa Campbell Duru
Special Counsel
Daniel Duchovny
Special Counsel
Officer of Mergers and Acquisitions
Division of Corporation Finance
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Washington, DC 20549-3628
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CNS Response, Inc.
Revised Preliminary Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed July 21, 2009 by Leonard J.
Brandt
Preliminary Consent Solicitation Statement on Schedule 14A filed July 21, 2009 by Leonard
J. Brandt |
Dear Ms. Duru:
This letter, in addition to a Revised Preliminary Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A (the Revised
Proxy Statement) and a Revised Preliminary Consent Solicitation Statement on Schedule 14A (the
Revised Consent Solicitation Statement), are being concurrently filed in order to address your
comments. The following are my responses to your comments dated July 24, 2009:
Revised Preliminary Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A
1. To avoid duplicative comments, please make corresponding revisions in response to comments on
the proxy statement to the extent such comments are applicable to analogous or identical disclosure
in the consent solicitation statement.
Thank you, and all applicable corresponding revisions have been made and noted herein.
2. We note your response and the revisions provided in response to prior comment 2. Rather than
setting forth in excessive detail your legal arguments, summaries of the pleadings and your
interpretations of applicable law, please revise the disclosure to focus on only the most material
information shareholders will need to make an informed voting decision. For example, as done on
page 1 of the proxy, you should prominently highlight throughout the document that there is a
current legal challenge regarding your authority to solicit proxies for a special meeting.
Highlight that as a result of this challenge, if true, you are soliciting both for a special
meeting and written consent. Revise to provide succinct and clear conclusions to
shareholders regarding the procedures you believe you have complied with and the authority you believe you have
to solicit for consents and/or proxies for the special meeting.
The revised disclosure is set forth on page 6 of the Revised Proxy Statement and is found below in
my response to your comment #3.
3. See our previous comment. In revising your disclosure please remove or clearly present as your
opinion and not as fact, references to your interpretations of state and/or federal corporate and
securities laws. Further, please acknowledge that the issues and facts in dispute are currently
before the U.S. District Court, Central District of California for consideration.
The following revised disclosure is found on page 6 of the Revised Proxy Statement and reads in
full as follows:
DISPUTE BY INCUMBENT BOARD OF SPECIAL MEETING
The Company sought a temporary restraining order in the Delaware Court of
Chancery to prevent the meeting from being held. The Companys motion for a
restraining order was denied by the Delaware Court of Chancery. The Delaware
court explicitly declined to prohibit the meeting from going forward.
The Company or any person elected at the special meeting can bring suit in
the Delaware Court of Chancery to affirm or deny the validity of a meeting and
election results after the meeting is held. Although the Company may continue to
pursue its challenges of the special meeting, removal and replacement of directors
can also be accomplished by written consent without a meeting. Therefore, Mr.
Brandt also intends to obtain written consents of stockholders in addition to
proxies each for the purpose of removing and replacing incumbent directors.
The Company also filed a legal challenge in the U.S. District Court, Central
District of California, challenging the right of Mr. Brandt to solicit proxies.
Mr. Brandt intends to vigorously contest that action in the U.S. District Court
and has moved to dismiss the case. The U.S. District Court has yet to render any
decision.
One of the legal arguments the Company makes in Delaware is that a meeting on
10-day notice, although satisfying the Bylaws and the corporate laws, could lessen
participation in the meeting and could lessen the Companys ability to solicit
proxies in opposition to Mr. Brandt. Mr. Brandt believes that, in similar
circumstances, the Delaware Court of Chancery has declined to enjoin a stockholder
vote authorized by and in full compliance with a corporations bylaws.
Another of the Companys legal arguments in Delaware concerns its supposed
inability to comply with the Federal Securities laws as a basis for enjoining the
stockholder meeting. Mr. Brandt believes that the Delaware Court of Chancery has
rejected similar arguments in the past.
The Companys legal argument in Delaware also asserts that the notice
delivered to the Company regarding the call of a special meeting fails to meet
certain technical requirements. Mr. Brandt believes the contents and delivery of
the documents signed by stockholders to call a special meeting met every
applicable requirement. The Company also asserts a legal argument in Delaware
that there were technical deficiencies in the notices given to stockholders of the
time, date, place and general purpose of the special meeting. Mr. Brandt believes
that his notices of the meeting complied with the Companys Bylaws and the
Delaware General Corporation Law. Mr. Brandt believes that he and the
stockholders who called the special meeting have acted in full compliance with the
Bylaws in calling a stockholder meeting. Holders of record of at least
one-quarter of the then outstanding Common Stock called the special meeting,
provided in Section 1.3 of the Companys Bylaws as in effect at the time. Section
1.2 of the Companys Bylaws authorized the stockholders to call a special meeting
for the purpose of electing directors in the event that the Board has not held an
annual meeting.
The Company has also alleged in the Delaware that a stockholders special
meeting should not be held because the Companys Board now has set a time and date
of the next annual meeting September 11, 2009 (which subsequent to the hearing
was delayed by the Company to September 29, 2009). Mr. Brandt believes that the
Delaware courts, as described above, do not invalidate bylaw and statutory
provisions allowing stockholder meetings to be called and held on 10-days notice
on the basis of another meeting that a corporation plans to hold.
The Company also asserted in its Delaware suit that the meeting place of the
special meeting is inconvenient to the stockholders who live in California and
therefore that some of the stockholders would not have an opportunity to attend
and to vote. Actually, in accordance with Delaware law, the meeting place must be
established in accordance with Section 1.1 of the Bylaws, and stockholders have no
power to choose the meeting place. As it happened in this case, the Board did not
select a meeting place for the special meeting, and therefore the meeting place
could only be at the registered office of the Company in Delaware.
In the U.S. District Court, the Company seeks an injunction against violation
of section 14(a) and section 13(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and
against the use of proxies or consents previously solicited and seeks monetary
damages. The Companys request for injunction states that it concerns the proxies
or consents that were obtained before July 2, 2009.
Mr. Brandt believes that the proceeding shall have no effect on a special meeting
or written consent of stockholders because Mr. Brandt and others have filed
Schedules 13D and Mr. Brandt shall have delivered a definitive proxy statement on
Schedule 14A to all persons from whom proxies or consents are solicited. The
issues and facts in dispute are currently before the U.S. District Court, Central
District of California for consideration.
The following disclosure was added to page 4 of the Revised Consent Solicitation Statement and
reads in full as follows:
DISPUTE BY INCUMBENT BOARD ABOUT CONSENTS
In the U.S. District Court, the Company seeks an injunction against violation
of section 14(a) and section 13(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and
against the use of proxies or consents previously solicited and seeks monetary
damages. The Companys request for injunction states that it concerns the proxies
or consents that were obtained before July 2, 2009. Mr. Brandt believes that the
proceeding shall have no effect on a special meeting or written consent of
stockholders because Mr. Brandt and others have filed Schedules 13D and Mr. Brandt
shall have delivered a definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A to all persons
from whom proxies or consents are solicited. The issues and facts in dispute are
currently before the U.S. District Court, Central District of California for
consideration.
4. We note your response to prior comment 3 and disagree. Given the disclosure in the Schedule
13D filed by EAC and the confirmation in your response that EAC signed on at least two occasions,
the notice alerting the company that EAC and Mr. Brandt were calling a special meeting, it would
appear that EAC is a participant in the current solicitation. Please revise to include EAC as a
participant and include the information required by Item 5(b) of Schedule 14A.
The Revised Proxy Statement and Revised Consent Solicitation Statement include EAC as a participant
in accordance with your view and, accordingly, include the information required by Item 5(b) of
Schedule 14A.
For instance, on page 14 of the Revised Proxy Statement and page 10 of the Revised Consent
Solicitation Statement the following disclosure language was included and reads in full as follows:
EAC Investment, Inc. a Nevada corporation and EAC Investment LP, a Georgia
limited partnership collectively (EAC) are participants in calling the Special
Meeting of Stockholders. Both entities are primarily engaged in passive investing.
EAC Investment, Inc., is the General Partner of EAC Investment LP, and in this
capacity exercises voting and dispositive power over the securities held by this
entity. The principal business address of EAC Investment, Inc. and EAC Investment LP is 380 Leucadendra Drive, Coral
Gables, Florida 33156.
For additional information regarding EACs ownership of securities of the
Company and other certain relationships between EAC and the Company or any other of
the participants, please see the following sections: SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF THE
PARTICIPANTS, TRANSACTIONS OF THE PARTICIPANTS IN COMPANY SECURITIES, AND
CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS.
5. We refer you to your response to prior comments 3 and 4. Please confirm whether the proxy EAC
provided was limited with respect solely to action to be taken at the special meeting being called
for the election of directors.
The proxy EAC provided was limited with respect solely to action to be taken at the special meeting
being called for the election of directors.
General
6. We note your language that you will treat a security holders revocation of a proxy card as a
revocation of the same security holders consent and vice versa. Please disclose the authority
upon which you would rely in taking that approach when a security holder revokes only a proxy card
or a consent card but not both.
I have no objection to treating the revocations of proxies and consents separately. Accordingly, I
have deleted the language formerly appearing on page 1 of the Revised Proxy Statement and on page 1
of the Revised Consent Solicitation Statement that read, Mr. Brandt will also, for your
convenience, treat any timely revocation of one as a revocation of both.
The following disclosure was added on page 2 of the Revised Proxy Statement:
If you provide both a proxy and a written consent, and wish to revoke either or
both of them, then each must be separately and timely revoked. See REVOCABILITY
OF PROXIES herein and the instructions in the consent solicitation statement
about revoking consents, as applicable.
The following disclosure was added on page 1 of the Revised Consent Solicitation Statement:
If you provide both a proxy and a written consent, and wish to revoke either or
both of them, then each must be separately and timely revoked. See REVOCABILITY
OF CONSENTS herein and the instructions in the proxy statement about revoking
proxies, as applicable.
Quorum, Vote Required for Approval... page 2
7. We refer you to prior comment 11. We note the revised disclosure that provisional voting
either will take effect or not, but will not take effect until the company provides the information
needed in order to determine whether cumulative voting is required... It would appear that absent
company action and without the information needed to make necessary factual determinations, any
reference to possible cumulative voting is inappropriate at this time. Cumulative voting is not
permitted by the current charter. Your disclosure should clearly state this fact. Please revise
your disclosure accordingly and remove the references to the possibility of cumulative voting to
ensure that shareholders do not mistakenly expect the ability to cumulative vote. Alternatively,
advise us as to why the disclosure is appropriate at this time.
As explained in detail in my response to prior comment 11, Section 2115 of the California
Corporations Code establishes that stockholders in foreign corporations that meet certain tests may
request cumulative voting even though the charter of that foreign corporation does not provide for
cumulative voting. The charter of the Company does not provide for cumulative voting, and the
Companys charter is irrelevant for purposes of Section 2115. I do not know whether the
average of the property, payroll and sales factors of the Company on a consolidated basis was more
than 50 percent during Companys 2008 tax year, and therefore I cannot know whether Section 2115
will require that the Company conduct director elections by cumulative voting, if requested by any
stockholder. I do know, however, that one prerequisite is metthat a majority of the outstanding
stock is held of record by persons with addresses in California. I also have reason to believe
that, on a consolidated basis, the Companys property, payroll and sales may meet the threshold
requirements of Section 2115. The disclosure is appropriate because of this possibility. If there
is such a right to request cumulative voting, a stockholder who is not informed of the possible
right to request cumulative voting could allege harm was caused by the omission. On the other
hand, if there is no right to cumulative voting, a request for cumulative voting would do no harm
because the votes would be cumulated on a provisional basis only, until it can be determined
whether Section 2115 requires cumulative voting. The following
revised disclosure appears on page 3 of the Revised Proxy Statement:
However,
cumulative voting is not provided in the Companys charter and
will not be of any effect whatsoever unless Section 2115
requires it, which it may not. Provisional voting will preserve the possible right of any stockholder to
request cumulative voting under Section 2115 of the California Corporations Code.
Only if cumulative voting is requested and if the average of the property, payroll
and sales factors of the Company on a consolidated basis was more than 50 percent
during Companys 2008 tax year, then the directors elected by cumulative voting
should be seated on the Board in accordance with Section 2115 of the California
Corporations Code. If cumulative voting is not requested, or if the property,
payroll and sales factors of the Company on a consolidated basis was less than or
equal to 50 percent during Companys 2008 tax year, then the directors elected
without cumulative voting should be seated on the Board. The determination may be
made by the Delaware Court of Chancery or another court. The Companys
Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws do not provide any right to request cumulative voting.
Dispute by Incumbent Board of Special Meeting, page 6
8. We note your disclosure regarding the contents of the notice provided to shareholders and the
legal conclusions you appear to have drawn. Please supplementally advise us of the consideration
given to the definition of the term solicitation in Rule 14a-1 (I)(iii) which includes any
communication to securityholders... reasonably calculated to result in the procurement, withholding
or revocation of a proxy... Also, please provide us supplementally with a copy of the notices
initially sent. We may have further comment.
Notice of stockholder meetings is a requirement that cannot be dispensed with. The notice contains
the minimum information required by the Delaware General Corporation Law and the Bylaws. The
notice is not a solicitation because the notice was not calculated to result in procuring a proxy.
It did not invite or facilitate any response whatsoever. The notice did not even identify me. It
was purposely prepared in this fashion so as not to result in any contact with me. We
supplementally provide, as requested, the attached copy of the notice.
9. Further to our previous comment. Your disclosure references Mr. Brandts reliance on the
exemption contained in Rule 14a-2(b)(2). Please clarify supplementally when Mr. Brandt relied on
the exemption and identify supplementally the list of persons contacted.
Although I do not recall the dates of all the conversations that I have had, I relied upon the
exemption contained in Rule 14a-2(b)(2) when I solicited written consents between June 22, 2009 and
June 24, 2009 from (i) EAC Investment, Inc., the General Partner of EAC Investment Limited
Partnership; (ii) Meyer Proler, an individual; (iii) Mordechay (Moty) Yekutiel, an individual;
(iv) Carl Cadwell, M.D., an individual; (v) W. Hamlin Emory, an individual; (vi) Robert B. Allison,
the General Partner of Harmony Hill Partners, LP; and (vi) Stephen C. Suffin, M.D., an individual.
I also relied upon that exemption at about June 30, 2009, when I solicited proxies from the same
persons.
As a director and formerly as an officer and Chairman of the Board of the Company, I also have
received numerous calls from other stockholders and have had contacts with other stockholders. In
some of these conversations, I have offered my opinion that the Companys present plans are
inconsistent with what I believe are the best interests of the Company and its stockholders. These
other contacts were not calculated to result in obtaining proxies. In
fact, most of these occurred before I decided to call for a
stockholders meeting. I was just performing my
responsibilities to accurately inform stockholders and other interested parties.
Information With Respect to the Nominees, page 11
10. We note that Mr. Cadwell is no longer a nominee and that Dr. Bunney is a new nominee. With a
view toward revised disclosure, please tell us whether changing your nominees has any effect on the
validity of your demand for a special meeting of security holders or on the obligation of the company to accede to your demand. When possible,
please refer us to relevant state law or the companys organizational documents.
Changing nominees has no effect on the validity of my demand for a special meeting and the
Companys obligation to accede to the demand. The Bylaws of the Company do not provide any formal
requirements whatsoever for nominating persons for election to the Board.
11. We note gaps in the biographical information provided for Mr. Yuhas. Refer to Item 7 of
Schedule 14A and Item 401 of Regulation S-K and revise to provide complete biographical information
for Mr. Yuhas for the past 5 years.
Mr. Yuhas is no longer named as a Nominee or participant.
Security Ownership of the Participants, page 14
12. We note that the line for Mr. Brandts beneficial ownership includes shares held by his
children. Please confirm whether Mr. Brandt has beneficial ownership of those shares, as such term
is defined in Rule 13d-3(a). If he does not have such beneficial ownership, please revise the
disclosure to remove those shares from the total number of shares beneficially owned by Mr. Brandt.
Please also apply this comment to the section titled Securities Ownership of Certain Beneficial
Owners and Management.
As you know, Rule 13d-3(a) provides that a beneficial owner of a security includes any person who,
directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship, or
otherwise has or shares: (1) Voting power which includes the power to vote, or to direct the voting
of, such security; and/or, (2) Investment power which includes the power to dispose, or to direct
the disposition of, such security.
I believe that I may be considered to share the voting power and/or investment power with respect
to the shares owned by my minor children on account of the parental relationship between me and my
minor children or on account of the actions that I might take due to legal incapacity of a minor in
some jurisdictions. I believe, out of an abundance of caution, that it is appropriate to disclose
my beneficial ownership of shares owned by my minor children.
Concerns About the Companys Financing Transactions, page 19
13. Your disclosure under this heading and disclosure that the company has a track record of
negotiating and evaluating transactions without independent oversight should be clarified. We
note, for example, disclosure acknowledging that the Pappajohn and Sail Ventures transactions were
both ratified by the Board on June 18, 2009 (excluding Mr. Brandt). Revise your disclosure so that
indirect references to the Pappajohn and Sail Ventures transactions clearly acknowledge that such transactions were ratified by the Board.
The revised disclosure is set forth on pages 19 through 21 of the Revised Proxy Statement and pages
12 and 13 of the Revised Consent Solicitation Statement, and is found below in my response to your
comment #15.
14. Your disclosure references the outrageous[] conduct of management in negotiating the
Pappajohn and Sail Ventures transactions and notes that Mr. Brandt finds the transactions terms
appalling and the terms onerous. We refer you to Rule 14a-9(b). In future filings avoid
statements that directly or indirectly impugn character, integrity or personal reputation or make
charges of illegal or immoral conduct without factual foundation. Provide support for your
statements. For example, provide support for the implied assertion that the terms of the
transactions are atypical. In the alternative, please remove the statements.
The revised disclosure is set forth on pages 19 through 21 of the Revised Proxy Statement and pages
12 and 13 of the Revised Consent Solicitation Statement, and is found below in my response to your
comment #15.
15. Please remove duplicative disclosure in this section. For example, we note repetitive
disclosure regarding the affiliations of the parties and terms of the transactions.
The revised disclosure, in response to your comments 13, 14 and 15, is set forth on pages 19
through 21 of the Revised Proxy Statement and pages 12 and 13 of the Revised Consent Solicitation
Statement, and reads in full as follows:
CONCERNS ABOUT THE COMPANYS FINANCING TRANSACTIONS
The Company recently raised money (a total of $1,200,000 of convertible
loans) through bridge loans from Sail Venture Partners and John Pappajohn. In
the bridge loan transactions, the Company also agreed that each of Sail Venture
Partners and John Pappajohn would have the right to invest, up to $10 million
each, in any and all future financings of the Company. Those agreements provide
as follows:
4.2 Future Financings. The Company covenants to allow Investor, at Investors
election, to participate in all future financings of the Company up to an
aggregate participation by Investor of $10,000,000 in addition to the amounts
invested by the Investor in the Company after giving effect to the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement. The Company shall provide adequate notice to the
Investor of all such future financings. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Investor is
not obligated to participate in any future financings.
A short-term bridge loan of $200,000 resulted in Sail Venture Partners
having a right to invest $10 million, which is five thousand percent (5,000%) of
the amount of Sail Venture Partners loan. A one-year loan of $1,000,000 resulted
in John Pappajohn having a right to invest $10 million, which is one thousand
percent (1,000%) of the amount of John Pappajohns loan.
The large amount of shares potentially issuable in comparison with the amount
of Common Stock presently outstanding makes these agreements especially material
to the Company and its stockholders. The lower the offering price, the more
equity that each ones $10 million could buy. As an illustration, a $10 million
investment in the Common Stock by either of Sail Venture Partners or John
Pappajohn, or an aggregate $20 million investment in the Common Stock by Sail
Venture Partners and John Pappajohn, could result in acquiring shares of Common
Stock in the following amounts at the respective hypothetical prices set forth in
the table below:
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Shares of Common |
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Shares of Common |
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Stock for $10,000,000 |
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Stock for $20,000,000 |
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(#) |
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$0.15 |
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66,666,666 |
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133,333,333 |
$0.20 |
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50,000,000 |
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100,000,000 |
$0.25 |
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40,000,000 |
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80,000,000 |
$0.30 |
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33,333,333 |
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66,666,666 |
$0.35 |
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28,571,429 |
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57,142,857 |
$0.40 |
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25,000,000 |
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50,000,000 |
Even when the bridge loans are repaid or otherwise discharged, the
Companys obligations will survive, permitting each of Sail Venture Partners and
John Pappajohn to invest $20 million cumulatively in any Company financings.
These promises survive indefinitely. The agreements provide as follows:
6.9 Survival of Representations, Warranties and Covenants. The
representations, warranties and covenants of the parties contained in or made
pursuant to this Agreement shall survive the execution and delivery of this
Agreement indefinitely, and shall in no way be affected by any investigation of
the subject matter thereof made by or on behalf of the other parties.
In addition, in the bridge loan transactions, the Company promised both
Sail Venture Partners and John Pappajohn that the Company will ask permission from Sail Venture Partners and John Pappajohn before agreeing to
certain future transactions, and if either one withholds consent, the Company will
not proceed. Both of those agreements provide as follows:
4.4 Restrictive Covenants. Without the consent of Investor, the Company shall
not:
a) effect a merger, reorganization, or sell, exclusively license or lease, or
otherwise dispose of any assets of the Company with a value in excess of $20,000,
other than in the ordinary course of business;
b) borrow, guaranty or otherwise incur indebtedness in excess of $100,000;
c) acquire all or substantially all of the properties, assets or stock of any
other corporation or entity or assets with a value greater than $50,000; or
d) form, contribute capital or assets to, or make a loan or advance in excess
of $50,000 to (i) any partially-owned or wholly-owned subsidiary, (ii) a joint
venture or (iii) a similar business entity.
Sail Venture Partners is an affiliate of incumbent Board member David B.
Jones. John Pappajohn has been, as CEO George Carpenter described it to Mr.
Brandt, invited to join the Board. Also, CEO George Carpenter introduced John
Pappajohn to the Company. Sail Venture Partners has owned and John Pappajohn now
owns beneficially over 10% of the Companys Common Stock.
These bridge loan agreements were negotiated and signed by George Carpenter.
A special committee of the Board consisting of David B. Jones, Henry T. Harbin and
George Carpenter presumably consulted with Mr. Carpenter. Nonetheless, the Board
did not consider or vote on the transactions until after both the transactions had
been signed and consummated. At a Board meeting on June 18, 2009, after the
bridge loan transactions signed and were consummated, David B. Jones, Henry T.
Harbin, and George Carpenter, voted for ratifying the actions of management in
completing the bridge loans. Leonard Brandt was the only
other director present and he voted against ratification of these transactions.
The Board did not receive any opinion as to valuation or the fairness of
these transactions from a financial point of view, and the materials distributed
to the Board for the meeting on June 18, 2009 contained the agreements with John
Pappajohn but no description or analysis of the terms and no copy of the
agreements with Sail Venture Partners. As the Company had already
utilized the capital provided by the Sail Venture Partners loan and
some of the capital provided by the John Pappajohn loan, there was no
opportunity at the meeting for directors to influence the terms of
these loans. The management had executed the loan agreements and the
Company had received the loan funds in the first case over a month
earlier.
The Companys is presently seeking to raise equity before the release of its
clinical trial data. Mr. Brandt believes that the markets perception of the
Company is adversely affected by uncertainty about the unannounced results, and that the offering price is lower on account of that uncertainty.
Thus, if the Company conducts a large equity offering before the release of those
clinical trial results, Mr. Brandt believes that all the investors, which could
include in whole or in part Sail Venture Partners and John Pappajohn, could
benefit at the expense of the Company and its stockholders.
Mr. Brandt believes that the incumbent Boards plans to obtain financing that
is a great deal larger than $1.5 million before announcing clinical trial results
will not be in the best interests of the Company and its stockholders. Mr. Brandt
believes the agreements with Sail Venture Partners and John Pappajohn as described
above should be renegotiated or challenged through appropriate legal action.
Therefore Mr. Brandt recommends that you vote/consent FOR the Nominees named
herein.
16. Please clarify there is no assurance that the election of your nominees will result in any
perceived improvements in the business or financial condition of the company.
I have added the following clarification on page 11 of the Revised Proxy Statement and page 6 of
the Revised Consent Solicitation Statement:
In addition, there is no assurance that the election of the Nominees will result
in perceived improvements in the business or financial condition of the Company.
Revised Preliminary Consent Solicitation
17. The disclosure shareholders receive should provide them with complete and accurate information
relevant to their voting decision. We refer you to the sentence on page 2 in which you state
"[p]lease advise me if you are aware of such a requirement Please remove the statement.
Thank you for your comment, and the statement has been removed.
18. Further to our comment above. As the participant is aware, the participant is responsible for
ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the disclosure provided in its disclosure documents and
in response to staff comments. Please confirm your understanding.
Yes, I confirm my understanding that I am responsible for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of
the disclosure provided in my disclosure documents and in response to staff comments.
19. Please explain the references made to Rule 14c-1 and Schedule 14C. Your current solicitation
is being conducted in accordance with Regulation 14A which governs the solicitation of proxies,
including consents. Please revise or advise.
Rule 14c-2 provides that an information statement will be provided by the registrant to
stockholders from whom a proxy, authorization or consent is not solicited on behalf of the
registrant pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Act. Our current solicitation is pursuant to Section
14(a) but is not on behalf of the registrant. Therefore, the notice obligations of Section
14(c) of the Act could apply depending upon whether the Company solicits proxies on its own behalf.
Thank you once again for all of your comments, which are appreciated.
Sincerely,
/s/ LEONARD J. BRANDT
Leonard J. Brandt
June 20, 2009
TO THE STOCKHOLDERS OF CNS RESPONSE, INC.:
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a special meeting of stockholders of CNS RESPONSE, INC., a Delaware
corporation (the Company), and any adjournments or postponements thereof (collectively the
Special Meeting), will be held at the office of The Corporation Trust Company, First Floor,
Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19801, on Tuesday, June 30, 2009
at 2:00 P.M., Eastern Standard Time.
The Special Meeting is being held in lieu of the 2009 annual meeting of stockholders of the
Company, and will have the same effect as an annual meeting of the stockholders of the Company.
The Special Meeting is being held for purposes of the election of a Board of Directors and
establishing the authorized number of directors. The term of each director elected at the Special
Meeting shall be until the next annual meeting and until each ones respective successor is elected
and qualified.
Holders of record of the common stock of the Company at the end of June 19, 2009, are entitled to
notice of and to vote at the Special Meeting.
In accordance with the Companys Bylaws, the Special Meeting was called by stockholders of the
Company holding at least 25% of the outstanding common stock.