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Rice Michael's Form 4 filing

Biolife Solutions Inc (BLFS) · filed Apr 13, 2022

Accession no.
0001437749-22-008915
Filed
Apr 13, 2022
Trade date
Apr 11-13, 2022
Filing delay
2 days
Rule 10b5-1 plan
Not on the form (before 2023)

This filing lists 5 non-derivative transactions and 3 derivative transactions. Open-market sales total $386.1K. It was filed 2 days after the trade.

Reporting owners

A Form 4 can have several reporting owners, such as a person and a fund they control. Trade tables show the first one.

Reporting owners on this filing
OwnerRelationship to the company
Rice MichaelCIK 0001389512Director, Officer (CEO)

Non-derivative securities (Table I)

Acquisitions and disposals of common stock and similar shares, one row per line on the filing.

Non-derivative transactions
Trade dateSecurityTransactionSharesPriceValueShares afterOwnershipFlags
Apr 11, 2022Common StockMOption exerciseAcquired+10,000$1.90+$19,000337,155Direct
Apr 11, 2022Common StockSSaleDisposed−10,000$19.55F2−$195,500327,155Direct
Apr 12, 2022Common StockMOption exerciseAcquired+57,736–F3–384,891Direct
Apr 13, 2022Common StockMOption exerciseAcquired+10,000$1.90+$19,000394,891Direct
Apr 13, 2022Common StockSSaleDisposed−10,000$19.06F4−$190,600384,891Direct

Derivative securities (Table II)

Options, warrants, restricted stock units and similar. Shares are the underlying shares; price and value are for the derivative itself, and the holding after is in derivative units.

Derivative transactions
Trade dateSecurityTransactionUnderlying sharesUnit priceValueHeld afterOwnershipFlags
Apr 11, 2022Common StockMOption exerciseDisposed−10,000$0.00$070,000Direct
Apr 12, 2022Common StockMOption exerciseDisposed−57,736$0.00$00Direct
Apr 13, 2022Common StockMOption exerciseDisposed−10,000$0.00$060,000Direct

Footnotes and remarks

Livermore keeps the footnotes that transaction prices refer to, all footnotes of amendments (Form 4/A) and the filing's remarks. Other footnotes, such as how indirect holdings are held or the details of a trading plan, are only in the original on SEC EDGAR.

F2

The price reported in Column 4 is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices ranging from $19.13 to $19.98, inclusive. The reporting person undertakes to provide to the registrant, any security holder of the registrant, or the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, upon request, full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price within the range.

Referenced by the price of 1 transaction in Table I.

F3

The restricted stock was granted pursuant to BioLife Solutions 2013 Performance Incentive Plan (as amended). In accordance with the terms of the grant, the restricted stock vested as to 200% of the reported number of shares reported in the reporting person's Form 4 reporting the grant based on the registrant's total shareholder return during the period beginning on January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2021 as compared to the total shareholder return of certain of the registrant's peers (such peers have been determined by the registrant's compensation committee with assistance of an outside consultant immediately prior to the grant date).

Referenced by the price of 1 transaction in Table I.

F4

The price reported in Column 4 is a weighted average price. These shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices ranging from $18.61 to $19.28, inclusive. The reporting person undertakes to provide to the registrant, any security holder of the registrant, or the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, upon request, full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price within the range.

Referenced by the price of 1 transaction in Table I.

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