Item 7. Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities
The amounts of ADSs issued by the Company or issuable by the Company upon exercise of warrants and the corresponding purchase price or exercise price disclosed in this Item 7 have not been adjusted to reflect the effect of the ADS Ratio Change.
November 2023 Registered Direct Offering and Concurrent Private Placement
On November 30, 2023, we entered into the Securities Purchase Agreement with an institutional investor, pursuant to which we issued and sold (A) in a registered direct offering, 2,620,000 ADSs and pre-funded warrants to purchase up to 1,824,445 ADS, and (B) in a concurrent private placement, the ordinary warrants to purchase up to 4,444,445 ADSs, which have an exercise price of $0.583 per ADS, are exercisable immediately and will expire on June 5, 2029.
As part of the compensation to H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC, or Wainwright, who acted as the placement agent, in connection with the such offering in November 2023, we issued to Wainwright unregistered placement agent warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 311,111 ADSs at an exercise price of $0.5625 per ADS, pursuant to the engagement letter with Wainwright. Such placement agent warrants expire on November 30, 2028.
Such ordinary warrants and placement agent warrants were issued pursuant to the exemptions from the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act exemption provided in Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act and/or Rule 506(b) promulgated thereunder.
May 2024 Waiver and Warrant Amendment and New Warrant Issuance Agreement
On December 5, 2023, we issued a warrant (the “Existing Warrant”) to purchase up to 4,444,445 ADSs at an exercise price of $0.583 per ADS as part of a private placement to an institutional investor (or the “Investor”).
On May 17, 2024, the Investor agreed to waive (the “Waiver”), the restriction in Section 4.11(b) of that certain Securities Purchase Agreement, dated November 30, 2023, by and between us and the Investor, solely in order to permit us to enter into and perform the transactions contemplated by that certain Purchase Agreement, by and between Kazia Therapeutics Limited and Alumni Capital LP, dated April 19, 2024 (the “Purchase Agreement”), including the issuance of any securities as contemplated thereby.
In connection the Waiver, on May 17, 2024, we entered into a Warrant Amendment and New Warrant Issuance Agreement (the “Warrant Amendment and New Warrant Issuance Agreement”), with the Investor wherein we agreed to issue a new warrant (the “New Warrant”), to the Investor to purchase up to 1,100,000 ADSs (the “New Warrant ADSs”) at an exercise price of $0.27 per ADS, and amend the Existing Warrant to reduce the Exercise Price (as defined in the Existing Warrant) to $0.27 per ADS. The other terms and conditions of the Existing Warrant shall remain in full force and effect. The New Warrant and New Warrant ADSs have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act. The New Warrant was issued without registration under the Securities Act in reliance on the exemptions provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and Rule 506 promulgated thereunder.
Purchase Notices under the Purchase Agreement
Alumni Capital purchased 2,900,000 ADSs on June 24, 2024 for a purchase price of $0.178 per ADS under the Purchase Agreement. Such ADSs were issued without registration under the Securities Act in reliance on the exemptions provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and Rule 506 promulgated thereunder.
Alumni Capital purchased 1,500,000 ADSs on July 22, 2024 for a purchase price of $0.361 per ADS under the Purchase Agreement. Such ADSs were issued without registration under the Securities Act in reliance on the exemptions provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and Rule 506 promulgated thereunder.
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