NOTE 5:- | SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY |
On June 14, 2018, the Company entered into agreements in connection with a registered direct offering (the “Offering”) of an aggregate of 5,316,457 Ordinary Shares (the “RD Shares”) of the Company at a purchase price of $3.95 per RD Share. In connection with the issuance of the RD Shares, the Company also issued warrants to purchase an aggregate of up to 4,253,165 additional Ordinary Shares (the “Warrants”). The Warrants are exercisable at a price of $4.74 per Ordinary Share and have a term of five years from the date of issuance. The Offering was made pursuant to the Company’s Registration Statement. Proceeds from the Offering were $19,767 (net of $1,233 issuance expenses).
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
U.S. dollars in thousands (except share and per share data)
NOTE 5:- | SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY (Cont.) |
During the six-month periods ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, warrants to purchase an aggregate of 0 and 89,557 Ordinary Shares were exercised with proceeds of approximately $0 and $425, respectively, and warrants to purchase up to 297,469 Ordinary Shares remain outstanding as of June 30, 2022.
On October 10, 2018, the Company entered into a Master Clinical Trial Collaboration Agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb to evaluate the safety and tolerability of the Company’s COM701 in combination with Bristol-Myers Squibb’s PD-1 immune checkpoint inhibitor Opdivo® (nivolumab), in patients with advanced solid tumors. In conjunction with the Master Clinical Agreement, Bristol-Myers Squibb made a $12,000 equity investment in the Company.
Under the terms of the securities purchase agreement, Bristol-Myers Squibb purchased 2,424,243 ordinary shares of the Company at a purchase price of $4.95 per share. The share price represents a 33% premium over the average closing price of Compugen’s ordinary shares for twenty (20) Nasdaq trading days prior to the execution of the securities purchase agreement. The investment closed on October 12, 2018.
The premium over the fair market value in the amount of $4,121 represents the relative fair value of deferred participation of Bristol-Myers Squibb in R&D expenses which are amortized over the period of the clinical trial based on the progress in the R&D, in accordance with ASC 808 “Collaborative Arrangements” and $7,788 (net of $91 issuance expenses) were considered equity investment.
In conjunction with the signing of the amendment to the Master Clinical Agreement in November 2021, Bristol Myers Squibb made a $20,000 investment in the Company, purchasing 2,332,815 ordinary shares of the Company at a purchase price of $8.57333 per share. The share price represented a 33% premium over the closing price of Company’s ordinary shares on the last Nasdaq trading day immediately prior to the execution of the securities purchase agreement.
The premium over the fair market value in the amount of $5,000 represents the relative fair value of deferred participation of Bristol-Myers Squibb in R&D expenses (which are amortized over the period of the clinical trial, based on the progress in the R&D, in accordance with ASC 808 “Collaborative Arrangements”) and $14,958 (net of $42 issuance expenses) were considered equity investment.
In March 2020, the Company entered into an underwriting agreement with SVB Leerink LLC and Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated, as representatives of the several underwriters relating to the issuance and sale in a public offering of 8,333,334 of the Company’s ordinary shares at a price to the public of $9.00 per share (and a price of $8.46 per share to the underwriters). Such shares were issued on March 16, 2020. In addition, the Company granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase additional ordinary shares at the price set forth above. On April 14, 2020, the Company issued and sold, pursuant to that underwriting agreement an additional 483,005 ordinary shares pursuant to the underwriters’ option specified above. The Company sold a total of 8,816,339 ordinary shares in the offering with proceeds of $74,147 (net of $5,200 issuance expenses).
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
U.S. dollars in thousands (except share and per share data)
NOTE 5:- | SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY (Cont.) |
During the six-month period ended June 30, 2022, the Company’s Board of Directors granted 1,497,500 options to purchase ordinary shares of the Company to employees, directors and non-employees. The exercise prices for such options range from $1.90 to $5.00 per share, with vesting to occur in up to four years.
The following table presents the assumptions used to estimate the fair value of the options granted in the periods presented:
| | Six months ended June 30, | |
| | 2022 | | | 2021 | |
| | Unaudited | |
| | | | | | |
Volatility | | | 69%-72 | % | | | 66%-67 | % |
Risk-free interest rate | | | 1.5%-3.0 | % | | | 0.5%-0.8 | % |
Dividend yield | | | 0 | % | | | 0 | % |
Expected life (years) | | | 5.0-5.4 | | | | 5.1 | |