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Item 1.01. | Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. |
On December 13, 2021, Ampio Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), entered into a Placement Agent Agreement (the “Placement Agent Agreement”) with A.G.P./Alliance Global Partners (the “Placement Agent”) pursuant to which the Placement Agent is serving as the placement agent for the Company, on a “reasonable best efforts” basis, in connection with the registered direct offering (the “Offering”) of 25,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Shares”), and warrants to purchase up to 15,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, at an exercise price of $1.10 per share (the “Warrants” and, together with the “Shares,” the “Securities”). The Warrants have a term of five years and are immediately exercisable. Under the Placement Agent Agreement, the Company agreed to pay the Placement Agent a cash fee equal to 7% of the gross proceeds of the Offering. The Placement Agent Agreement contains customary representations, warranties and indemnification by the Company and provides for the reimbursement by the Company of up to $75,000 in expenses incurred by the Placement Agent in connection with the Offering.
On December 13, 2021, the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement with certain investors (the “Securities Purchase Agreement”) for the sale of the Securities at a combined purchase price of $0.90 per Share and related .60 of a Warrant, for aggregate gross proceeds of $22.5 million, before deducting fees payable to the Placement Agent and other estimated offering expenses payable by the Company. The Company currently intends to use the net proceeds of the Offering for working capital, including the conduct of clinical trials, and other general corporate purposes. The Securities Purchase Agreement contains customary representations, warranties and agreements by the Company, customary conditions to closing, indemnification and other obligations of the parties and termination provisions.
Pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement, the Company agreed that, subject to certain exceptions, for 90 days after the closing of the Offering, it will not issue, enter into an agreement to issue or announce the issuance or proposed issuance of shares of its common stock or any other securities convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, shares of its common stock or file any registration statement or any amendment or supplement thereto relating to the offering of any shares of capital stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for shares of capital stock. In addition, the Company may not enter into a variable rate transaction (as defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement) or an at-the-market (“ATM”) offering for 150 days after the closing of the Offering, including pursuant to the Company’s existing ATM equity offering program.
The Offering is being made pursuant to the Company’s existing shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-237723), which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on April 16, 2020, as amended on April 30, 2020, and declared effective by the Commission on May 6, 2020. The Offering is expected to close on or about December 15, 2021, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
The representations, warranties and covenants contained in the Placement Agent Agreement and the Securities Purchase Agreement were made only for purposes of such agreements and as of specific dates, were solely for the benefit of the parties thereto, and may be subject to limitations agreed upon by the contracting parties. Accordingly, the Placement Agent Agreement and the Securities Purchase Agreement are incorporated herein by reference only to provide investors with information regarding the terms of the Offering, and not to provide investors with any other factual information regarding the Company or its business, and should be read in conjunction with the disclosures in the Company’s periodic reports and other filings with the Commission.
The foregoing descriptions of the Placement Agent Agreement, the Securities Purchase Agreement and the Warrants do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the full text of the Placement
