Item 1. Security and Issuer.
This statement constitutes Amendment No. 1 to the Schedule 13D relating to the Common Stock, par value $0.001 (the “Shares”), issued by Emmaus Life Sciences, Inc. (the “Issuer”), and hereby amends the Schedule 13D filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 16, 2014 (the "Initial Schedule 13D"), on behalf of the Reporting Persons (as defined in the Initial Schedule 13D), to furnish the additional information set forth herein. All capitalized terms contained herein but not otherwise defined shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Initial Schedule 13D.
Item 3. Source or Amount of Funds or Other Consideration.
Item 3 of the Initial Schedule 13D is hereby amended by adding the following:
The aggregate exercise price of the warrants to purchase Shares exercised by the Reporting Persons as described in Item 4 below was $1,391,799.50. The source of funding for this exercise price was the general working capital of the applicable Reporting Person.
Item 4. Purpose of Transaction.
Item 4 of the Initial Schedule 13D is hereby amended by adding the following:
On June 9, 2014, (i) Sarissa Capital Domestic Fund LP (“Sarissa Domestic”) exercised warrants to purchase 237,441 Shares at an exercise price of $3.50 per Share and (ii) Sarissa Capital Offshore Master Fund LP (“Sarissa Offshore”) exercised warrants to purchase 160,216 Shares at an exercise price of $3.50 per Share. On June 10, 2014, the Issuer, based on an offer made to those of its shareholders who participated in the Issuer’s private placement on September 11, 2013 (the “Transaction”), issued the following warrants to replace those that were exercised: (i) a warrant to Sarissa Domestic to purchase 237,441 Shares at an exercise price of $3.50 per Share, and (ii) a warrant to Sarissa Offshore to purchase 160,216 Shares at an exercise price of $3.50 per Share (collectively, the “Replacement Warrants”). The Replacement Warrants have the same expiration date (i.e., September 11, 2018) and other terms as the warrants to purchase Shares issued by the Issuer in its private placement on September 11, 2013 (the “Private Placement Warrants”, and together with the Replacement Warrants, the “Warrants”). Sarissa Capital Management LP consented to the Transaction in accordance with its rights under Section 1(a) of the Designation Agreement (as defined in the Initial Schedule 13D).
The description herein of the Replacement Warrants in this Schedule 13D is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Form of Warrant, a copy of which was referenced in the Initial Schedule 13D.
Item 5. Interest in Securities of the Issuer.
Item 5 of the Initial Schedule 13D is hereby amended by replacing it in its entirety with the following:
(a) The Reporting Persons may be deemed to beneficially own, in the aggregate, 1,997,657 Shares (consisting of 1,197,657 Shares and 800,000 Shares underlying the Warrants) representing approximately 7.3% of the Issuer's outstanding Shares (based upon the 26,724,057 Shares stated to be outstanding as of May 13, 2014 by the Issuer in the Issuer’s Form 10−Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2014).
(b) For purposes of this Schedule 13D:
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Sarissa Domestic has sole voting power and sole dispositive power with regard to 1,192,801 Shares (consisting of 715,121 Shares and 477,680 Shares underlying the Warrants). Sarissa Offshore has sole voting power and sole dispositive power with regard to 804,856 Shares (consisting of 482,536 Shares and 322,320 Shares underlying the Warrants). Sarissa Capital, as the investment advisor to the Sarissa Funds, may be deemed to have the shared power to vote or direct the vote of (and the shared power to dispose or direct the disposition of) the 1,997,657 Shares held by the Sarissa Funds. By virtue of his position as the Chief Investment Officer of Sarissa Capital and as the managing member of Sarissa Capital’s general partner, Dr. Denner may be deemed to have the shared power to vote or direct the vote of (and the shared power to dispose or direct the disposition of) the 1,997,657 Shares held by the Sarissa Funds.
Item 6. Contracts, Arrangements, Understandings or Relationships with Respect to Securities of the Issuer.
Item 6 of the Initial Schedule 13D is hereby amended by replacing it in its entirety with the following:
Except as otherwise described herein or as set forth in the Subscription Agreement, the Designation Agreement or the Warrants, there are no contracts, arrangements, understandings or relationships (legal or otherwise) among the persons named in Item 2 and between such persons and any person with respect to any securities of the Issuer, including but not limited to transfer or voting of any of the securities, finder's fees, joint ventures, loan or option arrangements, puts or calls, guarantees of profits, division of profits or loss, or the giving or withholding of proxies.