Explanatory Note
This Current Report on Form 8-K/A (this “Amendment”) is being filed by Yumanity Therapeutics, Inc. (f/k/a Proteostasis Therapeutics, Inc.), a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), to amend its Current Report on Form 8-K (the “Prior 8-K”) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on December 30, 2020, in connection with the consummation on December 22, 2020 of the transactions contemplated by that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger and Reorganization, dated August 22, 2020, as amended on November 6, 2020 (the “Merger Agreement”), by and among the Company, Pangolin Merger Sub, Inc. (“Merger Sub”), Yumanity, Inc. (f/k/a Yumanity Therapeutics, Inc.) (“Yumanity”) and Yumanity Holdings, LLC (“Holdings”), pursuant to which Merger Sub merged with and into Yumanity, with Yumanity surviving as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (the “Merger”). Following the Merger, the Company changed its name from “Proteostasis Therapeutics, Inc.” to “Yumanity Therapeutics, Inc.,” Yumanity changed its name from “Yumanity Therapeutics, Inc.” to “Yumanity, Inc.” and the business conducted by the Company became primarily the business conducted by Yumanity, which is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to accelerating the revolution in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.
The Company is filing this Amendment solely to provide (i) certain voluntary disclosures concerning the Company’s business, risk factors and financial condition of the Company, as permitted by Item 8.01; (ii) the historical audited financial statements of Holdings as of and for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, and the unaudited interim consolidated financial information of Holdings as of September 30, 2020 and for each of the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 referred to in Item 9.01(a) below; and (iii) the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information as of September 30, 2020 and for the nine months ended September 30, 2020 and for the year ended December 31, 2019, referred to in Item 9.01(b) below. Except for the foregoing, this Amendment does not modify or update any other disclosure contained in the Prior 8-K. Such financial information was excluded from the Prior 8-K in reliance on the instructions to such items.