Kukbo Proceedings
We continue our litigation against Kukbo Co. Ltd. (“Kukbo”), which we filed on September 2, 2022, in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York, Commercial Division, as a result of Kukbo’s default in delivering us an aggregate of $6.5 million under the subscription agreement, dated October 25, 2021, in exchange for the ADSs that we were to issue to Kukbo (the “Subscription Agreement”), and the exclusive license agreement with Kukbo, dated March 14, 2022 (the “Exclusive License Agreement”). Kukbo thereafter filed counterclaims with various allegations, such as breach of contract, misrepresentation and the breach of the duty of good faith and fair dealing. The parties have completed discovery and depositions, and we continue to rigorously pursue the Kukbo litigation. On November 20, 2023, we entered into a Contingency Fee Agreement with our legal firm, Haynes and Boone, LLP (“H&B”), under which certain legal costs related to the Kukbo litigation will be assumed by H&B.
January 2024 Offering
On January 26, 2024, we issued to certain institutional investors (i) in a registered direct offering, 10,000,000 ADSs at a purchase price of $0.80 per ADS and (ii) in a concurrent private offering, unregistered Warrants to purchase 10,000,000 ADSs (the “January 2024 Offering”). The Warrants have an exercise price of $1.00 per ADS, are exercisable immediately and will expire five years from the date of issuance.
The issuance of the Warrants was exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), pursuant to an exemption provided by Section 4(a)(2) thereof and Rule 506 of Regulation D promulgated thereunder as a transaction by an issuer not involving a public offering. Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement with the institutional investors, we agreed, among other things, to file a registration statement with the SEC as soon as practicable (and in any event within fifteen (15) calendar days of the date of the Purchase Agreement) and to keep such registration statement effective until such time as the investors, their successors and assigns, as applicable, no longer own any Warrants or the ADSs issuable upon exercise thereof.
As part of the compensation to the Placement Agent in connection with its role as the placement agent in the January 2024 Offering, pursuant to the Engagement Letter, we issued to the Placement Agent’s designees unregistered Warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 600,000 ADSs at an exercise price of $1.00 per ADS. The Warrants issued to the Placement Agent designees are exercisable immediately and will expire five years from the commencement of the sales pursuant to the January 2024 Offering.
We are registering the resale by the selling shareholders of the ADSs issuable upon exercise of the Warrants and the Ordinary Shares underlying the ADSs in order to permit the selling shareholders to offer such ADSs for resale from time to time pursuant to this prospectus. The selling shareholders may also sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of all or a portion of the ADSs in transactions exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, or pursuant to another effective registration statement covering those.
April 2024 Offering
On March 29, 2024, we entered into a securities purchase agreement with certain investors, pursuant to which we agreed to issue and sell, in a registered direct offering directly to such investors, (i) 2,144,487 ADSs and (ii) warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 2,144,487 ADSs, at a combined purchase price of $0.58289 per ADS and accompanying warrant (the “April 2024 Offering”). The warrants have an exercise price of $0.75 per ADS, immediately exercisable upon issuance and have a term of five years following the issuance date. The April 2024 Offering closed on April 3, 2024. The gross proceeds to us were approximately $1.25 million, before deducting offering expenses payable by us.
Implications of Being a Foreign Private Issuer
We are subject to the information reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), that are applicable to “foreign private issuers,” and under those requirements we file reports with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC. As a foreign private issuer, we are not subject to the same requirements that are imposed upon U.S. domestic issuers by the SEC. Under the Exchange Act, we are subject to reporting