THE RIGHTS OFFERING
The following describes the Rights Offering in general and assumes, unless specifically provided otherwise, that you are a record holder of our ordinary shares or eligible warrant holder on the record date. If you hold your shares in a brokerage account or through a dealer or other nominee, please also refer to “—Notice To Brokers and Nominees” below.
Before deciding whether to exercise your Rights, you should carefully read this prospectus, including the information set forth under the heading “Risk Factors” and the information that is incorporated by reference into this prospectus.
General
We and Iterum Bermuda are distributing in the Rights Offering, at no charge to the holders as of the record date of our outstanding ordinary shares and to eligible warrant holders, up to 24,875,322 non-transferable Rights to purchase in the aggregate up to 8,400 Units to be issued by Iterum Bermuda at a subscription price of $1,000 per Unit, for an aggregate purchase price of up to $8.4 million, which amount is approximately equal to the maximum aggregate principal amount of additional notes that may be issued under the applicable indenture under which the Exchangeable Notes and Royalty-Linked Notes will be issued. We are distributing one Right for each outstanding ordinary share and certain ordinary shares deemed outstanding as of the record date. Each Right will entitle the holder thereof to purchase, at the holder’s election and subject to proration as described below, at the Subscription Price, one Unit, consisting of (a) an Exchangeable Note in the original principal amount of $1,000.00 and (b) 50 Royalty-Linked Notes. You may only purchase whole Units in denominations of $1,000.00 per Unit in the Rights Offering.
As required by our directors in connection with the Private Placement, including the directors affiliated with certain of the Private Placement Investors, we agreed to undertake the Rights Offering.
Description of Private Placement
On January 16, 2020, we entered into a securities purchase agreement, or the Purchase Agreement, by and among Iterum Bermuda, as issuer, Iterum Therapeutics plc, as guarantor, Iterum Therapeutics International Limited, as guarantor, Iterum Therapeutics US Limited, as guarantor, and Iterum Therapeutics US Holding Limited, as guarantor, on the one hand, and the following accredited investors, on the other hand, who we refer to collectively as the Private Placement Investors: Advent Life Sciences LLP, Advent Life Sciences Fund II LP, Arix Bioscience Holdings Limited, Canaan X L.P., Frazier Healthcare VII, L.P., Frazier Healthcare VII-A, L.P., New Leaf Ventures III, L.P., New Leaf Biopharma Opportunities II, L.P., Sofinnova Venture Partners IX, L.P., Domain Partners IX, L.P., Pivotal bioVenture Partners Fund I, LP, Sarissa Capital Offshore Master Fund LP, Sarissa Capital Catapult Fund LLC, Sarissa Capital Hawkeye Fund LP, RA Capital Healthcare Fund, L.P., Blackwell Partners LLC – Series A, Empery Master Onshore, LLC, Empery Tax Efficient, LP, Empery Tax Efficient II, LP, Lincoln Park Capital Fund, LLC, 683 Capital Partners, LP, SilverArc Capital Alpha Fund I, L.P., SilverArc Capital Alpha Fund II, L.P., 2b LLC, Sabby Volatility Warrant Master Fund, Ltd., S.H.N Financial investments ltd, North Sound Trading, LP, CVI Investments, Inc., Salthill Investors (Bermuda) L.P., Salthill Partners, L.P. and Gary D. Cohn. Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, Iterum Bermuda issued and sold, and Iterum Therapeutics plc and the Subsidiary Guarantors guaranteed, an aggregate of 51,588 units, or the Private Placement Units, consisting of (i) 6.500% Exchangeable Senior Subordinated Notes due 2025, fully and unconditionally guaranteed on an unsecured senior subordinated basis by Iterum Therapeutics plc and the Subsidiary Guarantors, issued by Iterum Bermuda in the aggregate original principal amount of approximately $51.6 million, or the Private Placement Exchangeable Notes, and (ii) limited recourse royalty-linked notes, fully and unconditionally guaranteed on an unsecured senior subordinated basis by Iterum Therapeutics plc and the Subsidiary Guarantors, issued by Iterum Bermuda in the aggregate original principal amount of approximately $0.1 million, or the Private Placement Royalty-Linked Notes, in a private placement to accredited investors. The
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