The information in this preliminary prospectus is not complete and may be changed. We may not sell these securities until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This preliminary prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and we are not soliciting offers to buy these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is unlawful.
Subject to Completion, dated June 26, 2024.
PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS
ITERUM THERAPEUTICS PLC
17,007,601 Non-Transferable Subscription Rights to purchase Units, at a Subscription Price of $1.21 per whole Unit,
each whole Unit consisting of one Ordinary Share, a 1-Year Warrant to purchase 0.5 Ordinary Shares and
a 5-Year Warrant to purchase one Ordinary Share
We are distributing to holders of (i) our ordinary shares, nominal value $0.01 per share (the “ordinary shares”), and (ii) warrants that have contractual rights to participate in this offering, which have not been waived (each, an “eligible warrant” and collectively, the “eligible warrants”), including warrants issued by us to investors and to designees of the placement agent or underwriters, as applicable, in our June 2020 private placements, our October 2020 private placement and our February 2021 underwritten offering and warrants issued by us in April 2018 in connection with our loan and security agreement with Silicon Valley Bank (each an “eligible warrant holder” and collectively, the “eligible warrant holders”) at no charge, non-transferable subscription rights to purchase up to an aggregate of 8,503,800 units (“Units”) at a subscription price of $1.21 per whole unit. We refer to the offering that is the subject of this prospectus as the “Rights Offering.” As of the date of this prospectus, one holder of eligible warrants to purchase 56,606 ordinary shares has waived their contractual right to participate in the Rights Offering. Each shareholder and eligible warrant holder will receive one subscription right for every ordinary share owned and every ordinary share issuable upon exercise of eligible warrants at 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time on July 16, 2024, the record date for this Rights Offering (the “record date”). No fractional subscription rights are being distributed. Each whole Unit will consist of (a) one ordinary share, (b) a warrant to purchase 0.5 ordinary shares, at an exercise price of $1.21 per whole ordinary share from the date of issuance through its expiration one year from the date of issuance (the “1-year warrants”), and (c) a warrant to purchase one ordinary share, at an exercise price of $1.21 per whole ordinary share from the date of issuance through its expiration five years from the date of issuance (the “5-year warrants” and, together with the 1-year warrants, the “warrants”) which we refer to as the “basic subscription right.” Each subscription right will entitle its holder to purchase 0.50 Units, at a subscription price of $0.605 per 0.50 Unit (the “Subscription Price”), consisting of (a) 0.50 ordinary shares (b) a 1-year warrant to purchase 0.25 ordinary, and (c) a 5-year warrant to purchase 0.50 ordinary shares, which we refer to as the “basic subscription right.” If you exercise your basic subscription rights in full, and other shareholders do not fully exercise their basic subscription rights, you will be entitled to an over-subscription privilege to purchase a portion of the unsubscribed Units at the Subscription Price, subject to proration, which we refer to as the “over-subscription privilege.” Each subscription right consists of a basic subscription right and an over-subscription privilege, which we refer to as the “subscription right.” If all holders of our ordinary shares and eligible warrants exercise their subscription right in full, we would issue in connection with the Rights Offering, a maximum of 8,503,800 Units, consisting of an aggregate of (a) 8,503,800 ordinary shares, (b) 1-year warrants to purchase up to 4,251,900 ordinary shares and (c) 5-year warrants to purchase up to 8,503,800 ordinary shares. No fractional ordinary shares or fractional warrants will be issued upon the exercise of any subscription rights for Units issuable in this offering and shareholders and/or eligible warrant holders must exercise subscription rights for the number of Units which would result in the issuance of at least one whole ordinary share to participate in the Rights Offering. As a result, each shareholder and/or eligible warrant holder must exercise subscription rights for at least one whole Unit to participate in the Rights Offering. Further, warrants received by a shareholder and/or eligible warrant holder may only be exercised to purchase whole numbers of ordinary shares and may not be exercised in respect of any fractional ordinary shares. As a result, shareholders holding less than two ordinary shares and/or eligible warrant holders with eligible warrants exercisable for less than two ordinary shares may not be able to participate in the Rights Offer and shareholders holding less than four ordinary shares and/or eligible warrant holders with eligible warrants exercisable for less than four ordinary shares may not be able to acquire any exercisable 1-year warrants in the Rights Offering as they will have no pro-rata entitlement to do so.
We are distributing the subscription rights and offering the Units directly to you. We are not requiring a minimum individual or overall subscription to complete the Rights Offering. The subscription rights may be exercised at any time during the subscription period, which will commence on July 22, 2024 and end at 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on August 6, 2024 (the “Subscription Period”). The subscription rights will expire and will have no value unless exercised prior to the expiration of the Subscription Period, unless the Subscription Period is extended. We may extend the Subscription Period for additional periods in our sole discretion, although we have no current plans to do so. If we elect to extend the Rights Offering, we will issue a press release announcing the extension no later than 9:00 a.m., Eastern Time, on the next business day after the most recently announced expiration date of the Rights Offering. You should carefully consider whether to exercise your subscription rights before the expiration of the Subscription Period. All exercises of subscription rights are irrevocable. We may cancel, modify or amend the Rights Offering at any time and for any reason prior to the expiration of the Subscription Period. If we cancel the Rights Offering, the Subscription Agent (as defined below) for the Rights Offering, will return as soon as practicable, without interest or penalty, all payments of the aggregate Subscription Price it has received for the cancelled Rights Offering. No fractional subscription rights, ordinary shares or warrants will be distributed or issued.
We have engaged Maxim Group LLC to act as the dealer-manager for this Rights Offering. We have not entered into any underwriting agreement, backstop agreement, standby purchase agreement or other similar arrangement in connection with this Rights Offering. The Rights Offering is being conducted on a best-efforts basis and there is no minimum amount of proceeds necessary to be received in order for us to close the Rights Offering. We have also engaged Computershare Trust Company, N.A. (the “Subscription Agent”) to serve as our subscription agent for the Rights Offering. The Subscription Agent will hold in escrow the funds we receive from subscribers until we complete or cancel this Rights Offering. If you want to participate in this Rights Offering and you are the record holder of your shares and/or eligible warrants, we recommend that you submit your subscription documents to the Subscription Agent well before the deadline. If you want to participate in this Rights Offering and you hold ordinary shares and/or eligible warrants through your broker, dealer, bank or other nominee, you should promptly contact your broker, dealer, bank or other nominee and submit your subscription documents in accordance with the instructions and within the time period provided by your broker, dealer, bank or other nominee.
We intend to use the net proceeds from this Rights Offering, together with our existing cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments, to fund our ongoing strategic process, support the ongoing review of our New Drug Application (“NDA”) for the treatment of uncomplicated urinary tract infections (“uUTIs”), for pre-commercialization activities and for other general corporate and working capital purposes, which may include repayment of the 6.500% Exchangeable Senior Subordinated Notes due 2025.
You should carefully consider whether to exercise your subscription rights before the Rights Offering expires. All exercises of subscription rights are irrevocable. Investing in our securities involves a high degree of risk. See the section entitled “Risk Factors” beginning on page 12 of this prospectus. You should carefully consider these risk factors, as well as the information contained in or incorporated by reference into this prospectus, before you invest.
Our ordinary shares are listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “ITRM.” On June 25, 2024, the last sale price of our ordinary shares as reported on the Nasdaq Capital Market was $1.21 per share. There is no established public trading market for the 1-year warrants or the 5-year warrants, and we do not intend to list the 1-year warrants or the 5-year warrants on any national securities exchange or other recognized trading system. The subscription rights are non-transferrable and will not be listed for trading on Nasdaq or any other national securities exchange or recognized trading system. You are urged to obtain a current price quote for our ordinary shares before exercising your subscription rights.
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| | Per 0.50 Units | | | Total(2) | |
Subscription price | | $ | 0.61 | | | $ | 10,289,598.61 | |
Dealer-manager fees(1) | | $ | 0.05 | | | $ | 771,719.90 | |
Proceeds to us | | $ | 0.56 | | | $ | 9,517,878.71 | |
(1) | We have agreed to pay to Maxim Group LLC as the dealer-manager a cash fee equal to 7.5% of the gross proceeds received by us directly from exercises of the subscription rights. We agreed to reimburse expenses of the dealer-manager, up to $100,000. See “Plan of Distribution” on page 70 of this prospectus for additional information. |
(2) | Assumes the subscription rights are fully subscribed for cash, but excludes cash proceeds, if any, from the exercise of the warrants included in the Units. |
None of our board of directors, Subscription Agent or Information Agent is making any recommendation regarding your exercise of subscription rights in the Rights Offering or the sale or transfer of the ordinary shares, the warrants or ordinary shares issuable upon exercise of the warrants. You should carefully consider whether to exercise your subscription rights before the expiration date. You may not revoke or revise any exercise of subscription rights once made.
If you have any questions or need further information about the Rights Offering, please call Georgeson, LLC (the “Information Agent”), the information agent for the Rights Offering, at (866) 920-4401 (toll free in the U.S. and Canada) or (781) 896-6947 (for calls outside the U.S. and Canada).
We are a smaller reporting company as defined in Rule 12b-2 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. As such, we have elected to rely on certain reduced public company disclosure requirements. See “Prospectus Summary — Implications of Being a Smaller Reporting Company.”
We are not and will not be regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland (the “Central Bank”) as a result of issuing the Units, the ordinary shares, the warrants or the ordinary shares issuable and deliverable upon exercise of the warrants. Any investment in the Units, the ordinary shares, the warrants or the ordinary shares issuable and deliverable upon exercise of the warrants does not have the status of a deposit and is not within the scope of the Deposit Protection Scheme operated by the Central Bank.
Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any securities commission of any state or other jurisdiction has approved or disapproved of these securities or passed upon the adequacy or accuracy of this prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.
We expect to deliver the ordinary shares underlying the Units purchased in the Rights Offering to record holders on or about August 8, 2024, and expect to deliver the warrants underlying the Units purchased in the Rights Offering to Computershare Trust Company, N.A. (the “Warrant Agent”) on or about August 8, 2024.
Dealer-Manager
Maxim Group LLC
The date of this prospectus is , 2024.