| Equity | 9. Equity Preferred Stock Pursuant to the terms of the Company’s Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the Company has authorized shares of preferred stock with a par value of $ . Series A Convertible Preferred Stock On August 30, 2023, the Company filed a Certificate of Designation of Preferences, Rights and Limitations of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock (“Series A Preferred Stock”) with the Delaware Secretary of State (the “Certificate of Designation”) authorizing up to 12,000,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock. During the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company sold and issued 3,000,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock. Each share of Series A Preferred Stock was sold with one warrant (a “Unit"), see investor warrant section below for terms, for an aggregate cash purchase price of $1.2 million or $0.40 per Unit. Dividend Rights The holders of Series A Preferred Stock are not entitled to receive any dividends in respect to the Series A Preferred Stock. Voting Rights The holders of Series A Preferred Stock have no voting rights other than for an affirmative vote in order for the Company to (a) disproportionally alter or change adversely the powers, preferences or rights given to the Series A Preferred Stock or alter or amend the Certificate of Designation, (b) amend its certificate of incorporation or other charter documents in any manner that disproportionally adversely affects any rights of the Holders, (c) increase or decrease the number of authorized shares of Series A Preferred Stock or (d) enter into any agreement with respect to any of the foregoing. Conversion Rights Each share of Series A Preferred Stock shall be convertible into a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the number of shares of Series A Preferred Stock being converted. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no share of Series A Preferred Stock shall be convertible during the six (6) month period following the issuance date; provided, however, if the Common Stock trades at or above $1.20 per share (subject to adjustment for stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations, recapitalizations or other similar events), as reported on Bloomberg, L.P. on any trading day, holder may convert the Series A Preferred Stock prior to the six (6) month anniversary of the issuance date. No fractional shares will be issued upon conversion. Conversion is subject to certain limitations, including the holder not owning more than 4.9% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock. Liquidation Rights Upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company (a “Liquidation”), whether voluntary or involuntary, each holder of Series A Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive the amount of cash, securities or other property to which such holder would be entitled to receive if such shares had been converted to Common Stock immediately prior to such Liquidation, subject to certain rights and limitations. Common Stock Pursuant to the terms of the Company’s Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the Company has authorized 500,000,000 shares of common stock with a par value of $0.001 . On March 8, 2023, NRx Pharmaceuticals entered into a securities purchase agreement with the March Investors, providing for the issuance and sale of 3,866,666 shares of Common Stock and the March Investor Warrants to purchase up to 3,866,666 shares of Common Stock in a registered direct offering priced at-the-market under Nasdaq rules for a purchase price of $0.75 per share. The March Investors agreed not to transfer the Common Stock for six months following the date of issuance. The securities were issued pursuant to the Company’s registration statement on Form S-3 filed with the SEC on June 9, 2022 (File No. 333-265492) which became effective on June 21, 2022. On February 8, 2023, the Company entered into a letter agreement with H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC. Although they did not act as the placement agent with respect to the March 2023 Offering, H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC was paid a cash fee equal to 3.0% of the amount raised, or approximately $0.1 million, pursuant to the letter agreement, which was charged against the proceeds in additional paid-in capital. On June 6, 2023, the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement with the June Investors, providing for the issuance and sale of 9,670,002 shares of the Company’s Common Stock and the June Investor Warrants to purchase up to 9,670,002 shares of Common Stock. The Common Stock was issued in a registered direct offering for a purchase price of $0.65 per share and the June Investor Warrants were offered pursuant to a private placement under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act. The aggregate net cash proceeds to the Company from the June Offering were approximately $5.6 million. The Company used the net proceeds from the June Offering for working capital and general corporate purposes. H.C. Wainwright & Co. LLC acted as the exclusive placement agent (the “Placement Agent”) for the June 2023 Offering. The Placement Agent was paid a cash fee equal to 6.5% of the gross proceeds received by the Company from the sale of the securities at the closing of the June Offering or approximately $0.6 million which was charged against the proceeds in additional paid-in capital. The Company used the net proceeds from such offering for working capital and general corporate purposes. In connection with the Note issued to Streeterville, on May 15, 2023 the Company issued 408,673 Common Stock to Streeterville in repayment of interest on the Note. Additionally on August 4, 2023 and August 30, 2023, the Company issued 1,312,658 and 1,542,890 respectively to Streeterville for repayment of principal and interest under the Note. Refer to Note 7 for further details. On July 17, 2023, the Company and GEM entered into a settlement agreement where the Company issued 675,676 shares of Common Stock to GEM in full satisfaction of its obligation. Refer to Note 8 for further details. The Company sold 7,824,727 shares of common stock during the year ended December 31, 2022 and received gross proceeds of $22.7 million. The Company issued 49,605 shares of common stock resulting from options that were exercised which generated proceeds of less than $0.1 million. Common Stock Warrants Substitute Warrants In connection with the Merger in 2021, each warrant to purchase shares of common stock of NeuroRx that was outstanding and unexercised immediately prior to the Effective Time (whether vested or unvested) was assumed by BRPA and converted into a warrant, based on the Exchange Ratio (of 3.16), that will continue to be governed by substantially the same terms and conditions, including vesting, as were applicable to the former warrant (the “Substitute Warrants”). There were 3,792,970 warrants outstanding and unexercised at the effective time. As these Substitute Warrants meet the definition of a derivative as contemplated in ASC 815, based on provisions in the warrant agreement related to the Earnout Shares Milestone and the Earnout Cash Milestone and the contingent right to receive additional shares for these provisions, the Substitute Warrants were recorded as derivative liabilities on the consolidated balance sheet and measured at fair value at inception (on the date of the Merger) and at each reporting date in accordance with ASC 820, Fair Value Measurement The Company recognized a gain and a loss on the change in fair value of the Substitute Warrants for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 of less than $0.1 million and less than $0.1 million, respectively. Refer to Note 11 for further discussion of fair value measurement of the warrant liabilities. Assumed Public Warrants Prior to the Merger, the Company had 3,450,000 Public Warrants outstanding (the “Public Warrants”). Each Public Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one share of Common Stock at an exercise price of $11.50 per share. The Public Warrants became exercisable at the Effective Time of the Merger and expire five years after the Effective Time or earlier upon their redemption or liquidation of the Company. During the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 no Public Warrants were exercised. The outstanding balance of these warrants remains in equity. Assumed Private Placement Warrants Prior to the Merger, the Company had outstanding 136,250 Private Placement Warrants (the “Private Placement Warrants”). The Private Placement Warrants are not indexed to the Company’s common shares in the manner contemplated by ASC 815-40-15 because the holder of the instrument is not an input into the pricing of a fixed-for-fixed option on equity shares. The Company classifies the Private Placement Warrants as derivative liabilities in its Consolidated Balance Sheet as of December 31, 2023 and 2022. The Company measures the fair value of the Private Placement Warrants at the end of each reporting period and recognizes changes in the fair value from the prior period in the Company’s statements of operations for the current period. The Company recognized a gain on the change in fair value of the Private Placement Warrants for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022 of less than $0.1 million and $0.3 million, respectively. Refer to Note 11 for discussion of the fair value measurement of the Company’s warrant liabilities. Investor Warrants As discussed above, on March 8, 2023, in conjunction with the issuance and sale of shares of the Company’s Common Stock, five The March Investor Warrants had an original exercise price of $0.75 per share, are initially exercisable beginning six months following the March Initial Exercise Date and will expire five and a half years from the March Initial Exercise Date. As discussed above, on June 6, 2023, in conjunction with the issuance and sale of shares of the Company’s Common Stock, The measurement of fair value of the June Investor Warrants were determined utilizing a Black-Scholes model considering all relevant assumptions current at the date of issuance (i.e., share price of $0.53, exercise price of $0.65, term of five and a half years, volatility of 175.1%, risk-free rate of 3.85%, and expected dividend rate of 0%). The grant date fair value of these June Investor Warrants was estimated to be $3.1 million on June 6, 2023, and is reflected within additional paid-in capital. The Company issued 193,400 warrants to the Placement Agent with an exercise price of $0.81 (the “June Placement Agent Warrants”). As these June Placement Agent Warrants were issued for services provided in facilitating the June Offering, the Company recorded the fair value of such June Placement Agent Warrants of approximately $0.1 million as a cost of capital on the issuance date. The measurement of fair value was determined utilizing a Black-Scholes model considering all relevant assumptions current at the date of issuance (i.e., share price of $0.53, exercise price of $0.81, term of five In connection with the June Offering, the Company also entered into a warrant amendment agreement (the “Warrant Amendment Agreement”) with certain investors to amend certain existing warrants to purchase up to 9,622,778 shares of Common Stock that were previously issued in August 2021 and February 2022 to such investors, with an exercise price of $3.07 and $12.00 per share, respectively (the “Amended Warrants”) as follows: (i) lower the exercise price of the Amended Warrants to $0.6525 per share, and (ii) provide that the Amended Warrants, as amended, will not be exercisable until six months following the closing date of the June Offering, and (iii) extend the original expiration date of the Amended Warrants so that they will terminate five The Company recorded the incremental change in fair value of such Amended Warrants of $1.5 million as a cost of capital to issue the June Investor Warrants. The measurement of fair value for the Amended Warrants was determined utilizing a Black-Scholes model considering all relevant assumptions current at the date of issuance (i.e., share price of $0.53, exercise price of $0.65, term of five As discussed above, on August 28, 2023, in conjunction with the issuance and sale of 3,000,000 shares of the Company’s Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, the Company issued 3,000,000 August Investor Warrants The measurement of fair value of the August Investor Warrants were determined utilizing a Black-Scholes model considering all relevant assumptions current at the date of issuance (i.e., share price of $0.30 , exercise price of $0.40 , term of five years , volatility of 175.1% , risk-free rate of 4.38% , and expected dividend rate of 0% ). The grant date fair value of these August Investor Warrants was estimated to be $0.8 million on August 28, 2023 and is reflected within additional paid-in capital. On October 24, 2023, in connection with the Securities Purchase Agreement dated March 8, 2023, the Company entered into a warrant amendment agreement (the “October Warrant Amendment Agreement”) with certain Investors to amend the existing Investor Warrants to purchase up to 3,866,666 shares of Common Stock that were previously issued in March 2023 adjusted from the original exercise price of $0.75 to $0.6525 per share (the “October Amended Warrants”) . The Company recorded the incremental change in fair value of such October Amended Warrants of approximately $9.0 thousand as a deemed dividend and an adjustment to arrive at net income available to common stockholders on the statement of operations. As the Company is in an accumulated deficit position, in the absence of retained earnings, the Company recorded the reduction to additional paid-in capital (i.e., a net zero impact to additional paid-in capital). The measurement of fair value for the October Amended Warrants was determined utilizing a Black-Scholes model considering all relevant assumptions current at the date of amendment (i.e., share price of $0.28, exercise price of $0.6525, term of five years, volatility of 159.4%, risk-free rate of 4.85%, and expected dividend rate of 0%). On February 2, 2022, the Company completed a private placement and issued 7,824,727 shares of common stock and Preferred Investment Options to purchase up to an aggregate of 7,824,727 shares of common stock. The Preferred Investment Options have an exercise price of $3.07 per share and may be exercised any time on or after August 2, 2022. The form of the Preferred Investment Option is a warrant. The measurement of fair value was determined utilizing a Black-Scholes model considering all relevant assumptions current at February 2, 2022, the date of issuance (i.e., share price of $2.94, exercise price of $3.07, term of five years beginning August 2, 2022, volatility of 82.8%, risk-free rate of 1.60%, and expected dividend rate of 0%). The grant date fair value of these Preferred Investment Options was estimated to be $15.5 million on February 2, 2022 and is reflected within additional paid-in capital as of June 30, 2022. In addition, on February 2, 2022, the Company issued fully vested Preferred Investment Options to the placement agent with an exercise price of $3.99. As these Preferred Investment Options were issued for services provided in facilitating the private placement, the Company recorded the fair value of such Preferred Investment Options as a cost of capital on the issuance date. The measurement of fair value was determined utilizing a Black-Scholes model considering all relevant assumptions current at February 2, 2022, the date of issuance (i.e., share price of $2.94, exercise price of $3.99, term of five years beginning August 2, 2022, volatility of 82.8%, risk-free rate of 1.60%, and expected dividend rate of 0%). The following table provides the activity for all warrants for the respective periods. Weighted Average Weighted Aggregate Remaining Average Intrinsic Value Total Warrants Term Exercise Price (in thousands) Outstanding as of December 31, 2022 16,484,923 3.59 $ 6.49 $ — Issued 16,730,068 4.38 0.61 180 Outstanding as of December 31, 2023 33,214,991 3.91 $ 2.30 $ 180 |
