(ii) the issuance, in a second phase, as part of a new capital increase without preferential subscription rights reserved to certain identified investors (“à personne dénommée”), of new ordinary shares, par value €0.01 per share or of prefunded warrants to subscribe for ordinary shares of the Company (each, a “T1bis New Shares”), for a total amount of €21.4 million (excluding exercise of pre-funded warrants);
(iii) the issuance, in a third phase, as part of a new capital increase without preferential subscription rights reserved to certain identified investors (“à personne dénommée”) subject to operational conditions to be met and the adoption of the necessary resolutions by the Shareholders' Meeting to be held before December 16, 2024, (or prefunded warrants) to which share warrants (the “ABSAs”) are attached for a total amount of €116,000,000. Each ABSA will consist of a number of new ordinary shares with a par value of €0.01 (or pre-funded warrants) to be determined by the Company's Board of Directors (each, a “T2 New Share”) to which will be attached a number warrants exercisable at an exercise price of €1.50 (each, a “T3 BSA”) allowing the subscription of a number of new ordinary shares of the Company for a maximum total amount of €116,000,000.
The subscription agreements for the T1 New Shares and the T1 BSA were signed on October 11, 2024, and the settlement-delivery of the T1 New Shares and the T1 BSA is expected to take place on October 17, 2024, subject to the absence of any material adverse event between the signing of the agreements and the settlement-delivery of the T1 New Shares and the T1 BSA.
Amendment to the exclusive license and collaboration agreement with CTTQ
On October 11, 2024, the Company has entered into an amendment (the “Amendment”) to the exclusive license and collaboration agreement with Chia Tai Tianqing Pharmaceutical Group, Co., Ltd (“CTTQ”), dated September 21, 2022, as amended. Under the Amendment, if the Company receives subscription commitments, before December 31, 2024, from investors to subscribe to a fundraising, in two or three tranches, for a total gross amount of at least €180,000,000 (the “Fund Raising”), CTTQ shall pay to the Company (i) $10,000,000 within 30 days of settlement-delivery of the T1 New Shares and T1 Warrants in the event of the issuance of the first tranche of the Fund Raising to be paid by CTTQ, (ii) $10,000,000 in the event of the issuance of the second tranche of the Fund Raising, and (iii) $10,000,000 upon publication by the Company of the pivotal data announcing that the primary endpoint or one of the two key secondary endpoints of NATiV3, with one of the dosing regimens tested in the trial, have been met. Under the terms of the Amendment, the total amount of potential clinical, regulatory and commercial milestone payments remains unchanged, while the royalties that Inventiva is likely to receive have been reduced to a low figure.
1.4.Risk factors
The Company’s business faces significant risks. You should carefully consider all of the information set forth in this document and in the Company’s other filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC, including the risk factors which the Company faces and which are faced by the Company’s industry described in Chapter 2 of the Company’s 2023 Universal Registration Document Part I, Item 1A. “ Risk Factors” of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, in addition to the following risk factors. Our business, financial condition or results of operations could be materially adversely affected by any of these risks.
Please refer to chapter 2.1 of the 2023 Universal Registration Document and as amended in Section 5 of the amendment to the universal document as filed with the AMF under number D.24-0227-A01 on October 14, 2024 (the "Amendment to the 2023 Universal Registration Document "), which are incorporated herein by reference.
The risk factor in the 2023 Universal Registration Document amended in the context of the Amendment to the 2023 Universal Registration Document is as follows:
Liquidity risk: the Company believes that it will be able to finance its activities until the end of the second half of 2025, and there is doubt regarding our ability to continue as a going concern.
As of 30 June 2024, the Company had cash and cash equivalents of €10.1 million, compared to €26.9 million, and €9.0 million of long-term deposit2 as of December 31, 2023.
2 The long-term deposit had a two year-term, were accessible prior to the expiration of the term with a notice period of 31 days and were considered as liquid by the Company.