11. ORDINARY SHARES (CONTINUED)
On January 17, 2020, the Company also issued 6,078,571 ordinary shares to Everest.
Upon the completion of the IPO, the Company’s then outstanding 30,227,056 Series A Preferred Shares, 23,288,783 Series B Preferred Shares, 3,714,580 Series B-1 Preferred Shares, 3,301,849 Series B-2 Preferred Shares, 31,046,360 Series C Preferred Shares and 3,857,143 Series C-1 Preferred Shares were converted into 30,227,056, 23,288,783, 3,714,580, 3,571,427, 34,420,469 and 4,537,814 ordinary shares, respectively.
On July 15, 2020, the Company’s Board of Directors approved a share repurchase program to repurchase in the open market up to US$20 million worth of outstanding ADSs of the Group. The Company made a total prepayment of US$5,000 (equivalent to RMB34,051) for the share repurchase. The prepayment was collected subsequently in October 2020. No repurchase activity was taken place for the year ended December 31, 2021 and the six months ended June 30, 2022.
On September 3, 2020, the Company entered into definitive subscription agreements with a consortium of institutional investors (the “Investors”) to raise approximately US$418 million through a private placement. The consortium is led by Hillhouse Capital Group (“Hillhouse”), with significant participation by GIC Private Limited, and also includes certain other Asian and U.S. biotech investment funds, Hillhouse is entitled to nominate one representative to I-Mab’s Board of Directors.
The private placement comprises (1) the sale to the Investors of the Group’s 29,133,502 ordinary shares (equivalent to 12,666,740 ADSs) at a purchase price equivalent to US$33 per ADS amounting to approximately US$418 million; and (2) warrants (the “Investor Warrants”, see Note 12 to subscribe for an aggregate of 5,341,267 ordinary shares (equivalent to 2,322,290 ADSs) at an exercise price equivalent to US$45 per ADS, which may further increase the proceeds of approximately US$104.5 million if the Investor Warrants are fully exercised. The Investor Warrants will remain exercisable at the election of the Investors within 12 months after the closing of the private placement. As of June 30, 2021, 4,683,191 warrants were exercised by the Investors. All the remaining warrants were exercised subsequently from July to September 2021. All the warrants were exercised by the Investors during the year ended December 31, 2021.
The subscription agreement with the Hillhouse entities contemplates two closings. The first closing occurred on September 11, 2020, and the second closing is conditioned upon an existing director of the Company having resigned to enable the Hillhouse entities to appoint a director to replace such director and the lemzoparlimab out-licensing agreement with AbbVie (see Note 14) being or remaining effective. Upon the first closing, 20,421,378 ordinary shares and 3,744,032 Investor Warrants were issued to the Investors for total gross proceeds of approximately US$293.0 million. On December 17, 2020, the Group entered into a written amendment made to the subscription agreement with the Hillhouse entities, which removed one of the two conditions for the second closing that an existing director of the Company having resigned to enable the Hillhouse entities to appoint a director to replace such director. The second closing occurred as the other condition was satisfied and 8,712,124 ordinary shares as well as 1,597,235 Investor Warrants were issued to the Hillhouse entities for total gross proceeds of approximately US$125.0 million. The total net proceeds, netting of issuance cost, from the private placement was US$397.2 million (equivalent to RMB2,653,669).
As of June 30, 2022, 16,283,005 stock options were exercised, and 6,462,934 restricted share units were issued as ordinary shares.