| Item 1.01 | Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. |
On December 16, 2020, Baudax Bio, Inc., (the “Company”), entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with an institutional investor named therein (the “Purchaser”), pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue and sell, in a registered direct offering (the “Offering”), 4,250,000 shares (the “Shares”) of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”) and warrants exercisable for an aggregate of 10,300,430 shares of Common Stock (the “Series A Warrants”) at a combined offering price of $1.165 per share. The Series A Warrants have an exercise price of $1.18 per share. Each Series A Warrant is exercisable for one share of Common Stock and will be immediately exercisable and will expire five years from the issuance date.
The Company also offered and sold to the Purchaser pre-funded warrants to purchase an aggregate of 6,050,430 shares of Common Stock (the “Series B Warrants” and, together with the Shares and the Series A Warrants, the “Securities”), in lieu of shares of Common Stock at the Purchaser’s election. Each Series B Warrant is exercisable for one share of our Common Stock. The purchase price of each Series B Warrant is $1.155, and the exercise price of each pre-funded Series B Warrant is $0.01 per share. The Series B Warrants are immediately exercisable and may be exercised at any time until all of the Series B Warrants are exercised in full.
A holder (together with its affiliates) may not exercise any portion of the Series A Warrant or Series B Warrant to the extent that the holder would own more than 4.99% (or, at the holder’s option upon issuance, 9.99%) of the Company’s outstanding Common Stock immediately after exercise. However, upon at least 61 days’ prior notice from the holder to the Company, a holder with a 4.99% ownership blocker may increase the amount of ownership of outstanding Common Stock after exercising the holder’s Series A Warrant or Series B Warrant up to 9.99% of the number of the Company’s Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to the exercise, as such percentage ownership is determined in accordance with the terms of the Series A Warrant or Series B Warrant.
The Purchase Agreement contains customary representations and warranties and agreements of the Company and the Purchaser and customary indemnification rights and obligations of the parties. The closing of the Offering is expected to occur on December 21, 2020. The Company is expected to receive gross proceeds of approximately $11.9 million in connection with the Offering, before deducting placement agent fees and related offering expenses.
As compensation to H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC (the “Placement Agent”) as placement agent in connection with the Offering, the Company agreed to pay to the Placement Agent a cash fee of 6.0% of the aggregate gross proceeds raised in the Offering, plus a management fee equal to 1.0% of the gross proceeds raised in the Offering and reimbursement of certain expenses and legal fees. The Company will also issue to designees of the Placement Agent warrants to purchase up to 6.0% of the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock sold in the transactions, or warrants to purchase up to 618,026 shares of Common Stock (the “Placement Agent Warrants”). The Placement Agent Warrants have substantially the same terms as the Series A Warrants, except that the Placement Agent Warrants have an exercise price equal to 125% of the offering price per share (or $1.45625 per share).
The foregoing summaries of the Purchase Agreement, the Series A Warrants, Series B Warrants and the Placement Agent Warrants do not purport to be complete and are subject to, and qualified in their entirety by, the forms of such documents attached as Exhibits 10.1, 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3, respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K (the “Report”), which are incorporated herein by reference.
The Securities in the Offering and the Placement Agent Warrants were offered by the Company pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-243488), which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 10, 2020 and was declared effective by the Commission on October 2, 2020 (the “Registration Statement”). A copy of the opinion of Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP relating to the legality of the issuance and sale of the Securities in the Offering is attached as Exhibit 5.1 hereto. This Report shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy securities, nor shall there be any sale of securities in any state in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state.
