common stock are, and the shares of common stock sold in this offering upon issuance will be, freely tradable without restriction or further registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act.
Upon completion of this offering, based on our shares outstanding as of August 29, 2022, we will have 20,003,745 shares of common stock outstanding, assuming full exercise of the Series B pre-funded warrants sold in this offering, which may be resold into the public market immediately without restriction, unless owned or purchased by our “affiliates” as that term is defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act.
As of August 29, 2022, there were approximately 610,263 shares subject to outstanding options and restricted stock unit awards or that are otherwise issuable under our equity compensation plans, all of which shares we have registered or will register under the Securities Act on a registration statement on Form S-8. The registered shares can be freely sold in the public market upon issuance, subject to volume limitations applicable to affiliates, to the extent applicable. As of August 29, 2022, we had outstanding warrants exercisable for 6,950,513 shares of common stock with a weighted-average exercise price of $1.99 per share. The shares of our common stock underlying such warrants will, upon issuance, be freely tradeable without restriction or further registration under the Securities Act.
There is no public market for the warrants being offered in this offering.
There is no established public trading market for the warrants being offered in this offering, and we do not expect a market to develop. In addition, we do not intend to apply to list the warrants on any securities exchange or nationally recognized trading system, including the Nasdaq Capital Market. Without an active market, the liquidity of the warrants will be limited.
The holders of warrants purchased in this offering will have no rights as common shareholders until such holders exercise their warrants and acquires our common shares, except as set forth in the warrants.
Until a holder of warrants acquires the shares of common stock upon exercise of the warrants, such holder will have no rights with respect to the shares of common stock underlying such warrants, except as set forth in the warrants. Upon exercise of the warrants, holders will be entitled to exercise the rights of common shareholders only as to matters for which the record date occurs after the exercise date.
The warrants are speculative in nature.
The warrants do not confer any rights of common stock ownership on their holders, such as voting rights or the right to receive dividends, but rather merely represent the right to acquire shares of common stock at a fixed price for a limited period of time. Specifically, holders of the warrants may exercise their right to acquire the common stock and pay an exercise price of $0.525 per share for the Series A-1 warrants, $0.525 per share for the Series A-2 warrants and $0.01 per share for the Series B pre-funded warrants, subject to certain adjustments, commencing immediately upon issuance, for the Series A-1 warrants, until September 1, 2027, after which period any unexercised Series A-1 warrants will expire and have no further value and for the Series A-2 warrants, until October 2, 2023, after which period any unexercised Series A-2 warrants will expire and have no further value. There can be no assurance that the market price of the common stock will ever equal or exceed the exercise price of the warrants, and consequently, it may not ever be profitable for holders of the warrants to exercise the warrants.
The market price for our common stock has been volatile and may continue to fluctuate or may decline significantly in the future.
An active, liquid and orderly market for our common stock may not be sustained, which could depress the trading price of our common stock or cause it to continue to be highly volatile or subject to wide fluctuations. Some of the factors that could negatively affect our share price or result in fluctuations in the price or trading volume of our common stock include, among other things:
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