STOCKHOLDERS OF THE ISSUER SHOULD CONSIDER BEFORE MAKING ANY DECISION REGARDING TENDERING THEIR SHARES IN THE OFFER. The Offer materials (including the Offer to Purchase and the related Letter of Transmittal), as well as the Solicitation/Recommendation Statement, will be made available to all investors and stockholders of the Issuer at no expense to them at Lilly’s website at investor.lilly.com and (once they become available) will be mailed to the stockholders of the Issuer free of charge. The information contained in, or that can be accessed through, Lilly’s website is not a part of, or incorporated by reference in this filing. The Offer materials (including the Offer to Purchase and the related Letter of Transmittal), as well as the Solicitation/Recommendation Statement, will also be made available for free on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.
Item 5. | INTEREST IN SECURITIES OF THE ISSUER |
(a)-(b) The information relating to the beneficial ownership of the Shares by each of the Reporting Persons set forth in Rows 7 through 13 on each of the cover pages hereto is incorporated by reference herein and is as of the date hereof. Such information is based on 2,501,896 Shares issued and outstanding as of June 28, 2023 (based on the representation by the Issuer in the Merger Agreement) (as adjusted for the Reverse Stock Split).
Lilly currently has sole beneficial ownership of the Owned Shares.
As a result of the Tender and Support Agreement, (i) Lilly may be deemed to have the power to vote up the Covered Shares against certain matters set forth in Item 4 above, and thus, Lilly may be deemed to be the beneficial owner of the Covered Shares and (ii) Purchaser may be deemed to be the beneficial owner of the Covered Shares.
Other than the Owned Shares and those Shares that may be deemed to be beneficially owned in connection with the Tender and Support Agreement, Lilly has not acquired and, for the purposes of Rule 13d-4 promulgated under the Act, does not beneficially own any Shares. Other than those Shares that may be deemed to be beneficially owned in connection with the Tender and Support Agreement, Purchaser has not acquired and, for the purposes of Rule 13d-4 promulgated under the Act, does not beneficially own any Shares.
The Reporting Persons are not entitled to any rights as stockholders of the Issuer as to the Shares covered by the Tender and Support Agreement, except as otherwise expressly provided in the Tender and Support Agreement. This Schedule 13D shall not be construed as an admission by the Reporting Persons that the Reporting Persons are, for the purposes of Section 13(d) of the Act, the beneficial owners of any Shares covered by the Tender and Support Agreement.
(c) Except pursuant to the Merger Agreement and the Tender and Support Agreement described above, to the knowledge of the Reporting Persons, no transactions in the class of securities reported have been effected during the past 60 days by any person named in Schedule A or Item 5(a).
(d) To the knowledge of the Reporting Persons, no person, other than the applicable Stockholder under the applicable Tender and Support Agreement, has the right to receive or the power to direct the receipt of dividends from, or the proceeds from the sale of, the securities of the Issuer reported herein.
(e) Inapplicable.
Item 6. | CONTRACTS, ARRANGEMENTS, UNDERSTANDINGS OR RELATIONSHIPS WITH RESPECT TO SECURITIES OF THE ISSUER |
Except for the Merger Agreement and the Tender and Support Agreement described above, which are incorporated into this Item 6 by reference, to the knowledge of the Reporting Persons, there are no contracts, arrangements, understandings or relationships (legal or otherwise), including, but not limited to, transfer or voting of any of the Shares, finder’s fees, joint ventures, loan or option arrangements, puts or calls, guarantees of profits, division of profits or loss, or the giving or withholding of proxies, among the persons named in Item 2 or between such persons and any other person, with respect to any securities of Issuer, including any securities pledged or otherwise subject to a contingency the occurrence of which would give another person voting power or investment power over such securities.