UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 6-K
REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16 UNDER THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
September 2023
Commission File Number: 001-41386
| OKYO Pharma LTD |
| (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter) |
9th Floor
107 Cheapside
London
EC2V 6DN
(Address of principal executive office)
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INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS REPORT ON FORM 6-K
On September 14, 2023, OKYO Pharma Limited (the “Company”) entered into a securities purchase agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with certain individual and institutional investors, with respect to the issuance and sale (the “Offering”) of 2,666,670 Ordinary Shares at a price of $1.50 per Ordinary Share for gross proceeds of $4,000,000.
The Offering closed on September 15, 2023.
The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the Offering for clinical development of the Company’s product candidates, general corporate purposes and working capital.
The foregoing description of the Purchase Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Purchase Agreement, which is filed as 10.1 hereto and incorporated herein by reference.
The Ordinary Shares are offered by the Company pursuant to a registration statement on Form F-3 (File No. 333-272516) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”), which was declared effective by the Commission on June 14, 2023.
The legal opinion of Carey Olsen (Guernsey) LLP, counsel to the Company, relating to the legality of the issuance and sale of the Ordinary Shares in the Offering is filed as Exhibit 5.1 hereto.
EXHIBITS
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
| | OKYO Pharma LTD |
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| Date: September 15, 2023 | By: | /s/ Keeren Shah |
| | | Keeren Shah |
| | | Chief Financial Officer |
