As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 20, 2023
Registration No. 333-264585
Delaware | | | 2836 | | | 31-1103425 |
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) | | | (Primary Standard Industrial Classification Code) | | | (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
Large accelerated filer | | | ☐ | | | Accelerated filer | | | ☐ |
Non-accelerated filer | | | ☒ | | | Smaller Reporting Company | | | ☒ |
| | | | Emerging Growth Company | | | ☐ |
PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS | | | SUBJECT TO COMPLETION | | | DATED MARCH 20, 2023 |
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• | our dependence on in-licensed intellectual property; |
• | our ability to enter into and sustain strategic partnerships with respect to the potential licensing of our intellectual property; |
• | our expectations regarding our ability to fund our operating expenses and capital expenditure requirements with our cash, cash equivalents and investments; |
• | our estimates regarding expenses, future revenue, capital requirements and needs for additional financing; |
• | our intellectual property position and strategy; |
• | developments relating to our competitors and our industry; |
• | the impact of government laws and regulations; and |
• | our ability to continue as a going concern. |
• | the corporation has elected in its certificate of incorporation not to be governed by Section 203; |
• | the business combination or the transaction which resulted in the stockholder becoming an interested stockholder was approved by the board of directors of the corporation before the date of the business combination or the date such stockholder became an interested stockholder, as applicable; |
• | upon consummation of the transaction that made such stockholder an interested stockholder, the interested stockholder owned at least 85% of the “voting stock” (as defined in Section 203) of the corporation outstanding at the commencement of the transaction excluding voting stock owned by directors who are also officers or held in employee benefit plans in which the employees do not have a confidential right to tender stock held by the plan in a tender or exchange offer; or |
• | the business combination is approved by the board of directors and by the stockholders (acting at a meeting and not by written consent) by the affirmative vote of at least 66-2/3% of the outstanding voting stock which is not “owned” (as defined in Section 203) by the interested stockholder. |
Selling Stockholder | | | Number of Shares of Common Stock Owned Prior to Offering | | | Maximum Number of Shares of Common Stock to be Sold Pursuant to this Prospectus | | | Number of Shares of Common Stock Owned After the Offering | | | Percentage of Shares of Common Stock Owned After the Offering |
Armistice Capital Master Fund Ltd.(1) | | | 342,857 | | | 342,857 | | | — | | | * |
* | Denotes less than 1% |
(1) | The amount includes 342,857 shares of our common stock issuable upon the exercise of the Common Warrants, all of which are directly held by Armistice Capital Master Fund Ltd. (the “Master Fund”), a Cayman Islands exempted company, and may be deemed to be indirectly beneficially owned by Armistice Capital, LLC (“Armistice”), as the investment manager of the Master Fund; and (ii) Steven Boyd, as the Managing Member of Armistice Capital. Armistice and Steven Boyd disclaim beneficial ownership of the reported securities except to the extent of their respective pecuniary interest therein. The Pre-Funded Warrants and Common Warrants are each subject to certain beneficial ownership limitations that prohibit the Master Fund from exercising any portion of them if, following such exercise, the Master Fund’s ownership of our common stock would exceed the relevant warrant’s ownership limitation. The address of the Master Fund is c/o Armistice Capital, LLC, 510 Madison Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10022. |
• | ordinary brokerage transactions and transactions in which the broker-dealer solicits purchasers; |
• | block trades in which the broker-dealer will attempt to sell the securities as agent but may position and resell a portion of the block as principal to facilitate the transaction; |
• | purchases by a broker-dealer as principal and resale by the broker-dealer for its account; |
• | an exchange distribution in accordance with the rules of the applicable exchange; |
• | privately negotiated transactions; |
• | settlement of short sales; |
• | in transactions through broker-dealers that agree with the Selling Stockholder to sell a specified number of such securities at a stipulated price per security; |
• | through the writing or settlement of options or other hedging transactions, whether through an options exchange or otherwise; |
• | a combination of any such methods of sale; or |
• | any other method permitted pursuant to applicable law. |
• | our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, filed with the SEC on March 20, 2023; |
• | our Current Reports on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC January 4, 2023, January 10, 2023, January 26, 2023, and February 22, 2023; and |
• | the Company’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed with the SEC on October 22, 2021, in which there is described the terms, rights and provisions applicable to the shares of the Company’s common stock, including any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description, including the description of the common stock filed as Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 filed on April 15, 2022. |
Item 13. | Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution |
Item | | | Amount to be paid |
SEC registration fee | | | $0* |
Accounting fees and expenses | | | 35,000 |
Legal fees and expenses | | | 25,000 |
Miscellaneous fees and expenses | | | 2,500 |
Total | | | $62,500 |
* | Previously paid |
Item 14. | Indemnification of Directors and Officers. |
Item 15. | Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities. |
Item 16. | Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules. |
(a) | Exhibits |
(b) | Financial Statement Schedules |
| | Agreement and Plan of Merger and Reorganization, dated August 12, 2020, by and among NTN Buzztime, Inc., BIT Merger Sub, Inc. and Brooklyn ImmunoTherapeutics LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.1 to the Company’s proxy statement/prospectus on Form S-4/A, filed with the SEC on January 20, 2021). | |
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| | Agreement and Plan of Acquisition, dated as of July 16, 2021, by and among Brooklyn ImmunoTherapeutics, Inc., Brooklyn Acquisition Sub, Inc., Novellus LLC, Novellus, Inc., and the Sellers’ Representative (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on July 19, 2021). | |
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| | Composite Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 20, 2023). | |
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| | Second Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 11, 2022). | |
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| | Certificate of Validation of the Company, filed on September 3, 2021 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on September 13, 2021). | |
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| | Specimen Stock Certificate evidencing shares of common stock of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed on April 30, 2021). | |
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| | Description of the Registrant’s Securities Registered Pursuant to Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed on April 15, 2022). | |
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| | Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of March 6, 2022, by and between Brooklyn ImmunoTherapeutics, Inc. and the purchaser party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on March 9, 2022). | |
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| | Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of March 6, 2022, by and between Brooklyn ImmunoTherapeutics, Inc. and the purchaser party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on March 9, 2022). | |
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| | Form of Pre-Funded Warrant (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on March 9, 2022). | |
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| | Form of Common Stock Warrant (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on March 9, 2022). | |
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| | Form of Warrant (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on December 5, 2022). |
| | Opinion of Greenberg Traurig, LLP. | |
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| | Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of May 26, 2021, between Brooklyn ImmunoTherapeutics, Inc. and Lincoln Park Capital Fund, LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on May 26, 2021). | |
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| | Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of July 16, 2021, by and among Brooklyn ImmunoTherapeutics, Inc. and the individuals and entities named therein (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on July 19, 2021). | |
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| | Purchase Agreement, dated as of May 26, 2021, between Brooklyn ImmunoTherapeutics, Inc. and Lincoln Park Capital Fund, LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on May 26, 2021). | |
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| | Brooklyn ImmunoTherapeutics, Inc. 2021 Inducement Stock Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on May 26, 2021). | |
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| | Brooklyn ImmunoTherapeutics, Inc. Restated 2020 Stock Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 to the Company’s Form 8-K, filed on September 13, 2021). | |
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| | Agreement to Assign Space Lease dated March 5, 2022 between Brooklyn ImmunoTherapeutics, LLC and Regen Lab USA LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, filed on June 30, 2022). | |
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| | Assignment and Assumption of Lease dated March 25, 2022 between Brooklyn ImmunoTherapeutics, LLC and Regen Lab USA LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, filed on June 30, 2022). | |
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| | Amended and Restated Executive Employment Agreement, dated as of May 10, 2022, by and between Brooklyn ImmunoTherapeutics, Inc. and Andrew Jackson (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on May 31, 2022). | |
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| | Torrey Pines Science Center Lease, dated March 31, 2022, between Brooklyn ImmunoTherapeutics, Inc. and Torrey Pines Science Center Limited Partnership (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, filed on August 11, 2022). | |
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| | Master Services Agreement, dated September 9, 2022, by and between Factor Bioscience Inc. and the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on September 15, 2022). | |
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| | Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of November 23, 2022, by and among Eterna Therapeutics Inc. and the purchasers party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on November 25, 2022). | |
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| | Angel Offer Letter, dated December 30, 2022, by and among Eterna Therapeutics Inc. and Dr. Matthew Angel (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on January 4, 2023). | |
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| | Exclusive License Agreement, dated February 20, 2023, by and between Factor Bioscience Limited and Eterna Therapeutics Inc (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on February 22, 2023). | |
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| | Exclusive License Agreement, dated as of April 26, 2021, between Factor Bioscience Limited, Novellus Therapeutics Limited and Eterna Therapeutics (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on April 30, 2021). | |
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| | First Amendment to Exclusive License Agreement, dated November 22, 2022, by and among Eterna Therapeutics Inc., Eterna Therapeutics LLC, Novellus Therapeutics Limited and Factor Bioscience Limited (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on November 22, 2022). | |
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| | Separation Agreement and General Release, dated May 25, 2022, by and between Eterna Therapeutics Inc. and Howard J. Federoff (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on May 31, 2022). | |
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| | Third Amended and Restated Exclusive License Agreement, dated November 1, 2020, by and between Factor Bioscience Limited and Novellus Therapeutics Limited (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, filed on November 14, 2022). | |
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| | Separation Agreement and General Release, dated August 24, 2022, by and between Eterna Therapeutics Inc and Kevin D’Amour (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K/A, filed on September 1, 2022). | |
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| | Sublease Agreement, dated October 18, 2022, by and between E.R. Squibb & Sons, LLC and Eterna Therapeutics Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.16 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed on March 20, 2023). | |
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| | Option Agreement, dated October 8, 2022, by and between Exacis Biotherapeutics, Inc. and Eterna Therapeutics Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on October 14, 2022). | |
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| | Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of December 2, 2022, by and among Eterna Therapeutics Inc. and the purchasers party thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on December 5, 2022). | |
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| | Lease Termination Agreement, dated November 30, 2022, by and between Torrey Pines Science Center Limited Partnership and Eterna Therapeutics Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.21 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed on March 20, 2023). | |
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| | First Amendment to Lease Termination Agreement, dated December 29, 2022, by and between Torrey Pines Science Center Limited Partnership and Eterna Therapeutics Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.22 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed on March 20, 2023). | |
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| | Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of April 26, 2021, between Eterna Therapeutics Inc. and Lincoln Park Capital Fund, LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on April 30, 2021). | |
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| | Purchase Agreement, dated as of April 26, 2021, between Eterna Therapeutics Inc. and Lincoln Park Capital Fund, LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on April 30, 2021). | |
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| | Marcum, LLP letter dated January 24, 2022 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 16.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on January 24, 2022). | |
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| | Marcum, LLP letter dated April 19, 2022 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 16.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on April 19, 2022). | |
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| | Subsidiaries of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 21.1 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed on March 20, 2023). | |
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| | Consent of the Independent Registered Accounting Firm, Grant Thornton LLP. | |
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| | Consent of the Independent Registered Accounting Firm, Marcum LLP. | |
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| | Consent of Greenberg Traurig, LLP. | |
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| | Power of Attorney |
* | Filed herewith |
** | Previously Filed |
+ | Management contract or compensatory plan. |
(a) | Pursuant to Item 601(b)(2) of Regulation S-K, portions of this exhibit have been omitted because the Company customarily and actually treats the omitted portions as private or confidential, and such portions are not material and would likely cause competitive harm to the Company if publicly disclosed. The Company will supplementally provide a copy of an unredacted copy of this exhibit to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission or its staff upon request. |
(b) | Certain identified information has been excluded from this exhibit because it is both (i) not material and (ii) would be competitively harmful if publicly disclosed. |
(c) | Pursuant to Item 601(a)(5) of Regulation S-K, schedules and similar attachments to this exhibit have been omitted because they do not contain information material to an investment or voting decision and such information is not otherwise disclosed in such exhibit. The Company will supplementally provide a copy of any omitted schedule or similar attachment to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission or its staff upon request. |
Item 17. | Undertakings |
(1) | To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement: |
i. | To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended; |
ii. | To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective registration statement; and |
iii. | To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement. |
(2) | That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such post- effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. |
(3) | To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering. |
(4) | That, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser, each prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) as part of a registration statement relating to an offering, other than registration statements relying on Rule 430B or other than prospectuses filed in reliance on Rule 430A, shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the date it is first used after effectiveness. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such first use, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such date of first use. |
(5) | The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof. |
(6) | Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the SEC such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue. |
| | ETERNA THERAPEUTICS INC. | ||||
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| | By: | | | /s/ Matthew Angel | |
| | Name: | | | Matthew Angel | |
| | Title: | | | Chief Executive Officer and President (Principal Executive Officer) |
Name | | | Title | | | Date |
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/s/ Matthew Angel | | | Chief Executive Officer, President and Director (Principal Executive Officer) | | | March 20, 2023 |
Matthew Angel | | | ||||
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/s/ Andrew Jackson | | | Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer) | | | March 20, 2023 |
Andrew Jackson | | | ||||
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/s/ Sandra Gurrola | | | Vice President of Finance (Principal Accounting Officer) | | | March 20, 2023 |
Sandra Gurrola | | | ||||
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/s/ Charles Cherington | | | Chairman of the Board of Directors | | | March 20, 2023 |
Charles Cherington | | | | | ||
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/s/ Gregory Fiore | | | Director | | | March 20, 2023 |
Gregory Fiore | | | | | ||
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/s/ Nicholas Singer | | | Director | | | March 20, 2023 |
Nicholas Singer | | | | | ||
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/s/ William Wexler | | | Director | | | March 20, 2023 |
William Wexler | | | | |