UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): July 17, 2018
VBI VACCINES INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
British Columbia, Canada | 001-37769 | N/A | ||
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) | (Commission File Number) | (IRS Employer Identification No.) |
222 Third Street, Suite 2241 Cambridge, Massachusetts | 02142 | |
(Address of principal executive offices) | (Zip Code) |
(617) 830-3031
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
N/A
(Former Name or former address, if changed since last report)
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Item 1.01 | Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. |
As previously reported, Variation Biotechnologies (US), Inc. (the “Borrower”), a subsidiary of VBI Vaccines, Inc. (the “Company”), the guarantors on the signature pages thereto (the “Guarantors”), and Perceptive Credit Holdings, L.P. (“Perceptive”) are parties to that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement and Guaranty, dated December 6, 2016, as amended on September 28, 2017 (the “Existing Credit Agreement”), and the Company had issued that certain Amended and Restated Warrant in favor of Perceptive for the purchase of 363,771 common shares of the Company, with an original issue date of July 25, 2014 (the “Warrant”).
On July 17, 2018, the Borrower, the Company, the Guarantors and Perceptive entered into Amendment No.2 to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement and Guaranty and Amendment to Warrant (the “Amendment”), to extend the period the Company is required to pay only the interest on the loan made under the Existing Credit Agreement from May 31, 2018, to December 31, 2018. In addition, the Existing Credit Agreement was amended so that the amounts repaid or prepaid will first be applied to the payment of fees, indemnities, costs, expenses and other amounts then due and owing to Perceptive, and then, to the payment of any accrued and unpaid interest then due and owing on the loans, to the payment of unpaid principal of the loans, together with any applicable early prepayment fee thereon, to the payment of any exit fee and to the payment of all other obligation due and payable, in such order.
The Amendment also extended the term of the Warrant from July 25, 2019, to December 6, 2021.
The foregoing description of the Amendment does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Amendment, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.1 and incorporated herein by reference.
Item 2.03 | Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant. |
The information set forth in Item 1.01 of this report is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 9.01 | Financial Statements and Exhibits. |
(d) Exhibits
SIGNATURES
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 hereunto duly authorized.
VBI Vaccines Inc. | ||
Date: July 19, 2018 | By: | /s/ Jeff Baxter |
Jeff Baxter | ||
President and Chief Executive Officer |