REXAHN PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (Form: 8-K, Received: 05/05/2017 16:32:02)

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): May 5, 2017

Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware	001-34079	11-3516358
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)	(Commission File Number)	(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

15245 Shady Grove Road, Suite 455 Rockville, MD		20850
(Address of principal executive offices)		(Zip Code)

Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (240) 268-5300

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

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Section 5 – Corporate Governance and Management

Item 5.03.

Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.

Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the “Company”) announced today that it has effected a one-for-ten reverse split (the “Reverse Stock Split”) of the Company’s outstanding shares of common stock, together with a corresponding proportional reduction in the number of authorized shares of the Company’s capital stock (the “Authorized Share Reduction”). To effectuate the Reverse Stock Split and the Authorized Share Reduction, the Company filed a Certificate of Amendment of the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Amendment”) with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware. Pursuant to and upon the effectiveness of the Amendment at 7:00 a.m., Eastern Standard Time, on May 5, 2017, each ten shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, issued and outstanding at the effective time were reclassified and combined into one share of common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company and the number of shares of common stock and preferred stock the Company is authorized to issue was reduced to 50 million and 10 million, respectively.

The Company has retained Olde Monmouth Stock Transfer Co., Inc. (“Olde Monmouth”) to act as exchange agent for the Reverse Stock Split. Olde Monmouth will manage the exchange of old, pre-Reverse Stock Split shares for new post-Reverse Stock Split shares. Stockholders will receive a letter of transmittal providing instructions for the exchange of their shares. Record stockholders who hold their shares in “street name” will be contacted by their banks or brokers with any instructions. For further information, stockholders and securities brokers should contact Olde Monmouth at (732) 872-2727 or transferagent@oldemonmouth.com .

A copy of the Amendment is attached hereto as Exhibit 3.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.

Section 7 – Regulation FD

Item 7.01.

Regulation FD Disclosure.

On May 5, 2017, the Company issued a press release announcing the effectiveness of the Reverse Stock Split discussed under Item 5.03 of this report.

A copy of the Company’s press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated by reference herein.

Section 9 - Financial Statements and Exhibits

Item 9.01

Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits.

Exhibit No.		Description

3.1		Certificate of Amendment of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

99.1		Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. press release dated May 5, 2017, announcing the effectiveness of the Reverse Stock Split and Authorized Share Reduction

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.

	REXAHN PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
Dated: May 5, 2017
	/s/ Peter Suzdak
	Peter Suzdak
	Chief Executive Officer

EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit No.		Description

3.1		Certificate of Amendment of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

99.1		Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. press release dated May 5, 2017, announcing the effectiveness of the Reverse Stock Split and Authorized Share Reduction

CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT

AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

REXAHN PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.

Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Corporation”), does hereby certify as follows:

1. The name of the Corporation is Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

2. Article 4 of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, as amended to date, is hereby amended by replacing the first paragraph thereof with the following:

“The total number of shares of all classes of stock which the Corporation shall have the authority to issue is 60,000,000 shares of the par value of $.0001 each, of which 10,000,000 are to be of a class designated Preferred Stock (the “Preferred Stock”) and 50,000,000 shares of the par value of $.0001 each are to be of a class designated Common Stock (the “Common Stock”).

Upon the filing and effectiveness (the “Effective Time”) of this amendment to the Corporation’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation pursuant to the Delaware General Corporation Law, each 10 shares of the Common Stock (the “Old Common Stock”) issued immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be reclassified and combined into one validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable share of the Corporation’s common stock, $.0001 par value per share (the “New Common Stock”), without any action by the holder thereof (the “Reverse Stock Split”). The Corporation shall not issue fractions of shares of New Common Stock in connection with such reclassification and combination. Stockholders who, immediately prior to the Effective Time, own a number of shares of Old Common Stock which is not evenly divisible by 10 shall, with respect to such fractional interest, be entitled to receive cash from the Corporation in lieu of fractions of shares of New Common Stock from the disposition of such fractional interest as provided below. The Corporation shall arrange for the disposition of fractional interests by those otherwise entitled thereto, by the mechanism of having (x) the transfer agent of the Corporation aggregate such fractional interests, (y) the shares resulting from the aggregation sold and (z) the net proceeds received from the sale allocated and distributed among the holders of the fractional interests as their respective interests appear. Each certificate that theretofore represented shares of Old Common Stock shall thereafter represent that number of shares of New Common Stock into which the shares of Old Common Stock represented by such certificate shall have been reclassified and combined; provided, that each person holding of record a stock certificate or certificates that represented shares of Old Common Stock shall receive, upon surrender of such certificate or certificates, a new certificate or certificates evidencing and representing the number of shares of New Common Stock to which such person is entitled under the foregoing reclassification and combination.”

3. This Certificate of Amendment has been duly adopted by the Board of Directors and stockholders of the Corporation in accordance with Section 242 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

4. This Certificate of Amendment shall become effective at 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time on May 5, 2017.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused its duly authorized officer to execute this Certificate of Amendment on this 3 ^rd day of May, 2017.

	REXAHN PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.

	By:	/s/ Peter Suzdak
	Name:	Peter Suzdak
	Title:	Chief Executive Officer

Rexahn Effects 1-for-10 Reverse Stock Split

ROCKVILLE, Md., May 5, 2017 – Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE MKT: RNN) (“Rexahn” or the “Company”), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative, targeted therapeutics for the treatment of cancer, today announced that the Company’s previously announced 1-for-10 reverse split (the “Reverse Stock Split”) of its common stock (the “Common Stock”) became effective today prior to the opening of trading on the NYSE MKT, and that the Common Stock will begin trading on a split-adjusted basis at the opening of trading today.

As a result of the reverse stock split, each 10 shares of issued Common Stock were converted into one share of Common Stock. Shareholders will receive cash in lieu of any fraction of a share that they would otherwise be entitled to receive as a result of the reverse stock split. The reverse stock split reduced the number of shares of outstanding Common Stock from approximately 254 million, to approximately 25.4 million and the number of shares of Common Stock the Company is authorized to issue was reduced from 500 million to 50 million.

Olde Monmouth Stock Transfer Co., Inc., the Company’s transfer agent, is acting as the exchange agent in connection with the reverse stock split. Shareholders holding Common Stock in certificated form will receive instructions from the transfer agent on how to surrender the certificates representing the pre-split shares in exchange for the new book-entry shares in electronic form. Shareholders who hold their shares electronically or in street name are not required to take any action to effect the exchange of their shares.

About Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Rexahn Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NYSE MKT: RNN) is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing novel, best-in-class therapeutics for the treatment of cancer. The Company’s mission is to improve the lives of cancer patients by developing next generation cancer therapies that are designed to maximize efficacy while minimizing the toxicity and side effects traditionally associated with cancer treatment. Rexahn’s product candidates work by targeting and neutralizing specific proteins believed to be involved in the complex biological cascade that leads to cancer cell growth. Preclinical studies show that certain of Rexahn’s product candidates may be effective against multiple types of cancer, drug resistant cancer and difficult-to-treat cancers, and others may augment the effectiveness of current FDA-approved cancer treatments. The Company has a broad oncology pipeline that includes three anti-cancer compounds currently in clinical development: Supinoxin™, RX-3117, and Archexin ^® , and a novel nanopolymer-based drug delivery platform technology that may increase the bio-availability of FDA-approved chemotherapies. For more information about the Company and its oncology programs, please visit www.rexahn.com .

To the extent any statements made in this press release deal with information that is not historical, these are forward looking statements under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements about the timing and effectiveness of the reverse stock split and the authorized share reduction, statements about the objectives of the reverse stock split, and other statements identified by words such as “will,” “potential,” “could,” “can,” “believe,” “intends,” “continue,” “plans,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “estimates,” “may,” other words of similar meaning or the use of future dates. Forward-looking statements by their nature address matters that are, to different degrees, uncertain. Uncertainties and risks may cause Rexahn’s actual results to be materially different than those expressed in or implied by Rexahn’s forward-looking statements. For Rexahn, particular uncertainties and risks include, among others, understandings and beliefs regarding the role of certain biological mechanisms and processes in cancer; drug candidates being in early stages of development, including in pre-clinical development; the ability to initially develop drug candidates for orphan indications to reduce the time-to-market and take advantage of certain incentives provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; and the ability to transition from our initial focus on developing drug candidates for orphan indications to candidates for more highly prevalent indications. There can be no assurance that the reverse stock split will result in a sustained increased stock price or increased interest and trading in Rexahn’s common stock. More detailed information on the factors that could affect Rexahn’s actual results are described in Rexahn’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent annual report on Form 10-K and subsequent quarterly report on Form 10-Q. All forward-looking statements in this news release speak only as of the date of this news release. Rexahn undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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