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

For the Month of November 2022

Commission File Number: 001-37993

 

 

OBSEVA SA

(Translation of registrant’s name into English)

 

 

Chemin des Aulx, 12

1228 Plan-les-Ouates

Geneva, Switzerland

(Address of principal executive office)

 

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F:

☒  Form 20-F            ☐  Form 40-F

 

 

 


INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE

This Report on Form 6-K shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference into the registration statements on Form F-3, as amended (No. 333-221462, 333-266492, 333-260974 and 333-262820) of ObsEva SA (including any prospectuses forming a part of such registration statements) and the registration statements on Form S-8 (Registration No. 333-216170, 333-231629, 333-249457 and 333-263234) of ObsEva SA and to be a part thereof from the date on which this report is filed, to the extent not superseded by documents or reports subsequently filed or furnished.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

On November 21, 2022, ObsEva SA (the “Company”) entered that certain IP Acquisition Agreement, by and between the Company and XOMA (US) LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“XOMA”), dated as of November 21, 2022 (the “Acquisition Agreement”), pursuant to which the Company sold and assigned all its rights to Ebopiprant, an investigational, orally active, selective prostaglandin F2α (PGF2α) receptor antagonist, including the Company’s July 2021 license agreement with Organon & Co. (“Organon”) and June 2015 license agreement with Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany related to Ebopiprant, as well as the intellectual property estate, to XOMA for an upfront payment of $15 million and future milestone payments of up to approximately $98 million upon the achievement of certain development and regulatory milestones and sales milestones under the July 2021 license agreement with Organon.

Also on November 21, 2022, in connection with the entry into the Acquisition Agreement, the Company entered into a consent and amendment agreement (the “Consent”) with certain funds and accounts managed by JGB Management, Inc. (“JGB”) related to that certain Amended and Restated Securities Purchase Agreement, deemed dated as of October 12, 2021, by and between the Company and JGB (the “Securities Purchase Agreement”), that certain Senior Secured Convertible Note issued by the Company to JGB due October 12, 2024, in the aggregate original principal amount of $31,496,063 (the “First Tranche Note”) and that certain Senior Secured Convertible Note issued by the Company to JGB due January 28, 2025, in the aggregate original principal amount of $10,500,000, (the “Second Tranche Note” and together with the First Tranche Note, the “Outstanding Notes”, and together with the Securities Purchase Agreement and ancillary agreements thereto, the “Transaction Agreements”). Pursuant to the Consent, JGB consented to the Company’s entry into the Acquisition Agreement, and the Company and JGB also agreed (i) to amend the maturity date of each of the Outstanding Notes to December 31, 2023 and (ii) that the Company will maintain in a control account pursuant to the Transaction Agreements a minimum cash balance equal to the aggregate outstanding principal balance under the Outstanding Notes as of November 21, 2022, provided such minimum cash balance shall be correspondingly reduced upon any conversion of the outstanding balance or payoff of the Outstanding Notes. As of November 21, 2022, the aggregate outstanding principal of the Outstanding Notes was approximately $6.7 million.

The foregoing summary does not purport to be a complete description of the terms of the Acquisition Agreement or the Consent Agreement and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of such documents, a copy of which will be filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) in the Company’s Annual Report for the year ended December 31, 2022, in the case of the Acquisition Agreement, and a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 99.1 hereto and incorporated herein, in the case of the Consent.

On November 22, 2022, the Company issued a press release announcing, among other things, that it had entered into the Acquisition Agreement and Consent. A copy of the press release is filed as Exhibit 99.2 hereto and incorporated by reference herein.


FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

Statements in this Form 6-K that are not strictly historical in nature, including but not limited to, statements regarding potential future milestone payments to the Company under the Acquisition Agreement and the potential impact of the Consent. These statements are only predictions based on current information and expectations and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual events or results may differ materially from those projected in any of such statements due to various factors, including risks and uncertainties in the outcome and potential impact of the Company’s filing for a preliminary moratorium with the Swiss courts, including with respect to the Company’s agreements with third parties, including the Transaction Agreements, and in the Company’s ability to successfully restructure its operations and refocus its development and commercialization strategy, and other risks and uncertainties that are described in the Risk Factors section of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2021 filed with SEC on March 10, 2022 and in the Reports on Form 6-K filed with the SEC on May 17, 2022 and August 17, 2022, and other filings the Company makes with the SEC. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. This caution is made under the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement and the Company undertakes no obligation to revise or update this report to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof, except as required by law.

EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit
No.

  

Description

99.1    Consent and Amendment Agreement, by and between the Company and JGB, dated November 21, 2022.
99.2    Press Release, dated November 22, 2022.


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, thereunto duly authorized.

 

    ObsEva SA
Date: November 22, 2022     By:  

/s/ Brian O’Callaghan

      Name  Brian O’Callaghan
      Title:   Chief Executive Officer

Exhibit 99.1

Execution Version

CONSENT AND AMENDMENT AGREEMENT

This Consent and Amendment Agreement (this “Consent”), dated as of November 21, 2022, is entered into between ObsEva SA, a Swiss stock corporation (the “Company”), and JGB (Cayman) Port Ellen Ltd., (the “Holder”) (each a “Party” and together, the “Parties”).

WHEREAS, reference is made to that certain IP Acquisition Agreement, by and between, the Company, on the one hand, and XOMA (US) LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“XOMA”), on the other hand, dated as of November 21, 2022 (the “Acquisition Agreement”) attached hereto as Exhibit A;

WHEREAS, under the Acquisition Agreement, the Company irrevocably sells, assigns, transfers, and conveys to XOMA, and XOMA accepts, all right, title, and interest in and to certain Patents, Licenses, and know-how, defined collectively in the Acquisition Agreement as the “Acquired Rights”;

WHEREAS, reference is hereby made to that certain Senior Secured Convertible Note issued by the Company to the Holder due October 12, 2024, in the aggregate original principal amount of $31,496,063 (the “First Tranche Note”) and that certain Senior Secured Convertible Note issued by the Company to the Holder due January 28, 2025, in the aggregate original principal amount of $10,500,000 (the “Second Tranche Note” and together with the First Tranche Note, the “Outstanding Notes”), in each case, pursuant to that certain Amended and Restated Securities Purchase Agreement, deemed dated as of October 12, 2021, among the Company and the purchasers signatory thereto (including Holder), as further amended, modified or supplemented from time to time in accordance with its terms (the “Purchase Agreement”; capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in the Purchase Agreement);

WHEREAS, (i) the Company, as assignor, and Holder, as assignee and security agent, have entered into that certain Amended and Restated Account Assignment Agreement, dated as of June 14, 2022 (the “Account Assignment Agreement”), (ii) pursuant to the Account Assignment Agreement, the Company assigned to Holder for security purposes a deposit account maintained with UBS Switzerland AG (“UBS”) with [***] (the “Account”), and (iii) Holder, the Company and UBS are parties to that certain Control Agreement dated October 12, 2021 (the “Control Agreement”) with respect to the Account;

WHEREAS, as of the date hereof, $4,909,737.17 aggregate principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon of the First Tranche Note and $1,863,745.22 aggregate principal amount plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon of the Second Tranche Note remain outstanding;

WHEREAS, the Company desires that the Holder execute this Consent to induce the Company and XOMA to enter into the Acquisition Agreement;

WHEREAS, the Outstanding Notes contain certain covenants, including without limitation, a restriction on the transfer, sale, lease, assignment, or other disposition of all or any part of the Company business or property (as provided in Section 6(a)(i) of the Outstanding Notes, and with any other restrictions in the Outstanding Notes, including any Event of Default (as defined in the Outstanding Notes) that would prohibit, condition, or otherwise restrict the sale and purchase of the Acquired Rights or any or all of the rights and/or obligations contained in the Acquisition Agreement (the “Restrictions”)); and

WHEREAS, on and subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Company and XOMA desire for the Holder to waive, and the Holder is willing to waive, the Restrictions on a one-time basis in order for the Company and XOMA to consummate the transactions contemplated in the Acquisition Agreement, and the Holder agrees that, notwithstanding any Restrictions in the Outstanding Notes or contained elsewhere, XOMA is the purchaser and assignee of the Acquired Rights under the Acquisition Agreement (collectively, the “Requested Waiver”).


NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing, and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the Company and the Holder agree that:

A. The Holder consents to the sale and purchase of the Acquired Rights under the Acquisition Agreement.

B. On a one-time basis, the Holder grants the Requested Waiver and relinquishes the Restrictions under the Outstanding Notes and any other provision of the Outstanding Notes to the extent such Restrictions or other provisions of the Outstanding Notes would prohibit or restrict the sale and purchase of the Acquired Rights.

C. The Holder agrees that it will not dispute, challenge, or otherwise take any adverse action regarding the sale and purchase of the Acquired Rights or otherwise, directly or indirectly, encourage any third-party to dispute, challenge, or otherwise take any adverse action regarding the sale and purchase of the Acquired Rights.

D. The Holder agrees that XOMA is an express third party beneficiary to this Consent.

E. The Company hereby acknowledges and agrees that the foregoing Requested Waiver is issued on a one-time basis and does not constitute a consent to, or waiver of, any present or future violation of or noncompliance with any provision under the Outstanding Notes and any other provision of the Outstanding Notes or a waiver of the Holder’s rights to insist upon strict compliance with each other term, covenant, condition, and provision of the Outstanding Notes, the Purchase Agreement, the Account Assignment Agreement or the Control Agreement.

F. Holder and the Company acknowledge and agree that:

 

  (i)

the Outstanding Notes, the Purchase Agreement, the Account Assignment Agreement, the Control Agreement, and the other Transaction Documents are legal, valid, binding and enforceable against the Company in accordance with their terms;

 

  (ii)

the Company’s obligations under the Outstanding Notes and the other Transaction Documents (the “Obligations”) are not subject to any setoff, deduction, claim, counterclaim or defenses of any kind or character whatsoever;

 

  (iii)

notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Transaction Document, Holder shall not be obligated to purchase Notes at any Mandatory Tranche Closing or any Optional Tranche Closing or to otherwise extend any credit to the Company pursuant to any of the Transaction Documents; provided, any representations and warranties of the Company pursuant to the Purchase Agreement that are deemed given as of a Mandatory Tranche Closing Date or Optional Tranche Closing Date shall not be so given if Holder declines to purchase Notes at such Mandatory Tranche Closing or Optional Tranche Closing; and

 

  (iv)

Holder has fully and timely performed all of its obligations and duties in compliance with the Transaction Documents and applicable law, and has acted reasonably, in good faith and appropriately under the circumstances.

 

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G. Minimum Cash Amount. Subject to and effective upon the consummation of the sale of the Acquired Rights pursuant to the Acquisition Agreement, the Company agrees that it shall, at all times while there remains any outstanding principal balance under the Outstanding Notes, maintain on deposit in the Account, subject to the Account Assignment Agreement and the Control Agreement, a cash balance of not less than $6,773,482.38 (as reduced pursuant to the proviso of this Clause (E), the “Minimum Cash Amount”); provided, that (i) the Minimum Cash Amount shall be immediately and automatically reduced on a dollar for dollar basis upon the conversion and/or payoff of any amount of the outstanding principal balance under either of the Outstanding Notes (for the avoidance of doubt, the Minimum Cash Amount shall at no time be greater than the amount of the then-outstanding aggregate principal balance of the Outstanding Notes); and (ii) upon any reduction of the Minimum Cash Amount, Holder shall reasonably promptly cause UBS to release to the Company any cash in excess of the Minimum Cash Amount held in the Account.

H. Amendments to the Outstanding Notes. Effective as of the date hereof, each of the Company and Holder agree that the “Maturity Date” under each of the First Tranche Note and the Second Tranche Note shall mean December 31, 2023 (the “Revised Maturity Date”), and all references to the Maturity Date under each of the First Tranche Note and the Second Tranche Note shall refer to the Revised Maturity Date. Except as expressly set forth in this Consent, nothing shall be deemed or construed to amend, supplement or modify the Outstanding Notes or otherwise affect the rights, remedies and/or obligations of any party thereto, all of which remain in full force and effect.

I. Binding Upon Successors. This Consent is binding upon the Company and the Holder, and the successors and assigns of the Company and the Holder and inures to their benefit and to the benefit of their successors and assigns.

J. Counterparts. This Consent may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties on separate counterparts, each of which, may be originally signed or executed via DocuSign and when so executed and delivered shall be deemed to be an original, and all of which, when taken together, shall constitute but one and the same Consent. Delivery of an executed counterpart of this Consent by telefacsimile or other electronic method of transmission shall be equally as effective as delivery of an original executed counterpart of this Consent.

K. Invalidity. If one or more provisions of this Consent are held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability shall not affect any other provision of this Consent, which shall remain in full force and effect, and the parties hereto shall replace such invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision with a new provision permitted by applicable law and having an economic effect as close as possible to the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision. Any provision of this Consent held invalid, illegal or unenforceable only in part or degree by a court of competent jurisdiction shall remain in full force and effect to the extent not held invalid, illegal or unenforceable.

L. Jurisdiction and Venue. All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Consent shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without regard to the principles of conflict of laws thereof. Each Party agrees that all legal proceedings concerning the interpretation, enforcement and defense of the transactions contemplated by any of the Transaction Documents (whether brought against a Party hereto or its respective Affiliates, directors, officers, shareholders, employees or agents) shall be commenced in the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan (the “New York Courts”). Each Party hereto hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the New York Courts for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated hereby or discussed herein (including with respect to the enforcement of any of the Transaction Documents), and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of such New York Courts, or such New York Courts are improper or inconvenient venue for such proceeding. Each Party hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to

 

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process being served in any such suit, action or proceeding by mailing a copy thereof via registered or certified mail or overnight delivery (with evidence of delivery) to such Party at the address in effect for notices to it under this Note and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any other manner permitted by applicable law. Each Party hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any and all right to trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to this Note or the transactions contemplated hereby.

M. Releases. In further consideration of the Holder’s execution of this Consent, the Company, on behalf of itself and its successors, assigns, parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, employees, agents and attorneys, hereby forever, fully, unconditionally and irrevocably waives and releases the Holder and its successors, assigns, parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, employees, attorneys and agents (collectively, the “Releasees”) from any and all claims, liabilities, obligations, debts, causes of action (whether at law or in equity or otherwise), defenses, counterclaims, setoffs, of any kind, whether known or unknown, whether liquidated or unliquidated, matured or unmatured, fixed or contingent, directly or indirectly arising out of, connected with, resulting from or related to any act or omission by the Holder or any other Releasee, on or prior to the date hereof, with respect to the Transaction Documents (collectively, the “Claims”). The Company further agrees that it shall not commence, institute, or prosecute any lawsuit, action or other proceeding, whether judicial, administrative or otherwise, to prosecute, collect or enforce any Claim.

N. Announcement. The Company shall file a Form 6-K simultaneously (i) announcing the terms of this Consent and the Acquisition Agreement; and (ii) filing this Consent as an exhibit thereto on or before 5:30 p.m. (local time in New York, New York) on the Business Day (as defined in the Purchase Agreement) after the date of this Consent. Following the filing of such Form 6-K the Holder shall not be deemed to be in possession of any material, non-public information of the Company.

[Signature Pages to Follow]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Consent to be duly executed as of the date first written above.

 

The Company:

OBSEVA SA,

A Swiss stock corporation

  By:  

/s/ Will Brown

        

  Name:   Will Brown
  Title:   Chief Financial Officer

Address:     c/o ObsEva SA

 Chemin des Aulx, 12

 1228 Plan-les-Ouates

 Geneva, Switzerland

With a copy to:
Address:

[SIGNATURE PAGE TO CONSENT, WAIVER, AND AGREEMENT]


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Consent to be duly executed as of the date first written above.

 

The Holder:
JGB (CAYMAN) PORT ELLEN LTD.
  By:  

/s/ Brett Cohen

        

  Name:   Brett Cohen
  Title:   President

Address:     c/o JGB Management, Inc.

 21 Charles Street

 Westport, CT 06880

With a copy to:
Address:

[SIGNATURE PAGE TO CONSENT, WAIVER, AND AGREEMENT]


EXHIBIT A

IP Acquisition Agreement

[Attached Separately]

Exhibit 99.2

LOGO

ObsEva Announces Sale of Ebopiprant License Agreement to XOMA for up to $113 Million

 

   

Sale of Ebopiprant royalty and milestone license to XOMA includes upfront payment of $15 million and future milestone payments of up to $98 million

 

   

The sale proceeds are expected to enable ObsEva to resolve its current over-indebtedness position and to withdraw its pending Swiss moratorium proceedings

 

   

Sale proceeds expected to position ObsEva to satisfy Nasdaq stockholders’ equity requirement for continued public listing

 

   

ObsEva expects to have greater than one year of cash runway, providing strategic optionality

Ad hoc announcement pursuant to Art. 53 LR of the SIX Swiss Exchange

GENEVA, Switzerland – November 22, 2022 – ObsEva SA (NASDAQ: OBSV; SIX: OBSN) (“ObsEva” or the “Company”), a biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapies for women’s health, today announced the sale of all of the Company’s rights to Ebopiprant to XOMA Corporation (XOMA) for an upfront payment of $15 million and future milestone payments of up to $98 million. ObsEva expects the sale proceeds to resolve its current over-indebtedness position, enabling the Company to withdraw the Company’s previously announced moratorium proceedings before Swiss courts, as well as position the Company to regain compliance with minimum stockholders’ equity requirements for continued listing on The Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”).

“The sale of the Ebopiprant license agreement both strengthens our immediate financial position, while providing the potential for future upside for shareholders,” said Brian O’Callaghan, CEO of ObsEva. “The transaction marks the successful completion of a restructuring process whereby we have extracted material savings through the assignment of contracts, streamlined our organizational structure, and restructured our debt. With the receipt of the upfront payment, we expect to have more than a year of cash runway and an enhanced strategic position, and we intend to turn the Company’s resources towards nolasiban, a novel, oral oxytocin receptor antagonist being developed to improve clinical pregnancy and live birth rates in women undergoing in vitro fertilization, while also evaluating strategic options to maximize shareholder value. ObsEva retains worldwide, exclusive, commercial rights for nolasiban, except for the People’s Republic of China.”

Under the terms of the agreement with XOMA, ObsEva has sold and assigned all its rights to Ebopiprant, an investigational, orally active, selective prostaglandin F2α (PGF2α) receptor antagonist being evaluated as a potential treatment for preterm labor by reducing inflammation and uterine contractions, to XOMA, including the Company’s license agreements with Organon and Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, and the intellectual property estate. In addition to the $15 million received in upfront proceeds, ObsEva is eligible to receive up to $98 million upon the achievement of certain development and regulatory milestones and sales milestones under the Company’s license agreement with Organon for Ebopiprant that was sold to XOMA in the transaction. In July 2021, ObsEva granted a license to Organon for the global development, manufacturing, and commercial rights to Ebopiprant.


In conjunction with the closing of the transaction, ObsEva and JGB Management, Inc. (“JGB”) entered into a Consent and Amendment Agreement (the “Consent”), whereby JGB consented to ObsEva’s transaction with XOMA, and ObsEva agreed to maintain restricted cash equal to the total amount of outstanding principal under the outstanding convertible notes held by certain funds and accounts managed by JGB, subject to reduction upon conversion or payoff of the notes, and agreed to amend the maturity date for each note to December 31, 2023. Further information with respect to the Consent will be provided in a Form 6-K filed by ObsEva with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 22, 2022.

As previously announced, ObsEva received a notification letter from Nasdaq advising the Company that it was not in compliance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5450(b)(1)(A) requiring companies listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market to maintain a minimum of $10 million in stockholders’ equity for continued listing. The sale proceeds are expected to improve the Company’s ability to regain compliance with Nasdaq’s continued listing requirements, including the minimum stockholders’ equity requirement,    and to position the Company to inform the Swiss court that it is no longer in an over-indebtedness position and to withdraw the pending Swiss moratorium proceedings.

Torreya acted as the exclusive financial advisor to ObsEva on the XOMA transaction.

About Nolasiban

Nolasiban is a novel, oral oxytocin receptor antagonist being developed for improving clinical pregnancy and live birth rates in women undergoing in vitro fertilization. ObsEva retains worldwide, exclusive, commercial rights, except for the People’s Republic of China which has been sub-licensed to YuYuan BioScience (“Yuyuan”). Under the sublicense agreement with Yuyuan for nolasiban, ObsEva is entitled to receive aggregate milestone payments of up to $17 million upon the achievement of specified development, regulatory, and first sales milestones, and aggregate milestone payments of up to $115 million upon the achievement of additional, tiered sales milestones. In addition, Yuyuan has agreed to pay tiered royalties on net sales at percentages ranging from high-single digit to low-second digits.

Yuyuan’s IND application for a Phase 1 clinical trial of nolasiban was recently approved by the Center for Drug Evaluation at the Chinese National Medical Products Administration. Yuyuan plans to initiate a single-center, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 1 clinical trial in China to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamic characteristics of nolasiban in healthy adult female subjects in China.

About ObsEva

ObsEva is a biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapies to improve women’s reproductive health and pregnancy. Through strategic in-licensing and disciplined drug development, ObsEva has established a development program focused on improving clinical pregnancy and live birth rates in women undergoing in vitro fertilization. ObsEva is listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market and is traded under the ticker symbol “OBSV” and on the SIX Swiss Exchange where it is traded under the ticker symbol “OBSN”. For more information, please visit www.ObsEva.com.


Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

Any statements contained in this press release that do not describe historical facts may constitute forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements may be identified by words such as “anticipate”, “believe”, “continue”, “could”, “estimate”, “expect”, “intend”, “may”, “might”, “ongoing”, “objective”, “plan”, “potential”, “predict”, “should”, “will”, “would”, or the negative of these and similar expressions, and are based on ObsEva’s current beliefs and expectations. These forward-looking statements include statements regarding the expected benefits of the XOMA transaction in providing future upside for shareholders, ObsEva’s cash runway and indebtedness position, the receipt of potential milestone payments under the agreement with XOMA, the receipt of potential milestone and royalty payments under the sublicense agreement with YuYuan, Yuyuan’s plans to initiate a Phase 1 clinical trial for nolasiban as designed, the timing, outcome and potential impact of the Company’s intended withdrawal of the pending moratorium proceedings before Swiss courts, and the Company’s plans for and ability to regain compliance with Nasdaq’s continued listing requirements. These statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such statements. Risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially include uncertainties in the ability of the proceeds from the sale to provide the expected benefits, ObsEva’s cash requirements and ability to resolve its current indebtedness position, the achievement of milestones under the agreement with XOMA, the achievement of milestones under the sublicense agreement with YuYuan, the ability of Yuyuan to conduct a Phase 1 clinical trial for nolasiban as designed, the outcome and potential impact of the Company’s intended withdrawal of the pending moratorium proceedings before Swiss courts, including with respect to ObsEva’s agreements with third parties and outstanding debt obligations, ObsEva’s ability to successfully restructure its operations, ObsEva’s ability to regain compliance with the continued listing rules of Nasdaq and the potential for Nasdaq to use its discretionary authority to delist the Company’s common shares in connection with the pending Swiss moratorium proceedings if ObsEva is not able to withdraw such proceedings, the conduct of clinical trials and clinical development, including the risk that the results of earlier clinical trials may not be predictive of the results of later stage clinical trials, ObsEva’s reliance on third parties over which it may not always have full control, and the capabilities of such third parties, the impact of the ongoing novel coronavirus outbreak and other geopolitical events, and other risks and uncertainties that are described in the Risk Factors section of ObsEva’s Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2021 filed with Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on March 10, 2022, in the Report on Form 6-K filed with the SEC on August 17, 2022 and other filings ObsEva makes with the SEC. These documents are available on the Investors page of ObsEva’s website at www.ObsEva.com. Any forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release and are based on information available to ObsEva as of the date of this release, and, except as required by law, ObsEva assumes no obligation to, and does not intend to, update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

For further information, please contact:

CEO Administrative Contact

Shauna Dillon

shauna.dillon@obseva.ch

+41 22 552 1550


Investor Contact

Will Brown

will.brown@obseva.com

+1 (334) 313-2319