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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): March 22, 2023

 

 

Harpoon Therapeutics, Inc.

(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   001-38800   47-3458693

(State or Other Jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

 

131 Oyster Point Blvd, Suite 300

South San Francisco, California

  94080
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Zip Code)

(650) 443-7400

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

Not Applicable

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

 

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instructions A.2. below):

 

Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of each class

 

Trading
Symbol(s)

 

Name of each exchange

on which registered

Common stock, par value $0.0001 per share   HARP   Nasdaq Global Select Market

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§ 230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§ 240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company ☒

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

 

 

 


Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

Private Placement of Non-Voting Redeemable Preferred Stock and Warrants

On March 22, 2023, Harpoon Therapeutics, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with the purchasers named therein (the “Purchasers”), pursuant to which the Company agreed to sell and issue shares of the Company’s 8.000% Series A redeemable preferred stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Series A Preferred Stock”), and warrants (the “Warrants”) to purchase shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Common Stock”), in a private placement transaction (the “Private Placement”).

At the closing of the Private Placement on March 23, 2023 (the “Closing”), the Company sold and issued to the Purchasers (i) 25,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock and (ii) Warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 7,485,762 shares of the Company’s Common Stock (the “Warrant Shares”). The shares of Series A Preferred Stock and accompanying Warrants were sold at a purchase price of $1,000 per share of Series A Preferred Stock. The total gross proceeds to the Company from the sale of the Series A Preferred Stock and Warrants in the Private Placement were $25.0 million, which does not include any proceeds that may be received upon exercise of the Warrants.

Existing investors and entities affiliated with certain directors of the Company are Purchasers under the Purchase Agreement and purchased shares of Series A Preferred Stock and Warrants at the Closing. New Leaf Biopharma Opportunities II, L.P., a fund affiliated with Ron Hunt, purchased Series A Preferred Stock and Warrants for an aggregate purchase price of $10.0 million, and Arix Bioscience Holdings Limited, a fund affiliated with Mark Chin, purchased Series A Preferred Stock and Warrants for an aggregate purchase price of $3.5 million.

The shares of Series A Preferred Stock are redeemable and not convertible into Common Stock and have the other terms described in Item 5.03 below, which is incorporated herein by reference.

The Warrants are exercisable immediately, will remain exercisable for a period of eight years following the date of issuance and have an exercise price of $0.978885 per share, a 35% premium to the closing price of Common Stock at the time of the signing of the definitive agreements with respect to the Private Placement, subject to proportional adjustments in the event of stock splits, stock dividends, combinations or similar events. The Warrants are exercisable on a net exercise “cashless” basis.

Under the terms of the Warrants, the Company may not effect the exercise of any such Warrant, and a holder will not be entitled to request the exercise of any portion of any Warrant, if, upon giving effect to such exercise, the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by the holder (together with its affiliates and other specified parties) would exceed 4.99%, 9.99% or 19.9%, as applicable, of the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to the exercise (the “Beneficial Ownership Limitation”). A holder may reset the Beneficial Ownership Limitation as to itself to a higher percentage (not to exceed 19.99%), effective 61 days after written notice to the Company.

The Purchase Agreement contains customary representations, warranties and agreements by the Company, customary conditions to closing, indemnification obligations of the Company, other obligations of the parties and termination provisions. Any such representations, warranties and covenants were made solely for the benefit of the parties to the Purchase Agreement. Such representations, warranties and covenants (i) are intended as a way of allocating risk between the parties to the Purchase Agreement and not as statements of fact, and (ii) may apply standards of materiality in a way that is different from what may be viewed as material by stockholders of, or other investors in, the Company. Investors should not rely on the representations, warranties and covenants or any descriptions thereof as characterizations of the actual state of facts or condition of the Company or any of its affiliates.


Registration Rights Agreement

In connection with the Private Placement, on March 22, 2023, the Company and the Purchasers entered into a Registration Rights Agreement (the “Registration Rights Agreement”) pursuant to which the Company agreed to file a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) to register the resale of the Warrant Shares (the “Registrable Securities”). Under the terms of the Registration Rights Agreement, the Company has agreed to prepare and file, within 60 days after the Closing, a registration statement with the SEC to register for resale the Registrable Securities, and to use its reasonable best efforts to cause the registration statement to become effective within 90 days after the Closing. The Company has agreed to be responsible for all fees and expenses incurred in connection with the registration of the Registrable Securities.

In the event the Company does not satisfy certain of its obligations under the Registration Rights Agreement, or if following effectiveness, sales cannot be made pursuant to the registration statement for a specified period of time, subject to certain exceptions, the Company has agreed to make pro rata payments to each holder as liquidated damages in an amount equal to 2.0% of the aggregate amount invested by each such holder in the Registrable Securities then held by the holder per one-month period (subject to proration), subject to a maximum of 12.0% of the aggregate amount invested by each such holder in the Registrable Securities then held by the holder.

The Company has granted the Purchasers customary indemnification rights in connection with the registration statement, including for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and for any violation or alleged violation by the Company of the Securities Act, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or any state securities laws in connection with performing its obligations under the Registration Rights Agreement. Purchasers have also granted the Company customary indemnification rights in connection with the registration statement.

The representations, warranties and covenants contained in the Purchase Agreement, the Registration Rights Agreement and the Warrants were made solely for the benefit of the parties thereto and may be subject to limitations agreed upon by the contracting parties. The foregoing descriptions of the Purchase Agreement, the Registration Rights Agreement and the Warrants do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the full text of the Purchase Agreement, the Registration Rights Agreement and the form of Warrant, copies of which are filed as Exhibits 10.1, 10.2 and 4.2 hereto, respectively, and incorporated by reference herein.

Item 2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Condition.

On March 27, 2023, the Company issued a press release announcing its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2022. A copy of the press release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 hereto and is incorporated herein by reference.

The information in this Item 2.02 and the Exhibit 99.1 attached hereto shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Exchange Act or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that Section or incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such a filing.

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 under Item 1.01 and Item 5.03 is incorporated into this Item 2.03 by reference.

Item 3.02 Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.

The disclosure regarding the securities sold and issued under the Purchase Agreement as set forth under Item 1.01 of this Current Report is incorporated by reference under this Item 3.02.

The Series A Preferred Stock and the Warrants described above under Item 1.01 have not been registered under the Securities Act or any state securities laws. The Company relied on the exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) thereof, and Rule 506 of Regulation D promulgated thereunder. Each of the Purchasers represented that it was acquiring the securities for investment only and not with a view towards, or for resale in connection with, the public sale or distribution thereof.

Item 3.03 Material Modification to Rights of Security Holders.

The information set forth under Item 1.01 and Item 5.03 is incorporated into this Item 3.03 by reference.

Item 5.03 Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.

8.000% Series A Redeemable Preferred Stock Certificate of Designation

On March 23, 2023, in connection with the Closing, the Company filed a Certificate of Designation of Preferences,


Rights and Limitations (the “Certificate of Designation”) with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware designating 25,000 shares out of the authorized but unissued shares of its preferred stock as Series A Preferred Stock. The following is a summary of the principal terms of the Series A Preferred Stock:

Dividends

Holders of Series A Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive dividends that accrue on a day-to-day basis until paid at a rate of 8.000% per year on the stated value of $1,000 per share of Series A Preferred Stock. Such dividends shall be payable only when declared by the Board of Directors of the Company. No other dividends or distributions shall be paid on shares of Series A Preferred Stock.

Liquidation

In the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, or the occurrence of any event that is a Deemed Liquidation Event (as defined in the Certificate of Designation), the holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock then outstanding shall be entitled to be paid prior and in preference to the receipt of any funds by any holders of any other class or series of capital stock of the Company, an amount per share of Series A Preferred Stock equal to the greater of: (i) the Redemption Price Per Share (as defined in the Certificate of Designation and described in more detail under “Redemption” below) and (ii) the amount per share such holder would have been entitled to receive had such holder exchanged the share of Series A Preferred Stock for a number of shares of Common Stock equal to (x) $1,000 plus all accrued but unpaid dividends, divided by (y) $0.7251.

Voting

The Series A Preferred Stock is non-voting stock and does not entitle the holder thereof to vote on any matter submitted to the stockholders of the Company for their action or consideration, except as otherwise provided by the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware or the Certificate of Designation.

As long as at least 2,500 shares of Series A Preferred Stock are outstanding, the Company may not, without the approval of the requisite holders of the Series A Preferred Stock, take, among others, the following actions: (i) create, authorize or issue any new securities or reclassify, alter or amend any existing security that have any right to payments that are senior to, or pari passu with, the Series A Preferred Stock; (ii) any action that is reasonably likely or intended to impede the ability of the Company to complete a mandatory redemption of the Series A Preferred Stock; (iii) amend, alter or repeal the terms of the Certificate of Designation or the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws that would adversely affect the Series A Preferred Stock; (iv) cause the Company to suspend its reporting obligations voluntarily under the Exchange Act, or to cause there to occur a delisting event; (v) sell, transfer, exclusively license or assign any material assets; (vi) enter into any agreement providing for, or consummate, any Liquidation Event (as defined in the Certificate of Designation), unless the holders are paid for each share of Series A Preferred Stock the amounts described under the subsection titled “Liquidation” above; (vii) subject to certain exceptions, redeem, repurchase or otherwise acquire any shares of its capital stock; or (viii) incur certain indebtedness.

As long as at least one share of Series A Preferred Stock is outstanding, the Company may not, without the approval of all holders of the then outstanding Series A Preferred Stock: (i) amend certain provisions of the Certificate of Designation, including the mandatory redemption provisions and specified definitions, or (ii) issue any new securities that are senior to or pari passu with the Series A Preferred Stock in a transaction in which any holder of Series A Preferred Stock participates, unless all holders can participate on a pro rata basis.

Conversion

The Series A Preferred Stock cannot be converted to Common Stock.

Redemption

The Company may, at its option, redeem shares of Series A Preferred Stock from time to time at the Redemption Price Per Share, which is equal to the sum of (i) the product of (a) the Stated Value of $1,000 and (b) a Return Factor equal to 3.5 until the 18-month anniversary of the Closing and 4.5 thereafter and (ii) any accrued and unpaid dividends.


In addition, the Series A Preferred Stock is mandatorily redeemable by the Company out of funds legally available therefor, at the Redemption Price Per Share, upon (i) receipt by the Company of certain amounts in connection with any HPN217 Licensing Transaction (as defined in the Certificate of Designation) (an “HPN217 Licensing Transaction Redemption”), (ii) receipt by the Company of certain net proceeds in connection with certain strategic and licensing transactions designated as “Qualified Transactions” (a “Qualified Transaction Redemption”) and (iii) on the third anniversary of the Closing, unless extended by consent of the requisite holders (“Anniversary-Based Redemption”).

HPN217 Licensing Transaction Redemption

In connection with any licensing transaction with respect to HPN217, the Company shall redeem, out of funds legally available therefor, the maximum number of then-outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock that may be redeemed using up to 50% of the cash proceeds and fair market value of certain non-cash proceeds received by the Company.

Qualified Transaction Redemption

In connection with a Qualified Transaction that generates Net Proceeds (as defined in the Certificate of Designation), the Company shall redeem, out of funds legally available therefor, the maximum number of then-outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock that may be redeemed using a portion of the Adjusted Net Proceeds (as defined in the Certificate of Designation and described in greater detail below) of the Qualified Transaction.

The calculation of Adjusted Net Proceeds is comprised of two components: (i) proceeds derived from “Large Transactions,” which are Qualified Transactions that generate aggregate net proceeds in excess of $15.0 million, and (ii) proceeds from all Qualified Transactions that exceed a $30.0 million basket during the calendar year in which the applicable measurement time occurs. The amount of Net Proceeds generated from Qualified Transactions that the Company will be required to use to redeem Series A Preferred Stock will generally consist of (i) in connection with a Large Transaction, the amount by which aggregate Net Proceeds received through the applicable measurement time exceeds $15.0 million, subject to adjustment to give effect to funds previously used to redeem Series A Preferred Stock, and (ii) the amount by which the aggregate amount of Net Proceeds from Qualified Transactions from the beginning of the calendar year, less amounts previously used to redeem Series A Preferred Stock and other related adjustments, exceeds $30.0 million. The Company is obligated to use the Designated Percentage (as defined in the Certificate of Designation and described in more detail below) of Adjusted Net Proceeds to effect a Qualified Transaction Redemption. The Designated Percentage is initially 50% and is subject to upward adjustment in the event the Company has not satisfied its redemption obligations under the Certificate of Designation or if the Anniversary-Based Redemption is extended pursuant to the terms of the Certificate of Designation.

Anniversary-Based Redemption

The Company is obligated to redeem out of funds legally available therefor all outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock at the Redemption Price Per Share on the third anniversary of the Closing, as that date may be extended up to an additional two years by consent of the requisite holders or for any period of time by consent of all holders. If funds are not legally available therefor, the Company must redeem Series A Preferred Stock as and when funds become legally available.

The foregoing is only a summary of the terms of the Certificate of Designation, does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Certificate of Designation, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 3.1 hereto and incorporated by reference herein.



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.

 

    Harpoon Therapeutics, Inc.
Date: March 27, 2023     By:  

/s/ Julie Eastland

      Julie Eastland
      President and Chief Executive Officer

Exhibit 3.1

Execution Version

HARPOON THERAPEUTICS, INC.

CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATION OF PREFERENCES,

RIGHTS AND LIMITATIONS

OF

8.000% SERIES A REDEEMABLE PREFERRED STOCK

PURSUANT TO SECTION 151 OF THE

DELAWARE GENERAL CORPORATION LAW

The undersigned, Julie Eastland, does hereby certify that:

1. Julie Eastland is the Chief Executive Officer of Harpoon Therapeutics, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Corporation”).

2. The Corporation is authorized to issue 10,000,000 shares of preferred stock, $0.0001 par value per share.

3. The following resolutions were duly adopted by the board of directors of the Corporation (the “Board of Directors”), upon recommendation by a committee of the Board of Directors comprised of independent and disinterested directors acting under authority delegated by the Board of Directors:

WHEREAS, the amended and restated certificate of incorporation of the Corporation, as amended (the “Certificate of Incorporation”), provides for a class of its authorized stock known as preferred stock, consisting of 10,000,000 shares, $0.0001 par value per share (the “Preferred Stock”), issuable from time to time in one or more series;

WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is authorized to provide for the issue of all or any wholly unissued series of Preferred Stock and the number of shares constituting any series and the designation thereof, and to fix the number of shares and to determine or alter for each such series, such voting powers, full or limited, or no voting powers, and such designation, preferences, and relative, participating, optional, or other rights and such qualifications, limitations, or restrictions thereof; and

WHEREAS, it is the desire of the Board of Directors, pursuant to its authority as aforesaid, to fix the rights, preferences, restrictions and other matters relating to a series of the Preferred Stock having a par value of $0.0001 per share, designated as Series A Redeemable Preferred Stock:

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that, pursuant to the authority granted to and vested in the Board of Directors in accordance with applicable law and the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation, the Board of Directors hereby creates, authorizes and provides for 25,000 shares of the Corporation’s authorized Preferred Stock to be designated and issued as the “Series A Redeemable Preferred Stock,” having the relative rights, powers, preferences and limitations that are set forth as follows:

Section 1. Definitions. For the purposes hereof, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

Accreted Value” shall mean, with respect to each share of Series A Preferred Stock, the Stated Value plus all Accrued Dividends.


Accrued Dividends” shall mean, with respect to any share of Series A Preferred Stock then outstanding, as of any date, the accrued and unpaid dividends on such share, whether or not declared.

Adjusted Net Proceeds” in connection with a Qualified Transaction, determined as of the time (the “Measurement Time”) of the receipt of Net Proceeds from such Qualified Transaction (factoring in such receipt of Net Proceeds), means:

(i) if the Qualified Transaction is a Large Transaction, the amount by which the aggregate Net Proceeds received through the Measurement Time for such Large Transaction exceeds the sum of (A) $15.0 million, and (B) for such Net Proceeds that have been used to redeem Series A Preferred Stock pursuant to Section 6 and this paragraph (i), the aggregate amount of such Net Proceeds that would have been used to redeem Series A Preferred Stock had the Designated Percentage been 100%; provided, if the Qualified Transaction is not a Large Transaction, the amount pursuant to this clause (i) shall be deemed zero; plus

(ii) whether or not the Qualified Transaction is a Large Transaction, the amount by which (A) minus (B) exceeds $30.0 million, where:

 

  (A) =

the aggregate amount of all Net Proceeds received for all Qualified Transactions from the beginning of the calendar year in which the Measurement Time occurs through the Measurement Time;

 

  (B) =

the sum of (1) the aggregate amount of all Net Proceeds referenced in (A) above relating to Large Transactions that (x) have been used to redeem Series A Preferred Stock pursuant to paragraph (i) of this definition and Section 6, or (y) are received at the Measurement Time and required to be used to redeem Series A Preferred Stock pursuant to paragraph (i) of this definition and Section 6; and (2) for Net Proceeds referenced in (A) above that have been used to redeem Series A Preferred Stock pursuant to this paragraph (ii) of this definition and Section 6, the aggregate amount of Net Proceeds that would have been used to redeem Series A Preferred Stock had the Designated Percentage been 100%.

An illustrative example of the Adjusted Net Proceeds calculation is set forth on Appendix A hereto.

Affiliate” means any Person that, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under common control with a Person, as such terms are used in and construed under Rule 405 of the Securities Act.

Anniversary Based Redemption” has the meaning set forth in Section 6(a)(iii).

Board of Directors” means the Board of Directors of the Corporation.

 

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Business Day” means any day except any Saturday, any Sunday, any day which is a federal legal holiday in the United States or any day on which banking institutions in the State of California are authorized or required by law or other governmental action to close.

Certificate of Designation” shall mean this Certificate of Designation of Preferences, Rights and Limitations of Series A Preferred Stock.

Closing Date” means March 23, 2023.

Closing Price” means $0.7251.

Commission” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

Common Stock” means the Corporation’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, and stock of any other class of securities into which such securities may hereafter be reclassified or changed.

Corporation Redemption Notice” has the meaning set forth in Section 6(c).

Cost Offset” means an offset, discount, deduction, reduction, markdown or concession provided by a third party to the Corporation in connection with an HPN217 Licensing Transaction or a Qualified Transaction against any previously agreed to cost, fee, expense, or other amount payable by the Corporation which has previously been approved by the Board of Directors as part of a fully funded and budgeted expense to the Corporation; provided, that if any portion of such offset, discount, deduction, reduction, markdown or concession applies to a future year, it shall be deemed a “Cost Offset” (and the Corporation shall be deemed to have received Net Proceeds) when the corresponding cost, fee, expense or other amount payable by the Corporation in connection with such HPN217 Licensing Transaction or such Qualified Transaction would have become due and to the extent that the Corporation has a corresponding amount of cash, cash equivalents and investment securities in excess of the amount budgeted to cover expenses for such future year.

Corporation” means Harpoon Therapeutics, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

Delisting Event” is deemed to occur when, after the Original Issue Date, the shares of Common Stock are no longer listed on a Trading Market, except for any involuntary delisting initiated by the Trading Market.

Designated Non-Cash Proceeds” means non-cash proceeds that are received pursuant to any amendment, modification or waiver of any Development Agreement under circumstances where, had such Development Agreement not been so amended, modified or waived, the Corporation would have had the right to receive cash proceeds.

Designated Percentage” means 50%; provided, that (i) from the occurrence and during the continuation by the Corporation of any breach by the Corporation of its obligation to pay the Redemption Price Per Share, or any other failure by the Corporation to timely pay any amounts due pursuant to Section 6 the Designated Percentage shall mean 75%; (ii) during any period when any portion of any QT Designated Proceeds or any HPN217 Designated Proceeds have not been used for redemption of Series A Preferred Stock pursuant to Section 6, the Designated Percentage shall mean 75%; and (iii) from and after the third anniversary of the Closing Date, at any time during which neither clause (i) nor clause (ii) applies, the Designated Percentage shall mean 60%.

 

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Development Agreement” means any agreement that provides in whole or in part for the development and/or commercialization of HPN217.

Dividend Rate” means 8.000% per annum per share of Series A Preferred Stock.

Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

Holder” means each holder of record of the Series A Preferred Stock.

HPN217 Designated Proceeds” means 50% of the aggregate cash proceeds and fair market value of Designated Non-Cash Proceeds received by or on behalf of the Corporation (or any Affiliate thereof, or any assignee or designee of the Corporation or such Affiliate) in connection with an HPN217 Licensing Transaction.

“HPN217 Licensing Transaction” means the receipt by the Corporation of any cash proceeds or Designated Non-Cash Proceeds from any licensing transaction with respect to HPN217, or pursuant to any Development Agreement in existence on the date hereof, excluding any clinical trial reimbursement payments associated with development of HPN217.

HPN217 Licensing Transaction Redemption” has the meaning set forth in Section 6(a)(i).

Indebtedness” means (i) all obligations for borrowed money or evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments, and (ii) all guarantees of obligations of a third party of the type described in clause (i).

Junior Securities” means, collectively, the Common Stock and any other class or series of securities (other than the Series A Preferred Stock).

Large Transaction” means a Qualified Transaction, or series of related Qualified Transactions, determined as of the time of receipt of any Net Proceeds, for which aggregate Net Proceeds received through such time exceeds $15.0 million.

Liquidation Event” has the meaning set forth in Section 5(a).

Net Proceeds” means the aggregate proceeds received by the Corporation from time to time, including any Cost Offset, net of expenses of advisors. In the case of any non-cash proceeds, “Net Proceeds” shall mean the fair market value thereof; provided, that for non-cash proceeds that are not readily convertible into cash, the Corporation shall be permitted to deliver written notice to the Holders within two business days after receipt thereof that it intends to sell such proceeds, whereupon “Net Proceeds” shall mean the amount of cash received for such proceeds if such cash is received within 90 days after delivery of such notice, and date of receipt of Net Proceeds shall be deemed the earlier of (i) the date of receipt of such cash, or (ii) 90 days after delivery of such notice; provided, further, that equity securities in a private company received in connection with a Spin-Out Transaction shall not be deemed to constitute Net Proceeds.

 

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Optional Redemption” has the meaning set forth in Section 6(b).

Original Issue Date” means the date of the first issuance of any shares of Series A Preferred Stock.

Person” means an individual or corporation, partnership, trust, incorporated or unincorporated association, joint venture, limited liability company, joint stock company, government (or an agency or subdivision thereof) or other entity of any kind.

Permitted Indebtedness” means (i) Indebtedness outstanding as of the Signing Date, including any interest accrued thereon pursuant to the terms thereof in existence as of the date hereof and any fees associated therewith, (ii) up to $12,500,000 principal amount of secured or unsecured Indebtedness, and accrued interest thereon, in accordance with the terms of any term sheet received by the Corporation prior to the Signing Date; provided, that the definitive terms of such Indebtedness shall include customary payoff terms, and shall not prohibit or restrict redemption of the Series A Preferred Stock in accordance with Section 6(a)(i) (HPN217 Licensing Transaction Redemption) or Section 6(a)(ii) (Qualified Transaction Redemption) below, except if there is then in existence (and only during the duration of) an event of default under the Indebtedness that is unrelated to the Series A Preferred Stock, and (iii) any Indebtedness incurred pursuant to any arrangement upon amendment or in replacement of the Indebtedness provided for in clause (ii), provided that the aggregate amount of outstanding Indebtedness pursuant to clause (ii) and this clause (iii) does not exceed the amount set forth in clause (ii) and the terms of the amendment or replacement indebtedness do not prohibit or restrict redemption of the Series A Preferred Stock in accordance with its terms except if there is then in existence (and only during the duration of) an event of default under the Indebtedness that is unrelated to the Series A Preferred Stock.

Permitted Transfer” means any transfer pursuant to the terms of any agreement that is publicly filed with the Commission prior to the Signing Date (excluding any amendment thereof after such date).

Preferred Stock” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.

QT Designated Proceeds” means the Designated Percentage of the Adjusted Net Proceeds as a result of the applicable Qualified Transaction Redemption Trigger.

Qualified Transaction” means any strategic business transaction that generates Net Proceeds for or on behalf of the Corporation, including without limitation any license, joint venture, collaboration agreement, sale of all the rights to a product, or other strategic transaction; provided, that “Qualified Transaction” shall not be deemed to include: (i) the HPN217 Licensing Transaction, (ii) any transaction that is a Liquidation Event, or (iii) any Spin-Out Transaction that does not involve HPN217 or HPN328.

Qualified Transaction Redemption” has the meaning set forth in Section 6(a)(ii).

 

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Qualified Transaction Redemption Trigger” means the receipt of Net Proceeds as a result of a Qualified Transaction that results in Adjusted Net Proceeds of greater than zero.

Redemption Date” means a date to be fixed by the Board of Directors in connection with: (i) an HPN217 Licensing Transaction Redemption, which date shall be no later than 30 calendar days after receipt of the applicable payment with respect to an HPN217 Licensing Transaction; (ii) a Qualified Transaction Redemption, which date shall be no more than 30 calendar days after receipt of the applicable Net Proceeds to which the Qualified Transaction Redemption Trigger relates; (iii) the Anniversary Based Redemption, which date shall be the three year anniversary of the Closing Date; provided, that if the Requisite Holders have given their written consent, the date shall be such date as specified in such written consent; provided, further that if additional redemptions are required to be made pursuant to the last sentence of Section 6(a)(iii), such additional redemption dates shall also each be deemed a “Redemption Date”; and (iv) an Optional Redemption, which date shall be not more than 30 calendar days nor less than 7 calendar days after delivery of the Corporation Redemption Notice.

Redemption Price Per Share” means a price equal to the sum of (i) the Return Factor multiplied by the Stated Value, and (ii) Accrued Dividends.

Return Factor” means 3.5; provided, that from and after the 18 month anniversary of the Closing Date, Return Factor shall mean 4.5.

Requisite Holders” means the Super-Majority Purchasers (as defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement).

Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

Securities Purchase Agreement” means the Securities Purchase Agreement entered into by and between the Corporation and the Holders on or about the Original Issue Date for the purchase of the Series A Preferred Stock.

Series A Preferred Stock” has the meaning set forth in the Recitals.

Signing Date” means the date of the Securities Purchase Agreement.

Spin-Out Transaction” means any transaction in connection with which the Corporation contributes intellectual property to a new entity that is backed, or intended to be backed, by venture financing.

Stated Value” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.

Trading Day” means a day on which the Trading Market is open for business.

Trading Market” means any of the following markets or exchanges on which the Common Stock is listed or quoted for trading on the date in question: the NYSE American, the Nasdaq Capital Market, the Nasdaq Global Market, the Nasdaq Global Select Market or the New York Stock Exchange (or any successors to any of the foregoing).

 

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Transfer Agent” means Computershare Trust Company, N.A., the current transfer agent of the Corporation, with a mailing address of 250 Royall St., Canton, MA 02021, and any successor transfer agent of the Corporation.

Section 2. Designation, Amount and Par Value. The series of Preferred Stock shall be designated as Series A Preferred Stock and the number of shares so designated shall be 25,000 (which shall not be subject to increase without the written consent of the Requisite Holders). Each share of Series A Preferred Stock shall have a par value of $0.0001 per share and a stated value equal to $1,000.00 per share (the “Stated Value”). Unless otherwise determined by the Board of Directors, the shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall be uncertificated and issued and maintained in electronic book-entry form.

Section 3. Dividends.

(a) Subject to Section 3(c), from and after the Closing Date, dividends shall, with respect to each outstanding share of Series A Preferred Stock, accrue on the Stated Value at the Dividend Rate. Such cash dividends on the Series A Preferred Stock shall be payable only when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors, and when so declared and paid, cash dividends shall be paid in cash out of funds legally available therefor and shall be payable on the date fixed by the Board of Directors for such purposes to the Holders as they appear on the Corporation’s stock register at the close of business on the relevant record date. Dividends on the then outstanding Series A Preferred Stock shall accumulate and become Accrued Dividends on a day-to-day basis until paid.

(b) Dividends payable under Section 3(a) (and any deemed increase in Accreted Value under Section 3(c)) for any period less than a full quarterly dividend or accretion period (based upon the number of days elapsed during the period), shall each be computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months.

(c) Under this Certificate of Designation, in calculating the Accreted Value of each then outstanding share of Series A Preferred Stock for purposes of the redemption consideration or otherwise, such Accreted Value shall be increased by the amount of Accrued Dividends regardless of whether, at the time of redemption or other relevant event, a dividend has been declared but not yet paid by the Board of Directors. Subject to Section 3(b), Holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock subject to redemption shall not be entitled to receive any payment of dividends declared but not yet paid at the time of such redemption (for the avoidance of doubt, such amount shall constitute “Accrued Dividends” that are included in the Redemption Price Per Share).

(d) Holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall not be entitled to any dividend other than as set forth in this Section 3 or as otherwise provided for in the Certificate of Designation.

(e) Subject to the provisions of this Section 3 and Section 4 below, any dividends (payable in cash, securities or other property) as may be determined by the Board of Directors may be declared and paid on any of the Corporation’s securities other than Series A Preferred Stock, including Common Stock, from time to time out of funds legally available for such payment, and the Holders shall not be entitled to participate in any such dividends.

 

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Section 4. Voting Rights.

(a) Except as otherwise provided herein or as otherwise required by law, the Series A Preferred Stock shall have no voting rights.

(b) As long as at least 2,500 shares of Series A Preferred Stock are outstanding, the Corporation shall not, without the written consent of the Requisite Holders, consenting as a separate class:

(i) except as provided in Section 4(c)(iii) (which requires approval of all Holders), directly or indirectly create, authorize, issue or obligate itself to issue any new securities or reclassify alter or amend any existing security that have any right to payments that are senior to, or pari passu with, the Series A Preferred Stock or otherwise increase the authorized number of shares of Series A Preferred Stock;

(ii) enter into, amend, terminate or waive any rights under any agreement (or permit any subsidiary to do so) that would reasonably be likely to, or take any action that is intended to, impede the ability of the Corporation to complete a mandatory redemption as set forth in Section 6(a) below;

(iii) amend, alter, repeal or cause any other modification to the terms of the Certificate of Designation or the Corporation’s Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws (each as in effect on the Signing Date), whether by operation of merger, conversion or otherwise, that would adversely alter or change the terms, powers, preferences, rights or privileges of the Series A Preferred Stock;

(iv) take any action in order to cause the Corporation to suspend its reporting obligations voluntarily under the Exchange Act, or to cause there to occur a Delisting Event (except in connection with a Liquidation Event); provided, the foregoing shall not be deemed to include action required to be taken by rules of the Trading Market;

(v) directly or indirectly sell, transfer, exclusively license or assign any material assets (or permit any subsidiary to do so), except for Qualified Transactions and Permitted Transfers;

(vi) enter into any agreement providing for, or consummate, any Liquidation Event, unless the Holders are paid for each share of Series A Preferred Stock the amounts provided for under Section 5 below;

(vii) redeem, repurchase or otherwise acquire any shares of its capital stock, except for (1) the redemption of Series A Preferred Stock pursuant to and as provided in this Certificate of Designation and (2) the redemption or repurchase of Common Stock issued pursuant to any equity incentive plan or compensatory arrangement of the Corporation; or

 

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(viii) directly or indirectly create, incur, issue or assume any Indebtedness (or permit any subsidiary to do so) other than Permitted Indebtedness.

(c) As long as at least one share of Series A Preferred Stock is outstanding, the Corporation shall not, without the written consent of the Holders of all of the then outstanding Series A Preferred Stock, consenting as a separate class:

(i) alter, amend or repeal Section 6(a) or this Section 4(c) of this Certificate of Designation;

(ii) alter, amend or repeal any of the following definitions: “Adjusted Net Proceeds,” “Dividend Rate,” “HPN217 Designated Proceeds,” “Large Transaction,” “QT Designated Proceeds,” “Qualified Transaction,” “Qualified Transaction Redemption Trigger,” “Redemption Date,” “Redemption Price Per Share,” or “Return Factor”; or

(iii) issue or obligate itself to issue any new securities (including Series A Preferred Stock) that have any right to payments that are senior to, or pari passu with, the Series A Preferred Stock, in any transaction in which any Holder (a “Purchasing Holder”) purchases any such new securities, unless all Holders (“Eligible Holders”) have the right to purchase a pro rata share of such new securities (determined for each Eligible Holder as the number of new securities purchased by the Purchasing Holder multiplied by the number of shares of Series A Preferred Stock then held by the Eligible Holder divided by the number of shares of Series A Preferred Stock then held by the Purchasing Holder).

(d) In exercising the consent rights set forth in this Section 4, each share of Series A Preferred Stock shall entitle the Holder (or each Requisite Holder, in the case of consent rights set forth in Section 4(b)) thereof to one vote.

(e) Any act or transaction listed under Section 4(b) or Section 4(c) which was entered into without a requisite consent of the Requisite Holders shall be null and void ab initio, and of no force or effect.

(f) Any consent required or permitted under Section 4(b) may be taken at a meeting of the Holders of the Series A Preferred Stock or through the execution of an action by written consent in lieu of such meeting, provided, that the consent is executed by the Requisite Holders.

Section 5. Liquidation.

(a) Upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Corporation, whether voluntary or involuntary, or the occurrence of any Deemed Liquidation Event (each, a “Liquidation Event”), each Holder of the Series A Preferred Stock then outstanding shall be entitled to be paid, prior and in preference to the receipt of any funds by any holders of any other class or series of capital stock of the Corporation, an amount per share of Series A Preferred Stock equal to the greater of:

(i) the Redemption Price Per Share; and

 

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(ii) the amount such Holder would have been entitled to receive had such Holder exchanged the share of Series A Preferred Stock for a number of shares of Common Stock equal to (x) the Accreted Value, divided by (y) the Closing Price.

(b) If upon any such Liquidation or Deemed Liquidation Event, the assets of the Corporation available for distribution to its stockholders shall be insufficient to pay the Holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock the full amount to which they shall be entitled under this Section 5, the Holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall share ratably and on a pari passu basis in any distribution of the assets available for distribution in proportion to the respective amounts which would otherwise be payable in respect of the shares held by them upon such distribution if all amounts payable on or with respect to such shares were paid in full.

(c) Deemed Liquidation Events.

(i) Definition. Each of the following events shall be considered a “Deemed Liquidation Event”:

(A) a merger or consolidation in which: (1) the Corporation is a constituent party; or (2) a subsidiary of the Corporation is a constituent party and the Corporation issues shares of its capital stock pursuant to such merger or consolidation; provided, that a Deemed Liquidation Event shall not include any such merger or consolidation involving the Corporation or a subsidiary in which the shares of capital stock of the Corporation outstanding immediately prior to such merger or consolidation continue to represent, immediately following such merger or consolidation, at least a majority, by voting power, of the capital stock of the surviving or resulting corporation held by stockholders in the same relative proportions; or

(B) (1) the sale, lease, transfer, or other disposition, in a single transaction or series of related transactions, by the Corporation or any subsidiary of the Corporation of all or substantially all the assets of the Corporation and its subsidiaries taken as a whole, or (2) the sale or disposition (whether by merger, consolidation or otherwise, and whether in a single transaction or a series of related transactions) of one (1) or more subsidiaries of the Corporation if substantially all of the assets of the Corporation and its subsidiaries taken as a whole are held by such subsidiary or subsidiaries, except where such sale, lease, transfer, or other disposition is to a wholly owned subsidiary of the Corporation.

(ii) Amount Deemed Paid or Distributed. The amount deemed paid or distributed to the holders of capital stock of the Corporation upon any Liquidation Event that involves non-cash consideration shall be valued based on the fair market value thereof, which, in the case of publicly traded securities, shall be the market value thereof. The fair market value of non-cash consideration (other than publicly traded securities) shall be determined by a third-party valuation firm retained by the Corporation and reasonably acceptable to the Requisite Holders. In any Liquidation Event that involves both cash and non-cash consideration, the cash consideration shall be first applied to pay the Redemption Price Per Share.

 

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Section 6. Redemption.

Unless otherwise prohibited by applicable Delaware law governing distributions to stockholders, the shares of the Series A Preferred Stock shall be redeemed at the applicable Redemption Date in cash, to the extent such funds are legally available, and at a price equal to the Redemption Price Per Share in accordance with the following:

(a) Mandatory Redemption.

(i) HPN217 Licensing Transaction Redemption. Upon receipt by or on behalf of the Corporation of any amount in connection with an HPN217 Licensing Transaction, the Corporation shall, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable Delaware law, redeem the maximum number of then-outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock that may be redeemed from the HPN217 Designated Proceeds (such redemption, the “HPN217 Licensing Transaction Redemption”) only out of funds legally available therefor.

(ii) Qualified Transaction Redemption. Upon the occurrence of a Qualified Transaction Redemption Trigger, the Corporation shall redeem the maximum number of then-outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock that may be redeemed from the QT Designated Proceeds (such redemption, the “Qualified Transaction Redemption”) only out of funds legally available therefor.

(iii) Anniversary Based Redemption. On the third anniversary of the Closing Date, the Corporation shall redeem only out of funds legally available therefor, all outstanding shares of the Series A Preferred Stock at a price per share equal to the Redemption Price Per Share; provided that such date may be extended (A) up to an additional two years by consent of the Requisite Holders, or (B) for any period of time by consent of all Holders (such redemption, the “Anniversary Based Redemption”). If funds are not legally available to complete the Anniversary Based Redemption in whole or in part, the Corporation shall redeem the maximum number of outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock for which it then has funds legally available, and with respect to the balance of the shares of Series A Preferred Stock that remain outstanding thereafter, the Company shall promptly complete such redemption to the maximum extent possible from time to time as and when funds become legally available therefor.

(b) Optional Redemption by the Corporation. The Corporation shall have the right, but not the obligation, to redeem shares of Series A Preferred Stock (from each Holder on a pro rata basis) from time to time, in part or in whole, out of funds legally available therefor, at a price per share equal to the Redemption Price Per Share (such redemption, the “Optional Redemption”).

(c) Redemption Notices. The Corporation shall send written notice (a “Corporation Redemption Notice”) of any redemption pursuant to this Section 6 to each Holder of any shares of Series A Preferred Stock to be redeemed not less than 7 calendar days nor more than calendar 30 days prior to the applicable Redemption Date. Such Corporation Redemption Notice shall set forth in reasonable detail: (i) the applicable Redemption Date, (ii) the number of shares of Series A Preferred Stock held by the Holder that the Corporation will redeem on such Redemption Date, and (iii) a calculation specifying the amount owed to such Holder by the Corporation with respect to the shares of Series A Preferred Stock to be redeemed. If, on a Redemption Date, applicable Delaware law prevents the Corporation from redeeming all shares of Series A Preferred Stock required to be redeemed pursuant to Section 6, the Corporation shall ratably redeem the maximum number of shares that it may redeem consistent with such law, and shall redeem the remaining shares as promptly as it may lawfully do so thereafter.

 

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(d) Partial Redemption. If the Corporation is redeeming less than all outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock pursuant to this Section 6, the Corporation shall select shares to redeem on a pro rata basis, in each case rounded down per Holder to the nearest whole share. The shares of Series A Preferred Stock not redeemed shall remain outstanding and entitled to all of the rights and preferences provided in this Certificate of Designation.

(e) Redeemed or Otherwise Acquired Shares. Any shares of Series A Preferred Stock that are redeemed or otherwise acquired by the Corporation or any of its subsidiaries shall be automatically and immediately cancelled and retired and shall not be reissued, sold or transferred as shares of Series A Preferred Stock. Neither the Corporation nor any of its subsidiaries may exercise any voting or other rights granted to the Holders following redemption.

(f) Effect of Redemption. If notice has been delivered in accordance with Section 6(c) above and if on or before the applicable Redemption Date specified in such notice, all funds necessary for such redemption shall have been segregated and irrevocably set apart by the Corporation and deposited with a third party paying agent in trust for the pro rata benefit of the Holders of the shares of Series A Preferred Stock, so as to be, and to continue to be available therefor, then, on and after the relevant Redemption Date, unless the Corporation defaults in the payment of the applicable Redemption Price, dividends on the shares of the Series A Preferred Stock specified in such notice to be redeemed shall cease to accumulate and all rights of the Holders with respect to such shares shall terminate except for the right to receive from the Corporation the Redemption Price Per Share.

Section 7. Information Rights and Inspection Rights.

(a) The Corporation shall provide to the Holders the following, except to the extent such information is then publicly available on EDGAR:

(i) not later than the fifth Business Day after the 105th day following the end of each fiscal year of the Corporation (or such longer period as may be permitted by the SEC for the filing of annual reports on Form 10-K) ending on or after December 31, 2022, a copy of the audited consolidated balance sheet of the Corporation and its subsidiaries as at the end of such year and the related audited consolidated statements of operations, changes in common stockholders’ equity and cash flows for such year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for and as of the end of the previous year, reported on by an independent certified public accounting firm of nationally recognized standing;

(ii) not later than the fifth Business Day after the 50th day following the end of each of the first three quarterly periods of each fiscal year of the Corporation (or such longer period as may be permitted by the SEC for the filing of quarterly reports on Form 10-Q), the unaudited consolidated balance sheet of the Corporation and its subsidiaries as at the end of such quarter and the related unaudited consolidated statements of operations and cash flows of the Corporation and its subsidiaries for such quarter and the portion of the fiscal year through the end of such quarter, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for and as of the

 

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corresponding periods of the previous year, certified by a responsible officer of the Corporation as fairly presenting in all material respects the financial condition of the Corporation and its subsidiaries in conformity with GAAP and prepared in reasonable detail in accordance with GAAP applied consistently throughout the periods reflected therein and with prior periods that began on or after the Closing Date (except as disclosed therein, and except for the absence of certain notes);

(iii) not later than 20 days prior to the occurrence thereof, the existence of any Liquidation Event;

(iv) not later than 10 days after consummation of any Qualified Transaction, information summarizing the nature of the transaction and the general type, amount and timing of Net Proceeds to be received by the Corporation in connection therewith;

(v) subject to paragraph (b) below, such additional financial, statistical, transactional, operational and other information regarding the Corporation as the Requisite Holders may from time to time reasonably request in connection with their monitoring of their rights hereunder.

(b) From and after the third anniversary of the Closing Date, the Requisite Holders shall have the right to, without unreasonably disrupting the Corporation’s normal business activities and at the Holders’ own expense, conduct one audit per year of the business and accounts of the Corporation, with the assistance of any accounting firms, representatives or agents as the Requisite Holders select, in order to verify the amount of Adjusted Net Proceeds. The Corporation shall provide any and all assistance reasonably requested by such Requisite Holders and such accounting firms, representatives and agents in connection therewith. The Requisite Holders shall not be entitled to conduct more than one such audit per calendar year.

(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 7, neither the Corporation nor its subsidiaries will be required by the terms of this Section 7 to disclose or permit the inspection or discussion of, any document, information or other matter (i) that constitutes non-financial trade secrets or non-financial proprietary information, (ii) in respect of which disclosure to the Holders (or their respective representatives) is prohibited by requirements of applicable law or (iii) that is subject to attorney-client or similar privilege or constitutes attorney work product.

(d) Documents required to be delivered pursuant to this Section 7 may at the Corporation’s option be delivered electronically and, if so delivered, shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date (i) on which the Corporation posts such documents, or provides a link thereto on the Corporation’s website on the Internet at the website address specified by written notice to the Holders from time to time; or (ii) on which such documents are posted on the Corporation’s behalf on an Internet or intranet website to which each Holder has access (whether a commercial or third-party website).

Section 8. Rank. With respect to payment of dividends and distribution of assets upon a Liquidation Event, all shares of the Series A Preferred Stock shall rank senior to all Junior Securities.

 

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Section 9. Miscellaneous.

(a) Notices. Any and all notices or other communications or deliveries to be provided by the Holders shall be in writing and delivered personally, by e-mail, or sent by a nationally recognized overnight courier service, addressed to the Corporation, at 131 Oyster Point Blvd., Suite 131, South San Francisco, CA 94080, or such other e-mail address or address as the Corporation may specify for such purposes by notice to the Holders delivered in accordance with this Section 9. Any and all notices or other communications or deliveries to be provided by the Corporation hereunder shall be in writing and delivered personally, by e-mail, or sent by a nationally recognized overnight courier service addressed to each Holder at the e-mail address or address of such Holder appearing on the books of the Corporation, or if no such e-mail address or address appears on the books of the Corporation, at the principal place of business of such Holder, as set forth in the Securities Purchase Agreement. Any notice or other communication or deliveries hereunder shall be deemed given and effective on the earliest of (i) the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via e-mail at the e-mail address set forth in this Section 9 prior to 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on any date, (ii) the next Trading Day after the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via e-mail at the e-mail address set forth in this Section 9 on a day that is not a Trading Day or later than 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on any Trading Day, (iii) the second Trading Day following the date of mailing, if sent by U.S. nationally recognized overnight courier service, or (iv) upon actual receipt by the party to whom such notice is required to be given.

(b) Waiver. Any waiver by the Corporation or a Holder of a right or preference granted herein or a breach of any provision of this Certificate of Designation shall not operate as or be construed to be a waiver of any other breach of such provision or of any breach of any other provision of this Certificate of Designation or a waiver by any other Holders. The failure of the Corporation or a Holder to insist upon strict adherence to any term of this Certificate of Designation on one or more occasions shall not be considered a waiver or deprive that party (or any other Holder) of the right thereafter to insist upon strict adherence to that term or any other term of this Certificate of Designation on any other occasion. Any waiver by the Corporation or a Holder must be in writing.

(c) Severability. If any provision of this Certificate of Designation is invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the balance of this Certificate of Designation shall remain in effect, and if any provision is inapplicable to any Person or circumstance, it shall nevertheless remain applicable to all other Persons and circumstances. If it shall be found that any interest or other amount deemed interest due hereunder violates the applicable law governing usury, the applicable rate of interest due hereunder shall automatically be lowered to equal the maximum rate of interest permitted under applicable law.

(d) Next Business Day. Whenever any payment or other obligation hereunder shall be due on a day other than a Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day.

(e) Headings. The headings contained herein are for convenience only, do not constitute a part of this Certificate of Designation and shall not be deemed to limit or affect any of the provisions hereof.

 

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(f) Status of Redeemed Series A Preferred Stock. If any shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall be redeemed or reacquired by or on behalf of the Corporation or any subsidiary thereof, such shares shall resume the status of authorized but unissued shares of Preferred Stock and shall no longer be designated as Series A Preferred Stock.

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RESOLVED, FURTHER, that any of the president and the secretary of the Corporation be and each hereby is authorized and directed to prepare and file this Certificate of Designation of Preferences, Rights and Limitations in accordance with the foregoing resolution and the provisions of Delaware law.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this Certificate of Designation this 22nd day of March, 2023.

 

By:

 

/s/ Julie Eastland

 

Name: Julie Eastland

 

Title: Chief Executive Officer

 

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Appendix A

Illustrative example of calculation of Adjusted Net Proceeds.

Illustrative example of the Adjusted Net Proceeds Calculation and corresponding Redemption payment

Refer to explanations below table.

 

     Year 1      Year 2  
     Transaction      Basket (resets in calendar year)      Transaction (cumulative)      Basket (resets in calendar year)  
     C      D = If C >
$15m,
then C -
$15m-
2*
En-1 ; 0
     E = 50% * D      F = YTD C
for all
Qualified
Transactions
in

Year 1
     G = F -
(YTD
E) -
2*
Hn-1
     H = If G >
$30m, then
((G - $30m)*
50%); 0
     I      J = If I >
$15M,
then (I +
C) - $15m -
2*
En-1 ; 0
     K = 50% * J      L = YTD I
for all
Qualified

Transactions
in Year 2
     M = L -
(YTDK)
- 2*Nn-1
     N = If M >
$30m,
then
((M -$30m )*
50%); 0
 

Qualified
Transaction

   Net Proceeds      Transaction
ANP
(clause (i))
     Transaction
Redemption
(ANP (i))
     Aggregate
Net Proceeds
     Basket ANP
(clause (ii))
     Basket
Redemption
(ANP (ii))
     Net Proceeds      Transaction
ANP
(clause (i))
     Transaction
Redemption
(ANP (i))
     Aggregate
Net Proceeds
     Basket ANP
(clause (ii))
     Basket
Redemption
(ANP (ii))
 

#1

   $ 15,000,000      $ —        $ —        $ 15,000,000      $ 15,000,000      $ —        $ 20,000,000      $          20,000,000      $ 10,000,000      $ 20,000,000      $ 10,000,000      $ —    

#2

     10,000,000        —          —          25,000,000        25,000,000        —          20,000,000      $          15,000,000        7,500,000        40,000,000        22,500,000        —    

#3

     5,000,000        —          —          30,000,000        30,000,000        —          15,000,000      $          5,000,000        2,500,000        55,000,000        35,000,000        2,500,000  

#4

     5,000,000        —          —          35,000,000        35,000,000        2,500,000        —             N/A        N/A        55,000,000        N/A        N/A  

#5

     —          N/A        N/A        35,000,000        N/A        N/A        10,000,000      $          —          —          65,000,000        40,000,000        5,000,000  
        

 

 

          

 

 

             

 

 

          

 

 

 
     Sub-total Redemption      $ —              $ 2,500,000        Sub-total Redemption      $ 20,000,000            $ 7,500,000  
                                      

 

 

 

Total Aggregate Redemption = E+ H + K + N

 

   $ 30,000,000  

Assumptions

 

1.

Assumes the Designated Percentage is 50%. If it is different, e.g. 75%, then (i) references in the table to 50% should instead be to 75%, and (ii) references to 2* should be to 100%/75% = 1.3333.

Explanations

 

1.

∑En-1 means the sum of all Net Proceeds previously used for a Transaction Redemption with respect to such Qualified Transaction

 

2.

YTD ∑C means the sum of all Net Proceeds reflected in column C to and including the Qualified Transaction in the row to which the entry relates

 

3.

YTD ∑E means the sum of all amounts reflected in column E to and including the Qualified Transaction in the row to which the entry relates

 

4.

∑Hn-1 means the sum of all Net Proceeds previously used for a Basket Redemption (i.e. reflected in column H) in the applicable year

 

5.

YTD ∑I means the sum of all Net Proceeds reflected in column I to and including the Qualified Transaction in the row to which the entry relates

 

6.

YTD ∑K means the sum of all amounts reflected in column K to and including the Qualified Transaction in the row to which the entry relates

 

7.

∑Nn-1 means the sum of all Net Proceeds previously used for a Basket Redemption (i.e. reflected in column N) in the applicable year

 

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Exhibit 4.2

NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR THE SECURITIES FOR WHICH THIS SECURITY IS EXERCISABLE HAVE BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF ANY STATE IN RELIANCE UPON AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR UNDER APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES OR BLUE SKY LAWS. THE SECURITIES ARE SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFERABILITY AND RESALE, AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD, PLEDGED, HYPOTHECATED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THIS SECURITY IS SUBJECT TO THE TRANSFER RESTRICTION SET FORTH HEREIN AND IN THE SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT, DATED MARCH 22, 2023.

COMMON STOCK PURCHASE WARRANT

HARPOON THERAPEUTICS, INC.

 

Warrant Number: ____

   Issue Date:                , 2023

THIS COMMON STOCK PURCHASE WARRANT (the “Warrant”) certifies that, for value received, [                ] or its registered assigns (the “Holder”) is entitled, upon the terms and subject to the limitations on exercise and the conditions hereinafter set forth, at any time on or after the Issue Date set forth above (the “Initial Exercise Date”) and on or prior to 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on [insert 8th anniversary], 2031 (the “Termination Date”) but not thereafter, to subscribe for and purchase from Harpoon Therapeutics, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), up to [                ] shares (as subject to adjustment hereunder, the “Warrant Shares”) of common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company (the “Common Stock”). The purchase price of one share of Common Stock under this Warrant shall be equal to the Exercise Price, as defined in Section 2(b).

This Warrant is one of a series of similar warrants issued pursuant to that certain Securities Purchase Agreement, dated March 22, 2023, by and among the Company and the Purchasers identified therein (the “Purchase Agreement”). All such warrants are referred to herein, collectively, as the “Warrants.”

Section 1. Definitions; Purchase Agreement. Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in the Purchase Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, whenever this Warrant references terms of, or provisions being in accordance with provisions of, the Purchase Agreement, such terms and provisions of the Purchase Agreement shall be deemed incorporated into this Warrant and to be part hereof as though set forth herein.


Section 2. Exercise.

(a) Exercise of Warrant. This Warrant may be exercised, in whole or in part, at any time or times on or after the Initial Exercise Date and on or before the Termination Date by delivery to the Company of a duly executed facsimile copy or PDF copy submitted by e-mail (or e-mail attachment) of the Notice of Exercise in the form annexed hereto (the “Notice of Exercise”). Within two (2) Trading Days following the date of exercise, the Holder shall deliver the aggregate Exercise Price for the Warrant Shares specified in the applicable Notice of Exercise by wire transfer or cashier’s check drawn on a United States bank, unless the cashless exercise procedure referenced in Section 2(c) below is specified in the applicable Notice of Exercise. No ink-original Notice of Exercise shall be required, nor shall any medallion guarantee (or other type of guarantee or notarization) of any Notice of Exercise be required. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Holder shall not be required to physically surrender this Warrant to the Company to effect an exercise hereunder until the Holder has purchased all of the Warrant Shares available hereunder and the Warrant has been exercised in full, in which case, the Holder shall surrender this Warrant to the Company for cancellation within three (3) Trading Days of the date on which the final Notice of Exercise is delivered to the Company. (It is understood and agreed that to surrender this Warrant to the Company for any purpose under this Warrant, the Holder only needs to e-mail to the Company e-mail address provided in Section 5(h) an electronic copy of the Warrant and state such Holder’s intent to surrender the Warrant.) Partial exercise of this Warrant shall have the effect of lowering the outstanding number of Warrant Shares purchasable hereunder in an amount equal to the number of Warrant Shares set forth in the applicable Notice of Exercise. The Holder and the Company shall maintain records showing the number of Warrant Shares purchased and the date of such purchases. The Company shall deliver any objection to any Notice of Exercise within one (1) Trading Day of receipt of such notice. The Holder and any assignee, by acceptance of this Warrant, acknowledge and agree that, by reason of the provisions of this paragraph, following the purchase of a portion of the Warrant Shares hereunder, the number of Warrant Shares available for purchase hereunder at any given time may be less than the amount stated on the face hereof.

(b) Exercise Price. The exercise price per share of Common Stock under this Warrant shall be $[    ],1 subject to adjustment hereunder (the “Exercise Price”).

(c) Cashless Exercise. At any time, as an alternative to a cash exercise, this Warrant may be exercised, in whole or in part, by means of a “cashless exercise” in which the Holder shall be entitled to receive a number of Warrant Shares equal to the quotient obtained by dividing [(A-B) (X)] by (A), where:

(A) = as applicable: (i) the VWAP on the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of the applicable Notice of Exercise if such Notice of Exercise is (1) both executed and delivered pursuant to Section 2(a) hereof on a day that is not a Trading Day or (2) both executed and delivered pursuant to Section 2(a) hereof on a Trading Day prior to the opening of “regular trading hours” (as defined in Rule 600(b) of Regulation NMS promulgated under the federal securities laws) on such Trading Day, (ii) at the option of the Holder, either (y) the VWAP on the Trading Day immediately preceding the date of the applicable Notice of Exercise or (z)

 

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NTD: To be the greater of (i) 135% of the Closing Price, and (ii) the Closing Price + $0.125

 

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the Bid Price of the Common Stock on the principal Trading Market as reported by Bloomberg L.P. as of the time of the Holder’s execution of the applicable Notice of Exercise if such Notice of Exercise is executed during “regular trading hours” on a Trading Day and is delivered within two (2) hours thereafter (including until two (2) hours after the close of “regular trading hours” on a Trading Day) pursuant to Section 2(a) hereof or (iii) the VWAP on the date of the applicable Notice of Exercise if the date of such Notice of Exercise is a Trading Day and such Notice of Exercise is both executed and delivered pursuant to Section 2(a) hereof after the close of “regular trading hours” on such Trading Day;

(B) = the Exercise Price of this Warrant, as adjusted hereunder; and

(X) = the number of Warrant Shares that would be issuable upon exercise of this Warrant in accordance with the terms of this Warrant if such exercise were by means of a cash exercise rather than a cashless exercise.

If Warrant Shares are issued in such a cashless exercise, the parties acknowledge and agree that in accordance with Section 3(a)(9) of the Securities Act, the Warrant Shares shall take on the characteristics of the Warrants being exercised, and the holding period of the Warrant Shares being issued may be tacked on to the holding period of this Warrant. The Company agrees not to take any position contrary to this Section 2(c).

Bid Price” means, for any date, the price determined by the first of the following clauses that applies: (a) if the Common Stock is then listed or quoted on a Trading Market, the bid price of the Common Stock for the time in question (or the nearest preceding date) on the Trading Market on which the Common Stock is then listed or quoted as reported by Bloomberg L.P. (based on a Trading Day from 9:30 a.m. (New York City time) to 4:02 p.m. (New York City time)), (b) if OTCQB or OTCQX is not a Trading Market, the volume weighted average price of the Common Stock for such date (or the nearest preceding date) on OTCQB or OTCQX as applicable, (c) if the Common Stock is not then listed or quoted for trading on OTCQB or OTCQX and if prices for the Common Stock are then reported on the Pink Open Market (or a similar organization or agency succeeding to its functions of reporting prices), the most recent bid price per share of the Common Stock so reported, or (d) in all other cases, the fair market value of a share of Common Stock as determined by an independent appraiser selected in good faith by t the Super-Majority Holders and reasonably acceptable to the Company, the fees and expenses of which shall be paid by the Company.

Super-Majority Holders” means holders of Warrants representing not less than 68% of the Warrant Shares obtainable upon exercise of Warrants outstanding at the time of determination.

VWAP” means, for any date, the price determined by the first of the following clauses that applies: (a) if the Common Stock is then listed or quoted on a Trading Market, the daily volume weighted average price of the Common Stock for such date (or the nearest preceding date) on the Trading Market on which the Common Stock is then listed or quoted as reported by Bloomberg L.P. (based on a Trading Day from 9:30 a.m. (New York City time) to 4:02 p.m. (New York City time)), (b) if OTCQB or OTCQX is not a Trading Market, the volume weighted average

 

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price of the Common Stock for such date (or the nearest preceding date) on OTCQB or OTCQX as applicable, (c) if the Common Stock is not then listed or quoted for trading on OTCQB or OTCQX and if prices for the Common Stock are then reported on the Pink Open Market (or a similar organization or agency succeeding to its functions of reporting prices), the most recent bid price per share of the Common Stock so reported, or (d) in all other cases, the fair market value of a share of Common Stock as determined by an independent appraiser selected in good faith by the Super-Majority Holders and reasonably acceptable to the Company, the fees and expenses of which shall be paid by the Company.

Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, on the Termination Date, this Warrant shall be automatically deemed exercised via cashless exercise pursuant to this Section 2(c).

(d) Mechanics of Exercise.

i Delivery of Warrant Shares Upon Exercise. The Company shall cause the Warrant Shares purchased hereunder to be transmitted by the Transfer Agent to the Holder by crediting the account of the Holder’s or its designee’s balance account with The Depository Trust Company through its Deposit or Withdrawal at Custodian system (“DWAC”) if the Company is then a participant in such system and either (A) there is an effective registration statement permitting the issuance of the Warrant Shares to or resale of the Warrant Shares by the Holder or (B) the Warrant Shares are eligible for resale by the Holder without volume or manner-of-sale limitations pursuant to Rule 144 (assuming cashless exercise of the Warrants), and otherwise by physical delivery of a certificate (or evidence of issuance of the Warrant Shares in book entry with the Transfer Agent), registered in the Company’s share register in the name of the Holder or its designee, for the number of Warrant Shares to which the Holder is entitled pursuant to such exercise to the address specified by the Holder in the Notice of Exercise (or, in the case of book entry issuance of Warrant Shares, evidence of such issuance to the email address specified in such Notice of Exercise) by the date that is the earliest of (i) two (2) Trading Days after the delivery to the Company of the Notice of Exercise, if the Company has by such date received the Exercise Price (other than in the case of cashless exercise), and (ii) one (1) Trading Day after delivery of the aggregate Exercise Price to the Company (such date, the “Warrant Share Delivery Date”). Upon delivery of the Notice of Exercise, the Holder shall be deemed for all corporate purposes to have become the holder of record of the Warrant Shares with respect to which this Warrant has been exercised, irrespective of the date of delivery of the Warrant Shares, provided that payment of the aggregate Exercise Price (other than in the case of a cashless exercise) is received within two (2) Trading Days following delivery of the Notice of Exercise. The Company agrees to maintain a transfer agent that is a participant in the FAST program so long as this Warrant remains outstanding and exercisable.

ii Delivery of New Warrants Upon Exercise. If this Warrant shall have been exercised in part, the Company shall, at the request of a Holder and upon surrender of this Warrant certificate, at the time of delivery of the Warrant Shares, deliver to the Holder a new Warrant evidencing the rights of the Holder to purchase the unpurchased Warrant Shares called for by this Warrant, which new Warrant shall in all other respects be identical to this Warrant.

 

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iii Rescission Rights. If the Company fails to cause the Transfer Agent to transmit to the Holder the Warrant Shares pursuant to Section 2(d)(i) by the Warrant Share Delivery Date, then the Holder will have the right to rescind such exercise by delivering written notice to the Company at any time prior to the delivery of the Warrant Shares.

iv Compensation for Buy-In on Failure to Timely Deliver Warrant Shares Upon Exercise. In addition to any other rights available to the Holder, if the Company fails to cause the Transfer Agent to transmit to the Holder the Warrant Shares in accordance with the provisions of Section 2(d)(i) above pursuant to an exercise on or before the Warrant Share Delivery Date (other than a failure caused by incorrect or incomplete information provided by the Holder to the Company), and if after such date the Holder is required by its broker to purchase (in an open market transaction or otherwise) or the Holder’s brokerage firm otherwise purchases for the Holder, shares of Common Stock to deliver in satisfaction of a sale by the Holder of the Warrant Shares which the Holder anticipated receiving upon such exercise (a “Buy-In”), then the Company shall (A) pay in cash to the Holder the amount, if any, by which (x) the Holder’s total purchase price (including brokerage commissions, if any) for the shares of Common Stock so purchased exceeds (y) the amount obtained by multiplying (1) the number of Warrant Shares that the Company was required to deliver to the Holder (up to the number of shares of Common Stock required to be purchased by the Holder or its broker for the Buy-In) in connection with a valid exercise, and (2) the price at which the sell order giving rise to such purchase obligation was executed, and (B) at the option of the Holder, either reinstate the portion of the Warrant and equivalent number of Warrant Shares for which such exercise was not honored (in which case such exercise shall be deemed rescinded) or deliver to the Holder the number of shares of Common Stock that would have been issued had the Company timely complied with its exercise and delivery obligations hereunder. For example, if the Holder purchases Common Stock having a total purchase price of $11,000 to cover a Buy-In with respect to an attempted exercise of shares of Common Stock with an aggregate sale price giving rise to such purchase obligation of $10,000, under clause (A) of the immediately preceding sentence the Company shall be required to pay the Holder $1,000. The Holder shall provide the Company written notice indicating the amounts payable to the Holder in respect of the Buy-In and, upon request of the Company, evidence of the amount of such loss. Nothing herein shall limit a Holder’s right to pursue any other remedies available to it hereunder, at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief with respect to the Company’s failure to timely deliver shares of Common Stock upon exercise of the Warrant as required pursuant to the terms hereof.

v No Fractional Shares or Scrip. No fractional shares or scrip representing fractional shares shall be issued upon the exercise of this Warrant. As to any fraction of a share which the Holder would otherwise be entitled to purchase upon such exercise, the Company shall, at its election, either pay a cash adjustment in respect of such final fraction in an amount equal to such fraction multiplied by the Exercise Price or round up to the next whole share.

vi Charges, Taxes and Expenses. Issuance of Warrant Shares shall be made without charge to the Holder for any issue or transfer tax or other incidental expense in respect of the issuance of such Warrant Shares, all of which taxes and expenses shall be paid by the Company, and such Warrant Shares shall be issued in the name of the Holder or in such name or names as may be directed by the Holder in the Notice of Exercise; provided, however, that in the event that Warrant Shares are to be issued in a name other than the name of the Holder, this Warrant when surrendered for exercise shall be accompanied by the Assignment Form attached hereto duly executed by the Holder and the Company shall have the right to require, as a condition

 

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thereto, the prior or contemporaneous payment of a sum sufficient to reimburse it for any transfer tax incidental thereto. The Company shall pay all Transfer Agent fees required for same-day processing of any Notice of Exercise and all fees to the Depository Trust Company (or another established clearing corporation performing similar functions) required for same-day electronic delivery of the Warrant Shares, in each case, if applicable.

vii Closing of Books. The Company will not close its stockholder books or records in any manner which prevents the timely exercise of this Warrant, pursuant to the terms hereof.

(e) Holder’s Exercise Limitations. The Company shall not effect any exercise of this Warrant, and a Holder shall not have the right to exercise any portion of this Warrant, pursuant to Section 2 or otherwise, to the extent that after giving effect to such issuance after exercise as set forth on the applicable Notice of Exercise, the Holder (together with the Holder’s Affiliates, and any other Persons acting as a group together with the Holder or any of the Holder’s Affiliates (such Persons, “Attribution Parties”)), would beneficially own in excess of the Beneficial Ownership Limitation (as defined below). For purposes of the foregoing sentence, the number of shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by the Holder and its Attribution Parties shall include the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of this Warrant with respect to which such determination is being made, but shall exclude the number of shares of Common Stock which would be issuable upon (i) exercise of the remaining, nonexercised portion of this Warrant beneficially owned by the Holder or any of its Attribution Parties and (ii) exercise or conversion of the unexercised or nonconverted portion of any other securities of the Company (including, without limitation, any other Warrant) subject to a limitation on conversion or exercise analogous to the limitation contained herein beneficially owned by the Holder or any of its Attribution Parties. Except as set forth in the preceding sentence, for purposes of this Section 2(e), beneficial ownership shall be calculated in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, it being acknowledged by the Holder that the Company is not representing to the Holder that such calculation is in compliance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the Holder is solely responsible for any schedules required to be filed in accordance therewith. For purposes of this Section 2(e), in determining the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock, a Holder may rely on the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock as reflected in (A) the Company’s most recent periodic or annual report filed with the Commission, as the case may be, (B) a more recent public announcement by the Company or (C) a more recent written notice by the Company or the Transfer Agent setting forth the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding. Upon the written request of a Holder, the Company shall within one (1) Trading Day confirm orally and in writing to the Holder the number of shares of Common Stock then outstanding. In any case, the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be determined after giving effect to the conversion or exercise of securities of the Company, including this Warrant, by the Holder or Attribution Parties since the date as of which such number of outstanding shares of Common Stock was reported. The “Beneficial Ownership Limitation” shall be [19.99%/4.99%/9.99%] of the number of shares of the Common Stock outstanding (for purposes of the denominator, immediately after giving effect to the issuance of shares of Common Stock to be issued upon the applicable exercise of this Warrant). [The Holder, upon notice to the Company, may increase or decrease the Beneficial Ownership Limitation provisions of this Section 2(e), provided that the Beneficial Ownership Limitation in no event exceeds 19.99% of the number of shares of the Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to the

 

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issuance of shares of Common Stock upon exercise of this Warrant held by the Holder and the provisions of this Section 2(e) shall continue to apply. Any increase in the Beneficial Ownership Limitation will not be effective until the 61st day after such notice is delivered to the Company.]2 Any purported delivery to the Holder or the Attribution Parties of a number of shares of Common Stock or any other security upon exercise of any Warrant shall be void and have no effect to the extent, but only to the extent, that before or after such delivery, the Holder and the Attribution Parties would have beneficial ownership of Common Stock or any other such class in excess of the Beneficial Ownership Limitation. The limitations contained in this paragraph may not be waived and shall apply to a successor holder of this Warrant.

Section 3. Certain Adjustments.

(a) Stock Dividends and Splits. If the Company, at any time on or after the date of the Purchase Agreement and while this Warrant is outstanding: (i) pays a stock dividend or otherwise makes a distribution or distributions on shares of its Common Stock or any other equity or equity equivalent securities payable in shares of Common Stock (which, for avoidance of doubt, shall not include any shares of Common Stock issued by the Company upon exercise of this Warrant), (ii) subdivides outstanding shares of Common Stock into a larger number of shares, (iii) combines (including by way of reverse stock split) outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares or (iv) issues by reclassification of shares of the Common Stock any shares of capital stock of the Company, then in each case the Exercise Price shall be multiplied by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock (excluding treasury shares, if any) outstanding immediately before such event and of which the denominator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, and the number of shares issuable upon exercise of this Warrant shall be proportionately adjusted such that the aggregate Exercise Price of this Warrant shall remain unchanged. Any adjustment made pursuant to this Section 3(a) shall become effective immediately after the effective date of the dividend, distribution, subdivision, combination or re-classification.

(b) Subsequent Rights Offerings. In addition to any adjustments pursuant to Section 3(a) above, if at any time the Company grants, issues or sells any Common Stock Equivalents or rights to purchase stock, warrants, securities or other property pro rata to the record holders of any class of shares of Common Stock (the “Purchase Rights”), then the Holder will be entitled to acquire, upon the terms applicable to such Purchase Rights, the aggregate Purchase Rights which the Holder could have acquired if the Holder had held the number of shares of Common Stock acquirable upon complete exercise of this Warrant (without regard to any limitations on exercise hereof, including without limitation, the Beneficial Ownership Limitation) immediately before the date on which a record is taken for the grant, issuance or sale of such Purchase Rights, or, if no such record is taken, the date as of which the record holders of shares of Common Stock are to be determined for the grant, issue or sale of such Purchase Rights (provided, however, that, to the extent that the Holder’s right to participate in any such Purchase Right would result in the Holder exceeding the Beneficial Ownership Limitation, then the Holder shall not be entitled to participate in such Purchase Right to such extent (or beneficial ownership of such shares of Common Stock as a result of such Purchase Right to such extent) and such Purchase Right to such extent shall be held in abeyance for the Holder until such time, if ever, as its right thereto would not result in the Holder exceeding the Beneficial Ownership Limitation).

 

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NTD: To add for those who choose a lower threshold than 19.9%.

 

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(c) Pro Rata Distributions. During such time as this Warrant is outstanding, if the Company shall declare or make any dividend or other distribution of its assets (or rights to acquire its assets) to holders of shares of Common Stock, by way of return of capital or otherwise (including, without limitation, any distribution of cash, stock or other securities, property or options by way of a dividend, spin off, reclassification, corporate rearrangement, scheme of arrangement or other similar transaction) (a “Distribution”), at any time after the issuance of this Warrant, then, in each such case, the Holder shall be entitled to participate in such Distribution to the same extent that the Holder would have participated therein if the Holder had held the number of shares of Common Stock acquirable upon complete exercise of this Warrant (without regard to any limitations on exercise hereof, including without limitation, the Beneficial Ownership Limitation) immediately before the date of which a record is taken for such Distribution, or, if no such record is taken, the date as of which the record holders of shares of Common Stock are to be determined for the participation in such Distribution (provided, however, that, to the extent that the Holder’s right to participate in any such Distribution would result in the Holder exceeding the Beneficial Ownership Limitation, then the Holder shall not be entitled to participate in such Distribution to such extent (or in the beneficial ownership of any shares of Common Stock as a result of such Distribution to such extent) and the portion of such Distribution shall be held in abeyance for the benefit of the Holder until such time, if ever, as its right thereto would not result in the Holder exceeding the Beneficial Ownership Limitation). To the extent that this Warrant has not been partially or completely exercised at the time of such Distribution, such portion of the Distribution shall be held in abeyance for the benefit of the Holder until the Holder has exercised this Warrant.

(d) Fundamental Transaction. If, at any time while this Warrant is outstanding, (i) the Company (including without limitation through a Subsidiary), directly or indirectly, in one or more related transactions effects any merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another Person, (ii) the Company directly or indirectly, effects any sale, lease, license, assignment, transfer, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of its assets in one or a series of related transactions, (iii) any, direct or indirect, purchase offer, tender offer or exchange offer (whether by the Company or another Person) is completed pursuant to which holders of Common Stock are permitted to sell, tender or exchange their shares for other securities, cash or property and has been accepted for shares representing more than 50% of the outstanding Common Stock or more than 50% of the voting power of the common equity of the Company, (iv) the Company, directly or indirectly, in one or more related transactions effects any reclassification, reorganization or recapitalization of the Common Stock or any compulsory share exchange pursuant to which the Common Stock is effectively converted into or exchanged for other securities, cash or property, or (v) the Company, directly or indirectly, in one or more related transactions (other than one or more bona fide financing transactions) consummates a stock or share purchase agreement or other business combination (including, without limitation, a reorganization, recapitalization, spin-off, merger or scheme of arrangement) with another Person or group of Persons whereby such other Person or group acquires more than 50% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock or more than 50% of the voting power of the common equity of the Company (“group” status being determined in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act) (each a “Fundamental Transaction”), to the extent any portion to this Warrant remains unexercised,

 

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then following such Fundamental Transaction the Holder shall have the right to receive, upon exercise of this Warrant, the same amount and kind of securities, cash or property as the Holder would have been entitled to receive upon the occurrence of such Fundamental Transaction if it had been, immediately prior to such Fundamental Transaction, the holder of the number of Warrant Shares then issuable upon exercise in full of this Warrant without regard to any limitations on exercise contained herein (the “Alternate Consideration”). If the Company undertakes a Fundamental Transaction in which the Company is not the surviving entity and the Alternate Consideration includes securities of another Person, then the Company shall provide that, prior to or simultaneously with the consummation of such Fundamental Transaction, any successor to the Company, surviving entity or other Person (including any purchaser of assets of the Company) shall assume the obligation to deliver to the Holder such Alternate Consideration as the Holder is entitled to receive in accordance with the foregoing provisions, and to assume the other obligations under this Warrant. The provisions of this paragraph (d) shall similarly apply to subsequent transactions analogous of a Fundamental Transaction type.

(e) Calculations. All calculations under this Section 3 shall be made to the nearest cent or the nearest 1/100th of a share, as the case may be. For purposes of this Section 3, the number of shares of Common Stock deemed to be issued and outstanding as of a given date shall be the sum of the number of shares of Common Stock (excluding treasury shares, if any) issued and outstanding.

(f) Notice to Holder.

i Adjustment to Exercise Price. Whenever the Exercise Price is adjusted pursuant to any provision of this Section 3, the Company shall promptly deliver to the Holder by facsimile or email a notice setting forth the Exercise Price after such adjustment and setting forth a brief statement of the facts requiring such adjustment.

ii Notice to Allow Exercise by Holder. If during the term in which the Warrant may be exercised (A) the Company shall declare a dividend (or any other distribution in whatever form) on the Common Stock, (B) the Company shall declare a special nonrecurring cash dividend on or a redemption of the Common Stock, (C) the Company shall authorize the granting to all holders of the Common Stock rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase any shares of capital stock of any class or of any rights, (D) the approval of any stockholders of the Company shall be required in connection with any reclassification of the Common Stock, any consolidation or merger to which the Company is a party, any sale or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, or any compulsory share exchange whereby the Common Stock is converted into other securities, cash or property, or (E) the Company shall authorize the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the affairs of the Company, then, in each case, the Company shall cause to be delivered by facsimile or email to the Holder at its last facsimile number or email address as it shall appear upon the Warrant Register of the Company, at least 10 calendar days prior to the applicable record or effective date hereinafter specified, a notice stating (x) the date on which a record is to be taken for the purpose of such dividend, distribution, redemption, rights or warrants, or if a record is not to be taken, the date as of which the holders of the Common Stock of record to be entitled to such dividend, distributions, redemption, rights or warrants are to be determined or (y) the date on which such reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or share exchange is expected to become effective or close,

 

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and the date as of which it is expected that holders of the Common Stock of record shall be entitled to exchange their shares of the Common Stock for securities, cash or other property deliverable upon such reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or share exchange; provided that the failure to deliver such notice or any defect therein or in the delivery thereof shall not affect the validity of the corporate action required to be specified in such notice. The Holder shall remain entitled to exercise this Warrant during the period commencing on the date of such notice to the effective date of the event triggering such notice except as may otherwise be expressly set forth herein.

Section 4. Transfer of Warrant.

(a) Transferability. Subject to compliance with any applicable securities laws and the conditions set forth in Section 4(d) hereof and to the provisions of Section 4.1 of the Purchase Agreement, this Warrant and all rights hereunder (including, without limitation, any registration rights) are transferable, in whole or in part, upon surrender of this Warrant at the principal office of the Company or its designated agent, together with a written assignment of this Warrant substantially in the form attached hereto duly executed by the Holder or its agent or attorney and funds sufficient to pay any transfer taxes payable upon the making of such transfer. Upon such surrender and, if required, such payment, the Company shall execute and deliver a new Warrant or Warrants in the name of the assignee or assignees, as applicable, and in the denomination or denominations specified in such instrument of assignment, and shall issue to the assignor a new Warrant evidencing the portion of this Warrant not so assigned, and this Warrant shall promptly be cancelled. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Holder shall not be required to physically surrender this Warrant to the Company, unless the Holder has assigned this Warrant in full, in which case, the Holder shall surrender this Warrant to the Company within three (3) Trading Days of the date on which the Holder delivers a duly executed Assignment Form to the Company assigning this Warrant in full. The Warrant, if properly assigned in accordance herewith, may be exercised by a new holder for the purchase of Warrant Shares without having a new Warrant issued.

(b) New Warrants. This Warrant may be divided or combined with other Warrants upon presentation hereof at the aforesaid office of the Company, together with a written notice specifying the names and denominations in which new Warrants are to be issued, signed by the Holder or its agent or attorney. Subject to compliance with Section 4(a), as to any transfer which may be involved in such division or combination, the Company shall execute and deliver a new Warrant or Warrants in exchange for the Warrant or Warrants to be divided or combined in accordance with such notice. All Warrants issued on transfers or exchanges shall be dated the initial issuance date of this Warrant and shall be identical with this Warrant except as to the number of Warrant Shares issuable pursuant thereto.

(c) Warrant Register. The Company shall register this Warrant, upon records to be maintained by the Company for that purpose (the “Warrant Register”), in the name of the record Holder hereof from time to time. The Company may deem and treat the registered Holder of this Warrant as the absolute owner hereof for the purpose of any exercise hereof or any distribution to the Holder, and for all other purposes, absent actual notice to the contrary.

 

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(d) Transfer Restrictions. If, in connection with the transfer of this Warrant, the transfer shall not be either (i) registered pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act and under applicable state securities or blue sky laws or (ii) eligible for resale without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions or current public information requirements pursuant to Rule 144, the Company may require, as a condition of allowing such transfer, that the Holder or transferee of this Warrant, as the case may be, comply with the provisions of Section 4.1 of the Purchase Agreement.

(e) Representation by the Holder. The Holder, by the acceptance hereof, represents and warrants that it is acquiring this Warrant and, upon any exercise hereof, will acquire the Warrant Shares issuable upon such exercise, for its own account and not with a view to or for distributing or reselling such Warrant Shares or any part thereof in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable state securities law, except pursuant to sales registered or exempted under the Securities Act.

Section 5. Miscellaneous.

(a) No Rights as Stockholder Until Exercise; No Settlement in Cash. This Warrant does not entitle the Holder to any voting rights, dividends or other rights as a stockholder of the Company prior to the exercise hereof as set forth in Section 2(d)(i), except as expressly set forth in Section 3. Without limiting any rights of a Holder to receive Warrant Shares in a “cashless exercise” pursuant to Section 2(c) or to receive cash payments pursuant to Section 2(d)(iv) and Section 2(d)(v) herein, in no event shall the Company be required to net cash settle an exercise of this Warrant.

(b) Loss, Theft, Destruction or Mutilation of Warrant. The Company covenants that upon receipt by the Company of evidence reasonably satisfactory to it of the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of this Warrant or any stock certificate relating to the Warrant Shares, and in case of loss, theft or destruction, of indemnity or security reasonably satisfactory to it (which, in the case of the Warrant, shall not include the posting of any bond), and upon surrender and cancellation of such Warrant or stock certificate, if mutilated, the Company will make and deliver a new Warrant or stock certificate of like tenor and dated as of such cancellation, in lieu of such Warrant or stock certificate.

(c) Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays, etc. If the last or appointed day for the taking of any action or the expiration of any right required or granted herein shall not be a Trading Day, then, such action may be taken or such right may be exercised on the next succeeding Trading Day.

(d) Authorized Shares. The Company covenants that, during the period the Warrant is outstanding, it will reserve from its authorized and unissued Common Stock a sufficient number of shares to provide for the issuance of the Warrant Shares upon the exercise of this Warrant. The Company will take all such reasonable action as may be necessary to assure that such Warrant Shares may be issued as provided herein without violation of any applicable law or regulation, or of any requirements of the Trading Market upon which the Common Stock may be listed. The Company covenants that all Warrant Shares which may be issued upon the exercise of this Warrant will, upon such exercise and payment for such Warrant Shares in accordance herewith, be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free from all taxes, liens and charges created by the Company in respect of the issue thereof (other than taxes in respect of any transfer occurring contemporaneously with such issue).

 

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Except and to the extent as waived or consented to by the Holder, the Company shall not by any action, including, without limitation, amending its certificate of incorporation or through any reorganization, transfer of assets, consolidation, merger, dissolution, issue or sale of securities or any other voluntary action, avoid or seek to avoid the observance or performance of any of the terms of this Warrant, but will at all times in good faith assist in the carrying out of all such terms and in the taking of all such actions as may be necessary or appropriate to protect the rights of Holder as set forth in this Warrant against impairment. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Company will, so long as any of the Warrants are outstanding, (i) not increase the par value of any Warrant Shares above the amount payable therefor upon such exercise immediately prior to such increase in par value, (ii) take all such action as may be necessary or appropriate in order that the Company may validly and legally issue fully paid and nonassessable Warrant Shares upon the exercise of this Warrant and (iii) use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain all such authorizations, exemptions or consents from any public regulatory body having jurisdiction thereof, as may be, necessary to enable the Company to perform its obligations under this Warrant.

Before taking any action which would result in an adjustment in the number of Warrant Shares for which this Warrant is exercisable or in the Exercise Price, the Company shall obtain all such authorizations or exemptions thereof, or consents thereto, as may be necessary from any public regulatory body or bodies having jurisdiction thereof.

(e) Jurisdiction. All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Warrant shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of the Purchase Agreement.

(f) Restrictions. The Holder acknowledges that the Warrant Shares acquired upon the exercise of this Warrant, if not registered and the Holder does not utilize cashless exercise, will have restrictions upon resale imposed by state and federal securities laws.

(g) Nonwaiver and Expenses. No course of dealing or any delay or failure to exercise any right hereunder on the part of Holder shall operate as a waiver of such right or otherwise prejudice the Holder’s rights, powers or remedies. Without limiting any other provision of this Warrant or the Purchase Agreement, if the Company willfully and knowingly fails to comply with any provision of this Warrant, which results in any material damages to the Holder, the Company shall pay to the Holder such amounts as shall be sufficient to cover any costs and expenses including, but not limited to, reasonable attorneys’ fees, including those of appellate proceedings, incurred by the Holder in collecting any amounts due pursuant hereto or in otherwise enforcing any of its rights, powers or remedies hereunder.

(h) Notices. Any notice, request or other document required or permitted to be given or delivered to the Holder by the Company shall be delivered in accordance with the notice provisions of the Purchase Agreement. Any notice, request or other document required or permitted to be given or delivered to the Company by the Holder shall be delivered via email to legal@harpoontx.com.

 

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(i) Limitation of Liability. No provision hereof, in the absence of any affirmative action by the Holder to exercise this Warrant to purchase Warrant Shares, and no enumeration herein of the rights or privileges of the Holder, shall give rise to any liability of the Holder for the purchase price of any Common Stock or as a stockholder of the Company, whether such liability is asserted by the Company or by creditors of the Company.

(j) Remedies. The Holder, in addition to being entitled to exercise all rights granted by law, including recovery of damages, will be entitled to seek specific performance of its rights under this Warrant. The Company agrees that monetary damages may not be adequate compensation for any loss incurred by reason of a breach by it of the provisions of this Warrant and hereby agrees to waive and not to assert the defense in any action for specific performance that a remedy at law would be adequate.

(k) Successors and Assigns. Subject to applicable securities laws, this Warrant and the rights and obligations evidenced hereby shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the successors and permitted assigns of the Company and the successors and permitted assigns of Holder. The provisions of this Warrant are intended to be for the benefit of any Holder from time to time of this Warrant and shall be enforceable by the Holder or holder of Warrant Shares.

(l) Amendment; Waiver. Except as otherwise provided herein, the provisions of the Warrants may be modified or amended, or the obligations of the Company waived, only if the Company has obtained the written consent of the Super-Majority Holders. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the number of Warrant Shares subject to this Warrant, the Initial Exercise Date, the Termination Date and the Exercise Price of this Warrant may not be amended, and the right to exercise this Warrant may not be waived, without the written consent of the Holder. Further, if any amendment to, or waiver of, this Warrant results in a disproportionate adverse effect to the Holder or any group of holders of Warrants, the written consent of the Holder, or group of holders, as the case may be, shall be required to effect such amendment or waiver. The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Holder of any amendment hereto or waiver hereunder that was effected without the Holder’s written consent.

(m) Severability. Wherever possible, each provision of this Warrant shall be interpreted in such manner as to be effective and valid under applicable law, but if any provision of this Warrant shall be prohibited by or invalid under applicable law, such provision shall be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or invalidity, without invalidating the remainder of such provisions or the remaining provisions of this Warrant.

(n) Headings. The headings used in this Warrant are for the convenience of reference only and shall not, for any purpose, be deemed a part of this Warrant.

(Signature Page Follows)

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Warrant to be executed by its officer thereunto duly authorized as of the date first above indicated.

 

HARPOON THERAPEUTICS, INC.
By:    
  Name:
  Title:

 

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NOTICE OF EXERCISE

 

TO:

Harpoon Therapeutics, Inc.

(1) The undersigned hereby elects to purchase ________ Warrant Shares of the Company pursuant to the terms of the attached Warrant (only if exercised in full), and tenders herewith payment of the exercise price in full, together with all applicable transfer taxes, if any.

(2) shall take the form of (check applicable box):

[    ] in lawful money of the United States; or

[    ] the cancellation of such number of Warrant Shares as is necessary, in accordance with the formula set forth in subsection 2(c), to exercise this Warrant with respect to the maximum number of Warrant Shares purchasable pursuant to the cashless exercise procedure set forth in subsection 2(c).

(3) Please issue a certificate or certificates representing said Warrant Shares in the name of the undersigned or in such other name as is specified below:

(4) After giving effect to this Notice of Exercise, the undersigned will not have exceeded the Beneficial Ownership Limitation.

(5) The undersigned is an “accredited investor” as defined in Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

The Warrant Shares shall be delivered to the following DWAC Account Number or by physical delivery of a certificate to:

 

   
   
   

[SIGNATURE OF HOLDER]

 

Name of Investing Entity:

    

 

Signature of Authorized Signatory of Investing Entity:

    

 

Name of Authorized Signatory:

    

 

Title of Authorized Signatory:

    

 

Date:

    

 

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ASSIGNMENT FORM

(To assign the foregoing warrant, execute

this form and supply required information.

Do not use this form to exercise the warrant.)

HARPOON THERAPEUTICS, INC.

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, all of or [_______] shares of Warrant Number ___ and all rights evidenced thereby are hereby assigned to the following:

 

Name:

       

.

Address:

       

.

       

.

       

.

 

     

Dated: ____________, _______

  

Holder’s Name:

    
  

Holder’s Signature:

    
  

Holder’s Address:

    

NOTE: The signature to this Assignment Form must correspond with the name as it appears on the face of the Warrant, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. Officers of corporations and those acting in a fiduciary or other representative capacity should file proper evidence of authority to assign the foregoing Warrant.

 

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Exhibit 10.1

Execution Version

SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT

This Securities Purchase Agreement (this “Agreement”) is dated as of March 22, 2023, between Harpoon Therapeutics, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and the several purchasers identified on the signature pages hereto (each, including its respective successors and assigns, a “Purchaser”).

WHEREAS, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, the Company desires to issue and sell to each Purchaser, and each Purchaser, severally and not jointly, wishes to purchase from the Company, the aggregate number of shares of Preferred Stock (as defined below) and the Warrants (as defined below), in each case, as set forth below such Purchaser’s name on the signature page of this Agreement.

WHEREAS, contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Purchasers and the Company are executing and delivering a Registration Rights Agreement (as defined below), pursuant to which, among other things, the Company will agree to provide certain registration rights with respect to the Warrant Shares (as defined below) under the Securities Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder and applicable state securities laws and certain information and consent rights.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants contained in this Agreement, and for other good and valuable consideration the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the Company and each Purchaser agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS

1.1 Definitions. In addition to the terms defined elsewhere in this Agreement: (a) capitalized terms that are not otherwise defined herein have the meanings given to such terms in the Certificate of Designation (as defined herein), and (b) the following terms have the meanings set forth in this Section 1.1:

Acquiring Person” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.5.

Action” means any action, suit, inquiry, notice of violation, arbitration, complaint, proceeding (including any partial proceeding such as a deposition) or investigation pending or, to the Company’s Knowledge, threatened in writing against the Company, any Subsidiary or any of their respective properties or any officer, director or employee of the Company or any Subsidiary acting in his or her capacity as an officer, director or employee before or by any federal, state, county, local or foreign court, arbitrator, governmental or administrative agency, regulatory authority, stock market, stock exchange or trading facility.

Affiliate” means any Person that, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under common control with a Person, as such terms are used in and construed under Rule 405 under the Securities Act.

Agreement” has the meaning ascribed to such term in the preamble.


Board of Directors” means the board of directors of the Company.

Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in The City of New York are authorized or required by law to remain closed; provided, however, for clarification, commercial banks shall not be deemed to be authorized or required by law to remain closed due to “stay at home”, “shelter-in-place”, “non-essential employee” or any other similar orders or restrictions or the closure of any physical branch locations at the direction of any governmental authority so long as the electronic funds transfer systems (including for wire transfers) of commercial banks in The City of New York generally are open for use by customers on such day.

Bylaws” means the Company’s Bylaws as amended and restated and as in effect on the date hereof.

Certificate of Designation” means the Certificate of Designation to be filed prior to the Closing by the Company with the Secretary of State of Delaware, in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto.

Certificate of Incorporation” means the Company’s certificate of incorporation, as amended and restated and as in effect on the date hereof.

Closing” means the closing of the purchase and sale of the Securities pursuant to Section 2.1.

Closing Date” means the Trading Day on which all of the Transaction Documents have been executed and delivered by the applicable parties thereto, and all conditions precedent to (i) the Purchasers’ obligations to pay the Subscription Amount and (ii) the Company’s obligations to deliver the Securities, in each case, have been satisfied or waived.

Closing Price” means the “Minimum Price” as such is defined in Rule 5635(d)(A) of the Rulebook of the Nasdaq Stock Market.

Commission” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

Common Stock” means the common stock of the Company, par value $0.0001 per share, and any other class of securities into which such securities may hereafter be reclassified or changed.

Company” has the meaning ascribed to such term in the preamble.

Company Counsel” means Cooley LLP, with offices located at 3175 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA 94304.

Company’s Knowledge” means with respect to any statement made to the knowledge of the Company, that the statement is based upon the actual knowledge, after reasonable inquiry, of the executive officers of the Company.

DGCL” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(s).

 

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Disqualification Event” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(ii).

Environmental Laws” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(m).

Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

Exercise Price” means the greater of (i) 135% of the Closing Price, and (ii) the Closing Price plus $0.125.

FCPA” means the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended.

FDA” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(p).

GAAP” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(f).

Health Care Laws” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(mm).

HIPPA” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(mm).

Intellectual Property Rights” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(l).

Issuer Covered Person” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(ii).

IT Systems and Data” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(nn).

Legend Removal Date” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.1(c).

Material Adverse Effect” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(a).

Money Laundering Laws” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(oo).

Person” means an individual or corporation, partnership, trust, incorporated or unincorporated association, joint venture, limited liability company, joint stock company, government (or an agency or subdivision thereof) or other entity of any kind.

Preferred Stock” means the shares of the Company’s 8.000% Series A Redeemable Preferred Stock, par value $0.0001, issued hereunder having the rights, preferences and privileges set forth in the Certificate of Designation.

Principal Trading Market” means the Trading Market on which the Common Stock is primarily listed on and quoted for trading, which, as of the date of this Agreement and the Closing Date, shall be the Nasdaq Global Select Market.

Proceeding” means an action, claim, suit, investigation or proceeding (including, without limitation, an informal investigation or partial proceeding, such as a deposition), whether commenced or threatened in writing.

Purchaser” has the meaning ascribed to such term in the preamble.

 

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Purchaser Party” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.6.

Registration Rights Agreement” means the Registration Rights Agreement, dated on or about the date hereof, among the Company and the Purchasers, in the form of Exhibit B attached hereto.

Registration Statement” or “Registration Statements” means the registration statement(s) meeting the requirements set forth in the Registration Rights Agreement and covering the resale of the Warrant Shares by the Purchasers as provided for in the Registration Rights Agreement.

Regulatory Authorities” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(dd).

Required Board Approvals” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 2.2(a)(vi).

Required Minimum” means, as of any date, the maximum aggregate number of shares of Common Stock potentially issuable in the future pursuant to the Transaction Documents, including any Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise in full of all Warrants ignoring any exercise limits set forth therein and the effect of potential future adjustments to the Exercise Price.

Rule 144” means Rule 144 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended or interpreted from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission having substantially the same purpose and effect as such Rule.

SEC Reports” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(f).

Securities” means the Preferred Stock, the Warrants and the Warrant Shares.

Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

Short Sales” means all “short sales” as defined in Rule 200 of Regulation SHO under the Exchange Act (but shall not be deemed to include locating and/or borrowing shares of Common Stock).

Standard Settlement Period” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.1(c).

Stockholder Claimant” has the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.6.

Subscription Amount” means, as to each Purchaser, the aggregate amount to be paid for the Preferred Stock and Warrants purchased hereunder, in United States dollars and in immediately available funds, as set forth below such Purchaser’s name on the signature page of this Agreement.

Subsidiary” means any subsidiary of the Company as set forth in the SEC Reports, and shall, where applicable, also include any direct or indirect subsidiary of the Company formed or acquired after the date hereof.

 

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Super-Majority Purchasers” means Purchasers (and their respective affiliated funds and permitted assignees and transferees) (i) that hold 68% or more of the then outstanding Securities; or (ii) all of Arix Bioscience Holdings Limited, Invus Public Equities, L.P., OrbiMed Private Investments VII, LP, OrbiMed Genesis Master Fund, L.P. and K2 HealthVentures Equity Trust LLC (and their respective affiliated funds, permitted assignees and transferees), provided that any such Purchaser (or its affiliated funds, permitted assignees and transferees) still holds Securities; or both (i) and (ii).

Trading Day” means a day on which the Principal Trading Market is open for trading.

Trading Market” means any of the following markets or exchanges on which the Common Stock is listed or quoted for trading on the date in question: the NYSE American, the Nasdaq Capital Market, the Nasdaq Global Market, the Nasdaq Global Select Market or the New York Stock Exchange (or any successors to any of the foregoing).

Transaction Documents” means this Agreement, the Certificate of Designation, the Warrants, the Registration Rights Agreement, all exhibits and schedules thereto and hereto and any other documents or agreements executed in connection with the transactions contemplated hereunder.

Transfer Agent” means Computershare Trust Company, N.A., the current transfer agent of the Company, with a mailing address of 250 Royall St., Canton, MA 02021, and any successor transfer agent of the Company.

Warrants” means the warrants to purchase shares of Common Stock, in the aggregate, up to the Warrant Coverage Amount, at the Exercise Price and delivered to the Purchasers at Closing in accordance with Section 2.2(a) hereof, in the form of Exhibit C attached hereto.

Warrant Coverage Amount” means, in the aggregate, the number of shares of Common Stock equal to the lesser of (i) $8,333,333 divided by the Closing Price and (ii) 19.99% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock on the Closing Date.

Warrant Shares” means the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants.

ARTICLE II

PURCHASE AND SALE

2.1 Closing. On the Closing Date, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, the Company agrees to sell, and the Purchasers, severally and not jointly, agree to purchase, up to an aggregate of $25,000,000 of Preferred Stock and Warrants. Each Purchaser’s Subscription Amount is set forth below such Purchaser’s name on its signature page hereto. Upon satisfaction of the covenants and conditions set forth in Sections 2.2 and 2.3, the Closing shall occur remotely by mutual exchange of signature pages by electronic means. The Preferred Stock and the Warrants will be issued in a private placement pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of Section 5 of the Securities Act contained in Section 4(a)(2) thereof and Rule 506 promulgated thereunder.

 

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2.2 Deliveries.

(a) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered to each Purchaser the following:

(i) this Agreement duly executed by the Company;

(ii) a copy of a certificate issued by the Company evidencing the shares of Preferred Stock purchased pursuant hereto, registered in the name of each Purchaser (or its nominee in accordance with such Purchaser’s delivery instructions), and evidence of the filing and acceptance of the Certificate of Designation from the Secretary of State of Delaware;

(iii) a Warrant registered in the name of each Purchaser (or its nominee in accordance with such Purchaser’s delivery instructions) to purchase up to a number of shares of Common Stock as set forth below such Purchaser’s name on its signature page hereto, subject to adjustment as set forth therein;

(iv) the Company shall have provided each Purchaser with the Company’s wire instructions;

(v) the Registration Rights Agreement duly executed by the Company;

(vi) a certificate of the Secretary of the Company, dated as of the Closing Date, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Super-Majority Purchasers, (a) certifying (1) the resolutions duly adopted by a committee of the Board of Directors consisting solely of independent and disinterested directors acting under authority delegated by the Board of Directors approving the transactions contemplated hereby and the other Transaction Documents and performance by the Company of its obligations hereunder and thereunder (collectively, the “Transactions”), finding the Transactions to be fair to, and in the best interests of, the Company and its stockholders, and recommending that the Board of Directors approve and authorize the Transactions and the Transaction Documents, (2) resolutions duly adopted by the Board of Directors authorizing such committee, and (3) resolutions duly adopted by the Board of Directors approving the recommendation of such committee, approving the Transactions and the Transaction Documents, and taking such other action as is required to duly authorize the Transactions and the Transaction Documents, the filing of the Certificate of Designation, and the issuance of the Preferred Stock, the Warrants and the Warrant Shares, including any waivers referenced in Section 3.1(s) hereof (collectively, the “Required Board Approvals”); (b) certifying the Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws and (c) certifying as to the signatures and authority of persons signing the Transaction Documents and related documents on behalf of the Company;

(vii) a certificate evidencing the good standing of the Company in Delaware issued by the Secretary of State of Delaware, as of a date within five Business Days of the Closing Date; and

 

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(viii) an opinion of counsel substantively in the form attached hereto as Exhibit D, executed by such counsel as of the Closing Date and addressed to the Purchasers.

(b) On or prior to the Closing Date, each Purchaser shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Company, the following:

(i) this Agreement duly executed by such Purchaser;

(ii) the Subscription Amount for such Purchaser by wire transfer in immediately available funds to the account specified by the Company;

(iii) the Registration Rights Agreement duly executed by such Purchaser; and

(iv) an Internal Revenue Services Form W-9 (or any successor form or applicable Form W-8 in the case of a Purchaser that is not a U.S. person), duly and validly executed by such Purchaser (or its nominee in accordance with the Purchaser’s delivery instructions).

2.3 Closing Conditions.

(a) The obligations of the Company hereunder in connection with the Closing are subject to the following conditions being met:

(i) the accuracy in all material respects (or, to the extent representations or warranties are qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect, in all respects) when made and on the Closing Date of the representations and warranties of the Purchasers contained herein (unless as of a specific date therein in which case they shall be accurate in all material respects (or, to the extent representations or warranties are qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect, in all respects) as of such date);

(ii) all obligations, covenants and agreements of the Purchasers required to be performed at or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed; and

(iii) the delivery by the Purchasers of the items set forth in Section 2.2(b) of this Agreement.

(b) The respective obligations of the Purchasers hereunder in connection with the Closing are subject to the following conditions being met:

(i) the accuracy in all material respects (or, to the extent representations or warranties are qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect, in all respects) when made and on the Closing Date of the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein (unless as of a specific date therein in which case they shall be accurate in all material respects (or, to the extent representations or warranties are qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect, in all respects) as of such date);

 

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(ii) all obligations, covenants and agreements of the Company required to be performed at or prior to the Closing Date (including, if applicable, pursuant to Section 4.7(c)) shall have been performed;

(iii) the delivery by the Company of the items set forth in Section 2.2(a) of this Agreement;

(iv) there shall have been no Material Adverse Effect since the date hereof; and

(v) from the date hereof to the Closing Date, trading in the Common Stock shall not have been suspended by the Commission or the Company’s Principal Trading Market and, at any time prior to the Closing Date, trading in securities generally as reported by Bloomberg L.P. shall not have been suspended or limited, or minimum prices shall not have been established on securities whose trades are reported by such service, on any Trading Market, nor shall a banking moratorium have been declared either by the United States or New York State authorities nor shall there have occurred any material outbreak or escalation of hostilities or other national or international calamity of such magnitude in its effect on, or any material adverse change in, any financial market which, in each case, in the reasonable judgment of the Super-Majority Purchasers, makes it impracticable or inadvisable to purchase the Securities at the Closing.

ARTICLE III

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

3.1 Representations and Warranties of the Company. The Company hereby makes the following representations and warranties to the Purchasers as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date (except for the representations that speaks of a specific date, which shall be made as of such date):

(a) Organization and Qualification. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries is an entity duly incorporated or otherwise organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization, with the requisite corporate power and authority to own or lease its properties and assets and to carry on its business as currently conducted. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is in violation or default of any of the provisions of its respective certificate of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter documents. Each of the Company and its Subsidiaries is duly qualified to conduct business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation or other entity in each jurisdiction in which the nature of the business conducted or property owned or leased by it makes such qualification necessary, except where the failure to be so qualified or in good standing, as the case may be, would not, individually or in the aggregate, have or, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in: (i) a material adverse effect on the legality, validity or enforceability of any Transaction Document, (ii) a material adverse effect on the results of operations, assets, business, prospects or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Company and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (iii) a material adverse effect on the Company’s ability to perform in any material respect on a timely basis its obligations under any Transaction Document (any of (i), (ii) or (iii), a “Material Adverse Effect”). As of the date hereof, the Company has no subsidiaries (if the Company has no subsidiaries at the applicable time, all other references to the Subsidiaries or any of them in the Transaction Documents shall be disregarded).

 

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(b) Authorization; Enforcement, Validity. (i) The Company has the requisite corporate power and authority to enter into and perform its obligations under this Agreement and each of the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party, and to issue the Preferred Stock and Warrants in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof, (ii) the execution and delivery of this Agreement and each of the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party by the Company and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, including without limitation, the issuance of the Preferred Stock and Warrants pursuant to this Agreement, have been duly authorized by the Required Board Approvals and no further consent or authorization is required by the Company, the Board of Directors or its stockholders, (iii) this Agreement has been and each of the other Transaction Documents shall be on the Closing Date, duly executed and delivered by the Company and (iv) this Agreement constitutes, and each other Transaction Document upon its execution and delivery on behalf of the Company shall constitute, the valid and binding obligations of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with their respective terms, except (i) as such enforceability may be limited by general principles of equity or applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, liquidation or similar laws relating to, or affecting generally, the enforcement of creditors’ rights and remedies, (ii) as limited by laws relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies and (iii) insofar as indemnification and contribution provisions may be limited by applicable law.

(c) Capitalization. As of the date hereof, the authorized capital stock of the Company is set forth in the Company’s most recent SEC Report. The Company’s disclosure of its issued and outstanding capital stock in its most recent SEC Report containing such disclosure was accurate in all material respects as of the date indicated in such SEC Report. All of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of the Company have been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and are non-assessable. None of the issued and outstanding shares of the Company were issued in violation of any preemptive rights. As of the date hereof, and except as disclosed in the SEC Reports or as provided in any of the Transaction Documents: (i) no shares of the Company’s capital stock are subject to preemptive rights or any other similar rights or any liens or encumbrances suffered or permitted by the Company, (ii) there are no outstanding debt securities, (iii) there are no outstanding options, warrants, scrip, rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of any character whatsoever relating to, or securities or rights convertible into, any shares of capital stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or contracts, commitments, understandings or arrangements by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is or may become bound to issue additional shares of capital stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or options, warrants, scrip, rights to subscribe to, calls or commitments of any character whatsoever relating to, or securities or rights convertible into, any shares of capital stock of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (iv) there are no agreements or arrangements under which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is obligated to register the sale of any of their securities under the Securities Act (except the Registration Rights Agreement), (v) there are no outstanding securities or instruments of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries which contain any redemption or similar provisions, and there are no contracts, commitments, understandings or arrangements by which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is or may become bound to redeem a security of the

 

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Company or any of its Subsidiaries, (vi) there are no securities or instruments containing anti-dilution or similar provisions that will be triggered by the issuance of the Securities as described in this Agreement and (vii) the Company does not have any stock appreciation rights or “phantom stock” plans or agreements or any similar plan or agreement. The Company has furnished to the Purchasers true and correct copies of the Certificate of Incorporation and the Bylaws, and summaries of the terms of all securities convertible into or exercisable for Common Stock which are not otherwise disclosed in the SEC Reports, if any, and copies of any documents containing the material rights of the holders thereof in respect thereto that are not otherwise filed with the SEC Reports.

(d) Issuance, Sale and Delivery of the Preferred Stock and Warrant Shares. The Preferred Stock is duly authorized and, when issued, delivered and paid for in accordance with the applicable Transaction Documents, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and free and clear of all liens, encumbrances and rights of refusal of any kind. Except as disclosed in the SEC Reports and for the rights described in the Transaction Documents, no stockholder of the Company has any right to require the Company to register the sale of any capital stock owned by such stockholder under the Registration Statement. The Warrant Shares will be duly and validly authorized and reserved for issuance and, upon exercise of the Warrants in accordance with their respective terms, including the payment of any Exercise Price therefor, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable and will be free and clear of all liens, encumbrances and rights of refusal of any kind, except for restrictions on transfer set forth in the Transaction Documents or imposed by applicable securities laws. Assuming the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Purchasers in Section 3.2 hereof, the Warrant Shares will be issued in compliance with all applicable federal and state securities laws.

(e) No Conflicts. The execution, delivery and performance of the Transaction Documents by the Company and the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby will not (i) result in a violation of the Certificate of Incorporation or the Bylaws or (ii) conflict with, or constitute a default (or an event which with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) under, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation of, any agreement, indenture or instrument that is material to the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is a party, or result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment or decree (including federal and state securities laws and regulations and the rules and regulations of the Principal Trading Market applicable to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries) or by which any property or asset of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is bound or affected, except in the case of conflicts, defaults, terminations, amendments, accelerations, cancellations and violations under clause (ii), which would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor its Subsidiaries is in violation of any term of or in default under its Certificate of Incorporation, any certificate of designation, preferences and rights of any outstanding series of preferred stock of the Company or Bylaws or their organizational charter or bylaws, respectively. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries is in violation of any term of or is in default under any material contract, agreement, mortgage, indebtedness, indenture, instrument, judgment, decree or order or any statute, rule or regulation applicable to the Company or its Subsidiaries, except for possible conflicts, defaults, terminations or amendments that would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The business of the Company and its Subsidiaries is

 

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not being conducted, and shall not be conducted, in violation of any law, ordinance or regulation of any governmental entity, except for possible violations, the sanctions for which, either individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Except as specifically contemplated by this Agreement and as required under the Securities Act or applicable state securities laws and the rules and regulations of the Principal Trading Market, the Company is not required to obtain any consent, authorization or order of, or make any filing or registration with, any court or governmental agency or any regulatory or self-regulatory agency in order for it to execute, deliver or perform any of its obligations under or contemplated by the Transaction Documents in accordance with the terms hereof or thereof. Except as set forth elsewhere in this Agreement, all consents, authorizations, orders, filings and registrations which the Company is required to obtain pursuant to the preceding sentence shall be obtained or effected on or prior to the Closing Date.

(f) SEC Reports; Financial Statements. The Company has filed all reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents required to be filed by the Company under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, including pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) thereof, for the twelve months preceding the date hereof (or such shorter period as the Company was required by law or regulation to file such material) (the foregoing materials, including the exhibits thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein, being collectively referred to herein as the “SEC Reports”) on a timely basis or has received a valid extension of such time of filing and has filed any such SEC Reports prior to the expiration of any such extension. As of their respective filing dates, the SEC Reports complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, as applicable, and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder. None of the SEC Reports, when filed, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The financial statements of the Company included in the SEC Reports comply in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and the rules and regulations of the Commission with respect thereto as in effect at the time of filing. Such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (“GAAP”), except as may be otherwise specified in such financial statements or the notes thereto and except that unaudited financial statements may not contain all footnotes required by GAAP, and fairly present in all material respects the financial position of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of and for the dates thereof and the results of operations and cash flows for the periods then ended, subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal, immaterial, year-end audit adjustments. The Company has received no notices or correspondence from the SEC for the one year preceding the date hereof, other than ordinary course comments to on-going disclosure obligations which are not material and were resolved in one round of comments. To the Company’s Knowledge, the Commission has not commenced any enforcement proceedings against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries.

(g) Absence of Certain Changes. Since the date of the latest audited financial statements included within the SEC Reports, except as set forth in the SEC Reports, there has been no material adverse change in the business, properties, operations, financial condition or results of operations of the Company or its Subsidiaries. The Company has not taken any steps, and does not currently expect to take any steps, to seek protection pursuant to any bankruptcy law nor does the Company or any of its Subsidiaries have any knowledge or reason to believe that its

 

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creditors intend to initiate involuntary bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings. The Company is financially solvent and is generally able to pay its debts as they become due. No event, liability, fact, circumstance, occurrence or development (including, without limitation, any fundamental transaction, change of control or similar event under any agreement (including, without limitation, any employment agreement)) has occurred or exists, or is reasonably expected to occur or exist, with respect to the Company or its business, properties, operations, assets or financial condition that, but for the passage of time, would be required to be disclosed by the Company under applicable securities laws at the time this representation is made that has not been publicly disclosed at least one Trading Day prior to the date that this representation is made.

(h) Absence of Change of Control. The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party, and the issuance of the Preferred Stock and Warrants on the Closing Date do not and will not result in any fundamental transaction, change of control or similar event, the requirement to make any payment or adjustment or issue any shares of Common Stock or other securities with respect to any fundamental transaction, change of control or similar event, or an event that with the passage of time could result in a fundamental transaction, change of control or similar event under any agreement (including, without limitation, any employment agreement), outstanding security (including, without limitation, any option or warrant to purchase Common Stock), other instrument or under any applicable law and regulations (including the rules of the Principal Trading Market).

(i) Absence of Litigation. Except as disclosed in the SEC Reports, there is no action, suit, proceeding, inquiry or investigation before or by any court, public board, government agency, self-regulatory organization or body pending or, to the Company’s Knowledge, threatened against or affecting the Company, the Preferred Stock, the Warrants, the Common Stock or any of the Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ officers or directors in their capacities as such, which would reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(j) Acknowledgment Regarding Purchaser’s Status. The Company acknowledges and agrees that each Purchaser is acting solely in the capacity of arm’s length purchaser with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby. The Company further acknowledges that no Purchaser is acting as a financial advisor or fiduciary of the Company (or in any similar capacity) with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and any advice given by any Purchaser or any of their respective representatives or agents in connection with the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby is merely incidental to such Purchaser’s purchase of the Preferred Stock and Warrants. The Company further represents to each Purchaser that the Company’s decision to enter into the Transaction Documents has been based solely on the independent evaluation by the Company and its representatives and advisors.

(k) No Aggregated Offering. Neither the Company, nor, to the Company’s Knowledge, any of its affiliates, nor any Person acting on their behalf has, directly or indirectly, at any time within the past six (6) months, made any offers or sales of any security or solicited offers to buy any security, under circumstances that would (i) adversely affect reliance by the Company on Section 4(a)(2) for the exemption from registration for the transactions

 

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contemplated hereby or would require registration of the Preferred Stock, the Warrants or the Warrant Shares under the Securities Act or (ii) cause this offering of the Preferred Stock, Warrants and Warrant Shares to be aggregated with prior offerings by the Company in a manner that would require stockholder approval pursuant to the rules of the Principal Trading Market on which any of the securities of the Company are listed or designated. The issuance and sale of the Preferred Stock and Warrants hereunder does not contravene the rules and regulations of the Principal Trading Market. Assuming the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Purchasers set forth in Section 3.2, the offer and sale of the Preferred Stock and Warrants to the Purchasers as contemplated hereby is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act.

(l) Intellectual Property Rights. (i) The Company and its Subsidiaries own or have a valid license to all material patents, inventions, copyrights, know how (including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or procedures), trademarks, service marks and trade names (collectively, “Intellectual Property Rights”) used in or reasonably necessary to the conduct of their businesses; (ii) the Intellectual Property Rights owned by the Company and its Subsidiaries and, to the Company’s Knowledge, the Intellectual Property Rights licensed to the Company and its Subsidiaries, are valid, subsisting and enforceable, and there is no pending or, to the Company’s Knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others challenging the validity, scope or enforceability of any such Intellectual Property Rights; (iii) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any notice alleging any infringement, misappropriation or other violation of Intellectual Property Rights which, singly or in the aggregate, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, would have a Material Adverse Effect; (iv) to the Company’s Knowledge, no third party is infringing, misappropriating or otherwise violating, or has infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated, any Intellectual Property Rights owned by the Company; (v) neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries infringes, misappropriates or otherwise violates, or has infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated, any Intellectual Property Rights; (vi) all employees or contractors engaged in the development of Intellectual Property Rights on behalf of the Company or any Subsidiary have executed an invention assignment agreement whereby such employees or contractors presently assign all of their right, title and interest in and to such Intellectual Property Rights to the Company or the applicable Subsidiary, and to the Company’s Knowledge no such agreement has been breached or violated; and (vii) the Company and its Subsidiaries use, and have used, commercially reasonable efforts to appropriately maintain all information intended to be maintained as a trade secret.

(m) Environmental Laws. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries (i) are in compliance with any and all applicable foreign, federal, state and local laws and regulations relating to the protection of human health and safety, the environment or hazardous or toxic substances or wastes, pollutants or contaminants (“Environmental Laws”), (ii) have received all permits, licenses or other approvals required of them under applicable Environmental Laws to conduct their respective businesses and (iii) are in compliance with all terms and conditions of any such permit, license or approval, except where such noncompliance with Environmental Laws, failure to receive required permits, licenses or other approvals or failure to comply with the terms and conditions of such permits, licenses or approvals would not, singly or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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(n) Title. The Company and its Subsidiaries have good and marketable title to all personal property owned by them which is material to the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances and defects except such as do not materially affect the value of such property and do not interfere in any material respect with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company and its Subsidiaries. Any real property and buildings held under lease by the Company and its Subsidiaries are held by them under valid, subsisting and enforceable leases with such exceptions as are not material and do not interfere in any material respect with the use made and proposed to be made of such property and buildings by the Company and its subsidiaries, in each case except as described in the SEC Reports.

(o) Insurance. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries are insured by insurers of recognized financial responsibility against such losses and risks and in such amounts as management of the Company believes to be prudent and customary in the businesses in which the Company and its Subsidiaries are engaged. Neither the Company nor any such Subsidiary has been refused any insurance coverage sought or applied for and neither the Company nor any such Subsidiary has any reason to believe that it will not be able to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires or to obtain similar coverage from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue its business at a cost that would not be reasonably expected to, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.

(p) Regulatory Permits. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries, and to the Company’s Knowledge, each of its material suppliers, consultants, subcontractors and research partners, possess all certificates, authorizations and permits issued by the appropriate federal, state or foreign regulatory authorities necessary to conduct their respective businesses, including, without limitation, from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (the “FDA”), and neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any such certificate, authorization or permit, notice of any potential adverse drug event, or notice of regulatory authority or third-party inspection which, singly or in the aggregate, if the subject of an unfavorable decision, ruling or finding, would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(q) Tax Status. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries have filed all federal, state, local and foreign tax returns required to be filed through the date of this Agreement or have requested extensions thereof (except where the failure to file would not, singly or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect) and have paid all taxes required to be paid thereon (except for cases in which the failure to file or pay would not reasonably be expected to, singly or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect, or, except as currently being contested in good faith and for which reserves required by GAAP have been created in the financial statements of the Company), and no tax deficiency has been determined adversely to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries which, individually or in the aggregate, has had (nor does the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries have any notice or knowledge of any tax deficiency which would reasonably be expected to be determined adversely to the Company or its Subsidiaries and which would reasonably be expected to have) a Material Adverse Effect.

(r) Transactions With Affiliates. Except as set forth in the SEC Reports, none of the officers or directors of the Company, the Company’s stockholders, the officers or directors of any stockholder of the Company, or any family member or affiliate of any of the foregoing, has either directly or indirectly any interest in, or is a party to, any transaction that would be required to be disclosed as a related party transaction pursuant to Rule 404 of Regulation S-K promulgated under the Securities Act.

 

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(s) Application of Takeover Protections. The Company and the Board of Directors have taken or will take prior to the Closing Date all necessary action, if any, in order to render inapplicable any control share acquisition, business combination (as defined in the Delaware General Corporation Law (“DGCL”)), poison pill (including any distribution under a rights agreement) or other similar anti-takeover provision under the Certificate of Incorporation or the laws of the state of its incorporation, including under Section 203 of the DGCL, which is or could become applicable to any Purchaser as a result of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including, without limitation, the Company’s issuance of the Preferred Stock and Warrants and any Purchaser’s ownership of the Preferred Stock and Warrants.

(t) Disclosure. Except with respect to the material terms and conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents or any other agreements to be entered into by the Company and any Purchaser that, in each case, will be timely publicly disclosed by the Company, the Company confirms that neither it nor any other Person acting on its behalf has provided any Purchaser or their respective agents or counsel with any information that the Company believes constitutes or might constitute material, non-public information which is not otherwise disclosed in the SEC Reports. The Company understands and confirms that each Purchaser will rely on the foregoing representation in effecting purchases and sales of securities of the Company. All of the disclosure furnished by or on behalf of the Company to the Purchasers regarding the Company, its business and the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, including the disclosure schedules to this Agreement, if any, is true and correct in all material respects. The Company acknowledges and agrees that no Purchaser either makes or has made any representations or warranties with respect to the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents other than those specifically set forth in Section 3.2 hereof.

(u) Foreign Corrupt Practices; Anti-Bribery. Neither the Company, nor to the Company’s Knowledge, any agent or other Person acting on behalf of the Company, has (i) directly or indirectly, used any funds for unlawful contributions, gifts, entertainment or other unlawful expenses related to foreign or domestic political activity, (ii) made any unlawful payment to foreign or domestic government officials or employees or to any foreign or domestic political parties or campaigns from corporate funds, (iii) failed to disclose fully any contribution made by the Company (or made by any Person acting on its behalf of which the Company is aware) which is in violation of law, (iv) violated in any material respect any provision of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, the Bribery Act 2010 of the United Kingdom or any other applicable anti-bribery or anti-corruption laws; or (v) made any bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful payment.

(v) DTC Eligibility. The Company, through the Transfer Agent, currently participates in the DTC Fast Automated Securities Transfer (FAST) Program and the Common Stock can be transferred electronically to third parties via the DTC Fast Automated Securities Transfer (FAST) Program.

 

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(w) Sarbanes-Oxley. The Company is in compliance in all material respects with all provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended, which are applicable to it as of the date hereof.

(x) Certain Fees. The Company will use its reasonable best efforts to minimize any brokerage or finder’s fees or commissions that are or will be payable by the Company or any Subsidiary to any broker, financial advisor or consultant, finder, placement agent, investment banker, bank or other Person with respect to the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. The Purchaser shall not have any obligation with respect to any fees or with respect to any claims made by or on behalf of other Persons for fees of a type contemplated in this Section 3.1(x) that may be due in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.

(y) Investment Company. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is, and, following the consummation of the transaction contemplated by this Agreement, will not be, an “investment company” or an “affiliated person” of, or “promoter” or “principal underwriter” for an investment company, within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.

(z) Listing and Maintenance Requirements. The Common Stock is registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act, and the Company has taken no action designed to, or which to the Company’s Knowledge is likely to have the effect of, terminating the registration of the Common Stock pursuant to the Exchange Act nor has the Company received any notification that the Commission is currently contemplating terminating such registration. Except as disclosed in the SEC Reports, the Company has not, in the twelve months preceding the date hereof, received any notice from any Person to the effect that the Company is not in compliance with the listing or maintenance requirements of the Principal Trading Market. Except as disclosed in the SEC Reports, the Company is in compliance with all such listing and maintenance requirements.

(aa) Accountants. The Company’s accountants are set forth in the SEC Reports and, to the Company’s Knowledge, such accountants are an independent registered public accounting firm as required by the Securities Act.

(bb) No Market Manipulation. The Company has not, and to the Company’s Knowledge, no Person acting on its behalf has, (i) taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed to cause or to result in the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of any of the Preferred Stock, Warrants or the Warrant Shares, (ii) sold, bid for, purchased, or, paid any compensation for soliciting purchases of, any of the Preferred Stock or Warrants, or (iii) paid or agreed to pay to any Person any compensation for soliciting another to purchase any other securities of the Company in violation of Regulation M promulgated under the Exchange Act.

(cc) Shell Company Status. The Company is not currently, and has never been, an issuer identified in Rule 144(i)(1) under the Securities Act.

 

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(dd) Tests and Preclinical and Clinical Trials. (i) To the Company’s Knowledge, the preclinical studies and clinical trials conducted by or on behalf of or sponsored by the Company or its Subsidiaries, or in which the Company or its Subsidiaries have participated, that are described in the SEC Reports, or the results of which are referred to in the SEC Reports, as applicable, were, and if still pending are, being conducted in all material respects in accordance with the protocols submitted to the FDA and comparable regulatory agencies outside of the United States to which they are subject (collectively, the “Regulatory Authorities”) and applicable statutes and all applicable rules and regulations of the Regulatory Authorities; (ii) to the Company’s Knowledge, the descriptions of the tests and nonclinical and clinical studies conducted by or on behalf of the Company and the results thereof contained in the SEC Reports are accurate and complete in all material respects; (iii) to the Company’s Knowledge, there are no other studies or trials not described in the SEC Reports, the results of which the Company believes reasonably call into question the results described or referred to in the SEC Reports; (iv) the Company and its Subsidiaries have operated at all times and are currently in compliance with all applicable statutes, rules and regulations of the Regulatory Authorities, except where such non-compliance would not, individually or in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect; and (v) except as disclosed in the SEC Reports, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries have received any written notices, correspondence or other communications from the Regulatory Authorities, any other governmental agency, or any institutional review board or ethics committee requiring or threatening the termination, material modification, hold or suspension of any preclinical studies or clinical trials that are material to the Company and that are described in the SEC Reports or the results of which are referred to in the SEC Reports, other than ordinary course communications with respect to modifications in connection with the design and implementation of such studies or trials.

(ee) No Directed Selling Efforts or General Solicitation. Neither the Company nor any Person acting on its behalf has conducted any general solicitation or general advertising in connection with the offer or sale of any of the Preferred Stock or Warrants.

(ff) Private Placement. Assuming the accuracy of each of the Purchasers’ representations and warranties set forth in Section 3.2, no registration under the Securities Act is required for the offer and sale of the Preferred Stock and Warrants by the Company to the Purchasers as contemplated hereby.

(gg) Accounting Controls and Disclosure Controls and Procedures. The Company and each of its Subsidiaries taken as a whole maintain a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain asset accountability; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. Since the end of the Company’s most recent audited fiscal year, there has been (i) no material weakness in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting (whether or not remediated) and (ii) no change in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.

 

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(hh) Registration Rights. Other than the Purchasers pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, no Person has any right to cause the Company or any Subsidiary to effect the registration under the Securities Act of any securities of the Company or any Subsidiary.

(ii) No Disqualification Events. With respect to the Preferred Stock and Warrants to be offered and sold hereunder in reliance on Rule 506 under the Securities Act, none of the Company, any of its predecessors, any affiliated issuer, any director, executive officer, other officer of the Company participating in the offering hereunder, any beneficial owner of 20% or more of the Company’s outstanding voting equity securities, calculated on the basis of voting power, nor any promoter (as that term is defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) connected with the Company in any capacity at the time of sale (each, an “Issuer Covered Person” and, together, “Issuer Covered Persons”) is subject to any of the “Bad Actor” disqualifications described in Rule 506(d)(1)(i) to (viii) under the Securities Act (a “Disqualification Event”), except for a Disqualification Event covered by Rule 506(d)(2) or (d)(3). The Company has complied, to the extent applicable, with its disclosure obligations under Rule 506(e), and has furnished to the Purchasers a copy of any disclosures provided thereunder.

(jj) Other Covered Persons. The Company is not aware of any person (other than any Issuer Covered Person) that has been or will be paid (directly or indirectly) remuneration for solicitation of purchasers in connection with the sale of any Preferred Stock or Warrants.

(kk) Notice of Disqualification Events. The Company will notify the Purchasers in writing, prior to the Closing Date of (i) any Disqualification Event relating to any Issuer Covered Person and (ii) any event that would, with the passage of time, reasonably be expected to become a Disqualification Event relating to any Issuer Covered Person, in each case of which it is aware.

(ll) Other Agreements. Other than the Registration Rights Agreement, the Company has not entered into any side letter or similar agreement with any Purchaser in connection with such Purchaser’s direct or indirect investment in the Company.

(mm) Healthcare Laws. The Company and its subsidiaries are, and at all times have been, in compliance in all material respects with all Health Care Laws. For purposes of this Agreement, “Health Care Laws” means: (i) the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the Public Health Service Act and the regulations and guidance promulgated thereunder; (ii) all applicable federal, state, local and foreign health care fraud and abuse laws, including, without limitation, the U.S. Anti-Kickback Statute (42 U.S.C. Section 1320a-7b(b)), the U.S. Civil False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. Section 3729 et seq.), the criminal False Statements Law (42 U.S.C. Section 1320a-7b(a)), 18 U.S.C. Sections 286, 287, and 1349, the health care fraud criminal provisions under the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) (42 U.S.C. Section 1320d et seq.), the civil monetary penalties law (42 U.S.C. Section 1320a-7a), the exclusions law (42 U.S.C. Section 1320a-7), laws governing government funded or sponsored healthcare programs; (iii) HIPAA, as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (42 U.S.C. Section 17921 et seq.); (iv) the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation

 

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Act of 2010; (v) applicable foreign, federal, state and local laws, regulations and statutes pertaining to laboratory animal welfare, procurement, import, handling, care, and disposition, including but not limited to the Animal Welfare Act (7 U.S.C. §§ 2131 et seq.), Endangered Species Act (16 U.S.C. §§ 1531 et seq.), and the Lacey Act (16 U.S.C. §§ 3371 et seq.); (vi) licensure, quality, safety and accreditation requirements under applicable federal, state, local or foreign laws or regulatory bodies; and (vii) all other local, state, federal, national, supranational and foreign laws, relating to the regulation of the Company or its subsidiaries, and (viii) the directives and regulations promulgated pursuant to such statutes and any state or non-U.S. counterpart thereof. Neither the Company, any of its Subsidiaries, nor any of their respective officers, directors, employees or agents have engaged in activities which are, as applicable, cause for liability under a Health Care Law. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has received written notice of any claim, action, suit, proceeding, hearing, enforcement, investigation, arbitration or other action from any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority or third party alleging that any product operation or activity is in violation of any Health Care Laws nor, to the Company’s Knowledge, is any such claim, action, suit, proceeding, hearing, enforcement, investigation, arbitration or other action threatened. The Company, and to the Company’s Knowledge, its Subsidiaries have filed, maintained or submitted all material reports, documents, forms, notices, applications, records, claims, submissions and supplements or amendments as required by any Health Care Laws, and all such reports, documents, forms, notices, applications, records, claims, submissions and supplements or amendments were complete and accurate on the date filed in all material respects (or were corrected or supplemented by a subsequent submission). Neither the Company, any of its Subsidiaries, nor, to the Company’s Knowledge, any of their respective employees, officers, directors, or agents is a party to any corporate integrity agreements, monitoring agreements, consent decrees, settlement orders, or similar agreements with or imposed by any governmental or regulatory authority. Additionally, neither the Company, any of its Subsidiaries nor any of their respective employees, officers, directors, or agents has been excluded, suspended or debarred from participation in any U.S. federal health care program or human clinical research or, to the Company’s Knowledge, is subject to a governmental inquiry, investigation, proceeding, or other similar action that would reasonably be expected to result in debarment, suspension or exclusion.

(nn) Cybersecurity. (i)(x) There has been no security breach or other compromise of or relating to any of the Company’s or any Subsidiary’s information technology and computer systems, networks, hardware, software, data (including the data of their respective customers, employees, suppliers, vendors and any third party data maintained by or on behalf of them), equipment or technology (collectively, “IT Systems and Data”) and (y) the Company and the Subsidiaries have not been notified of, and have no knowledge of any event or condition that would reasonably be expected to result in, any security breach or other compromise to their IT Systems and Data; (ii) the Company and the Subsidiaries are presently in compliance with all applicable laws or statutes and all judgments, orders, rules and regulations of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, internal policies and contractual obligations relating to the privacy and security of IT Systems and Data and to the protection of such IT Systems and Data from unauthorized use, access, misappropriation or modification, except as would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; (iii) the Company and the Subsidiaries have implemented and maintained commercially reasonable safeguards to maintain and protect their material confidential information and the integrity, continuous operation, redundancy and security of all IT Systems and Data; and (iv) the Company and the Subsidiaries have implemented backup and disaster recovery technology consistent with industry standards and practices.

 

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(oo) Money Laundering. The operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial record-keeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, applicable money laundering statutes and applicable rules and regulations thereunder (collectively, the “Money Laundering Laws”), and no Action or Proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any Subsidiary with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company or any Subsidiary, threatened in writing.

3.2 Representations and Warranties of the Purchasers. Each Purchaser hereby, on a several and not joint basis, represents and warrants as of the date hereof and as of the Closing Date to the Company as follows (unless as of a specific date therein, in which case they shall be accurate as of such date):

(a) Organization; Authority. Such Purchaser is either an individual or an entity duly incorporated or formed, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or formation with full right, corporate, partnership, limited liability company or similar power and authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder. The execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents to which such Purchaser is or will be a party and performance by such Purchaser of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership, limited liability company or similar action, as applicable, on the part of such Purchaser. Each Transaction Document to which such Purchaser is or will be a party has been or will be duly executed by the Purchaser, and when delivered by such Purchaser in accordance with the terms hereof, will constitute the valid and legally binding obligation of such Purchaser, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, except (i) as limited by general equitable principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other laws of general application affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as limited by laws relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies and (iii) insofar as indemnification and contribution provisions may be limited by applicable law.

(b) No Conflicts. The execution, delivery and performance by the Purchaser of this Agreement, the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party, and the consummation by the Purchaser of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby will not (i) result in a violation of the organizational documents of the Purchaser, (ii) conflict with, or constitute a default (or an event which with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) under, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation of, any agreement, indenture or instrument to which the Purchaser is a party, or (iii) result in a violation by such Purchaser of any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment or decree (including federal and state securities laws) applicable to such Purchaser, except in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) above, for such conflicts, defaults, rights or violations which would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on the ability of the Purchaser to perform its obligations under the Transaction Documents to which it is a party.

 

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(c) Understandings or Arrangements. Such Purchaser is acquiring the Securities, and upon exercise of the Warrants, will acquire the Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants, as principal for its own account, for investment purposes only, and has no direct or indirect arrangement or understandings with any other persons to distribute or regarding the distribution of such Securities (this representation and warranty not limiting such Purchaser’s right to sell the Securities in compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws). Such Purchaser is acquiring the Securities hereunder in the ordinary course of its business. Such Purchaser understands that the Securities are “restricted securities” and have not been registered under the Securities Act or any applicable state securities law and is acquiring the Securities as principal for its own account and not with a view to or for distributing or reselling such Securities or any part thereof in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable state securities law, has no present intention of distributing any of such Securities in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable state securities law and has no direct or indirect arrangement or understandings with any other persons to distribute or regarding the distribution of such Securities in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable state securities law (this representation and warranty not limiting the Purchaser’s right to sell the Securities pursuant to the Registration Statement(s) or otherwise in compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws).

(d) Purchaser Status. At the time such Purchaser was offered the Securities, it was, and as of the date hereof it is, and on each date on which it exercises any Warrants, it will be either: (i) an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (a)(2), (a)(3), (a)(7), (a)(8), (a)(9), (a)(12), or (a)(13) under the Securities Act or (ii) a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A(a) under the Securities Act. The Purchaser is not a registered broker-dealer registered under Section 15(a) of the Exchange Act, or a member of FINRA or an entity engaged in the business of being a broker-dealer. The Purchaser is not affiliated with any broker-dealer registered under Section 15(a) of the Exchange Act, or a member of FINRA or an entity engaged in the business of being a broker-dealer.

(e) Experience of the Purchaser. Such Purchaser, either alone or together with its representatives, has such knowledge, sophistication and experience in business and financial matters so as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of the prospective investment in the Securities, and has so evaluated the merits and risks of its decision to purchase Securities pursuant to the Transaction Documents. The Purchaser understands that nothing in this Agreement or any other materials presented by or on behalf of the Company to the Purchaser in connection with the purchase of the Securities constitutes legal, tax or investment advice. Such Purchaser is able to bear the economic risk of an investment in the Securities and, at the present time, is able to afford a complete loss of such investment.

(f) General Solicitation. Such Purchaser is not purchasing the Securities as a result of any advertisement, article, notice or other communication regarding the Securities published in any newspaper, magazine or similar media or broadcast over television or radio or presented at any seminar or, to the knowledge of such Purchaser, any other general solicitation or general advertisement. The Purchaser represents that it is not a person of the type described in Section 506(d) of Regulation D under the Securities Act that would disqualify the Company from engaging in a transaction pursuant to Section 506 of Regulation D under the Securities Act. Such Purchaser also represents that such Purchaser was contacted regarding the sale of the Securities by the Company (or an authorized agent or representative of the Company) with which such Purchaser had a substantial pre-existing relationship.

 

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(g) Access to Information. Such Purchaser acknowledges that it has had the opportunity to review the Transaction Documents (including all exhibits and schedules thereto) and the SEC Reports and has been afforded (i) the opportunity to ask such questions as it has deemed necessary of, and to receive answers from, representatives of the Company concerning the terms and conditions of the offering of the Securities and the merits and risks of investing in the Securities; (ii) access to information about the Company, its Subsidiaries and their respective financial condition, results of operations, business, properties, management and prospects sufficient to enable it to evaluate its investment; and (iii) the opportunity to obtain such additional information that the Company possesses or can acquire without unreasonable effort or expense that is necessary to make an informed investment decision with respect to the investment.

(h) Certain Transactions and Confidentiality. Other than consummating the transactions contemplated hereunder, such Purchaser has not, nor has any Person acting on behalf of or pursuant to any understanding with such Purchaser, directly or indirectly executed any purchases or sales, including Short Sales, of the securities of the Company during the period commencing as of the time that such Purchaser first received a term sheet (written or oral) from the Company or any other Person representing the Company setting forth the material terms of the transactions contemplated hereunder and ending immediately prior to the execution hereof. Other than to other Persons party to this Agreement or to such Purchaser’s representatives, including its officers, directors, partners, legal and other advisors, employees, agents and Affiliates, such Purchaser has maintained the confidentiality of all disclosures made to it in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents (including the existence and terms of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby).

(i) No Governmental Review. The Purchaser understands that no United States federal or state agency or any other government or governmental agency has passed on or made any recommendation or endorsement of the Securities or the fairness or suitability of the investment in the Securities nor have such authorities passed upon or endorsed the merits of the offering of the Securities.

(j) Regulation M. The Purchaser is aware that the anti-manipulation rules of Regulation M under the Exchange Act may apply to sales of Common Stock and other activities with respect to the Common Stock by the Purchaser.

(k) Residency. Except as the disclosed on the Purchaser’s signature page, the Purchaser’s residence (if an individual) or offices in which its investment decision with respect to the Securities was made (if an entity) are located at the address immediately below the Purchaser’s name on its signature page hereto.

(l) Foreign Purchasers. If the Purchaser is not a United States person (as defined by Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code): (i) the Purchaser hereby represents that it has satisfied itself as to the full observance of the laws of its jurisdiction by such Purchaser in connection with any invitation to subscribe for the Securities or any use of this Agreement, including (A) the legal requirements within its jurisdiction for the purchase of the Securities,

 

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(B) any foreign exchange restrictions applicable to such purchase or acquisition, (C) any government or other consents that may need to be obtained, and (D) the income tax and other tax consequences, if any, that may be relevant to the purchase, holding, redemption, sale or transfer of the Securities; and (ii) the Purchaser’s subscription and payment for and continued beneficial ownership of the Securities will not violate any applicable securities or other laws of the Purchaser’s jurisdiction.

The Company acknowledges and agrees that the representations contained in this Section 3.2 shall not modify, amend or affect the Purchasers’ right to rely on the Company’s representations and warranties contained in this Agreement or any representations and warranties contained in any other Transaction Document or any other document or instrument executed and/or delivered in connection with this Agreement or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby.

ARTICLE IV

OTHER AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES

4.1 Transfer Restrictions.

(a) The Securities may only be disposed of in compliance with state and federal securities laws. In connection with any transfer of Securities other than pursuant to an effective registration statement or Rule 144, to the Company or to an Affiliate of a Purchaser, the Company may require the transferor thereof to provide to the Company an opinion of counsel selected by the transferor and reasonably acceptable to the Company, the form and substance of which opinion shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Company, to the effect that such transfer does not require registration of such transferred Securities under the Securities Act. As a condition of transfer, any such transferee shall agree in writing to be bound by the terms of this Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement and shall have the rights and obligations of the Purchaser under this Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement.

(b) The Purchaser agrees to the imprinting, so long as is required by this Section 4.1, of a legend on any of the Securities in the following form:

[NEITHER] THIS SECURITY [NOR THE SECURITIES FOR WHICH THIS SECURITY IS [EXERCISABLE]] HAS [NOT] BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF ANY STATE IN RELIANCE UPON AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR UNDER APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES OR BLUE SKY LAWS. THE SECURITIES ARE SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFERABILITY AND RESALE, AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD, PLEDGED, HYPOTHECATED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND

 

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IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS. THIS SECURITY IS SUBJECT TO THE TRANSFER RESTRICTION SET FORTH HEREIN AND IN THE SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT, DATED MARCH 22, 2023.

(c) Certificates evidencing the Warrant Shares shall not be required to contain any legend (including the legend set forth in Section 4.1(b) hereof): (i) while a registration statement (including the Registration Statement(s)) covering the resale of such security is effective under the Securities Act, (ii) following any sale of such Warrant Shares pursuant to Rule144, (iii) if such Warrant Shares are eligible for sale under Rule 144 or (iv) if such legend is not required under applicable requirements of the Securities Act (including judicial interpretations and pronouncements issued by the staff of the Commission). The Company shall cause its counsel to issue a legal opinion to the Transfer Agent or the applicable Purchaser promptly if required by the Transfer Agent to effect the removal of the legend hereunder, or if requested by such Purchaser, respectively. If all or any portion of a Warrant is exercised at a time when there is an effective registration statement to cover the resale of the applicable Warrant Shares, or if such Warrant Shares may be sold under Rule 144 and the Company is then in compliance with the current public information required under Rule 144, or if the Warrant Shares may be sold under Rule 144 without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information required under Rule 144 as to such Warrant Shares and without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions or if such legend is not otherwise required under applicable requirements of the Securities Act (including judicial interpretations and pronouncements issued by the staff of the Commission) then such Warrant Shares shall be issued free of all legends. The Company agrees that following such time as such legend is no longer required under this Section 4.1(c), it will, no later than the earlier of (i) three (3) Trading Days and (ii) the number of Trading Days comprising the Standard Settlement Period (as defined below) following the delivery by the Purchaser to the Company or the Transfer Agent of a certificate representing Warrant Shares, as applicable, issued with a restrictive legend (such date, the “Legend Removal Date”), together with such other letters of representation as the Company may reasonably request, deliver or cause to be delivered to the Purchaser a certificate representing such shares that is free from all restrictive and other legends. The Company may not make any notation on its records or give instructions to the Transfer Agent that enlarge the restrictions on transfer set forth in this Section 4. Certificates for Warrant Shares subject to legend removal hereunder shall be transmitted by the Transfer Agent to the applicable Purchaser by crediting the account of such Purchaser’s prime broker with the Depository Trust Company System as directed by such Purchaser. As used herein, “Standard Settlement Period” means the standard settlement period, expressed in a number of Trading Days, on the Company’s Principal Trading Market with respect to the Common Stock as in effect on the date of delivery of a certificate representing Warrant Shares, as applicable, issued with a restrictive legend.

(d) Each Purchaser agrees with the Company that such Purchaser will sell any Securities pursuant to either the registration requirements of the Securities Act, including any applicable prospectus delivery requirements, or an exemption therefrom, and that if Securities are sold pursuant to a Registration Statement, they will be sold in compliance with the plan of distribution set forth therein, and acknowledges that the removal of the restrictive legend from certificates representing Securities as set forth in this Section 4.1 is predicated upon the Company’s reliance upon this understanding.

 

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4.2 Acknowledgment of Dilution. The Company acknowledges that the issuance of the Warrant Shares may result in dilution of the outstanding shares of Common Stock, which dilution may be substantial under certain market conditions. The Company further acknowledges that its obligations under the Transaction Documents, including, without limitation, its obligation to issue the Warrant Shares pursuant to the Transaction Documents, are unconditional and absolute and not subject to any right of set off, counterclaim, delay or reduction, regardless of the effect of any such dilution or any claim the Company may have against the applicable Purchaser and regardless of the dilutive effect that such issuance may have on the ownership of the other stockholders of the Company.

4.3 Integration. The Company shall not sell, offer for sale or solicit offers to buy or otherwise negotiate in respect of any security (as defined in Section 2 of the Securities Act) that would be integrated with the offer or sale of the Securities in a manner that would require the registration under the Securities Act of the sale of the Securities or that would be integrated with the offer or sale of the Securities for purposes of the rules and regulations of any Trading Market such that it would require stockholder approval prior to the closing of such other transaction unless stockholder approval is obtained before the closing of such subsequent transaction.

4.4 Securities Laws Disclosure; Publicity. The Company shall, within the time required by the Exchange Act, file a Current Report on Form 8-K, including the Transaction Documents as exhibits thereto. The Company and the Purchasers shall consult with each other in issuing any press releases with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby, and neither the Company nor any Purchaser shall issue any press release nor otherwise make any such public statement without the prior consent of the Company, with respect to any press release of any Purchaser, or without the prior consent of the Super-Majority Purchasers, with respect to any press release of the Company, which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld or delayed, except if such disclosure is required by law, in which case the disclosing party shall promptly provide the other party with prior notice of such public statement or communication. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not publicly disclose the name of any Purchaser, or include the name of any Purchaser in any filing with the Commission or any regulatory agency or Trading Market, without the prior consent of such Purchaser (not to be unreasonably withheld), except (a) as required by federal securities law in connection with the filing of final Transaction Documents with the Commission and any registration statement contemplated by the Registration Rights Agreement and (b) to the extent such disclosure is required by law or Trading Market regulations, in which case the Company shall provide such Purchaser with prior notice of such disclosure permitted under this clause (b).

4.5 Shareholder Rights Plan. No claim will be made or enforced by the Company or, with the consent of the Company, any other Person, that any Purchaser is an “Acquiring Person” under any control share acquisition, business combination, poison pill (including any distribution under a rights agreement) or similar anti-takeover plan or arrangement in effect or hereafter adopted by the Company, or that any Purchaser could be deemed to trigger the provisions of any such plan or arrangement, by virtue of receiving Securities under the Transaction Documents or under any other agreement between the Company and the Purchasers.

 

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4.6 Indemnification of Purchasers. Subject to the provisions of this Section 4.6 and in addition to the Indemnity provided to the Purchasers in the Registration Rights Agreement, the Company will indemnify and hold each Purchaser and its directors, officers, shareholders, members, partners, employees and agents (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title), each Person who controls such Purchaser (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act and Section 20 of the Exchange Act), and the directors, officers, shareholders, agents, members, partners or employees (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title) of such controlling persons (each, a “Purchaser Party”) harmless from any and all losses, liabilities, obligations, claims, contingencies, damages, costs and expenses, including all judgments, amounts paid in settlements, court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs of investigation that any Purchaser Party may suffer or incur as a result of or relating to (a) any breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by the Company in this Agreement or in the other Transaction Documents or (b) any action instituted against the Purchaser Parties in any capacity, or any of them or their respective Affiliates, by any stockholder of the Company who is not an Affiliate of the Purchaser Party (a “Stockholder Claimant”), with respect to any of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents (unless such action is solely based upon (i) a material breach of the Purchaser Party’s representations, warranties or covenants under the Transaction Documents, (ii) any agreements or understandings the Purchaser Party may have with any Stockholder Claimant, (iii) any violations by the Purchaser Party of state or federal securities laws or (iv) any conduct by the Purchaser Party which is finally judicially determined to constitute fraud, gross negligence or willful misconduct). If any action shall be brought against any Purchaser Party in respect of which indemnity may be sought pursuant to this Agreement, the Purchaser Party shall promptly notify the Company in writing, and the Company shall have the right to assume the defense thereof with counsel of its own choosing reasonably acceptable to the Purchaser Party. Any Purchaser Party shall have the right to employ separate counsel in any such action and participate in the defense thereof, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of the Purchaser Party except to the extent that (i) the employment thereof has been specifically authorized by the Company in writing, (ii) the Company has failed after a reasonable period of time to assume such defense and to employ counsel or (iii) in such action there is, in the reasonable opinion of counsel to the Purchaser Party, a material conflict on any material issue between the position of the Company and the position of the Purchaser Party, in which case the Company shall be responsible for the reasonable fees and expenses of no more than one such separate counsel. The Company will not be liable to any Purchaser Party under this Agreement (y) for any settlement by such Purchaser Party effected without the Company’s prior written consent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed; or (z) to the extent, but only to the extent that a loss, claim, damage or liability is attributable to such Purchaser Party’s breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by such Purchaser Party in this Agreement or in the other Transaction Documents. The indemnification required by this Section 4.6 shall be made by periodic payments of the amount thereof during the course of the investigation or defense, as and when bills are received or are incurred; provided that, if the Purchaser Party is determined by final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction to be not entitled to indemnification, the Purchaser Party shall promptly reimburse the Company for the funds that were advanced. The indemnity agreements contained herein shall be in addition to any cause of action or similar right of any Purchaser Party against the Company or others and any liabilities the Company may be subject to pursuant to law.

 

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4.7 Reservation and Listing of Securities.

(a) The Company shall maintain a reserve from its duly authorized shares of Common Stock for issuance pursuant to the Transaction Documents in such amount as may then be required to fulfill its obligations in full under the Transaction Documents, including without limitation the exercise of the Warrants.

(b) If, on any date, the number of authorized but unissued (and otherwise unreserved) shares of Common Stock is less than the Required Minimum on such date, then the Board of Directors shall use commercially reasonable efforts to amend the Company’s certificate of incorporation to increase the number of authorized but unissued shares of Common Stock to at least the Required Minimum at such time, as soon as possible and in any event not later than the 75th day after such date, provided that the Company will not be required at any time to authorize a number of shares of Common Stock greater than the maximum remaining number of shares of Common Stock that could possibly be issued after such time pursuant to the Transaction Documents.

(c) The Company shall, if applicable: (i) in the time and manner required by the Principal Trading Market, prepare and file with such Trading Market an additional shares listing application covering a number of shares of Common Stock at least equal to the Required Minimum on the date of such application, (ii) take all steps necessary to cause such shares of Common Stock to be approved for listing or quotation on such Trading Market as soon as possible thereafter, (iii) provide to the Purchasers evidence of such listing or quotation and (iv) maintain the listing or quotation of such Common Stock on any date at least equal to the Required Minimum on such date on such Trading Market or another Trading Market. The Company agrees to maintain the eligibility of the Common Stock for electronic transfer through the Depository Trust Company or another established clearing corporation, including, without limitation, by timely payment of fees to the Depository Trust Company or such other established clearing corporation in connection with such electronic transfer.

(d) So long as any Purchaser holds any securities of the Company contemplated by this Agreement, the Company shall make all filings with the Commission required under the Exchange Act in the time and manner required by the Commission.

4.8 Certain Transactions and Confidentiality. Each Purchaser covenants that neither it, nor any Affiliate acting on its behalf or pursuant to any understanding with it will execute any purchases or sales, including Short Sales, of any of the Company’s securities during the period commencing with the execution of this Agreement and ending on the date and such time that the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are first publicly announced pursuant to Section 4.4. Each Purchaser covenants that until such time as the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are publicly disclosed by the Company pursuant to Section 4.4, such Purchaser will maintain the confidentiality of the existence and terms of the transactions contemplated hereby. The Company expressly acknowledges and agrees that (i) no Purchaser makes any representation, warranty or covenant hereby that it will not engage in effecting transactions in any securities of the Company after the time that the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are first publicly announced pursuant to Section 4.4, (ii) no Purchaser shall be restricted or prohibited from effecting any transactions in any securities of the Company in accordance with applicable securities laws from and after the time that the transactions contemplated by this Agreement are first publicly announced pursuant to Section 4.4 and (iii) no Purchaser shall have any duty of confidentiality or

 

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duty not to trade in the securities of the Company to the Company or its Subsidiaries after the date and time of the filing of the Form 8-K as described in Section 4.4. For the avoidance of doubt, this Section 4.8 does not supersede or replace any confidentiality obligations that such Purchaser may have to the Company pursuant to any prior confidentiality agreement entered between such Purchaser and the Company and such confidentiality agreement remains in effect in accordance with its terms.

4.9 Exercise Procedures. The form of Notice of Exercise included in the Warrants sets forth the totality of the procedures required of the Purchasers in order to exercise the Warrants. Without limiting the preceding sentence, no ink-original Notice of Exercise shall be required, nor shall any medallion guarantee (or other type of guarantee or notarization) of any Notice of Exercise form be required in order to exercise the Warrants. No additional legal opinion, other information or instructions shall be required of any Purchaser to exercise its Warrants. The Company shall honor exercise of the Warrants and shall deliver Warrant Shares in accordance with the terms, conditions and time periods set forth in the Transaction Documents.

ARTICLE V

MISCELLANEOUS

5.1 Termination. This Agreement may be terminated by the Company or the Super-Majority Purchasers if the Closing has not been consummated on or before the fifth (5th) Trading Day following the date hereof; provided, however, that no such termination will affect the right of any party to sue for any breach by any other party (or parties).

5.2 Fees and Expenses. Except as expressly set forth in the Transaction Documents to the contrary, each party shall pay the fees and expenses of its advisers, counsel, accountants and other experts, if any, and all other expenses incurred by such party incident to the negotiation, preparation, execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement. Notwithstanding the previous sentence, the Company shall pay all reasonable and documented fees and expenses incurred in connection with the Transaction Documents, including any Transfer Agent fees (including, without limitation, any fees required for same-day processing of any instruction letter delivered by the Company and any exercise notice delivered by any Purchaser, if applicable), stamp taxes and other taxes and duties levied in connection with the delivery of any Securities to the Purchaser, and the legal fees and expenses of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP in connection with the negotiation, execution and delivery of the Transaction Documents and the Company’s preparation and filing with the Commission of a registration statement (including any amendments thereto) covering the resale of the Warrant Shares, which such legal fees and expenses of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP shall not exceed $300,000 without prior consent of the Company.

5.3 Entire Agreement. The Transaction Documents, together with the exhibits and schedules thereto, contain the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof and supersede all prior agreements and understandings, oral or written, with respect to such matters, which the parties acknowledge have been merged into such documents, exhibits and schedules.

 

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5.4 Notices. Any and all notices or other communications or deliveries required or permitted to be provided hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed given and effective on the earliest of: (a) the time of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number or email attachment at the e-mail address as set forth on the signature pages attached hereto at or prior to 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on a Trading Day, (b) the next Trading Day after the time of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile or email attachment at the facsimile number or e-mail address as set forth on the signature pages attached hereto on a day that is not a Trading Day or later than 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on any Trading Day, (c) the second (2nd) Trading Day following the date of mailing, if sent by U.S. nationally recognized overnight courier service or (d) upon actual receipt by the party to whom such notice is required to be given. The address for such notices and communications shall be as set forth on the signature pages attached hereto.

5.5 Amendments; Waivers. No provision of this Agreement may be waived, modified, supplemented or amended except in a written instrument signed, in the case of an amendment, by the Company and the Super-Majority Purchasers and, in the case of a waiver, by the party against whom enforcement of any such waived provision is sought; provided, that any waiver, modification, supplement or amendment of Article II – related to the purchase and sale, including price, Sections 4.1(c) (legend removal assistance), 4.4 (disclosures), 4.6 (indemnification), 4.7 (reservation and listing of securities), 5.1 (termination), 5.5 (amendments) and 5.15 (remedies) shall require a written instrument signed by the Company and each Purchaser. Any amendment effected in accordance with this Section 5.5 shall be binding upon all Purchasers and any subsequent holder of Securities and the Company.

5.6 Headings. The headings herein are for convenience only, do not constitute a part of this Agreement and shall not be deemed to limit or affect any of the provisions hereof.

5.7 Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties and their successors and permitted assigns. The Company may not assign this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the Super-Majority Purchasers (other than by merger). Any Purchaser may assign any or all of its rights under this Agreement to any Person to whom the Purchaser assigns or transfers any Securities, provided, that such transferee agrees in writing to be bound, with respect to the transferred Securities, by the provisions of the Transaction Documents that apply to the “Purchaser.”

5.8 No Third-Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement is intended for the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns and is not for the benefit of, nor may any provision hereof be enforced by, any other Person, except as otherwise set forth in Section 4.6.

5.9 Governing Law. All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of the Transaction Documents 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 conflicts of law thereof. Each party agrees that all legal Proceedings concerning the interpretations, enforcement and defense of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and any other Transaction Documents (whether brought against a party hereto or its respective

 

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affiliates, directors, officers, shareholders, partners, members, employees or agents) shall be commenced exclusively in the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York. Each party hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan 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 Action or Proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, that such Action or Proceeding is improper or is an inconvenient venue for such Proceeding. Each party hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process being served in any such 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 Agreement 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 law. If any party shall commence an Action or Proceeding to enforce any provisions of the Transaction Documents, in addition to the obligations of the Company under Section 4.6, then the prevailing party in such Action or Proceeding shall be reimbursed by the non-prevailing party for its reasonable attorneys’ fees and other costs and expenses incurred with the investigation, preparation and prosecution of such Action or Proceeding.

5.10 Survival. Subject to the applicable statute of limitations, the representations and warranties contained herein and Section 4.6 hereto shall survive the Closing and the delivery of the Securities.

5.11 Execution. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which when taken together shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective when counterparts have been signed by each party and delivered to each other party, it being understood that the parties need not sign the same counterpart. In the event that any signature is delivered by facsimile transmission or by e-mail delivery of a “.pdf” format data file, such signature shall create a valid and binding obligation of the party executing (or on whose behalf such signature is executed) with the same force and effect as if such facsimile or “.pdf” signature page were an original thereof.

5.12 Severability. If any term, provision, covenant or restriction of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable, the remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions set forth herein shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated, and the parties hereto shall use their commercially reasonable efforts to find and employ an alternative means to achieve the same or substantially the same result as that contemplated by such term, provision, covenant or restriction. It is hereby stipulated and declared to be the intention of the parties that they would have executed the remaining terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions without including any of such that may be hereafter declared invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable.

5.13 Rescission and Withdrawal Right. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in (and without limiting any similar provisions of) any of the other Transaction Documents, whenever any Purchaser exercises a right, election, demand or option under a Transaction Document and the Company does not timely perform its related obligations within the

 

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periods therein provided, then such Purchaser may rescind or withdraw, in its sole discretion from time to time upon written notice to the Company, any relevant notice, demand or election in whole or in part without prejudice to its future actions and rights; provided, however, that, in the case of a rescission of an exercise of a Warrant, the applicable Purchaser shall be required to return any shares of Common Stock subject to any such rescinded exercise notice concurrently with the return to such Purchaser of the aggregate exercise price paid to the Company for such shares and the restoration of such Purchaser’s right to acquire such shares pursuant to such Purchaser’s Warrant (including, issuance of a replacement warrant certificate evidencing such restored right).

5.14 Replacement of Securities. If any certificate or instrument evidencing any Securities is mutilated, lost, stolen or destroyed, the Company shall issue or cause to be issued in exchange and substitution for and upon cancellation thereof (in the case of mutilation), or in lieu of and substitution therefor, a new certificate or instrument, but only upon receipt of evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Company of such loss, theft or destruction. The applicant for a new certificate or instrument under such circumstances shall also pay any reasonable third-party costs (including customary indemnity) associated with the issuance of such replacement Securities.

5.15 Remedies. In addition to being entitled to exercise all rights provided herein or granted by law, including recovery of damages, each of the Purchasers and the Company will be entitled to seek specific performance under the Transaction Documents. The parties agree that monetary damages may not be adequate compensation for any loss incurred by reason of any breach of obligations contained in the Transaction Documents and hereby agree to waive and not to assert in any Action for specific performance of any such obligation the defense that a remedy at law would be adequate.

5.16 Payment Set Aside. To the extent that the Company makes a payment or payments to any Purchaser pursuant to any Transaction Document or a Purchaser enforces or exercises its rights thereunder, and such payment or payments or the proceeds of such enforcement or exercise or any part thereof are subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside, recovered from, disgorged by or are required to be refunded, repaid or otherwise restored to the Company, a trustee, receiver or any other Person under any law (including, without limitation, any bankruptcy law, state or federal law, common law or equitable cause of action), then to the extent of any such restoration the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such enforcement or setoff had not occurred.

5.17 Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays, etc. If the last or appointed day for the taking of any action or the expiration of any right required or granted herein shall not be a Business Day, then such action may be taken or such right may be exercised on the next succeeding Business Day.

5.18 Construction. The parties agree that each of them and/or their respective counsel have reviewed and had an opportunity to revise the Transaction Documents and, therefore, the normal rule of construction to the effect that any ambiguities are to be resolved against the drafting party shall not be employed in the interpretation of the Transaction Documents or any amendments thereto. In addition, each and every reference to share prices and shares of Common Stock in any Transaction Document shall be subject to adjustment for reverse and forward stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations and other similar transactions of the Common Stock that occur after the date of this Agreement.

 

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5.19 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. IN ANY ACTION, SUIT, OR PROCEEDING IN ANY JURISDICTION BROUGHT BY ANY PARTY AGAINST ANY OTHER PARTY, THE PARTIES EACH KNOWINGLY AND INTENTIONALLY, TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, HEREBY ABSOLUTELY, UNCONDITIONALLY, IRREVOCABLY AND EXPRESSLY WAIVES FOREVER TRIAL BY JURY.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.

 

HARPOON THERAPEUTICS, INC.

                      

Address for Notice:

Harpoon Therapeutics, Inc.

131 Oyster Point Blvd., Suite 300,

South San Francisco, California

94080

        

Email: legal@harpoontx.com

By:    /s/ Julie Eastland      
   Name: Julie Eastland      
   Title: Chief Executive Officer      

With a copy to (which shall not constitute notice):

Cooley LLP

3175 Hanover Street

Palo Alto, CA 94304

Attention: Laura Berezin

Email: lberezin@cooley.com

[REMAINDER OF PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK

SIGNATURE PAGE FOR THE PURCHASER FOLLOWS]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.

 

NEW LEAF BIOPHARMA OPPORTUNITIES II, L.P.

By:

  New Leaf BPO Associates II, L.P.

Its:

  General Partner

By:

  New Leaf BPO Management II, L.L.C.

Its:

  General Partner
  By: /s/ Craig L. Slutzkin

Name of Authorized Signatory: Craig L. Slutzkin

Title of Authorized Signatory: Chief Financial Officer

Email Address of Authorized Signatory: craig@nlvpartners.com

Address for Notice to Purchaser: New Leaf Biopharma Opportunities II, L.P.

  156 Fifth Avenue, Suite 820

  New York, NY 10010

 

The Purchaser’s investment decision was made by an investment committee of individuals who reside in various states, including:    California; Connecticut
Aggregate Subscription Amount:    $10,000,000
Shares of Preferred Stock:    10,000
Number of Warrant Shares for Warrant:    40.0% of Warrant Coverage Amount
Beneficial Ownership Blocker:    ☐ 4.99% or ☐ 9.99% or ☒ 19.99%
Purchase Price of Preferred Stock and Warrants:    $1,000 per share of Preferred Stock purchased.

Delivery Instructions, if different from above: N/A

c/o:

Street:

City/State/Zip:

Attention:

Telephone No.:

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.

 

ARIX BIOSCIENCE HOLDINGS LIMITED

By:   /s/ Robert Lyne

Name of Authorized Signatory: Robert Lyne

Title of Authorized Signatory: CEO

Email Address of Authorized Signatory: robert@arixbioscience.com

Address for Notice to Purchaser: Duke Street House

  50 Duke Street

  London

  W1K 6JL

  United Kingdom

 

The Purchaser’s investment decision was made by an investment committee of individuals who reside in various states, including:    United Kingdom
Aggregate Subscription Amount:    $3,500,000
Shares of Preferred Stock:    3,500
Number of Warrant Shares for Warrant:    14.0% of Warrant Coverage Amount
Beneficial Ownership Blocker:    ☐ 4.99% or ☐ 9.99% or ☒ 19.99%
Purchase Price of Preferred Stock and Warrants:    $1,000 per share of Preferred Stock purchased.

Delivery Instructions, if different from above: N/A

c/o:

Street:

City/State/Zip:

Attention:

Telephone No.:

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.

 

INVUS PUBLIC EQUITIES, L.P.

By:

 

/s/ Khalil Barrage

Name of Authorized Signatory: Khalil Barrage

Title of Authorized Signatory: Vice President of its General Partner

Email Address of Authorized Signatory: kbarrage@invus.com

Address for Notice to Purchaser: c/o The Invus Group, LLC

  750 Lexington Avenue

  New York, NY 10022

  Att’n: Phil Bafundo (PBafundo@invus.com), Matthew

  Maslow (MMaslow@Invus.com) and Vanessa Lopera-

  Madrid (VLopera@invus.com)

 

The Purchaser’s investment decision was made by an investment committee of individuals who reside in various states, including:    N/A
Aggregate Subscription Amount:    $4,500,000
Shares of Preferred Stock:    4,500
Number of Warrant Shares for Warrant:    18.0% of Warrant Coverage Amount
Beneficial Ownership Blocker:    ☐ 4.99% or ☒ 9.99% or ☐ 19.99%
Purchase Price of Preferred Stock and Warrants:    $1,000 per share of Preferred Stock purchased.

Delivery Instructions, if different from above: N/A

c/o:

Street:

City/State/Zip:

Attention:

Telephone No.:

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.

 

K2 HEALTHVENTURES EQUITY TRUST LLC
By:   /s/ Anup Arora

Name of Authorized Signatory: Anup Arora

Title of Authorized Signatory: Managing Director & Chief Investment Officer

Email Address of Authorized Signatory: anup@k2hv.com

Address for Notice to Purchaser: c/o K2 HealthVentures LLC

  855 Boylston Street, 10th Floor

  Boston, MA 02116

 

The Purchaser’s investment decision was made by an investment committee of individuals who reside in various states, including:    Massachusetts; New York
Aggregate Subscription Amount:    $3,000,000
Shares of Preferred Stock:    3,000
Number of Warrant Shares for Warrant:    12.0% of Warrant Coverage Amount
Beneficial Ownership Blocker:    ☐ 4.99% or ☒ 9.99% or ☐ 19.99%
Purchase Price of Preferred Stock and Warrants:    $1,000 per share of Preferred Stock purchased.

Delivery Instructions, if different from above:

c/o: K2 HealthVentures Equity Trust LLC

Street: 855 Boylston Street, 10th Floor

City/State/Zip: Boston, MA 02116

Attention: Finance and Legal Notices

Email: finance@k2hv.com; anup@k2hv.com; ken@k2hv.com; jason@k2hv.com; zach@k2hv.com

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.

 

ORBIMED PRIVATE INVESTMENTS VII, LP
By:   OrbiMed Capital GP VII LLC,
  its General Partner
  By:   OrbiMed Advisors LLC,
    its Managing Member
By:   /s/ Carl L. Gordon

Name of Authorized Signatory: Carl L. Gordon

Title of Authorized Signatory: Member

Email Address of Authorized Signatory: gordonc@OrbiMed.com

Address for Notice to Purchaser: c/o: OrbiMed Advisors LLC

  601 Lexington Avenue, 54th Floor

  New York, New York 10022

  Attention: General Counsel

  Email: Legal@OrbiMed.com

 

The Purchaser’s investment decision was made by an investment committee of individuals who reside in various states, including:    N/A
Aggregate Subscription Amount:    $2,000,000
Shares of Preferred Stock:    2,000
Number of Warrant Shares for Warrant:    8% of Warrant Coverage Amount
Beneficial Ownership Blocker:    ☐ 4.99% or ☒ 9.99% or ☐ 19.99%
Purchase Price of Preferred Stock and Warrants:    $1,000 per share of Preferred Stock purchased.

Delivery Instructions, if different from above: N/A

c/o:

Street:

City/State/Zip:

Attention:

Telephone No.:

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.

 

ORBIMED GENESIS MASTER FUND, L.P.
By:     OrbiMed Genesis GP LLC,
    its General Partner
  By:   OrbiMed Advisors LLC,
    its Managing Member
By:   /s/ Carl L. Gordon

Name of Authorized Signatory: Carl L. Gordon

Title of Authorized Signatory: Member

Email Address of Authorized Signatory: gordonc@OrbiMed.com

Address for Notice to Purchaser: c/o: OrbiMed Advisors LLC

  601 Lexington Avenue, 54th Floor

  New York, New York 10022

  Attention: General Counsel

  Email: Legal@OrbiMed.com

 

The Purchaser’s investment decision was made by an investment committee of individuals who reside in various states, including:    N/A.
Aggregate Subscription Amount:    $2,000,000
Shares of Preferred Stock:    2,000
Number of Warrant Shares for Warrant:    8% of Warrant Coverage Amount
Beneficial Ownership Blocker:    ☐ 4.99% or ☒ 9.99% or ☐ 19.99%
Purchase Price of Preferred Stock and Warrants:    $1,000 per share of Preferred Stock purchased.

Delivery Instructions, if different from above: N/A

c/o:

Street:

City/State/Zip:

Attention:

Telephone No.:

 

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EXHIBIT A

Certificate of Designation

[See attached.]


EXHIBIT B

Registration Rights Agreement

[See attached.]


EXHIBIT C

Form of Warrant

[See attached.]


EXHIBIT D

Form of Opinion

[See attached.]

Exhibit 10.2

Execution Version

REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

This Registration Rights Agreement (this “Agreement”) is made and entered into as of March 22, 2023, between Harpoon Therapeutics, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and each of the several investors signatory hereto (each, an “Investor” and, collectively, the “Investors”).

This Agreement is made pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement, dated on or about the date hereof, between the Company and the Investors (the “Purchase Agreement”).

The Company and each Investor hereby agree as follows:

Section 1. Definitions. Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein that are (a) defined in the Purchase Agreement shall have the meanings given such terms in the Purchase Agreement or (b) defined in the Certificate of Designation but not the Purchase Agreement, shall have the meanings given such terms in the Certificate of Designation. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

Advice” has the meaning set forth in Section 6(c).

Allowed Delay” means a period for no more than thirty (30) consecutive calendar days or more than an aggregate of sixty (60) calendar days (which need not be consecutive calendar days) during any 12-month period in which the Company determines in good faith that the suspension of a Registration Statement is necessary pursuant to Sections 3(d)(vi) and 3(d)(vii).

Effectiveness Date” means, with respect to the Initial Registration Statement required to be filed hereunder, the 90th calendar day following the date hereof (or, in the event of a “full review” by the Commission, the 120th calendar day following the date hereof) and with respect to any additional Registration Statements which may be required pursuant to Section 2(c) or Section 3(c), the 45th calendar day following the date on which an additional Registration Statement is required to be filed hereunder (or, in the event of a “full review” by the Commission, the 120th calendar day following the date such additional Registration Statement is required to be filed hereunder); provided, however, that in the event the Company is notified by the Commission that one or more of the above Registration Statements will not be reviewed or is no longer subject to further review and comments, the Effectiveness Date as to such Registration Statement shall be the fifth Trading Day following the date on which the Company is so notified if such date precedes the dates otherwise required above, provided, further, if such Effectiveness Date falls on a day that is not a Trading Day, then the Effectiveness Date shall be the next succeeding Trading Day.

Effectiveness Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 2(a).

Event” has the meaning set forth in Section 2(d).

Event Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2(d).

Filing Date” means with respect to the Initial Registration Statement required hereunder, the 60th calendar day following the Closing Date, and (b) with respect to any additional Registration Statements which may be required pursuant to Section 2(c) or Section 3(c), the earliest practical date on which the Company is permitted by SEC Guidance to file such additional Registration Statement related to the Registrable Securities.


Holder” or “Holders” means the holder or holders, as the case may be, from time to time of Registrable Securities.

Indemnified Party” has the meaning set forth in Section 5(c).

Indemnifying Party” has the meaning set forth in Section 5(c).

Initial Registration Statement” means the initial Registration Statement filed to register the shares of Common Stock underlying the Warrants as provided in and pursuant to this Agreement.

Lead Investors” means New Leaf Biopharma Opportunities II, L.P., Arix Bioscience Holdings Limited and K2 HealthVentures Equity Trust LLC.

Losses” has the meaning set forth in Section 5(a).

Person” means an individual, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, trust, business trust, association, joint stock company, joint venture, sole proprietorship, unincorporated organization, governmental authority or any other form of entity not specifically listed herein.

Plan of Distribution” has the meaning set forth in Section 2(a).

Prospectus” means the prospectus included in a Registration Statement (including, without limitation, a prospectus that includes any information previously omitted from a prospectus filed as part of an effective registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act), as amended or supplemented by any prospectus supplement, with respect to the terms of the offering of any portion of the Registrable Securities covered by a Registration Statement, and all other amendments and supplements to the Prospectus, including post-effective amendments, and all material incorporated by reference or deemed to be incorporated by reference in such Prospectus.

Prior IRA” has the meaning set forth in Section 6(b).

Registrable Securities” means, as of any date of determination, (a) all Warrant Shares then issued and issuable upon exercise of the Warrants (assuming on such date the Warrants are exercised in full without regard to any exercise limitations therein), (b) any additional shares of Common Stock issued and issuable in connection with any anti-dilution provisions in the Warrants (in each case, without giving effect to any limitations on conversion set forth in the Certificate of Designation or limitations on exercise set forth in the Warrants) and (c) any securities issued or then issuable upon any stock split, dividend or other distribution, recapitalization or similar event with respect to the foregoing; provided, however, that any such Registrable Securities shall cease to be Registrable Securities (and the Company shall not be required to maintain the effectiveness of any, or file another, Registration Statement hereunder with respect thereto) for so long as (a) a Registration Statement with respect to the sale of such Registrable Securities is declared effective

 

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by the Commission under the Securities Act and such Registrable Securities have been disposed of by the Holder in accordance with such effective Registration Statement, (b) such Registrable Securities have been previously sold in accordance with Rule 144, or (c) such securities become eligible for resale without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions and without current public information pursuant to Rule 144 as set forth in a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed, delivered and acceptable to the Transfer Agent and the affected Holders (assuming that such securities and any securities issuable upon exercise, conversion or exchange of which, or as a dividend upon which, such securities were issued or are issuable, were at no time held by any Affiliate of the Company), as reasonably determined by the Company, upon the advice of counsel to the Company.

Registration Statement” means any registration statement required to be filed hereunder pursuant to Section 2(a) and any additional registration statements contemplated by Section 2(c) or Section 3(c), including (in each case) the Prospectus, amendments and supplements to any such registration statement or Prospectus, including pre- and post-effective amendments, all exhibits thereto, and all material incorporated by reference or deemed to be incorporated by reference in any such registration statement.

Rule 415” means Rule 415 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended or interpreted from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission having substantially the same purpose and effect as such Rule.

Rule 424” means Rule 424 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, as such Rule may be amended or interpreted from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission having substantially the same purpose and effect as such Rule.

Selling Stockholder Questionnaire” has the meaning set forth in Section 3(a).

SEC Guidance” means (i) any publicly available written or oral guidance of the Commission staff, or any comments, requirements or requests of the Commission staff and (ii) the Securities Act.

Trading Day” means any day on which the Trading Market is open for trading.

Trading Market” means the principal national securities exchange on which Registrable Securities are listed.

Section 2. Demand Registration.

(a) On or prior to each Filing Date, the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a Registration Statement covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities that are not then registered on an effective Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415. Each Registration Statement filed hereunder shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is not then eligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, subject to the provisions of Section 2(e)) and shall contain (unless otherwise directed

 

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by at least 85% in interest of the Holders or to make any disclosure contained therein not misleading) substantially the “Plan of Distribution” attached hereto as Annex A and substantially the “Selling Stockholder” section attached hereto as Annex B; provided, however, that no Holder shall be required to be named as an “underwriter” without such Holder’s express prior written consent. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause a Registration Statement filed under this Agreement (including, without limitation, under Section 3(c)) to be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event no later than the applicable Effectiveness Date, and shall use its reasonable best efforts to keep such Registration Statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the date that all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement (i) have been sold, thereunder or pursuant to Rule 144, or (ii) may be sold without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 and without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information requirement under Rule 144, as determined by the counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and acceptable to the Transfer Agent and the affected Holders (the “Effectiveness Period”). The Company shall notify the Holders via e-mail of the effectiveness of a Registration Statement as promptly as practicable, and shall, if requested, provide the Holders with copies of the final Prospectus to be used in connection with the sale or other disposition of the securities covered thereby.

(b) Notwithstanding the registration obligations set forth in Section 2(a), if the Commission informs the Company that all of the Registrable Securities cannot, as a result of the application of Rule 415, be registered for resale as a secondary offering on a single registration statement, the Company agrees to promptly inform each of the Holders thereof and use its reasonable best efforts to file an amendment or amendments to the Initial Registration Statement as required by the Commission, covering the maximum number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered by the Commission, on Form S-3 or such other form available to register for resale the Registrable Securities as a secondary offering, subject to the provisions of Section 2(e); and subject to the provisions of Section 2(d) with respect to payment of liquidated damages with respect to filing on Form S-3 or other appropriate form; provided, however, that prior to filing such amendment, the Company shall be obligated to use diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission for the registration of all of the Registrable Securities in accordance with the SEC Guidance, including without limitation, Securities Act Rules Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation 612.09.

(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement and subject to the payment of liquidated damages pursuant to Section 2(d), if the Commission or any SEC Guidance sets forth a limitation on the number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered on a particular Registration Statement as a secondary offering (and notwithstanding that the Company used diligent efforts to advocate with the Commission to maximize the number of Registrable Securities to be registered), unless otherwise directed in writing by a Holder as to its Registrable Securities, the number of Registrable Securities to be registered on such Registration Statement will be reduced as follows:

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(ii) Second, the Company shall reduce Registrable Securities represented by Warrant Shares (applied, in the case that some Warrant Shares may be registered, to the Holders on a pro rata basis based on the total number of unregistered Warrant Shares held by such Holders).

In the event of a reduction hereunder, the Company shall give the Holder at least five (5) Trading Days’ prior written notice along with the calculations as to such Holder’s allotment. In the event the Company amends the Initial Registration Statement in accordance with the foregoing, then the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to file with the Commission, as promptly thereafter as allowed by Commission or SEC Guidance provided to the Company or to registrants of securities in general, one or more registration statements on Form S-3 or such other form available to register for resale those Registrable Securities that were not registered for resale on the Initial Registration Statement, as amended.

(d) If: (i) the Initial Registration Statement is not filed on or prior to its Filing Date (if the Company files the Initial Registration Statement without affording the Lead Investors the opportunity to review and comment on the same as required by Section 3(a) herein, the Company shall be deemed to have not satisfied this clause as of the Filing Date (i)), (ii) the Company fails to file with the Commission a request for acceleration of a Registration Statement in accordance with Rule 461 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act, within five (5) Trading Days of the date that the Company is notified in writing by the Commission that such Registration Statement will not be “reviewed” or will not be subject to further review, (iii) a Registration Statement registering for resale all of the Registrable Securities is not declared effective by the Commission by the Effectiveness Date of the Initial Registration Statement or (iv) after the effective date of a Registration Statement, such Registration Statement ceases for any reason to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement, or the Holders are otherwise not permitted to utilize the Prospectus therein to resell such Registrable Securities (other than during an Allowed Delay), for more than fifteen (15) consecutive calendar days or more than an aggregate of twenty (20) calendar days (which need not be consecutive calendar days) during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach being referred to as an “Event”, and for purposes of clauses (i) and (iii), the date on which such Event occurs, and for purpose of clause (ii) the date on which such five (5) Trading Day period is exceeded, and for purpose of clause (iv) the date on which such fifteen (15) or twenty (20) calendar day period, as applicable, is exceeded being referred to as “Event Date”), then, in addition to any other rights the Holders may have hereunder or under applicable law, on each such Event Date and on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Holder an amount in cash, as partial liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to the product of 2.0% multiplied by the aggregate Subscription Amount paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. The parties agree that the maximum aggregate liquidated damages payable to a Holder under this Agreement shall be 12.0% of the aggregate Subscription Amount paid by such Holder pursuant to the Purchase Agreement. If the Company fails to pay any partial liquidated damages pursuant to this Section in full within seven Trading Days after the date payable, the Company will pay interest thereon at a rate of 18% per annum (or such lesser maximum amount that is permitted to be paid by applicable law) to the Holder, accruing daily from the date such partial liquidated damages are due until such amounts, plus all such interest thereon, are paid in full. The partial liquidated damages pursuant to the terms hereof shall apply on a daily pro rata basis for any

 

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portion of a month prior to the cure of an Event. The parties agree that notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in the Purchase Agreement, no liquidated damages shall be payable (i) if as of the relevant Event Date, the Registrable Securities may be sold by the Holders without volume or manner of sale restrictions under Rule 144, as determined by counsel to the Company pursuant to a written opinion letter to such effect, addressed and reasonably acceptable to the Holder and the Company’s transfer agent, if any, (ii) to a Holder with respect to an Event caused by any action of such Holder or failure of such Holder to take any action that such Holder is required to take hereunder, or (iii) to a Holder in the event it is unable to lawfully sell any of its Registrable Securities because of possession of material non-public information.

(e) If Form S-3 is not available for the registration of the resale of Registrable Securities hereunder, the Company shall (i) register the resale of the Registrable Securities on another appropriate form and (ii) undertake to register the Registrable Securities on Form S-3 as soon as such form is available, provided that the Company shall maintain the effectiveness of the Registration Statement then in effect until such time as a Registration Statement on Form S-3 covering the Registrable Securities has been declared effective by the Commission.

(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, in no event shall the Company be permitted to name any Holder or affiliate of a Holder as any underwriter without the prior written consent of such Holder.

Section 3. Registration Procedures.

In connection with the Company’s registration obligations hereunder, the Company shall:

(a) Not less than five (5) Trading Days prior to the filing of each Registration Statement and not less than one (1) Trading Day prior to the filing of any related Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto (including any document that would be incorporated or deemed to be incorporated therein by reference), the Company shall (i) furnish to the Lead Investors copies of all such documents proposed to be filed, which documents (other than those incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference) will be subject to the review of the Lead Investors, and (ii) cause its officers and directors, counsel and independent registered public accountants to respond to such inquiries of the Lead Investors as shall be necessary, in the reasonable opinion of counsel to the Lead Investors, to conduct a reasonable investigation within the meaning of the Securities Act. The Company shall not file a Registration Statement or any such Prospectus or any amendments or supplements thereto to which the Lead Investors shall reasonably object in writing in good faith, provided that, the Company is notified of such objection in writing no later than five (5) Trading Days after the Lead Investors have been so furnished copies of a Registration Statement or one (1) Trading Day after the Holders have been so furnished copies of any related Prospectus or amendments or supplements thereto. Each Holder agrees to furnish to the Company a completed questionnaire in the form attached to this Agreement as Annex C (a “Selling Stockholder Questionnaire”) on a date that is the earlier of two (2) Trading Days prior to the Filing Date or by the end of the fourth (4th) Trading Day following the date on which such Holder receives draft materials in accordance with this Section.

 

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(b) (i) Prepare and file with the Commission such amendments, including post-effective amendments, to a Registration Statement and the Prospectus used in connection therewith as may be necessary to keep a Registration Statement continuously effective as to the applicable Registrable Securities for the Effectiveness Period and prepare and file with the Commission such additional Registration Statements in order to register for resale under the Securities Act all of the Registrable Securities, (ii) cause the related Prospectus to be amended or supplemented by any required Prospectus supplement (subject to the terms of this Agreement), and, as so supplemented or amended, to be filed pursuant to Rule 424, (iii) respond as promptly as reasonably possible to any comments received from the Commission with respect to a Registration Statement or any amendment thereto and provide as promptly as reasonably possible to the Lead Investors true and complete copies of all correspondence from and to the Commission relating to a Registration Statement (provided that, the Company shall excise any information contained therein which would constitute material non-public information regarding the Company or any of its Subsidiaries), and (iv) comply in all material respects with the applicable provisions of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act with respect to the disposition of all Registrable Securities covered by a Registration Statement during the applicable period in accordance (subject to the terms of this Agreement) with the intended methods of disposition by the Holders thereof set forth in such Registration Statement as so amended or in such Prospectus as so supplemented.

(c) If during the Effectiveness Period, the number of Registrable Securities at any time exceeds 100% of the number of shares of Common Stock then registered in a Registration Statement, then the Company shall file as soon as reasonably practicable, but in any case prior to the applicable Filing Date, an additional Registration Statement covering the resale by the Holders of not less than the number of such Registrable Securities.

(d) Notify the Holders of Registrable Securities to be sold (which notice shall, pursuant to clauses (iii) through (vii) hereof, be accompanied by an instruction to suspend the use of the Prospectus until the requisite changes have been made and notification in writing of the commencement (and termination of) an Allowed Delay) as promptly as reasonably possible (and, in the case of (i)(A) below, not less than one (1) Trading Day prior to such filing) and (if requested by any such Holder) confirm such notice in writing no later than one (1) Trading Day following the day (i)(A) when a Prospectus or any Prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment to a Registration Statement is proposed to be filed, (B) when the Commission notifies the Company whether there will be a “review” of such Registration Statement and whenever the Commission comments in writing on such Registration Statement, and (C) with respect to a Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment, when the same has become effective, (ii) of any request by the Commission or any other federal or state governmental authority for amendments or supplements to a Registration Statement or Prospectus or for additional information, (iii) of the issuance by the Commission or any other federal or state governmental authority of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of a Registration Statement covering any or all of the Registrable Securities or the initiation of any Proceedings for that purpose, (iv) of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification or exemption from qualification of any of the Registrable Securities for sale in any jurisdiction, or the initiation or threatening of any Proceeding for such purpose, (v) of the occurrence of any event or passage of time that makes the financial statements included in a Registration Statement ineligible for inclusion therein, (vi) of the occurrence of any event or passage of time that makes any statement made in a Registration Statement or Prospectus or any document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated therein by reference untrue in any material respect or that requires any revisions to a Registration Statement, Prospectus or other documents so that, in the case of a Registration

 

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Statement or the Prospectus, as the case may be, it will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, and (vii) of the occurrence or existence of any pending corporate development or negotiation or consummation of a transaction with respect to the Company that the Company believes may be material and that, in the determination of the Company, makes it not in the best interest of the Company to allow continued availability of a Registration Statement or Prospectus; provided, however, that in no event shall any such notice contain any information which would constitute material, non-public information regarding the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and the Company agrees that the Holders shall not have any duty of confidentiality to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to the information contained in such notice and shall not have any duty to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries not to trade on the basis of such information, provided that the Holders shall remain subject to applicable law; provided, further, that the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to terminate an Allowed Delay as promptly as practicable.

(e) Use its reasonable best efforts to avoid the issuance of, or, if issued, obtain the withdrawal of (i) any order stopping or suspending the effectiveness of a Registration Statement, or (ii) any suspension of the qualification (or exemption from qualification) of any of the Registrable Securities for sale in any jurisdiction, at the earliest practicable moment.

(f) Furnish to each Holder whose Registrable Securities are included in any Registration Statement, if requested by such Holder, without charge, at least one conformed copy of each such Registration Statement and each amendment thereto, including financial statements and schedules, all documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated therein by reference to the extent requested by such Holder, and all exhibits to the extent requested by such Holder (including those previously furnished or incorporated by reference) promptly after the filing of such documents with the Commission, provided that any such item which is available on the EDGAR system (or successor thereto) need not be furnished in physical form.

(g) Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Company hereby consents to the use of such Prospectus and each amendment or supplement thereto by each of the selling Holders in connection with the offering and sale of the Registrable Securities covered by such Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto, except after the giving of any notice pursuant to Section 3(d).

(h) Prior to any resale of Registrable Securities by a Holder, use its reasonable best efforts to register or qualify or cooperate with the selling Holders in connection with the registration or qualification (or exemption from the registration or qualification) of such Registrable Securities for the resale by the Holder under the securities or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions within the United States as any Holder reasonably requests in writing, to keep each registration or qualification (or exemption therefrom) effective during the Effectiveness Period and to do any and all other acts or things reasonably necessary to enable the disposition in such jurisdictions of the Registrable Securities covered by each Registration Statement, provided that the Company shall not be required to qualify generally to do business in any jurisdiction where it is not then so qualified, subject the Company to any material tax in any such jurisdiction where it is not then so subject or file a general consent to service of process in any such jurisdiction.

 

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(i) If requested by a Holder, cooperate with such Holder to facilitate the timely preparation and delivery of certificates representing Registrable Securities to be delivered to a transferee pursuant to a Registration Statement, which certificates shall be free, to the extent permitted by the Purchase Agreement, of all restrictive legends, and to enable such Registrable Securities to be in such denominations and registered in such names as any such Holder may request.

(j) Upon the occurrence of any event contemplated by Section 3(d), as promptly as reasonably possible under the circumstances taking into account the Company’s good faith assessment of any adverse consequences to the Company and its stockholders of the premature disclosure of such event, prepare a supplement or amendment, including a post-effective amendment, to a Registration Statement or a supplement to the related Prospectus or any document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated therein by reference, and file any other required document so that, as thereafter delivered, neither a Registration Statement nor such Prospectus will contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. If the Company notifies the Holders in accordance with clauses (iii) through (vii) of Section 3(d) above to suspend the use of any Prospectus until the requisite changes to such Prospectus have been made, then the Holders shall suspend use of such Prospectus. The Company will use its reasonable best efforts to ensure that the use of the Prospectus may be resumed as promptly as is practicable. The Company shall be entitled to exercise its right under this Section 3(l) to suspend the availability of a Registration Statement and Prospectus, subject to the payment of partial liquidated damages otherwise required pursuant to Section 2(d), for a period not to exceed 60 calendar days (which need not be consecutive days) in any 12-month period.

(k) Otherwise use reasonable best efforts to comply with all applicable rules and regulations of the Commission under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, including, without limitation, Rule 172 under the Securities Act, file any final Prospectus, including any supplement or amendment thereof, with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act, promptly inform the Holders in writing if, at any time during the Effectiveness Period, the Company does not satisfy the conditions specified in Rule 172 and, as a result thereof, the Holders are required to deliver a Prospectus in connection with any disposition of Registrable Securities and take such other actions as may be reasonably necessary to facilitate the registration of the Registrable Securities hereunder.

(l) The Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to maintain eligibility for use of Form S-3 (or any successor form thereto) for the registration of the resale of Registrable Securities

(m) The Company may require each selling Holder to furnish to the Company a certified statement as to the number of shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by such Holder and, if required by the Commission, the natural persons thereof that have voting and dispositive control over the shares. During any periods that the Company is unable to meet its obligations hereunder with respect to the registration of the Registrable Securities solely because any Holder fails to furnish such information within three Trading Days of the Company’s request, any liquidated damages that are accruing at such time as to such Holder only shall be tolled and any Event that may otherwise occur solely because of such delay shall be suspended as to such Holder only, until such information is delivered to the Company.

 

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Section 4. Registration Expenses. All fees and expenses incident to the performance of or compliance with this Agreement by the Company shall be borne by the Company whether or not any Registrable Securities are sold pursuant to a Registration Statement. The fees and expenses referred to in the foregoing sentence shall include, without limitation, (i) all registration and filing fees (including, without limitation, fees and expenses of the Company’s counsel and independent registered public accountants) (A) with respect to filings made with the Commission, (B) with respect to filings required to be made with any Trading Market on which the Common Stock is then listed for trading, and (C) in compliance with applicable state securities or Blue Sky laws reasonably agreed to by the Company in writing (including, without limitation, fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company in connection with Blue Sky qualifications or exemptions of the Registrable Securities), (ii) printing expenses (including, without limitation, expenses of printing certificates for Registrable Securities), (iii) messenger, telephone and delivery expenses, (iv) fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company, (v) Securities Act liability insurance, if the Company so desires such insurance, and (vi) fees and expenses of all other Persons retained by the Company in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. In addition, the Company shall be responsible for all of its internal expenses incurred in connection with the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (including, without limitation, all salaries and expenses of its officers and employees performing legal or accounting duties), the expense of any annual audit and the fees and expenses incurred in connection with the listing of the Registrable Securities on any securities exchange as required hereunder. In no event shall the Company be responsible for any broker or similar commissions of any Holder or, except to the extent provided for in the Transaction Documents, any legal fees or other costs of the Holders.

Section 5. Indemnification.

(a) Indemnification by the Company. The Company shall, notwithstanding any termination of this Agreement, indemnify and hold harmless each Holder who sells Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement and the officers, directors, members, partners, agents, brokers and employees (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles, notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title) of each of them, each Person who controls any such Holder (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20 of the Exchange Act) and the officers, directors, members, stockholders, partners, agents and employees (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles, notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title) of each such controlling Person, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, from and against any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities, costs (including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys’ fees) and expenses (collectively, “Losses”), as incurred, arising out of or relating to (1) any untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in a Registration Statement, any Prospectus or any form of prospectus or in any amendment or supplement thereto or in any preliminary prospectus, or arising out of or relating to any omission or alleged omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of any Prospectus or supplement thereto, in light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading or (2) any violation or alleged violation by the Company of the Securities Act, the Exchange Act or

 

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any state securities law, or any rule or regulation thereunder, in connection with the performance of its obligations under this Agreement, except to the extent, but only to the extent, that (i) such untrue statements or omissions are based solely upon information regarding such Holder furnished in writing to the Company by such Holder expressly for use therein, or to the extent that such information relates to such Holder or such Holder’s proposed method of distribution of Registrable Securities and was reviewed and expressly approved in writing by such Holder expressly for use in a Registration Statement, such Prospectus or in any amendment or supplement thereto (it being understood that the Holder has approved Annex A and Annex B hereto for this purpose) or (ii) in the case of an occurrence of an event of the type specified in Section 3(d)(iii)-(vii), the use by such Holder of an outdated, defective or otherwise unavailable Prospectus after the Company has notified such Holder in writing that the Prospectus is outdated, defective or otherwise unavailable for use by such Holder and prior to the receipt by such Holder of the Advice contemplated in Section 6(c). The Company shall notify the Holders promptly of the institution, threat or assertion of any Proceeding arising from or in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement of which the Company is aware. Such indemnity shall remain in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of such indemnified person and shall survive the transfer of any Registrable Securities by any of the Holders in accordance with Section 6(f).

(b) Indemnification by Holders. Each Holder shall, notwithstanding any termination of this Agreement, severally and not jointly, indemnify and hold harmless the Company, its directors, officers, agents and employees (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles, notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title), each Person who controls the Company (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act and Section 20 of the Exchange Act), and the directors, officers, agents or employees (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles, notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title) of such controlling Persons, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, from and against all Losses, as incurred, to the extent arising out of or based solely upon: any untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained in any Registration Statement, any Prospectus, or in any amendment or supplement thereto or in any preliminary prospectus, or arising out of or relating to any omission or alleged omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of any Prospectus or supplement thereto, in light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading (i) to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statement or omission is contained in any information so furnished in writing by such Holder to the Company expressly for inclusion in such Registration Statement or such Prospectus or (ii) to the extent, but only to the extent, that such information relates to such Holder’s information provided in the Selling Stockholder Questionnaire or the proposed method of distribution of Registrable Securities and was reviewed and expressly approved in writing by such Holder expressly for use in a Registration Statement (it being understood that the Holder has approved Annex A and Annex B hereto for this purpose), such Prospectus or in any amendment or supplement thereto. In no event shall the liability of a selling Holder be greater in amount than the dollar amount of the proceeds (net of all expenses paid by such Holder in connection with any claim relating to this Section 5 and the amount of any damages such Holder has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission) received by such Holder upon the sale of the Registrable Securities included in the Registration Statement giving rise to such indemnification obligation.

 

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(c) Conduct of Indemnification Proceedings. If any Proceeding shall be brought or asserted against any Person entitled to indemnity hereunder (an “Indemnified Party”), such Indemnified Party shall promptly notify the Person from whom indemnity is sought (the “Indemnifying Party”) in writing, and the Indemnifying Party shall have the right to assume the defense thereof, including the employment of counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Party and the payment of all fees and expenses incurred in connection with defense thereof, provided that the failure of any Indemnified Party to give such notice shall not relieve the Indemnifying Party of its obligations or liabilities pursuant to this Agreement, except (and only) to the extent that it shall be finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction (which determination is not subject to appeal or further review) that such failure shall have materially and adversely prejudiced the Indemnifying Party.

An Indemnified Party shall have the right to employ separate counsel in any such Proceeding and to participate in the defense thereof, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such Indemnified Party or Parties unless: (1) the Indemnifying Party has agreed in writing to pay such fees and expenses, (2) the Indemnifying Party shall have failed promptly to assume the defense of such Proceeding and to employ counsel reasonably satisfactory to such Indemnified Party in any such Proceeding, or (3) the named parties to any such Proceeding (including any impleaded parties) include both such Indemnified Party and the Indemnifying Party, and counsel to the Indemnified Party shall reasonably believe that a material conflict of interest is likely to exist if the same counsel were to represent such Indemnified Party and the Indemnifying Party (in which case, if such Indemnified Party notifies the Indemnifying Party in writing that it elects to employ separate counsel at the expense of the Indemnifying Party, the Indemnifying Party shall not have the right to assume the defense thereof and the reasonable fees and expenses of no more than one separate counsel shall be at the expense of the Indemnifying Party). The Indemnifying Party shall not be liable for any settlement of any such Proceeding effected without its written consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. No Indemnifying Party shall, without the prior written consent of the Indemnified Party, effect any settlement of any pending Proceeding in respect of which any Indemnified Party is a party, unless such settlement includes an unconditional release of such Indemnified Party from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such Proceeding.

Subject to the terms of this Agreement, all reasonable fees and expenses of the Indemnified Party (including reasonable fees and expenses to the extent incurred in connection with investigating or preparing to defend such Proceeding in a manner not inconsistent with this Section) shall be paid to the Indemnified Party, as incurred, within ten Trading Days of written notice thereof to the Indemnifying Party, provided that the Indemnified Party shall promptly reimburse the Indemnifying Party for that portion of such fees and expenses applicable to such actions for which such Indemnified Party is finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction (which determination is not subject to appeal or further review) not to be entitled to indemnification hereunder.

(d) Contribution. If the indemnification under Section 5(a) or 5(b) is unavailable to an Indemnified Party or insufficient to hold an Indemnified Party harmless for any Losses, then each Indemnifying Party shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such Indemnified Party, in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the Indemnifying Party and Indemnified Party in connection with the actions, statements or omissions

 

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that resulted in such Losses as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative fault of such Indemnifying Party and Indemnified Party shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any action in question, including any untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission of a material fact, has been taken or made by, or relates to information supplied by, such Indemnifying Party or Indemnified Party, and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such action, statement or omission. The amount paid or payable by a party as a result of any Losses shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth in this Agreement, any reasonable attorneys’ or other fees or expenses incurred by such party in connection with any Proceeding to the extent such party would have been indemnified for such fees or expenses if the indemnification provided for in this Section was available to such party in accordance with its terms.

The parties hereto agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 5(d) were determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation that does not take into account the equitable considerations referred to in the immediately preceding paragraph. In no event shall the contribution obligation of a Holder of Registrable Securities be greater in amount than the dollar amount of the proceeds (net of all expenses paid by such Holder in connection with any claim relating to this Section 5 and the amount of any damages such Holder has otherwise been required to pay by reason of such untrue statement or omission or alleged omission) received by it upon the sale of the Registrable Securities giving rise to such contribution obligation.

The indemnity and contribution agreements contained in this Section are in addition to any liability that the Indemnifying Parties may have to the Indemnified Parties.

Section 6. Miscellaneous.

(a) Remedies. In the event of a breach by the Company or by a Holder of any of their respective obligations under this Agreement, each Holder or the Company, as the case may be, in addition to being entitled to exercise all rights granted by law and under this Agreement, including recovery of damages, shall be entitled to seek specific performance of its rights under this Agreement. Each of the Company and each Holder agrees that monetary damages may not provide adequate compensation for any losses incurred by reason of a breach by it of any of the provisions of this Agreement and hereby further agrees that, in the event of any action for specific performance in respect of such breach, it shall not assert or shall waive the defense that a remedy at law would be adequate.

(b) No Piggyback on Registrations; Prohibition on Filing Other Registration Statements. Neither the Company nor any of its security holders (other than the Holders in such capacity pursuant hereto and the Investors pursuant to that certain Amended and Restated Investor’s Rights Agreement, dated November 9, 2018 (the “Prior IRA”)) may include securities of the Company in any Registration Statements other than the Registrable Securities until such time as the Registrable Securities have all been registered pursuant to this Agreement. The Company shall not file any other registration statements until all Registrable Securities are registered pursuant to a Registration Statement that is declared effective by the Commission, provided that this Section 6(b) shall not prohibit the Company from filing amendments to registration statements filed prior to the date of this Agreement so long as no new securities are registered on any such existing registration statements.

 

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(c) Discontinued Disposition. By its acquisition of Registrable Securities, each Holder agrees that, upon receipt of a notice from the Company of the occurrence of any event of the kind described in Section 3(d)(iii) through (vii), such Holder will forthwith discontinue disposition of such Registrable Securities under a Registration Statement until it is advised in writing (the “Advice”) by the Company that the use of the applicable Prospectus (as it may have been supplemented or amended) may be resumed. The Company will use its reasonable best efforts to ensure that the use of the Prospectus may be promptly resumed. Any periods during which the Holder is required to discontinue the disposition of the Registrable Securities hereunder shall be subject to the provisions of Section 2(d), except if such period is an Allowed Delay.

(d) Amendments and Waivers. The provisions of this Agreement, including the provisions of this sentence, may not be amended, modified or supplemented, and waivers or consents to departures from the provisions hereof may not be given, unless the same shall be in writing and signed by the Company and the Holders of 68% or more of the then outstanding Registrable Securities (for purposes of clarification, this includes any Registrable Securities issuable upon exercise or conversion of any Security), provided that, if any amendment, modification or waiver disproportionately and adversely impacts a Holder (or group of Holders), the consent of such disproportionately impacted Holder (or group of Holders) shall be required. If a Registration Statement does not register all of the Registrable Securities pursuant to a waiver or amendment done in compliance with the previous sentence, then the number of Registrable Securities to be registered for each Holder shall be reduced pro rata among all Holders and each Holder shall have the right to designate which of its Registrable Securities shall be omitted from such Registration Statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a waiver or consent to depart from the provisions hereof with respect to a matter that relates exclusively to the rights of a Holder or some Holders and that does not directly or indirectly affect the rights of other Holders may be given only by such Holder or Holders of all of the Registrable Securities to which such waiver or consent relates; provided, however, that the provisions of this sentence may not be amended, modified, or supplemented except in accordance with the provisions of the first sentence of this Section 6(d). No consideration shall be offered or paid to any Person to amend or consent to a waiver or modification of any provision of this Agreement unless the same consideration also is offered to all of the parties to this Agreement.

(e) Notices. Any and all notices or other communications or deliveries required or permitted to be provided hereunder shall be delivered as set forth in the Purchase Agreement.

(f) Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the successors and permitted assigns of each of the parties and shall inure to the benefit of each Holder. The Company may not assign (except by merger) its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of all of the Holders of the then outstanding Registrable Securities. Each Holder may assign their respective rights hereunder in the manner and to the Persons as permitted under Section 5.7 of the Purchase Agreement.

 

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(g) No Inconsistent Agreements. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has entered, as of the date hereof, nor shall the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, on or after the date of this Agreement, enter into any agreement with respect to its securities, that would have the effect of impairing the rights granted to the Holders in this Agreement or otherwise conflicts with the provisions hereof. Other than the Prior IRA, neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries has previously entered into any agreement granting any registration rights with respect to any of its securities to any Person that have not been satisfied in full.

(h) Execution and Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, all of which when taken together shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective when counterparts have been signed by each party and delivered to the other party, it being understood that parties need not sign the same counterpart. In the event that any signature is delivered by delivery of a “.pdf” format data file or any electronic signature complying with the U.S. federal ESIGN Act of 2000, such signature shall create a valid and binding obligation of the party executing (or on whose behalf such signature is executed) with the same force and effect as if such “.pdf” signature page were an original thereof.

(i) Governing Law. All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Agreement shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of the Purchase Agreement.

(j) Cumulative Remedies. The remedies provided herein are cumulative and not exclusive of any other remedies provided by law.

(k) Severability. If any term, provision, covenant or restriction of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable, the remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions set forth herein shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated, and the parties hereto shall use their reasonable best efforts to find and employ an alternative means to achieve the same or substantially the same result as that contemplated by such term, provision, covenant or restriction. It is hereby stipulated and declared to be the intention of the parties that they would have executed the remaining terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions without including any of such that may be hereafter declared invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable.

(l) Headings. The headings in this Agreement are for convenience only, do not constitute a part of the Agreement and shall not be deemed to limit or affect any of the provisions hereof.

(m) Independent Nature of Holders’ Obligations and Rights. The obligations of each Holder hereunder are several and not joint with the obligations of any other Holder hereunder, and no Holder shall be responsible in any way for the performance of the obligations of any other Holder hereunder. Nothing contained herein or in any other agreement or document delivered at any closing, and no action taken by any Holder pursuant hereto or thereto, shall be deemed to constitute the Holders as a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of group or entity, or create a presumption that the Holders are in any way acting in concert or as a group or entity with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other matters, and the Company acknowledges that the Holders are not acting in concert or as a group, and the Company shall not assert any such claim, with respect to such obligations or transactions. Each Holder shall be entitled to protect and enforce its rights, including without

 

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limitation the rights arising out of this Agreement, and it shall not be necessary for any other Holder to be joined as an additional party in any proceeding for such purpose. It is expressly understood and agreed that each provision contained in this Agreement is between the Company and a Holder, solely, and not between the Company and the Holders collectively and not between and among Holders.

(Signature Pages Follow)

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Registration Rights Agreement as of the date first written above.

 

HARPOON THERAPEUTICS, INC.

By:

 

/s/ Julie Eastland

 

Name: Julie Eastland

 

Title: Chief Executive Officer

 

[Signature Page to Registration Rights Agreement]


Name of Holder: NEW LEAF BIOPHARMA OPPORTUNITIES II, L.P.

By:

 

New Leaf BPO Associates II, L.P.

Its:

 

General Partner

By:

 

New Leaf BPO Management II, L.L.C.

Its:

 

General Partner

By:

 

/s/ Craig L. Slutzkin

Name of Authorized Signatory: Craig L. Slutzkin

Title of Authorized Signatory: Chief Financial Officer

Name of Holder: ARIX BIOSCIENCE HOLDINGS LIMITED

By:

 

/s/ Robert Lyne

Name of Authorized Signatory: Robert Lyne

Title of Authorized Signatory: CEO

 

[Signature Page to Registration Rights Agreement]


Name of Holder: INVUS PUBLIC EQUITIES, L.P.
By:   /s/ Khalil Barrage
Name of Authorized Signatory: Khalil Barrage
Title of Authorized Signatory: Vice President of its General Partner
Name of Holder: K2 HEALTHVENTURES EQUITY TRUST LLC

By:

 

/s/ Anup Arora

Name of Authorized Signatory: Anup Arora

Title of Authorized Signatory: Managing Director & Chief Investment Officer

 

[Signature Page to Registration Rights Agreement]


Name of Holder: ORBIMED PRIVATE INVESTMENTS VII, LP

By:

 

OrbiMed Capital GP VII LLC

Its:

 

General Partner

By:

 

OrbiMed Advisors LLC,

Its:

 

Managing Member

By:

 

/s/ Carl L. Gordon

Name of Authorized Signatory: Carl L. Gordon

Title of Authorized Signatory: Member

Name of Holder: ORBIMED GENESIS MASTER FUND, L.P.

By:

 

OrbiMed Genesis GP LLC

Its:

 

General Partner

By:

 

OrbiMed Advisors LLC,

Its:

 

Managing Member

By:

 

/s/ Carl L. Gordon

Name of Authorized Signatory: Carl L. Gordon

Title of Authorized Signatory: Member

 

[Signature Page to Registration Rights Agreement]


Annex A

PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

Each Selling Stockholder (the “Selling Stockholders”) of the securities and any of their pledgees, assignees and successors-in-interest may, from time to time, sell any or all of their respective securities covered hereby on the Trading Market or any other stock exchange, market or trading facility on which the securities are traded or in private transactions. These sales may be at fixed or negotiated prices. A Selling Stockholder may use any one or more of the following methods when selling securities:

 

•  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;

•  in transactions through broker-dealers that agree with the Selling Stockholders 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.

A Selling Stockholder may also sell securities under Rule 144 or any other exemption from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act, if available, rather than under this prospectus.

Broker-dealers engaged by a Selling Stockholder may arrange for other brokers-dealers to participate in sales. Broker-dealers may receive commissions or discounts from a Selling Stockholder (or, if any broker-dealer acts as agent for the purchaser of securities, from the purchaser) in amounts to be negotiated, but, except as set forth in a supplement to this prospectus, in the case of an agency transaction not in excess of a customary brokerage commission in compliance with FINRA Rule 2121; and in the case of a principal transaction a markup or markdown in compliance with FINRA Rule 2121.

A Selling enter into option or other transactions with broker-dealers or other financial institutions or create one or more derivative securities which require the delivery to such broker-dealer or other financial institution of securities offered by this prospectus, which securities such broker-dealer or other financial institution may resell pursuant to this prospectus (as supplemented or amended to reflect such transaction).


A Selling Stockholder and any broker-dealers or agents that are involved in selling the securities may be deemed to be “underwriters” within the meaning of the Securities Act in connection with such sales. In such event, any commissions received by such broker-dealers or agents and any profit on the resale of the securities purchased by them may be deemed to be underwriting commissions or discounts under the Securities Act. Each Selling Stockholder has informed us that it does not have any written or oral agreement or understanding, directly or indirectly, with any person to distribute the securities.

We are required to pay certain fees and expenses incurred by us incident to the registration of the securities. We have agreed to indemnify any Selling Stockholder against certain losses, claims, damages and liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act.

We agreed to keep this prospectus effective until the earlier of (i) the date on which the securities may be resold by the Selling Stockholders without registration and without regard to any volume or manner-of-sale limitations by reason of Rule 144, without the requirement for us to be in compliance with the current public information under Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other rule of similar effect or (ii) all of the securities have been sold pursuant to this prospectus or Rule 144 under the Securities Act or any other rule of similar effect. The resale securities will be sold only through registered or licensed brokers or dealers if required under applicable state securities laws. In addition, in certain states, the resale securities covered hereby may not be sold unless they have been registered or qualified for sale in the applicable state or an exemption from the registration or qualification requirement is available and is complied with.

Under applicable rules and regulations under the Exchange Act, any person engaged in the distribution of the resale securities may not simultaneously engage in market making activities with respect to the common stock for the applicable restricted period, as defined in Regulation M, prior to the commencement of the distribution. In addition, the Selling Stockholders will be subject to applicable provisions of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder, including Regulation M, which may limit the timing of purchases and sales of the common stock by a Selling Stockholder or any other person. We will make copies of this prospectus available to a Selling Stockholder and have informed them of the need to deliver a copy of this prospectus to each purchaser at or prior to the time of the sale (including by compliance with Rule 172 under the Securities Act).


Annex B

SELLING STOCKHOLDERS

The common stock being offered by the selling stockholders are those previously issued to the selling stockholders, and those issuable to the selling stockholders, upon exercise of the warrants. For additional information regarding the issuances of those shares of common stock and warrants, see “Private Placement of Shares of Preferred Stock and Warrants” above. We are registering the shares of common stock in order to permit the selling stockholders to offer the shares for resale from time to time. Except for the ownership of the shares of preferred stock and the warrants and for the selling stockholders whose other relationships are provided in “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions”1, the selling stockholders have not had any material relationship with us within the past three years.

The table below lists the selling stockholders and other information regarding the beneficial ownership of the shares of common stock by each of the selling stockholders. The second column lists the number of shares of common stock beneficially owned by each selling stockholder, based on its ownership of the shares of common stock and warrants, as of ________, 2023, assuming exercise of the warrants held by the selling stockholders on that date, without regard to any limitations on exercises.

The third column lists the shares of common stock being offered by this prospectus by the selling stockholders.

In accordance with the terms of a Registration Rights Agreement with the selling stockholders, this prospectus generally covers the resale of the sum of (i) the number of shares of common stock issued to the selling stockholders in the “Private Placement of Shares of Preferred Stock and Warrants” described above and (ii) the maximum number of shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the related warrants, determined as if the outstanding warrants were exercised in full as of the trading day immediately preceding the date this registration statement was initially filed with the SEC, each as of the trading day immediately preceding the applicable date of determination and all subject to adjustment as provided in the Registration Rights Agreement, without regard to any limitations on the exercise of the warrants. The fourth column assumes the sale of all of the shares offered by the selling stockholders pursuant to this prospectus.

Under the terms of the warrants, a selling stockholder may not exercise the warrants to the extent such exercise would cause such selling stockholder, together with its affiliates and attribution parties, to beneficially own a number of shares of common stock which would exceed [19.99]% of the number of shares of our common stock outstanding following such exercise (for purposes of the denominator, immediately after giving effect to the issuance of shares of common stock to be issued upon the applicable exercise of such warrant). The number of shares in the second and fourth columns do not reflect this limitation. The selling stockholders may sell all, some or none of their shares in this offering. See “Plan of Distribution.”

 

1 

Note: To add based on questionnaire, given existing share ownership and board representation of certain selling stockholders.


Name of 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

Offering


Annex C

HARPOON THERAPEUTICS INC.

SELLING STOCKHOLDER NOTICE AND QUESTIONNAIRE

The undersigned beneficial owner of warrants exercisable into common stock (such, common stock, the “Registrable Securities”) of Harpoon Therapeutics Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), understands that the Company has filed or intends to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a registration statement (the “Registration Statement”) for the registration and resale under Rule 415 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), of the Registrable Securities, in accordance with the terms of the Registration Rights Agreement (the “Registration Rights Agreement”) to which this document is annexed. A copy of the Registration Rights Agreement is available from the Company upon request at the address set forth below. All capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Registration Rights Agreement.

Certain legal consequences arise from being named as a selling stockholder in the Registration Statement and the related prospectus. Accordingly, holders and beneficial owners of Registrable Securities are advised to consult their own securities law counsel regarding the consequences of being named or not being named as a selling stockholder in the Registration Statement and the related prospectus.

NOTICE

The undersigned beneficial owner (the “Selling Stockholder”) of Registrable Securities hereby elects to include the Registrable Securities owned by it in the Registration Statement.

The undersigned hereby provides the following information to the Company and represents and warrants that such information is accurate:

QUESTIONNAIRE

1. Name.

 

           (a) Full Legal Name of Selling Stockholder
 

 

           (b) Full Legal Name of Registered Holder (if not the same as (a) above) through which Registrable Securities are held:
   

 

           (c) Full Legal Name of Natural Control Person (which means a natural person who directly or indirectly alone or with others has power to vote or dispose of the securities covered by this Questionnaire):
 

2. Address for Notices to Selling Stockholder:

 
 
 
 


Telephone:

    

Email:

    
Contact Person:     

3. Broker-Dealer Status:

(a) Are you a broker-dealer?

Yes  ☐    No  ☐

(b) If “yes” to Section 3(a), did you receive your Registrable Securities as compensation for investment banking services to the Company?

Yes  ☐    No  ☐

Note: If “no” to Section 3(b), the Commission’s staff has indicated that you should be identified as an underwriter in the Registration Statement.

(c) Are you an affiliate of a broker-dealer?

Yes  ☐    No  ☐

(d) If you are an affiliate of a broker-dealer, do you certify that you purchased the Registrable Securities in the ordinary course of business, and at the time of the purchase of the Registrable Securities to be resold, you had no agreements or understandings, directly or indirectly, with any person to distribute the Registrable Securities?

Yes  ☐    No  ☐

Note: If “no” to Section 3(d), the Commission’s staff has indicated that you should be identified as an underwriter in the Registration Statement.

4. Beneficial Ownership of Securities of the Company Owned by the Selling Stockholder.

Except as set forth below in this Item 4, the undersigned is not the beneficial or registered owner of any securities of the Company other than the securities issuable pursuant to the Purchase Agreement.

(a) Type and Amount of other securities beneficially owned by the Selling Stockholder:

 

 
 
 

5. Relationships with the Company:

Except as set forth below, neither the undersigned nor any of its affiliates, officers, directors or principal equity holders (owners of 5% of more of the equity securities of the undersigned) has held any position or office or has had any other material relationship with the Company (or its predecessors or affiliates) during the past three years.


State any exceptions here:

The undersigned agrees to promptly notify the Company of any material inaccuracies or changes in the information provided herein that may occur subsequent to the date hereof at any time while the Registration Statement remains effective; provided, that the undersigned shall not be required to notify the Company of any changes to the number of securities held or owned by the undersigned or its affiliates.

By signing below, the undersigned consents to the disclosure of the information contained herein in its answers to Items 1 through 5 and the inclusion of such information in the Registration Statement and the related prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto. The undersigned understands that such information will be relied upon by the Company in connection with the preparation or amendment of the Registration Statement and the related prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned, by authority duly given, has caused this Notice and Questionnaire to be executed and delivered either in person or by its duly authorized agent.

 

Date:                                              Beneficial Owner:                        
   

By:

   
     

Name:

     

Title:

PLEASE EMAIL A PDF COPY OF THE COMPLETED AND EXECUTED NOTICE AND QUESTIONNAIRE TO:

Harpoon Therapeutics, Inc.

131 Oyster Point Blvd., Suite 300,

South San Francisco, California 94080

Email: legal@harpoontx.com

Exhibit 99.1

 

LOGO

Harpoon Therapeutics Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Financial Results

and Provides Corporate Update

HPN217 (BCMA) and HPN328 (DLL3) enrollment on track, with data updates and selection of

recommended Phase 2 doses for both active clinical programs planned in 2023

Completion of $25 million preferred equity financing provides sufficient cash to fund operations

into the second half of 2024, beyond key data milestones

Five posters on multiple programs to be presented at AACR 2023 in April

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 27, 2023—Harpoon Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: HARP), a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company developing novel T cell engagers, today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2022 and provided a corporate update.

“Harpoon is well positioned to reach 2023 key milestones on our HPN217 and HPN328 clinical studies with a solid balance sheet extending the cash runway into the second half of 2024,” said Julie Eastland, President and Chief Executive Officer of Harpoon Therapeutics. “Our leadership team remains focused on advancing our clinical pipeline and we anticipate sharing Phase 1 data from our two clinical programs in the second half of 2023.”

Corporate Update / Recent and Upcoming Highlights

Tri-specific T cell Activating Construct (TriTAC®) Platform

HPN217 (BCMA) Phase 1 trial for relapsed, refractory multiple myeloma

 

   

Interim results presented at the 64th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting (cut-off of October 17, 2022), with additional observations post-ASH include the following:

  o

Continued evidence of clinical activity with 77% (10/13) ORR observed in the two highest target dose levels (12 and 24 mg).

  o

Early durable responses for responding patients with at least 9 months follow up, the median time on treatment is 12 months.

  o

86% (18 of 21) responders remain on study treatment with sustained response, with many responses deepening over time.

  o

Low incidence of cytokine release syndrome (CRS) across the patient population studied to date.

 

Transient CRS has occurred in 27% of patients across highest step-dose levels.

 

Following ASH 2022, one patient experienced Grade 3 CRS and Grade 1 ICANS followed by a post-traumatic Grade 5 event (subdural hematoma).

 

   

Phase 1 dose exploration is expected to complete in the first half of 2023, with up to 94 patients and identification of a recommended Phase 2 dose(s) by the end of 2023.

 

   

Data presentation anticipated in the second half of 2023.

 

   

Orphan and Fast Track designation granted for the treatment of relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma.


HPN328 (DLL3) Phase 1/2 trial in small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and other neuroendocrine cancers

 

   

As of February 2023, observations in the monotherapy cohorts included:

  o

Early signs of anti-tumor activity seen, with two confirmed partial responses per RECIST in patients with SCLC.

  o

Priming dose lowered to 1mg and patients requiring oxygen prior to dosing excluded due to two events of Grade 3 CRS after the initial priming dose of 2 mg including one Grade 5 respiratory failure after higher priming dose.

 

   

Phase 1/2 dose and schedule optimization trial ongoing with monotherapy cohorts enrolling at the 12mg target dose.

 

   

Enrollment in combination therapy of HPN328 with atezolizumab (Tecentriq) in patients with SCLC, as part of the Phase 1/2 dose escalation trial, is anticipated to begin in the second half of 2023.

 

   

Phase 1 dose exploration is expected to complete in the second half of 2023, including the identifying of a recommended Phase 2 dose(s) in the monotherapy setting by the end of 2023.

 

   

Data presentation anticipated in the second half of 2023.

ProTriTAC

HPN601 (EpCAM)

 

   

HPN601 is our first conditionally active T cell engager based on the ProTriTAC platform. EpCAM is expressed in a broad range of solid tumors, potentially enabling HPN601 to address multiple indications with high unmet medical need.

 

   

IND filing timeline to enable a Phase 1 dose exploration study dependent on resource allocation.

Two new candidates for IND-enabling studies from the ProTriTAC platform have been identified against the targets trophoblast cell surface antigen 2,(TROP2) and Integrin-ß6 (ITGB6).

TriTAC-XR®

The proprietary TriTAC-XR extended-release T cell engager platform is designed to minimize on-target CRS, a characteristic of many T cell engagers that can lead to dose limiting toxicities and reduce the efficacy of these potent anti-tumor drugs.

AACR 2023 – Five Preclinical Posters to be Presented:

 

   

HPN217: Preclinical abstract to be presented at AACR on April 18, 2023:

  o

“Anti-tumor activity of HPN217, a BCMA-targeting tri-specific T cell engager, is enhanced by y-secretase inhibitors in preclinical models”

 

   

HPN328: Two preclinical abstracts to be presented at AACR on April 18, 2023:

  o

“Long-term anti-tumor immunity induced by HPN328, a DLL3-targeting tri-specific, half-life extended T cell engager, in a preclinical immunocompetent mouse model”

  o

“Anti-tumor activity of HPN328, a DLL3-targeting tri-specific, half-life extended T cell engager, is enhanced by combining with an anti-PD-L1 antibody in an immunocompetent mouse model”

 

   

ProTriTAC: Two preclinical abstracts to be presented at AACR on April 17, 2023:

  o

“TROP2 ProTriTAC, a protease-activated T cell engager prodrug targeting TROP2 for the treatment of solid tumors”

  o

“ITGB6 ProTriTAC, a protease-activated T cell engager prodrug targeting Integrin-ß6 for the treatment of solid tumors”

 

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Corporate Update

 

   

Preferred equity financing closed in March 2023, extending cash runway into the second half of 2024.

 

   

In November 2022, Harpoon announced a corporate restructuring designed to reduce discovery research and other operating expenses in 2023 and align its core activities with the organization’s clinical pipeline.

 

   

In October 2022, Harpoon appointed Luke Walker, M.D., as Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Walker leads the clinical development strategy and execution for Harpoon’s multiple clinical programs.

Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Financial Results

 

   

Harpoon ended the fourth quarter of 2022 with $53.1 million in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities, compared to $136.6 million as of December 31, 2021. Following the $25.0 million preferred equity financing and year to date ATM sales, cash and cash equivalents are expected to fund current operations into the second half of 2024.

 

   

Revenue for the quarter ended December 31, 2022 was $4.1 million, compared to $4.3 million for the quarter ended December 30, 2021. For the year ended December 31, 2022, revenue was $31.9 million, compared to $23.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2022. The increase for the year primarily arose from revenue recognized in 2022 for research and development services performed on the third and fourth targets under Harpoon’s Restated Collaboration Agreement with AbbVie, and an increase in revenue recognized related to Harpoon’s Development and Option Agreement with AbbVie for research and development services performed.

 

   

Research and development (R&D) expense for the quarter ended December 31, 2022 was $18.9 million, compared to $20.7 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2021. For the year ended December 31, 2022, R&D expense was $81.4 million, compared to $72.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2021. The decrease in the fourth quarter was primarily due to lower costs in research and lab supplies due to the corporate restructuring and lower costs in clinical and development costs due to wind down of the HPN424 and HPN536 programs. The increase for the year primarily arose from higher clinical and development costs and personnel-related expense, which included conducting preclinical studies and the continuation and preparation of the clinical trials for HPN217, HPN328 and HPN601.

 

   

General and administrative (G&A) expense for the quarter ended December 31, 2022 was $3.9 million, compared to $5.2 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2021. For the year ended December 31, 2022, G&A expense was $18.8 million, compared to $18.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2021. The decrease in the fourth quarter was primarily due to lower personnel-related expense. The increase for the year was primarily attributable to an increase in legal fees, consulting and other professional services to support Harpoon’s operations.

 

   

Net loss for the quarter ended December 31, 2022 was $18.4 million, compared to $21.6 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2021. The net loss for the year ended December 31, 2022 was $67.7 million compared to $116.7 million for the prior year.

About Harpoon Therapeutics

Harpoon Therapeutics is a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company developing a novel class of T cell engagers that harness the power of the body’s immune system to treat patients suffering from cancer and other diseases. T cell engagers are engineered proteins that direct a patient’s own T cells to kill target cells that express specific proteins, or antigens, carried by the target cells. Using its proprietary Tri-specific T cell Activating Construct (TriTAC®) platform, Harpoon is developing a pipeline of novel TriTACs initially focused on the treatment of solid tumors and hematologic malignancies. Harpoon has also developed a proprietary ProTriTAC platform, which applies a prodrug concept to its TriTAC platform to create a therapeutic T cell engager that remains inactive until it reaches the tumor. Harpoon’s third proprietary technology platform, extended release TriTAC-XR, is designed to mitigate cytokine release syndrome. For additional information about Harpoon Therapeutics, please visit www.harpoontx.com.

 

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Cautionary Note on Forward-looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as “anticipate,” “expect,” “look forward,” “plan,” “potential,” “to be,” “will,” and similar expressions (as well as other words or expressions referencing future events, conditions or circumstances) are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on Harpoon Therapeutics’ expectations and assumptions as of the date of this press release. Each of these forward-looking statements involves risks and uncertainties that could cause Harpoon Therapeutics’ clinical development programs, future results or performance to differ significantly from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements contained in this press release include, but are not limited to, statements about the development and advancement of, and milestones concerning, Harpoon Therapeutics’ platforms and product candidates, including timing, scope, design and interim results of clinical trials, the safety and tolerability profile of product candidates, expectations concerning the ability to make regulatory submissions and the timing thereof; cash sufficiency forecast, including ability to extend cash runway as a result of the restructuring and financing activities; progress and plans for partnerships, and other statements that are not historical fact. Many factors may cause differences between current expectations and actual results, including unexpected safety or efficacy data observed during clinical studies, preliminary data and trends may not be predictive of future data or results, may not demonstrate safety or efficacy or lead to regulatory approval by the FDA or other regulatory agencies, clinical trial site activation or enrollment rates that are lower than expected, changes in expected or existing competition, changes in the regulatory environment, the uncertainties and timing of the regulatory approval process, the timing and results of unexpected litigation or other disputes, the ability to realize the expected benefits from the restructuring, and the sufficiency of Harpoon Therapeutics’ cash resources. These and other factors that may cause Harpoon Therapeutics’ actual results to differ from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements in this press release are discussed in Harpoon Therapeutics’ filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including under “Risk Factors” in Harpoon Therapeutics’ annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022 and future filings by Harpoon Therapeutics. Except as required by law, Harpoon Therapeutics assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect any change in expectations, even as new information becomes available.

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Contacts:

ICR Westwicke

Robert H. Uhl

Managing Director

858-356-5932

robert.uhl@westwicke.com

Media:

uncapped Communications

303-588-0599

kerry.walton@uncappedcommunications.com

 

 

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Harpoon Therapeutics, Inc.

Statement of Operations and Comprehensive Loss

(In thousands, except share and per share amounts)

 

     Three Months Ended
December 31,
    Twelve Months Ended
December 31,
 
     2022     2021     2022     2021  

Revenue

        

Collaboration and license revenue

   $ 4,089     $ 4,325     $ 31,915     $ 23,654  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total revenue

     4,089       4,325       31,915       23,654  

Operating expenses

        

Research and development

     18,947       20,664       81,393       72,124  

General and administrative

     3,854       5,202       18,847       18,327  

Litigation settlement

     —         —         —         49,954  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total operating expenses

     22,801       25,866       100,240       140,405  

Loss from operations

     (18,712     (21,541     (68,325     (116,751

Interest income

     342       36       776       240  

Other expense

     (50     (46     (182     (210
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net loss

     (18,420     (21,551     (67,731     (116,721

Other comprehensive loss:

        

Net unrealized loss on marketable securities

     25       (47     44       (50
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Comprehensive loss

   $ (18,395   $ (21,598   $ (67,687   $ (116,771
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net loss per share, basic and diluted

   $ (0.55   $ (0.66   $ (2.04   $ (3.62
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Weighted-average shares used in computing net loss per share, basic and diluted

     33,683,363       32,704,000       33,167,435       32,274,362  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Harpoon Therapeutics, Inc.

Selected Balance Sheet Data

 

     As of December 31,  
     2022      2021  
     (in thousands)  

Cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities

   $ 53,112      $ 136,620  

Total assets

   $ 73,729      $ 155,452  

Total liabilities

   $ 68,330      $ 97,382  

Total stockholders’ equity

   $ 5,399      $ 58,070  

 

 

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