SORRENTO THERAPEUTICS, INC. (NASDAQ:SRNE) Files An 8-K Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

On March 15, 2017, Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Company”) and certain of its domestic subsidiaries (together with the Company, the “Borrowers”) and Hercules (as defined below) entered into an amendment (the “Amendment”) to that certain Loan and Security Agreement (the “Loan Agreement”) that it entered into on November 23, 2016 with Hercules Capital, Inc. (“Hercules”), as a lender and agent for several banks and other financial institutions or entities from time to time party to the Loan Agreement. Prior to the Amendment, the Loan Agreement provided for a term loan of up to $75.0 million, subject to funding in three tranches, and (a) the first tranche of $50.0 million of the Term Loan was funded upon execution of the Loan Agreement on November 23, 2016, (b) the second tranche of up to $10.0 million was to be available until September 30, 2017, subject to the Borrowers achieving certain fundraising and corporate milestones and satisfying customary conditions, and (c) the third tranche of up to $15.0 million was to be available until June 30, 2018, subject to approval by Hercules’ Investment Committee. The Amendment: (1) adjusted the minimum amount of unrestricted cash that the Company must maintain under the Loan Agreement, (2) changed the date by which the Company must achieve a fundraising milestone, (3) modified the second and third tranches of additional funds available under the Term Loan such that $25.0 million is available until June 30, 2018, subject to approval by Hercules’ Investment Committee, and (4) amended the end of term charge.

The foregoing description of the Amendment does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Amendment. A copy of the Amendment will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) as an exhibit to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016 (the “Form 10-K”). Certain terms of the Amendment have been omitted from this Current Report on Form 8-K and will be omitted from the version of the Amendment to be filed as an exhibit to the Form 10-K to a Confidential Treatment Request that the Company plans to submit to the SEC at the time of the filing of the Form 10-K.

About SORRENTO THERAPEUTICS, INC. (NASDAQ:SRNE)

Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company. The Company is engaged in the discovery, acquisition, development and commercialization of drug therapeutics. Its primary therapeutic focus is oncology, including the treatment of chronic cancer pain. It is also developing therapeutic products for other indications, including immunology and infectious diseases. Its products in the pipeline include Chimeric Antigen Receptor-T Cell (CAR-T) programs, resiniferatoxin (RTX), and biosimilar/biobetter antibodies clinical development programs. Its pipeline also includes preclinical fully human therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), including biosimilars/biobetters, fully human anti-PD-L1 and anti-PD-1 checkpoint inhibitors derived from its G-MAB library platform, antibody drug conjugates (ADCs), bispecific antibodies (BsAbs), as well as CAR-T and Chimeric Antigen Receptor Natural Killer (NK) cells (CAR. NK) for adoptive cellular immunotherapy.

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