ACURA PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (NASDAQ:ACUR) Files An 8-K Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
On January 28, 2019 we received a $200,000 loan from John Schutte, which combined with earlier loans, total $4.55 million in loans from Mr. Schutte. In connection with the $200,000 loan, we issued a promissory note, or the Schutte Note, in that principal amount to him. The Schutte Note bears interest at prime plus 2%, and matures on January 2, 2020, at which time all principal and interest is due. Events of Default under the Schutte Note include bankruptcy events and failure to pay interest and principal when due. The note is secured by a security interest in all of our assets. The Schutte Note may be prepaid in whole or part at any time. These terms are the same as the terms for the $4.35 million loans previously received from Mr. Schutte.
The funding provided by Mr. Schutte enables us to continue operations into early March 2019, by which time we hope to have entered into a licensing agreement or raised additional funds.
There can be no assurance we will be successful entering into such a licensing arrangement or receive additional financing. In the absence of the receipt of additional financing or adequate payments under license or collaborative agreements by mid-March 2019, we will be required to scale back or terminate operations and/or seek protection under applicable bankruptcy laws. This could result in a complete loss of shareholder value in the Company. Even assuming we are successful in securing additional sources of financing to fund continued operations, there can be no assurance that the proceeds of such financing will be sufficient to fund operations until such time, if at all, that we generate sufficient revenue from our products and product candidates to sustain and grow our operation.
Mr. Schutte is our largest shareholder and directly owns approximately 47.5% of our common stock (after giving effect to the exercise of warrants he holds). Mr. Schutte also controls Mainpointe Pharmaceuticals LLC, or MainPointe. In March 2017, we granted MainPointe an exclusive license to our Impede® technology to commercialize our Nexafed® and Nexafed® Sinus Pressure + Pain Products in the United States and Canada. MainPointe also has options to expand the territory and for other covered products for additional sums.
Certain statements in this Report constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements may include, but are not limited to:
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our ability to fund or obtain funding for our continuing operations, including the development of our products utilizing our Limitx and Impede technologies; |
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the expected results of clinical studies relating to LTX-03, a Limitx hydrocodone bitartrate and acetaminophen combination product, or any successor product candidate, the date by which such studies will be complete and the results will be available and whether LTX-03 will ultimately receive FDA approval; |
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whether Limitx will retard the release of opioid active ingredients as dose levels increase; |
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whether the extent to which products formulated with the Limitx technology deter abuse will be determined sufficient by the FDA to support approval or labelling describing abuse deterrent features; |
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whether our Limitx technology can be expanded into extended-release formulations; |
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our and our licensee’s ability to successfully launch and commercialize our products and technologies, including Oxaydo® Tablets and our Nexafed® products; |
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Egalet’s ability to continue as a going concern, including consummation of their proposed plan of reorganization filed in their Chapter 11 proceedings; |
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the pricing and price discounting that may be offered by Egalet for Oxaydo; |
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the results of our development of our Limitx Technology; |
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our or our licensees’ ability to obtain necessary regulatory approvals and commercialize products utilizing our technologies; |
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the market acceptance of, timing of commercial launch and competitive environment for any of our products; |
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expectations regarding potential market share for our products; |
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our ability to develop and enter into additional license agreements for our product candidates using our technologies; |
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our exposure to product liability and other lawsuits in connection with the commercialization of our products; |
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the increasing cost of insurance and the availability of product liability insurance coverage; |
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the ability to avoid infringement of patents, trademarks and other proprietary rights of third parties; |
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the ability of our patents to protect our products from generic competition and our ability to protect and enforce our patent rights in any paragraph IV patent infringement litigation; |
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whether the FDA will agree with or accept the results of our studies for our product candidates; |
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the ability to fulfill the FDA requirements for approving our product candidates for commercial manufacturing and distribution in the United States, including, without limitation, the adequacy of the results of the laboratory and clinical studies completed to date, the results of laboratory and clinical studies we may complete in the future to support FDA approval of our product candidates and the sufficiency of our development process to meet over-the-counter (“OTC”) Monograph standards, as applicable; |
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the adequacy of the development program for our product candidates, including whether additional clinical studies will be required to support FDA approval of our product candidates; |
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changes in regulatory requirements; |
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adverse safety findings relating to our commercialized products or product candidates in development; |
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whether the FDA will agree with our analysis of our clinical and laboratory studies; |
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whether further studies of our product candidates will be required to support FDA approval; |
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whether or when we are able to obtain FDA approval of labeling for our product candidates for the proposed indications and whether we will be able to promote the features of our abuse discouraging technologies; and |
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whether Oxaydo or our Aversion and Limitx product candidates will ultimately deter abuse in commercial settings and whether our Nexafed products and Impede technology product candidates will disrupt the processing of pseudoephedrine into methamphetamine. |
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Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant. |
The contents of Item 1.01 are incorporated herein by reference.
About ACURA PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (NASDAQ:ACUR)
Acura Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a pharmaceutical company. The Company is engaged in the research, development and commercialization of technologies and products intended to address medication abuse and misuse. The Company has discovered and developed three platform technologies, which can be used to develop multiple products. The Company’s Oxaydo Tablets (oxycodone HCl, CII), which utilizes the Aversion Technology, is an approved and immediate-release (IR) oxycodone product in the United States. The Company’s Impede technology products include Nexafed and Nexafed Sinus Pressure + Pain. Its third deterrent technology is Limitx, which is designed to retard the release of active drug ingredients when too many tablets are accidently or purposefully ingested. The Company’s Aversion and Limitx technologies are intended to address methods associated with opioid and its Impede technology is directed at the extraction and conversion of pseudoephedrine into methamphetamine.