Endocyte, Inc. (NASDAQ:ECYT) Files An 8-K Entry into a Material Definitive AgreementITEM 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
Development and License Agreement
On September 29, 2017, Endocyte, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into a Development and License Agreement (the “License Agreement”) with ABX advanced biochemical compounds – Biomedizinische Forschungsreagenzien GmbH(“ABX”), to which the Company acquired exclusive worldwide rights to develop and commercialize PSMA-617 agents to use as radioligand therapeutics that target the prostate-specific membrane antigen, or PSMA.
Under the terms of the License Agreement, the Company will be responsible for, and bear the future costs of, worldwide development and commercialization of PSMA-617, which ABX will supply to the Company.
On September 29, 2017, the Company made an upfront cash payment of approximately $11.9 million to ABX, consisting of $12.0 million less an immaterial expense reimbursement amount. The License Agreement obligates the Company to pay ABX regulatory milestone payments of up to $25.0 million, sales milestone payments of up to $135.0 million, and tiered royalties based on percentages of net sales beginning in the mid-teens and not to exceed the mid-twenties.
Issuance of Common Stock and Warrants
As additional consideration for its rights under the License Agreement, on September 29, 2017, the Company issued to ABX 2,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”) and warrants for the purchase of an aggregate of 4,000,000 shares of Common Stock at an exercise price per share of $1.39 (the “Warrants”). The Warrants were assigned by ABX to an affiliate and certain related parties on September 29, 2017, and Warrants for 3,278,000 shares were exercised on the same date, resulting in proceeds to the Company in the amount of approximately $4.6 million. The remaining Warrant is exercisable at any time until September 29, 2027.
Registration Rights Agreement
On September 29, 2017, the Company entered into a Registration Rights Agreement with ABX (the “Registration Rights Agreement”), to which the Company has agreed to file, within 45 days of September 29, 2017, a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to register the shares of Common Stock issued to ABX and the shares of Common Stock issued or issuable upon the exercise of the Warrants (the “Warrant Shares”).
The foregoing summaries of the License Agreement, the Warrants and the Registration Rights Agreement are qualified in their entirety by the full text of the License Agreement, the form of Warrant and the Registration Rights Agreement, copies of which are attached hereto as Exhibits 10.1, 4.1 and 4.2, respectively, and incorporated herein by reference.
ITEM 2.01 Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets.
The information contained above in Item 1.01 is hereby incorporated by reference into this Item 2.01.
ITEM 3.02 Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities
The information contained above in Item 1.01 related to the Common Stock, the Warrants and the Warrant Shares is hereby incorporated by reference into this Item 3.02.
This issuance by the Company of the shares of Common Stock, the Warrants and the Warrant Shares is exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and Regulation D thereunder. ABX has represented to the Company that it is an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501 of the Securities Act and that the shares of Common Stock, the Warrants and the Warrant Shares are being acquired for investment purposes and not with a view to or for resale in connection with any distribution thereof.
