EYEGATE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (NASDAQ:EYEG) Files An 8-K Notice of Delisting or Failure to Satisfy a Continued Listing Rule or Standard; Transfer of ListingItem 3.01.
On March 20, 2018, EyeGate Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the “Company”) received a written notification (the “Notice Letter”) from The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC (“NASDAQ”) indicating that the Company is not in compliance with NASDAQ Listing Rule 5550(a)(2), as the Company’s closing bid price for its common stock was below the $1.00 per share requirement for the last 30 consecutive business days. This notice has no immediate effect on the Company’s NASDAQ listing or the trading of its common stock.
The Notice Letter states that the Company will have 180 calendar days, until September 17, 2018 (the “Initial Compliance Period”), to regain compliance with the minimum bid price requirement. In accordance with NASDAQ Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(A), the Company can regain compliance if the closing bid price of its common stock is at least $1.00 for a minimum of 10 consecutive business days.
If the Company does not achieve compliance with the minimum bid price requirement by the end of the Initial Compliance Period, it may be granted a second 180 day compliance period, as long as (a) on the last day of the Initial Compliance Period the Company is in compliance with the market value requirement for continued listing as well as all other listing standards, except for the minimum bid price requirement, and (b) the Company provides written notice of its intention to cure the deficiency during the second compliance period.
Additionally, as previously disclosed, on November 20, 2017, the Company received a letter from NASDAQ notifying the Company that the Company was not in compliance with NASDAQ Listing Rule 5550(b)(1), as the Company did not maintain a minimum required stockholders’ equity of $2.5 million and did not meet the alternative standards of NASDAQ Listing Rule 5550(b)(2), which requires a market value of the Company’s listed securities (“MVLS”) of at least $35 million for the previous 30 consecutive business days, or NASDAQ Listing Rule 5550(b)(3), which requires the Company to have had net income from continuing operations of at least $500,000 in the latest fiscal year or in two of the last three fiscal years. In accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(c)(2)(A)(i), the Company submitted a plan to regain compliance to NASDAQ, and Company was granted a period of up to 180 calendar days, or until May 21, 2018, to regain compliance with NASDAQ Listing Rule 5550(b)(1) or, alternatively, complying with NASDAQ Listing Rule 5550(b)(2).
If the Company were not to regain compliance within the allotted compliance periods, including any extensions that may be granted by NASDAQ, NASDAQ would then provide notice that the Company’s common stock would be subject to delisting. At that time, the Company may appeal the delisting determination to a hearings panel to the procedures set forth in the applicable Nasdaq Listing Rules. The Company will consider available options to resolve the deficiencies and regain compliance with all applicable NASDAQ Listing Rules.
About EYEGATE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (NASDAQ:EYEG)
Eyegate Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a clinical-stage specialty pharmaceutical company. The Company is focused on developing and commercializing therapeutics and drug delivery systems for treating diseases of the eye. The Company’s lead product, EGP-437, incorporates a reformulated topically active corticosteroid, dexamethasone phosphate, which is delivered into the ocular tissues through its drug delivery system, the EyeGate II Delivery System. The Company is developing EGP-437 for the treatment of various inflammatory conditions of the eye, including uveitis, a debilitating form of intraocular inflammation of the anterior portion of the uvea, such as the iris and/or ciliary body, and macular edema, an abnormal thickening of the macula associated with the accumulation of excess fluids in the extracellular space of the neurosensory retina. The EyeGate II Delivery System is designed to deliver optimal quantities of drugs to the anterior or posterior segments of the eye.