IMMUNOMEDICS,INC. (NASDAQ:IMMU) Files An 8-K Entry into a Material Definitive AgreementItem 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
The information contained below under Item 3.02 and under Item 1.02 is hereby incorporated by reference into this Item 1.01.
Settlement Term Sheet and Settlement Agreement
On May 3, 2017, Immunomedics, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) entered into a binding settlement term sheet (the “Term Sheet”) by and among the Company, venBio Select Advisor LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“venBio”), Dr. David M. Goldenberg, a director of the Company and the Company’s Chief Scientific Officer and Chief Patent Officer (“Goldenberg”), Ms. Cynthia L. Sullivan, a director of the Company and the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer (“Sullivan”), and Mr. Brian A. Markison, a director of the Company (“Markison”, together with venBio, Goldenberg, Sullivan and the Company, the “Parties”) in order to resolve certain legal actions among the Parties, as described below. The Parties also agreed to cooperate and use their best efforts to reduce the Term Sheet to a definitive settlement agreement (the “Settlement Agreement”) and, to the extent necessary, obtain the approval of the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware (the “Court of Chancery”).
Resolution of Litigation
to the Term Sheet, the Parties submitted a stipulation and proposed order to the Court of Chancery lifting the Status Quo Order (as defined in Item 8.01 hereof) and confirming that the Status Quo Board (as defined in Item 8.01 hereof) is the lawful board of directors of the Company (provided however, if the 225 Action is not dismissed, the Parties will be restored to their positions in the 225 Action as of immediately prior to the execution of the Term Sheet). The Court of Chancery entered the proposed order on the afternoon of May 4, 2017. to the Term Sheet, the Parties also agreed to submit a stipulation and proposed order to the Court of Chancery staying the venBio Action (as defined in Item 8.01 hereof) and removing the trial dates from the calendar of the Court of Chancery.
The Company has further agreed to reimburse venBio for reasonable fees and expenses it incurred in connection with the proxy contest between venBio and the Company, the venBio Action, the 225 Action (as defined in Item 8.01 hereof) and the Federal Action (as defined in Item 8.01 hereof and, together with the venBio Action and the 225 Action, the “Actions”), and Goldenberg and Sullivan have agreed to not object to such reimbursement.
The Parties have agreed, immediately upon execution of the Settlement Agreement, to submit stipulations and proposed orders dismissing with prejudice both the 225 Action and the Federal Action. The Settlement Agreement will include (i) a mutual release of all claims that were or could have been asserted in the Federal Action or in the 225 Action and (ii) a comprehensive release of all direct and derivative claims that have been or could be asserted by or on behalf of (a) venBio or the Company, whether known or unknown, against Goldenberg, Sullivan and Markison and their affiliates and related persons, and (b) Goldenberg, Sullivan or Markison, whether known or unknown, against venBio or the Company and their affiliates and related persons, in both cases in connection with the claims alleged in the venBio Action, the Financing (as defined in Item 3.02 hereof), the settlement of the venBio Action, the Licensing Transaction (as defined in Item 1.02 hereof) and the Termination Agreement (both terms as defined in Item 1.02 hereof). The settlement of claims against Goldenberg, Sullivan and Markison in the venBio Action will be subject to approval of the Court of Chancery. venBio and the Company have agreed to stay the venBio Action and submit the claims asserted against the remaining individual defendants (former directors Robert Forrester, Jason Aryeh, Geoff Cox and Bob Oliver) and Greenhill to non-binding