ONCOSEC MEDICAL INCORPORATED (NASDAQ:ONCS) Files An 8-K Entry into a Material Definitive AgreementItem 1.01
On October 22, 2017, OncoSec Medical Incorporated (the “Company”) entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with certain accredited investors (collectively, the “Purchasers”) providing for the sale by the Company of 5,270,934 shares (the “Shares”) of its common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), at a purchase price of $1.34375 per share. The Company expects the closing of the sale of the Shares under the Purchase Agreement to occur on or about October 25, 2017, subject to the satisfaction of certain customary closing conditions set forth in the Purchase Agreement. The Purchase Agreement also contains customary representations and warranties of the Company, termination rights of the parties, and certain indemnification obligations of the Company and ongoing covenants of the Company, including a prohibition on sales of Common Stock or securities convertible or exchangeable into Common Stock by the Company for a period of 90 days after the closing of the sale of the Shares under the Purchase Agreement, subject to certain exceptions, and a prohibition on the Company from entering into agreements for or effecting certain variable rate transactions or securities issuances at future determined prices for a period of one year after the closing of the sale of the Shares under the Purchase Agreement.
to the Purchase Agreement, the Company has also agreed to issue to the Purchasers, in a private placement, warrants to purchase an aggregate of up to 3,953,200 shares of Common Stock (the “Warrants”), which are expected to be issued concurrently with the closing of the sale of the Shares under the Purchase Agreement. Each Purchaser will receive a Warrant to purchase up to 75% of the number of Shares of common stock purchased by such Purchaser under the Purchase Agreement. Subject to certain ownership limitations described in the Warrants, the Warrants will be immediately exercisable on their date of issuance and will remain exercisable until the 5.5 year anniversary of their date of issuance. The Warrants will be exercisable at an exercise price of $1.25 per share, which, along with the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of the Warrants, will be subject to adjustment for stock splits, reverse splits, and similar capital transactions as described in the Warrants. The Warrants will be exercisable on a “cashless” basis in certain circumstances as described in the Warrants, including, among others, while there is no effective registration statement registering the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants. The Warrants provide that holders will have the right to participate in any rights offering or distribution of assets together with the holders of Common Stock on an as-exercised basis. In addition, the Warrants provide that, in the event of a fundamental transaction, as defined in the Warrants, and under certain circumstances, any holder may require the Company or any successor entity to purchase the Warrants by paying to the holder an amount of cash equal to the Black Scholes value of the remaining unexercised portion of the Warrants on the date of consummation of the fundamental transaction.
The aggregate gross proceeds to the Company from the sale of the Shares and the Warrants will be approximately $7.1 million, and the net proceeds to the Company from the sale of the Shares and the Warrants, after deducting estimated placement agent fees and other estimated offering expenses paid or payable by Company, and excluding the proceeds, if any, from any cash exercise of the Warrants, are expected to be approximately $6.2 million. The Company intends to use the net proceeds for working capital and general corporate purposes, including primarily for its PISCES/KEYNOTE-695 clinical trial and for other clinical and research and development activities.
Additionally, on October 20, 2017, the Company entered into an engagement letter (the “Engagement Letter”) with H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC (“Wainwright”), to which Wainwright agreed to serve as the exclusive placement agent for the issuance and sale of the Shares and the Warrants. The Company has agreed to pay Wainwright an aggregate cash fee equal to 5.5% of the gross proceeds received by the Company from the sale of the Shares, plus a non-accountable expense allowance of $50,000. to the Engagement Letter, the Company has also agreed to issue to Wainwright or its designees warrants to purchase up to 6% of the aggregate number of Shares sold under the Purchase Agreement (warrants to purchase up to 316,256 shares of Common Stock) (the “Wainwright Warrants”). The Wainwright Warrants have substantially the same terms as the Warrants to be issued to Purchasers, except that their exercise price is $1.68 per share and they will expire on October 21, 2022. The Engagement Letter also includes indemnification obligations of the Company and other provisions customary for transactions of this nature.
The Shares (but not the Warrants or the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants) were offered and sold by the Company through a prospectus supplement to the Company’s registration statement on Form S-3, which was originally filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on August 9, 2016 and subsequently declared effective on August 25, 2016 (File No. 333-213036) (the “Registration Statement”). The Shares may only be offered by means of a prospectus. The Company will file with the SEC the prospectus supplement, together with the accompanying base prospectus, used in connection with the offer and sale of the Shares. In addition, a copy of the opinion of McDonald Carano LLP relating to the legality of the issuance and sale of the Shares to the Purchase Agreement is filed as Exhibit 5.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K, and is also filed with reference to, and is hereby incorporated by reference in, the Registration Statement.
The Warrants, the Wainwright Warrants and the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants and the Wainwright Warrants are being offered and sold without registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), to the exemption provided in Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act and Rule 506(b) promulgated thereunder as transactions not involving a public offering and similar exemptions under applicable state laws, in reliance on the following facts: the no general solicitation was used in other offer or sale of such securities; the recipients of the securities had adequate access to information about us, through pre-existing relationships or otherwise; each Purchaser represented its intention to acquire the securities for investment only and not with a view to or for sale in connection with any distribution thereof; and such securities were issued as restricted securities with restricted legends referring to the Securities Act. No such securities may be offered or sold in the United States in the absence of an effective registration statement or exemption from applicable registration requirements.
The forms of the Purchase Agreement and the Warrant, as well as the Engagement Letter, are filed as Exhibits 10.1, 4.1 and 10.2, respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K. The foregoing summaries of the terms of these documents are subject to, and qualified in their entirety by, the full text of such documents, which are incorporated herein by reference. No statement in this document or the attached exhibits is an offer to purchase or a solicitation of an offer to sell the Company’s securities, and no offer, solicitation or sale will be made in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale is unlawful.
| Item 1.02 | Termination of Material Definitive Agreement. |
Effective as of October 22, 2017, the Company terminated the equity distribution agreement (the “Distribution Agreement”), dated July 25, 2017, by and between the Company and Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. (“Oppenheimer”). The Distribution Agreement permitted the Company to offer and sell, by any method deemed to be an “at the market offering” as defined in Rule 415 promulgated under the Securities Act and from time to time through or to Oppenheimer, acting as sales agent or principal, shares of its common stock having an aggregate gross sales price as specified in the most recent prospectus supplement filed with the Commission relating to such shares. As a result of the termination of the Distribution Agreement, no further offers or sales of shares of the Company’s common stock will be made thereunder. As of the date of this Current Report on Form 8-K, the Company has sold an aggregate of 897,311 shares of its common stock to the Distribution Agreement, for gross proceeds of $1,125,626 and net proceeds, after deducting Oppenheimer’s commissions and other expenses paid or payable by the Company, of $1,097,459.
| Item 3.02 | Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities. |
The information under Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K regarding the Warrants and the Wainwright Warrants is incorporated herein by reference.
On October 23, 2017, the Company issued a press release announcing sale of the Shares and Warrants, a copy of which is attached as Exhibit 99.1 hereto and incorporated herein by reference.
| Item 9.01 | Financial Statements and Exhibits. |
| Exhibit No. | Description |
| 4.1 | Form of Common Stock Purchase Warrant. |
| 5.1 | Opinion of McDonald Carano LLP. |
| 10.1 | Form of Securities Purchase Agreement, dated October 22, 2017, by and between OncoSec Medical Incorporated and each purchaser named therein. |
| 10.2 | Engagement Letter, dated October 20, 2017, by and between OncoSec Medical Incorporated and H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC. |
| 23.1 | Consent of McDonald Carano LLP (contained in Exhibit 5.1) |
| 99.1 | Press Release, dated October 23, 2017, issued by OncoSec Medical Incorporated. |
ONCOSEC MEDICAL Inc ExhibitEX-4.1 2 ex4-1.htm NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR THE SECURITIES INTO WHICH THIS SECURITY IS EXERCISABLE HAVE BEEN REGISTERED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR THE SECURITIES COMMISSION OF ANY STATE IN RELIANCE UPON AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933,…To view the full exhibit click here
About ONCOSEC MEDICAL INCORPORATED (NASDAQ:ONCS)
OncoSec Medical Incorporated is a biotechnology company. The Company is focused on designing, developing and commercializing gene therapies, therapeutics and medical approaches to stimulate an anti-tumor immune response for the treatment of cancer. The Company’s lead product candidate, ImmunoPulse IL-12, consists of a plasmid construct encoding the proinflammatory cytokine, IL-12, which is delivered into the tumor through in vivo electroporation. As of July 31, 2016, the Company was pursuing two Phase II trials: ImmunoPulse IL-12 monotherapy in patients with metastatic melanoma and ImmunoPulse IL-12 plus pembrolizumab in patients with advanced, metastatic melanoma. In addition, it is pursuing ImmunoPulse IL-12 monotherapy in patients with triple negative breast cancer. Its ImmunoPulse product candidates are based on its deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)-based immunotherapy technology, which is designed to stimulate the human immune system, resulting in systemic anti-tumor immune responses.