EX-10.1 3 d642740dex101.htm EX-10.1 EX-10.1

Exhibit 10.1

SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT

THIS SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”), dated as of January 24, 2024, by and among Kura Oncology, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and each purchaser identified on Schedule 1 hereto (each, including its successors and assigns, a “Purchaser” and collectively, the “Purchasers”).

RECITALS

A. On the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in this Agreement and pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and Rule 506 promulgated thereunder, the Company desires to issue and sell to each Purchaser, and each Purchaser, severally and not jointly, desires to purchase from the Company, (i) shares (the “Shares”) of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Common Stock”) and (ii) pre-funded warrants, in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit B (each a “Pre-Funded Warrant” and collectively, the “Pre-Funded Warrants”), to purchase shares of Common Stock, as more fully described in this Agreement. The shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of, or otherwise pursuant to, the Pre-Funded Warrants collectively are referred to herein as the “Warrant Shares”. The Shares, Pre-Funded Warrants and Warrant Shares are collectively referred to herein as the “Securities.”

B. At the Closing (as hereinafter defined), each Purchaser, severally and not jointly, wishes to purchase, and the Company wishes to sell, upon the terms and conditions stated in this Agreement, the number of Shares and Pre-Funded Warrants as hereafter specified on Schedule 1 hereto.

AGREEMENT

NOW, THEREFORE, IN CONSIDERATION of the mutual covenants contained in this Agreement, and for other good and valuable consideration the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the Company and each Purchaser agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

PURCHASE AND SALE

1.1 Authorization of Sale of the Securities. The Company shall issue and sell each Purchaser, and each Purchaser shall, severally and not jointly, purchase from the Company, (i) such number of Shares set forth opposite their respective names on Schedule 1 hereto, at a price per share of Common Stock equal to $ 17.25 (the “Price Per Share” and the total purchase price for the Shares to be paid by each Purchaser, the “Share Purchase Price”), and (ii) such number of Pre-Funded Warrants set forth opposite their respective names on Schedule 1 hereto, at a purchase price per Pre-Funded Warrant equal to the Price Per Share minus $0.0001. Each Purchaser’s aggregate purchase price for the Securities purchased by such Purchaser hereunder is referred to as the “Aggregate Purchase Price”).

1.2 Closing. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, at the Closing, the Company shall issue and sell to the Purchasers, and the Purchasers shall purchase from the Company, the Securities. The closing of the purchase and sale of the Securities to the Purchasers by the Company (the “Closing”) will occur, subject to the conditions set forth in Article V, two business days following the satisfaction or waiver of the conditions set forth in Sections 5.1 and 5.2, or at such other time and place or on such date as the Purchasers and the Company may agree upon (the “Closing Date”).

 

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1.3 Payment. On the Closing Date, (a) each Purchaser shall pay to the Company its Aggregate Purchase Price in United States dollars and in immediately available funds, by wire transfer to the Company’s account as set forth in instructions previously delivered to each Purchaser, and (b) the Company shall cause the Company’s transfer agent to deliver to each Purchaser certificate(s) or book-entry shares (as requested by such Purchaser) evidencing the number of Shares set forth opposite such Purchaser’s name on Schedule 1 hereto, duly executed on behalf of the Company and registered in the name of such Purchaser as set forth on such Purchaser’s signature page hereto and will deliver to each Purchaser the applicable Pre-Funded Warrants set forth opposite such Purchaser’s name on Schedule 1 hereto.

1.4 Closing Deliverables.

(a) Company. On or prior to the Closing Date, the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered to each Purchaser the following:

(i) electronic copies of certificates or book-entry shares evidencing the number of Shares set forth opposite such Purchaser’s name on Schedule 1 hereto, registered in the name of such Purchaser as set forth on such Purchaser’s signature page hereto, with the original stock certificates (as applicable) delivered to such Purchaser or its designee (as directed by such Purchaser) within five Business Days of the Closing Date;

(ii) the Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, among the Company and the Purchasers, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A (the “Registration Rights Agreement” and together with this Agreement and the Pre-Funded Warrants the “Transaction Documents”), duly executed by the Company;

(iii) electronic copies of the Pre-Funded Warrants, if applicable, executed by the Company and registered in the name of such Purchaser as set forth on Schedule 1 hereto, pursuant to which such Purchaser shall have the right to acquire such number of Warrant Shares set forth on Schedule 1 hereto, on the terms set forth therein, with the original Pre-Funded Warrants, delivered to such Purchaser or its designee (as directed by such Purchaser) within five Business Days of the Closing Date;

(iv) a legal opinion of Cooley LLP, legal counsel to the Company, in a form reasonably acceptable to the Purchasers; and

(v) the lock-up agreements, dated as of the date hereof, by and among the Company and the Company’s directors and officers and their respective affiliates in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C (the “Lock-Up Agreements”).

(b) Purchasers. On or prior to the Closing Date, each Purchaser shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the Company the following:

(i) the Registration Rights Agreement, duly executed by each Purchaser; and

(ii) the Aggregate Purchase Price by wire transfer to the account specified by the Company.

1.5 Beneficial Ownership Limitation. The Company shall not issue, and each Purchaser shall not purchase, any shares of Common Stock under this Agreement if such shares proposed to be issued and sold, when aggregated with all other shares of Common Stock then owned beneficially (as calculated pursuant to Section 13(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and Rule 13d-3 promulgated thereunder) by such Purchaser and its affiliates would result in the beneficial ownership by such Purchaser and its affiliates of more than 9.99% of the then issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock.

 

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ARTICLE II

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY

Subject to and except as set forth in the SEC Documents (as defined below) filed during the period commencing on January 1, 2023 and ending five Business Days prior to the date hereof (excluding any disclosures set forth under the headings “Risk Factors,” or disclosure of risks set forth in any “forward-looking statements” disclaimer, or disclosures in any other statements that are similarly cautionary or predictive in nature, the “Recent SEC Disclosure”) as expressly provided below; provided, for the avoidance of doubt, that no information in any of the Recent SEC Disclosure shall provide exceptions to, or otherwise qualify, any of the representations and warranties except to the extent expressly provided in such representations and warranties below, the Company hereby represents, warrants and covenants to each of the Purchasers as of the date hereof and of the Closing Date as follows:

2.1 Exchange Act Compliance. Since March 6, 2015, the Company has filed all reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents required to be filed by it with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) pursuant to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act (the “SEC Documents”) on a timely basis or has received a valid extension of such time of filing and has filed any such SEC Document prior to the expiration of any such extension. At the time they were filed with the Commission, the SEC Documents and any amendment or supplement thereto complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Exchange Act, and did not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

2.2 Disclosure Controls and Procedures; Deficiencies in or Changes to Internal Control Over Financial Reporting. The Company has established and maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15 under the Exchange Act), which (i) are designed to ensure that material information relating to the Company, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to the Company’s principal executive officer and its principal financial officer by others within those entities, particularly during the periods in which the periodic reports required under the Exchange Act are being prepared; (ii) have been evaluated by management of the Company for effectiveness as of the end of the Company’s most recent fiscal quarter; and (iii) other than as otherwise disclosed in the Recent SEC Disclosure, are effective in all material respects to perform the functions for which they were established. Other than as otherwise disclosed in the Recent SEC Disclosure, since the end of the Company’s most recent audited fiscal year, the Company is not aware of any significant deficiencies or material weaknesses in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting (whether or not remediated) and no change in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. The Company is not aware of any change in its internal control over financial reporting that has occurred during its most recent fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.

2.3 This Agreement. Each of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents has been duly authorized, and this Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by the Company and constitutes the lawful, valid and legally binding obligation of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, liquidation, conservatorship, receivership or similar laws relating to, or affecting generally the enforcement of, creditor’s rights and remedies or by other equitable principles of general application. Upon the Closing, each of the Transaction Documents will be have duly executed and delivered by the Company and will constitute the lawful, valid and legally binding obligation of the Company, enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, liquidation, conservatorship, receivership or similar laws relating to, or affecting generally the enforcement of, creditor’s rights and remedies or by other equitable principles of general application.

 

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2.4 Authorization of the Securities. The Securities have been duly authorized for issuance and sale pursuant to this Agreement and, when issued and delivered by the Company against payment therefor in accordance with the Transaction Documents, will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, and the issuance and sale of the Securities is not subject to any preemptive rights, rights of first refusal or other similar rights to subscribe for or purchase the Securities and will not result in a right of any holder of the Company’s securities to adjust the exercise, conversion, exchange or reset price under, and will not result in any other anti-dilution or other adjustments (automatic or otherwise) under, any securities of the Company. The Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of the Pre-Funded Warrants have been duly authorized and, when issued and paid for in accordance with the terms of the Transaction Documents, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, other than restrictions on transfer provided for in the Transaction Documents or imposed by applicable securities laws, and shall not be subject to preemptive rights, rights of first refusal or other similar rights and will not result in a right of any holder of the Company’s securities to adjust the exercise, conversion, exchange or reset price under, and will not result in any other anti-dilution or other adjustments (automatic or otherwise) under, any securities of the Company. The Company has reserved from its duly authorized capital stock the maximum number of shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to this Agreement and the Pre-Funded Warrants.

2.5 No Material Adverse Change. Since the date of the most recent financial statements of the Company included in the SEC Documents: (i) there has been no material adverse change, or any development that would reasonably be expected to result in a material adverse change, in (A) the condition, financial or otherwise, or in the earnings, business, properties, operations, operating results, assets, liabilities or prospects, whether or not arising from transactions in the ordinary course of business, of the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one entity, or (B) the ability of the Company to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents or perform its obligations hereunder and thereunder (any such change being referred to herein as a “Material Adverse Change”); (ii) the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one entity, have not incurred any material liability or obligation, indirect, direct or contingent, including without limitation any losses or interference with their business from fire, explosion, flood, earthquakes, accident or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any strike, labor dispute or court or governmental action, order or decree, that are material, individually or in the aggregate, to the Company and its subsidiaries, considered as one entity, and have not entered into any transactions not in the ordinary course of business; and (iii) there has not been any material decrease in the capital stock or any material increase in any short-term or long-term indebtedness of the Company or its subsidiaries and there has been no dividend or distribution of any kind declared, paid or made by the Company or, except for dividends paid to the Company or other subsidiaries, by any of the Company’s subsidiaries on any class of capital stock, or any repurchase or redemption by the Company or any of its subsidiaries of any class of capital stock.

2.6 Independent Accountants. The independent registered public accounting firms which have expressed their opinions with respect to the financial statements (which term as used in this Agreement includes the related notes thereto) filed with the Commission are (i) independent public or certified public accountants as required by the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, (ii) in compliance with the applicable requirements relating to the qualification of accountants under Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X; and (iii) registered public accounting firms as defined by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (the “PCAOB”) whose registration has not been suspended or revoked and who has not requested such registration to be withdrawn.

 

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2.7 Financial Statements. The financial statements filed with the Commission included in the SEC Documents present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of the Company and its subsidiaries as of the dates indicated and the results of their operations, changes in stockholders’ equity and cash flows for the periods specified. Such financial statements have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles as applied in the United States applied on a consistent basis throughout the periods involved, except as may be expressly stated in the related notes thereto. The interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language included in the SEC Documents fairly presents the information called for in all material respects and has been prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto. To the Company’s knowledge, no person who has been suspended or barred from being associated with a registered public accounting firm, or who has failed to comply with any sanction pursuant to Rule 5300 promulgated by the PCAOB, has participated in or otherwise aided the preparation of, or audited, the financial statements, supporting schedules or other financial data filed with the Commission as a part of the SEC Documents.

2.8 Company’s Accounting System. The Company and each of its subsidiaries make and keep accurate books and records and maintain a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that: (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles as applied in the United States and to maintain accountability for assets; (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization; (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences; and (v) the interactive data in eXtensible Business Reporting Language included in the SEC Documents fairly presents the information called for in all material respects and is prepared in accordance with the Commission’s rules and guidelines applicable thereto.

2.9 Incorporation and Good Standing of the Company. The Company has been duly incorporated and is validly existing as a corporation in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation and has the corporate power and authority to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business as described in the SEC Documents and to enter into and perform its obligations under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents. The Company is duly qualified as a foreign corporation to transact business and is in good standing in the State of California and each other jurisdiction in which such qualification is required, whether by reason of the ownership or leasing of property or the conduct of business, except where the failure to so qualify or to be in good standing, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change.

2.10 Subsidiaries. Each of the Company’s “subsidiaries” (for purposes of this Agreement, as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) has been duly incorporated or organized, as the case may be, and is validly existing as a corporation, partnership or limited liability company, as applicable, in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization and has the power and authority (corporate or other) to own, lease and operate its properties and to conduct its business as described in the SEC Documents in all material respects. Each of the Company’s subsidiaries is duly qualified as a foreign corporation, partnership or limited liability company, as applicable, to transact business and is in good standing in each jurisdiction in which such qualification is required, whether by reason of the ownership or leasing of property or the conduct of business, except where the failure to so qualify or be in good standing would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Change. All of the issued and outstanding capital stock or other equity or ownership interests of each of the Company’s subsidiaries have been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and nonassessable and are owned by the Company, directly or through subsidiaries, free and clear of any security interest, mortgage, pledge, lien, encumbrance or adverse claim other than a lien in favor of Hercules Capital, Inc., as collateral agent (in such capacity, the “Collateral Agent”) for the Lenders pursuant to and

 

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as defined in that certain Loan and Security Agreement dated as of November 1, 2022 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Hercules Loan Agreement”), by and among the Company, its subsidiaries, the Collateral Agent and the Lenders from time to time party thereto. None of the outstanding capital stock or equity interest in any subsidiary was issued in violation of preemptive or similar rights of any security holder of such subsidiary. The constitutive or organizational documents of each of the subsidiaries comply in all material respects with the requirements of applicable laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation or organization and are in full force and effect. The Company does not have any “significant subsidiary” as defined in Rule 1-02(w) of Regulation S-X.

2.11 Capitalization and Other Capital Stock Matters. The authorized, issued and outstanding capital stock of the Company is as set forth in the Recent SEC Disclosure (other than for subsequent issuances, if any, pursuant to employee benefit plans described in the Recent SEC Disclosure or upon the exercise of outstanding options or warrants, in each case described in the Recent SEC Disclosure). The shares of Common Stock (including the Shares and the Warrant Shares) conform in all material respects to the description thereof contained in the Recent SEC Disclosure. All of the issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock have been duly authorized and validly issued, are fully paid and nonassessable and have been issued in compliance with all federal and state securities laws. None of the outstanding shares of Common Stock was issued in violation of any preemptive rights, rights of first refusal or other similar rights to subscribe for or purchase securities of the Company that have not been duly waived or satisfied. There are no authorized or outstanding options, warrants, preemptive rights, rights of first refusal or other rights to purchase, or equity or debt securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for, any capital stock of the Company or any of its subsidiaries other than those described in the Recent SEC Disclosure. The descriptions of the Company’s stock option, stock bonus and other stock plans or arrangements, and the options or other rights granted thereunder, set forth in the Recent SEC Disclosure accurately and fairly presents, in all material respects, the information required to be shown with respect to such plans, arrangements, options and rights. The Company does not have outstanding stockholder purchase rights or a “poison pill” or any similar arrangement in effect giving any Person the right to purchase any equity interest in the Company upon the occurrence of certain events.

2.12 Stock Exchange Listing. The shares of Common Stock are registered pursuant to Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Exchange Act and are listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (“Nasdaq”), and the Company has taken no action designed to, or reasonably likely to have the effect of, terminating the registration of the Common Stock under the Exchange Act or delisting the Common Stock from Nasdaq, nor has the Company received any notification that the Commission or Nasdaq is contemplating terminating such registration or listing. To the Company’s knowledge, it is in compliance with all applicable listing requirements of Nasdaq.

2.13 Non-Contravention of Existing Instruments; No Further Authorizations or Approvals Required. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in violation of its charter or by-laws, partnership agreement or operating agreement or similar organizational documents, as applicable, or is in default (or, with the giving of notice or lapse of time, would be in default) (“Default”) under any indenture, loan, credit agreement, note, lease, license agreement, contract, franchise or other instrument (including, without limitation, any pledge agreement, security agreement, mortgage or other instrument or agreement evidencing, guaranteeing, securing or relating to indebtedness) to which the Company or any of its subsidiaries is a party or by which it or any of them may be bound, or to which any of their respective properties or assets are subject (each, an “Existing Instrument”), except for such Defaults as would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Change. The Company’s execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents, consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby and the issuance and sale of the Securities (i) have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action and will not result in any violation of the provisions of the charter or by-laws, partnership agreement or operating agreement or similar

 

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organizational documents, as applicable, of the Company or any subsidiary, (ii) will not conflict with or constitute a breach of, or Default or a Debt Repayment Triggering Event (as defined below) under, or result in the creation or imposition of any lien, charge or encumbrance upon any property or assets of the Company or any of its subsidiaries pursuant to, or require the consent of any other party to, any Existing Instrument and (iii) will not result in any violation of any law, administrative regulation or administrative or court decree applicable to the Company or any of its subsidiaries. No further consent or authorization of the Company or its board of directors or stockholders is required. No consent, approval, authorization or other order of, or registration or filing with, any court or other governmental or regulatory authority or agency, or any other Person is required for the Company’s execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents and consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby , except such as may be required under applicable state securities or blue sky laws, or such as have been obtained or made by the Company and are in full force and effect under the Securities Act and such filings with the Commission as are expressly contemplated by the Registration Rights Agreement. As used herein, a “Debt Repayment Triggering Event” means any event or condition which gives, or with the giving of notice or lapse of time would give, the holder of any note, debenture or other evidence of indebtedness (or any person acting on such holder’s behalf) the right to require the repurchase, redemption or repayment of all or a portion of such indebtedness by the Company or any of its subsidiaries.

2.14 No Material Actions or Proceedings. Except as otherwise disclosed in the Recent SEC Disclosure, there is no action, suit, proceeding, inquiry or investigation brought by or before any legal or governmental entity now pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened, against or affecting the Company or any of its subsidiaries, which would reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Change. No material labor dispute with the employees of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, or with the employees of any principal supplier, manufacturer, customer or contractor of the Company, exists or, to the knowledge of the Company, is threatened or imminent.

2.15 Intellectual Property Rights. Except as otherwise disclosed in the Recent SEC Disclosure, the Company and its subsidiaries own, or have obtained valid and enforceable licenses for, the inventions, patent applications, patents, trademarks, trade names, service names, copyrights, trade secrets and other intellectual property described in the SEC Documents as being owned or licensed by them or which are necessary for the conduct of their respective businesses as currently conducted or as currently proposed to be conducted (collectively, “Intellectual Property”) and the conduct of their respective businesses does not and will not infringe, misappropriate or otherwise conflict in any material respect with any such rights of others. The Intellectual Property of the Company has not been adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part, and the Company is unaware of any facts which would form a reasonable basis for any such adjudication. To the Company’s knowledge: (i) there are no third parties who have rights to any Intellectual Property, except (a) for customary reversionary rights of third-party licensors with respect to Intellectual Property that is disclosed in the Recent SEC Disclosure as licensed to the Company or one or more of its subsidiaries, and (b) a security interest in favor of the Collateral Agent pursuant to the Hercules Loan Agreement to the proceeds from the sale, licensing or other disposition of the Intellectual Property; and (ii) there is no infringement by third parties of any Intellectual Property. There is no pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened action, suit, proceeding or claim by others: (A) challenging the Company’s rights in or to any Intellectual Property, and the Company is unaware of any facts which would form a reasonable basis for any such action, suit, proceeding or claim; (B) challenging the validity, enforceability or scope of any Intellectual Property, and the Company is unaware of any facts which would form a reasonable basis for any such action, suit, proceeding or claim; or (C) asserting that the Company or any of its subsidiaries infringes or otherwise violates, or would, upon the commercialization of any product or service described in the SEC Documents as under development, infringe or violate, any patent, trademark, trade name, service name, copyright, trade secret or other proprietary rights of others, and the Company is unaware of any facts which would form a reasonable basis for any such action, suit, proceeding or claim. The Company and its subsidiaries have complied with the

 

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terms of each agreement pursuant to which Intellectual Property has been licensed to the Company or any subsidiary, and all such agreements are in full force and effect. To the Company’s knowledge, there are no material defects in any of the patents or patent applications included in the Intellectual Property. The Company and its subsidiaries have taken all reasonable steps to protect, maintain and safeguard their Intellectual Property, including the execution of appropriate nondisclosure, confidentiality agreements and invention assignment agreements and invention assignments with their employees, and no employee of the Company is in or has been in violation of any term of any employment contract, patent disclosure agreement, invention assignment agreement, non-competition agreement, non-solicitation agreement, nondisclosure agreement, or any restrictive covenant to or with a former employer where the basis of such violation relates to such employee’s employment with the Company. The duty of candor and good faith as required by the United States Patent and Trademark Office during the prosecution of the United States patents and patent applications included in the Intellectual Property have been complied with; and in all foreign offices having similar requirements, all such requirements have been complied with. None of the Company owned Intellectual Property or technology (including information technology and outsourced arrangements) employed by the Company or its subsidiaries has been obtained or is being used by the Company or its subsidiary in violation of any contractual obligation binding on the Company or its subsidiaries or any of their respective officers, directors or employees or otherwise in violation of the rights of any persons. The product candidates described in the SEC Documents as under development by the Company or any subsidiary fall within the scope of the claims of one or more patents owned by, or exclusively licensed to, the Company or any subsidiary.

2.16 All Necessary Permits, etc. The Company and each subsidiary possess such valid and current certificates, authorizations, approvals, clearances, licenses, registrations, exemptions, or permits required by state, federal or foreign regulatory agencies or bodies to conduct, in all material respects, their respective businesses as currently conducted and as described in the SEC Documents (collectively, “Permits”). Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in violation of, or in default under, any Permit or has received any notice of proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of, or non-compliance with, any such Permit. The Company and its subsidiaries have fulfilled and performed all of their material obligations with respect to such Permits, and no event has occurred which allows, or after notice or lapse of time would allow, revocation or termination thereof or results in any other material impairment of the rights of the holder of any such Permit.

2.17 Title to Properties. Except as otherwise disclosed in the Recent SEC Disclosure, the Company and its subsidiaries has good and marketable title to all of the real and personal property and other assets reflected as owned in the financial statements referred to in Section 2.7 above, in each case free and clear of any security interests, mortgages, liens, encumbrances, equities, adverse claims and other defects, except such as would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to have a Material Adverse Change. The real property, improvements, equipment and personal property held under lease by the Company or of its subsidiary are held under valid and enforceable leases, with such exceptions as are not material and do not materially interfere with the use made or proposed to be made of such real property, improvements, equipment or personal property by the Company or such subsidiary.

2.18 Tax Law Compliance. The Company and its subsidiaries have filed all necessary federal, state and foreign income and franchise tax returns or have properly requested extensions thereof and have paid all taxes required to be paid by any of them and, if due and payable, any related or similar assessment, fine or penalty levied against any of them except as may be being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings. The Company has made adequate charges, accruals and reserves in the applicable financial statements referred to in Section 2.7 above in respect of all federal, state and foreign income and franchise taxes for all periods as to which the tax liability of the Company or any of its subsidiaries has not been finally determined.

 

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2.19 Company Not an “Investment Company.” The Company is not, and will not be, after receipt of payment for the Securities, required to register as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

2.20 Insurance. Each of the Company and its subsidiaries are insured by recognized, financially sound and reputable institutions with policies in such amounts and with such deductibles and covering such risks as are generally deemed adequate and customary for their businesses including, but not limited to, policies covering real and personal property owned or leased by the Company and its subsidiaries against theft, damage, destruction, acts of vandalism and earthquakes and policies covering the Company and its subsidiaries for product liability claims and clinical trial liability claims. The Company has no reason to believe that it or any of its subsidiaries will not be able (i) to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such policies expire or (ii) to obtain comparable coverage from similar institutions as may be necessary or appropriate to conduct its business as now conducted and at a cost that would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Change. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has been denied any insurance coverage which it has sought or for which it has applied.

2.21 No Price Stabilization or Manipulation; Compliance with Regulation M. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed to or that would reasonably be expected to cause or result in stabilization or manipulation of the price of the Common Stock or of any “reference security” (as defined in Rule 100 of Regulation M under the Exchange Act (Regulation M)) with respect to the Common Stock, whether to facilitate the sale or resale of the Securities or otherwise, and has taken no action which would directly or indirectly violate Regulation M.

2.22 Related Party Transactions. There are no business relationships or related-party transactions involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries or any other person required to be described in the SEC Documents which have not been described as required.

2.23 No Unlawful Contributions or Other Payments. Except as otherwise disclosed in the Recent SEC Disclosure, neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor, to the Company’s knowledge, any employee or agent of the Company or any subsidiary, has made any contribution or other payment to any official of, or candidate for, any federal, state or foreign office in violation of any law or of the character required to be disclosed in the SEC Documents.

2.24 Compliance with Environmental Laws. Except as described in the Recent SEC Disclosure and except as would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Change; (i) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is in violation of any federal, state, local or foreign statute, law, rule, regulation, ordinance, code, policy or rule of common law or any judicial or administrative interpretation thereof, including any judicial or administrative order, consent, decree or judgment, relating to pollution or protection of human health, the environment (including, without limitation, ambient air, surface water, groundwater, land surface or subsurface strata) or wildlife, including, without limitation, laws and regulations relating to the release or threatened release of chemicals, pollutants, contaminants, wastes, toxic substances, hazardous substances, petroleum or petroleum products (collectively, “Hazardous Materials”) or to the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, transport or handling of Hazardous Materials (collectively, “Environmental Laws”), (ii) the Company and its subsidiaries have all permits, authorizations and approvals required under any applicable Environmental Laws and are each in compliance with their requirements, (iii) there are no pending or threatened administrative, regulatory or judicial actions, suits, demands, demand letters, claims, liens, notices of noncompliance or violation, investigation or proceedings relating to any Environmental Law against the Company or any of its subsidiaries and (iv) there are no events or circumstances that might reasonably be expected to form the basis of an order for clean-up or remediation, or an action, suit or proceeding by any private party or governmental body or agency, against or affecting the Company or any of its subsidiaries relating to Hazardous Materials or any Environmental Laws.

 

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2.25 ERISA Compliance. Except as otherwise disclosed in the Recent SEC Disclosure, the Company and its subsidiaries and any “employee benefit plan” (as defined under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, and the regulations and published interpretations thereunder (collectively, “ERISA”)) established or maintained by the Company, its subsidiaries or their ERISA Affiliates (as defined below) are in compliance in all material respects with ERISA. “ERISA Affiliate” means, with respect to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, any member of any group of organizations described in Sections 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and the regulations and published interpretations thereunder (the “Code”) of which the Company or such subsidiary is a member. No “reportable event” (as defined under ERISA) has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur with respect to any “employee benefit plan” established or maintained by the Company, its subsidiaries or any of their ERISA Affiliates. No “employee benefit plan” established or maintained by the Company, its subsidiaries or any of their ERISA Affiliates, if such “employee benefit plan” were terminated, would have any “amount of unfunded benefit liabilities” (as defined under ERISA). Neither the Company, its subsidiaries nor any of their ERISA Affiliates has incurred or reasonably expects to incur any liability under (i) Title IV of ERISA with respect to termination of, or withdrawal from, any “employee benefit plan” or (ii) Sections 412, 4971, 4975 or 4980B of the Code. Each “employee benefit plan” established or maintained by the Company, its subsidiaries or any of their ERISA Affiliates that is intended to be qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code is so qualified and nothing has occurred, whether by action or failure to act, which would cause the loss of such qualification.

2.26 Brokers. Other than any fees to be paid to Leerink Partners LLC (the “Placement Agent”), there are no broker, finder or other party that is entitled to receive from the Company any brokerage or finder’s fee or other fee or commission as a result of any transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents.

2.27 No Outstanding Loans or Other Extensions of Credit. The Company does not have any outstanding extension of credit, in the form of a personal loan, to or for any director or executive officer (or equivalent thereof) of the Company except for such extensions of credit as are expressly permitted by Section 13(k) of the Exchange Act.

2.28 Compliance with Laws. The Company and its subsidiaries have been and are in compliance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations, except where failure to be so in compliance could not be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Change.

2.29 Dividend Restrictions. Except as disclosed in the Recent SEC Disclosure, no subsidiary of the Company is prohibited or restricted, directly or indirectly, from paying dividends to the Company, or from making any other distribution with respect to such subsidiary’s equity securities or from repaying to the Company or any other subsidiary of the Company any amounts that may from time to time become due under any loans or advances to such subsidiary from the Company or from transferring any property or assets to the Company or to any other subsidiary.

2.30 Anti-Corruption and Anti-Bribery Laws. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries nor any director, officer, or employee of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, nor to the knowledge of the Company, any agent, affiliate or other person acting on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries has, in the course of its actions for, or on behalf of, the Company or any of its subsidiaries (i) used any corporate funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expenses relating to political activity; (ii) made or taken any act in furtherance of an offer, promise, or authorization of any direct or indirect unlawful payment or benefit to any foreign or domestic government official or employee,

 

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including of any government-owned or controlled entity or public international organization, or any political party, party official, or candidate for political office; (iii) violated or is in violation of any provision of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended (the “FCPA”), the UK Bribery Act 2010, or any other applicable anti-bribery or anti-corruption law; or (iv) made, offered, authorized, requested, or taken an act in furtherance of any unlawful bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful payment or benefit. The Company and its subsidiaries and, to the knowledge of the Company, the Company’s affiliates have conducted their respective businesses in compliance with the FCPA and have instituted and maintain policies and procedures designed to ensure, and which are reasonably expected to continue to ensure, continued compliance therewith.

2.31 Money Laundering Laws. The operations of the Company and its subsidiaries are, and have been conducted at all times, in compliance with applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the money laundering statutes of all applicable jurisdictions, the rules and regulations thereunder and any related or similar applicable rules, regulations or guidelines, issued, administered or enforced by any governmental agency (collectively, the “Money Laundering Laws”) and no action, suit or proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company or any of its subsidiaries with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened.

2.32 Clinical Data and Regulatory Compliance. The preclinical tests and clinical trials, and other studies (collectively, “studies”) that are described in, or the results of which are referred to in, the SEC Documents were and, if still pending, are being conducted in all material respects in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations, including, without limitation, the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and its implementing regulations at 21 C.F.R. Parts 50, 54, 56, 58, and 312, with the protocols, procedures and controls designed and approved for such studies and with standard medical and scientific research procedures; each description of the results of such studies is accurate and complete in all material respects and fairly presents the data derived from such studies, and the Company and its subsidiaries have no knowledge of any other studies the results of which are inconsistent with, or otherwise call into question, the results described or referred to in the SEC Documents; the Company and its subsidiaries have made all such filings and obtained all such approvals or exemptions as may be required by the Food and Drug Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or any committee thereof or from any other U.S. or foreign government or drug or medical device regulatory agency, or health care facility Institutional Review Board (collectively, the “Regulatory Agencies”); neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received any notice of, or correspondence from, any Regulatory Agency requiring the termination, suspension or modification of any clinical trials that are described or referred to in the SEC Documents; and the Company and its subsidiaries have each operated and currently are in compliance in all material respects with all applicable rules, regulations and policies of the Regulatory Agencies.

2.33 Sanctions. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries, directors, officers, or employees, nor, to the knowledge of the Company, after due inquiry, any agent, affiliate or other person acting on behalf of the Company or any of its subsidiaries is currently the subject or the target of any U.S. sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury or the U.S. Department of State, the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, His Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom, or other relevant sanctions authority (collectively, “Sanctions”); nor is the Company or any of its subsidiaries located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject or the target of Sanctions, including, without limitation, the Crimea region and the Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic in Ukraine, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Syria (collectively, “Sanctioned Countries”); and the Company will not directly or indirectly use the proceeds of this offering, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any subsidiary, or any joint venture partner or other person or entity, for the purpose of financing the activities of or business with any person, or in

 

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any country or territory, that at the time of such financing, is the subject or the target of Sanctions or in any other manner that will result in a violation by any person (including any person participating in the transaction whether as underwriter, advisor, investor or otherwise) of applicable Sanctions. For the past five years, the Company and its subsidiaries have not knowingly engaged in and are not now knowingly engaged in any dealings or transactions with any person that at the time of the dealing or transaction is or was the subject or the target of Sanctions or with any Sanctioned Country.

2.34 Sarbanes-Oxley. The Company is in compliance, in all material respects, with all applicable provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

2.35 Duties, Transfer Taxes, Etc. No stamp or other issuance or transfer taxes or duties and no capital gains, income, withholding or other taxes are payable by the Agent in the United States or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein in connection with the execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement by the Company or the sale and delivery by the Company of the Securities.

2.36 Cybersecurity. The Company’s and its subsidiaries’ information technology assets and equipment, computers, systems, networks, hardware, software, websites, applications, and databases (collectively, “IT Systems”) are adequate for, and operate and perform in all material respects as required in connection with the operation of the business of the Company and its subsidiaries as currently conducted, to the knowledge of the Company, free and clear of all material bugs, errors, defects, Trojan horses, time bombs, malware and other corruptants. The Company and its subsidiaries have implemented and maintained commercially reasonable physical, technical and administrative controls, policies, procedures, and safeguards to maintain and protect their material confidential information and the integrity, continuous operation, redundancy and security of all IT Systems and data, including “Personal Data,” used in connection with their businesses. “Personal Data” means (i) a natural person’s name, street address, telephone number, e-mail address, photograph, social security number or tax identification number, driver’s license number, passport number, credit card number, bank information, or customer or account number; (ii) any information which would qualify as “personally identifying information” under the Federal Trade Commission Act, as amended; (iii) “personal data” as defined by GDPR (as defined below); (iv) any information which would qualify as “protected health information” under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (collectively, “HIPAA); and (v) any other piece of information that allows the identification of such natural person, or his or her family, or permits the collection or analysis of any data related to an identified person’s health or sexual orientation. To the knowledge of the Company, there have been no breaches, violations, outages or unauthorized uses of or accesses to same, except for those that have been remedied without material cost or liability or the duty to notify any other person, nor any incidents under internal review or investigations relating to the same. The Company and its subsidiaries are presently in material compliance with all applicable laws or statutes and all judgments, orders, rules and regulations of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, internal policies and contractual obligations relating to the privacy and security of IT Systems and Personal Data and to the protection of such IT Systems and Personal Data from unauthorized use, access, misappropriation or modification.

2.37 Compliance with Privacy Laws. The Company and its subsidiaries are, and at all prior times were, in material compliance with all applicable state and federal data privacy and security laws and regulations, including without limitation HIPAA, and the Company and its subsidiaries have taken commercially reasonable actions to prepare to comply with, and since May 25, 2018, have been and currently are in compliance with, if and to the extent applicable, the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) (EU 2016/679) in all material respects (collectively, the “Privacy Laws”) To ensure compliance with the Privacy Laws, the Company and its subsidiaries have in place, comply with,

 

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and take appropriate steps reasonably designed to ensure compliance in all material respects with their policies and procedures relating to data privacy and security and the collection, storage, use, disclosure, handling, and analysis of Personal Data (the “Policies”). The Company and its subsidiaries have at all times made all disclosures to users or customers required by applicable laws and regulatory rules or requirements, and none of such disclosures made or contained in any Policy have, to the knowledge of the Company, been inaccurate or in violation of any applicable laws and regulatory rules or requirements in any material respect. The Company further certifies that neither it nor any subsidiary: (i) has received notice of any actual or potential liability under or relating to, or actual or potential violation of, any of the Privacy Laws, and has no knowledge of any event or condition that would reasonably be expected to result in any such notice; (ii) is currently conducting or paying for, in whole or in part, any investigation, remediation, or other corrective action pursuant to any Privacy Law; or (iii) is a party to any order, decree, or agreement that imposes any obligation or liability by any governmental or regulatory authority under any Privacy Law.

2.38 Compliance with Health Care Laws. The Company and its subsidiaries are, and at all times have been, in compliance with all Health Care Laws. For purposes of this Agreement, “Health Care Laws” means: (i) the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. Section 301 et seq.), the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. Section 201 et seq.), and the regulations promulgated thereunder; (ii) all applicable federal and state health care fraud and abuse laws, including, without limitation, the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (42 U.S.C. Section 1320a-7b(b)), the federal Civil False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. Section 3729 et seq.), the criminal false statements law (42 U.S.C. Section 1320a-7b(a)), 18 U.S.C. Sections 286 and 287, the health care fraud criminal provisions under HIPAA (42 U.S.C. Section 1320d et seq.), the civil monetary penalties law (42 U.S.C. Section 1320a-7a), the exclusion law (42 U.S.C. Section 1320a-7), the Physician Payments Sunshine Act (42 U.S.C. Section 1320-7h), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder by the Food and Drug Administration; (iii) HIPAA, as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (42 U.S.C. Section 17921 et seq.); (iv) licensure, quality, safety and accreditation requirements under applicable federal, state, local or foreign laws or regulatory bodies; and (v) all other local, state, federal, national, supranational and foreign laws, relating to the regulation of the Company or its subsidiaries, and (vi) the directives and regulations promulgated pursuant to such statutes and any state or non-U.S. counterpart thereof. Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries has received written notice of any claim, action, suit, proceeding, hearing, enforcement, investigation, arbitration or other action from any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority or third party alleging that any product operation or activity is in violation of any Health Care Laws nor, to the Company’s knowledge, is any such claim, action, suit, proceeding, hearing, enforcement, investigation, arbitration or other action threatened related to any Health Care Laws. The Company and its subsidiaries have filed, maintained or submitted all material reports, documents, forms, notices, applications, records, claims, submissions and supplements or amendments as required by any Health Care Laws, and all such reports, documents, forms, notices, applications, records, claims, submissions and supplements or amendments were complete and accurate on the date filed in all material respects (or were corrected or supplemented by a subsequent submission). Neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries is a party to any corporate integrity agreements, monitoring agreements, consent decrees, settlement orders, or similar agreements with or imposed by any governmental or regulatory authority related to a violation of Health Care Laws. Additionally, neither the Company, any of its subsidiaries nor, to its knowledge, any of their respective employees, officers, directors, or agents has been excluded, suspended or debarred from participation in any U.S. federal health care program or human clinical research or, to the knowledge of the Company, is subject to a governmental inquiry, investigation, proceeding, or other similar action that could reasonably be expected to result in debarment, suspension, or exclusion.

2.39 Private Placement. Assuming the accuracy of the Purchasers’ representations and warranties set forth in Article III, no registration under the Securities Act is required for the offer and sale of the Securities by the Company to the Purchasers as contemplated hereby. The issuance and sale of the Securities hereunder does not contravene, or require stockholder approval under, the rules and regulations of Nasdaq.

 

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2.40 No General Solicitation; No Integrated Offering. Neither the Company nor any Person acting on its behalf has conducted any general solicitation or general advertising (as those terms are used in Regulation D) in connection with the offer or sale of any of the Securities. Assuming the accuracy of the Purchasers’ representations and warranties set forth in Article III hereof, neither the Company, nor any of its affiliates, nor any Person acting on its or their behalf has, directly or indirectly, made (or will make) any offers or sales of any security or solicited (or will solicit) any offers to buy any security, under circumstances that would cause this offering of the Securities to be integrated with prior offerings by the Company for purposes of (i) the Securities Act which would require the registration of any such securities under the Securities Act, or (ii) any applicable shareholder approval provisions of Nasdaq.

2.41 Registration Rights. Except as disclosed in the Recent SEC Disclosure and other than the Purchasers, no Person has any right to cause the Company or any of its subsidiaries to effect the registration under the Securities Act of any securities of the Company or any of its subsidiaries.

2.42 Acknowledgment Regarding Purchaser’s Trading Activity. Anything in this Agreement or elsewhere herein to the contrary notwithstanding, it is understood and acknowledged by the Company that: (i) past or future open market or other transactions by any Purchaser, specifically including, without limitation, Short Sales or “derivative” transactions, before or after the closing of this or future private placement transactions, may negatively impact the market price of the Company’s publicly-traded securities, (ii) any Purchaser, and counter-parties in “derivative” transactions to which any such Purchaser is a party, directly or indirectly, presently may have a “short” position in the Common Stock and (iii) each Purchaser shall not be deemed to have any affiliation with or control over any arm’s length counter-party in any “derivative” transaction. The Company further understands and acknowledges that (y) one or more Purchasers may engage in hedging activities at various times during the period that the Securities are outstanding and (z) such hedging activities (if any) could reduce the value of the existing stockholders’ equity interests in the Company at and after the time that the hedging activities are being conducted. The Company acknowledges that such aforementioned hedging activities do not constitute a breach of any of the Transaction Documents.

2.43 Form S-3 Eligibility. The Company is eligible to register the resale of the Shares and Warrant Shares for resale by the Purchasers on Form S-3 promulgated under the Securities Act. The Company is not an Ineligible Issuer (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act), without taking account of any determination by the Commission pursuant to Rule 405 that it is not necessary that the Company be considered an Ineligible Issuer, and is not a “shell company” (as defined in Rule 12b-2 under the Exchange Act).

2.44 No Disqualification Events. With respect to the Securities to be offered and sold hereunder in reliance on Rule 506 under the Securities Act, none of the Company, any of its predecessors, any affiliated issuer, any director, executive officer, other officer of the Company participating in the offering hereunder, any beneficial owner of 20% or more of the Company’s outstanding voting equity securities, calculated on the basis of voting power, nor any promoter (as that term is defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) connected with the Company in any capacity at the time of sale (each, an “Issuer Covered Person” and, together, “Issuer Covered Persons”) is subject to any of the “Bad Actor” disqualifications described in Rule 506(d)(1)(i) to (viii) under the Securities Act (a “Disqualification Event”), except for a Disqualification Event covered by Rule 506(d)(2) or (d)(3). The Company has exercised reasonable care to determine whether any Issuer Covered Person is subject to a Disqualification Event. The Company has complied, to the extent applicable, with its disclosure obligations under Rule 506(e), and has furnished to the Purchaser a copy of any disclosures provided thereunder.

 

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2.45 Other Covered Persons. The Company is not aware of any person (other than any Issuer Covered Person) that has been or will be paid (directly or indirectly) remuneration for solicitation of purchasers in connection with the sale of any Securities.

2.46 Notice of Disqualification Events. The Company will notify the Purchaser in writing, prior to the Closing Date of (i) any Disqualification Event relating to any Issuer Covered Person and (ii) any event that would, with the passage of time, reasonably be expected to become a Disqualification Event relating to any Issuer Covered Person, in each case of which it is aware.

2.47 Application of Takeover Protections. The Company and the Board of Directors (or a duly authorized committee thereof) have taken all necessary action, if any, in order to render inapplicable any control share acquisition, business combination (as defined in the Delaware General Corporation Law (“DGCL”)), poison pill (including any distribution under a rights agreement) or other similar anti-takeover provision under the Certificate of Incorporation or the laws of the state of its incorporation, including under Section 203 of the DGCL, which is or could become applicable to the Purchasers as a result of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, including, without limitation, the Company’s issuance of the Securities under the Transaction Documents and the Purchasers’ ownership of the Securities.

2.48 Arm’s Length Purchasers. The Company acknowledges and agrees that each of the Purchasers is acting solely in the capacity of an arm’s-length purchaser with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby. The Company further acknowledges that no Purchaser is acting as a financial advisor or fiduciary of the Company (or in any similar capacity) with respect to the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby and any advice given by any Purchaser or any of their respective representatives or agents in connection with the Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated thereby is merely incidental to the Purchasers’ purchase of the Securities. The Company further represents to each Purchaser that the Company’s decision to enter into this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents has been based solely on the independent evaluation of the transactions contemplated hereby by the Company and its representatives.

ARTICLE III

REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND COVENANTS OF PURCHASERS

Each Purchaser, severally not jointly, for itself and for no other Purchaser, hereby represents, warrants and covenants to the Company and the Placement Agent as follows:

3.1 Authorization and Power. Such Purchaser has the requisite power and authority to enter into and perform the Transaction Documents and to purchase the Securities being sold to it hereunder. The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by such Purchaser and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action, and no further consent or authorization of such Purchaser or its board of directors, stockholders or other governing body is required. When executed and delivered by such Purchaser, this Agreement shall constitute a valid and binding obligation of such Purchaser, enforceable against such Purchaser in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, liquidation, conservatorship, receivership or similar laws relating to, or affecting generally the enforcement of, creditor’s rights and remedies or by other equitable principles of general application.

3.2 No Conflict. The execution, delivery and performance of the Transaction Documents by such Purchaser and the consummation by such Purchaser of the transactions contemplated hereby do not and will not (i) violate any provision of such Purchaser’s charter or organizational documents, (ii) conflict with, or constitute a default (or an event which with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) under, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation of, any

 

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agreement, mortgage, deed of trust, indenture, note, bond, license, lease agreement, instrument or obligation to which such Purchaser is a party or by which such Purchaser’s properties or assets are bound, or (iii) result in a violation of any federal, state, local or foreign statute, rule, regulation, order, judgment or decree (including federal and state securities laws and regulations) applicable to such Purchaser or by which any property or asset of such Purchaser are bound or affected.

3.3 Purchaser Sophistication; Accredited Investor. At the time such Purchaser was offered the Securities, as of the date hereof, such Purchaser (a) is knowledgeable, sophisticated and experienced in making, and is qualified to make decisions with respect to, investments in shares presenting an investment decision like that involved in the purchase of the Securities, including investments in securities issued by the Company and investments in comparable companies, and has requested, received, reviewed and considered all information it deemed relevant in making an informed decision to purchase the Securities; (b) in connection with its decision to purchase the Securities, relied only upon the SEC Documents, other publicly available information, the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein and other information conveyed by the Company or its agents or representatives in connection herewith; (c) is an “accredited investor” pursuant to Rule 501 of Regulation D under the Securities Act; (d) is acquiring the Securities for its own account as principal and with no present intention of distributing any of the Securities or any arrangement or understanding with any other persons regarding the distribution of the Securities in violation of the Securities Act, without prejudice, however, to such Purchaser’s right at all times to sell or otherwise; (e) has not been organized, reorganized or recapitalized specifically for the purpose of investing in the Securities; (f) will not, directly or indirectly, offer, sell, pledge, transfer or otherwise dispose of (or solicit any offers to buy, purchase or otherwise acquire to take a pledge of) any of the Securities except pursuant to registration under, or pursuant to valid exemptions from the registration requirements of, the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws; (g) understands that the Securities are being offered and sold to it in reliance upon specific exemptions from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and state securities laws, and that the Company is relying upon the truth and accuracy of, and such Purchaser’s compliance with, the representations, warranties, agreements, acknowledgments and understandings of such Purchaser set forth herein in order to determine the availability of such exemptions and the eligibility of such Purchaser to acquire the Securities; (h) understands that its investment in the Securities involves a significant degree of risk, including a risk of total loss of such Purchaser’s investment (provided that such acknowledgment in no way diminishes the representations, warranties and covenants made by the Company hereunder); and (i) understands that no United States federal or state agency or any other government or governmental agency has passed upon or made any recommendation or endorsement of the Securities. Nothing contained herein, shall be deemed a representation or warranty by such Purchaser to hold any the Securities for any minimum or other period of time.

3.4 Restricted Securities. Such Purchaser acknowledges that the Securities are restricted securities and must be held indefinitely unless subsequently registered under the Securities Act or sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of pursuant to Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act (“Rule 144”) or other exemptions from such registration requirements, provided that (if the Company is not selling the Securities pursuant to Rule 144) the Company receives an opinion of counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Company that such registration is not required. Such Purchaser is aware of the provisions of Rule 144 which provide a safe harbor for the limited resale of stock purchased in a private placement subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions (if applicable), including, among other things, the existence of a public market for the stock, the availability of certain current public information about the Company, the resale occurring after certain holding periods have been met, the sale being conducted through a “broker’s transaction” or a transaction directly with a “market maker” and the number of shares of the stock being sold during any three-month period not exceeding specified limitations (in each case, only to the extent applicable to sales of Securities by such Purchaser). Such Purchaser further acknowledges and understands that the Company may not be satisfying the current public information requirement of Rule 144 (to the extent applicable) at the time such Purchaser wishes to sell the Shares and, if so, such Purchaser may be precluded from selling the Shares under Rule 144 even if the required holding period has been satisfied.

 

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3.5 Residency. Such Purchaser is a resident of or an entity organized under the jurisdiction specified below its address on Schedule 1 hereto.

3.6 Ownership of Capital Stock. Except as previously disclosed to the Company in writing or by email and excluding the Shares, such Purchaser and its affiliates beneficially own no shares of capital stock of the Company as of the date hereof.

3.7 Stock Legends.

(a) Such Purchaser acknowledges that certificates evidencing the Securities shall bear a restrictive legend in substantially the following form (and including related stock transfer instructions and record notations):

THESE SECURITIES HAVE NOT 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, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR SOLD EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR BLUE SKY LAWS.

(b) The Company shall, at its sole expense, upon appropriate notice from any Purchaser stating that Registrable Securities (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) have been sold pursuant to an effective registration statement naming the Purchasers as selling securityholders (the “Resale Registration Statement”), timely prepare and deliver certificates or book-entry shares representing the Securities to be delivered to a transferee pursuant to the Resale Registration Statement, which certificates or book-entry shares shall be free of any restrictive legends and in such denominations and registered in such names as such Purchaser may request. Further, the Company shall, at its sole expense, cause its legal counsel or other counsel satisfactory to the Company’s transfer agent: (i) while the Resale Registration Statement is effective, to issue to the Company’s transfer agent a “blanket” legal opinion to allow sales without restriction pursuant to the effective Resale Registration Statement, and (ii) provide all other opinions as may reasonably be required by the Company’s transfer agent in connection with the removal of legends. A Purchaser may request that the Company remove, and the Company agrees to cause the removal of, any legend from such Securities, no later than the earlier of three (3) Trading Days and the Standard Settlement Period (the “Unlegended Share Delivery Date”) following the delivery by a Purchaser to the Company or the Company’s transfer agent of a legended certificate representing such Securities (or a request for legend removal, in the case of Securities issued in book-entry form): (i) following any sale of such Securities pursuant to Rule 144, (ii) if such Securities are eligible for sale under Rule 144(b)(1), (iii) following the time that the Resale Registration Statement is declared effective, (iv) if at any time on or after the date hereof such Purchaser certifies that it is not an “affiliate” of the Company (as such term is used under Rule 144) and that such Purchaser’s holding period for purposes of Rule 144 is at least six (6) months, or (v) if such legend is not required under applicable requirements of the Securities Act (including judicial interpretations and pronouncements issued by the staff of the SEC) (collectively, the “Unrestricted Conditions”). If all or any portion of a Pre-Funded Warrant is exercised at a time when there is an effective registration statement to cover the resale of the Warrant Shares, or if such Warrant Shares may be sold

 

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under Rule 144 and the Company is then in compliance with the current public information required under Rule 144 (assuming cashless exercise of the Pre-Funded Warrants), or if such or Warrant Shares may be sold under Rule 144 without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information required under Rule 144 as to such Shares or Warrant Shares or if any of the other Unrestricted Conditions is satisfied in respect of such Warrant Shares, then such Warrant Shares shall be issued free of all legends. Certificates for Securities free from all restrictive legends shall be transmitted by the Company’s transfer agent to the Purchasers by crediting the account of the Purchaser’s prime broker with the Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) through the Deposit/Withdrawal at Custodian (DWAC) system, if and as directed by such Purchaser. The Company warrants that the Securities shall otherwise be freely transferable on the books and records of the Company as and to the extent provided in this Agreement. If a Purchaser effects a transfer of the Securities in accordance with the Section 3.7(b), the Company shall permit the transfer and shall promptly instruct its transfer agent to issue one or more certificates or credit shares to the applicable balance accounts at DTC in such name and in such denominations as specified by such Purchaser to effect such transfer. If the Company shall fail to issue to any Purchaser (other than a failure caused by incorrect, incomplete or untimely information provided by the Purchaser to the Company or its transfer agent), by the applicable Unlegended Share Delivery Date, a certificate representing such shares of Common Stock without legend or to issue such shares to such Purchaser without legend through DWAC to the applicable balance account at DTC, as applicable, and after the Unlegended Share Delivery Date such Purchaser is required by its brokerage firm to purchase (in an open market transaction or otherwise) or such Purchaser or such Purchaser’s brokerage firm otherwise purchases shares of Common Stock to deliver in satisfaction of a sale by such Purchaser of the shares which such Purchaser anticipated receiving without legend (a “Buy-In”), then the Company shall pay in cash to such Purchaser the amount by which (if any) (X) such Purchaser’s total purchase price (including brokerage commissions, if any) for the shares of Common Stock so purchased in the Buy-In exceeds (Y) the amount obtained by multiplying (I) the number of shares of Common Stock that the Company was required to deliver without legend to such Purchaser on the Unlegended Share Delivery Date multiplied by (II) the price at which the sell order giving rise to such purchase obligation was executed. Nothing herein shall limit any Purchaser’s right to pursue any other remedies available to it hereunder or under the Registration Rights Agreement, or otherwise at law or in equity, including a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief, with respect to the Company’s failure to timely deliver shares of Common Stock without legend as required pursuant to the terms hereof. Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, agrees with the Company that such Purchaser will only sell Securities pursuant to either the registration requirements of the Securities Act, including any applicable prospectus delivery requirements, or an exemption therefrom, and that if Securities are sold pursuant to the Resale Registration Statement, they will be sold in compliance with the plan of distribution set forth therein, and acknowledges that the removal of the restrictive legend from certificates representing Securities as set forth in this Section 3.7(b) is predicated upon the Company’s reliance upon this understanding. For purposes hereof, “Standard Settlement Period” means the standard settlement period for equity trades effected by U.S. broker-dealers, expressed in a number of Trading Days, as in effect on the applicable date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company’s obligations to cause the removal of legends from the Securities is subject to the Company’s receipt of a certificate executed by the applicable Purchaser certifying compliance with Rule 144 or satisfaction of any of the other Unrestricted Conditions, in a form reasonably acceptable to the Company and the Purchaser.

3.8 No Legal, Tax or Investment Advice. Such Purchaser understands that nothing in this Agreement or any other materials presented by or on behalf of the Company to such Purchaser in connection with the purchase of the Securities constitutes legal, tax or investment advice. Such Purchaser has consulted such legal, tax and investment advisors as it, in its sole discretion, has deemed necessary or appropriate in connection with its purchase of the Securities.

 

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3.9 No General Solicitation; Pre-Existing Relationship. Such Purchaser is not purchasing the Securities as a result of any advertisement, article, notice or other communication regarding the Securities published in any newspaper, magazine or similar media or broadcast over television or radio or presented at any seminar or any other general solicitation or general advertisement. Such Purchaser also represents that such Purchaser was contacted regarding the sale of the Securities by the Company (or an authorized agent or representative of the Company) with which such Purchaser had a substantial pre-existing relationship.

3.10 Experience of Such Purchaser. Such Purchaser, either alone or together with its representatives, has such knowledge, sophistication and experience in business and financial matters so as to be capable of evaluating the merits and risks of the prospective investment in the Securities, and has so evaluated the merits and risks of such investment. Such Purchaser is able to bear the economic risk of an investment in the Securities and, at the present time, is able to afford a complete loss of such investment.

3.11 Disclosure of Information. Such Purchaser has had an opportunity to receive all information related to the Company requested by it and to ask questions of and receive answers from the Company regarding the Company, its business and the terms and conditions of the offering of the Securities. Such Purchaser acknowledges receipt of copies of the SEC Documents (or access thereto via EDGAR). Neither such inquiries nor any other due diligence investigation conducted by such Purchaser nor anything else contained herein, shall modify, limit or otherwise affect such Purchaser’s right to rely on the Company’s representations, warranties, covenants and agreements contained in this Agreement.

3.12 No Rule 506 Disqualifying Activities. Such Purchaser is not subject to the disqualification provisions of Rule 506(d)(1) of the Securities Act.

3.13 Independent Advice. Such Purchaser understands that nothing in this Agreement or any other materials presented to such Purchaser by or on behalf of the Company in connection with the purchase and sale of the Securities constitutes legal, tax or investment advice. Such Purchaser has consulted such legal, tax and investment advisors as it, in its sole discretion, has deemed necessary or appropriate in connection with its purchase of the Securities. Each Purchaser acknowledges and agrees that the Placement Agent shall have no liability or obligation (including without limitation, for or with respect to any losses, claims, damages, obligations, penalties, judgments, awards, liabilities, costs, expenses or disbursements incurred by such Purchaser, the Company or any other person or entity), whether in contract, tort or otherwise, to the Purchaser, or to any person claiming through such Purchaser, in respect of the transactions contemplated hereby. Each Purchaser acknowledges and agrees that the Placement Agent shall have no liability or obligation on or with respect to the accuracy or completeness, as of any date, of any information set forth in, or any omission from, any valuation or other materials that may have been provided or made available to the Purchaser in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby. Each Purchaser is not relying upon, and has not relied upon, any statement, representation or warranty made by any person, including, without limitation, the Placement Agent, except for the statements, representations and warranties contained in this Agreement. The Placement Agent shall be a third-party beneficiary of, and shall be entitled to rely on, the representations and warranties described in this Section 3.13.

ARTICLE IV

COVENANTS OF THE PARTIES

4.1 Further Transfers. Each Purchaser covenants that the Securities will only be sold, offered for sale, pledged, loaned, or otherwise disposed of pursuant to an effective registration statement under, and in compliance with the requirements of, the Securities Act or pursuant to an available exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, and in compliance with any applicable state securities laws. In connection with any transfer of Securities other than pursuant to an effective registration statement or Rule 144, the Company may require such Purchaser to provide to the Company an opinion of counsel selected by such Purchaser, the form and substance of which opinion shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Company, to the effect that such transfer does not require registration under the Securities Act. The Company hereby acknowledges and agrees to the covenants and agreements set forth in Section 3.7(b) of this Agreement, as if set forth in this Article IV.

 

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4.2 No Integration. The Company shall not, and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that no affiliate of the Company shall, sell, offer for sale or solicit offers to buy or otherwise negotiate in respect of any security (as defined in Section 2 of the Securities Act) that will be integrated with the offer or sale of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement in a manner that would require the registration under the Securities Act of the sale of the Securities to the Purchasers, or that will be integrated with the offer or sale of the Securities pursuant to this Agreement for purposes of the rules and regulations of Nasdaq such that it would require stockholder approval prior to the closing of such other transaction unless stockholder approval is obtained before the closing of such subsequent transaction. The Purchasers shall take no action to become a group such that any transactions contemplated by this Agreement would require shareholder approval prior to Closing.

4.3 Subsequent Equity Sales. From the date hereof and continuing to and including the date that is the earlier of (i) 90 days after the Closing Date and (ii) the date on which a registration statement with respect to the resale of all of the Shares and Warrant Shares is declared effective by the Commission (the “Restricted Period”), the Company shall not, and shall not cause or direct any of its affiliates to (A) offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge, grant any option to purchase, make any short sale or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, any shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exchangeable for, or that represent the right to receive, shares of Common Stock, except for new issuances of Common Stock of the Company for a price per share that is greater than or equal to the greater of the Price Per Share or the closing price on the trading day immediately preceding the date of the agreement to purchase such shares, or (B) file with the Commission a registration statement under the Securities Act relating to any shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exchangeable for, or that represent the right to receive, shares of Common Stock, except (i) pursuant to the terms of the Registration Rights Agreement and (ii) a Registration Statement on Form S-8 under the Securities Act to register the offer and sale of securities under the Company’s 2023 Inducement Option Plan. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the foregoing restrictions shall not apply to (a) the Securities to be issued and sold pursuant to this Agreement, including the issuance of Warrant Shares upon the exercise of the exercise of the Pre-Funded Warrants, (b) any shares of Common Stock or any securities or other awards (including without limitation options, restricted stock or restricted stock units) convertible into, exercisable for, or that represent the right to receive, shares of Common Stock pursuant to any stock option plan, incentive plan or stock purchase plan of the Company (collectively, “Company Stock Plans”) or otherwise in equity compensation arrangements described in the SEC Documents that are in effect as of the date hereof, (c) any shares of Common Stock issued upon the conversion, exercise or exchange of convertible, exercisable or exchangeable securities outstanding as of the date hereof and described in the Recent SEC Disclosure that are in effect as of the date hereof, and (d) any shares of Common Stock or any securities convertible into or exchangeable for, or that represent the right to receive, shares of Common Stock issued in connection with any bona fide licensing, commercialization, joint venture, technology transfer or development collaboration agreement with an unaffiliated third party and not principally for capital raising purposes, provided, that the aggregate number of shares that the Company may sell or issue or agree to sell or issue pursuant to clause (d) shall not exceed 5.0% of the total number of shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding immediately following the issuance and sale of the Securities to be sold pursuant to this Agreement.

4.4 Lock-Up Agreements. The Company shall not amend, modify, waive or terminate any provision of any of the Lock-Up Agreements except to extend the term of the lock-up period and shall enforce the provisions of each Lock-Up Agreement in accordance with its terms. If any party to a Lock-Up Agreement breaches any provision of a Lock-Up Agreement, the Company shall promptly use its best efforts to seek specific performance of the terms of such Lock-Up Agreement.

 

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4.5 Securities Laws Disclosure; Publicity. The Company shall: (a) by 9:30 a.m. (New York City time) on the Trading Day immediately following the date hereof, issue a press release disclosing the material terms of the transactions contemplated hereby (the “Press Release”), and (b) by 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on the fourth Trading Day following the date hereof, file a Current Report on Form 8-K disclosing the material terms of the transactions contemplated hereby in the form required by the Exchange Act and attaching as exhibits to such Current Report on Form 8-K this Agreement, the form of Pre-Funded Warrant and the Registration Rights Agreement (in each case, without redaction) (including all attachments, the “8-K Filing”). Subject to the foregoing, neither the Company nor any Purchaser shall issue any press releases or any other public statements with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby except as may be reviewed and approved by the Company; provided, however, that the Company shall be entitled, without the prior approval of any Purchaser, to make any press release or other public disclosure with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby, provided, further, however, that the Company shall not publicly disclose the name of any Purchaser or any Affiliate of any Purchaser except as otherwise required by applicable law and regulations or as agreed to by the applicable Purchaser.

4.6 Furnishing of Information; Public Information. Until the earlier of the time that (i) no Purchaser owns Securities or (ii) the Pre-Funded Warrants have expired, the Company covenants to maintain the registration of the Common Stock under Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Exchange Act and to timely file (without obtaining any extensions in respect thereof) all reports required to be filed by the Company after the date hereof pursuant to the Exchange Act even if the Company is not then subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act.

4.7 Shareholder Rights Plan. No claim will be made or enforced by the Company or, with the consent of the Company, any other Person, that any Purchaser is an “Acquiring Person” under any control share acquisition, business combination, poison pill (including any distribution under a rights agreement) or similar anti-takeover plan or arrangement in effect or hereafter adopted by the Company, or that any Purchaser could be deemed to trigger the provisions of any such plan or arrangement, by virtue of receiving Securities under the Transaction Documents or under any other agreement between the Company and the Purchasers.

4.8 Non-Public Information. The Company covenants and agrees that, on and after the date hereof, neither it, nor any other Person acting on its behalf will provide any Purchaser or its agents or counsel with any information that constitutes, or the Company reasonably believes constitutes, material non-public information, unless prior thereto such Purchaser shall have consented to the receipt of such information and agreed with the Company to keep such information confidential. To the extent that the Company, any of its subsidiaries, or any of their respective officers, directors, agents, employees or affiliates delivers any material, non-public information to a Purchaser without such Purchaser’s consent, the Company hereby covenants and agrees that such Purchaser shall not have any duty of trust or confidentiality to the Company, any of its subsidiaries, or any of their respective officers, directors, agents, employees or affiliates, or a duty to the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective officers, directors, agents, employees or affiliates not to trade while aware of, such material, non-public information. To the extent that any notice provided pursuant to any Transaction Document constitutes, or contains, material, non-public information regarding the Company or any of its subsidiaries, the Company shall simultaneously file such notice with the Commission pursuant to a Current Report on Form 8-K. The Company understands and confirms that each Purchaser shall be relying on the foregoing, representations, warranties, covenants and agreements in effecting transactions in securities of the Company.

 

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4.9 Indemnification of Purchasers. Subject to the provisions of this Section 4.9, the Company will indemnify and hold each Purchaser and its directors, officers, shareholders, members, partners, members, managers, investment advisers, employees and agents (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title), each Person who controls such Purchaser (within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act and Section 20 of the Exchange Act), and the directors, officers, shareholders, agents, members, partners members, managers, investment advisers, employees and agents (and any other Persons with a functionally equivalent role of a Person holding such titles notwithstanding a lack of such title or any other title) of such controlling persons (each, a “Purchaser Party”) harmless from any and all losses, liabilities, obligations, claims, contingencies, damages, costs and expenses, including all judgments, amounts paid in settlements, court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs of investigation that any such Purchaser Party may suffer or incur as a result of or relating to (a) any breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by the Company in this Agreement or in the other Transaction Documents or (b) any action instituted against the Purchaser Parties in any capacity, or any of them or their respective affiliates, by any stockholder of the Company who is not an affiliate of such Purchaser Party, with respect to any of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents (unless such action is solely based upon a material breach of such Purchaser Party’s representations, warranties or covenants under the Transaction Documents or any agreements or understandings such Purchaser Party may have with any such stockholder or any violations by such Purchaser Party of state or federal securities laws or any conduct by such Purchaser Party which is finally judicially determined to constitute fraud, gross negligence or willful misconduct). If any action shall be brought against any Purchaser Party in respect of which indemnity may be sought pursuant to this Agreement, such Purchaser Party shall promptly notify the Company in writing, and the Company shall have the right to assume the defense thereof with counsel of its own choosing reasonably acceptable to the Purchaser Party. Any Purchaser Party shall have the right to employ separate counsel in any such action and participate in the defense thereof, but the fees and expenses of such counsel shall be at the expense of such Purchaser Party except to the extent that (i) the employment thereof has been specifically authorized by the Company in writing, (ii) the Company has failed after a reasonable period of time to assume such defense and to employ counsel or (iii) in such action there is, in the reasonable opinion of counsel, a material conflict on any material issue between the position of the Company and the position of such Purchaser Party, in which case the Company shall be responsible for the reasonable fees and expenses of no more than one such separate counsel. The Company will not be liable to any Purchaser Party under this Agreement (y) for any settlement by a Purchaser Party effected without the Company’s prior written consent, which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed; or (z) to the extent, but only to the extent that a loss, claim, damage or liability is attributable to any Purchaser Party’s breach of any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements made by such Purchaser Party in this Agreement or in the other Transaction Documents, as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction. Without the prior written consent of a Purchaser Party, the Company shall not effect any settlement of, or consent to any judgment in respect of, any pending or threatened proceeding in respect of which such Purchaser Party is or could have been a party and indemnity could have been sought hereunder by such Purchaser Party, unless such settlement or judgment includes an unconditional release of such Purchaser Party from all liability arising out of such proceeding and does not include any admission to fault, culpability or failure to act on the part of such Purchaser Party. The indemnification required by this Section 4.9 shall be made by periodic payments of the amount thereof during the course of the investigation or defense, as and when bills are received or are incurred. The indemnity agreements contained herein shall be in addition to any cause of action or similar right of any Purchaser Party against the Company or others and any liabilities the Company may be subject to pursuant to law.

4.10 Reservation of Common Stock. As of the date hereof, the Company has reserved and the Company shall continue to reserve and keep available at all times, free of preemptive rights, a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock for the purpose of enabling the Company to issue Shares pursuant to this Agreement and Warrant Shares pursuant to any exercise of the Pre-Funded Warrants.

 

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4.11 Listing of Common Stock. The Company hereby agrees to use best efforts to maintain the listing or quotation of the Common Stock on Nasdaq, and concurrently with the Closing, the Company shall apply to list or quote all of the Shares and Warrant Shares on Nasdaq and promptly secure the listing of all of the Shares and Warrant Shares on Nasdaq. The Company will then take all action reasonably necessary to continue the listing and trading of its Common Stock on Nasdaq and will comply in all respects with the Company’s reporting, filing and other obligations under the bylaws or rules of Nasdaq. The Company agrees to maintain the eligibility of the Common Stock for electronic transfer through the Depository Trust Company or another established clearing corporation, including, without limitation, by timely payment of fees to the Depository Trust Company or such other established clearing corporation in connection with such electronic transfer.

4.12 Equal Treatment of Purchasers. No consideration (including any modification of this Agreement) shall be offered or paid to any Person to amend or consent to a waiver or modification of any provision of this Agreement unless the same consideration is also offered to all of the parties to this Agreement. For clarification purposes, this provision constitutes a separate right granted to each Purchaser by the Company and negotiated separately by each Purchaser, and is intended for the Company to treat the Purchasers as a class and shall not in any way be construed as the Purchasers acting in concert or as a group with respect to the purchase, disposition or voting of Securities or otherwise.

4.13 Form D; Blue Sky Filings. The Company agrees to timely file a Form D with respect to the Securities as required under Regulation D and to provide a copy thereof, promptly upon request of any Purchaser. The Company shall take such action as the Company shall reasonably determine is necessary in order to obtain an exemption for, or to qualify the Securities for, sale to the Purchasers at the Closing under applicable securities or “Blue Sky” laws of the states of the United States, and shall provide evidence of such actions promptly upon request of any Purchaser.

4.14 Acknowledgment of Dilution. The Company acknowledges that the issuance of the Securities may result in dilution of the outstanding shares of Common Stock, which dilution may be substantial under certain market conditions. The Company further acknowledges that its obligations under the Transaction Documents, including, without limitation, its obligation to issue the Shares and Warrant Shares pursuant to the Transaction Documents, are unconditional and absolute and not subject to any right of set off, counterclaim, delay or reduction, regardless of the effect of any such dilution or any claim the Company may have against any Purchaser and regardless of the dilutive effect that such issuance may have on the ownership of the other stockholders of the Company.

ARTICLE V

CONDITIONS TO CLOSING

5.1 Conditions Precedent to the Obligations of the Purchasers. The obligation of the Purchasers to acquire the Securities at the Closing is subject to the satisfaction or waiver by the Purchasers, at or before the Closing, of each of the following conditions:

(a) Representations and Warranties. The representations and warranties of the Company contained in Article II shall be true and correct in all respects as of the date of this Agreement and as of the Closing Date, except to the extent any such representation or warranty expressly speaks as of an earlier date, in which case such representation or warranty shall be true and correct as of such earlier date, and, the representations and warranties made by the Company in Article II hereof not qualified as to materiality shall be true and correct in all material respects as of the date hereof and the Closing Date, except to the extent any such representation or warranty expressly speaks as of an earlier date, in which case such representation or warranty shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date.

 

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(b) Performance. The Company shall have performed and complied, in all material respects, with all covenants, agreements, obligations and conditions contained in this Agreement that are required to be performed or complied with by the Company on or before the Closing, including, without limitation, the delivery by the Company of the items contemplated by Section 1.4(a).

(c) No Injunction. No statute, rule, regulation, executive order, decree, ruling or injunction shall have been enacted, entered, promulgated or endorsed by any court or governmental authority of competent jurisdiction that prohibits the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.

(d) No Nasdaq Objection. Nasdaq shall have raised no objection to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents in the absence of stockholder approval of such transactions.

(e) Listing of Additional Shares. The Company shall have submitted a Listing of Additional Shares Notification with Nasdaq covering all of the Shares and the Warrant Shares.

(f) Registration Rights Agreement. The Company shall have executed and delivered the Registration Rights Agreement, and the Registration Rights Agreement shall be in full force and effect.

(g) No Suspensions of Trading in Common Stock. The Common Stock shall not have been suspended, as of the Closing Date, by the Commission or Nasdaq from trading on Nasdaq.

(h) No Material Adverse Change. There shall have been no Material Adverse Change with respect to the Company since the date hereof.

5.2 Conditions Precedent to the Obligations of the Company. The obligation of the Company to issue the Securities at the Closing is subject to the satisfaction or waiver by the Company, at or before the Closing, of each of the following conditions:

(a) Representations and Warranties. The representations and warranties of each Purchaser contained in Article III shall be true and correct in all respects as of the Closing (unless as of a specific date therein in which case they shall be accurate as of such date).

(b) Performance. Each Purchaser shall have performed, satisfied and complied in all material respects with all covenants, agreements and conditions required by the Transaction Documents to be performed, satisfied or complied with by such Purchaser at or prior to the Closing, including, without limitation, the delivery by each Purchaser of the items contemplated by Section 1.4(b).

(c) No Injunction. No statute, rule, regulation, executive order, decree, ruling or injunction shall have been enacted, entered, promulgated or endorsed by any court or governmental authority of competent jurisdiction that prohibits the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.

(d) No Nasdaq Objection. Nasdaq shall have raised no objection to the consummation of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents in the absence of stockholder approval of such transactions.

(e) Registration Rights Agreement. Each Purchaser shall have executed and delivered the Registration Rights Agreement, and the Registration Rights Agreement shall be in full force and effect.

 

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ARTICLE VI

TERMINATION

6.1 Termination. In addition to the provisions of Section 7.6, in the event that the Closing shall not have occurred with respect to a Purchaser on or before five Business Days from the date hereof due to the Company’s or such Purchaser’s failure to satisfy the conditions set forth in Section 5 above (and the nonbreaching party’s failure to waive such unsatisfied condition(s)), the nonbreaching party shall have the option to terminate this Agreement with respect to such breaching party at the close of business on such date without liability of any party to any other party.

ARTICLE VII

MISCELLANEOUS

7.1 Survival of Warranties. Unless otherwise set forth in this Agreement, the representations and warranties of the Company and the Purchasers contained in or made pursuant to this Agreement shall survive the Closing and the delivery of the Securities.

7.2 No Finders Fees. Each party represents that it neither is nor will be obligated for any finder’s fee or commission in connection with this transaction. The Company agrees to indemnify and to hold harmless the Purchasers from any liability for any commission or compensation in the nature of a finder’s or broker’s fee arising out of this transaction (and the costs and expenses of defending against such liability or asserted liability) for which the Company or any of its officers, employees or representatives is responsible. Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly, agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Company from any liability for any commission or compensation in the nature of a finder’s or broker’s fee arising out of this transaction (and the costs and expenses of defending against such liability or asserted liability) for which such Purchaser or any of its officers, employees or representatives is responsible.

7.3 Fees and Expenses. Each party shall pay the fees and expenses of its advisors, counsel, accountants and other experts, if any, and all other expenses, incurred by such party incident to the negotiation, preparation, execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement.

7.4 Entire Agreement. The Transaction Documents, together with the exhibits and schedules thereto, contain the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede all prior agreements and understandings, oral or written, with respect to such matters, which the parties acknowledge have been merged into such documents, exhibits and schedules; provided, however, that any Confidentiality Agreements previously entered into between the Company and any Purchasers shall remain in full force and effect in accordance with their terms. At or after the Closing, and without further consideration, the Company will execute and deliver to the Purchasers, and the Purchasers will execute and deliver to the Company, such further documents as may be reasonably requested in order to give practical effect to the intention of the parties under the Transaction Documents.

7.5 Notices. Any and all notices or other communications or deliveries required or permitted to be provided hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed given and effective on the earliest of (a) the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via email at the email address specified in this Section 7.5 prior to 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on a Nasdaq trading day (“Trading Day”), (b) the next Trading Day after the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via email at the email address specified in this Section 7.5 on a day that is not a Trading Day or later than 4:00 p.m. (New York City time) on any Trading Day, (c) the Trading Day following the date of deposit with a nationally recognized overnight courier service, or (d) upon actual receipt by the party to whom such notice is required to be given. The addresses and email addresses for such notices and communications are those set forth below, or such other address as may be designated in writing hereafter, in the same manner, by any such person:

 

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If to the Company:

Kura Oncology, Inc.

12730 High Bluff Drive, Suite 400

San Diego, California 92130

Attention: Chief Legal Officer

Email:

with copies (which copies shall not constitute notice to the Company) to:

Cooley LLP

10265 Science Center Drive

San Diego, California 92121

Attention: Charles Bair

Email:

If to the Purchasers:

To their respective addresses as set forth on Schedule 1 hereto.

7.6 Amendments; Waivers. This Agreement and any term hereof may be amended, terminated or waived only with the written consent of the Company and (i) with respect to an amendment, termination or waiver prior to the Closing, all of the Purchasers, and (ii) with respect to an amendment, termination or waiver after the Closing, the Purchasers holding at least a majority of the outstanding Securities (on an as-converted to Common Stock basis) then held by all Purchasers. No waiver of any default with respect to any provision, condition or requirement of this Agreement shall be deemed to be a continuing waiver in the future or a waiver of any subsequent default or a waiver of any other provision, condition or requirement hereof, nor shall any delay or omission of either party to exercise any right hereunder in any manner impair the exercise of any such right. Any proposed amendment or waiver that disproportionately, materially and adversely affects the rights and obligations of any Purchaser relative to the comparable rights and obligations of the other Purchasers shall require the prior written consent of such adversely affected Purchaser. Any amendment effected in accordance with this Section 7.6 shall be binding upon each Purchaser and holder of Securities and the Company.

7.7 Construction. The headings herein are for convenience only, do not constitute a part of this Agreement and shall not be deemed to limit or affect any of the provisions hereof. The language used in this Agreement will be deemed to be the language chosen by the parties to express their mutual intent, and no rules of strict construction will be applied against any party.

7.8 Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties and their successors and permitted assigns. The Company may not assign this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Purchaser; provided, however, that no such consent shall be required in connection with any assignment after the Closing (i) occurring by operation of law in connection with any merger or consolidation to which the Company is a party, (ii) in connection with the acquisition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company or (iii) any other similar business combination transaction involving the Company. A Purchaser may assign its rights under this Agreement only to a person to whom such Purchaser assigns or transfers all Securities held by such Purchaser; provided, that (i) following such transfer or assignment, the further disposition of the Securities

 

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by the transferee or assignee is restricted under the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws, (ii) as a condition of such transfer, such transferee agrees in writing to be bound by all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement as a party hereto and (iii) such transfer shall have been made in accordance with the applicable requirements of this Agreement and with all laws applicable thereto.

7.9 Persons Entitled to Benefit of Agreement. This Agreement is intended for the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective permitted successors and assigns and is not for the benefit of, nor may any provision hereof be enforced by, any other person, except that the Purchaser Parties are express third party beneficiaries of the provisions of Section 4.9, entitled to enforce such provisions as if party thereto.

7.10 Governing Law; Jurisdiction. This Agreement and all matters relating hereto shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the internal laws of the State of New York without regard to the choice of law principles thereof. Each of the parties hereto irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in the State of New York for the purpose of any suit, action, proceeding or judgment relating to or arising out of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby. Service of process in connection with any such suit, action or proceeding may be served on each party hereto anywhere in the world by the same methods as are specified for the giving of notices under this Agreement. Each of the parties hereto irrevocably consents to the jurisdiction of any such court in any such suit, action or proceeding and to the laying of venue in such court. Each party hereto irrevocably waives any objection to the laying of venue of any such suit, action or proceeding brought in such courts and irrevocably waives any claim that any such suit, action or proceeding brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum. If any party hereto shall commence an action or proceeding to enforce any provisions of the Transaction Documents, then, the prevailing party in such action or proceeding shall be reimbursed by the non-prevailing party for its reasonable attorneys’ fees and other costs and expenses incurred with the investigation, preparation and prosecution of such action or proceeding.

7.11 Counterparts; Execution. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument. Counterparts may be delivered via facsimile, electronic mail (including pdf or any electronic signature complying with the U.S. federal ESIGN Act of 2000, e.g., www.docusign.com) or other transmission method and any counterpart so delivered shall be deemed to have been duly and validly delivered and be valid and effective for all purposes.

7.12 Severability. If any provision hereof should be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, then, to the fullest extent permitted by law, (a) all other provisions hereof shall remain in full force and effect and shall be liberally construed in order to carry out the intentions of the parties as nearly as may be possible and (b) the parties shall use their best efforts to replace the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision(s) with valid, legal and enforceable provision(s) which, insofar as practical, implement the purposes of such provision(s) in this Agreement.

7.13 Rescission and Withdrawal Right. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in (and without limiting any similar provisions of) any of the other Transaction Documents, whenever any Purchaser exercises a right, election, demand or option under a Transaction Document and the Company does not timely perform its related obligations within the periods therein provided, then such Purchaser may rescind or withdraw, in its sole discretion from time to time upon written notice to the Company, any relevant notice, demand or election in whole or in part without prejudice to its future actions and rights; provided, however, that, in the case of a rescission of an exercise of a Pre-Funded Warrant, the applicable Purchaser shall be required to return any shares of Common Stock subject to any such rescinded exercise notice concurrently with the return to such Purchaser of the aggregate exercise price paid to the Company for such shares and the restoration of such Purchaser’s right to acquire such shares pursuant to such Purchaser’s Pre-Funded Warrant (including issuance of a replacement warrant certificate evidencing such restored right).

 

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7.14 Remedies. In addition to being entitled to exercise all rights provided herein or granted by law, including recovery of damages, each of the Purchasers and the Company will be entitled to specific performance under the Transaction Documents without the necessity of proving economic harm or posting bond or other security. The parties agree that monetary damages may not be adequate compensation for any loss incurred by reason of any breach of obligations contained in the Transaction Documents and hereby agree to waive and not to assert in any action for specific performance of any such obligation the defense that a remedy at law would be adequate.

7.15 Payment Set Aside. To the extent that the Company makes a payment or payments to any Purchaser pursuant to any Transaction Document or a Purchaser enforces or exercises its rights thereunder, and such payment or payments or the proceeds of such enforcement or exercise or any part thereof are subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside, recovered from, disgorged by or are required to be refunded, repaid or otherwise restored to the Company, a trustee, receiver or any other Person under any law (including, without limitation, any bankruptcy law, state or federal law, common law or equitable cause of action), then to the extent of any such restoration the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such enforcement or setoff had not occurred.

7.16 Independent Nature of Purchasers’ Obligations and Rights. The obligations of each Purchaser under any Transaction Document are several and not joint with the obligations of any other Purchaser, and no Purchaser shall be responsible in any way for the performance or non-performance of the obligations of any other Purchaser under any Transaction Document. Nothing contained herein or in any other Transaction Document, and no action taken by any Purchaser pursuant hereto or thereto, shall be deemed to constitute the Purchasers as a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that the Purchasers are in any way acting in concert or as a group with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. Each Purchaser shall be entitled to independently protect and enforce its rights including, without limitation, the rights arising out of this Agreement or out of the other Transaction Documents, and it shall not be necessary for any other Purchaser to be joined as an additional party in any Proceeding for such purpose. Each Purchaser has been represented by its own separate legal counsel in its review and negotiation of the Transaction Documents. The Company has elected to provide all Purchasers with the same terms and Transaction Documents for the convenience of the Company and not because it was required or requested to do so by any of the Purchasers. It is expressly understood and agreed that each provision contained in this Agreement and in each other Transaction Document is between the Company and a Purchaser, solely, and not between the Company and the Purchasers collectively and not between and among the Purchasers.

7.17 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. IN ANY ACTION, SUIT, OR PROCEEDING IN ANY JURISDICTION BROUGHT BY ANY PARTY AGAINST ANY OTHER PARTY, THE PARTIES EACH KNOWINGLY AND INTENTIONALLY, TO THE GREATEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, HEREBY ABSOLUTELY, UNCONDITIONALLY, IRREVOCABLY AND EXPRESSLY WAIVES FOREVER TRIAL BY JURY.

7.18 Third-Party Beneficiary. The Placement Agent shall be a third party beneficiary of the representations and warranties of the Company in Article II and the representations and warranties of the Purchasers in Article III. The Placement Agent may rely on each representation and warranty of the Company and the Purchasers in the subsections specified in the immediately preceding sentence made herein or pursuant to the terms hereof with the same force and effect as if such representation or warranty were made directly to the Placement Agents. This Agreement is intended for the benefit of the parties hereto and the Placement Agent and its permitted successors and assigns and is not for the benefit of, nor may any provision hereof be enforced by, any other person, except as otherwise set forth in this Section 7.18.

 

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7.19 Rules of Construction. Unless otherwise indicated or the context otherwise requires, (i) all references to Sections, Schedules or Exhibits are to Sections, Schedules, Appendices or Exhibits contained in or attached to this Agreement, (b) words in the singular or plural include the singular and plural and pronouns stated in either the masculine, the feminine or neuter gender shall include the masculine, feminine and neuter, (c) the words “hereof,” “herein” and words of similar effect shall reference this Agreement in its entirety, and (d) the use of the word “including” in this Agreement shall be by way of example rather than limitation.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized signatories as of the date first indicated above.

 

KURA ONCOLOGY, INC.
By:   /s/ Troy E. Wilson
Name:   Troy E. Wilson, Ph.D., J.D.
Title:   President and Chief Executive Officer

 

[Signature Page to Securities Purchase Agreement]


PURCHASER:
ECOR1 CAPITAL FUND, L.P.
By: EcoR1 Capital, LLC, its General Partner
By:   /s/ Oleg Nodelman
Name:   Oleg Nodelman
Title:   Manager
357 Tehama Street #3, San Francisco, CA 94103
Address for Notice
 
Telephone
 
E-mail Address
Scott Perlen
Attention
EcoR1 Capital Fund, L.P.
Name in which Securities are to be registered:
Subscription Amount: $ 5,649,997.75
Shares:
Pre-Funded Warrants: 327,538
 
EIN


PURCHASER:
ECOR1 CAPITAL FUND QUALIFIED, L.P.
By: EcoR1 Capital, LLC, its General Partner
By:   /s/ Oleg Nodelman
Name:   Oleg Nodelman
Title:   Manager
357 Tehama Street #3, San Francisco, CA 94103
Address for Notice
 
Telephone
 
E-mail Address
Scott Perlen
Attention
EcoR1 Capital Fund Qualifed, L.P.
Name in which Securities are to be registered:
Subscription Amount: $ 94,350,018.55
Shares:
Pre-Funded Warrants: 5,469,598
 
EIN


PURCHASER:
Biotechnology Value Fund, L.P.
By:   /s/ Mark Lampert
Name:   Mark Lampert
Title:   Chief Executive Officer of BVF I GP LLC, General Partner of Biotechnology Value Fund, L.P.
44 Montgomery St, 40th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94104
Address for Notice
 
Telephone
 
E-mail Address
James Kratky
Attention
Biotechnology Value Fund, L.P.
Name in which Securities are to be registered:
Subscription Amount: $ 8,691,068.87
Shares:
Pre-Funded Warrants: 503,833
 
EIN


PURCHASER:
Biotechnology Value Fund II, L.P.
By:   /s/ Mark Lampert
Name:   Mark Lampert
Title:   Chief Executive Officer of BVF II GP LLC, General Partner of Biotechnology Value Fund II, L.P.
44 Montgomery St, 40th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94104
Address for Notice
 
Telephone
 
E-mail Address
James Kratky
Attention
Biotechnology Value Fund II, L.P.
Name in which Securities are to be registered:
Subscription Amount: $ 4,877,581.73
Shares:
Pre-Funded Warrants: 282,760
 
EIN


PURCHASER:
Biotechnology Value Trading Fund OS LP
By:   /s/ Mark Lampert
Name:   Mark Lampert
Title:   President of BVF Inc., General Partner of BVF Partners, LP, Sole Member of BVF Partners OS LTD., General Partner of Biotechnology Value Trading Fund OS LP
44 Montgomery St, 40th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94104
Address for Notice
 
Telephone
 
E-mail Address
James Kratky
Attention
Biotechnology Value Trading Fund OS LP
Name in which Securities are to be registered:
Subscription Amount: $ 784,939.45
Shares:
Pre-Funded Warrants: 45,504
 
EIN


PURCHASER:
MSI BVF SPV, LLC
By:   /s/ Mark Lampert
Name:   Mark Lampert
Title:   President of BVF Inc., General Partner of BVF Partners, LP, Attorney in Fact of MSI BVF SPV, LLC
44 Montgomery St, 40th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94104
Address for Notice
 
Telephone
 
E-mail Address
James Kratky
Attention
MSI BVF SPV, LLC
Name in which Securities are to be registered:
Subscription Amount: $ 146,417.16
Shares:
Pre-Funded Warrants: 8,488
 
EIN


PURCHASER:
DEERFIELD PARTNERS, L.P.
By: Deerfield Mgmt, L.P., its General Partner
By: J.E. Flynn Capital, LLC, its General Partner
By:   /s/ David Clark
Name:   David Clark
Title:   Authorized Signatory

345 Park Avenue South

11th Floor

New York, NY 10010
Address for Notice
 
Telephone
 
E-mail Address
Legal Department
Attention
Deerfield Partners, L.P.
Name in which Securities are to be registered:
Subscription Amount: $ 14,500,014.73
Shares: 420,290
Pre-Funded Warrants: 420,293
 
EIN


PURCHASER: Suvretta Capital Management, LLC, as investment manager to the Purchasers listed herein
By:   /s/ Andrew Nathanson
Name:   Andrew Nathanson
Title:   GC/CCO

 

540 Madison Avenue, 7th Floor

New York, NY 10022

Attn: Legal

Address for Notice

 

Telephone

 

E-mail Address

 

Andrew Nathanson, GC/CCO

Attention

Averill Master Fund, Ltd.

Name in which Securities are to be registered:

Subscription Amount: $12,339,618.69

Shares: 579,711

Pre-Funded Warrants: 135,630

 

EIN

Averill Madison Master Fund, Ltd.

Subscription Amount: $2,160,411.98

Shares: 0

Pre-Funded Warrants: 125,242

 

EIN


PURCHASER:
Invus Public Equities, L.P.
By:   /s/ Khalil Barrage
Name:   Khalil Barrage
Title:   Vice President of the General Partner

 

750 Lexington Ave, 30th FL
New York, NY 10022
Address for Notice
 
Telephone
 
E-mail Address
Vanessa Lopera-Madrid
Attention
Invus Public Equities, L.P.
Name in which Securities are to be registered:
Subscription Amount: $ 6,500,007.00
Shares: 376,812
Pre-Funded Warrants:
 
EIN


SCHEDULE 1

Schedule of Purchasers

 

Name of Purchaser and

Address/Contact Information

   Shares
Purchased
     Aggregate Share
Purchase Price
     Pre-Funded
Warrants
Purchased
     Aggregate
Purchase Price of
Pre-Funded
Warrants
     Aggregate Purchase
Price of Securities
 

EcoR1 Capital Fund Qualified Fund, L.P.

Address: 357 Tehama Street #3,

San Francisco, CA 94103

Telephone:

Email:

Attention: Scott Perlen

     —          —          5,469,598      $ 94,350,018.55      $ 94,350,018.55  

EcoR1 Capital Fund, L.P.

Address: 357 Tehama Street #3,

San Francisco, CA 94103

Telephone:

Email:

Attention: Scott Perlen

     —          —          327,538      $ 5,649,997.75      $ 5,649,997.75  

Biotechnology Value Fund, L.P.

Address: 44 Montgomery Street,

40th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94104

Telephone:

Email:

Attention: James Kratky

     —          —          503,833      $ 8,691,068.87      $ 8,691,068.87  

Biotechnology Value Fund II, L.P.

Address: 44 Montgomery Street,

40th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94104

Telephone:

Email:

Attention: James Kratky

     —          —          282,760      $ 4,877,581.73      $ 4,877,581.73  


Name of Purchaser and

Address/Contact Information

   Shares
Purchased
     Aggregate Share
Purchase Price
     Pre-Funded
Warrants
Purchased
     Aggregate
Purchase Price
of Pre-Funded
Warrants
     Aggregate Purchase
Price of Securities
 

Biotechnology Value Trading Fund OS LP

Address: 44 Montgomery Street,

40th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94104

Telephone:

Email:

Attention: James Kratky

     —          —          45,504      $ 784,939.45      $ 784,939.45  

MSI BVF SPV, LLC

Address: 44 Montgomery Street,

40th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94104

Telephone:

Email:

Attention: James Kratky

     —          —          8,488      $ 146,417.16      $ 146,417.16  

Deerfield Partners, L.P.

Address: 345 Park Avenue South, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10010

Telephone:

Email:

Attention: Legal Department

     420,290      $ 7,250,002.50        420,293      $ 7,250,012.23      $ 14,500,014.73  

Averill Master Fund,

Ltd., c/o Suvretta Capital

Management, LLC

Address: 540 Madison Avenue,

7th Floor, New York, NY 10022

Telephone:

Email:

Attention: Andrew Nathanson

     579,711      $ 10,000,014.75        135,630      $ 2,339,603.94      $ 12,339,618.69  

Averill Madison Master Fund,

Ltd., c/o Suvretta Capital Management, LLC

Address: 540 Madison Avenue,

7th Floor, New York, NY 10022

Telephone:

Email:

Attention: Andrew Nathanson

     —          —          125,242      $ 2,160,411.98      $ 2,160,411.98  


Name of Purchaser and

Address/Contact Information

   Shares
Purchased
     Aggregate Share
Purchase Price
     Pre-Funded
Warrants
Purchased
     Aggregate
Purchase Price of
Pre-Funded
Warrants
     Aggregate Purchase
Price of Securities
 

Invus Public Equities, L.P.

Address: 750 Lexington Ave,

30th Floor, New York, NY 10022

Telephone:

Email:

Attention: Vanessa Lopera-Madrid

     376,812      $ 6,500,007.00        —          —        $ 6,500,007.00  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total:

     1,376,813      $ 23,750,024.25        7,318,886      $ 126,250,051.66      $ 150,000,075.91  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 


EXHIBIT A

Registration Rights Agreement

[Form of Registration Rights Agreement as separately filed]


EXHIBIT B

Form of Pre-Funded Warrant

[Form of Pre-Funded Warrant as separately filed]


EXHIBIT C

Form of Lock-Up Agreement

 

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KURA ONCOLOGY, INC.

Lock-Up Agreement

January [•], 2024

Kura Oncology, Inc.

12730 High Bluff Drive, Suite 400

San Diego, CA 92130

 

Re:

Kura Oncology, Inc. – Lock-Up Agreement

Ladies and Gentlemen:

The undersigned understands that you, as purchasers (the “Purchasers”), have entered into that certain Securities Purchase Agreement with Kura Oncology, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), dated January [•], 2024 (the “Purchase Agreement”), providing for the sale and issuance of shares (the “Shares”) of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), and/or pre-funded warrants exercisable for shares of Common Stock (the “Warrant Shares” and together with the Shares, the “Securities”) (the “Offering”).

In consideration of the entry into the Purchase Agreement, and of other good and valuable consideration the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the undersigned agrees that, during the period beginning from the date of this Lock-Up Agreement and continuing to and including the earlier of (i) the date that is 90 days after the date hereof or (ii) the date on which a registration statement with respect to the resale of all of the Securities is declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (such period, the “Lock-Up Period”), the undersigned shall not, and shall not cause or direct any of its affiliates to, (i) offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, lend or otherwise transfer or dispose of any shares of Common Stock, or any options or warrants to purchase any shares of Common Stock, or any securities convertible into, exchangeable for or that represent the right to receive shares of Common Stock (such shares of Common Stock, options, rights, warrants or other securities, collectively, “Lock-Up Securities”), including without limitation any such Lock-Up Securities now owned or hereafter acquired by the undersigned, (ii) engage in any hedging or other transaction or arrangement (including, without limitation, any short sale or the purchase or sale of, or entry into, any put or call option, or combination thereof, forward, swap or any other derivative transaction or instrument, however described or defined) which is designed to or which reasonably could be expected to lead to or result in a sale, loan, pledge or other disposition (whether by the undersigned or someone other than the undersigned), or transfer of any of the economic consequences of ownership, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, of any Lock-Up Securities, whether any such transaction or arrangement (or instrument provided for thereunder) would be settled by delivery of Common Stock or other securities, in cash or otherwise (any such sale, loan, pledge or other disposition, or transfer of economic consequences, a “Transfer”), (iii) make any demand for or exercise any right with respect to the registration of any Lock-Up Securities or (iv) otherwise publicly announce any intention to engage in or cause any action, activity, transaction or arrangement described in clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above. The undersigned represents and warrants that the undersigned is not, and has not caused or directed any of its affiliates to be or become, currently a party to any agreement or arrangement that provides for, is designed to or reasonably could be expected to lead to or result in any Transfer during the Lock-Up Period.

 

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Notwithstanding the foregoing, the undersigned may:

 

  (a)

transfer the undersigned’s Lock-Up Securities

 

  (i)

as one or more bona fide gifts or charitable contributions, or for bona fide estate planning purposes,

 

  (ii)

upon death by will, testamentary document or intestate succession,

 

  (iii)

if the undersigned is a natural person, to any member of the undersigned’s immediate family (for purposes of this Lock-Up Agreement, “immediate family” shall mean any relationship by blood, current or former marriage, domestic partnership or adoption, not more remote than first cousin) or to any trust for the direct or indirect benefit of the undersigned or the immediate family of the undersigned or, if the undersigned is a trust, to a trustor or beneficiary of the trust or the estate of a beneficiary of such trust,

 

  (iv)

to a partnership, limited liability company or any other entity of which the undersigned and the immediate family of the undersigned are the legal and beneficial owner of all of the outstanding equity securities or similar interests,

 

  (v)

to a nominee or custodian of a person or entity to whom a disposition or transfer would be permissible under clauses (a)(i) through (iv) above,

 

  (vi)

if the undersigned is a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other business entity, (A) to another corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other business entity that is an affiliate (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended) of the undersigned, or to any investment fund or other entity which fund or entity is controlled or managed by the undersigned or affiliates of the undersigned, or (B) as part of a distribution by the undersigned to its stockholders, partners, members or other equityholders or to the estate of any such stockholders, partners, members or other equityholders,

 

  (vii)

by operation of law, such as pursuant to a qualified domestic order, divorce settlement, divorce decree or separation agreement,

 

  (viii)

to the Company from an employee of the Company upon death, disability or termination of employment, in each case, of such employee, or

 

  (ix)

to the Company in connection with the vesting, settlement or exercise of restricted stock units, options, warrants or other rights to purchase shares of Common Stock (including, in each case, by way of “net” or “cashless” exercise) that are scheduled to expire or automatically vest during the Lock-Up Period, including any transfer to the Company for the payment of tax withholdings or remittance payments due as a result of the vesting, settlement or exercise of such restricted stock units, options, warrants or other rights, or in connection with the conversion of convertible securities, in all such cases pursuant to equity awards granted under a stock incentive plan or other equity award plan, or pursuant to the terms of convertible securities, each as described in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K or Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q most recently filed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”),

provided that any securities received upon such vesting, settlement, exercise or conversion shall be subject to the terms of this Lock-Up Agreement; provided that (A) in the case of clauses (a)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v) and (vi) above, such transfer or distribution shall not involve a disposition for value, (B) in the case of clauses (a)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi) and

 

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(vii) above, it shall be a condition to the transfer or distribution that the donee, devisee, transferee or distributee, as the case may be, shall sign and deliver a lock-up agreement in the form of this Lock-Up Agreement, (C) in the case of clauses (a)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v) and (vi) above, no filing by any party (including, without limitation, any donor, donee, devisee, transferor, transferee, distributor or distributee) under the Exchange Act, or other public filing, report or announcement reporting a reduction in beneficial ownership of Lock-Up Securities shall be required or shall be voluntarily made in connection with such transfer or distribution, (other than a required filing on Form 5), and (D) in the case of clauses (a)(vii), (viii), (ix) and (x) above, no filing under the Exchange Act, or other public filing, report or announcement shall be voluntarily made, and if any such filing, report or announcement shall be legally required during the Lock-Up Period, such filing, report or announcement shall clearly indicate in the footnotes thereto (A) the circumstances of such transfer or distribution and (B) in the case of a transfer or distribution pursuant to clause (a)(vii) above, that the donee, devisee, transferee or distributee has agreed to be bound by a lock-up agreement in the form of this Lock-Up Agreement;

 

  (b)

enter into a written plan meeting the requirements of Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act relating to the transfer, sale or other disposition of the undersigned’s Lock-Up Securities, if then permitted by the Company; provided that none of the securities subject to such plan may be transferred, sold or otherwise disposed of until after the expiration of the Lock-Up Period and no public announcement, report or filing under the Exchange Act, or any other public filing, report or announcement, shall be voluntarily made regarding the establishment of such plan during the Lock-Up Period;

 

  (c)

transfer or dispose of the undersigned’s Lock-Up Securities under a trading plan pursuant to Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act that is existing on the date hereof, provided however that the Section 16 filing with respect to any such transfer or disposition with a footnote indicating that such transfer or disposition was carried out pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 plan; and

 

  (d)

transfer the undersigned’s Lock-Up Securities pursuant to a bona fide third-party tender offer, merger, consolidation or other similar transaction that is approved by the Board of Directors of the Company and made to all holders of the Company’s capital stock involving a Change of Control of the Company (for purposes hereof, “Change of Control” shall mean the transfer (whether by tender offer, merger, consolidation or other similar transaction), in one transaction or a series of related transactions, to a person or group of affiliated persons, of shares of capital stock if, after such transfer, such person or group of affiliated persons would hold at least a majority of the outstanding voting securities of the Company (or the surviving entity)); provided that in the event that such tender offer, merger, consolidation or other similar transaction is not completed, the undersigned’s Lock-Up Securities shall remain subject to the provisions of this Lock-Up Agreement.

This Lock-Up Agreement is intended for the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and permitted assigns and is not for the benefit of, nor may any provisions hereof be enforced by, any other Person.

The undersigned now has, and, except as contemplated by clauses (a) and (d) of the third paragraph of this Lock-Up Agreement, for the duration of this Lock-Up Agreement will have, good and marketable title to the undersigned’s Lock-Up Securities, free and clear of all liens, encumbrances and claims whatsoever. The undersigned also agrees and consents to the entry of stop transfer instructions with the Company’s transfer agent and registrar against the transfer of the undersigned’s Lock-Up Securities except in compliance with the foregoing restrictions.

 

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This Lock-Up Agreement shall automatically terminate and the undersigned shall be released from all obligations hereunder upon the date on which for any reason the Purchase Agreement is terminated (other than the provisions thereof that survive termination) prior to payment for and delivery of the Securities to be sold thereunder.

The undersigned further understands that this Lock-Up Agreement is irrevocable and shall be binding upon the undersigned’s heirs, legal representatives, successors and assigns. The undersigned hereby represents and warrants that the undersigned has full power and authority to enter into this Lock-Up Agreement. This Lock-Up Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without regard to principles of conflict of laws that would result in the application of any law other than the laws of the State of New York. This Lock-Up Agreement may be delivered via facsimile, electronic mail (including pdf or any electronic signature complying with the U.S. federal ESIGN Act of 2000, e.g., www.docusign.com or www.echosign.com) or other transmission method, and any counterpart so delivered shall be deemed to have been duly and validly delivered and be valid and effective for all purposes.

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Very truly yours,

 

IF AN INDIVIDUAL:     IF AN ENTITY:
By:          
  (duly authorized signature)     (please print complete name of entity)
Name:         By:    
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      Name:    
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