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Preferred Stock
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2025
Preferred Stock, Number of Shares, Par Value and Other Disclosure [Abstract]  
Preferred Stock

9. Preferred Stock

The Company’s board of directors is authorized, without action by its stockholders, to designate and issue up to 10,000,000 shares of preferred stock in one or more series, and to fix the voting rights, designations, powers, preferences, the relative, participating, optional or other special rights, if any, and any qualifications, limitations and restrictions thereof, applicable to the shares of any series of preferred stock that they may designate in the future.

 

There were no series of preferred stock designated and no shares issued or outstanding at December 31, 2024.

 

On February 10, 2025, in connection with the License Agreement, the Company filed a Certificate of Designation of Preferences, Rights and Limitations of the Series A Non-Voting Convertible Preferred Stock (the “Certificate of Designation”) with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware, pursuant to which 6,000 shares of the Company's authorized shares of preferred stock were designated as Series A Non-Voting Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.0001 per share ("Series A Preferred Stock"), Inc. The powers, preferences, rights, qualifications, limitations and restrictions applicable to the Series A Preferred Stock are set forth below.

 

Dividend Rights - to the extent that dividends are paid to holders of the Company's common stock, holders of Series A Preferred Stock shall be entitled to participate in such dividends on an as-if-converted-to-common-stock basis, without regard to the Beneficial Ownership Limitation (as defined below).

 

Voting Rights - the Series A Non-Voting Preferred Stock has no voting rights. Provided, however, that so long as any shares of Series A Preferred Stock are outstanding, the Company will not, without the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the then-outstanding shares of the Series A Preferred Stock, (i) alter or change adversely the powers, preferences or rights given to the Series A Preferred Stock or alter or amend the Certificate of Designation, amend or repeal any provision of, or add any provision to, the Charter or bylaws of the Company, or file any articles of amendment, certificate of designations, preferences, limitations and relative rights of any series of preferred stock, in each case if any such action would adversely alter or change the preferences, rights, privileges or powers of, or restrictions provided for the benefit of the Series A Preferred Stock, regardless of whether any of the foregoing actions shall be by means of amendment to the Charter or by merger, consolidation, recapitalization, reclassification, conversion or otherwise, (ii) issue further shares of Series A Preferred Stock, or (iii) enter into any agreement with respect to any of the foregoing

 

Conversion Features - each share of Series A Preferred Stock is convertible into 588 shares of Company common stock (the "Conversion Ratio"), as follows:

 

Automatic Conversion - effective as of 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on the third business day after the date that the Company's stockholders approve the conversion of the Series A Preferred Stock into shares of common stock in accordance with the listing rules of the Nasdaq Stock Market ("Stockholder Approval"), each share of Series A Preferred Stock then outstanding shall automatically convert into a number of shares of common stock equal to the Conversion Ratio (as defined below), subject to the Beneficial Ownership Limitation.

 

Optional Conversion - subject to the Beneficial Ownership Limitation and the automatic conversion (discussed above), each share of Series Preferred Stock then outstanding shall be convertible, at any time and from time to time following 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on the third business day after the date that the Stockholder Approval is obtained by the Company, at the option of the holder thereof, into a number of shares of common stock equal to the Conversion Ratio.

 

Redemption Rights - shares of Series A Preferred Stock are not redeemable.

 

Liquidation Rights - in the event of the liquidation, dissolution, or winding up of the affairs of the Company, whether voluntary or involuntary, holders of Series A Preferred Stock shall rank on parity with common stockholders as to the distributions of assets.

 

Beneficial Ownership Limitation - a holder of Series A Preferred Stock is prohibited from converting shares of Series A Preferred Stock into shares of common stock if, as a result of such conversion, such holder, together with its affiliates, would beneficially own in excess of the Beneficial Ownership Limitation. For purposes of the Series A Preferred Stock, the “Beneficial Ownership Limitation” shall initially be set at 9.9% for each holder and its affiliates and may be adjusted at the discretion of the holder to a percentage between 4.9% and 19.9% (but not to exceed 19.9%) of the number of shares of common stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to the issuance of shares of common stock pursuant to such conversion.

 

On February 11, 2025, in connection with and as consideration for the License Agreement, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement with Statera, pursuant to which the Company issued and sold to Statera an aggregate of (i) 55,635 shares of Company common stock and (ii) approximately 360 shares of Series A Preferred Stock for an aggregate price of approximately $1.2 million.

 

On March 31, 2025, in connection with the Company's exercise of the Neutropenia Option pursuant to the License Agreement and as consideration for the exercise of its option to accelerate the first milestone payment of $500,000 related to the neutropenia indication, and pursuant to a Securities Purchase Agreement entered into as of the same date, the Company issued $500 thousand shares of Company stock, consisting of an aggregate of 55,704 shares of common stock and approximately 131 shares of Series A Preferred Stock.

 

As of March 31, 2025, there were approximately 491 shares of Series A Preferred Stock issued and outstanding.