SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2022

Stockholders' Equity Note [Abstract]

SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY

SHAREHOLDERS EQUITY

Equity Raise

On February 9, 2021, the Company completed a registered direct offering with certain institutional investors and accredited investors to sell 5,650,000 shares of our common stock at a purchase price of $2.48 per share on a post stock split basis. The gross proceeds from the offering were approximately $14.0 million. After placement agent fees and other offering expenses payable by the Company, Assertio received net proceeds of approximately $13.1 million. On February 12, 2021, the Company completed a registered direct offering with certain institutional investors and accredited investors to sell 8,750,000 shares of our common stock at a purchase price of $3.92 per share on a post stock split basis. The gross proceeds from the offering were approximately $34.3 million. After placement agent fees and other offering expenses payable by the Company, Assertio received net proceeds of approximately $32.2 million. The Company intends to use proceeds from both offerings for general corporate purposes, including general working capital.

Warrant Agreements

Upon the Zyla Merger, the Company assumed Zyla’s outstanding Warrant Agreements which provides the holder the right to receive shares of the Company’s common stock. The warrants are exercisable at any time at an exercise price of $0.0016 per share, subject to certain ownership limitations including, with respect to Iroko and its affiliates, that no such exercise may increase the aggregate ownership of the Company’s outstanding common stock of such parties above 49% of the number of shares of its common stock then outstanding for a period of 18 months . All of the Company’s outstanding warrants have similar terms whereas under no circumstance may the warrants be net-cash settled. As such, all warrants are equity classified.

During the three months ended March 31, 2022, 0.4 million warrants were exercised, and 0.4 million common shares were issued by the Company. As of March 31, 2022, there were no outstanding warrants remaining.