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Item 1.01. | Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. |
On December 22, 2024, Anebulo Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) entered into a securities purchase agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with 22NW Fund, LP (“22NW”), a greater than 5% stockholder of the Company that is controlled by Aron English, a director of the Company, as well as other institutional accredited investors (the “Investors”), pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue and sell to the Investors, in a private placement priced at-the-market (the “Private Placement”) consistent with the rules of the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”), an aggregate of 15,151,514 shares (the “Shares”) of the Company’s common stock $0.001 par value per share (the “Common Stock”). The purchase price of each Share was $0.99, equal to the Nasdaq Minimum Price, as defined in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(d).
The Private Placement closed on December 23, 2024. The Company received aggregate gross proceeds from the Private Placement of approximately $15 million, before deducting estimated offering expenses payable by the Company. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the Private Placement for working capital purposes.
The Purchase Agreement contains customary representations, warranties and agreements by the Company, customary conditions to closing, indemnification obligations of the Company, including for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), other obligations of the parties and termination provisions. The representations, warranties and covenants contained in the Purchase Agreement were made only for the purposes of such agreements and as of the specific dates, were solely for the benefit of the parties to such agreement and may be subject to limitations agreed upon by the contracting parties.
Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, the Company has agreed to register for resale the Shares held by the Investors (the “Registrable Securities”). The Company has agreed to file a registration statement covering the resale of the Shares by the Investors of the Registrable Securities within 60 days following the date of the Purchase Agreement and to cause such registration statement to become effective and to keep such registration effective at all times until such time that no Investor owns Shares.
As a result of the issuance, because the number of issued and outstanding shares of the Company’s Common Stock held of record by Mr. English and beneficially owned by Mr. English following the Private Placement exceeds 50% of all issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock, Mr. English now has voting power over a majority of the outstanding shares of the Company’s Common Stock, and a change of control of the Corporation may be deemed to have occurred as a result of the Private Placement.
In addition, the Company intends to modify the Loan and Security Agreement (“LSA”) that was entered into with 22NW and JFL Capital Management LLC, as lenders, by reducing the maximum loan size to approximately $3 million, which reduces the LSA to just under the securitization threshold, and the removal of any securitization.
The foregoing description of the Purchase Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to such agreement, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 hereto and is incorporated by reference herein.
Item 3.02. | Unregistered Shares of Equity Securities. |
The information contained above in Item 1.01 relating to the Private Placement is hereby incorporated by reference into this Item 3.02. Based in part upon the representations of the Investors in the Purchase Agreement, the offering and sale of the securities will be made in reliance on the exemption afforded by Regulation D under the Securities Act, and corresponding provisions of state securities or “blue sky” laws. The securities will not be registered under the Securities Act or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration with the SEC or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements. The sale of the securities will not involve a public offering and will be made without general solicitation or general advertising. Each of the Investors represented that they are an accredited investor, as such term is defined in Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act, and that they are acquiring the securities for investment purposes only and not with a view to any resale, distribution or other disposition of the securities in violation of the U.S. federal securities laws.
Neither this Current Report on Form 8-K nor any exhibit attached hereto is an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy shares of Common Stock or other securities of the Company.
Item 5.01. | Change in Control of Registrant |
The information set forth in Item 1.01 is incorporated herein by reference to the extent applicable.
Item 8.01. | Other Events. |
On December 23, 2024, the Company issued a press release announcing, among other things, the pricing of the Private Placement described above. The press release issued in connection with this announcement is attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference. The press release also announced that the Company had met with the Food and Drug Administration (the “FDA”) to discuss the development of intravenous selonabant and the initial plan for clinical testing and the FDA’s acknowledgement of the unmet need for a treatment for children exposed to cannabis toxicity, and FDA’s proposal of a close, ongoing collaboration to efficiently advance the selonabant program for the pediatric indication. The Company also announced plans to begin its Phase I single ascending dose study of intravenous selonabant in healthy adults in the first half of 2025.
Item 9.01 | Financial Statements and Exhibits. |
(d) Exhibits
Exhibit Number |
Description | |
10.1 | Form of Securities Purchase Agreement, dated December 23, 2024, by and between the Company and the purchasers listed on the signature page thereto | |
99.1 | Press Release dated December 23, 2024 | |
104 | Cover Page of Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document). |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
ANEBULO PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. | ||
Date: December 23, 2024 | By: | /s/ Richard Anthony Cunningham |
Richard Anthony Cunningham | ||
Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) |