On October 29, 2021, CASI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("CASI" or "Company"), reported that it entered into a Common Stock Sales Agreement (the "Sales Agreement") with H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC ("HCW") (Filing, 8-K, CASI Pharmaceuticals, OCT 29, 2021, View Source [SID1234593965]). Pursuant to the terms of the Sales Agreement, the Company may sell from time to time, at its option, shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share, through HCW, as sales agent, with an aggregate sales price of up to $20 million (the "Shares"). The Company does not currently intend to make any sales under the Sales Agreement at the present time and will use discretion in initiating sales, taking into account among other factors, market conditions, the trading price of the Company’s common stock, alternative financing opportunities, and need for capital. The Company believes that it is in the best interests of its stockholders to have the flexibility to raise additional capital under favorable market conditions to support its efforts to build long-term stockholder value.
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Any sales of Shares pursuant to the Sales Agreement will be made under the Company’s effective "shelf" registration statement (the "Registration Statement") on Form S-3 (File No. 333-250801) which became effective on December 2, 2020 and the related prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on October 29, 2021.
Under the terms of the Sales Agreement, the Company may sell shares of its common stock through HCW by any method permitted that is deemed an "at the market offering" as defined in Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"). HCW will use its commercially reasonable efforts consistent with its normal trading and sales practices to sell the Company’s common stock from time to time, based upon the Company’s instructions (including any price, time or size limits or other customary parameters or conditions the Company may impose). Actual sales will depend on a variety of factors to be determined by the Company from time to time, including (among others) market conditions, the trading price of the Company’s common stock, capital needs and determinations by the Company of the appropriate sources of funding for the Company. The Company is not obligated to make any sales of common stock under the Sales Agreement and the Company cannot provide any assurances that it will issue any Shares pursuant to the Sales Agreement. The Company will pay a commission rate of 3.0% of the gross sales price per share sold and agreed to reimburse HCW for certain specified expenses, including the fees and disbursements of its legal counsel in an amount not to exceed $50,000 and have agreed to reimburse HCW an amount not to exceed $2,500 per quarter during the term of the Sales Agreement for legal fees to be incurred by HCW. The Company has also agreed pursuant to the Sales Agreement to provide HCW with customary indemnification and contribution rights.
The Company or HCW upon notice to the other, may suspend the offering of the Shares under the Sales Agreement at any time. The offering of the Shares pursuant to the Sales Agreement will terminate upon the sale of Shares in an aggregate offering amount equal to $20 million, or sooner if either the Company or HCW terminate the Sales Agreement pursuant to its terms.
The foregoing description of the Sales Agreement is not complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Sales Agreement, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 1.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference. The Sales Agreement is also incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement.
A copy of the opinion of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP relating to the legality of the Shares issuable under the Sales Agreement, is filed as Exhibit 5.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is also incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement.
The above disclosure shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the securities discussed herein, nor shall there be any offer, solicitation, or sale of the securities in any state in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state.
The representations, warranties and covenants contained in the Sales Agreement were made solely for the benefit of the parties to the Sales Agreement. In addition, such representations, warranties and covenants (i) are intended as a way of allocating the risk between the parties to the Sales Agreement and not as statements of fact, and (ii) may apply standards of materiality in a way that is different from what may be viewed as material by stockholders of, or other investors in, the Company. Moreover, information concerning the subject matter of the representations and warranties may change after the date of the Sales Agreement, which subsequent information may or may not be fully reflected in public disclosures.