8-K

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): November 3, 2017

ARQULE, INC.

(Exact Name of Issuer as Specified in Charter)

Delaware	000-21429	04-3221586
(State or other jurisdiction	(Commission File Number)	(I.R.S. Employer
of incorporation)		Identification No.)

One Wall Street

Burlington, MA 01803

(Address of principal executive offices; Zip Code)

(781) 994-0300

(Registrant's telephone number, including area code)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company ¨

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ¨

Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

On November 3 and November 5, 2017, ArQule Inc. (the “Company”) entered into Securities Purchase Agreements (the “Purchase Agreements”) with certain institutional investors (the “Purchasers”) for the sale by the Company (the “Offering”) of 8,370 shares of Convertible Preferred Stock, Series A, $.01 per share (the “Shares”), and warrants (the “Warrants”) to purchase up to 2,260 Shares (the “Warrant Shares”). The Company sold the Shares and the Warrants together at a price per unit of $1,135. Subject to certain ownership limitations, the Warrants are immediately exercisable upon issuance at an exercise price of $1,750 per Warrant Share, subject to customary anti-dilution adjustments, and expire approximately four years from the filing of an amendment to the Company’s restated certificate of incorporation as described below.

Beginning July 1, 2018, each Share will be entitled to receive a dividend, payable in additional Shares, equal to 10 percent per annum of each Share’s stated value per share. The preferred dividends will be payable quarterly in arrears. Dividends do not accrue or cumulate. Following conversion of the Shares as discussed below, the Shares will cease to exist and no longer be entitled to a preferred dividend.

By no later than May 31, 2018, the Company has agreed to seek stockholder approval of an amendment to the Company’s restated certificate of incorporation to increase the number of authorized shares of common stock, $.01 per share (the “Common Stock”). Upon the effectiveness of that amendment, each Share automatically will convert into 1,000 shares of Common Stock and each Warrant covering a Share will be exercisable for 1,000 shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of $1.75 per share.

Prior to conversion, the Shares will vote together as a single class with the shares of Common Stock on each matter submitted to a vote of the stockholders. Each Share is entitled to 1,000 votes.

The Purchase Agreements and Warrants each include additional customary representations, warranties and covenants. The Company also agreed to file a resale registration within 30 days following the effectiveness of the amendment to the Company’s restated certificate of incorporation covering the shares of Common Stock that will be issued upon conversion of the Shares and upon exercise of the Warrants.

The representations, warranties and covenants contained in the Purchase Agreements were made solely for the benefit of the parties to the Purchase Agreements. In addition, such representations, warranties and covenants (i) are intended as a way of allocating the risk between the parties to the Purchase Agreements 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. Accordingly, the form of Purchase Agreement is included with this filing only to provide investors with information regarding the terms of transaction, and not to provide investors with any other factual information regarding the Company. Stockholders should not rely on the representations, warranties and covenants or any descriptions thereof as characterizations of the actual state of facts or condition of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates. Moreover, information concerning the subject matter of the representations and warranties may change after the date of the Purchase Agreements, which subsequent information may or may not be fully reflected in public disclosures.

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The forms of the Purchase Agreement and the Warrant are filed as Exhibits 10.1 and 4.1, respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K. The foregoing summaries of the terms of these documents are subject to, and qualified in their entirety by, such documents, which are incorporated herein by reference.

On November 7, 2017, the Company received gross proceeds from the Offering of approximately $9.5 million. The Company estimates the net proceeds from this Offering will be approximately $9.3 million. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from this offering to advance clinical trials related to its proprietary pipeline and for general corporate purposes, including working capital.

Item 3.02. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities

The information set forth in Item 1.01 related to the Offering is incorporated by reference into this Item 3.02. The Shares, the Warrants and the Warrant Shares are being sold and issued without registration under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “Securities Act”) in reliance on the exemptions provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act as a transactions not involving a public offering.

Item 3.03. Material Modifications to Rights of Security Holders

On November 7, 2017, in connection with the closing of the Offering, the Company filed a Certificate of Designations for the Shares with the Delaware Secretary of State. A summary of the material terms of the Certificate of Designations is set forth in Item 1.01 above and incorporated by reference herein.

A copy of the Certificate of Designation is attached hereto as Exhibit 3.1.

Item 5.02. Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

Effective as of November 7, 2017, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) increased the number of directors by one and appointed Ran Nussbaum as a director, with a term expiring at the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2018. The Board has concluded that Mr. Nussbaum is “independent” as defined by Nasdaq listing standards. Mr. Nussbaum has not yet been appointed to any Board committees. He is eligible to receive the compensation paid to the Company’s non-employee directors as determined by the Board.

Under the terms of the Purchase Agreements Pontifax (China) IV Limited Partnership, Pontifax (Israel) IV Limited Partnership and Pontifax (Cayman) IV Limited Partnership (collectively, “Pontifax”) has the right to nominate a director to the Board for so long as Pontifax remains the beneficial owner of 50 percent of the Shares originally sold to Pontifax in the Offering, or 50 percent of the Common Stock following conversion.

Mr. Nussbaum is the managing partner of each of the Pontifax entities identified above.

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Item 8.01 Other Events

On November 8, 2017, the Company issued a press release announcing the Offering, a copy of which is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated by reference into this Item 8.01.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits

Exhibit
No.	Title
3.1	Certificate of Designations dated November 7, 2017 for the Convertible Series A Preferred Stock as filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware
4.1	Form of Warrant
10.1	Form of Securities Purchase Agreement
99.1	Press release dated November 8, 2017

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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.

ARQULE, INC.

(Registrant)

/s/ Peter S. Lawrence

Peter S. Lawrence

President and Chief Operating Officer

Date:   November 8, 2017

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EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit
No.	Title
3.1	Certificate of Designations dated November 7, 2017 for the Convertible Series A Preferred Stock as filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware
4.1	Form of Warrant
10.1	Form of Securities Purchase Agreement
99.1	Press release dated November 8, 2017

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EX-3.1

Exhibit 3.1

CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATIONS

OF

Series A Preferred Stock

of

ARQULE, INC.

ArQule, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Corporation”), in accordance with the provisions of Section 151 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, does hereby certify that the following resolution was duly adopted by the Board of Directors of the Corporation on November 3, 2017:

RESOLVED, that pursuant to the authority expressly granted to and vested in the Board of Directors of the Corporation (the “Board of Directors”) by the provisions of Article FOURTH of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation ( the “Certificate of Incorporation”), there is hereby created, out of the 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $.01 per share, of the Corporation authorized in Article FOURTH of the Certificate of Incorporation, a series of the preferred stock consisting of 40,000 shares, which series shall have the following powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other rights, and the following qualifications, limitations and restrictions (in addition to any powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other rights, and any qualifications, limitations and restrictions, set forth in the Certificate of Incorporation which are applicable to the preferred stock of the Corporation):

Section 1.            Designation and Amount. There is hereby created out of the authorized and unissued shares of preferred stock of the Corporation a series of preferred stock designated as the Convertible Preferred Stock, Series A (the “Series A Preferred Stock”). The authorized number of shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall be 40,000 shares.

Section 2.            Definitions. As used herein with respect to the Series A Preferred Stock, in addition to those terms defined herein, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

(a)          “Business Day” shall mean any day except Saturday, Sunday and any day on which banking institutions in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts generally are authorized or required by law or other governmental actions to close.

(b)          “Closing Bid Price” means, with respect to a particular day, the closing the consolidated closing bid price per share of Common Stock as of 4:00 p.m., Eastern time, on such day on the NASDAQ Global Market or such other national securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Common Stock is then listed or authorized for quotation or, if the Common Stock is not so listed or authorized for quotation, an amount determined in good faith by the Board of Directors to be the fair value of a share of the Common Stock.

(c)          “Conversion Factor” initially means 1,000, as may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with Section 12(b).

(d)          “Common Stock” means the common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Corporation.

(e)          “Corporation” means ArQule, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

(f)          “Holder” or “holder” means a holder of record of the Series A Preferred Stock.

(g)          “Junior Stock” means the Common Stock and any other class or series of capital stock of the Corporation now or hereafter authorized, issued or outstanding that, by its terms, does not expressly provide that it ranks pari passu with or senior to the Series A Preferred Stock with respect to dividend rights and rights upon liquidation, dissolution and winding up of the Corporation.

(h)          “Liquidation Parity Stock” means Parity Stock the terms of which expressly provide that it will rank pari passu with the Series A Preferred Stock as to rights upon liquidation, dissolution and winding up of the Corporation.

(i)          “Liquidation Preference” means, with respect to each share of Series A Preferred Stock, the higher of (i) one times the Series A Stated Value or (ii) the consideration that would have been payable on such Series A Preferred Stock in the applicable Liquidation event, had such Series A Preferred Stock been converted into Common Stock immediately prior to the consummation thereof.

(j)          “Parity Stock” means any class or series of capital stock of the Corporation hereafter authorized, issued or outstanding that, by its terms, expressly provides that it ranks pari passu with the Series A Preferred Stock with respect to dividend rights and rights upon liquidation, dissolution and winding up of the Corporation.

(k)          “Person” means any individual, corporation, general partnership, limited partnership, limited liability partnership, joint venture, association, joint-stock corporation, trust, limited liability corporation, unincorporated organization, other entity or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.

(l)          “PIK Series A Value” per share shall equal 1,000 times the Closing Bid Price of the Company’s Common Stock for the Trading Day ending on the applicable date of determination.

(m)         “Proposal” means the proposal to be submitted to the Stockholders Meeting, for the purpose of seeking approval of the stockholders of the Corporation for an amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation to increase the number of authorized shares of Common Stock.

(n)          “Series A Preferred Dividends” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4 hereto.

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(o)          “Series A Preferred Stock” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 1 hereto.

(p)          “Series A Stated Value” per share equals $1.135.

(q)           “Stockholder Filing” means the effectiveness of the amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation to increase the number of authorized shares of Common Stock following the approval of the Proposal by the stockholders of the Corporation at the Stockholders Meeting in accordance with applicable law, the Corporation’s Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws and the applicable requirements of the NASDAQ Capital Market.

(r)          “Stockholders Meeting” means the earlier of (i) the 2018 Annual Meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation for the purpose of voting on the Proposal, to be held no later than May 31, 2018, or (ii) if the stockholders of the Corporation do not approve the Proposal at the 2018 Annual Meeting, any subsequent annual or special meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation for the purpose of voting on the Proposal at which such stockholders duly approve the Proposal.

(s)          “Trading Day” means any day on which the NASDAQ Stock Market (or such other successor national securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Common Stock is then listed or authorized for quotation) is open for the transaction of business.

(t)          “Transfer Agent” means the Corporation’s duly appointed transfer agent, registrar, conversion and dividend disbursing agent for the Series A Preferred Stock and transfer agent and registrar for any shares of Common Stock issued upon conversion of the Series A Preferred Stock, or any successor duly appointed by the Corporation.

Section 3.            Ranking. The Series A Preferred Stock shall rank, with respect to rights upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, (a) senior to all Junior Stock, and (b) on parity with all Parity Stock.

Section 4.            Dividends.

(a)          Prior to July 1, 2018, the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors, out of the funds of the Corporation legally available therefor, an amount per share equal to the amount of cash dividends, and the amount per share (payable in kind) of all noncash dividends or other distributions, declared on the Common Stock, calculated on an as converted basis.

(b)          Thereafter, the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive:

(i)          a dividend per each share of Series A Preferred Stock commencing on July 1, 2018, in an amount equal to ten percent (10%) per annum of the Series A Stated Value per share of the Series A Preferred Stock (the “Series A Preferred Dividends”), to the fullest extent permitted by law, prior and in preference to any declaration or payment of any dividend or other distribution declared on the Common Stock, payable in kind in accordance with Section 4(c); and

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(ii)         when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors, out of the funds of the Corporation legally available therefor, an amount per share equal to the amount of cash dividends, and the amount per share (payable in kind) of all noncash dividends or other distributions, declared on the Common Stock, calculated on an as converted basis.

(c)          The Company shall declare and pay the Series A Preferred Dividends in kind by issuing to the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock such number of shares of Series A Preferred Stock as have an aggregate PIK Series A Value on the payment date equal to the Series A Preferred Dividends. The Series A Preferred Dividends shall be payable quarterly in arrears, commencing on July 1, 2018.

Section 5.            Liquidation Preference.

(a)          Upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Corporation, whether voluntary or involuntary (a “Liquidation”), after the satisfaction in full of the debts of the Corporation, upon Liquidation, each Holder of Series A Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, out of the assets of the Corporation or proceeds thereof (whether capital or surplus) available for distribution to shareholders of the Corporation, the Liquidation Preference for each outstanding share of Series A Preferred Stock held by such Holder in preference to the holders of, and before any payment or distribution is made on (or any setting apart for any payment or distribution), any Junior Stock, including, without limitation, on any Common Stock. After the payment to the Holders of the Liquidation Preference for each outstanding share of Series A Preferred Stock, such Holders shall not be entitled to convert any Series A Preferred Stock into Common Stock and shall not be entitled to any further participation in distributions of, and shall have no right or claim to, any of the remaining assets of the Corporation in respect of the Series A Preferred Stock.

(b)          The term “Liquidation” shall also include (i) the sale, lease, transfer (including by way of a license or sublicense), exchange, conveyance or other disposition for cash, securities or other property of all or substantially all the assets of the Corporation or (ii) the merger, consolidation or share exchange of the Corporation into or with any other Person (other than one in which stockholders of the Corporation own a majority by voting power of the outstanding shares of the surviving or acquiring corporation or entity) or (iii) the sale of shares of the Corporation, in a single transaction or series of related transactions, which results in any Person (or group of related or affiliated Persons) directly or indirectly holding interests in securities representing more than 50% of the voting power of the voting securities of the Corporation. In the event the assets of the Corporation legally available for distribution to the Holders of the Series A Preferred Stock upon any Liquidation shall be insufficient to pay in full all amounts to which such Holders are entitled pursuant to Section 5(a), no such distribution shall be made on account of any Liquidation Parity Stock upon such Liquidation unless proportionate distributable amounts shall be paid with equal priority on account of the Series A Preferred Stock, ratably, in proportion to the full distributable amounts for which Holders of the Series A Preferred Stock and holders of any Liquidation Parity Stock are entitled upon such Liquidation.

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Section 6.            Automatic Conversion. Prior to the Stockholder Filing, the Series A Preferred Stock shall not be convertible. Upon the Stockholder Filing, the shares of Series A Preferred Stock then outstanding shall automatically convert, without any action on the part of the Holder thereof and without payment of any additional consideration, into such number of fully paid and non-assessable whole shares of Common Stock as is obtained by multiplying the number of shares to be converted by the applicable Conversion Factor. The Corporation shall provide prompt written notice to the Holders of Series A Preferred Stock of any conversion effected pursuant to this Section 6 but in no event more than two Business Days after the effective time of such conversion. From and after any conversion effected pursuant to this Section 6, the Holders of the Series A Preferred Stock shall have the right to receive the shares of Common Stock to which they are entitled. The Corporation covenants that all shares of Common Stock that shall be so issuable shall, upon issue, be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable. The issuance of certificates for shares of the Common Stock on conversion of the Series A Preferred Stock shall be made without charge to any Holder for any documentary stamp or similar taxes that may be payable in respect of the issue or delivery of such certificates.

Section 7.            No Fractional Shares Upon Conversion. No fractional shares of Common Stock shall be issued upon conversion of the Series A Preferred Stock. Upon any conversion, all fractional share interests to which a Holder may be entitled shall be aggregated into whole shares of Common Stock with cash being paid for any fractional interest that may remain after such aggregation. The Corporation shall pay cash equal to such fraction multiplied by the average, rounded to the nearest one ten thousandth, of the Closing Bid Price of the Company’s Common Stock for the three Trading Days immediately preceding the conversion.

Section 8.            Voting Rights.

(a)          Except as otherwise required herein or by law, the holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall vote, on an as converted basis, together as one class with holders of shares of Common Stock on all matters submitted to a vote of the stockholders.

(b)          Holders of shares of Common Stock acquired upon the conversion of shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall be entitled to the same voting rights as each other holder of Common Stock.

Section 9.            No Preemptive Rights. The Holders of Series A Preferred Stock shall have no preemptive rights with respect to any shares of the Corporation’s capital stock or any of its other securities.

Section 10.           Compliance with Applicable Law. Declaration by the Board of Directors and payment by the Corporation of dividends to holders of the Series A Preferred Stock shall be subject in all respects to any and all restrictions and limitations placed on dividends or other distributions by the Corporation under (i) laws, regulations and regulatory conditions or limitations applicable to or regarding the Corporation from time to time and (ii) other regulatory restrictions applicable to the Corporation from time to time in effect.

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Section 11.           Form. Shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall be issued in the form of physical certificates or in book entry form in the Direct Registration System.

Section 12.           Other Provisions.

(a)          Notices. Any and all notices or other communications or deliveries to be provided by the Corporation hereunder shall be in writing and delivered personally, by facsimile, or sent by a nationally recognized overnight courier service addressed to each Holder at the email address of such Holder appearing on the books of the Corporation, or if no such email address appears on the books of the Corporation, at the principal place of business of such Holder. Any notice or other communication or deliveries hereunder shall be deemed given and effective on the earliest of (i) the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile at the facsimile number set forth in this Section prior to 5:30 p.m. (Pacific time) on any date, (ii) the next Trading Day after the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile on a day that is not a Trading Day or later than 5:30 p.m. (Pacific time) on any Trading Day, (iii) the next Trading Day following the date of mailing, if sent by U.S. nationally recognized overnight courier service, or (iv) upon actual receipt by the party to whom such notice is required to be given.

(b)          The Liquidation Preference, and Conversion Factor shall be subject to adjustment whenever there shall occur a stock split, combination, reclassification, stock dividend or distribution, exchange or other similar event. Such adjustments shall be made in such manner and at such time as the Board of Directors of the Corporation in good faith determines to be equitable in the circumstances, any such determination to be evidenced in a resolution. Upon any such equitable adjustment, the Corporation shall promptly deliver to the Transfer Agent and each Holder an officers certificate attaching and certifying the resolution of the Board of Directors, describing in reasonable detail the event requiring the adjustment and the method of calculation thereof and specifying the increased or decreased Liquidation Preference and/or, Conversion Factor.

(c)          All issued shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall be deemed outstanding until such shares of Series A Preferred Stock are converted into shares of Common Stock as provided herein.

(d)          The headings of the various sections and subsections contained herein are for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the interpretation of any of the provisions hereof.

(e)          Except as may otherwise be required by law, the Series A Preferred Stock shall not have any powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, other than those specifically set forth in this Certificate of Designations and the Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, of the Corporation.

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(f)          The Corporation will not, by amendment of its charter or through any reorganization, transfer of assets, consolidation, merger, dissolution, issue or sale of securities or any other voluntary action, avoid or seek to avoid the observance or performance of any of the terms of this Certificate of Designations, but will at all times in good faith assist in the carrying out of all such terms and in the taking of all such action as may be necessary or appropriate in order to protect the rights of the holders of Series A Preferred Stock against impairment.

(g)          Until such time as the Series A Preferred Stock is no longer outstanding, the Corporation shall not issue shares of any class or series of capital stock of the Corporation hereafter authorized, issued or outstanding that, by its terms, expressly provides that it ranks senior to the Series A Preferred Stock with respect to dividend rights or rights upon liquidation, dissolution and winding up of the Corporation.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Certificate of Designation is executed on behalf of the Corporation this 7th day of November 2017.

ARQULE, INC.
By:	/s/ Peter S. Lawrence
Name:  Peter S. Lawrence
Title:  President and Chief Operating Officer and Secretary

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EX-4.1

Exhibit 4.1

SERIES A PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE WARRANT

ARQULE, INC.

Warrant Shares: _______

THIS SERIES A PREFERRED STOCK PURCHASE WARRANT (the “Warrant”) certifies that, for value received, _____________ or its assigns (the “Holder”) is entitled, upon the terms and subject to the limitations on exercise and the conditions hereinafter set forth, at any time on or after November 7, 2017 (the “Initial Exercise Date”) and on or prior to the close of business on the fourth-year anniversary of the date of the Stockholder Filing (as defined in the Purchase Agreement) (such 4^th anniversary, the “Termination Date”) but not thereafter, to subscribe for and purchase from ArQule, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), (i) prior to the Stockholder Filing, up to ______ shares of Series A Preferred Stock or (ii) after the Stockholder Filing, up to ___ shares of Common Stock (together with the Series A Preferred Stock and as subject to adjustment hereunder, the “Warrant Shares”). The purchase price for each Warrant Share shall be equal to the Exercise Price as defined in Section 2(d).

Section 1.            Definitions. Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in that certain Securities Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”), dated November _, 2017, among the Company and the purchasers signatory thereto.

Section 2.            Exercise.

(a)          Exercise of the purchase rights represented by this Warrant may be made, in whole or in part, at any time or times on or after the Initial Exercise Date and on or before the Termination Date by delivery to the Company (or such other office or agency of the Company as it may designate by notice in writing to the registered Holder at the address of the Holder appearing on the books of the Company) of a duly executed facsimile copy (or e-mail attachment) of the Notice of Exercise in the form annexed hereto as Exhibit A (the “Notice of Exercise”). Within two Business Days following the date of exercise as aforesaid, the Holder shall deliver the aggregate Exercise Price for the Warrant Shares specified in the applicable Notice of Exercise by wire transfer or cashier’s check drawn on a United States bank unless the cashless exercise procedure specified in Section 2(e) below is specified in the applicable Notice of Exercise. No ink-original Notice of Exercise shall be required, nor shall any medallion guarantee (or other type of guarantee or notarization) of any Notice of Exercise form be required. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Holder shall not be required to physically surrender this Warrant to the Company until the Holder has purchased all of the Warrant Shares available hereunder and the Warrant has been exercised in full, in which case, the Holder shall surrender this Warrant to the Company for cancellation, or alternatively an affidavit of loss in form reasonably acceptable to the Company, within two Business Days of the date the final Notice of Exercise is delivered to the Company. Partial exercises of this Warrant resulting in purchases of a portion of the total number of Warrant Shares available hereunder shall have the effect of lowering the outstanding number of Warrant Shares purchasable hereunder in an amount equal to the applicable number of Warrant Shares purchased. The Holder and the Company shall maintain records showing the number of Warrant Shares purchased and the date of such purchases. The Holder and any assignee, by acceptance of this Warrant, acknowledges and agrees that, by reason of the provisions of this paragraph, following the purchase of a portion of the Warrant Shares hereunder, the number of Warrant Shares available for purchase hereunder at any given time may be less than the amount stated on the face hereof.

(b)          Delivery of Securities Upon Exercise. On the Share Delivery Date (defined below), the Company shall issue the number of Warrant Shares to which the Holder is entitled in respect of that exercise. The “Share Delivery Date” shall be on the second Business Day following the date on which the Company has received the Notice of Exercise and payment in full of the Exercise Price (if applicable). Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that the Holder’s beneficial ownership of Common Stock exceeds the Beneficial Ownership Limitation (as defined below) or would exceed the Beneficial Ownership Limitation after giving effect to the issuance of Common Stock issuable upon such exercise as of the Share Delivery Date, then the Company’s obligation to issue and deliver the Warrant Shares that are so exercised shall be held in abeyance until such time as the Holder’s beneficial ownership would be below the Beneficial Ownership Limitation (such delivery procedure, the “Delayed Delivery”).

(c)          Company’s Failure to Timely Deliver Securities. If the Company shall fail to deliver the certificate or certificates representing Warrant Shares by the Share Delivery Date, other than pursuant to a Delayed Delivery, and if on or after the Share Delivery Date the Holder purchases (in an open market transaction or otherwise) common stock of the Company to deliver in satisfaction of a sale by the Holder of Warrant Shares issuable upon such exercise that the Holder anticipated receiving from the Company, then the Company shall, within three Business Days after the Holder’s request promptly honor its obligation to deliver to the Holder a certificate or certificates representing such Warrant Shares (or, at the option of the Holder, reinstate the portion of the Warrant and equivalent number of Warrant Shares for which such exercise was not honored) and pay cash to the Holder in an amount equal to the excess (if any) of the Holder’s total purchase price (including brokerage commissions, if any) for the Common Stock so purchased over the product of (A) such number of Warrant Shares, times (B) the price at which the sell order giving rise to such purchase obligation was executed.

(d)          Exercise Price. The exercise price per share of the Series A Preferred Stock under this Warrant shall be $1,750 and, following the Stockholder Filing, the exercise price per share of the Common Stock under this Warrant shall be $1.75, in each case subject to adjustment hereunder (the “Exercise Price”).

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(e)          Cashless Exercise. This Warrant may be exercised, in whole or in part, at such time by means of a “cashless exercise” in which the Holder shall be entitled to receive a number of Warrant Shares determined according to the following formula:

X = Y(A-B)/A

Where:

X = the number of Warrant Shares that shall be issued to the Holder;

Y = the number of Warrant Shares for which this Warrant is being exercised (which shall include both the number of Warrant Shares issued to the Holder and the number of Warrant Shares subject to the portion of the Warrant being cancelled in payment of the aggregate Exercise Price);

A = the Fair Market Value (determined in accordance with the below) of one share of Common Stock (if the Warrant is being exercised after the Stockholder Filing) or one share of Series A Preferred Stock (if the Warrant is being exercised prior to the Stockholder Filing), as applicable; and

B = the Exercise Price then in effect.

The Fair Market Value per share of Common Stock or Series A Preferred Stock, as applicable, shall be determined as follows:

(i)          If the Common Stock is listed on a national securities exchange, the Nasdaq Select Global Market, the Nasdaq Global Market, the Nasdaq Capital Market, the OTC Bulletin Board or another nationally recognized trading system as of the applicable exercise date, the Fair Market Value per share of Common Stock shall be deemed to be the reported closing sale price per share of Common Stock thereon on the trading day immediately preceding such exercise date (provided that if no such price is reported on such day, the Fair Market Value per share of Common Stock shall be determined pursuant to clause (ii) below).

(ii)         If the Common Stock is not listed on a national securities exchange, the Nasdaq Select Global Market, the Nasdaq Global Market, the Nasdaq Capital Market, the OTC Bulletin Board or another nationally recognized trading system as of the applicable exercise date, the Fair Market Value per share of Common Stock shall be deemed to be the amount most recently determined by the Board to represent the fair market value per share of the Common Stock (including without limitation a determination for purposes of granting Common Stock options or issuing Common Stock under any plan, agreement or arrangement with employees of the Company); and, upon request of the Holder, the Board (or a representative thereof) shall, as promptly as reasonably practicable but in any event not later than 10 days after such request, notify the Holder of the Fair Market Value per share of Common Stock and furnish the Holder with reasonable documentation of the Board’s determination of such Fair Market Value.

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(iii)        If the Warrant is being exercised prior to the Stockholder Filing (to purchase shares of Series A Preferred Stock), then the Fair Market Value per share of the Series A Preferred Stock as of the applicable exercise date shall be determined in good faith by the Company and the Holder. If the Company and the Holder are unable to agree on any such determination of Fair Market Value, then the Company and the Holder agree that a professional and reputable third party valuation firm (a “Third Party Valuation Agent”) shall be retained by the parties, at the Company’s expense, to determine the Fair Market Value per share of Series A Preferred Stock. In such instance, the Company and the Holder agree to request that such Third Party Valuation Firm provide its valuation on an expedited basis (within 14 Business Days following such appointment). If the Company and the Holder are unable to agree on a Third Party Valuation Agent, then the parties agree that the Head of the Life Sciences Practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers shall be consulted and such person shall recommend a Third Party Valuation Agent for this purpose, and such Third Party Valuation Agent’s determination of Fair Market Value per share of the Series A Preferred Stock shall be binding upon the Company and the Holder.

Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, on the Termination Date, this Warrant shall be automatically exercised via cashless exercise pursuant to this Section 2(e).

(f)          Issuance of Warrant Shares. Holder shall be deemed to become Holder of record of the number of Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise (and the Warrant Shares shall be deemed to have been issued) immediately before the close of business on the date or dates on which this Warrant is exercised in compliance with this Section 2 (or if any such date is a non-Business Day, on the next succeeding Business Day). If this Warrant is exercised, certificates or book entry notations for the Warrant Shares shall be delivered to Holder as soon as practicable.

Section 3.            No Fractional Shares or Scrip. No fractional shares or scrip representing fractional shares shall be issued upon the exercise of this Warrant. As to any fraction of a share which the Holder would otherwise be entitled to purchase upon such exercise, the Company shall, at its election, either pay a cash adjustment in respect of such final fraction in an amount equal to such fraction multiplied by the Exercise Price or round up to the next whole share.

Section 4.            No Impairment. The Company will not, by amendment of its charter or through any reorganization, transfer of assets, consolidation, merger, dissolution, issue or sale of securities or any other voluntary action, avoid or seek to avoid the observance or performance of any of the terms of this Warrant, but will at all times in good faith assist in the carrying out of all such terms and in the taking of all such action as may be necessary or appropriate in order to protect the rights of the Holder against impairment. The Company shall not close its books against the issuance of any Warrant Shares in any manner that interferes with the timely exercise of this Warrant.

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Section 5.            Certain Adjustments.

(a)          Stock Dividends and Splits. If the Company, at any time while this Warrant is outstanding: (i) pays a stock dividend or otherwise makes a distribution or distributions on shares of its Common Stock or any other equity or equity equivalent securities payable in shares of Common Stock (which, for avoidance of doubt, shall not include any shares of Common Stock issued by the Company upon exercise of this Warrant), (ii) subdivides outstanding shares of Common Stock into a larger number of shares, (iii) combines (including by way of reverse stock split) outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (iv) issues by reclassification of shares of the Common Stock any shares of capital stock of the Company, then in each case the Exercise Price shall be multiplied by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock (excluding treasury shares, if any) outstanding immediately before such event and of which the denominator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after such event, and the number of shares issuable upon exercise of this Warrant shall be proportionately adjusted such that the aggregate Exercise Price of this Warrant shall remain unchanged. Prior to the Stockholder Filing, any adjustments pursuant to this Section 5(a) shall take into account the number of shares of Common Stock into which each share of Series A Preferred Stock will be converted. Any adjustment made pursuant to this Section 5(a) shall become effective immediately after the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such dividend or distribution and shall become effective immediately after the effective date in the case of a subdivision, combination or reclassification.

(b)          Calculations. All calculations under this Section 5 shall be made to the nearest cent or the nearest 1/100th of a share, as the case may be. For purposes of this Section 5, the number of shares of Common Stock deemed to be issued and outstanding as of a given date shall be the sum of the number of shares of Common Stock (excluding treasury shares, if any) issued and outstanding.

(c)          Fundamental Transactions. In connection with any Fundamental Transaction (as defined below), the Company shall make appropriate provision so that this Warrant shall thereafter be exercisable for either (i) shares of the successor entity based upon the conversion ratio, or (ii) other consideration, if any, payable to holders of Warrant Shares in connection with the Fundamental Transaction. The provisions of this section shall apply similarly and equally to successive Fundamental Transactions and shall be applied without regard to any limitations on the exercise of this Warrant. “Fundamental Transaction” means (A) the Company, directly or indirectly, in one or more related transactions merges or consolidates with or into another person or entity; or (B) the Company, directly or indirectly, sells, assigns, transfers, conveys or otherwise disposes (including by way of a license or sublicense) of all or substantially all of the properties or assets of the Company and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis to another person or entity; or (C) any, direct or indirect, purchase offer, tender offer or exchange offer (whether by the Company or another Person) is completed pursuant to which holders of Common Stock are permitted to sell, tender or exchange their shares for other securities, cash or property and has been accepted by the holders of 50% or more of the outstanding Common Stock; or (D) the Company, directly or indirectly, in one or more related transactions effects any reclassification, reorganization or recapitalization of the Common Stock or any compulsory share exchange pursuant to which the Common Stock is effectively converted into or exchanged for other securities, cash or property; or (E) the Company reorganizes, recapitalizes or reclassifies its Common Stock.

(d)          Notice to Holder.

i.            Adjustment to Exercise Price. Whenever the Exercise Price is adjusted pursuant to any provision of this Section 5, the Company shall promptly mail to the Holder a notice setting forth the Exercise Price after such adjustment and any resulting adjustment to the number of Warrant Shares and setting forth a brief statement of the facts requiring such adjustment.

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ii.         Notice to Allow Exercise by Holder. If (A) the Company shall declare a dividend (or any other distribution in whatever form) on the Common Stock, (B) the Company shall declare a special nonrecurring cash dividend on or a redemption of the Common Stock, (C) the Company shall authorize the granting to all holders of the Common Stock rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase any shares of capital stock of any class or of any rights, (D) the approval of any stockholders of the Company shall be required in connection with any reclassification of the Common Stock, any consolidation or merger to which the Company is a party, any sale or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, or any compulsory share exchange whereby the Common Stock is converted into other securities, cash or property, or (E) the Company shall authorize the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up of the affairs of the Company, then, in each case, the Company shall cause to be mailed to the Holder at its last address as it shall appear upon the Warrant Register of the Company, concurrently with any notice provide to holders of the Company’s Common Stock or filed with the Commission, a notice stating (x) the date on which a record is to be taken for the purpose of such dividend, distribution, redemption, rights or warrants, or if a record is not to be taken, the date as of which the holders of the Common Stock of record to be entitled to such dividend, distributions, redemption, rights or warrants are to be determined or (y) the date on which such reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or share exchange is expected to become effective or close, and the date as of which it is expected that holders of the Common Stock of record shall be entitled to exchange their shares of the Common Stock for securities, cash or other property deliverable upon such reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or share exchange; provided that the failure to mail such notice or any defect therein or in the mailing thereof shall not affect the validity of the corporate action required to be specified in such notice. The Holder shall remain entitled to exercise this Warrant during the period commencing on the date of such notice to the effective date of the event triggering such notice except as may otherwise be expressly set forth herein.

Section 6.            Compliance with Securities Laws; Disposition of Warrant or Warrant Shares

(a)          Compliance with Securities Laws. Holder, by accepting this Warrant, represents to the Company that this Warrant and the Warrant Shares to be issued upon exercise hereof are being acquired for its own account for investment purposes only and not with a view to distribution or resale, and that Holder will not offer, sell or otherwise dispose of this Warrant or any Warrant Shares except under circumstances that will not result in a violation of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), or any state or other securities laws. This Warrant, any Warrant subsequently issued to Holder, and all certificates representing the Warrant Shares issued hereunder (unless registered under the Act and any applicable state or other securities law) shall be stamped or imprinted with a legend in substantially the following form:

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[THIS WARRANT HAS] [THE SECURITIES EVIDENCED HEREBY HAVE] NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR ANY STATE OR OTHER SECURITIES LAWS AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, TRANSFERRED OR ASSIGNED EXCEPT (i) PURSUANT TO REGISTRATIONS THEREOF UNDER SUCH LAWS, OR (ii) IF, IN THE OPINION OF COUNSEL THE PROPOSED TRANSFER MAY BE EFFECTED IN COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS WITHOUT SUCH REGISTRATIONS.

Section 7.            Transfer of Warrant. Holder shall not assign or transfer this Warrant or any of its rights hereunder without the prior written consent of the Company, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed, except that Holder shall have the right to assign or transfer this Warrant and all rights hereunder, in whole or in part, to (a) any affiliate of Holder, (b) any employee of any affiliate of Holder, (c) any limited partner or other member of any affiliate of Holder one or more immediately family members of Holder or any trust for the benefit of Holder, or (d) one or more immediate family members of Holder. Subject to the foregoing, this Warrant and all rights hereunder are transferable, in whole or in part, at the office or agency of the Company by Holder in person or by duly authorized attorney, upon surrender of this Warrant, together with the assignment form attached hereto as Exhibit B duly completed and executed. Subject to the foregoing, this Warrant and all rights hereunder are transferable, in whole or in part, at the office or agency of the Company by Holder in person or by duly authorized attorney, upon surrender of this Warrant, together with the assignment form attached hereto as Exhibit B duly completed and executed. Upon any such permitted transfer, the Company shall execute and deliver to the persons entitled thereto a new Warrant or Warrants of like tenor and representing the right to purchase, in the aggregate, the same number of Warrant Shares as this Warrant then entitles Holder to purchase. The term “Warrant” as used herein includes any such Warrant or Warrants issued by the Company to any such transferee(s). “Affiliate” has the meaning set forth in Rule 12b- 2 of the Exchange Act.

Section 8.            Warrant Register. The Company shall register this Warrant, upon records to be maintained by the Company for that purpose, in the name of the record Holder hereof from time to time. The Company may deem and treat the registered Holder of this Warrant as the absolute owner hereof for the purpose of any exercise hereof or any distribution to the Holder, and for all other purposes, absent actual notice to the contrary.

Section 9.            Miscellaneous.

(a)          No Rights as Stockholder Until Exercise. This Warrant does not entitle the Holder to any voting rights, dividends or other rights as a stockholder of the Company prior to the exercise hereof.

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(b)          Loss, Theft, Destruction or Mutilation of Warrant. The Company covenants that upon receipt by the Company of evidence reasonably satisfactory to it of the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of this Warrant or any stock certificate relating to the Warrant Shares, and in case of loss, theft or destruction, of indemnity or security reasonably satisfactory to it (which, in the case of the Warrant, shall not include the posting of any bond), and upon surrender and cancellation of such Warrant or stock certificate, if mutilated, the Company will make and deliver a new Warrant or stock certificate of like tenor and dated as of such cancellation, in lieu of such Warrant or stock certificate.

(c)          Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays, etc. If the last or appointed day for the taking of any action or the expiration of any right required or granted herein shall not be a Business Day, then, such action may be taken or such right may be exercised on the next succeeding Business Day.

(d)          Authorized Shares. The Company covenants that, during the period the Warrant is outstanding, it will reserve from its authorized and unissued capital stock (i) prior to the Stockholder Filing, a sufficient number of shares of Series A Preferred Stock, and (ii) after the Stockholder Filing, a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock, to provide for the issuance of the Warrant Shares upon the exercise of any purchase rights under this Warrant. The Company further covenants that its issuance of this Warrant shall constitute full authority to its officers who are charged with the duty of executing stock certificates to execute and issue the necessary Warrant Shares upon the exercise of the purchase rights under this Warrant. The Company will take all such reasonable action as may be necessary to assure that such Warrant Shares may be issued as provided herein without violation of any applicable law or regulation, or of any requirements of the principal national securities exchange upon which the Common Stock then may be listed. The Company covenants that all Warrant Shares which may be issued upon the exercise of the purchase rights represented by this Warrant will, upon exercise of the purchase rights represented by this Warrant and payment for such Warrant Shares in accordance herewith, be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and free from all taxes, liens and charges created by the Company in respect of the issue thereof (other than taxes in respect of any transfer occurring contemporaneously with such issue).

(e)          Law and Jurisdiction. All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of this Warrant shall be determined in accordance with the choice of law and forum provisions of the Purchase Agreement.

(f)           Non-waiver and Expenses. No course of dealing or any delay or failure to exercise any right hereunder on the part of Holder shall operate as a waiver of such right or otherwise prejudice the Holder’s rights, powers or remedies.

(g)          Notices. Any notice, request or other document required or permitted to be given or delivered to the Holder by the Company shall be delivered in accordance with the notice provisions of the Purchase Agreement.

(h)          Limitation of Liability. No provision hereof, in the absence of any affirmative action by the Holder to exercise this Warrant to purchase Warrant Shares, and no enumeration herein of the rights or privileges of the Holder, shall give rise to any liability of the Holder for the purchase price of any Common Stock or as a stockholder of the Company, whether such liability is asserted by the Company or by creditors of the Company.

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(i)          Remedies. The Holder, in addition to being entitled to exercise all rights granted by law, including recovery of damages, will be entitled to specific performance of its rights under this Warrant. The Company agrees that monetary damages would not be adequate compensation for any loss incurred by reason of a breach by it of the provisions of this Warrant and hereby agrees to waive and not to assert the defense in any action for specific performance that a remedy at law would be adequate.

(j)          Successors and Assigns. Subject to applicable securities laws, this Warrant and the rights and obligations evidenced hereby shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the successors and permitted assigns of the Company and the successors and permitted assigns of Holder. The provisions of this Warrant are intended to be for the benefit of any Holder from time to time of this Warrant and shall be enforceable by the Holder or holder of Warrant Shares.

(k)          Amendment. This Warrant may be modified or amended or the provisions hereof waived with the written consent of the Company and the Holder.

(l)          Severability. Wherever possible, each provision of this Warrant shall be interpreted in such manner as to be effective and valid under applicable law, but if any provision of this Warrant shall be prohibited by or invalid under applicable law, such provision shall be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or invalidity, without invalidating the remainder of such provisions or the remaining provisions of this Warrant.

(m)         Headings. The headings used in this Warrant are for the convenience of reference only and shall not, for any purpose, be deemed a part of this Warrant.

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(n)          Holder’s Exercise Limitation. The Company shall not issue any Warrant Shares, and a Holder shall not have the right to receive any Warrant Shares, upon exercise of this Warrant, to the extent (and only to the extent and only for so long as), that after giving effect to such issuance after exercise as set forth on the applicable Notice of Exercise, the Holder (together with the Holder’s Affiliates, and any other Persons acting as a group together with the Holder or any of the Holder’s Affiliates), would beneficially own in excess of the Beneficial Ownership Limitation (as defined below). For purposes of the foregoing sentence, the number of shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by the Holder and its Affiliates shall include the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of this Warrant with respect to which such determination is being made, but shall exclude the number of shares of Common Stock which would be issuable upon (i) exercise of the remaining, non-exercised portion of this Warrant beneficially owned by the Holder or any of its Affiliates and (ii) exercise or conversion of the unexercised or non-converted portion of any other securities of the Company (including, without limitation, any other Common Stock Equivalents) subject to a limitation on conversion or exercise analogous to the limitation contained herein beneficially owned by the Holder or any of its Affiliates. Except as set forth in the preceding sentence, for purposes of this section, beneficial ownership shall be calculated in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, it being acknowledged by the Holder that the Company is not representing to the Holder that such calculation is in compliance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the Holder is solely responsible for any schedules required to be filed in accordance therewith. To the extent that the limitation contained in this section applies, the determination of whether this Warrant is exercisable (in relation to other securities owned by the Holder together with any Affiliates) and of which portion of this Warrant is exercisable shall be in the sole discretion of the Holder, and the submission of a Notice of Exercise shall be deemed to be the Holder’s determination of whether this Warrant is exercisable (in relation to other securities owned by the Holder together with any Affiliates) and of which portion of this Warrant is exercisable, in each case subject to the Beneficial Ownership Limitation, and the Company shall have no obligation to verify or confirm the accuracy of such determination. In addition, a determination as to any group status as contemplated above shall be determined in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. For purposes of this section, in determining the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock, a Holder may rely on the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock as reflected in (A) the Company’s most recent periodic or annual report filed with the Commission, as the case may be, (B) a more recent public announcement by the Company or (C) a more recent written notice by the Company or the Transfer Agent setting forth the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding. Upon the written or oral request of a Holder, the Company shall within two Business Days confirm orally and in writing to the Holder the number of shares of Common Stock then outstanding. In any case, the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be determined after giving effect to the conversion or exercise of securities of the Company, including this Warrant, by the Holder or its Affiliates since the date as of which such number of outstanding shares of Common Stock was reported. The “Beneficial Ownership Limitation” shall initially be set at 19.9% of the number of shares of common stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to the issuance of the Warrant Shares being exercised hereunder, provided that the Holder may increase, decrease or waive the Beneficial Ownership Limitation upon providing the Company with written notice of such action at least 61 days’ in advance of effectiveness (provided that no such 61-day notice period shall be required for an amendment or waiver of the Beneficial Ownership Limitation following the Company’s initial public announcement of the pendency or proposed consummation of a Fundamental Transaction not initiated or controlled by the Holder.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Warrant to be executed by its officer thereunto duly authorized as of the date first above indicated.

ARQULE, INC.
By:
	Name
	Title

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Exhibit A

NOTICE OF EXERCISE

TO: ARQULE, INC.

1. The undersigned hereby elects to purchase __________ Warrant Shares of the Company pursuant to the terms of the attached Warrant (only if exercised in full), and tenders herewith payment of the exercise price in full, together with all applicable transfer taxes, if any;

2. Payment will be made in lawful money of the United States; or

3. In accordance with the formula set forth in Section 2(e), to exercise this Warrant with respect to the maximum number of Warrant Shares purchasable pursuant to the cashless exercise procedure set forth in Section 2(e).

4. Please issue a certificate or certificates representing said Warrant Shares in the name of the undersigned or in such other name as is specified below:

The Warrant Shares shall be delivered to the following DWAC Account Number or by physical delivery of a certificate to:

5. Accredited Investor. The undersigned certifies that it is an “accredited investor” as defined in Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

Name of Investing Entity:

Signature of Authorized Signatory of Investing Entity:

Name of Authorized Signatory:

Title of Authorized Signatory:

Date:

Exhibit B

ASSIGNMENT FORM

(To assign the foregoing warrant, execute this form and supply required information. Do not use this form to exercise the warrant.)

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, [____] all of or [____] shares of the foregoing Warrant and all rights evidenced thereby are hereby assigned to

 whose address is

.

Dated: _________________, ____

Holder’s Signature:

Holder’s Address:

Signature Guaranteed: 

NOTE: The signature to this Assignment Form must correspond with the name as it appears on the face of the Warrant, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever, and must be guaranteed by a bank or trust company. Officers of corporations and those acting in a fiduciary or other representative capacity should file proper evidence of authority to assign the foregoing Warrant.

EX-10.1

Exhibit 10.1 EXECUTION COPY

SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT

This Securities Purchase Agreement (this “Agreement”) is dated as of November 5, 2017, between ArQule, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and each purchaser identified on the signature pages hereto (each a “Purchaser” and collectively the “Purchasers”).

WHEREAS, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, the Company desires to issue and sell to each Purchaser, and each Purchaser, severally and not jointly, desires to purchase from the Company, securities of the Company as more fully described in this 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.
DEFINITIONS

1.1           Definitions. In addition to the terms defined elsewhere in this Agreement, for all purposes of this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings set forth in this Section 1.1:

“Affiliate” means any Person that, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under common control with a Person as such terms are used in and construed under Rule 405 under the Securities Act.

“Agreement” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the Preamble.

“Blackout Period” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.8 (l).

“Board of Directors” means the board of directors of the Company.

“Business Day” means any day except any Saturday, any Sunday, any day which is a federal legal holiday in the United States or any day on which banking institutions in the State of New York are authorized or required by law or other governmental action to close.

“Certificate of Designations” means the Certificate of Designations of Series A Preferred Stock of the Company, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A.

“Closing” means the closing of the purchase and sale of the Shares pursuant to Section 2.1.

“Closing Date” means November 7, 2017, or such later date as may be mutually agreed by the parties hereto.

“Commission” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

“Common Stock” means the common stock of the Company, par value $0.01 per share, and any other class of securities into which such securities may hereafter be reclassified or changed.

“Common Stock Equivalents” means any securities of the Company which would entitle the holder thereof to acquire at any time Common Stock, including, without limitation, any debt, preferred stock, right, option, warrant or other instrument that is at any time convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for, or otherwise entitles the holder thereof to receive, Common Stock.

“Company” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the Preamble.

“Company Counsel” means Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, with offices located at 601 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. 20001.

“DGCL” means the Delaware General Corporation Law.

“DTC” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.8(m).

“Effectiveness Date” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.8(c).

“Environmental Laws” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(k).

“Evaluation Date” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(o).

“Event” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.8(d).

“Event Date” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.8(d).

“Event Payments” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.8(d).

“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

“FCPA” means the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended.

“GAAP” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(g).

“Hazardous Materials” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(k).

“Initial Exercise Date” means the Closing Date.

“Intellectual Property” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(n).

“Liens” means a lien, charge, pledge, security interest, encumbrance, right of first refusal, preemptive right or other material restriction.

“Material Adverse Effect” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(a).

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“Material Permits” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(l).

“Money Laundering Laws” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(w).

“OFAC” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(x).

“Person” means an individual or corporation, partnership, trust, incorporated or unincorporated association, joint venture, limited liability company, joint stock company, government (or an agency or subdivision thereof) or other entity of any kind.

“Pontifax” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.11(a)(i).

“Preferred Stock” means the series A preferred stock of the Company, par value $0.01 per share, which shall be automatically converted on a per share basis into such number of shares of Common Stock as is set forth in the Certificate of Designations.

“Proceeding” means an action, claim, suit, investigation or proceeding (including, without limitation, an informal investigation or partial proceeding, such as a deposition), whether commenced or threatened.

“Prospectus” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.8 (a).

“Purchaser” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in the Preamble.

“Purchaser Nominee” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.11(a)(i).

“Qualifying Ownership Interest” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.11(e).

“Registrable Securities” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.8 (a).

“Registration Date” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.8(a).

“Regulation FD” means Regulation FD promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Exchange Act, as such Regulation may be amended or interpreted from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission having substantially the same purpose and effect as such Regulation.

“Removal Date” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.8(m).

“Required Approvals” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(d).

“Resale Registration Statement” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.8 (a).

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“Restrictive Legend” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.2(g)(v).

“SEC Reports” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.1(g).

“Securities” means the Shares, the Warrants and the Warrant Shares.

“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

“Shares” means the shares of Preferred Stock of the Company purchased hereunder in such amount as specified below such Purchaser’s name on the signature page of this Agreement and next to the heading “Shares”.

“Share Price” means an amount equal to 1,000 times $1.135.

“Short Sales” means all “short sales” as defined in Rule 200 of Regulation SHO under the Exchange Act (but shall not be deemed to include the location and/or reservation of borrowable shares of Common Stock).

“Stockholder Filing” means the filing by the Company, and effectiveness of an amended and restated Certificate of Incorporation duly approved by the stockholders of the Company in accordance with applicable law, of the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws pursuant to which the number of shares of Common Stock authorized thereunder is increased, to be completed not later than five (5) Business Days from the approval of the stockholders of the Company of such amendment to the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation.

“Subscription Amount” means, as to each Purchaser, the aggregate amount to be paid for Shares and the Warrant Shares and purchased hereunder as specified below such Purchaser’s name on the signature page of this Agreement and next to the heading “Subscription Amount,” in United States dollars and in immediately available funds.

“Suspension” shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 4.8 (f).

“Trading Market” means any of the following markets or exchanges on which the Common Stock is listed or quoted for trading on the date in question: the Nasdaq Global Market (or any successor to any of the foregoing).

“Transaction Documents” means this Agreement and any other documents or agreements executed in connection with the transactions contemplated hereunder.

“Transfer Agent” means American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, the current transfer agent of the Company, with a mailing address of 6201 15^th Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11219, and any successor transfer agent of the Company.

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“Warrants” means, collectively, the Preferred Stock purchase warrants delivered to the Purchasers at the Closing in accordance with Section 2.1 hereof, which Warrants shall be exercisable beginning from the Initial Exercise Date and have a term of exercise equal to four (4) years from the date of the Stockholder Filing.

“Warrant Shares” means the shares of Preferred Stock issuable upon exercise of the Warrants.

ARTICLE II.
PURCHASE AND SALE

2.1           Purchase and Sale; Closing. On the Closing Date, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, the Company agrees to sell, and the Purchasers, severally and not jointly, agree to purchase, up to an aggregate of $9,500,000 of Shares and Warrants at a price equal to the Share Price. Each Purchaser’s Subscription Amount and number of Shares and Warrant Shares purchased shall be set forth on the signature page hereto executed by such Purchaser. The Company shall deliver to each Purchaser its respective Shares and Warrants as determined pursuant to Section 2.2(a), and the Company and each Purchaser shall deliver the other items set forth in Section 2.2 at the Closing. Upon satisfaction of the covenants and conditions set forth in Sections 2.2 and 2.3, the Closing, as the case may be, shall occur at the offices of the Company Counsel or such other location as the parties shall mutually agree.

2.2           Deliveries.

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

(i) this Agreement duly executed by the Company;

(ii) a copy of the irrevocable instructions to the Transfer Agent instructing the Transfer Agent to deliver, on an expedited basis, to such Purchaser, either in book entry form in the Direct Registration System or in the form of a stock certificate, as indicated by such Purchaser, the number of Shares set forth on the Purchaser’s signature page to this Agreement;

(iii) a Warrant, registered in the name of the Purchaser, to purchase (i) prior to the Stockholder Filing, the number of shares of Preferred Stock set forth on the Purchaser’s signature page to this Agreement, with an exercise price equal to $ 1,750 per share or (ii) after the Stockholder Filing, the number of shares of Common Stock equal to the product of the number of shares of Preferred Stock multiplied by 1,000 with an exercise price of $1.75 per share, in each case subject to adjustment as set forth therein;

(iv) an opinion of the Company’s legal counsel reasonably satisfactory to counsel to the Purchasers, dated as of the Closing Date;

(v) a duly signed Certificate of Designations; and

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(vi) a certificate by an officer of the Company certifying that the closing conditions in Section 2.3(a) have been met.

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

(i) this Agreement duly executed by such Purchaser; and

(ii) funds equal to such Purchaser’s Subscription Amount by wire transfer to the account specified in writing by the Company or as otherwise directed by the Company for delivery to the account of the Company to be delivered promptly upon Closing.

2.3           Closing Conditions.

(a) The obligations of the Company hereunder in connection with the Closing are subject to the following conditions being met:

(i) the accuracy in all material respects on the Closing Date of the representations and warranties of the Purchasers contained herein (unless as of a specific date therein in which case they shall be accurate as of such date);

(ii) all obligations, covenants and agreements of each Purchaser required to be performed at or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed or waived; and

(iii) the delivery by each Purchaser of the items set forth in Section 2.2(b) of this Agreement.

(b) The respective obligations of the Purchasers hereunder in connection with the Closing are subject to the following conditions being met, any one or more of which may be waived in whole or in part by the Purchasers:

(i) the accuracy in all material respects on the Closing Date of the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein (unless as of a specific date therein in which case they shall be accurate as of such date);

(ii) all obligations, covenants and agreements of the Company required to be performed or waived at or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed;

(iii) the delivery by the Company of the items set forth in Section 2.2(a) of this Agreement;

(iv) no Material Adverse Effect with respect to the Company since the date hereof shall have occurred;

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(v) no voluntary or involuntary Proceeding for the reorganization, bankruptcy, dissolution or winding up of the Company shall have occurred; and

(vi) from the date hereof to the Closing Date, trading in the Common Stock shall not have been suspended by the Commission or the Company’s principal Trading Market, and, at any time prior to the Closing Date trading in securities generally as reported by Bloomberg L.P. shall not have been suspended or limited, or minimum prices shall not have been established on securities whose trades are reported by such service, or on any Trading Market, nor shall a banking moratorium have been declared either by the United States or New York State authorities nor shall there have occurred any material outbreak or escalation of hostilities or other national or international calamity of such magnitude in its effect on any financial market which, in each case, in the reasonable judgment of such Purchaser, makes it impracticable or inadvisable to purchase the Shares at the Closing.

ARTICLE III.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

3.1           Representations and Warranties of the Company. The Company hereby makes the following representations and warranties to each Purchaser as of the date hereof and the Closing Date:

(a)          Organization and Qualification. The Company is an entity duly incorporated, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the state of Delaware, with the requisite corporate power and authority to own and use its properties and assets and to carry on its business as currently conducted. The Company is not in violation nor default of any of the provisions of its certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter documents. The Company is duly qualified to conduct business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation in each jurisdiction in which the nature of the business conducted or property owned by it makes such qualification necessary, except where the failure to be so qualified or in good standing, as the case may be, could not have or reasonably be expected to result in: (i) a material adverse effect on the legality, validity or enforceability of any Transaction Document, (ii) a material adverse effect on the results of operations, assets, business, prospects or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Company or (iii) a material adverse effect on the Company’s ability to perform in any material respect on a timely basis its obligations under any Transaction Document (any of (i), (ii) or (iii), a “Material Adverse Effect”) and no Proceeding has been instituted in any such jurisdiction revoking, limiting or curtailing or seeking to revoke, limit or curtail such power and authority or qualification.

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(b)          Authorization; Enforcement. The Company has the requisite corporate power and authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and each of the other Transaction Documents and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder. The execution and delivery of this Agreement and each of the other Transaction Documents by the Company and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby have been duly authorized by all necessary action on the part of the Company and no further action is required by the Company, the Board of Directors or the Company’s stockholders in connection herewith or therewith (including, without limitation, for purposes of Section 203 of the DGCL) other than in connection with the Required Approvals. This Agreement and each other Transaction Document to which it is a party has been (or upon delivery will have been) duly executed by the Company and, when delivered in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof, will constitute the valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except (i) as limited by general equitable principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other laws of general application affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as limited by laws relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies and (iii) insofar as indemnification and contribution provisions may be limited by applicable law.

(c)          No Conflicts. The execution, delivery and performance by the Company of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party, the issuance and sale of the Securities and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby do not and will not (i) conflict with or violate any provision of the Company’s certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws or other organizational or charter documents, or (ii) conflict with, or constitute a default (or an event that with notice or lapse of time or both would become a default) under, result in the creation of any Lien upon any of the properties or assets of the Company, or give to others any rights of termination, amendment, acceleration or cancellation (with or without notice, lapse of time or both) of, any agreement, credit facility, debt or other instrument (evidencing a Company debt or otherwise) or other understanding to which the Company is a party or by which any property or asset of the Company is bound or affected, or (iii) subject to the Required Approvals, conflict with or result in a violation of Section 203 of the DGCL or any other law, rule, regulation, order, judgment, injunction, decree or other restriction of any court or governmental authority to which the Company is subject (including, without limitation, federal and state securities laws and regulations), or by which any property or asset of the Company is bound or affected; except in the case of each of clauses (ii) and (iii), such as could not have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(d)          Filings, Consents and Approvals. The Company is not required to obtain any consent, waiver, authorization or order of, give any notice to, or make any filing or registration with, any court or other federal, state, local or other governmental authority or other Person in connection with the execution, delivery and performance by the Company of the Transaction Documents, other than: (i) such filings as are required to be made under applicable federal and state securities laws (collectively, the “Required Approvals”) and (ii) after the Stockholder Filing, application(s) to the applicable Trading Market for the listing of the Shares and Warrant Shares for trading thereon in the time and manner required thereby.

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(e)          Issuance of the Securities. The Securities are duly authorized and, when issued and paid for in accordance with the applicable Transaction Documents, will be duly and validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens imposed by the Company. The Company has reserved from its duly authorized capital stock the maximum number of shares of Preferred Stock issuable pursuant to this Agreement.

(f)          Capitalization. The Company has not issued any capital stock since its most recently filed SEC Report under the Exchange Act, other than pursuant to the exercise of employee stock options under the Company’s stock option plans, the issuance of shares of Common Stock to employees pursuant to the Company’s employee stock purchase plans, the issuance of shares of Common Stock pursuant to the Company’s at-the-market sales agreement, and pursuant to the conversion and/or exercise of Common Stock Equivalents outstanding as of the date of the most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act, except as disclosed in the most recently filed SEC Report under the Exchange Act. No Person has any right of first refusal, preemptive right, right of participation, or any similar right to participate in the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents. No further approval or authorization of any stockholder, the Board of Directors or others is required for the issuance and sale of the Securities. There are no stockholders agreements, voting agreements or other similar agreements with respect to the Company’s capital stock to which the Company is a party or, to the knowledge of the Company, between or among any of the Company’s stockholders.

(g)          SEC Reports; Financial Statements. The Company has filed all reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents required to be filed by the Company under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, including pursuant to Section 13(a) thereof, for the two years preceding the date hereof (or such shorter period as the Company was required by law or regulation to file such material) (the foregoing materials, including the exhibits thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein, being collectively referred to herein as the “SEC Reports”) on a timely basis or has received a valid extension of such time of filing and has filed any such SEC Reports prior to the expiration of any such extension. As of their respective dates, the SEC Reports complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, as applicable, and none of the SEC Reports, when filed, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. The financial statements of the Company included in the SEC Reports comply in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and the rules and regulations of the Commission with respect thereto as in effect at the time of filing. Such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent basis during the periods involved (“GAAP”), except as may be otherwise specified in such financial statements or the notes thereto and except that unaudited financial statements may not contain all footnotes required by GAAP, and fairly present in all material respects the financial position of the Company as of and for the dates thereof and the results of operations and cash flows for the periods then ended, subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal, immaterial, year-end audit adjustments.

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(h)          Material Changes; Undisclosed Events, Liabilities or Developments. Since the date of the latest audited financial statements included within the SEC Reports, except as specifically disclosed in a subsequent SEC Report filed prior to the date hereof, (i) there has been no event, occurrence or development that has had or that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, (ii) the Company has not incurred any liabilities (contingent or otherwise) other than (A) trade payables and accrued expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice (B) liabilities not required to be reflected in the Company’s financial statements pursuant to GAAP or disclosed in filings made with the Commission and (C) non-cash accounting measures that have effect of reducing shareholder equity, (iii) the Company has not altered its method of accounting, (iv) the Company has not declared or made any dividend or distribution of cash or other property to its stockholders or purchased, redeemed or made any agreements to purchase or redeem any shares of its capital stock and (v) the Company has not issued any equity securities to any officer, director or Affiliate, except pursuant to existing Company stock option plans. The Company does not have pending before the Commission any request for confidential treatment of information. Except for the issuance of the Securities contemplated by this Agreement, no event, liability, fact, circumstance, occurrence or development has occurred or exists or is reasonably expected to occur or exist with respect to the Company or its businesses, prospects, properties, operations, assets or financial condition that would be required to be disclosed by the Company under applicable securities laws at the time this representation is made or deemed made that has not been publicly disclosed at least one Business Day prior to the date that this representation is made.

(i)          Compliance. The Company is not: (i) in default under or in violation of (and no event has occurred that has not been waived that, with notice or lapse of time or both, would result in a default by the Company), nor has the Company received notice of a claim that it is in default under or that it is in violation of, any indenture, loan or credit agreement or any other agreement or instrument to which it is a party or by which it or any of its properties is bound (whether or not such default or violation has been waived), (ii) in violation of any judgment, decree or order of any court, arbitrator or other governmental authority or (iii) or has been in violation of any statute, rule, ordinance or regulation of any governmental authority, including without limitation all foreign, federal, state and local laws relating to taxes, environmental protection, occupational health and safety, product quality and safety and employment and labor matters, except in each case as could not have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(j)          Application of Takeover Protections. The Company has taken all necessary action, if any, in order to render inapplicable any control share acquisition, business combination, poison pill (including any distribution under a rights agreement), or other similar anti-takeover provision pursuant to its charter documents or the laws of its state of incorporation that is or could become applicable to the Purchasers as a result of the Purchasers and the Company fulfilling their obligations or exercising their rights pursuant to the Transaction Documents.

(k)         Environmental Laws. The Company (i) is in compliance with all federal, state, local and foreign laws relating to pollution or protection of human health or the environment (including ambient air, surface water, groundwater, land surface or subsurface strata), including laws relating to emissions, discharges, releases or threatened releases of chemicals, pollutants, contaminants, or toxic or hazardous substances or wastes (collectively, “Hazardous Materials”) into the environment, or otherwise relating to the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, treatment, storage, disposal, transport or handling of Hazardous Materials, as well as all authorizations, codes, decrees, demands, or demand letters, injunctions, judgments, licenses, notices or notice letters, orders, permits, plans or regulations, issued, entered, promulgated or approved thereunder (“Environmental Laws”); (ii) has received all permits, licenses or other approvals required of it under applicable Environmental Laws to conduct its businesses; and (iii) is in compliance with all terms and conditions of any such permit, license or approval except where in each of clauses (i), (ii) and (iii), the failure to so comply could not be reasonably expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.

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(l)          Regulatory Permits. The Company possess all certificates, authorizations and permits issued by the appropriate federal, state, local or foreign regulatory authorities necessary to conduct its businesses as described in the SEC Reports, except where the failure to possess such permits could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect (“Material Permits”), and the Company has not received any notice of Proceedings relating to the revocation or modification of any Material Permit.

(m)          Title to Assets. The Company has good and marketable title to all real property owned by it and good and marketable title in all personal property owned by it that is material to the business of the Company, in each case free and clear of all Liens, except for (i) Liens as do not materially affect the value of such property and do not materially interfere with the use made and proposed to be made of such property by the Company and (ii) Liens for the payment of federal, state or other taxes, for which appropriate reserves have been made therefor in accordance with GAAP and, the payment of which is neither delinquent nor subject to penalties. Any real property and facilities held under lease by the Company is held by it under valid, subsisting and enforceable leases with which the Company is in compliance.

(n)          Intellectual Property. The Company owns or possesses adequate rights to use all patents, patent applications, patent rights, licenses, inventions, copyrights, know-how (including trade secrets and other unpatented and/or unpatentable proprietary or confidential information, systems or procedures), trademarks, trademark registrations, service marks, service mark registrations, trade names, mask work rights and other intellectual property necessary to carry on the business now operated by it or proposed to be operated by it as described in the SEC Reports (collectively, “Intellectual Property”), except where the lack of such ownership or rights to use would not have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company has not received a notice (written or otherwise) that any of the Intellectual Property has expired, terminated or been abandoned, or is essential for the Company’s business and is expected to expire or terminate or be abandoned within one (1) year from the date of this Agreement. Except as disclosed in the SEC Reports, or as would not, individually or in the aggregate have a Material Adverse Effect, to the best of the Company’s knowledge, (i) there is no infringement by third parties engaged in commercial activity of any Intellectual Property of the Company relating to the Company’s business and (ii) there are no non-commercial activities being performed by any third parties which, upon commercialization thereof, could reasonably be expected to infringe on the Intellectual Property of the Company. The Company has taken all reasonable actions necessary to perfect its ownership of and interest in the Intellectual Property.

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(o)          Sarbanes-Oxley; Internal Accounting Controls. The Company is in material compliance with any and all applicable requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 that are effective as of the date hereof, and any and all applicable rules and regulations promulgated by the Commission thereunder that are effective as of the date hereof, as of the Closing Date. The Company maintains a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurance that: (i) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorizations, (ii) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP and to maintain asset accountability, (iii) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization, and (iv) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with the existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences. The Company has established disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the Company and designed such disclosure controls and procedures to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms. The Company’s certifying officers have evaluated the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures of the Company as of the end of the period covered by the most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act (such date, the “Evaluation Date”). The Company presented in its most recently filed periodic report under the Exchange Act the conclusions of the certifying officers about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures based on their evaluations as of the Evaluation Date. Since the Evaluation Date, there have been no changes in the internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in the Exchange Act) of the Company that have materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the internal control over financial reporting of the Company.

(p)          Disclosure. Except with respect to the material terms and conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, the Company confirms that neither it nor any other Person acting on its behalf has provided the Purchaser or its agents or counsel with any information that it believes constitutes or might constitute material, non-public information which is not otherwise disclosed in the Resale Registration Statement. The Company understands and confirms that the Purchaser will rely on the foregoing representation in effecting transactions in securities of the Company. The Company acknowledges and agrees that Purchaser makes or has made no representations or warranties with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby other than those specifically set forth in Section 3.2 hereof.

(q)          Investment Company. The Company is not, and is not an Affiliate of, and immediately after receipt of payment for the Securities, will not be or be an Affiliate of, an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The Company shall conduct its business in a manner so that it will not become an “investment company” subject to registration under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

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(r)          Shell Company. The Company has never been a shell company (as defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act).

(s)          No Integrated Offering. Assuming the accuracy of the Purchasers’ representations and warranties set forth in Section 3.2, neither the Company, nor any of its Affiliates, nor any Person acting on its or their behalf has, directly or indirectly, made any offers or sales of any security or solicited 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 any applicable shareholder approval provisions of any Trading Market on which any of the securities of the Company are listed or designated.

(t)          Tax Status. Except for matters that would not, individually or in the aggregate, have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, the Company (i) has made or filed all United States federal, state and local income and all foreign income and franchise tax returns, reports and declarations required by any jurisdiction to which it is subject, (ii) has paid all taxes and other governmental assessments and charges that are material in amount, shown or determined to be due on such returns, reports and declarations and (iii) has set aside on its books provision reasonably adequate for the payment of all material taxes for periods subsequent to the periods to which such returns, reports or declarations apply. There are no unpaid taxes in any material amount claimed to be due by the taxing authority of any jurisdiction, and the officers of the Company know of no basis for any such claim.

(u)          Foreign Corrupt Practices. Neither the Company, nor to the knowledge of the Company, any agent or other person acting on behalf of the Company, has (i) directly or indirectly, used any funds for unlawful contributions, gifts, entertainment or other unlawful expenses related to foreign or domestic political activity, (ii) made any unlawful payment to foreign or domestic government officials or employees or to any foreign or domestic political parties or campaigns from corporate funds, (iii) failed to disclose fully any contribution made by the Company (or made by any person acting on its behalf of which the Company is aware) which is in violation of law, or (iv) violated in any material respect any provision of FCPA; except in the case of each of clauses (i) through (iv), such as could not have or reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(v)          Accountants. To the knowledge and belief of the Company, the Company’s accounting firm (i) is a registered public accounting firm as required by the Exchange Act and (ii) has expressed, in the Company’s most recent Form 10-K, its opinion with respect to the financial statements to be included in the Company’s Annual Report for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2016.

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(w)          Regulation M Compliance. The Company has not, and to its knowledge no one acting on its behalf has, (i) taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed to cause or to result in the stabilization or manipulation of the price of any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of any of the Securities, (ii) sold, bid for, purchased, or, paid any compensation for soliciting purchases of, any of the Securities, or (iii) paid or agreed to pay to any Person any compensation for soliciting another to purchase any other securities of the Company.

(x)          Office of Foreign Assets Control. Neither the Company, nor to the Company’s knowledge, any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate of the Company is currently subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department (“OFAC”).

(y)          Money Laundering. The operations of the Company are and have been conducted at all times in compliance with applicable financial record-keeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, applicable money laundering statutes and applicable rules and regulations thereunder (collectively, the “Money Laundering Laws”), and no action or Proceeding by or before any court or governmental agency, authority or body or any arbitrator involving the Company with respect to the Money Laundering Laws is pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened.

3.2           Representations and Warranties of the Purchasers. Each Purchaser, for itself and for no other Purchaser, hereby represents and warrants as of the date hereof, as of the Closing Date to the Company as follows (unless as of a specific date therein):

(a)          Organization; Authority. Such Purchaser is either an individual or an entity duly incorporated or formed, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or formation with full right, corporate, partnership, limited liability company or similar power and authority to enter into and to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and otherwise to carry out its obligations hereunder and thereunder. The execution and delivery of this Agreement and performance by such Purchaser of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership, limited liability company or similar actions, instructions or legal agreements, as applicable, on the part of such Purchaser. Each Transaction Document to which it is a party has been duly executed by such Purchaser, and when delivered by such Purchaser in accordance with the terms hereof, will constitute the valid and legally binding obligation of such Purchaser, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms, except: (i) as limited by general equitable principles and applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium and other laws of general application affecting enforcement of creditors’ rights generally, (ii) as limited by laws relating to the availability of specific performance, injunctive relief or other equitable remedies and (iii) insofar as indemnification and contribution provisions may be limited by the lesser of applicable law or Purchaser’s net Subscription Amount.

(b)          Understandings or Arrangements. Such Purchaser is acquiring the Securities as principal for its own account and has no direct or indirect arrangement or understandings with any other persons to distribute or regarding the distribution of such Securities (this representation and warranty not limiting such Purchaser’s right to sell the Securities otherwise in compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws). Such Purchaser is acquiring the Securities hereunder in the ordinary course of its business.

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(c)          Purchaser Status. At the time such Purchaser was offered the Securities, it was, and as of the date hereof it is, it will be either (i) an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (a)(2), (a)(3), (a)(7) or (a)(8) under the Securities Act or (ii) a “qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule 144A(a) under the Securities Act.

(d)          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.

(e)          Access to Information. Such Purchaser acknowledges that it has had the opportunity to review the Transaction Documents (including all exhibits and schedules thereto) and the SEC Reports and has been afforded, (i) the opportunity to ask such questions as it has deemed necessary of, and to receive answers from, representatives of the Company concerning the terms and conditions of the offering of the Securities and the merits and risks of investing in the Securities; (ii) access to information about the Company and its financial condition, results of operations, business, properties, management and prospects sufficient to enable it to evaluate its investment; and (iii) the opportunity to obtain such additional information that the Company possesses or can acquire without unreasonable effort or expense that is necessary to make an informed investment decision with respect to the investment, including, without limitation, such Purchaser’s review and discussion of the disclosure set forth in the SEC Reports, press releases or publications related to litigation of the Company.

(f)          Certain Transactions and Confidentiality. Other than consummating the transactions contemplated hereunder, such Purchaser has not, nor has any Person acting on behalf of or pursuant to any understanding with such Purchaser, directly or indirectly executed any purchases or sales, including Short Sales, of the securities of the Company during the period commencing as of the time that such Purchaser first received a term sheet (written or oral) from the Company or any other Person representing the Company setting forth the material terms of the transactions contemplated hereunder and ending immediately prior to the execution hereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of a Purchaser that is a multi-managed investment vehicle whereby separate portfolio managers manage separate portions of such Purchaser’s assets and the portfolio managers have no direct knowledge of the investment decisions made by the portfolio managers managing other portions of such Purchaser’s assets, the representation set forth above shall only apply with respect to the portion of assets managed by the portfolio manager that made the investment decision to purchase the Securities covered by this Agreement. Other than to other Persons party to this Agreement or to such Purchaser’s representatives, including, without limitation, its officers, directors, partners, legal and other advisors, employees, agents and Affiliates, such Purchaser has maintained the confidentiality of all disclosures made to it in connection with this transaction (including the existence and terms of this transaction). Notwithstanding the foregoing, for avoidance of doubt, nothing contained in this Section 3.2(f) shall constitute a representation or warranty, or preclude any actions, with respect to the identification of the availability of, or securing of, available shares to borrow in order to effect Short Sales or similar transactions in the future.

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(g)          Purchaser Acknowledgements. In connection with the purchase and sale of the Securities, each Purchaser understands and acknowledges to the Company that:

(i) the offering and sale of the Securities has not been reviewed or approved by the Trading Market or the Commission by reason of the parties’ intention that the offering be exempt from registration under the Securities Act by virtue of the provisions of Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act;

(ii) the Company did not offer the Securities to such Purchaser by way of general solicitation or general advertising;

(iii) the issuance of the Securities has not been qualified under any state securities laws in reliance upon exemptions therefrom;

(iv) the Securities have not been registered under the Securities Act and must be held indefinitely until they are subsequently registered under the Securities Act or such sale is permitted pursuant to an available exemption from such registration requirement; and

(v) the certificate representing the Shares shall bear a legend in substantially the following form (a “Restrictive Legend”):

“THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “ACT”), OR ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS AND MAY NOT BE SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT (I) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE ACT AND COMPLIANCE WITH SUCH STATE SECURITIES LAWS, (II) IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144 OR ANY OTHER EXEMPTION AVAILABLE UNDER THE ACT AND APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS, OR (III) UPON THE DELIVERY TO ARQULE, INC. (THE “COMPANY”) OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL OR OTHER EVIDENCE SATISFACTORY TO THE COMPANY THAT SUCH REGISTRATION AND/ OR COMPLIANCE IS NOT REQUIRED. NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, THESE SECURITIES MAY BE PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE LOAN OR FINANCING ARRANGEMENT SECURED BY THESE SECURITIES.”

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The Company acknowledges and agrees that in the event that the Restrictive Legend has ceased to be applicable to the Shares held by such Purchaser, the Company shall provide such Purchaser, at his, her or its written request, new certificates for such Shares not bearing the legend with respect to which the restriction has ceased and terminated. The Company further acknowledges and agrees that the representations contained in this Section 3.2 shall not modify, amend or affect such Purchaser’s right to rely on the Company’s representations and warranties contained in this Agreement or any representations and warranties contained in any other Transaction Document or any other document or instrument executed and/or delivered in connection with this Agreement or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby.

ARTICLE IV.
OTHER AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES

4.1           Furnishing of Information. Until the earliest of the time that no Purchaser owns Securities, the Company covenants to timely file (or obtain extensions in respect thereof and file within the applicable grace period) all reports required to be filed by the Company after the date hereof pursuant to the Exchange Act.

4.2           Non-Public Information. Except with respect to the material terms and conditions of the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, the Company covenants and agrees that neither it, nor any other Person acting on its behalf will provide the Purchaser or its agents or counsel with any information that the Company believes constitutes material non-public information, unless prior thereto the Purchaser shall have executed a written agreement with the Company regarding the confidentiality and use of such information. The Company understands and confirms that the Purchaser shall be relying on the foregoing covenant in effecting transactions in securities of the Company.

4.3           Use of Proceeds. The Company shall use the net proceeds from the sale of the Securities hereunder for general corporate purposes and shall not use such proceeds in violation of FCPA or OFAC regulations.

4.4           Amendment to Certificate of Incorporation. The Company hereby agrees to seek the approval of the stockholders of the Company of an amendment to the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation at its next annual meeting to be held no later than May 31, 2018 to increase the number of authorized shares of Common Stock. In the event that such consent is not obtained as of the next annual meeting of the Company, the Company hereby agrees to seek such approval at each special or annual meeting of the stockholders of the Company thereafter until such approval is obtained.

4.5           Reservation of Preferred and 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 Preferred Stock for the purpose of enabling the Company to issue Warrant Shares pursuant to this Agreement. After the Stockholder Filing, the Company shall 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 Warrant Shares pursuant to this Agreement.

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4.6           Listing of Common Stock. The Company hereby agrees to use best efforts to maintain the listing or quotation of the Common Stock on the Trading Market on which it is currently listed.

4.7           Certain Transactions. Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, covenants that neither it nor any Affiliate, agent, employee or other Person acting on its behalf or pursuant to any understanding with it will execute any Short Sales of any of the Company’s securities during the period commencing with the execution of this Agreement and ending at such time that such Purchaser’s Warrants have been exercised or expired, such that the Purchaser would have a net-short position in the Company (after taking into account shares underlying the Warrants). Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of a Purchaser that is a multi-managed investment vehicle whereby separate portfolio managers manage separate portions of such Purchaser’s assets and the portfolio managers have no direct knowledge of the investment decisions made by the portfolio managers managing other portions of such Purchaser’s assets, the covenant set forth above shall only apply with respect to the portion of assets managed by the portfolio manager that made the investment decision to purchase the Securities covered by this Agreement.

4.8           Registration Rights.

(a) Within 30 days following the Stockholder Filing and the automatic conversion of the Preferred Stock into Common Stock in accordance with the Certificate of Designations (the “Registration Date”), the Company shall prepare and file with the Commission a registration statement on Form S-3 (or such other form if, at such time, the Company is not eligible to utilize such Form S-3) covering the resale of all of the Registrable Securities from time to time on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 of the Securities Act (the “Resale Registration Statement” including the base prospectus contained therein, the “Prospectus”). For purposes of this Section 4.8, “Registrable Securities” shall mean (i) the Common Stock into which the Preferred Stock has been automatically converted pursuant to the Certificate of Designations, (ii) the Common Stock underlying the Warrants, and (iii) any other shares of Common Stock issuable with respect to the Shares by way of a stock dividend, stock split or other distribution, or in connection with a combination of shares, recapitalization, merger, consolidation or other reorganization; provided that such Registrable Securities shall cease to be Registrable Securities when (i) a registration statement covering such securities has been declared effective by the Commission and such securities have been disposed of pursuant to such effective registration statement, (ii) such securities have been sold under circumstances in which all of the applicable conditions of Rule 144 (or any similar provisions then in force) under the Securities Act were met, (iii) such securities are otherwise transferred and such securities may be resold without subsequent registration under the Securities Act, or (iv) such securities shall have ceased to be outstanding.

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(b) Not less than five (5) Business Days prior to the initial filing of the Resale Registration Statement and not less than three (3) Business Days prior to the filing of any related prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto, the Company shall (i) furnish to the Purchasers copies of all such documents proposed to be filed, which documents will be subject to the review and reasonable comments of the Purchasers, and (ii) cause its officers and directors, counsel and independent registered public accountants to respond to any inquiries from the Purchasers and their advisors. The Company shall permit one counsel designated by the Purchasers to review such Resale Registration Statement, related prospectus, and any amendment or supplement thereto (as well as all requests for acceleration or effectiveness thereof) within the time periods referenced above and shall use reasonable best efforts to reflect in such documents any comments as such counsel may reasonably propose and will not request acceleration of the Resale Registration Statement without prior notice to such counsel.

(c) Upon filing the Resale Registration Statement, the Company shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Resale Registration Statement to be declared effective by the Commission as soon as practicable thereafter, including the filing of amendments and post-effective amendments and supplements to such Resale Registration Statement, but in any event no later than 30 days following the Registration Date (or 90 days following the Registration Date if the Resale Registration Statement will be subject to review by the Staff of the Commission), and in any event within three Business Days following a communication from the Staff of the Commission that it has no further comments to the Resale Registration Statement or will not review the Resale Registration Statement (as applicable, the “Effectiveness Date”). The Company shall otherwise comply with all rules and regulations of the Commission and other governmental and regulatory authorities applicable to the registration of such Registrable Securities and the effectiveness of the Resale Registration Statement.

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(d) If: (i) the Resale Registration Statement is not filed with the Commission on or prior to the Registration Date, (ii) the Resale Registration Statement is not declared effective by the Commission (or otherwise does not become effective) on or prior to the Effectiveness Date or (iii) after the date the Resale Registration Statement is declared effective by the Commission, (a) such Resale Registration Statement ceases for any reason (including without limitation by reason of a stop order, or the Company's failure to update the Resale Registration Statement), to remain continuously effective as to all Registrable Securities included in such Resale Registration Statement or (b) a Blackout Period is imposed for a time period in excess of 15 consecutive or 25 aggregate Business Days during any 12-month period (any such failure or breach in clauses (i) through (iii) above being referred to as an “Event,” and the date on which such Event occurs being referred to as an “Event Date”), then in addition to any other rights the Purchasers may have hereunder or under applicable law, on each such Event Date and on each monthly anniversary of each such Event Date (if the applicable Event shall not have been cured by such date) until the applicable Event is cured, the Company shall pay to each Purchaser an amount in cash, as liquidated damages and not as a penalty, equal to 1% of the aggregate purchase price paid by such Purchaser (“Event Payments”) pursuant to this Agreement for any unregistered Registrable Securities then held by such Purchaser (not to exceed 6% in total). Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that the Company’s failure to file or obtain the effectiveness of such Resale Registration Statement proximately results from the failure of any Purchaser to provide the Company with information reasonably requested by the Company and necessary to complete the Resale Registration Statement in accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act, then no such Purchaser causing the failure described above shall be entitled to Event Payments relating to the failure caused by such Purchaser.

(e) The Company shall maintain such Resale Registration Statement and shall comply with its other obligations under this Section 4.8 until the earlier to occur of (i) such time as the Purchasers own no Registrable Securities and (ii) such time as the Registrable Securities may be resold by the Purchasers pursuant to Rule 144 of the Securities Act without the requirement for the Company to be in compliance with the current public information required under such Rule and without volume or manner-of-sale restrictions.

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(f) The Company shall promptly notify the Purchasers of the effectiveness of the Resale Registration Statement and each post-effective amendment thereto. Additionally, the Company will promptly notify the Purchasers upon the occurrence of any of the following events in respect of the Resale Registration Statement or related prospectus: (i) receipt of any request for additional information by the Commission or any other governmental entity during the period of effectiveness of the Resale Registration Statement or amendments or supplements to the Resale Registration Statement or any related prospectus; (ii) the issuance by the Commission or any other governmental entity of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Resale Registration Statement or the initiation of any Proceedings for that purpose and the Company will promptly use its reasonable best efforts to prevent the issuance of any stop order or to obtain its withdrawal at the earliest possible moment if such stop order should be issued; (iii) receipt of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification or exemption from qualification of the Registrable Securities for sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation of any Proceeding for such purpose; (iv) the happening of any event that, in the reasonable determination of the Company and its counsel, makes any statement made in the Resale Registration Statement or related prospectus or any document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated therein by reference untrue in any material respect or that requires the making of any changes in the Resale Registration Statement, related prospectus or documents so that (or the Company otherwise becomes aware of any statement included in the Resale Registration Statement, related prospectus or document that is untrue in any material respect or that requires the making of any changes in the Resale Registration Statement, related prospectus or document so that), in the case of the Resale Registration Statement, it will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, and that in the case of the related prospectus, it will not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material 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; and (v) the Company’s reasonable determination that a post-effective amendment to the Resale Registration Statement would be appropriate (in which event the Company will promptly make available to the Purchasers any such supplement or amendment to the Resale Registration Statement and, as applicable, the related prospectus). In the event of any suspension of Purchasers’ ability to sell Shares pursuant to the Resale Registration Statement as a result of the foregoing (a “Suspension”), the Company will use its best efforts to cause the use of the prospectus so suspended to be resumed as soon as reasonably practicable after notice of a Suspension to the Purchasers and such Suspension shall be subject to the liquidated damages provisions set forth in Section 4.8 (d) above.

(g) The Company shall furnish to the Purchasers with respect to the Registrable Securities registered under the Resale Registration Statement such number of copies of the Prospectus (including preliminary and supplemental prospectuses and prospectus amendments) as the Purchaser may reasonably request, in order to facilitate the public sale or other disposition of all or any of the Registrable Securities by the Purchaser.

(h) The Company shall file documents required of the Company for normal blue sky clearance in states as shall be reasonably appropriate in the opinion of the Company and its legal counsel; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to qualify to do business or consent to general service of process in any jurisdiction in which it would not otherwise be required to qualify but for this Section 4.8 (h).

(i) All expenses incident to the Company’s compliance with this Section 4.8, including, without limitation, all registration and filing fees, fees and expenses of compliance with securities laws, printing expenses, filing expenses, and fees and disbursements of the Company’s counsel and independent registered public accountants will be borne by the Company.

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(j) The Company shall, at the reasonable request of any Purchaser, prepare and file with the Commission such amendments (including post-effective amendments) and supplements to the Resale Registration Statement and any prospectus used in connection with the Resale Registration Statement as may be necessary in order to make reasonable changes to the plan of distribution set forth in such Resale Registration Statement.

(k) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Purchasers’ rights under this Section 4.8 shall be automatically assignable by the Purchasers to any permitted transferee of all or any portion of such Registrable Securities, to the extent of the Registrable Securities so transferred, if: (i) the Purchaser agrees in writing with the transferee or assignee to assign such rights, and a copy of such agreement is furnished to the Company within a reasonable time after such assignment, (ii) the Company is, within a reasonable time after such transfer or assignment, furnished with written notice of (a) the name and address of such transferee or assignee, and (b) the securities with respect to such registration rights are being transferred or assigned, and (iii) at or before the time the Company receives the written notice contemplated by clause (ii) of this sentence, the transferee or assignee agrees in writing to be bound by the provisions of Section 4.8 of this Agreement. In the event that a Purchaser transfers all or any portion of its Registrable Securities pursuant to this Section 4.8 (k), the Company shall have ten (10) Business Days following the receipt of such notice to file any amendments or supplements necessary to keep the Resale Registration Statement current and effective pursuant to Rule 415. Upon any such assignment, all of the transferring Purchaser’s rights under this Agreement with respect to such transferred securities shall inure to the benefit of the transferee.

(l) If at any time following the date hereof the Resale Registration Statement (or any subsequent registration statement registering the Registrable Securities) is not effective or is not otherwise available for the sale of the Registrable Securities, the Company shall immediately notify the Purchasers in writing that such registration statement is not then effective (the “Blackout Period”) and thereafter shall promptly notify such holder when the registration statement is effective again and available. Neither the Company nor any other Person acting on its behalf will provide a Purchaser or its agents or counsel with any information that it believes constitutes or might constitute material, non-public information including, without limitation, the contemplated filing and timing of filing of a registration statement.

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(m) Following the Stockholder Filing, the Restrictive Legend (or any similar restrictive legend included on the Common Stock issued to the Purchaser following the automatic conversion of its Preferred Stock) shall be removed, and the Company shall issue a certificate without such legend to the holder of the Securities (or Common Stock, as applicable) upon which it is stamped or issue to such holder by electronic delivery at the applicable balance account of The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”), if: (i) such Securities (or Common Stock, as applicable) are registered for resale under the Securities Act, (ii) in connection with a sale, assignment or other transfer, such holder provides the Company with an opinion of counsel, the form and substance of which opinion shall be reasonably acceptable to the Company, that the sale, assignment or transfer of the Securities (or Common Stock, as applicable) may be made without registration under the applicable requirements of the Securities Act or (iii) such holder or its broker provides the Company with a broker representation letter providing to the Company any information the Company deems necessary to determine that such sale is made in compliance with Rule 144 under the Securities Act, including, as may be appropriate, a certification that such holder is not an affiliate of the Company (as defined in Rule 144) and a certification as to the length of time the applicable Securities (or Common Stock, as applicable) have been held. If the Company shall fail for any reason or for no reason to issue to the holder of the Securities within two Business Days after the holder has provided reasonable evidence to the Company of the occurrence of any of (i) through (iii) above (the date such evidence is provided to the Company, the “Removal Date”), a certificate without such legend to the holder or to issue such Securities to such holder by electronic delivery at the applicable balance account at DTC (as defined below), and if on or after such Business Day the holder purchases (in an open market transaction or otherwise) common stock to deliver in satisfaction of a sale by the holder of such Securities (or Common Stock, as applicable) that the holder anticipated receiving without legend from the Company, then the Company shall, within three Business Days promptly honor its obligation to deliver to the holder a certificate or certificates representing such Securities (or Common Stock, as applicable) and pay cash to the holder in an amount equal to the excess (if any) of the holder’s total purchase price (including brokerage commissions, if any) for the common stock so purchased over the product of (A) such number of Shares, times (B) the price at which the sell order giving rise to such purchase obligation was executed. Nothing herein shall limit a Purchaser’s right to pursue any remedies available to it hereunder, at law or in equity including, without limitation, a decree of specific performance and/or injunctive relief with respect to the Company’s failure to timely deliver shares of Common Stock as required pursuant to the terms hereof.

(n) Each Purchaser, severally and not jointly with the other Purchasers, agrees with the Company that such Purchaser will sell any 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 a registration statement, they will be sold only during such time that the registration statement is effective and not withdrawn or suspended, and only as permitted by the registration statement and 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 4.8 is predicated upon the Company’s reliance upon this understanding.

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4.9           Further Assurances. Each party hereto agrees and covenants that at any time and from time to time it shall promptly execute and deliver to the other party such further instruments and documents and take such further action as the other party may reasonably require in order to carry out the full intent and purpose of this Agreement.

4.10         Equal Treatment of Purchasers. No consideration (including any modification of any Transaction Document or any transaction document executed in connection with any other securities purchase agreement entered into on the date hereof by and between the Company and any purchaser of securities of the Company (collectively, the “Other SPAs”)) shall be offered or paid to any Person to amend or consent to a waiver or modification of any provision of this Agreement (or the Other SPAs) unless the same consideration is also offered to all of the parties to this Agreement or unless such consideration consists of warrants and a corresponding adjustment to the applicable purchase price under the Other SPAs. For clarification purposes, this provision constitutes a separate right granted to each applicable purchaser (including each Purchaser) by the Company and negotiated separately by such purchaser, and is intended for the Company to treat the applicable purchasers (including each Purchaser) as a class and shall not in any way be construed as such purchasers acting in concert or as a group with respect to the purchase, disposition or voting of the securities of the Company or otherwise.

4.11         Right to Designate Director.

(a) In addition to the transactions contemplated pursuant to this Agreement, the Company agrees to:

(i) Contemporaneously with the Closing, (i) cause its Board to increase the number of directors on the Board of Directors by one (1) director and (ii) appoint one (1) person nominated, collectively, by Pontifax (China) IV Limited Partnership, Pontifax (Israel) IV Limited Partnership and Pontifax (Cayman) IV Limited Partnership (collectively, “Pontifax” and, such person being nominated, the “Purchaser Nominee”, respectively) as provided in this Section 4.11(a) to the Board of Directors, subject to the fulfillment of its fiduciary duties and the requirements set forth in this Section 4.11; provided, that any such Purchaser Nominee shall be required to be independent, as defined by the Nasdaq listing standards;

(ii) at each meeting of stockholders for election of directors at which the position to be occupied under this Agreement by a Purchaser Nominee on the Board of Directors is to be determined by stockholder election, (1) cause a Purchaser Nominee to be nominated by the Board of Directors for election as a director, subject to the considerations described in clause (a)(i); (2) recommend to its stockholders the election of, and use its best efforts to cause the election to, the Board of Directors, including soliciting proxies for the election of the Purchaser Nominee to the same extent as it does, consistent with past practice, for any other Board nominee for election as a director; and (3) request each then current member of the Board of Directors to vote as a stockholder for approval of the Purchaser Nominee.

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(b) Any Purchaser Nominee shall not be nominated for election or appointed to the Board of Directors unless he or she acknowledges and agrees to be bound by the principles set forth in the Company’s Code of Conduct, and all other Company policies generally applicable to members of the Board of Directors as now in effect or hereafter amended.

(c) In the event of the death, disability, resignation or removal of the Purchaser Nominee, the Company shall cause the prompt election to the Board of Directors of a replacement director designated by Pontifax, subject to the fulfillment of its fiduciary duties and the requirements set forth in this Section 4.11, to fill the resulting vacancy, and such individual shall then be deemed a Purchaser Nominee for all purposes under this Agreement.

(d) So long as the Purchaser Nominee serves as a director on the Board of Directors, the Purchaser Nominee shall be subject to and abide by the Company’s policies and procedures regarding trading in the Company’s securities, including those involving blackout windows on trading, in each case, to the same extent as other directors.

(e) If at any time Pontifax and its affiliates no longer beneficially own in the aggregate at least 50% of the number of shares of Preferred Stock originally issued to Pontifax on the Closing Date or at least 50% of the number of shares of Common Stock issued to Pontifax upon conversion of the Preferred Stock after the Stockholder Filing (as adjusted for any stock splits, recapitalizations and similar transactions, its “Qualifying Ownership Interest”), Pontifax will have no further rights under this Section 4.11, and, at the written request of the Board of Directors, shall use its reasonable best efforts to cause the Purchaser Nominee to resign from the Board of the Directors within fifteen (15) calendar days thereafter. Pontifax shall inform the Company if and when the Purchaser and its affiliates cease to hold its Qualifying Ownership Interest.

(f) Any Purchaser Nominee then serving as a director shall be entitled to the same indemnification in connection with his or her role as a director as the other members of the Board of Directors (including Board committees, if applicable), and upon such Purchaser Nominee’s resignation or failure to stand for re-election, such Purchaser Nominee shall be entitled to the same indemnification as any other former director of the Board of Directors.

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ARTICLE V.
MISCELLANEOUS

5.1           Termination. This Agreement may be terminated by any Purchaser, as to such Purchaser’s obligations hereunder only and without any effect whatsoever on the obligations between the Company and the other Purchasers, by written notice to the other parties, if the Closing has not been consummated on or before November 10, 2017; provided, however, that no such termination will affect the right of any party to sue for any breach by any other party (or parties).

5.2           Fees and Expenses. Except as expressly set forth in the Transaction Documents to the contrary, each party shall pay the fees and expenses of its advisers, 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. The Company shall pay (i) all Transfer Agent fees (including, without limitation, any fees required for same-day processing of any instruction letter delivered by the Company and any Exercise Notice delivered by a Purchaser), stamp taxes and other taxes and duties levied in connection with the delivery of any Securities to the Purchasers and (ii) all costs and expenses of its counsel in connection with the drafting and negotiation of this Agreement.

5.3           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 thereof 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.

5.4           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 facsimile or email attachment at the facsimile number or email address as set forth on the signature pages attached hereto at or prior to 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on a Business Day, (b) the next Business Day after the date of transmission, if such notice or communication is delivered via facsimile or email attachment at the facsimile number or email address as set forth on the signature pages attached hereto on a day that is not a Business Day or later than 5:30 p.m. (New York City time) on any Business Day, (c) the second (2^nd) Business Day following the date of mailing, if sent by U.S. nationally recognized overnight courier service or (d) upon actual receipt by the party to whom such notice is required to be given. The address for such notices and communications shall be as set forth on the signature pages attached hereto.

5.5           Amendments; Waivers. Any provision of this Agreement may be amended or waived if, and only if, such amendment or waiver is in writing and signed, in the case of an amendment, by parties seeking amendment, or in the case of a waiver, by the party against whom the waiver is to be effective. No failure or delay by any party in exercising any right, power or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof nor shall any single or partial exercise thereof preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege. Any amendment effected in accordance with accordance with this Section 5.5 shall be binding only upon such parties seeking such amendment.

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5.6           Headings. 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.

5.7           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 (other than by merger). Any Purchaser may assign any or all of its rights under this Agreement to any Person to whom such Purchaser assigns or transfers any Securities, provided that such transferee agrees in writing to be bound, with respect to the transferred Securities, by the provisions of the Transaction Documents that apply to the “Purchasers.”

5.8           No Third-Party Beneficiaries. This 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 provision hereof be enforced by, any other Person.

5.9           Governing Law. All questions concerning the construction, validity, enforcement and interpretation of the Transaction Documents shall be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without regard to the principles of conflicts of law thereof. Each party agrees that all legal Proceedings concerning the interpretations, enforcement and defense of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and any other Transaction Documents (whether brought against a party hereto or its respective affiliates, directors, officers, shareholders, partners, members, employees or agents) shall be commenced exclusively in the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York. Each party hereby irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in connection herewith or with any transaction contemplated hereby or discussed herein (including with respect to the enforcement of any of the Transaction Documents), and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or Proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, that such suit, action or Proceeding is improper or is an inconvenient venue for such Proceeding. Each party hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process being served in any such suit, action or Proceeding by mailing a copy thereof via registered or certified mail or overnight delivery (with evidence of delivery) to such party at the address in effect for notices to it under this Agreement and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof, effective upon receipt. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any other manner permitted by law.

5.10         Survival. The representations and warranties contained herein shall survive the Closing and the delivery of the Securities.

5.11         Execution. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, all of which when taken together shall be considered one and the same agreement and shall become effective when counterparts have been signed by each party and delivered to each other party, it being understood that the parties need not sign the same counterpart. In the event that any signature is delivered by facsimile transmission or by e-mail delivery of a “.pdf” format data file, such signature shall create a valid and binding obligation of the party executing (or on whose behalf such signature is executed) with the same force and effect as if such facsimile or “.pdf” signature page were an original thereof.

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5.12         Severability. If any term, provision, covenant or restriction of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable, the remainder of the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions set forth herein shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated, and the parties hereto shall use their commercially reasonable efforts to find and employ an alternative means to achieve the same or substantially the same result as that contemplated by such term, provision, covenant or restriction. It is hereby stipulated and declared to be the intention of the parties that they would have executed the remaining terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions without including any of such that may be hereafter declared invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable.

5.13         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 had the opportunity to be represented by its own separate legal counsel or that of its investment manager 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.

5.14         Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays, etc. If the last or appointed day for the taking of any action or the expiration of any right required or granted herein shall not be a Business Day, then such action may be taken or such right may be exercised on the next succeeding Business Day.

5.15         Construction. The parties agree that each of them and/or their respective counsel have reviewed and had an opportunity to revise the Transaction Documents and, therefore, the normal rule of construction to the effect that any ambiguities are to be resolved against the drafting party shall not be employed in the interpretation of the Transaction Documents or any amendments thereto. In addition, each and every reference to share prices and shares of Common Stock in any Transaction Document shall be subject to adjustment for reverse and forward stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations and other similar transactions of the Common Stock that occur after the date of this Agreement. The term “including” is deemed to mean “including, without limitation.”

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5.16         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.

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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.

ARQULE, INC.		Address for Notice:
By:		One Wall Street
	Name:	Burlington, MA 01803
	Title:	Fax:781-287-8143
		With a copy to (which shall not constitute notice):
		Richard E. Baltz
		Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
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Exhibit A

Form of Certificate of Designations of Series A Preferred Stock of the Company

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Exhibit 99.1

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ArQule Announces $9.5 Million Private Placement of Preferred Stock

The Pontifax Group led this financing with additional participation from an Israeli-based healthcare equity fund

Ran Nussbaum, Managing Partner and co-founder of The Pontifax Group, joins ArQule Board

Burlington, MA, November 8, 2017 – ArQule, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARQL) today announced the closing of a private placement with institutional investors led by The Pontifax Group pursuant to which the Company raised gross proceeds of $9.5 million through the sale of approximately 8,370 shares of series A convertible preferred stock (Series A Preferred) and warrants covering 2,260 shares of Series A Preferred (Warrants). Each share of Series A Preferred together with the associated Warrant is priced at $1,135 and will automatically convert into 1,000 shares of common stock upon the adoption of an amendment to the Company’s restated certificate of incorporation.

ArQule estimates the net proceeds from this offering will be approximately $9.3 million. The Warrants have a pre-conversion exercise price of $1,750 per share of Series A Preferred (post-conversion price of $1.75 per share of common stock), are exercisable immediately and expire approximately four years from the date of the adoption of an amendment to the Company’s restated certificate of incorporation.

“Taking into account the net proceeds from this private placement, ArQule now expects to end 2017 with between $47 and $49 million in cash and marketable securities to fund the next business cycle that is rich in potential milestones for its oncology and rare diseases programs,” said Paolo Pucci, Chief Executive Officer of ArQule. “Based on this estimate, the company currently anticipates cash and marketable securities to provide funding well into 2019, not including any potential proceeds from future business development activities.”

ArQule intends to use the net proceeds from this offering to advance clinical trials related to its proprietary pipeline, including derazantinib (ARQ 087), miransertib (ARQ 092), ARQ 531 and ARQ 751, and for general corporate purposes, including working capital. Based on recent positive clinical and regulatory developments for miransertib in Proteus syndrome, further investments in expanding the rare disease strategy will be prioritized.

In addition, effective immediately, the company has increased the size of its Board of Directors by one member and elected Ran Nussbaum, managing partner and co-founder of The Pontifax Group, to such newly created vacancy. Mr. Nussbaum was a founding Board Member of Kite Pharma and holds other Board positions at Pontifax portfolio companies.

“We are pleased to welcome Ran to our Board of Directors," said Pat Zenner, Chairperson of the Board of Directors of ArQule. "The Pontifax Group brings important new strategic relationships to ArQule at a time when we anticipate significant progress from our proprietary pipeline. Ran adds a very attractive set of skills and expertise to an already well-rounded Board of Directors."

“Considering the recent positive clinical developments across ArQule’s proprietary pipeline I am excited to join as an investor and a Board Member,” said Ran Nussbaum, managing partner and co-founder of The Pontifax Group. “I am looking forward to working with Pat, Paolo, and the ArQule team to further develop its clinical assets with a focus on the rare disease strategy, highlighted by the practice altering potential that miransertib is demonstrating in the treatment of Proteus syndrome and Overgrowth Diseases.”

About The Pontifax Group

The Pontifax Group is a life sciences venture capital firm with an extensive global portfolio focused on unmet needs within the healthcare industry. Prior to joining Pontifax, Mr. Nussbaum was a partner at Israel’s largest business intelligence and strategic consulting firm. Mr. Nussbaum serves, or has served, as a board member on many of Pontifax’s portfolio companies, including Kite Pharma, Keros (as chairman), UroGen Ltd, cCam Biotherapeutics (bought by Merck), Eloxx Pharmaceuticals, and NovellusDX.

About ArQule

ArQule is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the research and development of targeted therapeutics to treat cancers and rare diseases. ArQule’s mission is to discover, develop and commercialize novel small molecule drugs in areas of high unmet need that will dramatically extend and improve the lives of our patients. Our clinical-stage pipeline consists of five drug candidates, all of which are in targeted, biomarker-defined patient populations, making ArQule a leader among companies our size in precision medicine. ArQule’s proprietary pipeline includes: Derazantinib (ARQ 087), a multi-kinase inhibitor designed to preferentially inhibit the fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) family, in phase 2 for iCCA and in phase 1b for multiple oncology indications; Miransertib (ARQ 092), a selective inhibitor of the AKT serine/threonine kinase, in a phase 1/2 company sponsored study for Overgrowth Diseases, in a phase 1 study for ultra-rare Proteus syndrome conducted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), as well as in multiple oncology indications; ARQ 751, a next generation AKT inhibitor, in phase 1 for patients with AKT1 and PI3K mutations; and ARQ 761, a β-lapachone analog being evaluated as a promoter of NQO1-mediated programmed cancer cell necrosis, in phase 1/2 in multiple oncology indications in partnership with the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. In addition, we have advanced ARQ 531, an investigational, orally bioavailable, potent and reversible inhibitor of both wild type and C481S-mutant BTK, in phase 1 for patients with B-cell malignancies refractory to other therapeutic options. ArQule’s current discovery efforts are focused on the identification and development of novel kinase inhibitors, leveraging the Company’s proprietary library of compounds. You can follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, those related to the achievement of certain clinical and regulatory milestones with derazantinib (ARQ 087), miransertib (ARQ 092) and ARQ 531, use of offering proceeds and updated financial guidance with respect to cash at year end and the Company’s ability to fund operations with current cash and marketable securities for an estimated time period. These statements are based on the Company's current beliefs and expectations, and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. Positive information about pre-clinical and early stage clinical trial results does not ensure that later stage clinical milestones will be met or that later stage or larger scale clinical trials will be successful. Moreover, derazantinib, mirensertib, and ARQ 531 or other programs may not demonstrate promising therapeutic effect; in addition, they may not demonstrate appropriate safety profiles in current or later stage or larger scale clinical trials as a result of known or as yet unanticipated side effects. The results achieved in later stage trials may not be sufficient to meet applicable regulatory standards or to justify further development. Problems or delays may arise prior to the initiation of planned clinical trials, during clinical trials or in the course of developing, testing or manufacturing these compounds that could lead the Company or its partners and collaborators to fail to initiate or to discontinue development. Even if later stage clinical trials are successful, unexpected concerns may arise from subsequent analysis of data or from additional data. Obstacles may arise or issues may be identified in connection with review of clinical data with regulatory authorities. Regulatory authorities may disagree with the Company's or its partners' view of data or require additional data or information or additional studies. In addition, the planned timing of completion of clinical trials for miransertib in Proteus syndrome is dependent in part on the National Institutes of Health, our collaborator responsible for the phase 1 trial in Proteus syndrome, to enroll patients, enter into agreements with clinical trial sites and investigators, and overcome technical hurdles and other issues related to the conduct of the trials for which each of them is responsible. There is a risk that these issues may not be successfully resolved. In addition, we are utilizing a companion diagnostic to identify patients in our registration trial with derazantinib in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma with FGFR2 fusions, and we are utilizing or expect to utilize diagnostic tools in our other biomarker-guided clinical trials with derazantinib, miransertib, ARQ 751 and ARQ 531; we or our collaborators may encounter difficulties in developing and obtaining approval for companion diagnostics, including issues relating to access to certain technologies, selectivity/specificity, analytical validation, reproducibility, or clinical validation. Any delay or failure by our collaborators or ourselves to develop or obtain regulatory approval of companion diagnostics could delay or prevent approval of our product candidates. Drug development involves a high degree of risk. Only a small number of research and development programs result in the commercialization of a product. Furthermore, the Company’s expectations regarding its use of cash are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation, those set forth above. The Company may not have the financial or human resources to successfully pursue all of its drug discovery programs in the future. For more detailed information on the risks and uncertainties associated with the Company's drug development, financial condition and other activities, see the Company's periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company does not undertake any obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements.

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