Note 14 - Shareholders' Equity

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2024

Notes to Financial Statements

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Note 14 – Shareholders’ Equity

The Company had 100.0 million ordinary shares authorized for issuance as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023. The Company had 42.2 million and 32.5 million ordinary shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively. Each ordinary share is entitled to one vote. The holders of ordinary shares are also entitled to receive dividends whenever funds are legally available, when and if declared by the Board of Directors (the “Board”). Since the Company's inception, the Board has not declared any dividends.

ATM Sales Agreement

In December 2019, the Company entered into a sales agreement (the “ATM Sales Agreement”) with TD Securities (USA) LLC (f/k/a Cowen and Company, LLC) (“TD Cowen”) pursuant to which the Company  may from time to time offer and sell the Company's ordinary shares having an aggregate offering price of up to $100.0 million.

During the first quarter of 2024, the Company sold 3,400,468 ordinary shares under the ATM Sales Agreement, for gross proceeds of approximately $56.1 million. The net proceeds to the Company after deducting sales commissions to TD Cowen were approximately $54.7 million. The remaining capacity under the ATM Sales Agreement was approximately $27.3 million as of September 30, 2024. The shares will be offered and sold pursuant to the Company's shelf registration statement on Form S-3 filed with the SEC on November 15, 2022, which was declared effective on November 29, 2022.

Securities Purchase Agreement

On July 26, 2023, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with certain institutional and other accredited investors (the “Purchasers”), pursuant to which the Company agreed to sell and issue to the Purchasers 7,300,380 ordinary shares of the Company (“Shares”) and 5,278,776 of pre-funded warrants to purchase ordinary shares of the Company at a purchase price of $9.54 per Share or $9.539 for each ordinary share underlying a pre-funded warrant, in a private placement transaction that closed on July 28, 2023 and August 9, 2023 (the “Private Placement”) for aggregate gross proceeds of $120.0 million, before deducting fees to placement agents and financial advisors and before other expenses paid by the Company. Each pre-funded warrant has an exercise price of $0.001 per ordinary share, subject to customary adjustments, became exercisable upon original issuance and will not expire until exercised in full. The pre-funded warrants may not be exercised if the aggregate number of ordinary shares beneficially owned by the holder thereof immediately following such exercise would exceed a specified beneficial ownership limitation. The aggregate fee paid by the Company to placement agents and financial advisors was $3.6 million, plus the reimbursement of certain expenses.

Resales of the Shares and the ordinary shares issuable upon exercise of the pre-funded warrants were registered pursuant to the Company’s registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-274423) filed with the SEC on September 8, 2023, which was declared effective on September 15, 2023. On December 20, 2023, the Company issued 1,599,733 ordinary shares through a cashless conversion of 1,599,840 pre-funded warrants for the purchase of ordinary shares of the Company. 

Monograph Capital Partners I, L.P. (“Monograph”), a life sciences venture firm that is affiliated with Fred Cohen, M.D., a director of the Company at the time, purchased 1,572,327 of the Shares in the Private Placement, for an aggregate purchase price of $15.0 million. Dr. Cohen is the Chair and Chief Investment Officer of Monograph.

Underwritten Public Offering

On June 17, 2024, the Company entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with TD Securities (USA) LLC and Guggenheim Securities, LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters named therein (collectively, the “Underwriters”), relating to the issuance and sale in a public offering of 5,000,000 ordinary shares of the Company for $17.50 per share and pre-funded warrants to purchase 1,142,857 ordinary shares of the Company for $17.499 per pre-funded warrant. The offering closed on June 20, 2024. The gross proceeds to the Company from this closing of the offering were $107.5 million, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by the Company of $7.3 million. Each pre-funded warrant has an exercise price of $0.001 per ordinary share, subject to customary adjustments, is exercisable at any time and will not expire until exercised in full. The pre-funded warrants  may not be exercised if the aggregate number of ordinary shares beneficially owned by the holder thereof immediately following such exercise would exceed a specified beneficial ownership limitation. In addition, the Underwriters were granted an option exercisable for 30 days, to purchase up to 921,428 additional shares at the public offering price, less the underwriting discounts and commissions. On July 18, 2024, the Company completed the closing of the sale of 921,428 additional shares in the offering following the exercise in full of the Underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares, which resulted in additional gross proceeds to the Company of $16.1 million before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses paid by the Company of $1.0 million.