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Item 3.02 Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities. |
CytoDyn Inc. (the “Company”) is providing this disclosure because as of March 22, 2024, its unregistered sales of equity securities that had not been reported previously, in the aggregate, exceeded 5% of the shares of its common stock outstanding as of December 31, 2023.
Private Placement of Common Stock and Warrants through Placement Agent
From January through March 2024, the Company continued an offering to accredited investors of units through a placement agent that commenced in December 2023. Each unit consisted of one share of common stock and one warrant to purchase one share of common stock. The purchase price per unit will be equal to 90% of the lower of (i) the intraday volume weighted average price (“VWAP”) of the common stock as of the first closing in the offering on December 29, 2023, which was approximately $0.19 per share, and (ii) the intraday VWAP on the date of the final closing, which has not yet occurred. During the period from January 17, 2024 through March 22, 2024, the Company received binding subscription agreements to purchase an estimated total of approximately 20.6 million units at a total purchase price of approximately $3.5 million, based on an estimated purchase price of $0.17 per unit.
The warrants to be issued to investors in the offering will be fully exercisable and will have a five-year term and an exercise price of $0.21 per share. The warrants will be exercisable in full when issued. Other than as described above, the terms of the warrants will be substantially similar to the form of warrant filed as Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on September 7, 2021.
As a fee to the placement agent in the offering, the Company has agreed to pay a cash fee equal to 13% of the gross proceeds received from qualified investors. The Company has also agreed to issue to the placement agent or its designees warrants with a 10-year term to purchase 15% of the total number of shares of common stock sold to qualified investors in the offering, or an estimated total of approximately 3.1 million shares with respect to units sold from January 17, 2024 through March 22, 2024.
The Company has agreed to use commercially reasonable efforts to prepare and file with the SEC, and cause the SEC to declare effective, a registration statement under the Securities Act covering the resale of the shares and shares covered by warrants to purchase shares of common stock issued in the private placement described above.
The Company relied on the exemption provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and Rule 506 of Regulation D thereunder in the sale and issuance of shares and warrants in the foregoing offering.
Issuances of Shares in Convertible Note Exchange Transactions
In January and February 2024, the Company and the holder of its secured convertible promissory note issued April 23, 2021, in partial satisfaction of the holder’s redemption rights, entered into exchange agreements pursuant to which the original note was partitioned and new notes were issued, resulting in an aggregate principal reduction of $1.5 million. The new note was exchanged concurrently with issuance of a total of approximately 10.4 million shares of common stock. The Company relied on the exemption provided by Section 3(a)(9) of the Securities Act in connection with the exchange transactions.