Baby Shelf Limitation. The Baby Shelf Limitation is tested at the time of each offering, not at a fixed point in the fiscal year. As of June 30, 2025, our public float was below the $75 million threshold. However, our public float has since risen above the $75 million threshold. If our share price declines and our public float falls below $75 million at the time of a future offering, we would be subject to the Baby Shelf Limitation, which would prevent us from selling securities in a primary offering with a value exceeding more than one-third of our public float in any 12-month period for so long as our public float remains below $75 million at the time of such offering.
Our business strategy depends on our ability to raise capital to fund our ongoing and planned trials. If we become subject to the Baby Shelf Limitation, our ability to raise capital through our shelf registration statement on Form F-3 may be significantly constrained, which could impair our ability to fund our clinical development programs on our anticipated timeline or at all. In such circumstances, we may need to seek alternative sources of financing, such as private placements or offerings registered on Form F-1, which may be more costly, time-consuming, or available only on less favorable terms, if at all. Any delay or inability to obtain sufficient funding could materially harm our business, financial condition and results of operations.
To the extent that we raise additional funds through the sale of equity or securities that are convertible into or exchangeable for, or that represent the right to receive, ordinary shares or substantially similar securities, your ownership interest will be diluted, and the terms may include liquidation or other preferences that adversely affect your rights as a shareholder. If we raise additional funds through collaboration, strategic alliance and licensing arrangements with third parties, we may have to relinquish valuable rights to our technologies, future revenue streams or product candidates, or grant licenses on terms that are not favorable to us.
We believe it is likely that we were a passive foreign investment company, or a PFIC, for U.S. federal income tax purposes in 2021, 2022, 2023 2024, and 2025, and we may be a PFIC in one or more future taxable years, which could result in adverse U.S. federal income tax consequences to U.S. investors.
Under the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or the Code, we will be a PFIC for any taxable year in which, after the application of certain look-through rules with respect to subsidiaries, either (i) 75% or more of our gross income consists of “passive income” or (ii) 50% or more of the average quarterly value of our assets consists of assets that produce, or are held for the production of, “passive income.” Passive income generally includes, among other things, dividends, interest, certain non-active rents and royalties, and capital gains. Based on the nature of our business, our financial statements, our expectations about the nature and amount of our income, assets and activities and the expected price of our ordinary shares in this offering, we believe it is likely we were a PFIC in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025, and we may be a PFIC for our current taxable year or in one or more future taxable years. In addition, we may, directly or indirectly, hold equity interests in other PFICs. Whether we or any of our subsidiaries will be a PFIC in 2026 or any future year is a factual determination that must be made annually at the close of each taxable year, and, thus, is subject to significant uncertainty; because a determination of whether a company is a PFIC must be made annually after the end of each taxable year and will depend on the composition of our income and assets and the market value of our assets from time to time, we cannot assure you that we will not be a PFIC for the current or any future taxable year. Accordingly, there can be no assurance that we will not be a PFIC in 2026 or any future taxable year.
If we are a PFIC for any taxable year during which a U.S. Holder (as defined below in “Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations”) holds our ordinary shares, we generally would continue to be treated as a PFIC with respect to that U.S. Holder for all succeeding years during which the U.S. Holder holds our ordinary shares even if we ceased to meet the threshold requirements for PFIC status, unless certain exceptions apply. Such a U.S. Holder may be subject to adverse U.S. federal income tax consequences, including (i) the treatment of all or a portion of any gain on disposition as ordinary income, (ii) the application of a deferred interest charge on such gain and the receipt of certain dividends and (iii) compliance with certain reporting requirements. There is no assurance that we will provide information that will enable investors to make a qualified electing fund election, also known as a “QEF Election,” which could mitigate the adverse U.S. federal income tax consequences should we be classified as a PFIC.
For further discussion, see “Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations” below.
We have broad discretion in the use of the net proceeds from this offering and may invest or spend the proceeds in ways with which you do not agree and in ways that may not yield a return on your investment.
Although we currently intend to use the net proceeds from this offering in the manner described in the “Use of Proceeds” section of this prospectus supplement, our management has broad discretion in the application