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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): June 28, 2023

 

ALLARITY THERAPEUTICS, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in our charter)

 

Delaware   001-41160   87-2147982
(State or Other Jurisdiction
of Incorporation)
  (Commission File Number)  

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

 

24 School Street, 2nd Floor,

Boston, MA

  02108
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Zip Code)

 

(401) 426-4664

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

Not applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

 

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):

 

Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of each class   Trading Symbol(s)   Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share   ALLR   The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC

 

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 5.03 Amendment to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.

 

On June 28, 2023, upon receipt of the required stockholder approval, Allarity Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Company”) filed a Fourth Certificate of Amendment of Certificate of Incorporation (the “Certificate of Amendment”) with the Secretary of State of Delaware to effect a 1-for-40 reverse stock split of the shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), effective as of 4:05 p.m. (New York time) on June 28, 2023 (the “Reverse Stock Split”).

 

Upon receipt of the stockholder approval at the special meeting of stockholders held on June 23, 2023 (the “Special Meeting”), the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the Company was granted the discretion to effect a reverse stock split of the Company’s common stock through an amendment to its Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, subject to the consent of the holder of Series A Preferred Stock, at a ratio of not less than 1-for-15 and not more than 1-for-50, with such ratio to be determined by the Board. Following such stockholder approval at the conclusion of the Special Meeting, the Board determined a ratio of 1-for-40 for the reverse stock split.

 

As a result of the Reverse Stock Split, every 40 shares of issued and outstanding Common Stock will be automatically combined into one issued and outstanding share of Common Stock, without any change in the par value per share. No fractional shares will be issued as a result of the Reverse Stock Split. Any fractional shares that would otherwise have resulted from the Reverse Stock Split will be rounded up to the next whole number. The Reverse Stock Split will reduce the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding from 20,142,633 shares to approximately 503,566 shares, subject to adjustment for the rounding up of fractional shares. The number of authorized shares of Common Stock under the Certificate of Incorporation will remain unchanged at 750,000,000 shares.

 

Proportionate adjustments will be made to the per share exercise price and the number of shares of Common Stock that may be purchased upon exercise of outstanding stock options granted by the Company, and the number of shares of Common Stock reserved for future issuance under the Company’s 2021 Equity Incentive Plan.

 

The Common Stock will begin trading on a reverse stock split-adjusted basis on the Nasdaq Capital Market on June 29, 2023. The trading symbol for the Common Stock will remain “ALLR.” The new CUSIP number for the Common Stock following the Reverse Stock Split is 016744302.

 

The information set forth herein is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text of the Certificate of Amendment, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 3.1 to this Current Report and is incorporated by reference herein

 

Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.

 

On June 28, 2023, the Company issued a press release announcing the Reverse Stock Split. A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

The information in this Item 7.01 of this Current Report, including Exhibit 99.1, shall not be deemed “filed” for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Exchange Act or the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, except as shall be expressly set forth by reference in such a filing. Furthermore, the furnishing of information under Item 7.01 of this Current Report is not intended to constitute a determination by the Company that the information contained herein, including the exhibits hereto, is material or that the dissemination of such information is required by Regulation FD.

 

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d) Exhibits.

 

Exhibit No.   Description
3.1   Fourth Certificate of Amendment of Certificate of Incorporation of Allarity Therapeutics, Inc.
99.1   Press Release announcing reverse stock split
104   Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document)

 

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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.

 

  Allarity Therapeutics, Inc.
   
  By: /s/ James G. Cullem
   

James G. Cullem

Chief Executive Officer

     
Dated: June 28, 2023    

 

 

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EX-3.1 2 ea180985ex3-1_allarity.htm FOURTH CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT OF CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF ALLARITY THERAPEUTICS, INC

Exhibit 3.1

 

FOURTH CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT
TO
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
ALLARITY THERAPEUTICS, INC.

 

Allarity Therapeutics, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (hereinafter called the “Corporation”), does hereby certify that:

 

1. This Fourth Certificate of Amendment to Certificate of Incorporation (this “Fourth Amendment”) amends certain provisions of the Corporation’s original Certificate of Incorporation filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on April 6, 2021, as amended by that certain Certificate of Amendment filed on August 5, 2021, and as further amended by that Second Certificate of Amendment filed on March 20, 2023, and as further amended by the Third Certificate of Amendment filed on March 23, 2023 (as amended, the “Certificate of Incorporation”).

 

2. The Board of Directors of the Corporation, acting in accordance with the provisions of Sections 141(f) and 242 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”), has duly adopted resolutions approving the amendment set forth in this Fourth Amendment, declaring said amendment to be advisable and in the best interests of the Corporation and its stockholders, and directing that such amendment be considered for stockholder approval at the Special Meeting of Stockholders held on June 23, 2023 (the “Special Meeting”), which meeting was noticed and has been held in accordance with Section 222 of the DGCL.

 

3. This Fourth Amendment was duly adopted by the affirmative vote of the holders of the majority of the outstanding shares of the Corporation’s common stock and Series A Convertible Preferred Stock entitled to vote, together as a class, thereon at the Corporation’s Special Meeting, in accordance with the provisions of Section 242 of the DGCL, Articles FIFTH and TWELFTH of the Certificate of Incorporation and Section 12 of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Designations of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock.

 

4. Resolutions were duly adopted by the Board of Directors of the Corporation, in accordance with the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation set forth below, providing that, effective as of 4:05 p.m., New York time, on June 28, 2023, or as soon as practicable thereafter, every forty (40) issued and outstanding shares of the Corporation’s Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share, shall be converted into one (1) share of the Corporation’s Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share, as constituted following such date.

 

5. The Certificate of Incorporation is hereby amended by deleting the second and third paragraphs of Article FIFTH thereof, and replacing in their entirety the following paragraphs:

 

“Effective as of 4:05 p.m. on June 28, 2023 (the “Effective Time”), every forty (40) shares of the Corporation’s common stock, $0.0001 par value per share (the “Old Common Stock”), either issued or outstanding or held by the Corporation as treasury stock, immediately prior to the Effective Time, will be automatically reclassified and combined (without any further act) into a smaller number of shares such that each forty (40) shares of Old Common Stock issued and outstanding or held by the Company as treasury stock immediately prior to the Effective Time is reclassified into one (1) share of Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share (the “New Common Stock”), of the Corporation (the “Reverse Stock Split”). The Board of Directors shall make provision for the issuance of that number of fractions of New Common Stock such that any fractional share of a holder otherwise resulting from the Reverse Stock Split shall be rounded up to the next whole number of shares of New Common Stock. Stockholders who hold uncertificated shares of Old Common Stock electronically in “book-entry” form will have their holdings electronically adjusted by the Transfer Agent (and, for beneficial owners, by their brokers or banks that hold in “street name” for their benefit, as the case may be) to give effect to the Reverse Stock Split and will automatically be adjusted to reflect the New Common Stock.

 

Any stock certificate that, immediately prior to the Effective Time, represented shares of the Old Common Stock will, from and after the Effective Time, automatically and without the necessity of presenting the same for exchange, be converted to Book Entries representing the number of shares of the New Common Stock into which such shares of Old Common Stock shall have been reclassified of a share of New Common Stock, with any resulting fractional shares rounded up to the nearest whole share, issued as aforesaid.”

 

6. Except as set forth in this Fourth Amendment, the Certificate of Incorporation remains in full force and effect.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this Fourth Amendment to be duly executed in its name and on its behalf by a duly authorized officer of the Corporation on this 28th day of June, 2023.

 

  By: /s/ James G. Cullem
  Name: James G. Cullem
  Title: Chief Executive Officer

 

[SIGNATURE PAGE TO FOURTH CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT]

 

 

 

 

 

EX-99.1 3 ea180985ex99-1_allarity.htm PRESS RELEASE ANNOUNCING REVERSE STOCK SPLIT

Exhibit 99.1

 

 

Press Release

 

Allarity Therapeutics Announces Reverse Stock Split of

Common Stock

 

- Common Stock Will Begin Trading on a Post-Split Adjusted Basis on
June 29, 2023

 

BOSTON, MA (June 28, 2023) – Allarity Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALLR) (“Allarity” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing novel oncology therapeutics together with drug-specific DRP® companion diagnostics for personalized cancer care, today announced that it intends to effect a reverse stock split of its common stock at a ratio of 1 post-split share for every 40 pre-split shares. The reverse stock split will become effective at 4:05 p.m., New York time, on June 28, 2023 (the “Effective Time”). Allarity’s common stock will continue to be traded on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “ALLR” and will begin trading on a post-split adjusted basis when the market opens on Thursday, June 29, 2023. The CUSIP number for Allarity’s common stock following the reverse stock split will be 016744302.

 

At a special meeting of stockholders held on June 23, 2023 (the “Special Meeting”), Allarity’s stockholders approved a proposal to amend its Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, at the discretion of Allarity’s Board of Directors (the “Board”), to effect a reverse stock split (the “Reverse Stock Split”) with respect to the Allarity’s issued and outstanding common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, at a ratio between 1-for-15 and 1-for-50 (the “Range”), with the ratio within such Range to be determined at the discretion of the Board, subject to the consent of the holder of Series A Preferred Stock and included in a public announcement. Upon stockholder approval, the Board determined a ratio of 1-for 40 for the reverse stock split.

 

The reverse stock split is primarily intended to increase the Company’s per share trading price and bring the Company into compliance with Nasdaq’s listing requirement regarding minimum share price, as well as to support the Company’s efforts to raise additional capital.

 

As a result of the reverse stock split, at the Effective Time, every 40 shares of Allarity’s issued and outstanding common stock will be converted automatically into one issued and outstanding share of common stock without any change in the par value per share. Stockholders holding shares through a brokerage account will have their shares automatically adjusted to reflect the 1-for-40 reverse stock split.

 

The reverse stock split will affect all stockholders uniformly and will not alter any stockholder’s percentage interest in the Allarity’s equity, except to the extent that the reverse stock split would result in a stockholder owning a fractional share. Any fractional share of a stockholder resulting from the reverse stock split will be rounded up to the nearest whole number of shares. The reverse stock split will reduce the number of shares of Allarity’s common stock outstanding from 20,142,633 shares to approximately 503,565 shares. Proportional adjustments will be made to the number of shares of Allarity’s common stock issuable upon exercise or conversion of Allarity’s equity awards and warrants, as well as the applicable exercise price.

  

Stockholders whose shares are held in brokerage accounts should direct any questions concerning the reverse stock split to their broker. All stockholders of record may direct questions to Allarity’s transfer agent, Computershare Trust Company, N.A. at (866) 641-4276.

 

Allarity Therapeutics, Inc. | 24 School Street, 2nd Floor | Boston, MA | U.S.A. | NASDAQ: ALLR | www.allarity.com 

 

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About the Drug Response Predictor – DRP® Companion Diagnostic

 

Allarity uses a drug-specific DRP® companion diagnostic to select those patients who, by the genetic signature of their cancer, are found to have a high likelihood of responding to a specific drug. By screening patients before treatment, and only treating those patients with a sufficiently high DRP® score, Allarity believes that the therapeutic response rate can be significantly increased. The DRP® method builds on the comparison of sensitive versus resistant human cancer cell lines, including transcriptomic information from cell lines combined with clinical tumor biology filters and prior clinical trial outcomes. DRP® is based on messenger RNA from patient biopsies. The DRP® platform has demonstrated its ability to provide a statistically significant prediction of the clinical outcome from drug treatment in cancer patients in 37 out of 47 clinical studies that were examined (both retrospective and prospective), including ongoing, prospective Phase 2 trials of stenoparib and IXEMPRA®. The DRP® platform, which can be used in all cancer types and is patented for more than 70 anticancer drugs, has been extensively published in peer reviewed literature.

 

About Allarity Therapeutics

 

Allarity Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALLR) develops drugs for personalized treatment of cancer guided by its proprietary and highly validated companion diagnostic technology, the DRP® platform. The Company has a clinical-stage pipeline of three drug candidates: stenoparib, a PARP inhibitor in Phase 2 development for ovarian cancer, and in Phase 1 development for advanced solid tumors in a combination treatment with dovitinib, a pan-tyrosine kinase inhibitor (pan-TKI) that has previously been developed through Phase 3 in renal cancer; and IXEMPRA® (Ixabepilone), a microtubule inhibitor approved in the U.S. and marketed by R-PHARM U.S. for the treatment of second-line metastatic breast cancer, currently in Phase 2 development in Europe for the same indication. Additionally, the Company has rights in two secondary assets: 2X-111, a liposomal formulation of doxorubicin for metastatic breast cancer and/or glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), which is the subject of discussions for a restructured out-license to Smerud Medical Research International AS; and LiPlaCis®, a liposomal formulation of cisplatin and its accompanying DRP®, being developed via a partnership with CHOSA Oncology AB for late-stage metastatic breast cancer. The Company is headquartered in the United States and maintains an R&D facility in Hoersholm, Denmark. For more information, please visit the Company’s website at www.Allarity.com.

 

Follow Allarity on Social Media

 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/allaritytx/

 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/allaritytx

 

Allarity Therapeutics, Inc. | 24 School Street, 2nd Floor | Boston, MA | U.S.A. | NASDAQ: ALLR | www.allarity.com 

 

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Forward-Looking Statements

 

This press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements provide Allarity’s current expectations or forecasts of future events. The words “anticipates,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intends,” “may,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predicts,” “project,” “should,” “would” and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements related to the Company’s ability to regain compliance with the Nasdaq Listing Rule, statements relating to the reverse stock split and ability to raise capital, statements related to the expected availability capital to fund its anticipated clinical trials, statements related to advancing dovitinib in combination with another therapeutic candidate or other approved drug, any statements related to ongoing clinical trials for stenoparib as a monotherapy or in combination with another therapeutic candidate for the treatment of advanced ovarian cancer, or ongoing clinical trials (in Europe) for IXEMPRA® for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer, and statements relating to the effectiveness of the Company’s DRP® companion diagnostics platform in predicting whether a particular patient is likely to respond to a specific drug. Any forward-looking statements in this press release are based on management’s current expectations of future events and are subject to multiple risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially and adversely from those set forth in or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the risk that results of a clinical study do not necessarily predict final results and that one or more of the clinical outcomes may materially change following more comprehensive reviews of the data, and as more patient data become available, the risk that results of a clinical study are subject to interpretation and additional analyses may be needed and/or may contradict such results, the receipt of regulatory approval for dovitinib or any of our other therapeutic candidates or, if approved, the successful commercialization of such products, the risk of cessation or delay of any of the ongoing or planned clinical trials and/or our development of our product candidates, the risk that the results of previously conducted studies will not be repeated or observed in ongoing or future studies involving our therapeutic candidates, and the risk that the current COVID-19 pandemic will impact the Company’s current and future clinical trials and the timing of the Company’s preclinical studies and other operations. For a discussion of other risks and uncertainties, and other important factors, any of which could cause our actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see the section entitled “Risk Factors” in our Form S-1 registration statement on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, available at the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at www.sec.gov, and as well as discussions of potential risks, uncertainties and other important factors in the Company’s subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All information in this press release is as of the date of the release, and the Company undertakes no duty to update this information unless required by law.

  

 

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Company Contact Email:

 

investorrelations@allarity.com

 

U.S. Media Contact:

 

Mike Beyer

Sam Brown, Inc.

+1 (312) 961-2502

mikebeyer@sambrown.com

 

EU Media Contact:

 

Thomas Pedersen

Carrotize PR & Communications

+45 6062 9390

tsp@carrotize.com

  

Allarity Therapeutics, Inc. | 24 School Street, 2nd Floor | Boston, MA | U.S.A. | NASDAQ: ALLR | www.allarity.com 

 

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