SEC Filing - OpGen, Inc.

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SEC FORM 3 SEC Form 3

FORM 3

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person^*

Bacher Johannes

(Last)

(First)

(Middle)

C/O OPGEN, INC. 708 QUINCE ORCHARD ROAD

SUITE 205

(Street)

GAITHERSBURG

20878

(City)

(State)

(Zip)

2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year)
04/01/2020

3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
OPGEN INC [ OPGN,OPGNW ]

4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)

	Director	10% Owner
X	Officer (give title below)	Other (specify below)
Chief Operating Officer

5. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)

6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)

X	Form filed by One Reporting Person
	Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 4)	2. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned (Instr. 4)	3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)

Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4)	2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 4)		4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4)	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares	4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy)	⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾	06/16/2026	Common Stock	9,590	73.69	D
Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy)	⁽¹⁾⁽³⁾	06/16/2026	Common Stock	3,836	8.57	D

Explanation of Responses:

1. These options were originally granted pursuant to the Curetis Stock Option Plan 2016, as amended on July 19, 2018, which Plan was assumed by OpGen, Inc. (the "Company") as the Amended and Restated Stock Option Plan on April 1, 2020, upon the closing of the transactions contemplated by that certain Implementation Agreement, dated September 4, 2019, by and among the Company, Curetis N.V. and Crystal GmhH, and the stock options converted into options to acquire common stock of OpGen.

2. This option was originally granted on July 1, 2016 and vested over a period of three (3) years with the first third (1/3) vesting on the first anniversary of the date of grant and the remaining two thirds (2/3) vesting in monthly increments over the following twenty-four (24) months.

3. This option was originally granted on July 1, 2019 and vests over a period of three (3) years with the first third (1/3) vesting on the first anniversary of the date of grant and the remaining two thirds (2/3) vesting in monthly increments over the following twenty-four (24) months.

Remarks:

Exhibit List: Exhibit 24 - Power of Attorney

	/s/ Johannes Bacher	04/10/2020
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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Exhibit 24

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints Timothy C. Dec and Matthew Jones, the undersigned’s true and lawful attorneys-in-fact to:

(1)

prepare and submit to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) a Form ID, including amendments thereto, and any other documents necessary or appropriate to obtain codes, passwords, and passphrases enabling the undersigned to make electronic filings with the SEC of reports required by Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or any rule or regulation of the SEC;

(2)

execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned’s capacity as an officer and/or director of OpGen, Inc. (the “Company”), Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;

(3)

execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in connection with proposed sales by the undersigned pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933 of securities issued by the Company, notices on Form 144 in accordance with Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933;

(4)

do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, 5, or Form 144, complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such form with the SEC and any securities exchange or similar authority; and

(5)

take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney in fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney in fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney in fact may approve in such attorney in fact’s discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney in fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney in fact, or such attorney in fact’s substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys in fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned’s responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, 5, and Forms 144 with respect to the undersigned’s holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys in fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 10th day of April, 2020.

	/s/ Johannes Bacher
	Johannes Bacher