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Item 1.01. Entry Into a Material Definitive Agreement.
On February 7, 2024, OpGen, Inc. (the “Company”) and a holder (the “Holder”) of certain existing warrants (the “Existing Warrants”) to purchase shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Company agreed to amend (the “Amendment”) that certain warrant inducement agreement entered into by the Company and the Holder on October 12, 2023 and amended on October 26, 2023 (as amended, the “Inducement Agreement”). As previously disclosed, pursuant to the Inducement Agreement, the Holder agreed to exercise for cash their Existing Warrants to purchase up to 10,892,728 shares of the Company’s Common Stock at an exercise price of $0.7785 per share, the exercise price per share of the Existing Warrants, during the period from the date of the Inducement Agreement until December 31, 2023. As of February 7, 2024, the Holder has exercised 2,000,000 shares of Common Stock under the Existing Warrants pursuant to the Inducement Agreement for aggregate gross proceeds to the Company of $2.057 million before deducting financial advisory fees and other expenses payable by the Company. Pursuant to the Amendment, the Company and the Holder agreed to extend the offer period until April 30, 2024. Except for the extension of the offer period pursuant to the Amendment, the terms and conditions of the Inducement Agreement remain unchanged.
The foregoing description of the Amendment does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the form of Amendment, which is filed as Exhibit 10.1, to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference. For additional information concerning the Inducement Agreement, see the Company’s Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on October 16, 2023 and October 26, 2023.
Item 3.02. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.
The disclosure required by this Item and included in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K and Item 3.02 of the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on October 16, 2023 are incorporated herein by reference.
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits
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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, thereunto duly authorized.
Date: February 8, 2024 | OpGen, Inc. | |||||
By: |
/s/ Oliver Schacht | |||||
Name: | Oliver Schacht, Ph.D. | |||||
Title: | Chief Executive Officer |
Exhibit 10.1
OPGEN, INC.
9717 Key West Ave, Suite 100
Rockville, MD 20850
February 7, 2024
To the Holder of February 2018, February 2021, March 2021, October 2021, October 2022, January 2023, and May 2023 Warrants to Purchase Common Stock
Re: | Amendment to Inducement Offer Letter |
Dear Holder:
Reference is hereby made to that certain inducement offer letter, dated October 12, 2023 (the “Original Inducement Letter”), from OpGen, Inc. (the “Company”) to you (“Holder”, “you” or similar terminology), as amended by that certain letter amendment, dated October 26, 2023 (the “Amendment,” and together with the Original Inducement Letter, the “Inducement Letter Agreement”), relating to the opportunity to receive new warrants to purchase shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”), upon the exercise by you of certain warrants, currently held by you and issued to you on February 2018, February 2021, March 2021, October 2021, October 2022, January 2023 and May 2023 (the “Existing Warrants”), on the terms and conditions set forth in the Inducement Letter Agreement. Capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning set forth in the Inducement Letter Agreement.
The Company desires to further amend the Inducement Letter Agreement in order to extend the Inducement Offer provided to you pursuant to the Inducement Letter Agreement until April 30, 2024. Accordingly, the term “Exercise Period” as used in the Inducement Letter Agreement is amended to mean the period from the date of the Inducement Letter Agreement and until 7:30 am, Eastern Time, on April 30, 2024.
Except as specifically modified by this letter, the Inducement Letter Agreement shall continue in full force and effect on the terms and conditions specified therein.
[signature page follows]
Sincerely yours, | ||
OPGEN, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Oliver Schacht | |
Name: | Oliver Schacht | |
Title: | Chief Executive Officer |
[Holder Signature Page Follows]
Accepted and Agreed to:
Name of Holder: _________________________________________________
Signature of Authorized Signatory of Holder: _________________________________________________
Name of Authorized Signatory: _________________________________________________
Title of Authorized Signatory: _________________________________________________
[Holder signature page to Amendment to Inducement Offer]