BiomX Inc. Announces Stockholder Approval for Conversion of Outstanding Series X Convertible Preferred Stock to Common Stock
July 10 2024 - 5:30AM
BiomX Inc. (NYSE American: PHGE) (“BiomX” or the “Company”), a
clinical-stage company advancing novel natural and engineered phage
therapies that target specific pathogenic bacteria, today announced
that the Company’s stockholders have voted to approve a proposal to
convert BiomX’s outstanding Series X Non-Voting Convertible
Preferred Stock (“Series X Preferred Stock”) into shares of BiomX’s
common stock. The result of the vote was previously disclosed in
the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission on July 9, 2024.
BiomX’s Series X Preferred Stock was issued upon BiomX’s
acquisition of Adaptive Phage Therapeutics, Inc. (“APT”) and a
concurrent $50 million financing (the “Financing”), which were
consummated in March 2024. As a result of the stockholder vote
approving the conversion of BiomX’s Series X Preferred Stock, each
share of Series X Preferred Stock issued in the APT acquisition and
the private placement will be converted into 1,000 shares of BiomX
common stock, subject to certain beneficial ownership limitations
set by certain investors in the Financing. Subject to such
beneficial ownership limitations, the shares of up to 256,887
Series X Preferred Stock will automatically be converted into up to
256,887,000 shares of the Company’s common stock that will be added
to the Company’s outstanding share count. Additional details
regarding the stockholder vote and conversion of BiomX’s Series X
Preferred Stock are contained in BiomX’s Current Report on Form 8-K
filed with the SEC on July 9, 2024.
Due to certain accounting standards, proceeds from the Financing
were not classified as stockholders’ equity in the Company’s
balance sheet as of March 31, 2024. Based upon the stockholder vote
in favor of the conversion of BiomX’s Series X Preferred Stock into
common stock, certain proceeds from the Financing will now be
classified as stockholders’ equity. Accordingly, the Company
expects to regain compliance with the NYSE American’s listing
requirements. BiomX previously announced on May 30, 2024, that it
had received a notification from NYSE American LLC (“NYSE
American”) indicating that the Company was not in compliance with
the requirement for listed companies to have stockholders’ equity
of $2 million or more. The Company has submitted a plan to regain
compliance with NYSE American listing requirements, and is awaiting
NYSE American’s acceptance of such plan.
“We are delighted to have achieved this milestone with respect
to the APT acquisition and concurrent financing,” said Jonathan
Solomon, Chief Executive Officer of BiomX. “Our acquisition of APT
and the related financing have allowed BiomX to create a leading
phage company with two advanced, Phase 2 clinical candidates. Both
programs are anticipated to have important readouts next year. We
are fully focused on achieving these critical inflection points in
our clinical development pipeline, which we anticipate will build
future stockholder value.”
About BiomXBiomX is a clinical-stage company
leading the development of natural and engineered phage cocktails
and personalized phage treatments designed to target and destroy
harmful bacteria for the treatment of chronic diseases with
substantial unmet needs. BiomX discovers and validates proprietary
bacterial targets and applies its BOLT (“BacteriOphage Lead to
Treatment”) platform to customize phage compositions against these
targets. For more information, please visit www.biomx.com, the
content of which does not form a part of this press release.
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example, when BiomX discusses its expectation to regain compliance
with NYSE American Continued Listing Standards, the expected timing
for readouts from its clinical programs, and the potential of the
Company to build future stockholder equity, it is using
forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are neither
historical facts nor assurances of future performance. Instead,
they are based only on BiomX management’s current beliefs,
expectations and assumptions. Because forward-looking statements
relate to the future, they are subject to inherent uncertainties,
risks and changes in circumstances that are difficult to predict
and many of which are outside of BiomX’s control. These risks and
uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the acceptance of
BiomX’s compliance plan by NYSE American and BiomX’s ability to
regain compliance with the listing standards by November 23, 2025,
the deadline set forth by NYSE American; changes in applicable laws
or regulations; the possibility that BiomX may be adversely
affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors,
including risks inherent in pharmaceutical research and
development, such as: adverse results in BiomX’s drug discovery,
preclinical and clinical development activities, the risk that the
results of preclinical studies and early clinical trials may not be
replicated in later clinical trials, BiomX’s ability to enroll
patients in its clinical trials, and the risk that any of its
clinical trials may not commence, continue or be completed on time,
or at all; decisions made by the FDA and other regulatory
authorities; investigational review boards at clinical trial sites
and publication review bodies with respect to our development
candidates; BiomX’s ability to obtain, maintain and enforce
intellectual property rights for its platform and development
candidates; its potential dependence on collaboration partners;
competition; uncertainties as to the sufficiency of BiomX’s cash
resources to fund its planned activities for the periods
anticipated and BiomX’s ability to manage unplanned cash
requirements; and general economic and market conditions.
Therefore, investors should not rely on any of these
forward-looking statements and should review the risks and
uncertainties described under the caption “Risk Factors” in BiomX’s
Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the “SEC”) on April 4, 2024, and additional disclosures
BiomX makes in its other filings with the SEC, which are available
on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Forward-looking
statements are made as of the date of this press release, and
except as provided by law BiomX expressly disclaims any obligation
or undertaking to update forward-looking statements.
BiomX, Inc.Assaf Oron+97254-2228901assafo@biomx.com
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