SONN Sonnet BioTherapeutics Holdings Inc

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K/A

 

AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO

CURRENT REPORT

 

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): May 2, 2021

 

SONNET BIOTHERAPEUTICS HOLDINGS, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware		001-35570		20-2932652
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)		(Commission File Number)		(IRS Employer Identification No.)

 

100 Overlook Center, Suite 102

Princeton, New Jersey 08540

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (609) 375-2227

 

N/A

(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:

 

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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, $0.0001 Par Value		SONN		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. [  ]

 

 

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

 

This Amendment No. 1 to Form 8-K (“Form 8-K/A”) amends the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by Sonnet BioTherapeutics Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”), with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on May 3, 2021 (the “Original Filing”). This Form 8-K/A is being filed solely for the purposes of restating the list of countries that comprise the “Exclusive Territory,” as defined below, because the Original Filing omitted three countries that are included in the list in the Agreement (as defined below). This Form 8-K/A does not change any of the other information contained in the Original Filing except as specifically set forth herein. This Form 8-K/A continues to speak as of the date of the Original Filing and we have not updated or amended any disclosures, except as specifically set forth herein, contained in the Original Filing to reflect events that have occurred since the time of the Original Filing.

 

 

Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

 

On May 2, 2021, Sonnet BioTherapeutics Holdings, Inc. (the “Company” or “Sonnet”) entered into a License Agreement (the “Agreement”) with New Life Therapeutics PTE, LTD., a company organized under the laws of Singapore (“New Life”). Pursuant to the Agreement, Sonnet granted New Life an exclusive license (with the right to sublicense) to develop and commercialize pharmaceutical preparations containing a specific recombinant human interleukin-6 (or any derivatives, fragments or conjugates thereof) (the “Compound”) (such preparations, the “Products”) for the prevention, treatment or palliation of diabetic peripheral neuropathy in humans (the “DPN Field”) in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, Myanmar, Lao PDR and Cambodia (the “Exclusive Territory”).

 

 

SIGNATURE

 

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.

 

	Sonnet BioTherapeutics Holdings, Inc.
	a Delaware corporation
	(Registrant)
Date: May 3, 2021	By:	/s/ Pankaj Mohan, Ph.D.
	Name:	Pankaj Mohan, Ph.D.
	Title:	Chief Executive Officer