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Item 1.01
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Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
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On May 31, 2019, General Cannabis Corp (the
Company
) entered into a securities purchase agreement (the
Purchase Agreement
) with certain accredited investors identified on the signature pages thereto (the
Purchasers
) pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue and sell an aggregate of 3,000,000 shares (the
Shares
) of its common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the
Common Stock
) and warrants to purchase up to 3,000,000 shares of Common Stock (the
Warrants
and together with the Shares, the
Securities
), in a registered direct offering (the
Offering
). The Securities were offered by the Company pursuant to its shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-222907) initially filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
Commission
) on February 7, 2018, and declared effective on February 12, 2018. The Warrants are immediately exercisable at an initial exercise price of $1.30 per share. The Warrants are exercisable at any time for a period of five years.
The combined per share purchase price for a share of Common Stock and a Warrant is $1.00. The closing of the Offering is expected to occur on June 4, 2019. The Company expects the aggregate net proceeds from the Offering, after deducting the financial advisor fees and other estimated offering expenses, to be approximately $2.69 million. The Company intends to use the aggregate net proceeds for repaying a portion of the Companys outstanding $4.
023
million promissory notes and for working capital and other general corporate purposes, which may include, among other things, product development, acquisitions, capital expenditures and other business opportunities. The Company has not yet determined the amount of net proceeds to be used specifically for any of the foregoing purposes.
The Purchase Agreement contains customary representations, warranties and agreements by the Company and customary conditions to closing. Under the Purchase Agreement, the Company has agreed, subject to certain exceptions, not to enter into any agreement to issue or announce the issuance or proposed issuance of any Common Stock or Common Stock equivalents for a period of 60 days following the closing of the Offering.
The foregoing summaries of the Warrants and the Purchase Agreement (collectively, the
Transaction Documents
) do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the full texts of the form of Warrant and the form of Purchase Agreement that are filed herewith as Exhibits 4.1 and 10.1, respectively. The representations, warranties and covenants contained in Transaction Documents were made only for purposes of such agreements and as of specific dates, were solely for the benefit of the parties to the Transaction Documents, and may be subject to limitations agreed upon by the contracting parties. Accordingly, the Transaction Documents are incorporated herein by reference only to provide investors with information regarding the terms of the Transaction Documents, and not to provide investors with any other factual information regarding the Company or its business, and should be read in conjunction with the disclosures in the Companys periodic reports and other filings with the Commission.
This Current Report on Form 8-K does not constitute an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these Securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.