Current Report Filing (8-k)

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)

OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): December 3, 2021

SORRENTO THERAPEUTICS, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

Delaware

001-36150

33-0344842

(State or Other Jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

(Commission

File Number)

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

4955 Directors Place

San Diego, CA 92121

(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (858) 203-4100

N/A

(Former Name, or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

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Securities Registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class		Trading Symbol		Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, $0.0001 par value		SRNE		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. ¨

Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

On December 3, 2021, Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Company”) amended and restated the Sales Agreement dated April 27, 2020, as amended on December 4, 2020, between the Company and A.G.P./Alliance Global Partners to include Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., B. Riley Securities, Inc. and H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC as additional sales agents for the Company’s “at the market offering” program (the “Amended and Restated Sales Agreement”).

The foregoing description of the Amended and Restated Sales Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Amended and Restated Sales Agreement, which is filed as Exhibit 1.1 hereto and is incorporated by reference herein.

The representations, warranties and covenants contained in the Amended and Restated Sales Agreement were made solely for the benefit of the parties to the Amended and Restated Sales Agreement, and may be subject to limitations agreed upon by the contracting parties. Accordingly, the Amended and Restated Sales Agreement is incorporated herein by reference only to provide investors with information regarding the terms of the Amended and Restated Sales Agreement 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 Company’s periodic reports and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

This Current Report on Form 8-K shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, nor shall there be any offer, solicitation or sale of any securities in any state or country in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or country.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibit.

1.1*	Amended and Restated Sales Agreement, dated as of December 3, 2021, by and among Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc., Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., B. Riley Securities, Inc., H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC and A.G.P./Alliance Global Partners.
104	Cover Page Interactive Data File, formatted in Inline Extensible Business Reporting Language (iXBRL).

* Non-material schedules and exhibits have been omitted pursuant to Item 601(a)(5) of Regulation S-K. The Company hereby undertakes to furnish supplemental copies of any of the omitted schedules and exhibits upon request by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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 hereunto duly authorized.

	SORRENTO THERAPEUTICS, INC.

Date: December 3, 2021	By:	/s/ Henry Ji, Ph.D.
		Name: Henry Ji, Ph.D.
		Title: Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer