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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):
May 5, 2022
Enveric Biosciences, Inc.
(Exact
name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware |
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001-38286 |
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95-4484725 |
(State
or other jurisdiction
of
incorporation)
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(Commission
File
No.)
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(IRS
Employer
Identification
No.)
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Enveric
Biosciences, Inc.
4851 Tamiami Trail N,
Suite 200
Naples,
FL
34103
(Address
of principal executive offices and zip code)
Registrant’s
telephone number, including area code:
(239)
302-1707
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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CFR 240.13e-4(c)) |
Title
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Trading
Symbol(s) |
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Name
of each exchange on which registered |
Common stock, par value $0.01 per share |
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ENVB |
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The Nasdaq Stock Market |
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
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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.
Private
Placement
In
connection with Enveric Biosciences, Inc.’s (the
“Company”) planned spin off its cannabinoid assets
into a separately traded public company, the Company created Acanna
Therapeutics, Inc. (“Acanna”), a wholly-owned
subsidiary of the Company, and, on May 5, 2022, Acanna and the
Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the
“Purchase Agreement”) with an accredited investor
(the “Investor”), pursuant to which Acanna agreed to
sell up to an aggregate of 5,000 shares of Acanna’s Series A
Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.01 per share (the
“Series A Preferred Stock”), at price of $1,000 per
share, and warrants (the “Warrants”) to purchase
shares of Acanna’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the
“Acanna Common Stock”), for an aggregate purchase
price of up to $5,000,000 (the “Private Placement”).
Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, Acanna has issued 1,000 shares
of the Series A Preferred Stock to the Investor in exchange for
$1,000,000 on May 5, 2022, with the remaining Series A Preferred
Stock and Warrants to be issued for a price of $4,000,000 upon the
completion of the spin-off of Acanna into an independent,
separately traded public company listed on The Nasdaq Stock Market
(the “Spin-Off” and such date that Acanna commences
trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market being referred to herein as the
“Spin-Off Date”). Pursuant the terms of the Purchase
Agreement and the Certificate of the Designations (as defined
below), the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock have a Put
Right (as defined below) under certain circumstances described
below, with Acanna’s payment obligations under the Put Right
guaranteed by the Company. The Purchase Agreement contains
customary representations and warranties, agreements, obligations,
conditions to closing and termination provisions.
Palladium
Capital Advisors, LLC (“Palladium”) acted as
placement agent for the Private Placement. Pursuant to the Purchase
Agreement, Acanna has agreed to pay Palladium a cash fee equal to
9% of the aggregate gross proceeds raised from the sale of the
shares of the Series A Preferred Stock and a non-accountable
expense allowance of 1% of the aggregate gross proceeds raised the
sale of the Series A Preferred Stock in the Private Placement. In
addition, Acanna will issue to Palladium warrants equal to 8% of
the shares issuable upon conversion of the Series A Preferred Stock
(the “Palladium Warrants”). The fee due in connection
with the Private Placement shall be paid to Palladium in the form
of convertible preferred stock and warrants on similar terms to the
securities issued in the Private Placement (together with the
Palladium Warrants, the “Palladium
Securities”).
Terms
of Series A Preferred Stock
Under
the Certificate of the Designations, Preferences and Rights of
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock (the “Certificate of
Designations”), on or immediately prior to the Spin-Off
Date, each share of SeriesA Preferred Stock will be automatically
converted into a number of shares of Acanna Common Stock equal to
25% of the then issued and outstanding Acanna Common Stock, subject
to the Beneficial Ownership Limitation (as defined
below).
The
Certificate of Designations contains limitations that prevent the
holder thereof from acquiring shares of Acanna Common Stock upon
conversion that would result in the number of shares of Acanna
Common Stock beneficially owned by such holder and its affiliates
exceeding 9.99% of the total number of shares of Acanna Common
Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to the conversion
(the “Beneficial Ownership Limitation”), except that
upon notice from the holder to Acanna, the holder may increase or
decrease the amount of ownership of outstanding shares of Acanna
Common Stock after converting the holder’s shares of Series A
Preferred Stock, provided that any change in the Beneficial
Ownership Limitation shall not be effective until 61 days following
notice to Acanna.
The
Certificate of Designations provides that upon the earlier of (i)
the one-year anniversary of May 5, 2022, and only in the event that
the Spin-Off has not occurred; or (ii) such time that Acanna and
the Company have abandoned the Spin-Off or the Company is no longer
pursuing the Spin-Off in good faith, the holders of the Series A
Preferred Stock shall have the right (the “Put
Right”), but not the obligation, to cause Acanna to
purchase all or a portion of the Series A Preferred Stock for a
purchase price equal to $1,000 per share, subject to certain
adjustments (the “Stated Value”), plus all the
accrued but unpaid dividends per share. In addition, after the
one-year anniversary of May 5, 2022, and only in the event that the
Spin-Off has not occurred and Acanna is not in material default of
any of the transaction documents, Acanna may, at its option, at any
time and from time to time, redeem the outstanding shares of Series
A Preferred Stock, in whole or in part, for a purchase price equal
to the aggregate Stated Value of the shares of Series A Preferred
Stock being redeemed and the accrued and unpaid dividends on such
shares.
Registration
Rights Agreement
In
connection with the Private Placement, Acanna entered into a
registration rights agreement, dated as of May 5, 2022 (the
“Registration Rights Agreement”), with the Investor,
pursuant to which Acanna shall, on such date that Acanna files a
registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission
in connection with the Spin-Off, file such a registration statement
to register the shares of Acanna Common Stock issuable upon: (i)
the conversion of the Series A Preferred Stock sold in the
Private Placement, (ii) the exercise of the Warrants sold in the
Private Placement, and (iii) the conversion or exercise, as
applicable, of the Palladium Securities (the “Registrable
Securities”); and to cause such registration statement to
be declared effective under the Securities Act as promptly as
possible after the filing thereof, but in any event no later than
the Spin-Off Date, and shall use its reasonable best efforts to
keep such registration statement continuously effective under the
Securities Act until the date that all Registrable Securities
covered by such registration statement have been sold or are
otherwise able to be sold pursuant to Rule 144. The Registration
Rights Agreement provides for liquidated damages to the extent that
Acanna does not file or maintain a registration statement in
accordance with the terms thereof.
The
foregoing description of the Purchase Agreement, Certificate of
Designations, Registration Rights Agreement and Warrants are
qualified in their entirety by reference to the Purchase Agreement,
Certificate of Designations, Registration Rights Agreement and
Warrants, which are attached hereto as Exhibit 10.1, Exhibit 10.2,
Exhibit 10.3 and Exhibit 10.4, respectively, and incorporated by
reference herein.
Item
7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.
On
May 11, 2022, the Company issued a press release, attached hereto
as Exhibit 99.1, announcing the Company’s intention to pursue the
Spin-Off. The Company undertakes no obligation to update,
supplement or amend the materials attached hereto as Exhibit
99.1.
In
accordance with General Instruction B.2 of Form 8-K, the
information in this Item 7.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K,
including Exhibit 99.1, shall not be deemed “filed” for the
purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to
the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed
incorporated by reference in any filing under the Exchange Act or
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, except as shall be
expressly set forth by reference in such a filing. Furthermore, the
furnishing of information under Item 7.01 of this Current Report on
Form 8-K is not intended to constitute a determination by the
Company that the information contained herein, including the
exhibit hereto, is material or that the dissemination of such
information is required by Regulation FD.
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 hereunto duly authorized.
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ENVERIC BIOSCIENCES, INC. |
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Date:
May 11, 2022 |
By: |
/s/
Joseph Tucker |
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Joseph
Tucker |
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Chief
Executive Officer |
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