Item 1.01
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Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
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Registered
Direct Offering
On February 27, 2020,
Celsion Corporation, a Delaware Corporation (the “Company”) entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase
Agreement”) with several institutional investors, pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue and sell, in a registered
direct offering (the “Offering”), an aggregate of 4,571,428 shares (the “Shares”) of common stock, par
value $0.01 per share, of the Company (“Common Stock”) at an offering price of $1.05 per share for gross proceeds
of approximately $4.8 million before the deduction of the Placement Agent (as defined below) fee and offering expenses. The Shares
are being offered by the Company pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-227236), which was initially filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on September 28, 2018 and was declared effective by
the Commission on October 12, 2018 (the “Registration Statement”). The Purchase Agreement contains customary representations,
warranties and agreements by the Company and customary conditions to closing. The closing of the Offering and the Private Placement
occurred on March 3, 2020.
In connection with the
Offering, the Company entered into a placement agent agreement (the “Placement Agent Agreement”) with A.G.P./Alliance
Global Partners (the “Placement Agent”) pursuant to which the Company agreed to pay the Placement Agent a cash fee
equal to 7% of the aggregate gross proceeds raised from the sale of the securities sold in the Offering and reimburse the
Placement Agent for certain of its expenses in an amount not to exceed $82,500.
The Placement Agent Agreement
contains customary representations, warranties and agreements by the Company, customary conditions to closing, indemnification
obligations of the Company and the Placement Agent, including for liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
“Securities Act”), other obligations of the parties and termination provisions.
Private
Placement
In a concurrent private
placement (the “Private Placement”), the Company agreed to issue to the investors that participated in the Offering,
for no additional consideration, warrants, to purchase up to 2,971,428 shares of Common Stock (the “Warrants”).
The Warrants are initially exercisable six months following their issuance (the “Initial Exercise Date”), and
expire on the five year anniversary of the Initial Exercise Date. The Warrants have an exercise price of $1.15 per share subject
to adjustment as provided therein. Subject to limited exceptions, a holder of a Warrant will not have the right to exercise any
portion of its warrants if the holder, together with its affiliates, would beneficially own in excess of 9.99% of the number of
shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to such exercise (the “Beneficial Ownership Limitation”);
provided, however, that upon 61 days’ prior notice to the Company, the holder may increase or decrease the Beneficial Ownership
Limitation, provided that in no event shall the Beneficial Ownership Limitation exceed 9.99%.
The Warrants and the shares
of our Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of the Warrants are not being registered under the Securities Act, are not being
offered pursuant to the Registration Statement and are being offered pursuant to the exemption provided in Section 4(a)(2) under
the Securities Act and Rule 506(b) promulgated thereunder. The Warrants will not be listed for trading on any national securities
exchange. We will be required to file a registration statement within 30 calendar days of the issuance of the Warrants to provide
for the resale of the shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of the Warrants and will be obligated to use our commercially
reasonable efforts to keep such registration statement effective until the earliest of (i) the date on which all of the shares
of commons stock issuable upon the exercise of the Warrants have been sold under the registration statement or Rule 144 under
the Securities Act, (ii) the date on which the shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of the Warrants may be sold without
volume or manner-of-sale restrictions pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act and (iii) the termination of the Warrants.
Under the Purchase Agreement
and Placement Agent Agreement, the Company is prohibited, for a period of 90 days after the closing, from effecting or
entering into an agreement to issue Common Stock or any other securities that are at any time convertible into, or exercisable
or exchangeable for, or otherwise entitle the holder thereof to receive, Common Stock to the extent such issuance or sale involves
certain variable conversion, exercise or exchange prices or such agreement provides for sale of securities at a price to be determined
in the future.
The foregoing summaries
of the Purchase Agreement and the Warrants do not purport to be complete and are subject to, and qualified in their entirety by,
such documents attached as Exhibits 10.1 and 4.1, respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K, which are incorporated herein
by reference.
The representations, warranties
and covenants contained in the Purchase Agreement and the Warrants were made only for purposes of such agreements and as of specific
dates, were solely for the benefit of the parties to the Purchase Agreement and the Warrants and may be subject to limitations
agreed upon by the contracting parties. Accordingly, the Purchase Agreement and the Warrants are incorporated herein by reference
only to provide investors with information regarding the terms of the Purchase Agreement and the Warrants 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 Commission.
The legal opinion, including
the related consent, of Goodwin Procter LLP relating to the issuance and sale of the Shares is filed as Exhibit 5.1 hereto.