Scilex Holding Company (Nasdaq: SCLX, “Scilex” or the “Company”),
an innovative revenue-generating company focused on acquiring,
developing and commercializing non-opioid pain management products
for the treatment of acute and chronic pain, today announced the
closing of its previously announced registered direct offering of
an aggregate of 15,000,000 shares of its common stock, par value
$0.0001 per share, and warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of
15,000,000 shares of common stock, at a purchase price of $1.00 per
share of common stock and accompanying warrant to purchase one
share of common stock. The warrants have an exercise price of $1.10
per share, will become exercisable on the six-month anniversary
from the date of issuance and expire on the date that is five years
after the date of issuance.
Rodman & Renshaw LLC and StockBlock
Securities LLC acted as the exclusive placement agents for the
offering.
The gross proceeds for the offering were $15
million, prior to deducting the placement agents’ fees and other
offering expenses payable by the Company. The Company intends to
use the net proceeds from the offering, together with its existing
cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments, for working
capital and general corporate purposes, which may include capital
expenditures, commercialization expenditures, research and
development expenditures, regulatory affairs expenditures, clinical
trial expenditures, acquisitions of new technologies and
investments, business combinations and the repayment, refinancing,
redemption or repurchase of indebtedness or capital stock.
The securities described above were offered by
the Company pursuant to a “shelf” registration statement on Form
S-3 (File No. 333-276245), as amended, which was originally filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on December
22, 2023, and declared effective by the SEC on January 11, 2024.
The securities were offered only by means of a prospectus,
including a prospectus supplement, forming a part of the effective
registration statement. A prospectus supplement and accompanying
prospectus relating to, and describing the terms of, the offering
have been filed with the SEC and are available on the SEC’s website
at http://www.sec.gov. Electronic copies of the prospectus
supplement and accompanying prospectus may also be obtained by
contacting Rodman & Renshaw LLC at 600 Lexington Avenue, 32nd
Floor, New York, NY 10022, by telephone at (212) 540-4414, or by
email at info@rodm.com; and StockBlock Securities LLC at 600
Lexington Avenue, 32nd Floor, New York, NY 10022, by telephone at
(212) 540-4440, or by email at info@stockblock.com.
This press release shall not constitute an offer
to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor
shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or other
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 other jurisdiction.
About Scilex Holding
Company
Scilex Holding Company is an innovative
revenue-generating company focused on acquiring, developing and
commercializing non-opioid pain management products for the
treatment of acute and chronic pain. Scilex targets indications
with high unmet needs and large market opportunities with
non-opioid therapies for the treatment of patients with acute and
chronic pain and are dedicated to advancing and improving patient
outcomes. Scilex’s commercial products include: (i) ZTlido®
(lidocaine topical system) 1.8%, a prescription lidocaine topical
product approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (the
“FDA”) for the relief of neuropathic pain associated with
postherpetic neuralgia, which is a form of post-shingles nerve
pain; (ii) ELYXYB®, a potential first-line treatment and the only
FDA-approved, ready-to-use oral solution for the acute treatment of
migraine, with or without aura, in adults; and (iii) Gloperba®, the
first and only liquid oral version of the anti-gout medicine
colchicine indicated for the prophylaxis of painful gout flares in
adults, expected to launch in the first half of 2024.
In addition, Scilex has three product
candidates: (i) SP-102 (10 mg, dexamethasone sodium phosphate
viscous gel) (“SEMDEXA™” or “SP-102”), a novel, viscous gel
formulation of a widely used corticosteroid for epidural injections
to treat lumbosacral radicular pain, or sciatica for which Scilex
has completed a Phase 3 study and has granted Fast Track status
from the FDA in 2017; (ii) SP-103 (lidocaine topical system) 5.4%,
(“SP-103”), a next-generation, triple-strength formulation of
ZTlido, for the treatment of chronic neck pain and for which Scilex
has recently completed a Phase 2 trial in low back pain and has
granted Fast Track status from the FDA in low back pain; and (iii)
SP-104 (4.5 mg, low-dose naltrexone hydrochloride delayed-release
capsules) (“SP-104”), a novel low-dose delayed-release naltrexone
hydrochloride being developed for the treatment of fibromyalgia,
for which Phase 1 trials were completed in the second quarter of
2022 and a Phase 2 clinical trial is expected to commence in
2024.
Scilex Holding Company is headquartered in Palo
Alto, California.
Forward-looking Statements
This press release and any statements made for
and during any presentation or meeting concerning the matters
discussed in this press release contain forward-looking statements
related to Scilex and its subsidiaries under the safe harbor
provisions of Section 21E of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995 and are subject to risks and uncertainties that
could cause actual results to differ materially from those
projected. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding
the amount and the intended use of the net proceeds from the
offering, Scilex’s plans to launch GLOPERBA® in 2024 and plans to
initiate Phase 2 trial in 2024 for SP-104.
Risks and uncertainties that could cause
Scilex’s actual results to differ materially and adversely from
those expressed in our forward-looking statements, include, but are
not limited to: statements related to the intended use of proceeds
from the offering; risks associated with the unpredictability of
trading markets and whether a market will be established for
Scilex’s common stock; general economic, political and business
conditions; risks related to COVID-19 (and other similar
disruptions); the risk that the potential product candidates that
Scilex develops may not progress through clinical development or
receive required regulatory approvals within expected timelines or
at all; risks relating to uncertainty regarding the regulatory
pathway for Scilex’s product candidates; the risk that Scilex will
be unable to successfully market or gain market acceptance of its
product candidates; the risk that Scilex’s product candidates may
not be beneficial to patients or successfully commercialized; the
risk that Scilex has overestimated the size of the target patient
population, their willingness to try new therapies and the
willingness of physicians to prescribe these therapies; risks that
the outcome of the trials and studies for SP-102, SP-103 or SP-104
may not be successful or reflect positive outcomes; risks that the
prior results of the clinical and investigator-initiated trials of
SP-102 (SEMDEXA™), SP-103 or SP-104 may not be replicated;
regulatory and intellectual property risks; and other risks and
uncertainties indicated from time to time and other risks described
in Scilex’s most recent periodic reports filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission, including Scilex’s Annual Report on Form
10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023 and subsequent Quarterly
Reports on Form 10-Q that the Company may file with the SEC,
including the risk factors set forth in those filings. Investors
are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking
statements, which speak only as of the date of this release, and
Scilex undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking
statement in this press release except as may be required by
law.
Contacts:
Investors and MediaScilex Holding Company960 San
Antonio RoadPalo Alto, CA 94303Office: (650) 516-4310
Email: investorrelations@scilexholding.com
Website: www.scilexholding.com
SEMDEXA™ (SP-102) is a trademark owned
by Semnur Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary
of Scilex Holding Company. A proprietary name review by the
FDA is planned.
ZTlido® is a registered trademark owned
by Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary
of Scilex Holding Company.
Gloperba® is the subject of an exclusive,
transferable license to use the registered trademark by Scilex
Holding Company.
ELYXYB® is a registered trademark owned
by Scilex Holding Company.
All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
© 2024 Scilex Holding Company All Rights
Reserved.
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