ORMP Oramed Pharmaceuticals Inc

 

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): September 23, 2024 (September 20, 2024)

 

ORAMED PHARMACEUTICALS INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

delaware		001-35813		98-0376008
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)		(Commission File Number)		(IRS Employer Identification No.)

 

1185 Avenue of the Americas, Third Floor, New York, New York		10036
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)		(Zip Code)

 

844-967-2633

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

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:

 

☐	Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

☐	Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

☐	Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

☐	Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

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, par value $0.012		ORMP		The Nasdaq Capital Market, Tel Aviv Stock Exchange

 

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 8.01 Other Events

 

As previously disclosed, on September 21, 2023, Oramed Pharmaceuticals Inc. (the “Company”) entered into and consummated the transactions contemplated by a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “Scilex SPA”) with Scilex Holding Company (“Scilex”). Pursuant to the Scilex SPA, among other things, on September 21, 2023, Scilex issued to the Company (i) a Senior Secured Promissory Note in an aggregate amount of $101,875,000 (the “Note”), (ii) warrants (the “Oramed Warrants”) to purchase up to an aggregate of 13,000,000 (subject to adjustment as provided therein) shares of Scilex’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Scilex Common Stock”), with an exercise price of $0.01 per share and restrictions on exerciseability, including that certain Warrant to Purchase Common Stock No. ORMP CS-5 (as amended, restated, supplemented and modified from time to time in accordance with its terms, the “CS-5 Warrant”) and (iii) warrants (the “Purchased Warrants”) to purchase an aggregate of 4,000,000 (subject to adjustment as provided therein) shares of Scilex Common Stock with an exercise price of $11.50 per share. The foregoing descriptions of the Scilex SPA and the Note and the transactions contemplated thereby are not complete and are subject to and qualified in their entirety by reference to the copies of the Scilex SPA and the Note attached as Exhibits 10.1 and 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated September 21, 2023, and are incorporated herein by reference.

 

On September 20, 2024, the Company and Scilex entered into a Letter Agreement (the “Letter Agreement”), pursuant to which Scilex agreed to pay to the Company $2,000,000 (the “Specified September Payment”) on September 23, 2024, which payment shall be applied as follows: (i) $1,700,000 of such payment shall be applied to the amortization payment due under the Note on the March 21, 2025 (the “Maturity Date”) and (y) $300,000 of such payment to purchase the Purchased Warrants. The Company shall transfer the Purchased Warrants to Scilex not later than two business days following the date on which the Company has received the Specified September Payment. Pursuant to the Letter Agreement, the parties agreed that, notwithstanding the definition of the “Exercise Eligibility Date” in the CS-5 Warrant, the Company may immediately exercise the CS-5 Warrant with respect to up to 1,062,500 (subject to adjustment as provided therein) shares of Scilex Common Stock subject to such warrant at any time after September 20, 2024.

 

The parties further agreed, upon receipt of the Specified September Payment, (i) that notwithstanding the minimum Liquidity (as defined therein) requirements set forth in Section 7(b)(x) of the Note, Scilex and its Subsidiaries (as defined therein) shall be required to maintain the following minimum Liquidity during the specified time periods instead: from and after September 19, 2024 until the Maturity Date, $0, and (ii) to extend the due date of the $20,000,000 amortization payment from September 23, 2024 to September 30, 2024.

 

The foregoing description of the Letter Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Letter Agreement, a copy of which is filed with this Current Report on Form 8-K as Exhibit 10.1 hereto, and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d) Exhibits.

 

10.1	Letter Agreement, dated as of September 20, 2024, by and between Oramed Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Scilex Holding Company.
104	Cover Page Interactive Data File, formatted in Inline Extensible Business Reporting Language (iXBRL).

 

 

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.

 

	ORAMED PHARMACEUTICALS INC.
	By:	/s/ Nadav Kidron
	Name:	Nadav Kidron
	Title:	President and CEO

 

Date: September 23, 2024

 

2

 

Exhibit 10.1

 

September 20, 2024

 

Scilex Holding Company
960 San Antonio Rd.

Palo Alto, CA 94303
Attn: Stephen Ma

 

VIA EMAIL

 

RE:	Consent under Senior Secured Promissory Note (this “Consent Letter”)

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

Reference is made to (i) that certain Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of September 21, 2023 (the “SPA”), among Scilex Holding Company, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), Oramed Pharmaceuticals Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Oramed”) as the initial purchaser, and Acquiom Agency Services LLC, a Colorado limited liability company, as agent, (ii) that certain Senior Secured Promissory Note, dated as of September 21, 2023 (the “Note”), issued by the Company to Oramed, as Holder (“Holder”), (iii) all related Transaction Documents, as defined in the SPA, and (iv) that certain Warrant to Purchase Common Stock No. ORMP CS-5 (as amended, restated, supplemented and modified from time to time in accordance with its terms, the “CS-5 Warrant”), dated as of September 21, 2023 and issued by the Company to Oramed (pursuant to which Oramed may purchase up to 2,125,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company (the “Common Stock”) (subject to adjustment as provided therein).

 

Section 1 Definitions. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein are used with the respective meanings assigned to them in the SPA or the Note, as applicable.

 

Section 2 Limited Consent.

 

(a) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in the SPA, the Note or any other Transaction Document, the Company and the Holder constituting all Holders under the Note hereby agree as follows:

 

(i)

Scilex shall pay to Oramed $2,000,000 (the “Specified September Payment”) on September 23, 2024, which payment shall be applied as follows: (x) $1,700,000 of such payment shall be applied to the amortization payment due under the Note on the Maturity Date (and the Holders hereby waive any prior notice or other conditions, and any prepayment premium or Make-Whole amount that would otherwise be due in respect of such payment) and (y) $300,000 of such payment to purchase 4,000,000 Scilex warrants with the exercise price of $11.50 per warrant currently owned by Oramed (the “Purchased Warrants”). Oramed shall transfer the Purchased Warrants to Scilex not later than two business days following the date on which Oramed has received the Specified September Payment.

 

 

(ii)

Notwithstanding the definition of the “Exercise Eligibility Date” in the CS-5 Warrant, Oramed may exercise the CS-5 Warrant in respect of the purchase of up to 1,062,500 (subject to adjustment as provided therein) shares of Common Stock subject to such warrant at any time after the date on which this letter agreement has been fully executed by the parties thereto. For the avoidance of doubt, the remaining 1,062,500 shares (subject to adjustment as provided therein) of Common Stock subject to the CS-5 Warrant shall only be exercisable on or after the Exercise Eligibility Date as defined therein.

 

(iii)

Upon receipt of the Specified September Payment, the undersigned Holder hereby consents and agrees that, (a) notwithstanding the minimum Liquidity requirements set forth in Section 7(b)(x) of the Note, the Company and its Subsidiaries shall be required to maintain the following minimum Liquidity during the specified time periods, rather than and in lieu of the current requirements set forth in Section 7(b)(x) of the Note: from and after September 19, 2024 until the Maturity Date, $0, and (b) notwithstanding the requirements set forth in Section 2(e) of the Note, the Holders hereby agree to extend the due date of the $20,000,000 amortization payment due on September 21, 2024 (or, after application of the provisions of such Section with respect to Business Days, September 23, 2024) (the “Existing Due Date”) to, and such payment shall instead be due on, September 30, 2024 (the “Extended Due Date”). For the avoidance of doubt, the failure of the company to make such scheduled payment on the Existing Due Date shall not constitute an Event of Default.

 

(b) The foregoing limited consent (i) is a one-time consent, (ii) is expressly limited to the transactions described above in Section 2(a), (iii) shall not be deemed or otherwise construed to constitute a consent to any other transaction, whether or not similar to the transactions described above in Section 2(a) and (iv) shall not operate as a waiver of any right, power or remedy of the Agent or any Holder under the Note, any other Transaction Document or any other document, instrument or agreement executed in connection therewith, nor constitute a waiver, release or modification of the Company’s or any Subsidiary’s obligations to comply with all terms and conditions of the Note and other Transaction Documents, except as expressly set forth herein. The Agent and the Holders have granted the limited consent set forth in Section 2(a) in this particular instance and in light of the facts and circumstances that presently exist, and the grant of such consent shall not constitute a course of dealing or impair the Agent’s or any Holder’s right to withhold any similar consent in the future.

 

Section 3 Affirmation.

 

(a) Except as specifically consented to pursuant to Section 2 hereof, the Company hereby expressly reaffirms, as of the date hereof, all its covenants and agreements contained in the Note and each Transaction Document and agrees that none of its covenants and agreements set forth in the Note or any other Transaction Document shall be reduced or limited by the execution and delivery of this Consent Letter.

 

(b) The Company (on behalf of itself and its Subsidiaries) hereby (i) affirms that each of the Liens granted in or pursuant to the Security Documents are valid and subsisting, and (ii) agrees that this Consent Letter and all documents executed in connection herewith shall in no manner impair or otherwise adversely affect any of the Liens granted in or pursuant to the Security Documents and such Liens continue unimpaired with the same priority to secure repayment of all Obligations in accordance with the Transaction Documents, whether heretofore or hereafter incurred.

 

 

Section 4 Miscellaneous.

 

(a) Section headings in this Consent Letter are included herein for convenience of reference only and shall not constitute a part of this Consent Letter for any other purposes.

 

(b) This Consent Letter may be executed with counterpart signature pages or in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all such separate counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same agreement. In proving this Consent Letter or any other Transaction Document in any judicial proceedings, it shall not be necessary to produce or account for more than one such counterpart signed by the party against whom such enforcement is sought. Any signatures hereto delivered by electronic transmission shall be deemed an original signature hereto.

 

(c) No waiver or modification hereof or of any agreement referred to herein shall be binding or enforceable unless in writing and signed by all of the parties hereto or thereto.

 

(d) From and after the date on which this Consent Letter shall be effective, the term “Transaction Documents” in the Note and the other Note Documents shall include, without limitation, this Consent Letter and any agreements, instruments and other documents executed and/or delivered in connection herewith.

 

(e) THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF SECTION 9(D) (GOVERNING LAW) OF THE NOTE ARE HEREBY INCORPORATED HEREIN BY REFERENCE AND SHALL APPLY TO THIS CONSENT LETTER MUTATITIS MUTANDIS AS IF FULLY SET FORTH HEREIN.

 

(f) The Company has agreed to reimburse Holder upon the execution of this Consent Letter for its reasonable and documented out-of-pocket legal costs, fees and expenses actually incurred by the Holder in connection with this Consent Letter.

 

[Remainder of Page Intentionally Left Blank]

 

 

	Sincerely,
	ORAMED PHARMACEUTICALS INC.
	By:	/s/ Nadav Kidron
		Name:	Nadav Kidron, CEO
		Title:

 

	By:	/s/ Avi Gabay
		Name:	Avi Gabay, CFO
		Title:

 

	Address for Notice:
	1185 Avenue of the Americas, Third Floor
	New York, NY 10036 Attn: Josh Hexter
	Email:	nadav@oramed.com
		josh@oramed.com
		avi@oramed.com
	with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to
	Proskauer Rose LLP
	Eleven Times Square New York, NY 10036
	Attn: Ehud Barak; James Gerkis; Grant Darwin;
	Philip Kaminski
	E-mail:	ebarak@proskauer.com;
		jgerkis@proskauer.com;
		gdarwin@proskauer.com;
		pkaminski@proskauer.com

 

[Signature Page to Consent Letter]

 

 

	SCILEX HOLDING COMPANY
	By:	/S/Jaisim Shah
	Name:	Jaisim Shah
	Title:	Chief Executive Officer and President

 

	960 San Antonio Rd. Palo Alto, CA 94303
	Attention: Stephen Ma
	Telephone: (408)891-8341
	Email: sma@scilexholding.com
	with a copy to (which shall not constitute notice) to:
	Paul Hastings LLP
	1117 S. California Avenue
	Palo Alto, CA 94304 Attention: Elizabeth Razzano
	Telephone: (650) 320-1895
	Email: elizabethrazzano@paulhastings.com

 

[Signature Page to Consent Letter]

 

 

 

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