8-K: Current report
Published on March 28, 2025
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| Item 8.01 | Other Events. |
As previously announced, on March 25, 2025, Benitec Biopharma Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) entered into (A) an Underwriting Agreement with Leerink Partners LLC and TD Securities (USA) LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters named therein, pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue and sell, in an underwritten offering by the Company (the “Underwritten Offering”), (i) 1,143,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”) at a purchase price to investors of $13.00 per share, and (ii) pre-funded warrants to purchase 300,000 shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of $0.0001 per share at a purchase price to investors of $12.999 per warrant, and (B) a Securities Purchase Agreement with Averill Master Fund, Ltd. and Averill Madison Master Fund, Ltd. (together, the “Purchasers”), pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue and sell to the Purchasers an aggregate of 900,000 shares of Common Stock at a purchase price of $13.00 per share in a registered direct offering (the “Direct Offering,” and together with the Underwritten Offering, the “Offerings”), the same price per share as the offering price in the Underwritten Offering.
On March 26, 2025, the closing of the Offerings occurred. Following the closing of the Offerings, as of the close of business on March 26, 2025, the Company had 25,546,288 shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding, common warrants outstanding exercisable for 5,876,866 shares of Common Stock, and pre-funded warrants outstanding exercisable for an aggregate of 15,270,807 shares of Common Stock.
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, thereunto duly authorized.
| BENITEC BIOPHARMA INC. | ||||||
| Date: March 28, 2025 | /s/ Jerel A. Banks |
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| Name: | Jerel A. Banks | |||||
| Title: | Chief Executive Officer | |||||