Share Issue/Capital Change • Nov 7, 2017
Share Issue/Capital Change
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The present special report was drawn up by the board of directors of the Company (the Board of Directors) for the attention of the general meeting pursuant to Article 583 of the Companies Code.
According to Article 583 of the Companies Code, the Board of Directors outlines below the purpose and justification of the issuance of subscriptions rights that will enable their holder, subject to compliance with its modalities and conditions, to subscribe to new shares of the Company under the same rights as for the existing shares (the Warrants).
The present report must be read in conjunction with the reports that were made by the Board of Directors and the College of Auditors on the withdrawal of preferential rights for the existing shareholders.
These reports will be presented to the shareholders of the Company on the occasion of an extraordinary general meeting to be held on 7 December 2017 (should the quorum requirement not be fulfilled then, a second meeting will be held on 27 December 2017) before any of the associate public notaries of Berquin office (the Issuance Date).
The issuance of Warrants fits into a potential financing sought by the Company. Indeed, the Company is currently considering a few routes for financing including one involving a private placement to be subscribed by certain subscribers, current shareholders and third party investors. This private placement would be made for a fixed price, without discount nor recourse to the Accelerated Bookbuilding procedure.
The Board of Directors contemplates to allow each subscriber to this private placement to receive Warrants. Each new share subscribed in the context of this operation will allow the subscriber concerned to receive two Warrants.
The Warrants will enable their holders to eventually subscribe to new shares to be issued and under the same rights as for the existing shares.
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In practical terms, the general meeting will be proposed to approve the joint issuance for a maximum of 3.000.000 new shares and 6.000.000 Warrants, with a proxy granted to the Board of Directors in order to organise the subscription in accordance with the modalities decided by the extraordinary general meeting.
The purpose as well as the terms and conditions of the Warrants are explained below.
In case the contemplated financing is implemented, a number of Warrants will be allotted to each subscriber to new shares.
This allotment of Warrants would constitute a measure aiming at encouraging a substantial subscription to the new shares by the investors concerned, the latter ones being likely to raise the amount of their investment provided that they can rely on a future exercise of the Warrants whenever their price would be greater than their exercise price.
As explained below, the subscription price for new shares as well as the exercise price for the Warrants will correspond to the average closing share price over the last 30 days before the Issuance Date.
The eventual exercise of the Warrants will provide additional capital in the future whenever most needed by the Company.
The Board of Directors seeks to raise about 12,000,000 euros for the subscription to new shares before the end of the year 2017 in order to ensure the financing of business as envisioned, namely the development of products relating to indications in house dust mites and food allergies (including groundnut allergies), next to the preparation of the phase III study of $gpASIT^{+TM}$ .
The first due date of the Warrant, i.e. in June 2018, will match the timeline when a second financing will be required so that the financing of the phase III study of $gpASIT^{+TM}$ can be anticipated. The Board of Directors aims at raising funds similar in value as to the ones to be obtained for the subscription to new shares, that is to say around 12.000.000 euros, upon the exercise of Warrants 1 and Warrants 2.
The Warrants would be issued by the extraordinary general meeting, with a proxy granted to the Board of Directors in order to organise the subscription in accordance with the modalities decided by the extraordinary general meeting.
The characteristics of the Warrants can be summed up as follows (without prejudice to any additional provision that could be determined by the general meeting or in the context of a subscription agreement):
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The accounting treatment by the Company for the Warrants in the light of IFRS standards can be summarised as follows.
With regard to IAS 32 standard "Financial Instruments - Presentations" and more specifically subsection 22, the issuance of Warrants as described above qualifies as an issuance of a capital instrument of the Company. Indeed, should they be exercised, an obligation for the Company will result therefrom and oblige the latter to issue a fixed number of shares against a predetermined and fixed amount. As a result, no financial liability or financial asset will be accounted for by the Company upon the issuance of Warrants.
In view of the foregoing, the Board of Directors is of the opinion that que issuance of Warrants is compliant with the interest of the Company given that such an issuance is made in the context of realisation of a financing that will enable the Company to bolster and fund (i) its growth and (ii) the research and development of its technology as well as to address the needs in working capital and cashflow thanks to the availability of new capital.
For the Board of Directors :
Thierry Legon CEO
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