Capital/Financing Update • May 27, 2025
Capital/Financing Update
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a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing novel therapies for treatment of cancer by targeting the tumor microenvironment (TME), announces today that its financial visibility will be extended into May 2026 through the issuance of debt via private contractual agreements with professional European investors (Investors) in exchange for €1.71 million in cash. The debt will be issued on May 28, 2025 at a discount to the aggregated nominal value of €2.05 million and may be fully repaid by the company in cash at maturity for €1.92 million. On the basis of these agreements 17,056,000 private, non-tradable warrants will also be issued on May 28, 2025 to Investors giving the holders the possibility to subscribe for one common share for each warrant, subject to adjustment of the number of shares, with an exercise price of €0.10 per warrant, a 38% premium to the share price calculated from the 10-day volume weighted average price (VWAP) preceding the initial transaction announcement made on May 21.
In recent months, TME Pharma has implemented measures to drastically reduce costs starting on July 1, 2025, while preserving the company's main assets. This transaction aims to limit near-term dilution potential for existing shareholders by using debt repayable in cash to provide a one-year extension to financial visibility for the company. While the warrants issued in the transaction have dilutive potential, their exercise price is currently above the share price and the company now has more time to choose the timing and negotiate conditions of any future capital raises that could trigger adjustment of exercise conditions. In addition, if all the warrants are exercised, this will bring the company an additional €1.71 million in cash. The proceeds from this financing will support TME Pharma's ongoing operations, enabling the company to maintain readiness of its NOX-A12 and NOX-E36 clinical programs for further development as soon as it has found the right industrial or financial partners. The company remains open to worldwide and regional licenses as well as strategic transactions.
"I'm pleased that our new strategy is already delivering results," said Aram Mangasarian, CEO of TME Pharma. "Although costs have been reduced drastically, this does not change the expectations we have for the success and value of our NOX-A12 and NOX-E36 programs. We continue to see healthy interest, and I am confident that with the right strategy we can attract financial, industrial or strategic partners. This financing also shows the strong commitment to the success of TME Pharma from our leadership, D.M. van den Ouden, the newly designated CEO, as well as two of the Supervisory Board members."
"As a shareholder in TME Pharma myself, I am convinced that we can create value with NOX-A12 and NOX-E36 over the coming period, and I am determined to maximize this value. This is why I have decided to invest in the company through this new financing, which limits near-term dilution even if the warrants may create new shares in the future while also bringing additional cash to the company," said Diede van den Ouden.
| Designation | Debt Cash Purchase Amount |
Debt Amount to be Reimbursed in Cash at Maturity |
Debt Nominal Amount |
% of Total Debt to be Issued |
Warrants No. to be Issued |
Cash to be received upon exercise |
% of Total Warrants to be issued |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Transaction | 1,705,600.00 € | 1,921,368.67 € | 2,054,939.75 € | 100.0% | 17,056,000 | €1,705,600 | 100.0% | |||
| of which the current and nominated directors have participated as follows: | ||||||||||
| Mr. Diede van |
498,000.00 € | 561,000.00 € | 600,000.00 € | 29.2% | 4,980,0000 | €498,000 | 29.2% | |||
| Dr. Maurizio PetitBon |
50,000.00 € | 56,325.30 € | 60,240.96 € | 2.9% | 500,0000 | €50,000 | 2.9% | |||
| Dr. Lee Schalop | 20,000.00 € | 22,530.12 € | 24,096.39 € | 1.2% | 200,000 | €20,000 | 1.2% | |||
| den Ouden |
Details of the debt and non-tradable warrants issued via individual private agreements with Investors:
Debt:
| Number of whole months | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 and at |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| remaining prior to maturity of debt when loan amount reimbursed |
(May 28 – June 27 2025) |
(June 28 – July 27 2025) |
(July 28 – Aug 27 2025) |
(Aug 28 – Sept 27 2025) |
(Sept 28 – Oct 27 2025) |
(Oct 28 – Nov 27 2025) |
(Nov 28 – Dec 27 2025) |
(Dec 28 2025 – Jan 27 |
(Jan 28 – Feb 27 2026) |
(Feb 28 – Mar 27 2026) |
(Mar 28 – Apr 27 2026) |
Maturity (Apr 28 2026 to Maturity) |
| in cash (dates when this applies) |
2026) | |||||||||||
| Percentage of loan amount to be reimbursed in cash to fully extinguish debt obligation |
83.7 % | 84.5 % | 85.4 % | 86.3 % | 87.2 % | 88.1 % | 89 % | 89.9 % | 90.8 % | 91.7 % | 92.6 % | 93.5 % |
| Number of whole months | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 and at |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| remaining prior to maturity of debt when loan amount contributed to capital increase (dates when this applies) |
(May 28 – June 27 2025) |
(June 28 – July 27 2025) |
(July 28 – Aug 27 2025) |
(Aug 28 – Sept 27 2025) |
(Sept 28 – Oct 27 2025) |
(Oct 28 – Nov 27 2025) |
(Nov 28 – Dec 27 2025) |
(Dec 28 2025 – Jan 27 2026) |
(Jan 28 – Feb 27 2026) |
(Feb 28 – Mar 27 2026) |
(Mar 28 – Apr 27 2026) |
Maturity (Apr 28 2026 to Maturity) |
| Percentage of loan amount to be settled for shares to fully extinguish debt obligation |
89% | 90% | 91% | 92% | 93% | 94% | 95% | 96% | 97% | 98% | 99% | 100% |
warrant exercise price (always €0.10) / consideration per ordinary share / 1.2 (which applies a 20% premium)
By way of example: if shares are issued at 0.08 per share, at a time when the Warrant Exercise Ratio is 1, then the calculation would be as follows:
• Starting Warrant Exercise Ratio: 1
A minimum number of 100,000 warrants must be exercised at each exercise, which would result in payment of €10,000 to the company for exercise (100,000 warrants exercised * €0.10 exercise price = €10,000)
A tracking table of the outstanding debt and warrants will be available on the company's website as of the issuance date, May 28, 2025.
The issuance of the warrants giving the right to subscribe for the same number of ordinary this transaction is carried out in accordance with Dutch law and relies upon the delegation of authority to issue shares and rights to subscribe for shares granted to the company's board of directors by its shareholders in the annual general meeting (AGM) on June 27, 2024. The company has completed and obtained all necessary corporate approvals for this transaction. In particular, at the AGM held on June 27, 2024, the company's shareholders approved the issuance of shares and rights to subscribe for shares up to the full amount of authorized capital as per its articles of association amounting to €1,350,000 divided into 121,000,000 ordinary shares, and 14,000,000 preference shares, each share with a nominal value of €0.01. In addition, and if and as per the moment the company's issued and paid-up ordinary share capital will amount to €1,000,000, the transitional provision outlined in article 37 of the company's articles of association will become effective, according to which the authorized capital of the company amounts to €5,000,000 divided into 450,000,000 ordinary shares and 50,000,000 preference shares, each share with a nominal value of €0.01.
The table below summarizes the dilution from the new ordinary shares that would be issued upon exercise of all of the private, non-tradable warrants to be issued under this transaction, assuming no adjustment to the number of shares issued per warrant is required.
| Description | Shares to be issued |
Total shares outstanding |
Dilution (cumulative) |
Shareholder starting with 1% on May 20, 2025, would then hold |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outstanding shares on May 20, 2025 |
- | 94,186,546 | - | - |
| Shares issued from exercise of 17,056,000 private, non-tradable warrants, latest on May 27, 2027 |
17,056,000 | 111,242,546 | 15.33% | 0.85% |
The company is also issuer of other securities – Warrants Z. At the time of this announcement there are 2,810,092 Warrants Z outstanding which, if exercised in full before June 20, 2025, may result in issuance of a maximum number of 3,512,615 new ordinary shares against an exercise price of €0.20 per share. As of May 26, 2025, the last exercise period will be running until June 20, 2025 (inclusive). The transaction disclosed in this press release does not trigger any adjustments to the Warrants Z. If any Warrants Z are exercised in the last exercise period, the number of outstanding shares quoted above may change. Warrants Z that have not been exercised in that last exercise period at the latest will become null and void, without value.
Investors may familiarise themselves with the risks described in the company's 2024 annual financial report (LINK) available on the company website.
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TME Pharma is a clinical-stage company focused on developing novel therapies for treatment of the most aggressive cancers. The company's oncology-focused pipeline is designed to act on the tumor microenvironment (TME) and the cancer immunity cycle by breaking tumor protection barriers against the immune system and blocking tumor repair. By neutralizing chemokines in the TME, TME Pharma's approach works in combination with other forms of treatment to weaken tumor defenses and enable greater therapeutic impact. In the GLORIA Phase 1/2 clinical trial, TME Pharma is studying its lead drug candidate NOX-A12 (olaptesed pegol, an anti-CXCL12 L-RNA aptamer) in newly diagnosed brain cancer patients who will not benefit clinically from standard chemotherapy. TME Pharma has delivered topline data from the NOX-A12 three dose-escalation cohorts combined with radiotherapy of the GLORIA clinical trial, observing consistent tumor reductions and objective tumor responses. Additionally, GLORIA expansion arms evaluate safety and efficacy of NOX-A12 in other combinations where the interim results from the triple combination of NOX-A12, radiotherapy and bevacizumab suggest even deeper and more durable responses, and improved survival. US FDA has approved the design of a randomized Phase 2 trial in glioblastoma and TME Pharma was awarded fast track designation by the FDA for NOX-A12 in combination with radiotherapy and bevacizumab for use in the treatment of the aggressive adult brain cancer, glioblastoma. NOX-A12 in combination with radiotherapy had also previously received orphan drug designation (ODD) for glioblastoma in the United States and glioma in Europe. TME Pharma has delivered final top-line data with encouraging overall survival and safety profile from its NOX-A12 combination trial with Keytruda® in metastatic colorectal and pancreatic cancer patients, which was published in the Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer in October 2021. The company has entered in its second collaboration with MSD/Merck for its Phase 2 study, OPTIMUS, to further evaluate safety and efficacy of NOX-A12 in combination with Merck's Keytruda® and two different chemotherapy regimens as second-line therapy in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer. The design of the trial has been approved in the United States. The company's second clinicalstage drug candidate, NOX-E36 (emapticap pegol, L-RNA aptamer inhibiting CCL2 and related chemokines), showing potential to address fibrosis and inflammation is evaluated in ophthalmic diseases with a high need for well-tolerated therapies with anti-fibrotic effect. Further information can be found at: www.tmepharma.com.
TME Pharma® and the TME Pharma logo are registered trademarks.
Keytruda® is a registered trademark of Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
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GLORIA (NCT04121455) is TME Pharma's dose-escalation, Phase 1/2 study of NOX-A12 in combination with radiotherapy in first-line partially resected or unresected glioblastoma (brain cancer) patients with unmethylated MGMT promoter (resistant to standard chemotherapy). GLORIA further evaluates safety and efficacy of NOX-A12 in the expansion arm in which NOX-A12 is combined with radiotherapy and bevacizumab.
OPTIMUS (NCT04901741) is TME Pharma's planned open-label two-arm Phase 2 study of NOX-A12 combined with pembrolizumab and nanoliposomal irinotecan/5-FU/leucovorin or gemcitabine/nabpaclitaxel in microsatellite-stable metastatic pancreatic cancer patients.
Translations of any press release into languages other than English are intended solely as a convenience to the non-English-reading audience. The company has attempted to provide an accurate translation of the original text in English, but due to the nuances in translating into another language, slight differences may exist. This press release includes certain disclosures that contain "forwardlooking statements." Forward-looking statements are based on TME Pharma's current expectations and are subject to inherent uncertainties, risks and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Factors that could cause actual results to differ include, but are not limited to, the risks inherent in oncology drug development, including clinical trials and the timing of and TME Pharma's ability to obtain regulatory approvals for NOX-A12 as well as any other drug candidates. Forward-looking statements contained in this announcement are made as of this date, and TME Pharma undertakes no duty to update such information except as required under applicable law.
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