San Diego, California, USA
June 12, 2024
Cibus, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBUS) (the “Company” or “Cibus”), a leading agricultural biotechnology company that uses proprietary gene editing technologies to develop plant traits (or specific genetic characteristics) in seeds, today announced it has entered into securities purchase agreements with institutional, strategic and existing investors of the Company, as well as with the Company’s CEO, Rory Riggs, for the purchase and sale of 1,298,040 shares of its Class A Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share, and warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 1,298,040 shares of Class A Common Stock, at a combined purchase price per share (and accompanying warrant) of $10.00 for the institutional, strategic and existing investors and $10.20 for the Company’s CEO, pursuant to a registered direct offering. The warrants will be exercisable immediately at a price of $10.00 per share, except that the warrants issued to Mr. Riggs will have an initial exercise price of $10.07 per share, and will, in each case, expire five years following the date of issuance. The warrants, however, will be redeemable, at the Company’s option, at a redemption price of $0.0001 per warrant following the Company’s public announcement of an operational soybean platform and the satisfaction of a trading price condition.
The gross proceeds of the offering will be approximately $13.0 million before deducting placement agent fees and other estimated offering expenses. The closing of the offering is expected to take place on or about June 13, 2024, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to fund further development of new and improvement of existing seed traits, Trait Machine operations, and for working capital and general corporate purposes.
A.G.P./Alliance Global Partners is acting as sole placement agent for the offering.
This offering is being made pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-273062) previously filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and declared effective on October 27, 2023. A prospectus supplement describing the terms of the offering will be filed with the SEC and will be available on the SEC’s website located at http://www.sec.gov. Electronic copies of the prospectus supplement may be obtained, when available, from A.G.P./Alliance Global Partners, 590 Madison Avenue, 28th Floor, New York, NY 10022, or by telephone at (212) 624-2060, or by email at prospectus@allianceg.com.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
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