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Share capital, share premium and other capital reserves
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2022
Share capital, share premium and other capital reserves  
Share capital, share premium and other capital reserves

15. Share capital, share premium and other capital reserves

The following table provides information about the Company’s share capital as of December 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020:

(in thousands, except

Authorized

Issued and fully paid

Additional paid-in capital

Share premium

for share and per

December 31, 

December 31, 

December 31, 

December 31, 

share amounts)

  

2022

  

2021

  

2020

  

2022

  

2021

  

2020

  

2022

  

2021

  

2020

Common shares of $0.01 each

 

447,525

 

 

 

281,775

 

$

 

$

$

Preference Series A shares of $0.01 each

 

1,755,845

 

 

 

1,037,595

 

 

722

Preference Series B shares of $0.01 each

 

3,899,766

 

 

 

3,899,766

 

 

18,340

Preference Series C shares of $0.01 each

 

4,133,805

 

 

 

4,133,805

 

 

22,026

Preference shares of $0.01 each

 

9,789,416

 

 

 

9,071,166

41,088

Preference shares of $0.14 each

45,000,000

45,000,000

Common shares of $0.14 each

45,000,000

45,000,000

26,289,087

25,775,538

194,424

192,270

90,000,000

 

90,000,000

10,236,941

 

26,289,087

 

25,775,538

9,352,941

$

194,424

$

192,270

$

41,088

Preferred Series Shares

In 2017, the Company issued and sold 1,755,845 Series A Preferred at a price of $0.68 per share for gross proceeds of $1.2 million. The Company incurred minimal issuance costs.

In 2018, the Company issued and sold 3,899,766 Series B Preferred at a price of $4.61 per share for gross proceeds of $17.9 million. The Company incurred minimal issuance costs.

In 2020, the Company closed an oversubscribed financing of Series C Preferred that resulted in tranche-based commitments of $84.4 million gross and $73.2 million net. In connection with the Series C Preferred financing, the Company agreed to sell the Series C Preferred in three tranches. In connection with the funding of the tranches the Company was obligated to repurchase 1,436,500 shares of Series A preferred of approximately $10.3 million and 331,500 common shares.

In 2020, the first tranche of gross proceeds of $22.7 million, with $0.6 million of issuance costs and 4,133,805 shares of Series C Preferred, was funded, and 718,250 shares amounting to $4.9 million of Series A Preferred were repurchased, resulting in net proceeds of $17.2 million.

In 2021, the Company effected a 221:1 share split of the Company’s issued and outstanding common shares and a proportional adjustment to the existing conversion ratios for the Company’s convertible preferred shares. The par value per share and authorized common and convertible preferred shares were adjusted as a

result of the share split. All common shares and common share per share amounts within the financial statements and notes thereto have been adjusted for all periods presented to give effect to this share split, including reclassifying an amount equal to the change in par value of common shares to additional paid-in capital.

In 2021, the remaining milestones required to fund the remaining two tranches of the Series C Preferred financing were waived, and the funding of both tranches prior to the completion of the IPO was authorized. The two remaining tranches funded additional net proceeds of $56.6 million in the aggregate, after repurchasing the 718,250 shares of Series A Preferred and 165,750 common shares from one investor.

Automatic Conversion of Preferred Shares – In 2021, the Company effected an amendment to its Articles of Association, as amended. This amendment eliminated the minimum price per common share for an underwritten public offering that would result in the automatic conversion of all outstanding Series A, Series B, and Series C preferred shares of the Company.

Common shares

In 2021, the Company completed an IPO of common shares pursuant to its registration statement on Form F-1, as amended (file 333-253795) under the symbol “LVTX” in the United States on Nasdaq. Pursuant to the registration statement, the Company issued and sold 6,700,000 shares of $0.14 par value common share at a price of $15.00 per share. Net proceeds from the IPO were approximately $89.0 million after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions of $7.0 million and offering costs of $4.5 million.

In 2021, underwriters of the Company’s IPO consummated the exercise of their option to purchase 425,712 common shares from the Company at the price of $15.00 per share resulting in additional IPO proceeds to the Company of $5.9 million after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions of $0.4 million.

In 2021, the Company issued 235,664 common shares to VUmc representing the $3.7 million payable in accordance with the VUmc agreement.

In 2022, the Company issued 491,352 common shares to VUmc representing 50% of the payable in accordance with the VUmc agreement.

In 2022, the Company issued 22,197 common shares to former employees upon exercise of outstanding stock options.

The following table provides information about the Company’s major shareholders on a non-diluted basis:

As of December 31, 

    

2022

    

2021

 

Gilde Healthcare

 

20.6

%  

21.0

%

Versant Venture Capital VI, L.P.

 

17.5

%  

17.8

%

Novo Holdings A/S

 

12.7

%  

12.9

%

Redmile Biopharma Investments

 

10.6

%  

10.8

%

Sanofi Foreign Participations B.V.

 

7.3

%  

7.4

%

Ysios Capital Partners, SGECR,S.A.U.

 

%  

6.2

%

Other shareholders

 

31.3

%  

23.9

%

 

100.0

%  

100.0

%