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Stockholders' Equity | 12 Months Ended
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Stockholders' Equity | 10. Stockholders’ Equity Series C and D Preferred Stock On July 29, 2022, the Company closed a private placement offering pursuant to the terms of a Securities Purchase Agreement dated as of July 28, 2022 entered into with MSD Credit Opportunity Master Fund, L.P. (the “Securities Purchase Agreement”), pursuant to which the Company issued and sold 275,000 shares of the Company's Series C Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share (the "Series C Preferred Stock"), and 100,000 shares of the Company's Series D Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share (the "Series D Preferred Stock," and together with the Series C Preferred Stock, the "Preferred Stock"), at an offering price of $8.00 per share, for gross proceeds of approximately $3.0 million in the aggregate, before the deduction of discounts, fees and offering expenses. The shares of Preferred Stock are convertible, at a conversion price (the "Conversion Price") of $1.22 per share (subject in certain circumstances to adjustments), into an aggregate of 2,459,016 shares of the Company's Common Stock, at the option of the holders of the Preferred Stock and, in certain circumstances, by the Company. The Securities Purchase Agreement contains customary representations, warranties and agreements by the Company and customary conditions to closing. The Company included certain proposals at its 2022 annual meeting of stockholders, including (i) an amendment to the Company’s Articles of Incorporation, as amended (the “Charter”), to change the name of the Company to “Theriva Biologics, Inc.” (the “Name Change”), (ii) an amendment to the Articles of Incorporation, as amended to increase the number of authorized shares of Common Stock from 20,000,000 to 350,000,000 (the “Authorized Common Stock Increase”) and (iii) to adjourn any meeting of stockholders called for the purpose of voting on the Authorized Common Stock Increase (collectively, the “Stockholder Items”). The purchaser of the Preferred Stock agreed in the Purchase Agreement to (i) not transfer, offer, sell, contract to sell, hypothecate, pledge or otherwise dispose of the shares of the Preferred Stock until the earlier of the date that the Authorized Common Stock Increase is effected or October 26, 2022 and (ii) vote the shares of the Series C Preferred Stock purchased in the Offering in favor of the Stockholder Items. ​ 10. Stockholders’ Equity – (continued) Pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement, the Company filed certificates of designation (the "Certificates of Designation") with the Secretary of the State of Nevada designating the rights, preferences and limitations of the shares of Series C Preferred Stock and Series D Preferred Stock. The Certificate of Designation for the Series C Preferred Stock provides, in particular, that the Series C Preferred Stock will have no voting rights other than the right to vote as a class on the Stockholder Items and the right to cast votes on an as converted to Common Stock basis on the Stockholder Items. The Certificate of Designation for the Series D Preferred Stock provides, in particular, that the Series D Preferred Stock will have no voting rights other than the right to vote as a class on the Stockholder Items and the right to cast 20,000 votes per share of Series D Preferred Stock on the Stockholder Items and to vote the shares of the Series D Preferred Stock purchased in the Offering in the same proportion as shares of Common Stock and any other shares of capital stock of the Company that are entitled to vote thereon (excluding any shares of Common Stock that are not voted) on the Stockholder Items. The holders of Preferred Stock will be entitled to dividends, on an as-if converted basis, equal to dividends actually paid, if any, on shares of Common Stock. The Conversion Price may be adjusted pursuant to the Certificates of Designation for stock dividends and stock splits, subsequent rights offering, pro rata distributions of dividends or the occurrence of a fundamental transaction (as defined in the applicable Certificate of Designation). The Series C Preferred Stock and Series D Preferred Stock are classified as temporary equity as a result of the deemed liquidation provision. Transaction expenses paid to third parties will be charged to temporary equity and will not be accreted as deemed dividends until redemption becomes probable. In order to comply with Section 122 of the NYSE American Company Guide, on August 9, 2022 the Company and the holder of the Company's Series C preferred stock and Series D preferred stock amended the Securities Purchase Agreement entered into between them on July 28, 2022 to provide that the holder may only submit 1,549,295 of the votes relating to the Series C Preferred Stock that it would otherwise be entitled to vote. Stock Repurchase On December 22, 2022, the Company repurchased an aggregate of approximately 720,000 shares of its common stock, par value $0.001 from three founders of its subsidiary Theriva Biologics S.L. (formerly known as VCN Biosciences S.L.) in a privately negotiated transaction pursuant to the terms of a Share Repurchase Agreement entered into on December 20, 2022 with each of the Selling Stockholders. The price per share was $0.4001, which was the closing price of the Common Stock on the day prior to the closing for an aggregate purchase price was $288,072. The closing was subject to fulfillment of certain conditions, including delivery of certain closing documents. The Share Repurchase Agreement contains customary representations, warranties and covenants of the parties. The repurchase was funded from the Company’s cash on hand and the shares to be repurchased will be held as treasury stock. The Selling Stockholders acquired the shares of the Company’s Common Stock as consideration for the sale of their shares of the subsidiary to the Company in March 2022. B. Riley Securities and Alliance Global Partners Sales Agreement On August 5, 2016, the Company entered into the Sales Agreement (the “Original Sales Agreement”) with FBR Capital Markets & Co. (now known as B. Riley Securities) to act as a sales agent, which agreement was amended and restated on February 9, 2021 to add Alliance Global Partners as a sale agent. The amended and restated Sales Agreement (the “Amended and Restated Sales Agreement”) enables the Company to offer and sell shares of common stock from time to time through B. Riley Securities, Inc. and A.G.P./Alliance Global Partners as the Company’s sales agent. Sales of common stock under the Sales Agreement are made in sales deemed to be “at-the-market” equity offerings as defined in Rule 415 promulgated under the Securities Act. The sales agents are entitled to receive a commission rate of up to 3.0% of gross sales in connection with the sale of the Common Stock sold on the Company’s behalf. During the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company sold through the Amended and Restated Sales Agreement approximately 2.0 million shares of the Company’s common stock and received net proceeds of approximately $2.2 million. During the year ended December 31, 2022, there were no sales of the Company’s common stock through the At Market Issuance Sales Agreement and the Amended and Restated Sales Agreement.

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