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Nature of Business and Liquidity
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2024
Nature of Business and Liquidity  
Nature of Business and Liquidity

1.      Nature of Business and Liquidity

Fennec Pharmaceuticals Inc. (“Fennec,” “the Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) was originally formed as a British Columbia corporation under the name Adherex Technologies Inc. and subsequently changed its name on September 3, 2014. Fennec, together with its wholly owned subsidiaries Oxiquant, Inc. (“Oxiquant”) and Fennec Pharmaceuticals, Inc., both Delaware corporations, and Cadherin Biomedical Inc. (“CBI”), a Canadian corporation and Fennec Pharmaceuticals (EU) Limited, an Irish Private Company Limited by Shares (“Fennec Limited”), collectively referred to herein as the “Company,” is a biopharmaceutical company with one U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) approved product, PEDMARK®, developed to reduce the risk of ototoxicity associated with cisplatin in pediatric patients one month of age and older with localized, non-metastatic solid tumors. With the exception of Fennec Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Fennec Limited, all subsidiaries are inactive.

These unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (“US GAAP”) that are applicable to a going concern which contemplates that the Company will continue in operation for the foreseeable future and will be able to realize its assets and discharge its liabilities in the normal course of business.

During the three months ended March 31, 2024, the Company earned net income from operations of $13,743. On March 31, 2024, it had an accumulated deficit of $206,408 and had experienced positive cash flows from operating activities in the amount of $39,047 for the period ended March 31, 2024.

On August 1, 2022, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “SPA”) with Petrichor Opportunities Fund I LP (the “Investor”) in connection with the issuance of up to $45,000 of senior secured floating rate convertible notes (the “Notes”), issuable in multiple tranches (the “Note Financing”). On August 19, 2022, the Company closed on the initial tranche of $5,000 (the “First Closing Note”) which has an Initial Conversion Price equal to $8.11 per share, which was calculated based on a 20% premium of the 5-day volume weighted average price of the Company’s common shares as traded on the Nasdaq Capital Market (the “VWAP”) immediately prior to the announcement of the SPA dated August 1, 2022. In connection with the first closing, the Company repaid in full its secured indebtedness with Bridge Bank in the amount of $5,000.

On September 23, 2022, the Company closed on the second tranche of the Note Financing in the amount of $20,000 (the “Second Closing Note”), which has an Initial Conversion Price equal to $7.89 per share, which was calculated based on a 20% premium of the 5-day VWAP immediately prior to September 20, 2022, which was the date the Company obtained FDA approval of PEDMARK®.

The SPA provided that subsequent to the funding of the Second Closing Note, and before December 31, 2023, the Company could draw up to $20,000 of additional financing under the SPA, in one or more tranches of $10,000 upon mutual agreement of the Company and the Investor (the “Subsequent Closing Notes”). The Subsequent Closing Notes will be convertible at a price per share equal to $7.89 per share, which price is calculated on the same basis as for the Second Closing Note.

A commitment fee of 2.0% of the Notes was payable under the SPA, which was paid by the Company issuing the Investor warrants to purchase 110,996 of the Company’s common shares (one half issued at the first closing and the other half  issued at the second closing).The warrants are exercisable at a price per share of $8.11 and have a term of five years from the date of the grant.

On December 4, 2023, the Company closed a third tranche under the SPA in the amount of $5,000,000 and issued the Investor a Note in the same amount (the “Third Closing Note”). and the Third Closing Note is convertible at a price equal to $7.89 per share, calculated as a 20% premium of the 5-day volume weighted average price of the Company’s common shares as traded on the Nasdaq Capital Market immediately prior to September 20, 2022, which was the date the Company obtained FDA approval of PEDMARK®.

 

Also on December 4, 2023, the Company entered into a First Amendment to the Securities Purchase Agreement (the “SPA Amendment”) with the Investor, which, among other things, extends the period that the Company may draw the remaining $15,000,000 under the SPA from December 31, 2023, to December 31, 2024. Subsequent draws are subject to mutual agreement of the Company and the Investor and will be represented by Notes that will also be convertible at a price equal to $7.89 per share.

On March 17, 2024, the Company announced it had entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with Norgine Pharma UK Limited (“Norgine”) to commercialize PEDMARQSI® (EU brand name for PEDMARK®) in Europe, New Zealand and Australia. The licensing agreement provided Fennec with approximately $43.2 million up front and may provide Fennec with up to approximately $230 million in milestone and royalty payments in the future.

The Company believes current funds provide sufficient funding for the Company to carry out its planned activities, including the continuation of commercialization efforts of PEDMARK®, for at least the next twelve months.

These financial statements do not reflect the potentially material adjustments in the carrying values of assets and liabilities, the reported expenses, and the balance sheet classifications used, that would be necessary if the going concern assumption were not appropriate.