UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 OR 15(d) of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): July 31, 2020

 

Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:  (240) 268-5300

N/A

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

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On July 31, 2020, Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into a Warrant Exchange Agreement (the “Agreement”) with Armistice Capital Master Fund Ltd. (“Armistice”). The Company previously issued to Armistice (a) a warrant to purchase 160,257 shares (on a post-reverse stock split basis) of its common stock, par value $.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”) pursuant to the offering described in the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on October 19, 2018 (the “2018 Warrant”), and (b) a warrant to purchase 208,334 shares (on a post-reverse stock split basis) of Common Stock pursuant to the offering described in the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on January 25, 2019 (the “2019 Warrant” and together with the 2018 Warrant, the “Warrants”). Pursuant to the Agreement, on August 3, 2020, the Company is issuing to Armistice an aggregate of 215,000 shares of Common Stock in exchange for the surrender and cancellation of the Warrants.

The above summary of the Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety to the full text of the Agreement, which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is qualified herein by this reference.

The disclosures set forth above under Item 1.01 are incorporated herein by reference. The issuance by the Company of the shares of Common Stock in exchange for the surrender and cancellation of the Warrants is being made in reliance on Section 3(a)(9) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

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Portions of this exhibit have been omitted in compliance with Item 601 of Regulation S-K.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.