UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
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Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): December 13, 2018
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DIFFUSION PHARMACEUTICALS INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
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Delaware |
000-24477 |
30-0645032 |
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(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) |
(Commission File Number) |
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |
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1317 Carlton Avenue, Suite 200 Charlottesville, Virginia |
22902 |
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(Address of principal executive offices) |
(Zip Code) |
(434) 220-0718
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
Not applicable
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)
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Item 3.03. Material Modification to the Rights of Security Holders
To the extent required by Item 3.03 of Form 8-K, the information contained in Item 5.03 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 5.03. Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.
On December 13, 2018, Diffusion Pharmaceuticals Inc. (the “Company”) filed a Certificate of Amendment to its Certificate of Incorporation, as amended (the “Amendment”), with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware to effect a 1-to-15 reverse stock split (the “Reverse Stock Split”) of the shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Common Stock”). The Amendment became effective at 5:58 p.m. on December 13, 2018.
As set forth in the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 15 2018, at the Company’s 2018 Annual Meeting of Stockholders on June 14, 2018, the Company’s stockholders approved the Amendment and the Reverse Stock Split at a ratio of not less than 1-to-2 and not greater than 1-to-15, with the exact ratio and effective time to be determined by the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”), if at all. Thereafter, the Board determined to effect the Reverse Stock Split at a ratio of 1-to-15 and authorized the filing of the Amendment.
As a result of the Reverse Stock Split, every fifteen shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the Reverse Stock Split were reclassified and combined into one share of Common Stock. Beginning with the opening of trading on December 14, 2018, the Common Stock was available for trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market on a Reverse Stock Split adjusted basis with a new CUSIP number, 253748 305.
No fractional shares were issued in connection with the Reverse Stock Split. Stockholders who otherwise would have been entitled to receive fractional shares of Common Stock had their holdings rounded up to the next whole share. Proportional adjustments will be made to the Company’s outstanding warrants, stock options and other equity securities and to the Company’s 2015 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended, to reflect the Reverse Stock Split, in each case, in accordance with the terms thereof.
The full text of the Amendment is filed as Exhibit 3.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits
(d) Exhibits.
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Description |
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3.1 |
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| Dated: December 14, 2018 | DIFFUSION PHARMACEUTICALS INC. |
| By: /s/ David G. Kalergis | |
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Name: David G. Kalergis Title: Chief Executive Officer |
Exhibit 3.1
CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT
OF THE
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION (AS AMENDED)
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DIFFUSION PHARMACEUTICALS INC.
DIFFUSION PHARMACEUTICALS INC., a corporation incorporated and existing under and by virtue of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the "Corporation") does hereby certify:
FIRST: That, at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Corporation (the “Board of Directors”) on March 14, 2018, a resolution was duly adopted setting forth a proposed amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation (as amended) of the Corporation in the form set forth below (the "Amendment"), declaring said Amendment to be advisable and calling for consideration of said proposed Amendment by the stockholders of the Corporation.
"RESOLVED, that the Certificate of Incorporation (as amended) of the Corporation shall be amended by adding at the end of subsection A of Article IV thereof the following: “Effective upon the effective time of this Certificate of Amendment of the Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware (the “Effective Time”), each fifteen (15) shares of Common Stock issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall, automatically and without the necessity of any further action, be changed, reclassified and combined into one (1) share of Common Stock (the “Reverse Stock Split”). No fractional shares shall be issued in connection with the Reverse Stock Split. Stockholders who otherwise would be entitled to receive fractional shares of Common Stock shall have that rounded up to one additional whole share. Each certificate that immediately prior to the Effective Time represented shares of Common Stock (“Old Certificates”), shall thereafter represent that number of shares of Common Stock into which the shares of Common Stock represented by the Old Certificate shall have been combined, subject to the elimination of fractional shares as described above."
SECOND: Thereafter, pursuant to the resolution of the Board of Directors, the proposed Amendment was approved by the stockholders of the Corporation at the annual meeting of stockholders on June 14, 2018.
THIRD: That the Amendment was duly adopted in accordance with the provisions of Sections 242 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this Amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation (as amended) to be executed by David G. Kalergis, its President and Chief Executive Officer, on this 13th day of December, 2018.
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President and Chief Executive Officer |
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