15.   Stockholders’ Equity

Preferred Stock

The Company’s Board of Directors is authorized to issue, at any time, without further stockholder approval, up to 1 million shares of preferred stock. The Board of Directors has the authority to fix and determine the voting rights, rights of redemption and other rights and preferences of preferred stock.

iBio CMO Preferred Tracking Stock

On February 23, 2017, the Company entered into an exchange agreement with Bryan Capital pursuant to which the Company acquired substantially all of the interest in iBio CDMO held by Bryan Capital and issued one share of a newly created Preferred Tracking Stock, in exchange for 29,990,000 units of limited liability company interests of iBio CDMO held by Bryan Capital at an original issue price of $13 million. After giving effect to the transaction, the Company owned 99.99% and Bryan Capital owned 0.01% of iBio CDMO.

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On February 23, 2017, the Board of Directors of the Company created the Preferred Tracking Stock out of the Company’s 1 million authorized shares of preferred stock. The Preferred Tracking Stock accrued dividends at the rate of 2% per annum on the original issue price. Accrued dividends were cumulative and were payable if and when declared by the Board of Directors, upon an exchange of the shares of Preferred Tracking Stock and upon a liquidation, winding up or deemed liquidation (such as a merger) of the Company. No dividends were declared through October 31, 2021.  

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On November 1, 2021, iBio purchased the iBio CMO Preferred Tracking Stock held by Bryan Capital. No iBio CMO Preferred Tracking Stock remains outstanding. As a result, the iBio CDMO subsidiary and its intellectual property are now wholly owned by iBio. Accrued dividends totaled approximately $0 and $1,131,000 at March 31, 2022, and June 30, 2021, respectively.

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Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share ("Series A Preferred"), Series B Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Series B Preferred”) and Series C Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Series C Preferred”)

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On June 20, 2018, the Board of Directors of the Company created the Series A Preferred and Series B Preferred Stock and designated 6,300 shares as Series A Preferred Stock. On June 26, 2018, the Company issued 6,300 shares of Series A Preferred and 5,785 shares of Series B Preferred Stock as part of a public offering. All of the issued shares of Series A Preferred were converted into an aggregate of 8,357,997 shares of the Common Stock and all of the issued Series B Preferred were converted into an aggregate of 28,935,000 shares of the Common Stock.  

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On October 28, 2019, the Board of Directors of the Company created the Series C Preferred. On October 29, 2019, the Company issued 4,510 shares of Series C Preferred as part of a public offering. All of the shares of Series C Preferred were converted into an aggregate of 22,550,000 shares of the Common Stock.

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No shares of Series A Preferred, Series B Preferred or Series C Preferred remain outstanding.

Common Stock

The number of authorized shares of Common Stock is 275 million. In addition, on December 9, 2020, the stockholders of the Company approved the Company’s 2020 Omnibus Incentive Plan (the “2020 Plan”) and as of the filing date of this report, the Company had reserved 32 million shares of Common Stock for issuance pursuant to the grant of new awards under the 2020 Plan.

Recent issuances of Common Stock include the following:

Vesting of Restricted Stock Units “RSUs”

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In the quarter ended December 31, 2021, RSUs for 103,003 shares of Common Stock were vested.  In the quarter ended March 31, 2022, RSUs for 105,027 shares of Common Stock were vested.

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Exercise of Stock Options

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In late September 2021, options for 84,500 shares of Common Stock were exercised.  

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Cantor Fitzgerald Underwriting

On November 25, 2020, the Company entered into a Controlled Equity Offering^SM Sales Agreement (the “Sales Agreement”) with Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. ("Cantor Fitzgerald") to sell shares of Common Stock, from time to time, through an “at the market offering” program having an aggregate offering price of up to $100,000,000 through which Cantor Fitzgerald would act as sales agent (the “Sales Agent”). The issuance and sale, if any, of Common Stock by the Company under the Sales Agreement was made pursuant to our registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-250973) (the “Registration Statement”), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 25, 2020.  The Registration Statement was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 7, 2020.

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On December 8, 2020, the Company entered into the Underwriting Agreement with Cantor Fitzgerald, pursuant to which the Company (i) agreed to issue and sell in an underwritten public offering (the “Offering”) 29,661,017 shares of Common Stock to Cantor Fitzgerald and (ii) granted Cantor Fitzgerald an option for 30 days to purchase up to an additional 4,449,152 shares of Common Stock that may be sold upon the exercise of such option by Cantor Fitzgerald.  On December 10, 2020, this offering closed and the Company issued approximately 29.66 million shares of Common Stock for gross proceeds totaling approximately $35.2 million. The Company incurred costs of approximately $2.9 million.

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On January 11, 2021, the Company issued an additional 4,240,828 shares of Common Stock to Cantor Fitzgerald to satisfy the underwriter’s option exercise. The Company received net proceeds of approximately $4.6 million.

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On February 24, 2021, Cantor Fitzgerald sold as sales agent pursuant to the Sales Agreement 113,200 shares of Common Stock. The Company received net proceeds of approximately $238,000.

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On May 7, 2021, Cantor Fitzgerald sold as sales agent pursuant to the Sales Agreement 1,716,800 shares of Common Stock. The Company received net proceeds of approximately $2.995 million.

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No sales were made during the three months ended March 31, 2022.

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Warrants

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The Company issued 25,000,000 Series A Warrants and 25,000,000 Series B Warrants as part of its October 29, 2019, public offering. The Series A Warrants were exercisable at $0.22 per share, had a term of two years and were set to expire on October 29, 2021. The Series B Warrants were exercisable at $0.22 per share, had a term of seven years and were set to expire on October 29, 2026.

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On February 20, 2020, the Company entered into a warrant amendment and exchange agreement (the “Warrant Exchange Agreement”) with certain holders (the “Warrant Holders”) of the Company’s Series A Warrants (the “Original Series A Warrants”) and Series B Warrants (the “Original Series B Warrants”).

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From the date of the October 29, 2019, public offering through June 30, 2020, the Company issued 29.1 million shares of Common Stock for the exercise of various Warrants and received proceeds of $6.4 million. In addition, the Company issued 5.9 million shares of Common Stock for the cashless exercise of Warrants in which the “assumed proceeds” totaling $1.3 million were used to reduce the

Company’s balances owed for the notes described above. Costs related to the exchange under the Warrant Exchange agreement totaled approximately $313,000 and were offset against additional paid-in capital.

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As of December 31, 2020, there were no Original Series A Warrants or Original Series B Warrants outstanding.

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The Warrant

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As discussed above, the Company issued to Bryan Capital a Warrant to purchase 1,289,581 shares of the Common Stock of the Company at an exercise price of $1.33 per share. The Warrant expires October 10, 2026, is exercisable immediately, provides for a cashless exercise at any time and automatic cashless exercise on the expiration date if on such date the exercise price of the Warrant exceeds its fair market value as determined in accordance with the terms of the Warrant and adjustments in the case of stock dividends and stock splits.

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The Company estimated the fair value of the Warrant using the Black-Scholes model with the following assumptions:

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