Nasdaq confirms Evaxion is fully compliant, withdraws delisting determination
15 February 2025 - 12:00AM
- Evaxion will remain listed
on Nasdaq after successfully evidencing compliance with the Nasdaq
minimum stockholders’ equity requirement
- Evaxion has restored its
equity above the minimum requirement through capital market
activities
- Evaxion’s cash runway now
extends to mid-2026
- The conversion of Evaxion’s
EIB loan to equity is still expected to be completed in Q1 2025,
which is anticipated to further boost equity
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, February 14, 2025 - Evaxion
Biotech A/S (NASDAQ: EVAX) (“Evaxion”), a clinical-stage TechBio
company specializing in developing AI-Immunology™ powered vaccines,
has received confirmation from the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC
(“Nasdaq”) that it has re-established compliance with Nasdaq’s
minimum stockholders’ equity requirement. Nasdaq has withdrawn its
determination to delist Evaxion, and the company will remain listed
as fully compliant with Nasdaq’s rules.
“We are very pleased to have received formal
confirmation that we are again fully compliant with Nasdaq’s rules
and will remain listed as we always planned for. We thank Nasdaq
for a constructive dialogue on the matter. Having significantly
strengthened our equity and cash position, full focus is now on
executing upon our strategy and pursuing our 2025 milestones”, says
Christian Kanstrup, CEO of Evaxion.
On January 28, 2025, Evaxion was given until May
12, 2025, to formally evidence compliance with Nasdaq listing rule
5550(b)(1) requiring stockholders’ equity of at least $2.5 million.
The company has already successfully executed its plan to restore
its equity and has re-established compliance.
In line with the applicable Nasdaq rules in such
circumstances, the notice also indicated that Nasdaq had imposed a
“Mandatory Panel Monitor,” as that term is defined in Nasdaq
Listing Rule 5815(d)(4)(B), for a period of one year from the date
of the compliance determination, pursuant to which in the event
Evaxion fails to timely satisfy the minimum stockholders’ equity
requirement during the one-year monitor period, Evaxion will not
have the opportunity to provide a compliance plan for Nasdaq
Staff’s review; rather, Nasdaq would instead issue a delist
determination pursuant to which Evaxion could request a hearing and
stay of the delist determination pending another hearing before the
Panel.
On January 31, 2025, Evaxion completed a $10.8
million public offering. In the weeks before, exercise of prefunded
warrants and sales of American Depositary Shares through Evaxion’s
ATM facility had also bolstered the company’s equity by
approximately $7.6 million. In total, these capital market
activities provided a net total of approximately $17 million in
cash and equity, extending Evaxion’s cash runway to mid-2026.
Evaxion remains in discussions with the European
Investment Bank (EIB) about the conversion of €3.5 million out of
Evaxion’s €7 million loan with EIB, which is expected to increase
Evaxion’s equity by $3.7 million (€3.5 million) immediately upon
completion. An agreement between Evaxion and EIB would be subject
to certain conditions and is still expected to be finalized and
implemented in the first quarter of 2025.
Contact
information Evaxion Biotech A/SMads KronborgVice
President, Investor Relations & Communication+45 53 54 82 96
mak@evaxion.ai
About EVAXION Evaxion Biotech
A/S is a pioneering TechBio company based upon its AI platform,
AI-Immunology™. Evaxion’s proprietary and scalable AI prediction
models harness the power of artificial intelligence to decode the
human immune system and develop novel immunotherapies for cancer,
bacterial diseases, and viral infections. Based upon
AI-Immunology™, Evaxion has developed a clinical-stage oncology
pipeline of novel personalized vaccines and a preclinical
infectious disease pipeline in bacterial and viral diseases with
high unmet medical needs. Evaxion is committed to transforming
patients’ lives by providing innovative and targeted treatment
options. For more information about Evaxion and its groundbreaking
AI-Immunology™ platform and vaccine pipeline, please visit our
website.
Forward-looking
statement This announcement contains
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of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the
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indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of various
factors, including, but not limited to, risks related to: our
financial condition and need for additional capital; our
development work; cost and success of our product development
activities and preclinical and clinical trials; commercializing any
approved pharmaceutical product developed using our AI platform
technology, including the rate and degree of market acceptance of
our product candidates; our dependence on third parties including
for conduct of clinical testing and product manufacture; our
inability to enter into partnerships; government regulation;
protection of our intellectual property rights; employee matters
and managing growth; our ADSs and ordinary shares, the impact
of international economic, political, legal, compliance, social and
business factors, including inflation, and the effects on
our business from other significant geopolitical and
macro-economic events; and other uncertainties affecting our
business operations and financial condition. For a further
discussion of these risks, please refer to the risk factors
included in our most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F and
other filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
(SEC), which are available
at www.sec.gov. We do not assume any
obligation to update any forward-looking statements except as
required by law.
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