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: June 29, 2009
(Date
of earliest event reported)
Oragenics,
Inc
(Exact
name of registrant as specified in its charter)
FL
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001-38122
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59-3410522
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(State
or other jurisdiction
of
incorporation)
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(Commission
File Number)
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(IRS
Employer
Identification
Number)
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13700
Progress Blvd
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32615
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(Address
of principal executive offices)
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(Zip
Code)
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386-418-4018
(Registrant’s
telephone number, including area code)
Not
Applicable
(Former
Name or Former Address, if changed since last report)
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ITEM
1.01 ENTRY INTO A MATERIAL DEFINITIVE AGREEMENT
On June
29, 2009, Oragenics, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into and consummated a private
placement of equity and debt financing pursuant to a Securities Purchase
Agreement (the “Securities Purchase Agreement”) with an accredited
investor. Pursuant to the terms of the Securities Purchase Agreement
the Company issued 50,000,000 shares of its Common Stock to the Koski Family
Limited Partnership in exchange for $4,000,000, the payment of which consisted
of the following: $1,500,000 in cash at closing and $2,500,000 pursuant to a
non-interest bearing promissory note providing for five consecutive monthly
installment payments of $500,000 commencing July 31, 2009 and the Koski Family
Limited Partnership provided a secured loan of $1,000,000 to the
Company. The loan is secured by substantially all of the Company’s
assets (excluding receivables) and bears interest at the rate of Prime plus 4.0%
which is payable quarterly. The principal of the loan is due in five
years. The Company also issued warrants to the Koski Family Limited
Partnership to acquire 1,000,000 shares of Company common stock at an exercise
price of $0.10 per share. The warrant expires in five years and is
immediately exercisable. The transaction was consummated pursuant to,
and in reliance upon, an exemption from registration set forth under Section
4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933 as amended, as this transaction did not
involve a public offering.
As a
result of the transaction the board of directors believes there was a change of
control of the Company with the Koski Family Limited Partnership acquiring a
controlling interest of approximately 56.6 % of our outstanding voting common
stock. Two Koski family members, Robert Koski and Christine Koski
were appointed to our Board of Directors. In addition, following the
transaction, the Koski Family Limited Partnership also has the ability to
consent to the selection and appointment of two outside directors.
The Koski Family Limited Partnership
was also granted registration rights in connection with any offerings by the
Company of its shares. Such registration rights require the Company
to include a certain amount of the Koski Family Limited Partnership shares in a
Company offering determined based upon 15% of the shares to be publicly
offered.
In connection with, and as a condition
to the Securities Purchase Agreement, the purchasers, including George Hawes our
largest shareholder prior to this transaction, under that certain securities
purchase agreement dated June 12, 2008, (the “Hawes Agreement”) entered into
waiver and release agreements with us. In addition, such individuals
waived and relinquished any special rights they possessed pursuant to agreements
with the Company, including, but not limited to, (i) rights of first refusal
(ii) antidilution regarding future equity sales and (iii) covenants regarding
secured lending. In connection with such waivers and releases,
warrants to acquire 3,220,000 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of
$1.30 per share that were previously issued under the Hawes Agreement were
subject to the right of exchange for new replacement warrants to acquire the
same number of shares under the same terms except for a change in the exercise
price from $1.30 to $0.75.
In
addition to the above, as a further condition to the consummation of the
transaction contemplated by the Securities Purchase Agreement the Company was
required to obtain satisfactory arrangements with three main creditors for
reductions in the amounts payable by the Company to such
creditors. The agreed upon reductions in accounts payable with such
creditors amounted to approximately $708,000 in aggregate and the reductions
were conditioned upon prompt payment of the remaining balances owed to such
creditors after taking into account the reductions agreed to by such
creditors.
The
Securities Purchase Agreement (including the form of the Promissory Note and
form of Warrant) is attached as Exhibit 10.1 and the Secured Promissory Note is
attached as Exhibit 10.2 and the Security Agreement is attached as Exhibit 10.3
and each are incorporated by reference herein. The foregoing
description of the Securities Purchase Agreement, Promissory Notes, Warrant and
Security Agreement are qualified in their entirety by reference to Exhibits
10.1, 10.2 and 10.3.
A copy of the June 30, 2009 press
release announcing the transaction is attached to this report as Exhibit 99.1
and is incorporated herein by reference.
ITEM
1.02 TERMINATION OF MATERIAL DEFINITIVE AGREEMENT.
The information set forth in Item 1.01
regarding the Hawes Agreement is incorporated herein by reference.
ITEM
2.03 CREATION OF A DIRECT FINANCIAL OBLIGATION OR AN OBLIGATION UNDER AN
OFF-BALANCE SHEET ARRANGEMENT OF A REGISTRANT.
The information set forth in Item 1.01
is incorporated herein by reference.
ITEM
3.02 UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES
The
information set forth in Item 1.01 is incorporated herein by
reference. In addition, our Director and Chief Scientific Officer was
repaid funds in the amount of $45,656.43 that he had previously advanced to the
Company through the issuance of 456,564 shares of common stock on June 29, 2009
at a price per share of $0.10. The transaction was consummated
pursuant to, and in reliance upon, an exemption from registration set forth
under Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933 as amended, as this transaction
did not involve a public offering.
ITEM
5.01 CHANGES IN CONTROL OF REGISTRANT.
The information set forth in Item 1.01
is incorporated herein by reference.
ITEM
5.02 DEPARTURE OF DIRECTORS OR CERTAIN OFFICERS; ELECTION OF DIRECTORS;
APPOINTMENT OF CERTAIN OFFICERS; COMPENSATORY ARRANGEMENTS OF CERTAIN
OFFICERS.
Effective upon the closing of the
transaction contemplated by the Securities Purchase Agreement referenced under
Item 1.01 above, Messrs. Welch, Hennecke and Sills resigned from our Board of
Directors and our acting President and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. David
Hirsch, as well as Ms. Christine Koski and Mr. Robert Koski were appointed to
fill the vacancies on our board of directors created by the aforementioned
resignations, with Ms. Koski being elected as Chairman to succeed Mr.
Welch. Following the closing of the transaction, Mr. David Hirsch
became our President and Chief Executive Officer and our Controller, Mr. Brian
Bohunicky was appointed to be our Chief Financial Officer. Mr.
Bohunicky will be paid $200,000 per year and his employment with us will be at
will. Following the closing of the transaction, Mr. Hirsch was
awarded a bonus of $100,000 payable in 1,000,000 shares of our common stock at a
price per share of $0.10. As non-employee directors, each of
Christine Koski and Robert Koski received options to acquire 100,000 shares of
our common stock on the date they joined the Board, June 29, 2009, at an
exercise price of $0.10 in connection with the Company’s non-employee director
compensation plan.
Certain
biographical information on the new directors and Chief Financial Officer are
set forth below:
Ms. Christine L.
Koski. Ms. Koski joined the executive team of nMetric,
LLC as head of marketing in July 2006. Prior to joining nMetric, Ms. Koski
founded Koski Consulting Group, Inc. in June 2001 to work with start-up
companies in the area of business strategy and marketing. In May 2001,
Ms. Koski completed an Executive MBA degree from Southern Methodist
University. From 1980 through 2000, Ms. Koski held various positions in
sales, product management, purchasing, sales management, and international
marketing management with Celanese A.G. or its former affiliates, including
Celanese Ltd., Hoechst AG and Hoechst Celanese Chemical Group Ltd.
Ms. Koski has served as a Director of the Sun Hydraulics Corporation, a
public company, since May 2000.
Mr. Robert C.
Koski. Mr. Koski is an attorney with the Koski Firm, located
in Atlanta, Georgia, where his practice includes litigation and tax
law. Mr. Koski received his B.A. from Colgate University and his J.D.
from Emory School of Law. He was admitted to the Bar in
1985.
Mr. David B.
Hirsch. Following the change of control transaction with the
Koski Family Limited Partnership Mr. Hirsch became a director and our President
and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Hirsch began working for the
Company as a consultant in April of 2008 and joined the Company as a full-time
employee in May 2008. Mr. Hirsch became our Chief Operating
Officer effective June 27, 2008 and assumed the role of Chief Financial
Officer on July 15, 2008. Mr. Hirsch assumed the additional role of Acting
President and Chief Executive Officer on March 18, 2009 upon the resignation of
the Company’s former chief executive officer and president and Mr. Hirsch
relinquished his position as Chief Operating Officer at that time. Prior to
starting his own firm, Mr. Hirsch worked at Deloitte and Touche, LLP in San
Francisco, California as a Manager in its restructuring group; at Mutual Ascent,
a registered investment advisor; and at The Cottonwood Group, a venture capital
firm in San Mateo, California as an associate. He holds a MSIA (MBA)
from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, a JD from
Drake University Law School and a B.A. in Economics from Indiana University.
Mr. Hirsch is also a licensed attorney in the States of Florida and
Indiana.
Mr. Brian
Bohunicky. Mr. Bohunicky joined the Company in early January
2009 as the Company Controller. Prior to
joining the Company, Mr. Bohunicky was the Vice President Controller of Idex
Corporation’s Fire and Safety Segment from October 2002 to November
2009. In this role, Mr. Bohunicky was responsible for managing the
financial aspects of Idex’s worldwide fire and rescue manufacturing
businesses. Mr. Bohunicky’s global responsibility included eight
manufacturing facilities totaling approximately $250M in annual
revenue. Mr. Bohunicky was the financial leader on acquisitions in
US, Germany and China and led restructuring programs throughout his
career. During his time at Idex Mr. Bohunicky established operational
excellence programs and drove process change to improve profitability and
maximize working capital. Prior to joining Idex, Mr. Bohunicky had
multiple general manager and controller assignments with Flowserve Corporation
and Ingersoll Rand Company. Mr. Bohunicky holds a BA degree in
Economics from Moravian College.
Item
9.01 FINANCIAL INFORMATION AND EXHIBITS
Number
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Description
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10.1
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Securities
Purchase Agreement dated June 29, 2009 by and between the Company and the
Koski Family Limited Partnership (including the Form of the Promissory
Note and Form of the Warrant)
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10.2
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Secured
Promissory Note
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10.3
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Security
Agreement
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99.1
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Press
Release dated June 30, 2009
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SIGNATURES
In
accordance with the requirements of the Exchange Act, the registrant caused this
report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized
on this 6th day of
July, 2009.
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ORAGENICS,
INC.
(Registrant)
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BY:
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/s/ David B. Hirsch
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David
B. Hirsch
President
and Chief Executive Officer
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