ContraFect Corporation (the “Company”) is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of direct lytic agents (“DLAs”), including lysins and amurin peptides, as new medical modalities for the treatment of life-threatening, antibiotic-resistant infections. The Company intends to address antibiotic-resistant infections using product candidates from our lysin and amurin peptide platforms. DLAs are fundamentally different than antibiotics and offer a potential paradigm shift in the treatment of antibiotic-resistant infections. The Company’s most advanced product candidate is exebacase, a lysin which targets , including methicillin-resistant strains, which causes serious infections such as bacteremia, pneumonia and osteomyelitis. is also a frequent source of biofilm-dependent infections of heart valves (endocarditis), prosthetic joints, indwelling devices and catheters. These infections result in significant morbidity and mortality despite current antibiotic therapy.

On July 29, 2022, the Company initiated a restructuring plan resulting in a reduction in workforce. The restructuring plan was designed to reduce costs and align resources with the Company’s anticipated product development milestones for exebacase and and to help preserve the value of the Company’s drug discovery operations. The restructuring reduced the Company’s workforce from 43 full-time employees as of June 30, 2022 to 27 full-time employees as of August 15, 2022, when the reduction was completed. The Company recognized a restructuring charge of $7.7 million, including $1.6 million related to employee termination costs and other related expenses from the workforce reduction and $6.1 million from the of prepaid manufacturing costs following the suspension of IV exebacase related activities.

The Company has incurred recurring losses since inception as a research and development organization and has an accumulated deficit of $327.1 million as of March 31, 2023. For the quarter ended March 31, 2023, the Company used $8.8 million of cash in operations. The Company has relied on its ability to fund its operations through public and private debt and equity financings, and, to a lesser extent, grant funding and government contracts. The Company expects operating losses and negative cash flows to continue at significant levels in the future as it continues to advance its programs. As of March 31, 2023, the Company had $13.9 million in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities, which, without additional funding, the Company believes will not be sufficient to meet its obligations within the next twelve months from the date of issuance of these consolidated financial statements. The Company plans to continue to fund its operations through public or private debt and equity financings, but there can be no assurances that such financing will continue to be available to the Company on satisfactory terms, or at all, particularly in light of the Trial Closure. As such, management has not considered the potential for future capital raises in its assessment of the Company’s ability to meet its obligations for the next twelve months, and substantial doubt exists about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern for twelve months from the date the financial statements were issued. If the Company is unable to obtain funding, the Company would be forced to delay, further reduce its workforce or reduce or eliminate its research and development programs, which could adversely affect its business prospects, or the Company may be unable to continue operations or continue as a going concern and may be forced to sell or liquidate the business.

The consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern, which contemplates continuity of operations, the realization of assets and the satisfaction of liabilities and commitments in the normal course of business.

On March 22, 2021, the Company completed an underwritten public offering under the Company’s registration statement on Form (Reg. (the The Form was declared effective by the SEC on August 31, 2020 and allows the Company to offer and sell from up to $150.0 million of common stock, preferred stock, debt securities, warrants or units comprised of any combination of these securities. The Company issued 143,750 shares of its common stock, including shares sold pursuant to the fully exercised overallotment option granted to the underwriters in connection with the offering, at a public offering price of $400.00 per share, resulting in net proceeds to the Company of $53.8 million after underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses payable by the Company.

 

On December 15, 2022, the Company completed (i) a registered direct offering under the Form of 54,375 shares of its common stock and a warrant to purchase 623,919 shares of common stock and (ii) a concurrent private placement in which the Company issued a Class A warrant to purchase up to an aggregate of 1,356,589 shares of common stock (the “Class A Warrant”) and a Class B warrant to purchase up to an aggregate of 678,294 shares of common stock (the “Class B Warrant”) (collectively, the “2022 Offering”). All shares of common stock, the warrant, the Class A Warrant and the Class B Warrant were issued together to a single accredited investor purchaser for consideration equating to $10.32 share of common stock (or warrant to purchase one share of common stock, less a nominal exercise price), together with a Class A Warrant to purchase two shares of common stock and a Class B warrant to purchase one share of common stock, in the case of each of the Class A Warrant and Class B Warrant, for no additional consideration but each with an exercise price per share of $10.32, for aggregate net proceeds to the Company of $6.1 million after placement agent fees and offering expenses payable by the Company.

On March 2, 2023, the Company completed (i) a registered direct offering under the Form of 128,000 shares of its common stock and a warrant to purchase 2,372,000 shares of common stock and (ii) a concurrent private placement in which the Company issued a warrant to purchase up to an aggregate of 5,000,000 shares of common stock (the “2023 Warrant”) (collectively, the “2023 Offering”). All securities in the 2023 Offering were issued to the same single accredited investor purchaser as in the 2022 Offering for consideration equating to $4.00 per share of common stock (or warrant to purchase one share of common stock, less a nominal exercise price), together with a 2023 Warrant to purchase two shares of common stock for no additional consideration but with an exercise price per share of $4.00, for aggregate net proceeds to the Company of $9.1 million after placement agent fees and offering expenses payable by the Company.