BioRestorative Therapies Announces Exercise of Warrants and Issuance of New Warrants in a Private Placement for $8.1 Million Gross Proceeds Priced At-the-Market

MELVILEE, N.Y., Feb. 06, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BioRestorative Therapies, Inc. ("BioRestorative" or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: BRTX), a clinical stage company focused on stem cell-based therapies, today announced it has entered into agreements with certain holders of its existing warrants exercisable for 3,351,580 shares of its common stock, in the aggregate, to exercise their warrants at a reduced exercise price of $2.33 per share, in exchange for new warrants as described below. The aggregate gross proceeds from the exercise of the existing warrants and the payment of the new warrants, as described below, is expected to total approximately $8.1 million, before deducting financial advisory fees. The reduction of the exercise price of the existing warrants and the issuance of the new warrants was structured as an at-market transaction under Nasdaq rules.

Roth Capital Partners is acting as the Company’s financial advisor for this transaction.

The shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants are registered for issuance pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-1, as amended (File No. 333-258611), which was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on November 4, 2021 or for resale pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-265052), which was declared effective by the SEC on June 16, 2022.

In consideration for the immediate exercise of the warrants for cash and the payment of $0.125 per share underlying the new warrants, the exercising holders will receive new warrants to purchase shares of common stock in a private placement pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933 Act"). The new warrants will be exercisable into an aggregate of up to 2,513,685 shares of common stock, at an exercise price of $2.43 per share and have a term of exercise equal to five years. The securities offered in the private placement have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or applicable under state securities laws. Accordingly, the securities may not be offered or sold in the United States except pursuant to an effective registration statement or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and such applicable state securities laws. As part of the transaction, the Company has agreed to file a resale registration statement on Form S-3 with the Securities and Exchange Commission within 10 days of the closing to register the resale of the shares of common stock underlying the new warrants issued in the private placement.