NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kadmon Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:KDMN) (“Kadmon” or the “Company”) today announced that the Company, together with its lending syndicate, led by Perceptive Credit Opportunities Fund, entered into an amendment to its 2015 Credit Agreement and related warrants.
Terms of the amendment include, but are not limited to:
- deferring the capital raise requirement of $17.0 million from June 30, 2017 to December 31, 2017. Additionally, proceeds from non-dilutive funding sources such as business development transactions may be counted toward this capital raise;
- deferring mandatory monthly principal payments until January 31, 2018; and
- amending 617,651 previously issued warrants to cash warrants and adjusting the warrant strike price to $4.50.
“We are pleased to work with our lenders, led by Perceptive Credit Opportunities Fund, to enter into this amendment, which enables us to continue to focus our resources toward advancing our pipeline of promising clinical and preclinical product candidates,” said Harlan W. Waksal, M.D., President and CEO at Kadmon.
About Kadmon Holdings, Inc.
Kadmon Holdings, Inc. is a fully integrated biopharmaceutical company developing innovative products for significant unmet medical needs. We have a diversified product pipeline in autoimmune and fibrotic diseases, oncology and genetic diseases.
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