“On September 12, 2022, Scilex entered into Amendment No. 1 to the Merger Agreement with Vickers and Merger Sub (the “Amendment”). All capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in the Amendment and the Merger Agreement.
The Amendment amends the Merger Agreement to, among other things, provide that: (i) the Plan of Domestication attached to the Merger Agreement as a new Exhibit G shall constitute a plan of domestication for purposes of Section 388 of the DGCL and shall include the corporate acts identified therein and any act or transaction contemplated by the Merger Agreement; (ii) at the Effective Time, each Domesticated Parent Unit shall separate automatically into its component parts, comprised of one share of Domesticated Parent Common Share and one-half of one Domesticated Parent Warrant (provided that no fractional Domesticated Parent Warrants shall be issued and any holder who would be entitled to receive a fractional Domesticated Parent Warrant will have such fraction rounded down to the nearest whole number of Domesticated Parent Warrants); (iii) immediately after Closing, New Scilex’s board of directors shall consist of seven directors, five of whom will be designated by Scilex (including one director who shall satisfy the independence requirements of the applicable Stock Exchange (which shall be Nasdaq, unless the parties otherwise agree to list on another national securities exchange, which may include the New York Stock Exchange, prior to the Closing)) and two of whom will be independent directors to be designated by Scilex and agreed to by Vickers prior to the Closing; (iv) at the Effective Time, by virtue of the Merger, each share of Series A Preferred Stock of Scilex issued and outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Time shall be canceled and automatically converted into the right to receive, without interest, one Domesticated Parent Preferred Share and one-tenth of one Domesticated Parent Common Share; (v) Vickers shall use its reasonable best efforts to ensure that Vickers remains listed as a public company, and that the Parent Ordinary Shares and public Parent Warrants remain listed on Nasdaq through the Closing and Scilex shall use its reasonable best efforts to prepare and file an initial listing application with the Stock Exchange in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement; (vi) each party shall use its reasonable best efforts to, among other things, obtain approval for the listing of the Domesticated Parent Common Shares and Domesticated Parent Warrants issued pursuant to the Merger Agreement on the Stock Exchange; (vii) following the consummation of the Domestication, and the filing of the Parent Certificate of Incorporation, but prior to the Effective Time, Vickers shall file with the Secretary of State of Delaware a certificate of designations, in the form attached to the Merger Agreement as a new Exhibit F, which provides for, among other things, the designations, powers, rights and preferences and qualifications, limitations and restrictions of certain preferred stock of Vickers; (viii) as a condition of Scilex to the Closing, that the shares of Domesticated Parent Common Shares and Domesticated Parent Warrants shall remain listed on Nasdaq through the Effective Time, the listing application for the listing of the Domesticated Parent Common Shares and Domesticated Parent Warrants following the Effective Time shall have been approved by the applicable Stock Exchange, and, as of the Closing Date, Vickers shall not have received any written notice from Nasdaq of non-compliance with Nasdaq’s applicable continued listing requirements for any reason, where such notice has not been subsequently withdrawn by Nasdaq or the underlying failure appropriately remedied or satisfied; and (ix) extend the Outside Date to November 11, 2022. The Amendment also sets forth the agreement of Vickers and Scilex to amend the Parent Certificate of Incorporation to increase the number of authorized shares of preferred stock set forth therein from 10,000,000 to 45,000,000”
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