UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

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FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the

Securities Exchange Act of 1934

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Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): August 9, 2017

Alliqua BioMedical, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (215) 702-8550

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ¨

As previously reported, on January 26, 2017, Alliqua BioMedical, Inc. (the “Company”), AquaMed Technologies, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (the “Guarantor”), and Perceptive Credit Holdings, L.P. (“Perceptive”) entered into a Forbearance and Amendment Agreement, pursuant to which the parties agreed to certain amendments and modifications to the terms of the Credit Agreement and Guaranty, dated May 29, 2015, by and among the Company, the Guarantor and Perceptive (the “Credit Agreement”), including, among other things, an extension to the then effective forbearance period in respect of the Company’s default of a covenant pertaining to trailing twelve-month revenue under the Credit Agreement as of both September 30, 2016, and December 31, 2016, which was further extended by Amendment No.1 to Forbearance and Amendment Agreement, dated March 7, 2017 and Amendment No. 2 to Forbearance and Amendment Agreement, dated April 27, 2017.

On August 9, 2017, the Company, the Guarantor and Perceptive entered into a Second Forbearance Agreement (the “Agreement”), pursuant to which Perceptive agreed to extend the forbearance period and to forbear from exercising any rights and remedies related to the Company’s default of a covenant pertaining to (A) trailing twelve-month revenue under the Credit Agreement as of each of (w) September 30, 2016, (x) December 31, 2016, (y) March 31, 2017 and (z) June 30, 2017 and (B) failure to maintain on a consolidated basis, a monthly minimum cash balance of at least $2,000,000 (collectively, the “Specified Defaults”) until the earlier of (i) September 30, 2017 and (ii) the date when Perceptive becomes aware that any other default (other than the Specified Defaults) has occurred and is continuing (such earlier date, the “Termination Date”). Perceptive reserved the right, commencing on the Termination Date, to pursue any rights and remedies available to it under the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document (as defined in the Credit Agreement), or pursuant to law or otherwise with respect to any or all of the Specified Defaults.

The foregoing description of the Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Agreement, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.1 and incorporated herein by reference.

On August 10, 2017, Alliqua BioMedical, Inc. issued a press release announcing its financial results for the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2017. A copy of this press release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.

In accordance with General Instruction B.2 of Form 8-K, the information in this Current Report on Form 8-K, including Exhibit 99.1, that is furnished pursuant to this Item 2.02 shall not be deemed to be “filed” for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, and shall not be incorporated by reference into any registration statement or other document filed under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.

The information set forth under Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is hereby incorporated by reference into this Item 2.03.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.