UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): June 15, 2020

 

 

AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   001-34655   04-3581650

(State or Other Jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

 

30 Winter Street  
Boston, Massachusetts   02108
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (857) 400-0101

 

 

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

 

Title of each class   Trading Symbol(s)   Name of each exchange on which registered

Common Stock, $0.001 par value

  AVEO   Nasdaq Capital Market

 

 

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).

Emerging growth company    ☐

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.    ☐

 

 

 


Item 2.02.

Results of Operations and Financial Condition.

On June 15, 2020, AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“AVEO” or the “Company”) filed a preliminary prospectus supplement (the “Preliminary Prospectus Supplement”) relating to an offering of common stock in which the Company reported a preliminary estimate that, as of May 31, 2020, it had approximately $25.7 million in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities. This amount is unaudited and preliminary, is subject to completion of financial closing procedures that could result in changes to the amount, and does not present all information necessary for an understanding of the Company’s financial condition as of May 31, 2020.

The information in this Item 2.02 of this Form 8-K shall not be deemed “filed” for 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, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as expressly set forth by specific reference in such a filing.

 

Item 8.01.

Other Events.

On June 15, 2020, the Company reported in the Preliminary Prospectus Supplement that the leadership of EUSA Pharma (UK) Limited (“EUSA”) informed the Company that it is interested in exercising its opt-in right with respect to the Company’s TIVO-3 data and seeking an expanded label under the license agreement between EUSA and the Company, but EUSA requested to more closely align the payment stream under which it would satisfy its $20 million research and development reimbursement obligation with the occurrence of the incremental value creation for EUSA. The Company is currently in negotiations with EUSA regarding the structuring of this payment stream. The Company cannot be certain that it will arrive at mutually acceptable terms, or that EUSA will ultimately exercise the opt-in.

CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS:

This Current Report on Form 8-K contains forward-looking statements of the Company that involve substantial risks and uncertainties. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, contained in this Current Report on Form 8-K are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “predict,” “project,” “target,” “potential,” “will,” “would,” “could,” “should,” “continue,” “contemplate,” “seek,” “look forward,” “advance,” “goal,” “strategy,” “promising,” “opportunity,” or the negative of these terms or other similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. These forward-looking statements include, among others, statements about the potential exercise by EUSA of its opt-in right under the license agreement between AVEO and EUSA and negotiations with respect to the structuring of the payment stream in connection with any such potential exercise.

Actual results or events could differ materially from the plans, intentions and expectations disclosed in the forward-looking statements AVEO makes due to a number of important factors, including substantial risks and uncertainties relating to: AVEO’s ability, and the ability of its licensees, to demonstrate to the satisfaction of applicable regulatory agencies such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency the safety, efficacy and clinically meaningful benefit of AVEO’s product candidates, including, in particular, tivozanib; AVEO’s and its collaborators’ ability to successfully enroll and complete clinical trials; the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on AVEO’s clinical trials, business and operations; AVEO’s ability to enter into and maintain its third party collaboration and license agreements, and its ability, and the ability of its strategic partners, to achieve development and commercialization objectives under these arrangements; the timing and costs of seeking and obtaining regulatory approval; AVEO’s ability to maintain compliance with regulatory requirements applicable to its product candidates; AVEO’s ability to obtain and maintain adequate protection for intellectual property rights relating to its product candidates; AVEO’s ability to successfully implement its strategic plans; AVEO’s ability to raise the substantial additional funds required to achieve its goals, including those goals pertaining to the development and commercialization of tivozanib; unplanned capital requirements; adverse general economic and industry conditions; and those risks discussed in the


sections titled “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Liquidity and Capital Resources” included in AVEO’s quarterly and annual reports on file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and in other filings that AVEO may make with the SEC in the future. All forward-looking statements contained in this Current Report on Form 8-K speak only as of the date of this Current Report, and AVEO undertakes no obligation, and specifically disclaims any obligation, to update any of these statements, except as required by law. You should, therefore, not rely on these forward-looking statements as representing the Company’s views as of any date subsequent to the date of this Current Report.


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.

 

    AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Date: June 15, 2020      
    By:  

/s/ Erick Lucera

      Erick Lucera
      Chief Financial Officer