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): April 6, 2021

SILO PHARMA, INC.

(Name of registrant in its charter)

560 Sylvan Ave, Suite 3160

Englewood Cliffs NJ 07632

(Address of principal executive offices)

(718) 400-9031

(Registrant’s telephone number)

N/A

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

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 (See General Instructions A.2 below):

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act: None.

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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Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

Sublicense Agreement

On April 6, 2021 (the “Effective Date”), Silo Pharma, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into a sublicense agreement (the “Sublicense Agreement”) with AIkido Pharma, Inc. (“AIkido”) pursuant to which the Company granted to AIkido an exclusive worldwide sublicense to (i) make, have made, use, sell, offer to sell and import the Licensed Products (as defined herein) and (ii) in connection therewith to (A) use an invention known as “Central nervous system-homing peptides in vivo and their use for the investigation and treatment of multiple sclerosis and other neuroinflammatory pathology” which was sublicensed to the Company pursuant to a Master License Agreement between the Company and the University of Maryland, Baltimore dated February 12, 2021 (the “Invention”) and (B) practice certain patent rights as set forth in the Sublicense Agreement (the “Patent Rights”) for the therapeutic treatment of neuroinflammatory disease in cancer patients. “Licensed Products” means any product, service, or process, the development, making, use, offer for sale, sale, importation, or providing of which: (i) is covered by one or more claims of the Patent Rights; or (ii) contains, comprises, utilizes, incorporates, or is derived from the Invention or any technology disclosed in the Patent Rights.

Pursuant to the Sublicense Agreement, AIkido shall pay the Company (i) an upfront license fee in the mid five figures, (ii) sales-based royalties at percentages which range from low to mid single digits, with low net revenues being subject to lower royalty rates and (iii) total milestone payments of up to $1.9 million.

The Sublicense Agreement shall continue on a Licensed Product-by-Licensed Product and country-by-country basis until the later of (i) the date of expiration of the last to expire claim of the Patent Rights covering such Licensed Product in such country, (ii) the expiration of data protection, new chemical entity, orphan drug exclusivity, regulatory exclusivity or other legally enforceable market exclusivity, if applicable and (iii) 10 years after the first commercial sale of a Licensed Product in that country, unless terminated earlier pursuant to the terms of the Sublicense Agreement. Furthermore, the Sublicense Agreement shall expire 15 years after the Effective Date with respect to any country in which (i) there were never any Patent Rights, (ii) there was never any data protection, new chemical entity, orphan drug exclusivity, regulatory exclusivity or other legally enforceable market exclusivity with respect to a Licensed Product and (ii) there was never a commercial sale of a Licensed Product, unless such agreement is earlier terminated pursuant to its terms.

The foregoing summary of the Sublicense Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Sublicense Agreement which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is hereby incorporated by reference.

Item 8.01. Other Events.

On April 7, 2021, the Company issued a press release announcing the execution of the Sublicense Agreement. A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.

Item 9.01.  Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits

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.

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