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Balance Sheets
−Removed: and cash equivalents
−Removed: expenses and other current assets
Current assets:
−Removed: and equipment, net
−Removed: and stockholders’ equity (deficit)
−Removed: expenses and other liabilities
−Removed: payable and accrued interest
−Removed: derivative on convertible notes
+Added: Cash and cash
+Added: Unbilled receivable
+Added: Right-of-use asset
+Added: expenses and other current assets
+Added: Total current assets
+Added: Property and equipment, net
+Added: Liabilities and stockholders’ deficit
Current liabilities:
−Removed: and contingencies (Note 6)
−Removed: Stockholders’
−Removed: equity (deficit)
−Removed: stock, $ 0.0001 par value, 1,500,000 shares authorized, no shares issued and outstanding at June 30, 2021 (unaudited) and December
−Removed: stock, $ 0.0001 par
−Removed: value, 150,000,000 shares
+Added: Accounts payable
+Added: Accrued expenses and other
+Added: Lease liability
+Added: Notes payable and accrued
+Added: derivative on convertible notes
+Added: Total current liabilities
+Added: Long-term liabilities:
+Added: Notes payable, net of current
+Added: long term liabilities
+Added: Total long-term liabilities
+Added: Total liabilities
+Added: Commitments and contingencies (Note 6)
+Added: Stockholders’ deficit
+Added: Preferred stock, $ 0.0001
+Added: par value, 1,500,000
+Added: shares authorized, no
+Added: shares issued and outstanding at September 30, 2021 (unaudited)
+Added: and December 31, 2020
+Added: Common stock, $ 0.0001
+Added: par value, 150,000,000
+Added: shares authorized;
and 15,768,725
+Added: shares issued at September 30, 2021 (unaudited) and December
+Added: 31, 2020, respectively;
+Added: 24,255,786 and
15,768,725 shares
−Removed: issued at June 30, 2021 (unaudited) and December 31, 2020, respectively;
−Removed: 24,255,786 and 15,768,725 shares outstanding at June
−Removed: 30, 2021 (unaudited) and December 31, 2020, respectively
−Removed: paid-in capital
+Added: outstanding at September 30, 2021 (unaudited) and December 31, 2020, respectively
+Added: Additional paid-in capital
( 75,005,517 )
( 55,958,716 )
−Removed: Ensysce Biosciences, Inc.
−Removed: stockholders’ equity (deficit)
+Added: Total Ensysce Biosciences,
+Added: stockholders’ deficit
( 6,440,802 )
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interests in stockholders’ deficit
−Removed: stockholders’ equity (deficit)
+Added: stockholders’ deficit
( 6,658,427 )
−Removed: liabilities and stockholders’ equity
+Added: liabilities and stockholders’ deficit
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
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Statements of Operations
−Removed: Months Ended June 30,
−Removed: Months Ended June 30,
−Removed: and development
+Added: Months Ended September 30,
+Added: Months Ended September 30,
+Added: Federal grants
+Added: Operating expenses:
+Added: Research and development
and administrative
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Loss from operations
−Removed: income (expense):
−Removed: in fair value of derivative liability
( 16,886,795 )
( 17,863,686 )
−Removed: Loss on extinguishment of debt
−Removed: other income (expense), net
+Added: Other income (expense):
+Added: Adjustment to initial fair value of debt
( 1,325,804 )
( 1,325,804 )
+Added: Issuance costs for convertible notes
+Added: Change in fair value of
+Added: Interest expense
( 1,282,820 )
+Added: Loss on extinguishment
+Added: income and expense, net
+Added: other income (expense), net
( 1,245,091 )
+Added: income (loss)
$ ( 17,199,474 )
−Removed: loss attributable to noncontrolling interests
−Removed: loss attributable to common stockholders
$ ( 19,108,777 )
$ ( 179,215 )
+Added: Net loss attributable to
+Added: noncontrolling interests
+Added: Net income (loss) attributable
+Added: to common stockholders
$ ( 17,163,526 )
$ ( 19,046,801 )
−Removed: loss per share, basic and diluted:
−Removed: loss per share attributable to common stockholders, basic and diluted
−Removed: average common shares outstanding, basic and diluted
+Added: $ ( 157,225 )
+Added: Net income (loss) per basic
+Added: Net income (loss) per
+Added: share attributable to common stockholders, basic
+Added: Weighted average common shares outstanding, basic
+Added: Net income (loss) per diluted
+Added: Net income (loss) per
+Added: share attributable to common stockholders, diluted
+Added: Weighted average common shares outstanding, diluted
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
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Stockholders’
+Added: Equity (Deficit)
Noncontrolling
−Removed: on March 31, 2020
+Added: Balance on June 30, 2020
$ ( 57,743,231 )
$ ( 8,337,421 )
−Removed: Settlement of convertible notes
−Removed: Settlement of convertible notes, shares
−Removed: Issuances of common stock for business combination, net of transaction costs
−Removed: Issuance of common stock for business combination, net of transaction costs, shares
+Added: Stock-based compensation
+Added: Issuance of warrants
+Added: Warrants modification
+Added: Business combination adjustment
Exercise of stock options
Exercise of stock options, shares
−Removed: on June 30, 2020
+Added: Settlement of convertible notes
+Added: Settlement of convertible notes, shares
+Added: Issuance of common stock for business combination,
+Added: net of transaction costs
+Added: Issuance of common stock for business combination,
+Added: net of transaction costs, shares
+Added: Net income (loss)
+Added: Balance on September
$ ( 56,172,711 )
$ ( 6,735,405 )
−Removed: Balance on March
+Added: Balance on June 30, 2021
$ ( 57,841,991 )
$ ( 243,653 )
+Added: Stock-based compensation
+Added: Issuance of warrants
+Added: Warrants modification
( 17,163,526 )
−Removed: of convertible notes
−Removed: of common stock for business combination, net of transaction costs
−Removed: on June 30, 2021
( 17,199,474 )
+Added: Balance on September
$ ( 75,005,517 )
+Added: $ ( 279,601 )
+Added: $ ( 385,287 )
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
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Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ EQUITY (Deficit)
−Removed: Stockholders’ Deficit
+Added: Stockholders’
+Added: Equity (Deficit)
+Added: Paid-In Capital
Noncontrolling
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Stock-based compensation
−Removed: ( 1,727,745 )
−Removed: ( 1,729,721 )
−Removed: Balance on June 30, 2020
+Added: Balance on September
$ ( 56,172,711 )
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$ ( 6,658,427 )
+Added: Beginning balance, value
$ ( 55,958,716 )
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Settlement of convertible notes
−Removed: Issuance of common stock for business combination, net of transaction costs
+Added: Issuance of common stock for business combination,
+Added: net of transaction costs
Stock-based compensation
+Added: Issuance of warrants
+Added: Warrants modification
( 19,046,801 )
( 19,108,777 )
−Removed: Balance on June 30, 2021
+Added: Net income (loss)
( 19,046,801 )
( 19,108,777 )
+Added: Balance on September
$ ( 75,005,517 )
$ ( 279,601 )
+Added: $ ( 385,287 )
+Added: Ending balance, value
+Added: $ ( 75,005,517 )
+Added: $ ( 279,601 )
+Added: $ ( 385,287 )
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
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Statements of Cash Flows
−Removed: Months Ended June 30,
−Removed: flows from operating activities:
+Added: Months Ended September 30,
+Added: Cash flows from operating
$ ( 19,108,777 )
+Added: Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash
+Added: used in operating activities:
+Added: Accrued interest
+Added: Accretion of discounts
+Added: on promissory notes
+Added: Change in fair value of
+Added: embedded derivative
( 1,088,272 )
−Removed: to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:
−Removed: of discounts on promissory notes
−Removed: in fair value of embedded derivative
−Removed: Loss on extinguishment of debt
−Removed: in operating assets and liabilities:
−Removed: expenses and other assets
+Added: Change in fair value of
+Added: convertible debt
( 1,071,099 )
+Added: Loss on extinguishment
+Added: Stock-based compensation
+Added: Adjustment to fair value
+Added: of financial instruments
+Added: Issuance of warrants for share subscription
+Added: Commitment fee for share subscription
+Added: Warrant modification
+Added: Issuance costs for
+Added: convertible notes
+Added: Changes in operating assets
+Added: and liabilities:
+Added: Unbilled receivable
+Added: Prepaid expenses and other
+Added: Accounts payable
+Added: ( 1,252,740 )
expenses and other liabilities
−Removed: cash used in operating activities
−Removed: flows from financing activities:
−Removed: from issuance of convertible notes
−Removed: from issuance of promissory notes to related parties
−Removed: from exercise of stock options
−Removed: from issuance of common stock for business combination
−Removed: from noncontrolling interest
−Removed: cash provided by financing activities
−Removed: in cash and cash equivalents
+Added: ( 1,305,740 )
+Added: Net cash used in operating
+Added: ( 4,474,364 )
+Added: Cash flows from investing
+Added: of property and equipment
+Added: Net cash used by investing
+Added: Cash flows from financing
+Added: Proceeds from issuance
+Added: of convertible notes
+Added: Issuance costs for
+Added: convertible notes
+Added: Proceeds from issuance
+Added: of promissory notes to related parties
+Added: Repayment of promissory
+Added: notes and accrued interest
+Added: Proceeds from exercise
+Added: of stock options
+Added: Proceeds from issuance
+Added: of common stock for business combination, net of transaction costs
+Added: Repayment of financed insurance
+Added: from noncontrolling interests
+Added: Net cash provided by financing
+Added: Increase in cash and cash equivalents
and cash equivalents beginning of period
and cash equivalents end of period
−Removed: cash flow information:
−Removed: disclosure of non-cash investing and financing activities:
−Removed: value of embedded derivative at issuance
−Removed: of Convertible Notes into common stock
−Removed: transaction costs for business combination offset against additional paid-in capital
−Removed: assets acquired from LACQ
+Added: Supplemental cash flow information:
+Added: Income tax payments
+Added: Supplemental disclosure
+Added: of non-cash investing and financing activities:
+Added: Fair value of embedded
+Added: derivative at issuance
+Added: Settlement of convertible
+Added: notes into common stock
+Added: Net assets acquired in
+Added: business combination
+Added: Proceeds from financed
+Added: insurance premiums
+Added: Share subscription facility
+Added: transaction costs
accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
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which will be applied to the PF614 program.
−Removed: In 2019, the Company commenced development work applying its TAAP and MPAR TM
−Removed: technology to a methadone prodrug for use in the treatment of Opioid Use Disorder (OUD).
−Removed: The Company has also developed a delivery platform
−Removed: for large biomolecules utilizing single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) to produce intravenously delivered immunology and gene therapy
+Added: In 2019, the Company commenced development work applying its TAAP and MPAR TM technology
+Added: to a methadone prodrug for use in the treatment of Opioid Use Disorder (OUD).
January 31, 2021, Leisure Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation (“LACQ”), entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger
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Former Ensysce became a wholly owned subsidiary of LACQ and the stockholders of Former Ensysce, as of immediately prior to the effective
−Removed: time of the Merger, received shares of LACQ and hold a portion of the shares of Common Stock, par value $ 0.0001 per share (the “Common
−Removed: Stock”), of LACQ.
+Added: time of the Merger, received shares of LACQ and hold a portion of the shares of Common Stock, par value $ 0.0001
+Added: per share (the “Common Stock”), of
the Closing Date, at the effective time of the Merger, LACQ changed its name from “Leisure Acquisition Corp.” to “Ensysce
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ratio of 0.06585 .
−Removed: Immediately following the Business Combination, stockholders of Former Ensysce owned approximately 71.8 % of the outstanding
−Removed: common stock of the combined company.
−Removed: In addition, Former Ensysce’s existing options and warrants were exchanged for equivalent
−Removed: securities in Ensysce on their existing terms (with standard adjustments to exercise price and underlying shares, consistent with the
−Removed: foregoing exchange ratio).
−Removed: As of July 2, 2021, Ensysce’s shares of common stock are traded on the Nasdaq Capital Market (“Nasdaq”)
−Removed: under the new ticker symbol “ENSC”.
+Added: Immediately following the Business Combination, stockholders of Former Ensysce owned approximately 71.8 %
+Added: of the outstanding common stock of the combined company.
+Added: In addition, Former Ensysce’s existing options and warrants were exchanged
+Added: for equivalent securities in Ensysce on their existing terms (with standard adjustments to exercise price and underlying shares, consistent
+Added: with the foregoing exchange ratio).
+Added: As of July 2, 2021, Ensysce’s shares of common stock are traded on the Nasdaq Capital Market
+Added: (“Nasdaq”) under the new ticker symbol “ENSC”.
June 2020, the Company commenced an initiative to develop a therapeutic for the treatment of certain coronavirus infections through the
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be negatively impacted, the extent of the impact cannot be reasonably estimated at this time.
−Removed: The Company currently operates in one business
−Removed: segment, which is pharmaceuticals.
−Removed: The Company is not organized by market and is managed and operated as one business.
−Removed: A single management
−Removed: team reports to the chief operating decision maker, the Chief Executive Officer.
+Added: Company currently operates in one business segment, which is pharmaceuticals.
+Added: The Company is not organized by market and is managed and
+Added: operated as one business.
+Added: A single management team reports to the chief operating decision maker, the Chief Executive Officer.
2 - BASIS OF PRESENTATION
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and transactions have been eliminated in the consolidation.
−Removed: the opinion of management, all adjustments considered necessary for a fair presentation have been included in the consolidated
−Removed: financial statements.
−Removed: Operating results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, are not necessarily indicative of the results
−Removed: that may be expected for the year ending December 31, 2021.
−Removed: The interim unaudited consolidated financial statements have been prepared
−Removed: under the presumption that users of the interim financial information have either read or have access to the audited consolidated financial
+Added: the opinion of management, all adjustments considered necessary for a fair presentation have been included in the consolidated financial
+Added: Operating results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021, are not necessarily indicative of the results that
+Added: may be expected for the year ending December 31, 2021.
+Added: The interim unaudited consolidated financial statements have been prepared under
+Added: the presumption that users of the interim financial information have either read or have access to the audited consolidated financial
statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020, which may be found in the Company’s Form S-1 registration statement filed
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by a recapitalization.
−Removed: The net assets of LACQ, primarily consisting of cash of $ 7.8 million and prepaid expenses of $ 1.1 million, were
−Removed: recorded at historical cost with no goodwill or other intangible assets recorded.
−Removed: The shares and net loss per share prior to the reverse
−Removed: recapitalization have been retroactively restated to reflect the exchange ratio of 0.06585 .
−Removed: The financial statements reflect the historical
−Removed: operations of Ensysce.
+Added: The net assets of LACQ, primarily consisting of cash of $ 7.8
+Added: million and prepaid expenses of $ 1.1
+Added: million, were recorded at historical cost with
+Added: goodwill or other intangible assets recorded.
+Added: The shares and net loss per share prior to the reverse recapitalization have been retroactively restated to reflect the exchange ratio
+Added: The financial statements reflect the historical operations of Ensysce.
Business Combination triggered the conversion of the 2015 convertible notes, the 2018 convertible notes and the 2021 convertible note
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conversion of the outstanding principal and interest into shares common stock of Ensysce.
−Removed: The Company had recorded $ 1.2 million of deferred
−Removed: transaction costs, consisting of legal and accounting fees directly related to the Business Combination, which were offset against the
−Removed: proceeds of the Business Combination within additional paid-in capital.
+Added: The Company had recorded $ 1.2
+Added: million of deferred transaction costs, consisting
+Added: of legal and accounting fees directly related to the Business Combination, which were offset against the proceeds of the Business Combination
+Added: within additional paid-in capital.
accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming the Company will continue as a going concern, which contemplates,
among other things, the realization of assets and satisfaction of liabilities in the normal course of business.
−Removed: Company had working capital of $ 4.3
−Removed: million at June 30, 2021.
−Removed: In December 2020, the Company executed
−Removed: an agreement with an investment group, which agreed to provide the Company with a share subscription facility of up to
−Removed: $ 60.0 million
−Removed: for a 36-month term following the public listing of the Company’s common stock.
−Removed: The Company will control the timing and maximum
−Removed: amount of drawdown under this facility and has no minimum drawdown obligation.
−Removed: On June 30, 2021, the Company consummated the
−Removed: Business Combination with LACQ, resulting in the Company’s shares becoming publicly listed on Nasdaq on July 2, 2021.
−Removed: the Company’s shares are now publicly traded and the Company therefore has access to its $ 60.0
−Removed: million share subscription facility in addition
−Removed: to its working capital, the Company believes there is not substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.
+Added: Company has not generated any product revenue and had an accumulated deficit of $ 75.0
+Added: million at September 30, 2021.
+Added: assurance that profitable operations will ever be achieved, and, if achieved, could be sustained on a continuing basis.
+Added: Product development
+Added: activities, clinical and pre-clinical testing, and commercialization of the Company’s product candidates are necessary to develop
+Added: the Company’s products and will require significant additional financing.
+Added: There can be no assurance the Company will be able to
+Added: obtain such funds.
+Added: These matters, among others, raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
+Added: December 2020, the Company executed a share subscription facility with an investment group.
+Added: Under the agreement, the investor agreed
+Added: to provide the Company with a share subscription facility of up to $ 60.0
+Added: million for a 36-month term following the public
+Added: listing of the Company’s common stock.
+Added: The Company will control the timing and maximum amount of drawdown under this facility and
+Added: has no minimum drawdown obligation.
+Added: The investor will pay, in cash, a per-share amount equal to 90% of the average daily closing price
+Added: of the Company’s stock during the 30 consecutive trading days prior to the issuance of a draw notice, which shall not exceed 400%
+Added: of the average trading volume for the 30 trading days immediately preceding the draw down date.
+Added: On June 30, 2021, the Company consummated
+Added: the Business Combination with LACQ, resulting in the Company’s shares becoming publicly listed on Nasdaq on July 2, 2021.
+Added: with the public listing of the Company’s shares, the Company issued to the investor 1,106,108
+Added: warrants with a five-year term to purchase common
+Added: stock of Ensysce at an exercise price of $ 10.01
+Added: per share (Notes 3 and 8).
+Added: must pay a commitment fee to the investor of $ 1.2
+Added: million with $ 800,000
+Added: due on the first anniversary of the public listing
+Added: date and $ 400,000
+Added: due on the 18-month anniversary of the public
+Added: listing date.
+Added: The commitment fee can be paid from the proceeds of a draw against the facility or in freely tradable common stock of the
+Added: September 2021, the Company entered into a $ 15.9
+Added: million convertible note financing agreement
+Added: with institutional investors, of which, as of September 30, 2021, the Company had drawn $ 5.0
+Added: (See Notes 7 and 11 for additional information.)
+Added: The agreement limits the Company’s ability to execute certain
+Added: debt and equity financings, including its existing $ 60.0
+Added: million share subscription facility, while the
+Added: convertible notes are outstanding.
+Added: Without the availability of proceeds through the share subscription facility, existing cash resources
+Added: are not sufficient to fund current planned operations.
+Added: While the Company believes in the viability of its strategy to ultimately realize
+Added: revenues and in its ability to raise additional funds, management cannot be certain that additional funding will be available on acceptable
+Added: terms, or at all.
+Added: The Company’s ability to continue as a going concern is dependent upon its ability to obtain adequate financing
+Added: and achieve profitable operations.
+Added: As a result, these plans do not alleviate substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue
+Added: as a going concern for a period of 12 months following the date these consolidated financial statements were issued.
+Added: consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might be necessary should the Company be unable to continue as
+Added: a going concern.
3 - SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
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of deferred tax assets resulting from net operating losses, the valuation of common stock, warrants, options to purchase the Company’s
−Removed: common stock, and the debt with embedded derivative instruments in notes payable.
+Added: common stock, and the notes payable.
and Cash Equivalents
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Depreciation expense of $ 50
−Removed: was recognized for the three and six months
−Removed: ended June 30, 2021, respectively.
+Added: was recognized for the three and nine months
+Added: ended September 30, 2021, respectively.
Depreciation expense of $ 50
−Removed: was recognized for the three and six months ended
−Removed: June 30, 2020, respectively.
−Removed: Depreciation expense is classified in general and administrative expense in the accompanying consolidated
−Removed: statements of operations.
+Added: was recognized for the three and nine months
+Added: ended September 30, 2020, respectively.
+Added: Depreciation expense is classified in general and administrative expense in the accompanying
+Added: consolidated statements of operations.
and equipment are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of the assets
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There were no such losses for
−Removed: the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020.
−Removed: Financial Instrument s
+Added: the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020.
+Added: Financial Instruments
Company does not use derivative instruments to hedge exposures to interest rate, market, or foreign currency risks.
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a current transaction between willing parties.
−Removed: As of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the recorded values of cash and cash equivalents,
+Added: As of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the recorded values of cash and cash equivalents,
prepaid expenses, accounts payable, and accrued expenses and other liabilities approximate their fair values due to the short-term nature
of these items.
−Removed: carrying value of outstanding notes payable approximates the estimated aggregate fair value as the embedded contingent put option is
−Removed: recognized at fair value and classified with the debt host.
−Removed: The put option allows certain notes payable to be converted into common stock,
−Removed: contingent upon completion of an equity financing transaction with gross proceeds above certain thresholds.
−Removed: The fair value estimate of
−Removed: the embedded put option is based on the probability-weighted discounted value of the put feature and represents a Level 3 measurement.
−Removed: Significant assumptions used to determine the fair value of the put feature include the estimated probability of exercise of the put
−Removed: option and the discount rate used to calculate fair value.
−Removed: The estimated probability of exercise is based on management’s expectation
−Removed: for future equity financing transactions.
−Removed: The discount rate is based on the weighted average effective yield of notes payable previously
−Removed: issued by the Company, adjusted for changes in market yields of healthcare sector CCC-rated debt.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2020, assumptions
−Removed: included a probability of exercise of the put option of 10 % and a discount rate of 42.9 %.
−Removed: As noted above, all outstanding derivative
−Removed: liabilities were settled upon the conversion of outstanding notes payable upon the consummation of the merger.
−Removed: Refer to Note 7 for details
−Removed: of the conversion.
−Removed: following table presents assets and liabilities measured and recorded at fair value on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet
+Added: September 24, 2021, the Company issued convertible notes with a face value of $ 5.3 million.
+Added: The Company elected the fair value option
+Added: to account for the convertible notes as it believes the fair value option provides users of the financial statements with greater ability
+Added: to estimate the outcome of future events as facts and circumstances change, particularly with respect to changes in the fair value of
+Added: the common stock underlying the conversion option and redemption feature.
+Added: The Company uses a Monte Carlo model to estimate the fair value
+Added: of the notes, which relies on unobservable Level 3 inputs.
+Added: Changes in the fair value of the notes are recognized through earnings for
+Added: each reporting period.
+Added: Refer to Note 7 for details of the terms and conditions of the convertible notes.
+Added: carrying value of outstanding notes payable at December 31, 2020 approximates the estimated aggregate fair value as the embedded contingent
+Added: put option is recognized at fair value and classified with the debt host.
+Added: The put option allows certain notes payable to be converted
+Added: into common stock, contingent upon completion of an equity financing transaction with gross proceeds above certain thresholds.
+Added: value estimate of the embedded put option is based on the probability-weighted discounted value of the put feature and represents a Level
+Added: 3 measurement.
+Added: Significant assumptions used to determine the fair value of the put feature include the estimated probability of exercise
+Added: of the put option and the discount rate used to calculate fair value.
+Added: The estimated probability of exercise is based on management’s
+Added: expectation for future equity financing transactions.
+Added: The discount rate is based on the weighted average effective yield of notes payable
+Added: previously issued by the Company, adjusted for changes in market yields of healthcare sector CCC-rated debt.
As of December 31, 2020,
−Removed: As of June 30, 2021, all contingent put options were settled upon conversion of the notes at the closing of
+Added: assumptions included a probability of exercise of the put option of 10 %
+Added: and a discount rate of 42.9 %.
+Added: As noted above, all outstanding derivative liabilities were settled upon the conversion of outstanding notes payable upon the consummation
+Added: of the Business Combination.
+Added: Refer to Note 7 for details of the conversion.
+Added: September 24, 2021, the Company issued liability classified warrants in connection with the issuance of convertible notes.
+Added: uses a Black Scholes model to estimate the fair value of the warrants, which relies on unobservable Level 3 inputs.
+Added: Changes in the fair
+Added: value of the warrants are recognized through earnings for each reporting period.
+Added: Refer to Note 8.
+Added: following tables present assets and liabilities measured and recorded at fair value on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet
+Added: as of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020.
+Added: As of September 30, 2021, all contingent put options were settled upon conversion of
+Added: the notes at the closing of the Business Combination.
OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES MEASURED AT FAIR VALUE
−Removed: December 31, 2020
−Removed: Contingent put option
−Removed: following table summarizes the change in fair value of the Company’s Level 3 contingent put options:
+Added: Convertible note
+Added: Liability classified warrants
+Added: following table summarizes the change in fair value of the Company’s Level 3 assets and liabilities:
OF CHANGE IN FAIR VALUE OF COMPANY’S LEVEL 3
−Removed: in fair value
+Added: For the nine months ended September 30, 2021
+Added: Contingent put option
+Added: Convertible notes
+Added: Liability classified warrants
+Added: Fair value, December 31, 2020
+Added: Change in fair value
( 2,149,499 )
−Removed: Note 7 for further details on the settlement of the embedded contingent put option.
+Added: ( 1,071,099 )
+Added: Fair value, September 30, 2021
September 2018, the National Institutes of Health (“NIH”) through the National Institute on Drug Abuse awarded the Company
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of its TAAP/MPAR TM abuse deterrent technology for Opioid Use Disorder (“OUD”) (the “OUD Grant”).
−Removed: The total approved budget for the two-year period was approximately $ 5.4
+Added: total approved budget for the two-year period was approximately $ 5.4
Company concluded the government grants are not within the scope of Accounting Standards Codification Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts
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OF REVENUE RECOGNIZATION UNDER GRANTS
−Removed: Three months ended
−Removed: Six months ended
−Removed: June 30, 2021
−Removed: June 30, 2020
−Removed: June 30, 2021
−Removed: June 30, 2020
+Added: Months Ended September 30,
+Added: Months Ended September 30,
requested or eligible to be requested through the NIH payment management system, but for which cash has not been received, are presented
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of management’s judgment.
−Removed: For the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020, stock-based compensation costs are recorded
+Added: For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, stock-based compensation costs are recorded
in general and administrative expenses in the consolidated statements of operations.
+Added: time-to-time equity classified awards may be modified.
+Added: On the modification date, the Company estimates the fair value of the awards
+Added: immediately before and immediately after modification.
+Added: The incremental increase in fair value is recognized as expense immediately
+Added: to the extent the underlying equity awards are vested and on a straight-line basis over the same remaining amortization schedule as
+Added: the unvested underlying equity awards.
taxes are recorded in accordance with ASC 740, Income Taxes (“ASC 740”), which provides for deferred taxes using an
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penalties accrued related to unrecognized tax benefits as income tax expense.
−Removed: Loss per Share
−Removed: basic net loss per share is calculated by dividing the Company’s net loss attributable to common stockholders by the weighted average
−Removed: number of common shares outstanding during the year.
−Removed: The diluted net loss per share is calculated by dividing the Company’s net
−Removed: loss attributable to common stockholders by the diluted weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the year.
−Removed: The following
−Removed: weighted average shares have been excluded from the calculations of diluted weighted average common shares outstanding because they would
−Removed: have been anti-dilutive:
−Removed: OF WEIGHTED AVERAGE SHARES OF ANTIDILUTIVE SECURITIES
−Removed: Three Months Ended June 30,
−Removed: Six Months Ended June 30,
+Added: basic earnings per share is calculated by dividing the Company’s net income or loss attributable to common stockholders by the
+Added: weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period.
+Added: The diluted earnings per share is calculated by dividing the
+Added: Company’s net earnings attributable to common stockholders by the diluted weighted average number of common shares outstanding
+Added: during the period, determined using the treasury stock method and the average stock price during the period.
+Added: A reconciliation of the
+Added: numerators and denominators of the basic and diluted earnings per share calculations follows:
+Added: SCHEDULE OF EARNINGS PER SHARE RECONCILIATION
+Added: (loss) attributable to common stockholders
+Added: $ ( 17,163,525 )
+Added: Weighted average shares outstanding, basic
+Added: Weighted average
+Added: dilutive stock options
+Added: Weighted average
+Added: shares outstanding, diluted
+Added: Net income (loss) per share attributable
+Added: to common stockholders, basic
+Added: Net income (loss) per share attributable
+Added: to common stockholders, diluted
+Added: following weighted average shares have been excluded from the calculations of diluted weighted average common shares outstanding because
+Added: they would have been anti-dilutive:
+Added: OF WEIGHTED AVERAGE SHARES OF ANTI-DILUTIVE SECURITIES
+Added: Months Ended September 30,
+Added: Months Ended September 30,
Stock options
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OF PREPAID EXPENSES AND OTHER CURRENT ASSETS
−Removed: research and development
−Removed: prepaid expenses
−Removed: prepaid expenses and other current assets
+Added: Prepaid insurance
+Added: Prepaid research and development
+Added: Other prepaid expenses
+Added: Total prepaid expenses
+Added: and other current assets
5 – ACCRUED EXPENSES AND OTHER LIABILITIES
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OF ACCRUED EXPENSES AND OTHER LIABILITIES
−Removed: research and development
−Removed: scientific advisory board fees
−Removed: accrued liabilities
−Removed: grant revenue
−Removed: accrued expenses and other liabilities
+Added: Consultant stock compensation expenses
+Added: Share subscription facility commitment fees
+Added: Professional fees
+Added: Accrued research and development
+Added: Accrued scientific advisory board fees
+Added: Deferred grant revenue
+Added: Other accrued liabilities
+Added: Total accrued expenses
+Added: and other liabilities
+Added: long-term liabilities consisted of the following:
+Added: OF OTHER LONG-TERM LIABILITIES
+Added: Share subscription facility commitment
+Added: Liability classified warrants
+Added: Total other long-term
6 - COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
−Removed: of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, there were no pending legal proceedings against the Company that are expected to have a material
−Removed: adverse effect on cash flows, financial condition or results of operations.
−Removed: From time to time, the Company could become involved in disputes
−Removed: and various litigation matters that arise in the normal course of business.
−Removed: These may include disputes and lawsuits related to intellectual
−Removed: property, licensing, contract law and employee relations matters.
−Removed: Periodically, the Company reviews the status of significant matters,
−Removed: if any exist, and assesses its potential financial exposure.
−Removed: If the potential loss from any claim or legal claim is considered probable
−Removed: and the amount can be estimated, the Company accrues a liability for the estimated loss.
+Added: of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, there were no pending legal proceedings against the Company that are expected to have a
+Added: material adverse effect on cash flows, financial condition or results of operations.
+Added: From time to time, the Company could become involved
+Added: in disputes and various litigation matters that arise in the normal course of business.
+Added: These may include disputes and lawsuits related
+Added: to intellectual property, licensing, contract law and employee relations matters.
+Added: Periodically, the Company reviews the status of significant
+Added: matters, if any exist, and assesses its potential financial exposure.
+Added: If the potential loss from any claim or legal claim is considered
+Added: probable and the amount can be estimated, the Company accrues a liability for the estimated loss.
Legal proceedings are subject to uncertainties,
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As additional information becomes available, the Company reassesses the potential liability related to pending claims and litigation.
−Removed: See Note 11 for additional information about legal proceedings.
−Removed: the three and six months ended June 30, 2020, the Company leased office space on a month-to-month basis.
+Added: July 12, 2021, following the Business Combination with LACQ, the Company’s former financial advisor filed an action against the
+Added: Company and its Chief Executive Officer alleging that the common stock and warrants issued to the former advisor in satisfaction of its
+Added: advisory fee should have been registered and immediately tradeable.
+Added: On August 3, 2021, the parties entered into a settlement agreement
+Added: whereby the former advisor would have their common stock and the common stock underlying their warrants registered on the Company’s
+Added: resale Registration Statement on Form S-1 that it filed on August 9, 2021 (the “Resale Registration Statement”).
+Added: the warrants would be modified to allow for cashless exercise and to reduce the exercise price from $ 11.50 /share
+Added: to $ 10.00 /share.
+Added: In consideration for this, both parties agreed to release the other from any past, present, or future claims.
+Added: In addition, the
+Added: former advisor agreed to immediately stay the proceedings and inform the Superior Court of a conditional settlement and to dismiss the
+Added: lawsuit with prejudice five days following the effectiveness of the Resale Registration Statement.
+Added: See Note 11 for additional information.
+Added: the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, the Company leased office space on a month-to-month basis.
August 2020, the Company entered into an agreement to lease office space.
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will terminate October 31, 2021 with no option to renew.
−Removed: As of June 30, 2021, the future lease payments totaled $ 10,200 .
−Removed: Company recognized total rent expense of $ 7,062 and $ 14,123 in the three and six months ended June 30, 2021, respectively.
−Removed: recognized total rent expense of $ 5,721 and $ 15,448 in the three and six months ended June 30, 2020, respectively.
+Added: August 2021, the Company entered into an amendment of the aforementioned lease, whereby the term of the lease was extended through October
+Added: 31, 2022 with no option to renew.
+Added: The amendment resulted in a modification of the lease under ASC 842 and the Company remeasured the
+Added: lease liability as of the amendment date.
+Added: of September 30, 2021, the future lease payments totalled $ 34,068 .
+Added: Company recognized total rent expense of $ 11,781
+Added: in the three and nine months ended September
+Added: 30, 2021, respectively.
+Added: The Company recognized total rent expense of $ 10,807
+Added: in the three and nine months ended September
+Added: 30, 2020, respectively.
+Added: compensation subject to shareholder approval
+Added: July 2021, the Company engaged two consultants to perform certain public and investor relations services in consideration for warrants
+Added: to purchase 500,000
+Added: shares of common stock
+Added: with a five -year
+Added: term and an exercise price of $ 6.28
+Added: shares of common stock each, and 200,000
+Added: restricted stock units each.
+Added: The restricted stock
+Added: units vest over one
+Added: year with 50 %
+Added: of the vesting contingent upon certain market conditions.
+Added: These equity awards are contingent upon shareholder approval of an amended
+Added: and restated 2021 Omnibus Plan at a special shareholder meeting scheduled to occur in December 2021, whereby the warrants would
+Added: be replaced by non-qualified stock options with similar terms.
+Added: As the Company did not identify a grant date for the equity awards
+Added: as of September 30, 2021, it did not record these instruments in equity and instead recorded a liability and an expense for the
+Added: estimated value of services received during the period.
7 - NOTES PAYABLE
−Removed: following table provides a summary of the Company’s outstanding debt as of June 30, 2021:
−Removed: Principal balance
−Removed: Accrued interest
−Removed: Unamortized debt discount
−Removed: Net debt balance
−Removed: 2020 promissory notes
−Removed: 2021 promissory notes
+Added: following table provides a summary of the Company’s outstanding debt as of September 30, 2021:
+Added: value adjustment
+Added: 2021 convertible notes
+Added: $ ( 1,071,099 )
+Added: Financed insurance
+Added: $ ( 1,071,099 )
following table provides a summary of the Company’s outstanding debt as of December 31, 2020:
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OF INTEREST EXPENSE DEBT
−Removed: interest accrual
−Removed: discount amortization
+Added: Months Ended September 30,
+Added: Months Ended September 30,
+Added: Stated interest accrual
+Added: Debt discount amortization
Convertible Notes Payable
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and no gain or loss was recognized.
−Removed: Promissory Notes Payable
−Removed: the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company received financing totaling $ 100,000 under a series of unsecured promissory notes with
−Removed: the Chief Executive Officer and a board member.
−Removed: The promissory notes bear interest at a rate of 10 % per annum and mature December 31,
−Removed: 2021 or upon certain financing transactions, whichever is earlier.
Convertible Notes Payable
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to be bifurcated from the debt host and measured at fair value with changes in fair value recorded in earnings (see Note 3).
+Added: Promissory Notes Payable
+Added: the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company received financing totaling $ 100,000
+Added: under a series of unsecured promissory notes
+Added: with the Chief Executive Officer and a board member.
+Added: The promissory notes bear interest at a rate of 10 %
+Added: per annum and mature December 31, 2021 or upon certain financing transactions, whichever is earlier.
+Added: The notes were repaid in full in
Convertible Note Payable
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Promissory Notes
−Removed: March and May 2021, the Company received financing totaling $ 350,000 under unsecured promissory notes issued to related parties including
−Removed: the Chief Executive Officer and members of the board of directors.
−Removed: The notes mature on the earlier of June 30, 2022 or the Company’s
−Removed: receipt of gross proceeds of at least $ 2.0 million from the sale of common or preferred stock and bear interest at a rate of 10 % per
+Added: March and May 2021, the Company received financing totaling $ 350,000
+Added: under unsecured promissory notes issued to related
+Added: parties including the Chief Executive Officer and members of the board of directors.
+Added: The notes mature on the earlier of June 30, 2022
+Added: or the Company’s receipt of gross proceeds of at least $ 2.0
+Added: million from the sale of common or preferred
+Added: stock and bear interest at a rate of 10 %
+Added: The notes were repaid in full in July 2021.
of Convertible Notes Payable
−Removed: June 30, 2021, the Company consummated the Business Combination with LACQ, which triggered the automatic conversion into common
−Removed: stock of the 2015 convertible notes payable, the 2018 convertible notes payable, and the 2021 convertible notes
−Removed: In connection with certain closing conditions, the 2020 convertible notes were amended to provide for automatic conversion
−Removed: of the outstanding principal and interest into common stock.
−Removed: The modification resulted in a loss on extinguishment of debt of $ 347,566
−Removed: based on the share price on the date of
+Added: June 30, 2021, the Company consummated the Business Combination with LACQ, which triggered the automatic conversion into common stock
+Added: of the 2015 convertible notes payable, the 2018 convertible notes payable, and the 2021 convertible notes payable.
+Added: In connection with
+Added: certain closing conditions, the 2020 convertible notes were amended to provide for automatic conversion of the outstanding principal
+Added: and interest into common stock.
+Added: The modification resulted in a loss on extinguishment of debt of $ 347,566 based on the share price on
+Added: the date of conversion.
Company applied ASC 470-20-40-1 to the accounting of the conversion, which requires the accelerated recognition of unamortized debt discounts
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table below summarizes the conversion of each class of notes payable:
−Removed: OF CONVERTIBLE DEBT
−Removed: Immediately prior to merger
−Removed: Carrying value of debt converted
−Removed: Shares of common stock issued
−Removed: Outstanding debt,
−Removed: June 30, 2021
+Added: SCHEDULE OF CONVERTIBLE DEBT
+Added: prior to Business Combination
+Added: value of debt converted
+Added: of common stock issued
Convertible Note
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Convertible Note
+Added: 2021 Convertible Notes Payable
+Added: September 24, 2021, the Company entered into an agreement with institutional investors to issue $ 15.9
+Added: million of convertible notes (“Convertible
+Added: The agreement provides for two closings:
+Added: the first closing for $ 5.3
+Added: million (resulting in net proceeds of $ 4.7
+Added: million) and closed on
+Added: September 24, 2021.
+Added: The second closing for $ 10.6
+Added: million was completed in the fourth quarter
+Added: of 2021 (See Note 11 for additional information).
+Added: proceeds of the sale of the securities shall be used for working capital purposes subject to certain customary restrictions and secured
+Added: by the Company’s rights to its patents and licenses.
+Added: The Company may not issue any additional debt or equity without the
+Added: prior written consent of the holders.
+Added: notes mature on June 23, 2023 and bear interest at a rate of 5 % per annum, in addition to an original issue discount of 6 % .
+Added: The interest may be settled in cash or shares at the option
+Added: of the Company and is payable together with monthly redemptions of the outstanding principal amount of the debt.
+Added: The Company recorded
+Added: $ 4,417 of interest expense in the third quarter of 2021 related to the notes.
+Added: Company elected to apply the fair value option to the measurement of the Convertible Notes and accordingly recorded a charge
+Added: to other income (expense), net for issuance costs of $ 500,158 .
+Added: The initial fair value of the debt at issuance was $ 5.3 million.
+Added: The Company remeasured the fair value of the debt as of September
+Added: 30, 2021 and recognized a gain of $ 1.1 million as the fair value of the Convertible Notes had decreased to $ 4.2 million due to a
+Added: decrease in the value of the conversion option resulting from a decrease in the price of the Company's common stock.
+Added: convertible notes may be converted into the Company’s common stock at the option of the holder in whole or in part at the
+Added: conversion price of $ 5.87 ,
+Added: subject to a beneficial
+Added: ownership limitation of 4.99% (subject to adjustment).
+Added: The Company must reserve sufficient shares of authorized common stock to effect the conversion of the convertible notes and payment of
+Added: The shares were registered for public resale under a registration statement.
+Added: the Company’s option, the Company may redeem some or all of the then-outstanding principal amount of the convertible notes for
+Added: cash in an amount equal to 100% of the outstanding principal amount of the principal to be redeemed, plus accrued but unpaid interest,
+Added: plus all other amounts due with respect to the convertible notes.
+Added: January 1, 2022, and the first of each subsequent month, terminating upon the full redemption of the Convertible Notes (each a “Monthly
+Added: Redemption Date”), the Company shall redeem the Monthly Redemption Amount (defined below), payable in cash or shares.
+Added: number of shares to be settled shall be based on a conversion price equal to the lesser of (a) $5.87 and (b) 92 %
+Added: of the average of the three lowest volume-weighted average prices (“VWAP”) during the 10 consecutive trading days
+Added: prior to the applicable Monthly Redemption Date.
+Added: The Company may not pay the Monthly Redemption Amount in shares unless the applicable
+Added: conversion price is greater than or equal to $0.78 and
+Added: the Company has been in compliance with customary requirements under the agreement, unless waived in writing by the holder.
+Added: Monthly Redemption Amount is defined as 1/18 th of the original principal amount, plus accrued but unpaid interest, plus any
+Added: other amounts due to the holder with respect to the Convertible Notes.
+Added: If the Company elects to settle such redemptions in shares (with
+Added: a total maximum of 4,855,108 shares issuable), the Monthly Redemption Amount is calculated based on 92% of the average of the lowest
+Added: three VWAPs in the ten trading days prior to the Monthly Redemption Date.
+Added: If the Company elects to settle redemptions in cash, the Monthly
+Added: Redemption Amount shall include an 8% premium of the Monthly Redemption Amount.
+Added: at any time while the Convertible Notes are outstanding, the Company carries out one or more capital raises in excess of $ 5.0
+Added: million, the holder has the right to require
+Added: the Company to use up to 20 %
+Added: of the gross proceeds of such transaction to redeem all or a portion of the convertible notes for an amount in cash equal to the cash
+Added: Mandatory Redemption Amount (i.e., 108% of outstanding principal and unpaid interest).
+Added: insurance premiums
+Added: the nine months ended September 30, 2021, the Company financed its directors and officers liability insurance in the amount of $ 867,300 .
+Added: The Company will pay
+Added: a total of $ 12,078 in interest from inception through March 2022 when the note will be paid in full.
8 - STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
−Removed: June 2021, in connection with the Business Combination, the Company amended and restated its Certificate of Incorporation
−Removed: to authorize 150,000,000
−Removed: shares of common stock and 1,500,000
−Removed: shares of preferred stock, both with par value
−Removed: equal to $ 0.0001 .
−Removed: As of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, there were no
+Added: June 2021, in connection with the Business Combination, the Company amended and restated its Certificate of Incorporation to authorize
+Added: 150,000,000 shares
+Added: of common stock and 1,500,000 shares
+Added: of preferred stock, both with par value equal to $ 0.0001 .
+Added: As of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, there were no
shares of preferred stock issued and outstanding.
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Former Ensysce common stock.
−Removed: shares of common stock outstanding were assumed by the Company.
−Removed: shares of common stock were issued in settlement of $ 5.8 million of convertible debt.
−Removed: Refer to Note 7 for details of the conversion.
+Added: shares of common stock outstanding were assumed
+Added: by the Company.
+Added: shares of common stock were issued in settlement
+Added: million of convertible debt.
shares of restricted common stock were issued in
exchange for previously outstanding warrants to purchase Former Ensysce common stock.
−Removed: shares of common stock were issued in settlement of a termination agreement with a strategic advisor dated January 2021.
−Removed: shares of common stock were issued in settlement of deferred underwriting costs.
+Added: shares of common stock were issued in settlement
+Added: of a termination agreement with a strategic advisor dated January 2021.
+Added: shares of common stock were issued in settlement
+Added: of deferred underwriting costs.
February 2013, the Company issued 13,170
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On June 30, 2021, the Company issued 19,755
−Removed: shares of common stock in settlement
−Removed: of the warrants, with such shares subject to restriction until certain conditions are met.
−Removed: June 30, 2021, as a result of the Closing, the Company assumed a total of 18,901,290
+Added: shares of common stock in settlement of the warrants,
+Added: with such shares subject to restriction until certain conditions are met.
+Added: 30, 2021, outstanding warrants to purchase shares of common stock are as follows:
+Added: OF OUTSTANDING WARRANT
+Added: Underlying Outstanding Warrants
+Added: Classification
+Added: LACQ warrants
+Added: Share subscription facility
+Added: Convertible note
+Added: June 30, 2021, as a result of the Closing, the Company assumed a total of 18,901,290 warrants previously issued by LACQ.
+Added: The warrants provide
+Added: holders the right to purchase common stock at a strike price of between $ 10.00 and $ 11.50 per share and expire June
+Added: 30, 2026 , five years following the completion of the Business Combination.
+Added: A total of 10,000,000 of the outstanding warrants are public warrants
+Added: which trade on the OTC Pink Open Market under the ticker symbol ENSCW.
+Added: The remaining 8,901,290 warrants are private warrants with restrictions
+Added: on transfer and which have the right to a cashless exercise at the option of the holder.
+Added: On August 3, 2021, the Company
+Added: entered into an agreement with an existing warrant holder to reduce the exercise price of 500,000
+Added: warrants issued on June 30, 2021 from $ 11.50
+Added: resulting in an incremental increase in their fair value of $ 56,591 ,
+Added: recognized in general and administrative expense.
+Added: On June 30, 2021, as a result of the Closing, the Company assumed a total of 18,901,290
warrants previously issued by LACQ.
−Removed: The warrants provide holders the right to purchase common stock at a strike price of $ 11.50
−Removed: per share and expire June
−Removed: 30, 2026 , five
−Removed: years following the completion of the
+Added: The warrants provide holders the right to purchase common stock at a strike price of between
+Added: share and expire June 30, 2026 ,
+Added: five years following the completion
+Added: of the Business Combination.
A total of 10,000,000
−Removed: of the outstanding warrants are public warrants
−Removed: which trade on the OTC Pink Open Market under the ticker symbol ENSCW.
+Added: of the outstanding warrants are public warrants which trade on the OTC Pink Open Market under the ticker symbol ENSCW.
The remaining
−Removed: warrants are private warrants with restrictions
−Removed: on transfer and which have the right to a cashless exercise at the option of the holder.
+Added: warrants are private warrants with restrictions on transfer and which have the right to a cashless exercise at the option of
+Added: On August 3, 2021, the Company entered into an agreement with an existing warrant holder to reduce the exercise price of
+Added: warrants issued on June 30, 2021 from $ 11.50
+Added: resulting in an incremental increase in their fair value of $ 56,591 ,
+Added: recognized in general and administrative expense.
+Added: On July 2, 2021,
+Added: upon public listing of the Company’s shares, the Company issued 1,106,108
+Added: warrants to purchase common stock pursuant to the share subscription
+Added: The warrants have a three -year
+Added: life and an exercise price of $ 10.01
+Added: The grant date fair value of the warrants, based
+Added: on the $ 14.49
+Added: stock price on the date of issuance, was $ 11.6
+Added: million, and was recognized in general and administrative
+Added: expense due to the uncertainty of future issuance of shares under the share subscription facility.
+Added: On September 24, 2021, the
+Added: Company issued 361,158
+Added: warrants in connection with the issuance of
+Added: the convertible notes.
+Added: The warrants were immediately exercisable with an exercise price of $ 7.63
+Added: and expire on September 23, 2026 .
+Added: fair value of each warrant issued has been determined using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model.
+Added: The material assumptions used in the Black-Scholes model in estimating the fair value of the warrants issued for the periods presented were as
+Added: SCHEDULE OF WARRANTS FAIR VALUE ESTIMATION ASSUMPTIONS
+Added: Liability classified warrants (grant date 9/24/2021)
+Added: Liability classified warrants (remeasured at 9/30/2021)
+Added: Exercise price
+Added: Expected term (years)
+Added: Risk free rate
9 - STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION
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2016 Stock Incentive Plan (the “2016 Plan”).
−Removed: The 2016 Plan,
−Removed: as amended, allowed for the issuance of non-statutory stock options, incentive stock options and other equity awards to Former
−Removed: Ensysce’s employees, directors, and consultants.
+Added: The 2016 Plan, as
+Added: amended, allowed for the issuance of non-statutory stock options, incentive stock options and other equity awards to Former Ensysce’s
+Added: employees, directors, and consultants.
March 2019, Former Ensysce adopted the 2019 Directors Plan, which was amended in August 2020.
−Removed: The 2019 Directors Plan, as amended,
−Removed: allowed for the issuance of shares of Former Ensysce’s common stock pursuant to the grant of non-statutory stock
+Added: The 2019 Directors Plan, as amended, allowed
+Added: for the issuance of shares of Former Ensysce’s common stock pursuant to the grant of non-statutory stock options.
addition to the 2016 Plan and the 2019 Directors Plan, the Company has two legacy equity incentive plans (the “Legacy Plans”).
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through August 2024.
−Removed: of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the options outstanding under each plan were as follows:
−Removed: SCHEDULE OF STOCK OPTION OUTSTANDING
−Removed: 2019 Directors Plan
−Removed: Total options outstanding
−Removed: June 30, 2021, in connection with the Business Combination, the Company assumed the 2021 Omnibus Incentive Plan, which was approved
−Removed: by LACQ’s board and subsequently LACQ’s stockholders at a special stockholder meeting on June 28, 2021.
−Removed: Omnibus Incentive Plan provides for the conversion with existing terms of the 4,444,068
−Removed: options outstanding under Former Ensysce
−Removed: stock plans and reserves for issuance an additional 1,000,000
+Added: connection with the Business Combination, the Company assumed the 2021 Omnibus Incentive Plan (the “2021 Omnibus Plan”),
+Added: which was approved by LACQ’s board and subsequently LACQ’s stockholders at a special stockholder meeting on June 28, 2021.
+Added: The 2021 Omnibus Plan provides for the conversion with existing terms of the 4,444,068
+Added: options outstanding under Former Ensysce stock
+Added: plans and reserves for issuance an additional 1,000,000
shares for future awards under the 2021 Omnibus
−Removed: Incentive Plan.
No further awards may be made under the Former Ensysce stock plans.
−Removed: the three and six months ended June 30, 2020, the Company granted stock options to purchase an aggregate of 65,850 shares of common stock
−Removed: to a member of the board of directors.
−Removed: The options vest over three years and have an exercise price of $ 3.35 per share.
−Removed: Company recognized within general and administrative expense stock-based compensation expense of $ 36,373 and $ 80,193 for the three and
−Removed: six months ended June 30, 2021, respectively.
−Removed: The Company recognized within general and administrative expense stock-based compensation
−Removed: expense of $ 36,065 and $ 68,551 for the three and six months ended June 30, 2020, respectively.
−Removed: During the three and six months ended
−Removed: June 30, 2021 and 2020, there was no stock-based compensation allocated to research and development expense.
−Removed: following table summarizes the Company’s stock option activity during the six months ended June 30, 2021:
−Removed: SCHEDULE OF STOCK OPTION ACTIVITY
−Removed: Weighted average
−Removed: Exercise price
−Removed: Remaining contractual life
−Removed: Intrinsic value
+Added: of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the options outstanding under each plan were as follows:
+Added: OF STOCK OPTION OUTSTANDING
+Added: 2019 Directors Plan
+Added: 2021 Omnibus Plan
+Added: Total options outstanding
+Added: the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, the Company granted stock options to purchase an aggregate of 65,850
+Added: shares of common stock to members of the board
+Added: of directors.
+Added: The options vest over three
+Added: years and have an exercise price of $ 3.35
+Added: Company recognized within general and administrative expense stock-based compensation expense of $ 24,833
+Added: and $ 105,026
+Added: for the three and nine months ended September
+Added: 30, 2021, respectively.
+Added: The Company recognized within general and administrative expense stock-based compensation expense of $ 51,510
+Added: and $ 120,061
+Added: for the three and nine months ended September
+Added: 30, 2020, respectively.
+Added: During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 and 2020, there was no
+Added: stock-based compensation allocated to research
+Added: and development expense.
+Added: following table summarizes the Company’s stock option activity during the nine months ended September 30, 2021:
+Added: OF STOCK OPTION ACTIVITY
+Added: contractual life
Outstanding at December 31, 2020
Expired / Forfeited
−Removed: Outstanding at June 30, 2021
−Removed: Exercisable at June 30, 2021
+Added: Outstanding at September 30, 2021
+Added: Exercisable at September 30, 2021
Vested and expected to vest
fair value of each stock option granted has been determined using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model.
−Removed: The material factors incorporated
−Removed: in the Black-Scholes model in estimating the fair value of the options granted for the periods presented were as follows:
−Removed: SCHEDULE OF SHARE-BASED PAYMENT AWARD, STOCK OPTIONS, VALUATION ASSUMPTIONS
−Removed: Six months ended
−Removed: June 30, 2020
+Added: The material assumptions
+Added: used in the Black-Scholes model in estimating the fair value of the options granted for the periods presented were as follows:
+Added: OF SHARE-BASED PAYMENT AWARD, STOCK OPTIONS, VALUATION ASSUMPTIONS
Exercise price
22 unchanged sentences
to pay any dividends on the Company’s common stock.
−Removed: weighted-average grant date fair value of options granted during the six months ended June 30, 2020 was $ 2.21 .
+Added: weighted-average grant date fair value of options granted during the nine months ended September 30, 2020 was $ 2.20 .
There were no
−Removed: options granted during the six months
−Removed: ended June 30, 2021.
−Removed: of June 30, 2021, the Company had an aggregate of $ 79,259 of unrecognized share-based compensation cost, which is expected to be recognized
−Removed: over the weighted average period of 1.9 years.
+Added: options granted during the nine months ended
+Added: September 30, 2021.
+Added: of September 30, 2021, the Company had an aggregate of $ 54,427
+Added: of unrecognized share-based compensation cost,
+Added: which is expected to be recognized over the weighted average period of 1.68
Reserved for Future Issuance
following shares of common stock are reserved for future issuance:
−Removed: SCHEDULE OF COMMON STOCK FUTURE ISSUANCE
+Added: OF COMMON STOCK FUTURE ISSUANCE
Stock options outstanding
−Removed: Stock options available for future grant under 2021 Omnibus Incentive Plan
+Added: Stock options available for future grant under
+Added: 2021 Omnibus Incentive Plan
+Added: Convertible notes outstanding
Warrants outstanding
−Removed: Total shares of common stock reserved for future issuance
+Added: Total shares of common
+Added: stock reserved for future issuance
10 - RELATED PARTIES
−Removed: Company paid cash compensation during the three and six months ended
−Removed: June 30, 2021 of $ 10,752
+Added: Company paid cash compensation during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2021 of $ 3,584
and $ 43,898 ,
respectively, to the Chief Executive Officer through a separate operating company with which the Chief Executive Officer is affiliated.
−Removed: Such cash compensation totaled $ 38,967 for the three and six months ended June 30, 2020.
−Removed: As of June 30, 2021 and December 31,
−Removed: 2020, the Company owed $ 3,584
+Added: Such cash compensation totalled $ 38,967
+Added: for the three and nine months ended September
+Added: As of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the Company owed $ 0
and $ 12,989 ,
respectively, in accounts payable to the separate operating company.
−Removed: Company issued a series of convertible notes to the Chairman of the Board as described in Note 7, which totaled $ 2.5
+Added: Company issued a series of convertible notes to the Chairman of the Board as described in Note 7, which totalled $ 2.5
million as of December 31, 2020.
All outstanding
−Removed: notes converted into common stock upon the closing of the merger on June 30, 2021.
−Removed: of June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the Company had promissory notes outstanding which totaled $ 450,000 and $ 100,000 , respectively,
−Removed: to three members of the board of directors, including the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, as described in Note 7.
+Added: notes converted into common stock upon the closing of the Business Combination on June 30, 2021.
+Added: of September 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, the Company had promissory notes outstanding which totalled $ 0
+Added: and $ 100,000 ,
+Added: respectively, to three members of the board of directors, including the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, as described
11 - SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
−Removed: July 2, 2021, the Company’s shares became publicly listed on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol ENSC.
−Removed: Pursuant to the
−Removed: terms of a $ 60.0 million share subscription facility, the public listing caused the Company to issue to an investor
−Removed: warrants with an exercise price of $ 10.01
−Removed: per share and a three-year
−Removed: contractual term.
−Removed: In addition, on the July
−Removed: 2, 2021 public listing date, the Company became obligated to pay a commitment fee of $ 1.2
−Removed: million, with $ 800,000 due on the first anniversary
−Removed: of the public listing date and $ 400,000 due on the 18-month anniversary of the public listing date.
−Removed: The commitment fee may be paid from
−Removed: the proceeds of a draw against the facility or in freely tradable common stock of the Company.
−Removed: July 12, 2021, following the Business Combination with LACQ, the Company’s former financial advisor filed an action against
−Removed: the Company and its Chief Executive Officer alleging that the common stock and warrants issued to the former advisor in satisfaction
−Removed: of its advisory fee should have been registered and immediately tradeable.
−Removed: On August 3, 2021, the parties entered into a settlement agreement
−Removed: whereby the former advisor would have their common stock and the common stock underlying their warrants registered on the Company’s
−Removed: resale Registration Statement on Form S-1 that it filed on August 9, 2021 (the “Resale Registration Statement”).
−Removed: addition, the warrants would be modified to allow for cashless exercise and to reduce the exercise price from $ 11.50 /share
−Removed: to $ 10.00 /share.
−Removed: In consideration for this, both parties agreed to release the other from any past, present or future claims.
−Removed: In addition, the former
−Removed: advisor agreed to immediately stay the proceedings and inform the Superior Court of a conditional settlement and to dismiss the lawsuit
−Removed: with prejudice five days following the effectiveness of the Resale Registration Statement.
−Removed: On July 15, 2021, the Company repaid the outstanding 2020
−Removed: promissory notes and 2021 promissory notes in full.
−Removed: July 22, 2021, the Company engaged consultants to perform certain public and investor relations services in consideration for 500,000
−Removed: shares of common stock issuable upon exercise
−Removed: of 500,000 warrants with a five -year
−Removed: term and an exercise price of $ 6.28 ,
−Removed: shares of common stock, and 200,000
−Removed: restricted stock units.
−Removed: The restricted stock
−Removed: units vest over one
−Removed: year with 50 %
−Removed: of the vesting contingent upon certain market conditions.
+Added: October 6, 2021, the Superior Court dismissed with prejudice the case filed on July 12, 2021 by the Company’s former financial
+Added: advisor, as discussed in Note 6, following effectiveness of the Resale Registration Statement filed on August 9, 2021 and amended
+Added: on September 22, 2021.
+Added: November 5, 2021, the Company completed the second closing of the agreement with institutional investors for convertible notes payable
+Added: discussed in Note 7.
+Added: The Company issued $ 10.6
+Added: million in convertible notes and 722,317
+Added: warrants with a five -year term to purchase common
+Added: stock at an exercise price of $ 7.63
+Added: per share, in exchange for $ 10.0
+Added: million of cash proceeds before fees and offering
+Added: The convertible notes from the second closing have similar terms to those discussed in Note 7, except that the monthly redemption
+Added: period begins February 1, 2022 and the maturity date is August 4, 2023.
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