LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
−Removed: As of the date of this Annual Report, there
−Removed: are no material pending legal or governmental proceedings relating to our company or properties to which we are a party, and to
−Removed: our knowledge there are no material proceedings to which any of our directors, executive officers or affiliates are a party adverse
−Removed: to us or which have a material interest adverse to us.
+Added: As of the date of this Annual Report, except as described below,
+Added: there are no material pending legal or governmental proceedings relating to our company or properties to which we are a party,
+Added: and to our knowledge there are no material proceedings to which any of our directors, executive officers or affiliates are a party
+Added: adverse to us or which have a material interest adverse to us.
+Added: Nine complaints have
+Added: been filed by purported Seneca stockholders, each of which seeks to enjoin the Merger and other relief.
+Added: On January 8,
+Added: 2021, Joseph Sheridan, a purported Seneca stockholder, filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Southern
+Added: District of New York against Seneca, the members of its board of directors, and LBS, captioned Sheridan v.
+Added: Biopharma, Inc., et al.
+Added: 1:21-cv-00166 (the “Sheridan Complaint”).
+Added: Also, on January
+Added: 8, 2021, Hesam Pirjamaat, a purported Seneca stockholder, filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the
+Added: Southern District of New York against Seneca, the members of its board of directors, Townsgate Acquisition Sub 1, Inc., and
+Added: LBS, captioned Pirjamaat v.
+Added: Seneca Biopharma, Inc., et al.
+Added: 1:21-cv-00172 (the “Pirjamaat
+Added: Complaint”).
+Added: On January 13, 2021,
+Added: Brian Johnson, a purported Seneca stockholder, filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Southern District
+Added: of New York against Seneca and the members of its board of directors, captioned Johnson v.
+Added: Seneca Biopharma, Inc., et
+Added: 1:21-cv-00310 (the “Johnson Complaint”).
+Added: On January 15,
+Added: 2021, Vipin Mathews, a purported Seneca stockholder, filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Eastern
+Added: District of New York against Seneca and the members of its board of directors, captioned Mathews v.
+Added: Seneca Biopharma,
+Added: 1:21-cv-00242 (the “Mathews Complaint”).
+Added: On January 22,
+Added: 2021, Emily Pechal, a purported Seneca stockholder, filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Southern
+Added: District of New York against Seneca and the members of its board of directors, captioned Pechal v.
+Added: Seneca Biopharma,
+Added: 1:21-cv-00585 (the “Pechal Complaint”).
+Added: On February 25,
+Added: 2021, Marcie Curtis, a purported Seneca stockholder, filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the District
+Added: of Delaware against Seneca and the members of its board of directors, captioned Curtis v.
+Added: Seneca Biopharma, Inc., et
+Added: 1:21-cv-00292 (the “Curtis Complaint”).
+Added: 2021, Juanesha Valdez, a purported Seneca stockholder, filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Eastern
+Added: District of Pennsylvania against Seneca, the members of its board of directors, Townsgate Acquisition Sub 1, Inc., and LBS,
+Added: captioned Valdez v.
+Added: Seneca Biopharma, Inc.
+Added: , et al., Case No.
+Added: 1:21-cv-00980 (the “Valdez Complaint”).
+Added: 2021, Bryan Anderson, a purported Seneca stockholder, filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the District
+Added: of Delaware against Seneca and the members of its board of directors, captioned Anderson v.
+Added: Seneca Biopharma, Inc.,
+Added: 1:21-cv-00326 (the “Anderson Complaint”).
+Added: 2021, Jack McIntire, a purported Seneca stockholder, filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Southern
+Added: District of New York against Seneca and the members of its board of directors, captioned McIntire v.
+Added: Biopharma, Inc., et al.
+Added: 1:21-cv-01869 (the “McIntire Complaint,”
+Added: and, together with the Sheridan
+Added: Complaint, the Pirjamaat Complaint, the Johnson Complaint, the Mathews Complaint, the Pechal Complaint, the Curtis Complaint,
+Added: the Valdez Complaint, the Anderson Complaint, the “Stockholder Complaints”).
+Added: On February 26,
+Added: 2021, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York entered an order consolidating the Sheridan
+Added: Complaint, the Pirjamaat Complaint, the Johnson Complaint, and the Pechal Complaint under Case No.
+Added: The Stockholder
+Added: Complaints assert claims against Seneca, the members of the Seneca Board, and LBS as defendants under Section 14(a) of the
+Added: Exchange Act and Rule 14a-9 promulgated thereunder for allegedly false and misleading statements in this proxy
+Added: statement/prospectus/information statement and Section 20(a) of the Exchange Act for alleged “control person”
+Added: liability with respect to such allegedly false and misleading statements.
+Added: The Johnson Complaint also asserts that the members
+Added: of the Seneca Board breached their fiduciary duties of candor/disclosure in connection with the Merger by purportedly failing
+Added: to disclose material information about the Merger.
+Added: Each of the Stockholder Complaints seek, among other relief, injunctive
+Added: relief, including enjoining the Merger unless and until the defendants disclose the allegedly omitted material information,
+Added: as well as an award of attorneys’
+Added: and experts’
+Added: The Mathews Complaint also seeks to enjoin any vote on the
+Added: the Sheridan Complaint, the Johnson Complaint, and the McIntire Complaint seek damages;
+Added: the Sheridan Complaint, the
+Added: Pirjamaat Complaint, the Mathews Complaint, the Curtis Complaint, the Valdez Complaint, and the Anderson Complaint, seek, in
+Added: the event the defendants consummate the merger, rescission of the Merger or an award of rescissory damages;
+Added: the Pirjamaat
+Added: Complaint, the Curtis Complaint, and the Valdez Complaint seek an order directing the Seneca Board to disseminate a revised
+Added: registration statement in compliance with Sections 14(a) and/or 20(a) of the Exchange Act and Rule 14a-9;
+Added: and the Pirjamaat
+Added: Complaint, the Mathews Complaint, the Curtis Complaint, the Valdez Complaint, and the Anderson Complaint seek a declaration
+Added: that defendants violated Sections 14(a) and/or 20(a) of the Exchange Act and Rule 14a-9.
+Added: Seneca believe the
+Added: allegations in the Complaints are without merit.
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