Company: RPID
Filing Date: 2025-05-09
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001380106-25-000102
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Company: RAPID MICRO BIOSYSTEMS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-05-09
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 4
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 operating results, dilute our stockholders’ ownership, increase our debt or cause us to incur significant expense.

As part of our business strategy, we may opportunistically pursue acquisitions of businesses and assets that we believe may be complementary or synergistic with our own, or strategic alliances and joint ventures that leverage our technology and industry experience to expand our offerings or distribution. We have no experience with acquiring other businesses or assets and limited experience with forming strategic partnerships. We may not be able to find suitable collaborators or acquisition candidates, and we may not be able to complete such transactions on favorable terms, if at all. The competition for collaborators or acquisition candidates may be intense, and the negotiation process will be time consuming and complex. If we make any acquisitions, we may not be able to integrate these acquisitions successfully into our existing business, these acquisitions may not strengthen our competitive position, the transactions may be viewed negatively by customers or investors, we may be unable to retain key employees of any acquired business, relationships with key suppliers, manufacturers or customers of any acquired business may be impaired due to changes in management and ownership, and we could assume unknown or contingent liabilities. Any future acquisitions also could result in contingent liabilities or future write-offs of intangible assets or goodwill, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects. We cannot guarantee that we will be able to fully recover the costs of any acquisition. Integration of an acquired company also may disrupt ongoing operations and require management resources that we would otherwise focus on developing our existing business. We may not realize the anticipated benefits of any acquisition, technology license, strategic alliance or joint venture. We also may experience losses related to investments in other companies, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.

To fund any such acquisitions or joint ventures, we may choose from a number of financing alternatives that may be accompanied by drawbacks. For example, if we incur debt, we may be required to abide by restrictive covenants or grant security interests in our assets to secure such debt. If we issue equity as consideration, such issuances would dilute the ownership of our stockholders or, in the case of preferred equity, may impose preferential terms that are senior to those of our common stockholders. Additional funds may not be available on terms that are favorable to us, or at all. If the price of our Class A common stock is low or volatile, we may not be able to acquire companies or fund a joint venture project