Company: SCLXW
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: PRER14A
Source: 0001193125-25-036730
Chunk: 16

Company: Scilex Holding Co
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: PRER14A
Chunk 16
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 range, if it determines, in its sole discretion, that implementing a reverse stock split is not in the best interest of the Company and its stockholders. If our stockholders do not approve the Reverse Stock Split Proposal, the Company may be delisted from the Nasdaq Capital Market due to our failure to maintain a minimum bid price for the Common Stock of $1.00 per share as required by Nasdaq. Reducing the number of our issued shares of Common Stock should, absent other factors, increase the per share market price of the Common Stock, although we cannot provide any assurance that, following the Reverse Stock Split, our minimum bid price would remain above the minimum bid price requirement of Nasdaq. The Board has considered the potential harm to the Company and its stockholders should Nasdaq delist the Common Stock from the Nasdaq Capital Market. Delisting could adversely affect the liquidity of the Common Stock because alternatives, such as the OTCQB or the Pink Market maintained by OTC Markets Group Inc., are generally considered to be less liquid and less efficient markets. An investor likely would find it less convenient to sell, or to obtain accurate quotations in seeking to buy, the Common Stock on an over-the-countermarket. Many investors likely would not buy or sell the Common Stock due to difficulty in accessing over-the-countermarkets, policies preventing them from trading in securities not listed on a national exchange or other reasons. In addition, as a delisted security, the Common Stock would be subject to SEC rules as a “penny stock,” which impose additional disclosure requirements on broker-dealers. The regulations relating to penny stocks, coupled with the typically higher cost per trade to the investor of penny stocks due to factors such as broker commissions generally representing a higher percentage of the price of a penny stock than of a higher-priced stock, would further limit the ability of investors to trade in the Common Stock. In addition, delisting could harm our ability to raise capital through alternative financing sources on terms acceptable to us, or at all, and may result in the potential loss of confidence by investors, suppliers, customers and employees and in fewer business development opportunities. For these reasons and others, delisting would adversely affect the liquidity, trading volume and price of the Common Stock, causing the value of an investment in us to decrease and having an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations, including our ability to attract and retain qualified employees and to raise capital. The Board believes that the Reverse Stock Split is a potentially effective means for us to maintain compliance with the