Company: LENZ
Filing Date: 2025-07-30
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001815776-25-000056
Chunk: 179

Company: LENZ Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-07-30
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 4
Chunk 179
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4 PIPE Financing, and that registration statement was declared effective by the SEC on September 19, 2024. On April 4, 2025, we filed a post-effective amendment to this registration statement on Form S-3 to convert it into a registration statement on Form S-3, which was subsequently declared effective on April 8, 2025.

Initially following the Merger, a significant portion of our securities were restricted from immediate resale and transfers of our securities pursuant to Rule 144 were limited. Holders were able to sell their restricted securities pursuant to Rule 144 without registration beginning March 22, 2025, the date that was one year from the date we filed the Current Report on Form 8-K following the closing of the Merger that included the required Form 10 information that reflected we were no longer a shell company. In addition, we became eligible to use Form S-3 on April 1, 2025, which is 12 full calendar months following the closing of the Merger, and as detailed above we then filed post-effective amendments to each of our prior resale registration statements to convert such registration statements on Form S-3. In addition to these amendments, also on April 4, 2025, we filed an additional resale registration statement on Form S-3 to register certain shares pursuant to registration agreements with certain of our stockholders, which was subsequently declared effective by the SEC on April 14, 2025.

On April 4, 2025, we filed a $500 million shelf registration statement on Form S-3 which became effective April 14, 2025. The shelf registration statement is effective for three years and permits us to sell, from time to time, up to $500 million in aggregate value of our common stock, preferred stock, debt securities, depositary shares, warrants, subscription rights, purchase contracts and/or units. The shelf registration statement is intended to provide us with flexibility to access additional capital when market conditions are appropriate. Included in the $500 million shelf registration on Form S-3, we also filed a prospectus supplement to sell up to an aggregate value of $150 million dollars of our common stock through an “at-the-market” offering.

We cannot predict what effect, if any, sales of our shares in the public market or the availability of shares for sale will have on the market price of our common stock. However, future sales of substantial amounts of our common stock in the public market, including shares issued upon exercise of outstanding options