Company: OPGN
Filing Date: 2025-08-21
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001829126-25-006628
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Company: OPGEN INC
Filing Date: 2025-08-21
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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 helping to guide clinicians with more rapid and actionable information about life-threatening infections to improve patient outcomes and decrease the spread of infections caused by multidrug-resistant microorganisms, or MDROs.

In November 2023, the Company implemented certain cash management initiatives, including restructuring its U.S. operations by reducing headcount and scaling down operations at OpGen’s U.S. headquarters to the core functions of a U.S. Nasdaq listed company, allowing the Company to conserve cash and focus on the functions needed to pursue potential strategic alternatives. In November 2023, Curetis filed a petition for insolvency with the district court of Stuttgart, Germany, and Ares Genetics filed a petition for insolvency with the commercial court in Vienna, Austria. The insolvency proceedings of Curetis and Ares Genetics were adjudicated under the insolvency laws of Germany and Austria, respectively.

The insolvency administrators assumed control over the assets and liabilities of Curetis and Ares Genetics, respectively, which eliminated the authority and power of the Company and its officers to act on behalf of the subsidiaries. The loss of control required that the Company no longer include Curetis and Ares Genetics in its consolidated financial statements and consequently the subsidiaries were deconsolidated from the Company’s consolidated financial statements. As part of the insolvency proceedings, in April 2024, all of Curetis’ assets were sold to Camtech Pte Ltd., a Singaporean family office (“Camtech”). and all of Ares Genetics’ assets were sold to bioMerieux S.A.

In March 2024, the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement (the “March 2024 Purchase Agreement”) with David E. Lazar, pursuant to which the Company agreed to sell 3,000,000 shares of Series E Convertible Preferred Stock (“Series E Preferred Stock”) to Mr. Lazar at a price of $1.00 per share for aggregate gross proceeds of $3.0 million. In connection with the transactions contemplated by the March 2024 Purchase Agreement, the members of the Board of Directors, prior to the closing of such transactions, resigned and a new Board of Directors was appointed, of which Mr. Lazar was appointed Chairman. Furthermore, in April 2024, the Company entered into an employment agreement with David E. Lazar, pursuant to which the Company engaged Mr. Lazar to act as its Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”).

In July 2024, Mr. Lazar consummated a transaction pursuant