Company: MLTX
Filing Date: 2025-05-12
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001821586-25-000011
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Company: MoonLake Immunotherapeutics
Filing Date: 2025-05-12
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part II, Item 1A
Chunk 84
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ness sooner than planned and possibly at a time when we do not have sufficient capital to meet this obligation.

Pursuant to the Loan and Security Agreement, we have pledged substantially all of our assets, subject to customary exceptions. Additionally, the Loan and Security Agreement contains certain affirmative and negative covenants that could prevent us from taking certain actions without the consent of our lenders. These covenants may limit our flexibility in operating our business and our ability to take actions that might be advantageous to us and our shareholders. The Loan and Security Agreement also contains customary affirmative and negative covenants that, 

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among other things, limit our ability, subject to certain exceptions, to incur indebtedness, grant liens, enter into a merger or consolidation, enter into transactions with affiliates, or sell all or a portion of our property, business or assets. The Loan and Security Agreement contains customary events of default. Upon the occurrence and continuation of an event of default, all amounts due under the Loan and Security Agreement become (in the case of an insolvency or bankruptcy event), or may become (in the case of all other events of default and at the option of Hercules), immediately due and payable. If an event of default under the Loan and Security Agreement should occur, we could be required to immediately repay any outstanding indebtedness. If we are unable to repay such debt, the lenders would be able to foreclose on the secured collateral, including our cash accounts, and take other remedies permitted under the Loan and Security Agreement. Even if we are able to repay any indebtedness on an event of default, the repayment of these sums may significantly reduce our working capital and impair our ability to operate as planned.

The price of our shares has been, and may continue to be volatile, and you could lose all or part of your investment.

The trading price of our Class A Ordinary Shares has been and may continue to be highly volatile and is subject to wide fluctuations in response to various factors, some of which are beyond our control, including the factors discussed in this “Risk Factors” section and elsewhere in this Quarterly Report and our Annual Report. The realization of any of these factors has had and may continue to have an adverse impact on the market price of our Class A Ordinary Shares. For example, escalating trade tensions, elevated interest rates and regulatory uncertainty have caused significant market volatility in recent months, and particularly in the biotechnology and biopharmaceutical industries.

In addition, the stock market in general, and the market for biotechnology companies in particular, have experienced price