Exhibit 10.1


 


AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO AT-THE-MARKET EQUITY SALES AGREEMENT







February 11, 2016


 


STIFEL, NICOLAUS & COMPANY, INCORPORATED


One South Street, 15th Floor


Baltimore, Maryland 21202







Ladies and Gentlemen:







Discovery Laboratories, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated (“Stifel”), are parties to that certain At-the-Market Equity Offering Sales Agreement dated February 11, 2013 (the “Original Agreement”). All capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Original Agreement.  The parties, intending to be legally bound, hereby amend the Original Agreement as follows:








	
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Section 1(a) of the Original Agreement is hereby deleted and replaced with the following:












“Compliance with Registration Requirements. The Company has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “1933 Act”), on Form S-3 (File No. 333-196420), in respect of the Common Stock (including the Shares) (collectively, the “Securities”) not earlier than three years prior to the date hereof; such registration statement, and any post-effective amendment thereto, has become effective; and no stop order suspending the effectiveness of such registration statement or any part thereof has been issued and no proceeding for that purpose has been initiated or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened by the Commission (the base prospectus filed as part of such registration statement, in the form in which it has most recently been filed with the Commission on or prior to the date of this Agreement, is hereinafter called the “Basic Prospectus”; the various parts of such registration statement, including all exhibits thereto and any prospectus supplement relating to the Shares that is filed with the Commission and deemed by virtue of Rule 430B to be part of such registration statement, each as amended at the time such part of the registration statement became effective, are hereinafter collectively called the “Registration Statement”; the Company will, if necessary, prepare a prospectus supplement to the prospectus included as a part of such registration statement specifically relating to the Shares prepared and filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the 1933 Act, hereinafter called the “Prospectus Supplement”; the prospectus relating to the Shares, including all documents incorporated therein by reference, included in the Registration Statement, as it may be supplemented by the Prospectus Supplement, in the form in which such prospectus and/or Prospectus Supplement have most recently been filed by the Company with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act is herein called the “Prospectus”; any reference herein to the Basic Prospectus, the Prospectus Supplement or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include the documents incorporated by reference therein pursuant to Item 12 of Form S-3 under the 1933 Act; any reference to any amendment or supplement to the Basic Prospectus, the Prospectus Supplement or the Prospectus shall be deemed to refer to and include any post-effective amendment to the Registration Statement, any prospectus supplement relating to the Shares filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the 1933 Act and any documents filed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”), and incorporated therein, in each case after the date of the Basic Prospectus, the Prospectus Supplement or the Prospectus, as the case may be; any reference to any amendment to the Registration Statement shall be deemed to refer to and include any annual report of the Company filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the 1934 Act after the effective date of the Registration Statement that is incorporated by reference in the Registration Statement; and any “issuer free writing prospectus” as defined in Rule 433 under the 1933 Act relating to the Shares is hereinafter called an “Issuer Free Writing Prospectus”).







No order preventing or suspending the use of the Basic Prospectus, the Prospectus Supplement, the Prospectus or any Issuer Free Writing Prospectus has been issued by the Commission, and the Basic Prospectus and the Prospectus Supplement, at the time of filing thereof, conformed in all material respects to the requirements of the 1933 Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder (the “1933 Act Regulations”) and did not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.


 











For the purposes of this Agreement, the “Applicable Time” means, with respect to any Shares, the time of sale of such Shares pursuant to this Agreement; the Prospectus and the applicable Issuer Free Writing Prospectus(es) issued at or prior to such Applicable Time, taken together (collectively, and, with respect to any Shares, together with the public offering price of such Shares, the “General Disclosure Package”) as of each Applicable Time and each Settlement Date, will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading; and each applicable Issuer Free Writing Prospectus will not conflict with the information contained in the Registration Statement, the Prospectus Supplement or the Prospectus and each such Issuer Free Writing Prospectus, as supplemented by and taken together with the General Disclosure Package as of such Applicable Time, will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.”







2.                    Section 10(a) of the Original Agreement is hereby deleted and replaced with the following:







“Unless earlier terminated pursuant to this Section 10, this Agreement shall automatically terminate upon the earliest to occur of (i) the sale of the all of the Shares on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, (ii) February 11, 2019, or (iii) termination of the Agreement pursuant to Section 10(b), (c) or (d) below.”







3.                    All references to “February 11, 2013” set forth in Annex 1 of the Original Agreement are revised to read “February 11, 2013 (as amended by Amendment No. 1 to Sales Agreement, dated February 11, 2016)”.







4.                    Except as specifically set forth herein, all other provisions of the Original Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.







5.                   Entire Agreement; Amendment; Severability. This Amendment No. 1 together with the Original Agreement (including all schedules and exhibits attached hereto and thereto and Placement Notices issued pursuant hereto and thereto) constitutes the entire agreement and supersedes all other prior and contemporaneous agreements and undertakings, both written and oral, among the parties hereto with regard to the subject matter hereof. All references in the Original Agreement to the “Agreement” shall mean the Original Agreement as amended by this Amendment No. 1; provided, however, that all references to “date of this Agreement” in the Original Agreement shall continue to refer to the date of the Original Agreement, and the reference to “time of execution of this Agreement” set forth in Section 10(e) shall continue to refer to the time of execution of the Original Agreement.







6.                    Applicable Law; Consent to Jurisdiction. This amendment shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the internal laws of the State of New York without regard to the principles of conflicts of laws. Each party hereby irrevocably submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts sitting in the City of New York, borough of Manhattan, for the adjudication of any dispute hereunder or in connection with any transaction contemplated hereby, and hereby irrevocably waives, and agrees not to assert in any suit, action or proceeding, any claim that it is not personally subject to the jurisdiction of any such court, that such suit, action or proceeding is brought in an inconvenient forum or that the venue of such suit, action or proceeding is improper. Each party hereby irrevocably waives personal service of process and consents to process being served in any such suit, action or proceeding by mailing a copy thereof (certified or registered mail, return receipt requested) to such party at the address in effect for notices to it under this amendment and agrees that such service shall constitute good and sufficient service of process and notice thereof.  Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to limit in any way any right to serve process in any manner permitted by law.







7.                   Waiver of Jury Trial. The Company and Stifel each hereby irrevocably waives any right it may have to a trial by jury in respect of any claim based upon or arising out of this amendment or any transaction contemplated hereby.


 



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8.                   Counterparts. This amendment may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument. Delivery of an executed amendment by one party to the other may be made by facsimile transmission.







If the foregoing correctly sets forth the understanding among the Company and Stifel, please so indicate in the space provided below for that purpose, whereupon this letter shall constitute a binding amendment to the Agreement between the Company and Stifel.







	 	
Very truly yours,

	 
	 	 	 
	 	
DISCOVERY LABORATORIES, INC.

	 
	 	 	 	 
	 	
By:

	
/s/ John A. Tattory

	 
	 	
Name:

	
John A. Tattory

	 
	 	
Title:

	
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

	 
	 	 	 	 
	 	
ACCEPTED as of the date first-above written:

	 
	 	 	 	 
	 	
STIFEL, NICOLAUS & COMPANY, INCORPORATED

	 
	 	 	 	 
	 	
By:

	
/s/ Daniel J. Covatta

	 
	 	
Name:

	
Daniel J. Covatta

	 
	 	
Title:

	
Managing Director

	 



 



 


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