Item 3.01 Notice of Delisting or Failure to Satisfy a Continued Listing Rule or Standard; Transfer of Listing.
On January 3, 2025, ProMIS Neurosciences Inc. (“Company”) received written notice (the “Notice”) from the Listing Qualifications Department of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) stating that the Company’s common shares, no par value (the “Common Shares”) failed to comply with the $1 minimum bid price required for continued listing on The Nasdaq Capital Market under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2) (the “Minimum Bid Price Rule”) based upon the closing bid price of the Common Shares for the 30 consecutive trading days prior to the date of the Minimum Bid Price Notice from Nasdaq. The Notice has no effect on the listing of the Company’s Common Shares at this time, and the Company’s Common Shares will continue to trade on the The Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “PMN.”
The Company has been provided an initial compliance period of 180 calendar days, or until July 2, 2025, to regain compliance with the Minimum Bid Price Rule which requires that the closing bid price of the Common Shares meet or exceed $1.00 per share for a minimum of ten consecutive trading days.
If the Company is unable to regain compliance with the Minimum Bid Price Rule, the Company may be eligible for an additional 180-day compliance period. To qualify, the Company will be required to meet the continued listing requirement for market value of publicly held shares and all other initial listing standards for The Nasdaq Capital Market, with the exception of the Minimum Bid Price Rule, and will need to provide written notice to Nasdaq of its intention to cure the deficiency during the second compliance period. If the Company does not qualify for the second compliance period or fails to regain compliance during the second 180-day period, Nasdaq will notify the Company of its determination to delist the Common Shares, at which point the Company would have an opportunity to appeal the delisting determination to a Hearings Panel.
The Company will continue to monitor the bid price of the Common Shares and consider its available options to regain compliance with the Minimum Bid Price Rule. However, there can be no assurance that the Company will be able to regain compliance with the Minimum Bid Price Rule.
Forward-Looking Statements
This Current Report on Form 8-K contains forward-looking statements that are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Certain information in this Current Report on Form 8-K constitutes forward-looking statements and forward-looking information (collectively, “forward-looking information”) within the meaning of applicable securities laws. In some cases, but not necessarily in all cases, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “plans”, “excited to”, “targets”, “expects” or “does not expect”, “is expected”, “an opportunity exists”, “is positioned”, “estimates”, “intends”, “assumes”, “anticipates” or “does not anticipate” or “believes”, or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “would”, “might”, “will” or “will be taken”, “occur” or “be achieved”. In addition, any statements that refer to expectations, projections or other characterizations of future events or circumstances contain forward-looking information. Specifically, this Current Report on Form 8-K contains forward-looking information relating to the the Company’s ability to regain compliance with the Minimum Bid Price Rule, the Company’s intentions to actively monitor the closing bid price of the Common Shares, anticipated actions to be taken by Nasdaq, and the Company’s plans to consider implementing available options to resolve the deficiency and regain compliance with the Minimum Bid Price Rule. Forward-looking information is necessarily based on a number of opinions, assumptions and estimates that, while considered reasonable by the Company as of the date of this Current Report on Form 8-K, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information, including, but not limited to, the risk that the Company may not regain compliance with the Minimum Bid Price Rule, the risk that Nasdaq may not grant the Company relief from delisting if necessary, and the risk that the Company may not ultimately meet applicable Nasdaq requirements if any such relief is necessary, among other risks and uncertainties. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking information include, among others, the factors discussed throughout the “Risk Factors” section of the Company's most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023 and in its subsequent filings filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Except as required by applicable securities laws, the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking information, whether written or oral, that may be made from time to time, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.