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Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): July 1, 2023

 

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (617) 431-2313

 

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On July 1, 2023, Arch Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into an amendment (“Amendment No. 7 to the First Notes”) with the holders of the Company’s outstanding Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Notes, as amended on February 14, 2023, and as subsequently amended on March 10, 2023, March 15, 2023, April 15, 2023, May 15, 2023, and June 15, 2023 (as amended, the “First Notes”), issued in connection with a private placement financing the Company completed on July 6, 2022 (the “First Closing”). On July 1, 2023, the Company also entered into an amendment (“Amendment No. 7 to the Second Notes”) with the holders of the Company’s outstanding Unsecured Convertible Promissory Notes, as amended on February 14, 2023, and as subsequently amended on March 10, 2023, March 15, 2023, April 15, 2023, May 15, 2023, and June 15, 2023 (as amended, the “Second Notes”), issued in connection with a private placement financing the Company completed on January 18, 2023 (the “Second Closing”). On July 1, 2023, the Company also entered into an amendment (“Amendment No. 2 to the Third Notes” and, together with Amendment No. 7 to the First Notes and Amendment No. 7 to the Second Notes, the “Amendments to the 2022 Notes”) with the holders of the Company’s outstanding Unsecured Convertible Promissory Notes, as amended on June 15, 2023 (as amended, the “Third Notes” and, together with the First Notes and Second Notes, the “2022 Notes”), issued in connection with a private placement financing the Company completed on May 15, 2023 (the “Third Closing”).

 

Under the Amendments to the 2022 Notes, the 2022 Notes were amended to extend the date of the completion of an uplist to any of the Nasdaq Global Market, Nasdaq Capital Market, New York Stock Exchange or NYSE American (such transaction, an “Uplist Transaction”) from July 1, 2023 to July 31, 2023.

 

As a result of the entry into the Amendments to the 2022 Notes, and pursuant to the terms of the Company’s outstanding Series 3B Convertible Promissory Notes (the “Series 3B Notes”), the Series 3B Notes were automatically amended to extend the date of completion of an Uplist Transaction from July 1, 2023 to July 31, 2023. Also, as a result of the entry into the Amendments to the 2022 Notes, and pursuant to the terms of the Company’s outstanding Series 1 Unsecured Convertible Promissory Notes and Series 2 Unsecured Convertible Promissory Notes, each as amended on March 10, 2023, the Series Note Amendments Termination Date set forth under Amendment No. 1 to the Series 1 Unsecured Convertible Promissory Notes and Amendment No. 1 to the Series 2 Unsecured Convertible Promissory Notes was automatically amended to extend from July 1, 2023 to July 31, 2023.

 

The foregoing descriptions of Amendment No. 7 to the First Notes, Amendment No. 7 to the Second Notes, and Amendment No. 2 to the Third Notes do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by the full text of the Form of Amendment No. 7 to the First Notes, the Form of Amendment No. 7 to the Second Notes, and the Form of Amendment No. 2 to the Third Notes which are attached to this Current Report on Form 8-K as Exhibits 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference. 

 

 

 

(d) The following exhibits are being filed herewith:

 

 

 

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.