UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): December 18, 2020

Arcadia Biosciences, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

202 Cousteau Place, Suite 105

Davis, CA 95618

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

(530) 756-7077

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§ 230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§ 240.12b-2 of this chapter).

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Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement

Securities Purchase Agreement

On December 18, 2020, Arcadia Biosciences, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into a securities purchase agreement with certain institutional and accredited investors (the “Purchase Agreement”) relating to the offering and sale of 2,618,658 shares of Company common stock (the “Common Stock”) at a purchase price of $2.93 per share (the “Offering”). Concurrently with the Offering, and pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, the Company also commenced a private placement whereby it agreed to issue and sell to the investors warrants (the “Warrants”) exercisable for an aggregate of 2,618,658 shares of Common Stock (the “Warrant Shares”), which represents 100% of the shares of Common Stock sold in the Offering, for a purchase price of $0.125 per underlying Warrant Share and with an exercise price of $3.00 per Warrant Share (the “Private Placement”). Subject to certain ownership limitations, the Warrants are exercisable upon issuance and will expire on the 5.5 year anniversary of the date of issuance. The Warrants and the Warrants Shares have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).

The Offering and Private Placement are expected to close on or about December 22, 2020, subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions.  

The 2,618,658 shares of Common Stock sold in the Offering (but not the Warrants or the Warrant Shares) were offered and sold pursuant to a prospectus, dated June 8, 2018, and a prospectus supplement dated December 18, 2020, in connection with a takedown from the Company’s shelf registration statement (“Registration Statement”) on Form S-3 (File No. 333-224893).

The issuance and sale of the Warrants pursuant to the Purchase Agreement and the issuance and sale of the Warrant Shares upon exercise of the Warrants are not being registered under the Securities Act, are not being offered pursuant to the Registration Statement and are being offered pursuant to the exemption provided in Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act and Rule 506(b) promulgated thereunder.

Engagement Letter

The Company also entered into an engagement letter with H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC (“Wainwright”), dated December 17, 2020 (the “Engagement Letter”), pursuant to which Wainwright agreed to serve as exclusive placement agent for the issuance and sale of the shares of Common Stock and Warrants. The Company has agreed to pay Wainwright an aggregate fee equal to 6.0% of the gross proceeds received by the Company from the Offering and the Private Placement. Pursuant to the Engagement Letter, the Company also agreed to grant to Wainwright, or its designees, warrants to purchase up to 5.0% of the aggregate number of shares sold in the Offering (130,933 shares) (each a “Placement Agent Warrant”). The Company also agreed to pay Wainwright $60,000 for non-accountable expenses, a management fee equal to 1.0% of the gross proceeds raised in the Offering and Private Placement and $12,900 for clearing expenses. The Engagement Letter has indemnity and other customary provisions for transactions of this nature. The Placement Agent Warrants have substantially the same terms as the investor Warrants, except that the exercise price of the Placement Agent Warrants is $3.8188 per share and the term of the Placement Agent Warrants is five years from the commencement of the sales. The Placement Agent Warrants, and the shares issuable upon exercise thereof, will be issued in reliance on the exemption from registration provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act as transactions not involving a public offering and in reliance on similar exemptions under applicable state laws.

The foregoing description of the Purchase Agreement, the Warrants, the Engagement Letter and the Placement Agent Warrants are not complete and are qualified in their entirety by references to the full text of the Form of Purchase Agreement, the Form of Warrant, the Engagement Letter and the Form of Placement Agent Warrant which are filed as exhibits to this report and are incorporated by reference herein.

A copy of the opinion of Weintraub Tobin Chediak Coleman Grodin Law Corporation relating to the validity of the securities issued in the Offering is filed herewith as Exhibit 5.1.

Master Transaction Agreement

As previously reported on November 18, 2020 in a Current Report on Form 8-K, on November 12, 2020 the Company entered into a Master Transaction Agreement with Bioceres Crop Solution Corp. (“Biox”) relating to the Company’s sale of the Company’s membership interests in Verdeca, LLC to Biox.  The Master Transaction Agreement is filed herewith as Exhibit 10.2.

Item 3.02. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities

The disclosures in Item 1.01 of this Form 8-K regarding the Warrants, the Warrant Shares, the Placement Agent Warrants and the shares issuable thereunder are incorporated by reference into this Item 3.02.

(d) Exhibits

SIGNATURE

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.