ASTI - Ascent Solar Technologies Announces Warrants Repurchase Agreements | Benzinga
THORNTON, Colo., March 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. ("Ascent," or the "Company") (NASDAQ:ASTI), a U.S. innovator in the design and manufacturing of featherweight, flexible thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solutions, today announced that, as previously disclosed on December 19, 2022, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Contract with two institutional investors. Pursuant to the Purchase Contract, the Company issued to the investors certain common stock warrants (the "Warrants").
The Warrants have certain "full ratchet" anti-dilution adjustments that are triggered when the Company issues securities with a purchase or conversion, exercise or exchange price that is less than the exercise price of the Warrants then in effect at any time. Under the full ratchet anti-dilution adjustments, if the Company issues new securities at a price lower than the then applicable exercise price, (i) the exercise price is reduced to the lower new issue price and (ii) the number of warrant shares is proportionately increased. The Warrants have been previously adjusted following past issuances of Company securities. Currently, there are 5,596,232 Warrants exercisable at an exercise price of $1.765.
On March 6, 2024, and March 7, 2024, the Company entered into Warrant Repurchase agreements (the "Repurchase Agreements") with each of the investors. Pursuant to the Repurchase Agreements, if the Company closes a new capital raising ...