SEC Comment Letter for Greenwich LifeSciences, Inc. (GLSI) (CIK 0001799788) (GLSI) — Feb 20, 2020
Greenwich LifeSciences, Inc. (GLSI) (CIK 0001799788)
Date: Feb. 20, 2020 · CIK: 0001799788 · Accession: 0000000000-20-001578
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February 20, 2020
Snehal Patel
Chief Executive Officer
Greenwich LifeSciences, Inc.
2311 Spartan Trail
Sugar Land, TX 77479
Re:Greenwich LifeSciences, Inc.
Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1
Submitted January 28, 2020
CIK No. 0001799788
Dear Mr. Patel:
We have reviewed your draft registration statement and have the following comments. In
some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better
understand your disclosure.
Please respond to this letter by providing the requested information and either submitting
an amended draft registration statement or publicly filing your registration statement on
EDGAR. If you do not believe our comments apply to your facts and circumstances or do not
believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why in your response.
After reviewing the information you provide in response to these comments and your
amended draft registration statement or filed registration statement, we may have additional
comments.
Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1
General
1.Please supplementally provide us with copies of all written communications, as defined in
Rule 405 under the Securities Act, that you, or anyone authorized to do so on your behalf,
present to potential investors in reliance on Section 5(d) of the Securities Act, whether or
not they retain copies of the communications.
The Offering, page 5
2.Revise the listing of shares excluded to disclose the number of each preferred issue
outstanding, the conversion price, and, the number of common shares to be received upon
conversion based on the offering price range's midpoint.
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Risk Factors
Risks Related to the Development and Regulatory Approval of Our Product Candidates
Clinical-stage biopharmaceutical companies with product candidates in clinical development
face a wide range of challenging activities..., page 11
3.We note your disclosure here and elsewhere that you describe yourself as having "product
candidates in clinical development," yet we also note your disclosure under on page 2
under Our Product Candidate that GP2 is your only identified product candidate. Please
revise throughout your Prospectus to reconcile these disclosures.
Risks Related to Our Manufacturing
We have limited to no manufacturing, sales, marketing or distribution capability and must rely
upon third parties for such, page 19
4.Please revise to disclose the name of the manufacturer of the active pharmaceutical
ingredient and drug product for your product candidate.
Risks Related to Our Intellectual Property
It is difficult and costly to protect our proprietary rights, and we may not be able to ensure their
protection..., page 23
5.We note your risk factor disclosure that your pending patent applications may not result in
issued patents, however, it's not clear from your Prospectus that you actually have any
patent applications pending. If you do, please expand your disclosure here and elsewhere
as appropriate to specifically identify the products/procedures for which you have applied
for patents. If not, please revise to clarify your disclosure.
Use of Proceeds, page 43
6.Please expand your disclosure to state the approximate amount of the net proceeds you
intend to use for each identified purpose. Additionally, if you do not expect the net
proceeds from this offering to be sufficient to cover all your intended purposes, indicate
the order of priority of such purposes and state the amounts of such other funds needed for
each such specified purpose and the sources thereof. In this regard, we note your
disclosure under Liquidity and Capital Resources on page 49 that you will require
additional capital to meet your long-term operating requirements. Refer to Item 504 of
Regulation S-K for guidance.
Critical Accounting Policies, page 50
7.For any stock-based compensation awarded during 2019 and through the date of your
most recent filing, please tell us the fair value used for the underlying common stock and
your basis for this fair value. Please provide the reasons for any differences between the
recent valuations of your common stock leading up to the initial public offering and the
estimated offering price.
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Business
GP2 Clinical Data & Planned Phase III Trial, page 56
8.We note your disclosure in the first paragraph that there were no reported SAEs related to
GP2 treatment in the Phase IIb and three Phase I clinical trials. Please disclose if there
were reported SAEs in any of those trials related to treatments given in combination with
GP2 and, if so, describe the nature of such SAEs.
GP2 Clinical Data & Planned Phase III Trial
Planned Phase III Trial, page 59
9.Please expand your disclosure of the planned Phase III trial to describe the material
elements of the trial design and your anticipated timeline for completion of the trial.
Large Initial & Expandable Breast Cancer Market, page 59
10.Please revise your disclosure to provide estimates of the size of the populations, or
markets, you describe. Please also clearly disclose the estimated potential size of the
market based on the specific applications of GP2 for which you are seeking FDA
approval.
Exclusive License, page 61
11.With respect to the exclusive license agreement you have with the Henry M. Jackson
Foundation, please revise to address the following.
•Describe all material rights and obligations of the parties.
•Describe the termination rights of the parties under the agreement.
•Disclose the royalty rate or range.
•Disclose aggregate amounts paid to date under the agreement for milestone and
royalty payments, respectively.
Corporate Strategy, page 62
12.Please expand your disclosure relating to your corporate strategy for advancing GP2 to
discuss such strategy within the context of the existing period(s) for which GP2 maintains
patent protection.
Intellectual Property Portfolio
HJF License, page 62
13.Please revise to disclose the terms of the patent protection for each of the two patent
families for which patent applications have been filed.
Executive and Director Compensation
Summary Compensation Table, page 75
14.Please revise the footnotes to the table to disclose the number of shares and warrants Mr.
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FirstName LastName
Snehal Patel
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Patel received for compensation and incentives. Please make similar revisions to the
footnotes to the Non-Employee Director Compensation table on page 76.
Employment Agreements, page 76
15.We note that you intend to enter into employment agreements with your management as
of the closing of this offering. To the extent that you know which management officials
are likely to be covered by these agreements and what the material terms of such
agreements are likely to be, please revise to disclose such information.
You may contact Jenn Do at 202-551-3743 or Terence O'Brien at 202-551-3355 if you
have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related matters. Please
contact David Gessert at 202-551-2326 or Michael Clampitt at 202-551-3434 with any other
questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Life Sciences
cc: Jeffrey J. Fessler, Esq.