MGC Pharmaceuticals has confirmed it has received the first funding tranche of US$1.2m under a new US$10 million financing facility with Mercer Street Global Opportunity Fund.
The injection of funding will be used to further MGC Pharma’s business strategy, focused primarily on developing revenue growth through its partnerships with Sciensus Rare in the UK and Europe and AMC in the US.
The Mercer Street Global Opportunity Fund is managed by Mercer Street Capital Partners, a United States-based institutional fund manager and MGC Pharma’s largest shareholder.
The first portion of funding has been received in full and MGC Pharma will now issue 1.32m of convertible notes with a face value of US$1.00 each to Mercer Street. The company will also issue 21,511,545 fully paid ordinary shares to Mercer as part of the agreement.
The US$10m financing facility provides MGC Pharma with access to significant capital to fund the execution of its business commercialisation strategy in the UK and US as well as advance regulatory approvals for the company’s proprietary products in an effort to drive revenue growth, assist in the rollout of the ZAM App and provide funding for the group’s general corporate expenses.
The company will continue to implement “significant” non-revenue driving cost reductions within its operations, including the delay of non-core clinical trials.
Roby Zomer, co-founder and managing director of MGC Pharma, commented: “Mercer’s new US$10m finance facility provides the company with access to funding for MGC Pharma to continue to execute its business strategy of opening up key strategic markets over the next six months. During this period the business strategy will focus primarily on generating revenue growth through our existing relationships with Sciensus Rare in the UK and Europe, and AMC in the USA.
“In addition to its sales growth strategy, MGC is very excited about the potential value that the recent 40 per cent acquisition of the ZAM medical data collection App and its associated machine learning algorithm bring to the company.
“This investment is not only aimed at reducing R&D costs and providing the company with critical proprietary clinical data in the future but also provides the MGC with the potential for a future additional revenue stream and a value-creating asset on the back of the software’s successful implementation and rollout.”
The new US$10m financing facility fully funds MGC Pharma’s current business plan, the company said, and replaces the unused A$9.25 million of the previous funding facility established in September 2021.
