SciSparc Ltd. (SPRC) Risk Analysis

Although our Ordinary Shares are listed on Nasdaq, an active trading market for the Ordinary Shares may not be sustained. It may be difficult for you to sell your Ordinary Shares without depressing the market price for the Ordinary Shares or at all. Further, an inactive market may also impair our ability to raise capital by selling Ordinary Shares and may impair our ability to enter into strategic partnerships or acquire companies, products, or services by using our equity securities as consideration.

Sales of a substantial number of our Ordinary Shares in the public market, or the perception that these sales might occur, could depress the market price of our Ordinary Shares and could impair our ability to raise capital through the sale of additional equity securities. We are unable to predict the effect that sales may have on the prevailing market price of our Ordinary Shares.

As of March 28, 2024, holders of warrants (including pre-funded warrants) may exercise their warrants into up to 3,268,244Ordinary Shares. In the event that such warrants are exercised in full, the ownership interest of existing holders of our equity securities will be diluted and may have a negative effect on the trading price of our Ordinary Shares.

The market price of our Ordinary Shares is volatile. Our Ordinary Share price is and will continue to be subject to wide fluctuations in response to a variety of factors, including the following: - adverse results or delays in preclinical studies or clinical trials;         - reports of adverse events in our product candidates or clinical trial failures of our product candidates;         - inability to obtain additional funding;         - any delay in filing a regulatory submission for any of our product or product candidates and any adverse development or perceived adverse development with respect to the review of that regulatory submission by the FDA or European or Asian authorities;         - failure to successfully develop and commercialize our products or product candidates;- failure to enter into strategic collaborations or failure to successfully integrate acquisitions we have made;         - failure by us or strategic collaboration partners to prosecute, maintain or enforce our intellectual property rights;         - changes in laws or regulations applicable to future products;         - inability to scale up our manufacturing capabilities through third-party manufacturers, inability to obtain adequate product supply for our products or the inability to do so at acceptable prices;         - introduction of new products or technologies by our competitors;         - failure to meet or exceed financial projections we may provide to the public;         - failures or delays in our intended Restructuring Plan;         - failure to meet or exceed the financial expectations of the investment community;         - announcements of significant acquisitions, strategic partnerships, joint ventures or capital commitments by our competitors;         - disputes or other developments relating to proprietary rights, including patents, litigation matters and our ability to obtain patent protection for our platform technologies, technologies, products or product candidates;         - additions or departures of key scientific or management personnel;         - significant lawsuits, including patent or shareholder litigation;         - changes in the market valuations of similar companies;         - changes in general conditions in the economy and the financial markets in the countries in which we operate including those related to recent unrest and actual or potential armed conflict in Israel and other parts of the Middle East, such as the recent attack by Hamas and other terrorist organizations from the Gaza Strip and elsewhere in the region and Israel's war against them and the military hostilities with the Hezbollah organization along the Northern border of Israel;         - sales of our securities by us or our shareholders in the future; and         - trading volumes of our securities. In addition, companies trading in the stock market have experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations that have often been unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance of these companies. Broad market and industry factors may negatively affect the market price of our Ordinary Shares, regardless of our actual operating performance.

Until holders of the warrants and pre-funded warrants acquire our Ordinary Shares upon exercise of the warrants and pre-funded warrants, holders of the warrants and pre-funded warrants will have no rights with respect to our Ordinary Shares underlying such warrants and pre-funded warrants. Upon exercise of the warrants and pre-funded warrants, the holders thereof will be entitled to exercise the rights of a holder of Ordinary Shares only as to matters for which the record date occurs after the exercise date. Our warrants and pre-funded warrants only represent the right to acquire Ordinary Shares at a fixed price, and in the case of the warrants, for a limited period of time. Specifically, holders of the warrants and pre-funded warrants that we issued in private placements in March 2020, March 2021, June 2022 and October 2023 and in our November 2020 and August 2023 public offerings may exercise their right to acquire Ordinary Shares and pay an exercise price per Ordinary Shares (in the case of the pre-funded warrants, $0.001 to $0.026 per Ordinary Share and in the case of other warrants, ranging from $68.38 to $637.00 per Ordinary Share), subject to adjustment upon certain events, and in the case of warrants only prior to five years from their respective issuance dates, after which date any unexercised warrants will expire and have no further value.

Our ADSs, which previously represented our Ordinary Shares, were listed on Nasdaq from March 2017 through July 2020. On September 21, 2020, our ADSs were delisted from Nasdaq as a result of not meeting the shareholders equity requirements of Nasdaq. Between December 2020 and August 2021, our ADSs were quoted on the OTCQB. In August 2021, our ADR program was terminated and our ADSs were converted to Ordinary Shares on a one-for-one basis. In September 2021, our Ordinary Shares began to be quoted for trading on the OTCQB under the ticker "SPRCF". In December 2021, our Ordinary Shares were re-listed on Nasdaq and began trading under the symbol "SPRC". In addition, on March 10, 2023, we received a written notice, or the Notice, from Nasdaq indicating that we are not in compliance with the minimum bid price requirement for continued listing set forth in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2), which requires listed securities to maintain a minimum bid price of $1.00 per share. Under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(A), we were granted a period of 180 calendar days to regain compliance with the minimum bid price requirement. Although we have since cured this deficiency and have regained compliance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2), there is a risk that we could be subject to additional notices of delisting for failure to comply with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2) or other Nasdaq Listing Rules and no assurance can be given that we will remain eligible to be listed on Nasdaq. Further, because of the previous delisting of our ADSs from Nasdaq, if we fall out of compliance with Nasdaq requirements in the future, our Ordinary Shares may be more likely to be subject to Nasdaq's delisting process and no assurance can be given that we will be able to regain compliance. Any delisting could adversely affect our ability to obtain financing for the continuation of our operations and could result in the loss of confidence by investors, customers and employees.

As a company listed on an exchange in the U.S., Israeli law may allow any one or more of our shareholders holding, in the aggregate, at least 10% of our voting rights to demand that we convene a special shareholders meeting. Also, in the event that we choose not to convene a special shareholders meeting pursuant to such a request, Sections 64-65 of the Companies Law provide, among others, that such shareholders may independently convene a special shareholders meeting within three months (or under court's ruling) and require us to cover the costs, within reason, and as a result thereof, our directors might be required to repay us such costs. If our shareholders decide to exercise these rights in a way inconsistent with our management's strategic plans, our management's ability to run our company may be disrupted, and this process may entail significant costs to us.

Provisions of Israeli law and our amended and restated articles of association could have the effect of delaying or preventing a change in control and may make it more difficult for a third party to acquire us or our shareholders to elect different individuals to our board of directors, even if doing so would be considered to be beneficial by some of our shareholders, and may limit the price that investors may be willing to pay in the future for our Ordinary Shares. Among other things: - Israeli corporate law regulates mergers and requires that a tender offer be effected when more than a specified percentage of shares in a company are purchased;- Israeli corporate law does not provide for shareholder action by written consent, thereby requiring all shareholder actions to be taken at a general meeting of shareholders;- our amended and restated articles of association divide our directors into three classes, each of which is elected once every three years;- our amended and restated articles of association require a vote of the holders of a majority of our outstanding Ordinary Shares entitled to vote present and voting on the matter at a general meeting of shareholders (referred to as simple majority), and the amendment of a limited number of provisions, such as the provision stating that each year the term of office of only one class of directors will and dividing our directors into three classes, requires a vote of the holders of 65% of the voting power represented at a general meeting of our shareholders and voting thereon has been obtained, provided the majority constitutes more than 33.33% of the total issued and outstanding share capital as of the record date of such meeting. The affirmative vote of at least three-quarters (3/4) of the directors, in addition to the approval of our shareholders, is also required in order to amend our amended and restated articles of association;- our amended and restated articles of association provide that director vacancies may be filled by our board of directors;- subject to certain exceptions, our amended and restated articles of association restrict us from engaging in certain business combination transactions, with any shareholder who holds 15% or more of our voting power. The transactions subject to such restrictions include mergers, consolidations and dispositions of our assets with a market value of 10% or more of our assets or outstanding shares. Subject to certain exceptions, such restrictions will apply for a period of three years following each time a shareholder became the holder of 15% or more of our voting power; and         - subject to certain exceptions, our amended and restated articles of association restrict certain transactions which may have a significant effect on the Company's structure, assets or business, including significant mergers and acquisitions, a disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, a voluntary dissolution and material changes to the principal business of the Company. Further, Israeli tax considerations may make potential transactions undesirable to us or to some of our shareholders whose country of residence does not have a tax treaty with Israel granting tax relief to such shareholders from Israeli tax. With respect to mergers, Israeli tax law allows for tax deferral in certain circumstances but makes the deferral contingent on the fulfillment of numerous conditions, including a holding period of two years from the date of the transaction during which certain sales and dispositions of shares of the participating companies are restricted. See "Item 10.E. Taxation-Israeli Tax Considerations and Government Programs" for additional information.

We are incorporated under Israeli law. The rights and responsibilities of holders of our Ordinary Shares are governed by our amended and restated articles of association and the Companies Law. These rights and responsibilities differ in some respects from the rights and responsibilities of shareholders in typical U.S. corporations. In particular, pursuant to the Companies Law, each shareholder of an Israeli company has to act in good faith and in a customary manner in exercising his or her rights and fulfilling his or her obligations toward the Company and other shareholders and to refrain from abusing his or her power in the Company, including, among other things, in voting at the general meeting of shareholders, on amendments to a company's articles of association, increases in a company's authorized share capital, mergers and certain transactions requiring shareholders' approval under the Companies Law. In addition, a controlling shareholder of an Israeli company or a shareholder who knows that it possesses the power to determine the outcome of a shareholder vote or who has the power to appoint or prevent the appointment of a director or officer in the Company, or has other powers toward the Company has a duty of fairness toward the Company. However, Israeli law does not define the substance of this duty of fairness. There is little case law available to assist in understanding the implications of these provisions that govern shareholder behavior.

Our status as a foreign private issuer also exempts us from compliance with certain SEC laws and regulations, including the proxy rules and the short-swing profits recapture rules. In addition, we will not be required under the Exchange Act to file current reports and financial statements with the SEC as frequently or as promptly as U.S. domestic companies whose securities are registered under the Exchange Act and we will generally be exempt from filing quarterly reports with the SEC. Also, although the Companies Law requires us to disclose the annual compensation of our five most highly compensated senior officers on an individual basis, this disclosure is not as extensive as that required of a U.S. domestic issuer. Furthermore, as a foreign private issuer, we are also not subject to the requirements of Regulation FD (Fair Disclosure) promulgated under the Exchange Act. These exemptions and leniencies will reduce the frequency and scope of information and protections to which you are entitled as an investor.