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): April 24, 2020

Hancock Jaffe Laboratories, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

70 Doppler

Irvine, California 92618

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

(949) 261-2900

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

N/A

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

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:

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On April 24, 2020, Hancock Jaffe Laboratories, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with certain investors (the “Investors”) for the purpose of raising approximately $1.0 million in gross proceeds for the Company. Pursuant to the terms of the Purchase Agreement, the Company agreed to sell, in a registered direct offering priced at the market, an aggregate of 1,886,793 shares (the “Shares”) of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.00001 per share (the “Common Stock”), at a purchase price of $0.405 per Share, and in a concurrent private placement, warrants to purchase up to 1,886,793 shares (the “Warrant Shares”) of Common Stock (the “Warrants”), at a purchase price of $0.125 per Warrant, for a combined purchase price per share and warrant of $0.53 which is priced at the market under Nasdaq rules. The Warrants will be exercisable immediately on the date of issuance at an exercise price of $0.405 per share and will expire five years following the date of issuance.

The closing of the sales of these securities under the Purchase Agreement is expected to occur on or about April 28, 2020, subject to customary closing conditions.

Spartan Capital Securities, LLC is acting as the exclusive placement agent (the “Placement Agent”) for the Company, on a “reasonable best efforts” basis, in connection with the offering. Pursuant to that certain Placement Agency Agreement, dated as of April 24, 2020, by and between the Company and the Placement Agent (the “Placement Agency Agreement”), the Placement Agent will be entitled to a cash fee of 8.0% of the aggregate gross proceeds of the offering, a warrant to purchase up to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to 8% of the Shares sold in substantially the same form as the Warrants and the reimbursement of certain out-of-pocket expenses up to an aggregate of $55,000.

The net proceeds to the Company from the transactions, after deducting the Placement Agent’s fees and expenses but before paying the Company’s estimated offering expenses, and excluding the proceeds, if any, from the exercise of the Warrants, are expected to be approximately $825,786. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the transactions for working capital and general corporate purposes.

The Shares (but not the Warrants or the Warrant Shares) were offered and sold by the Company pursuant to a prospectus supplement dated as of April 24, 2020, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), in connection with a takedown from the Company’s effective shelf registration statement on Form S-3, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on April 7, 2020 and subsequently declared effective on April 16, 2020 (File No. 333-237592) (the “Registration Statement”), and a related prospectus dated as of April 16, 2020 contained in such Registration Statement.

The forms of the Purchase Agreement, the Warrant, as well as the Placement Agency Agreement, are filed as Exhibits 10.1, 4.1 and 10.2, respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K. The foregoing summaries of the terms of these documents are subject to, and qualified in their entirety by, such documents, which are incorporated herein by reference.

The legal opinion and consent of Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP relating to the securities is filed as Exhibit 5.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.

The information contained above in Item 1.01 related to the Warrants is hereby incorporated by reference into this Item 3.02. The Warrants and the Warrant Shares are being sold and issued without registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), in reliance on the exemptions provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act as a transaction not involving a public offering and Rule 506 promulgated under the Securities Act as sales to accredited investors, and in reliance on similar exemptions under applicable state laws.

Set forth below is a list of Exhibits included as part of this Current Report.

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.