NewAmsterdam Pharma (NAMS) 8-KNewAmsterdam Pharma Announces Commencement of Public Offering of Ordinary Shares and Pre-Funded Warrants

P.O. Box 7113

1007 JC Amsterdam

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1082 PR Amsterdam

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a.   drafts of documents reviewed by us will be signed in the form of those drafts, each copy of a document conforms to the original, each original is authentic, and each signature is the genuine signature of the individual purported to have placed that signature;

b.  if any signature under any document is an electronic signature (as opposed to a handwritten (“wet ink”) signature) only, it is either a qualified electronic signature within the meaning of the eIDAS Regulation, or the method used for signing is otherwise sufficiently reliable;

c.   the Registration Statement has been declared effective by the SEC and the Prospectus Supplement has been filed with the SEC, in each case in the form reviewed by us;

d.  at each Relevant Moment, (i) Ordinary Shares shall have been admitted for trading on a trading system outside the European Economic Area comparable to a regulated market or a multilateral trading facility as referred to in Section 2:86c(1) DCC and (ii) no financial instruments issued by the Company (or depository receipts for or otherwise representing such financial instruments) have been admitted to trading on a regulated market, multilateral trading facility or organised trading facility operating in the European Economic Area (and no request for admission of any such financial instruments to trading on any such trading venue has been made;

e.   (i) no internal regulations (reglementen) have been adopted by any corporate body of the Company which would affect the validity of the resolutions recorded in the Resolutions and (ii) the Current Articles are the Articles of Association currently in force and as they will be in force at each Relevant Moment;

f.   (i) at each Relevant Moment, the resolutions recorded in the Resolutions shall be in full force and effect, (ii) at each Relevant Moment, the factual statements made and the confirmations given in the Resolutions and in each Deed of Issue shall be complete and correct and (iii) the Resolutions correctly reflect the resolutions recorded therein;

g.  at each Relevant Moment, the authorised share capital (maatschappelijk kapitaal) of the Company shall allow for the issuance of the Offer Shares, the Option Shares and the Warrant Shares;

h.  at each Relevant Moment, the relevant Deed of Issue shall have been validly signed and executed on behalf of the Company;

i.   the pre-funded amounts paid for the Warrants constitute payment (volstorting) of the underlying Warrant Shares, such amounts at least equals the aggregate nominal value of the underlying Warrant Shares, and such amounts shall have been paid in cash as provided for in the Form of Warrant and shall have been received and accepted by the Company ultimately upon the issuance of the relevant Warrant Shares and, where relevant, the Company shall have consented to payment in a currency other than Euro;

j.   the Offering, to the extent made in the Netherlands, has been, is and will be made in conformity with the Prospectus Regulation, the PRIIPs Regulation and the rules promulgated thereunder; and

k.  the Warrants and the Option (i) have been validly granted as rights to subscribe for Ordinary Shares (recht tot het nemen van aandelen), (ii) shall be in full force and effect upon being exercised and (iii) shall have been validly exercised in accordance with the terms of the Underwriting Agreement or the Warrants, respectively.

Corporate Status

1.  The Company has been duly incorporated as a besloten vennootschap met beperkte aansprakelijkheid and is validly existing as a naamloze vennootschap.

Offer Shares and Option Shares

2.  Subject to receipt by the Company of payment in full for the Offer Shares and the Option Shares as provided for in the Reviewed Documents, and when issued and accepted in accordance with the Resolutions and the Reviewed Documents, the Offer Shares and the Option Shares shall be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

Warrant Shares

3.  Subject to receipt by the Company of payment in full for, or other satisfaction of the exercise price for, the Warrant Shares in accordance with the Warrants, and when issued and accepted in accordance with the Resolutions and the Warrants, the Warrant Shares shall be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

A. Opinion 1 must not be read to imply that the Company cannot be dissolved (ontbonden). A company such as the Company may be dissolved, inter alia by the competent court at the request of the company’s board of directors, any interested party (belanghebbende) or the public prosecution office in certain circumstances, such as when there are certain defects in the incorporation of the company. Any such dissolution will not have retro-active effect.

B. Pursuant to Section 2:7 DCC, any transaction entered into by a legal entity may be nullified by the legal entity itself or its liquidator in bankruptcy proceedings (curator) if the objects of that entity were transgressed by the transaction and the other party to the transaction knew or should have known this without independent investigation (wist of zonder eigen onderzoek moest weten). The Dutch Supreme Court (Hoge Raad der Nederlanden) has ruled that in determining whether the objects of a legal entity are transgressed, not only the description of the objects in that legal entity’s articles of association (statuten) is decisive, but all (relevant) circumstances must be taken into account, in particular whether the interests of the legal entity were served by the transaction. Based on the objects clause contained in the Current Articles, we have no reason to believe that, by entering into the Reviewed Documents, the Company would transgress the description of the objects contained in its Articles of Association. However, we cannot assess whether there are other relevant circumstances that must be taken into account, in particular whether the interests of the Company are served by entering into the Reviewed Documents since this is a matter of fact.

C. Pursuant to Section 2:98c DCC, a company such as the Company may grant loans (leningen verstrekken) only in accordance with the restrictions set out in Section 2:98c DCC, and may not provide security (zekerheid stellen), give a price guarantee (koersgarantie geven) or otherwise bind itself, whether jointly and severally or otherwise with or for third parties (zich op andere wijze sterk maken of zich hoofdelijk of anderszins naast of voor anderen verbinden) with a view to (met het oog op) the subscription or acquisition by third parties of shares in its share capital or depository receipts. This prohibition also applies to its subsidiaries (dochtervennootschappen). It is generally assumed that a transaction entered into in violation of Section 2:98c DCC is null and void (nietig). Based on the content of the Reviewed Documents, we have no reason to believe that the Company or its subsidiaries will violate Section 2:98c DCC in connection with the issue of the Offer Shares, the Option Shares and the Warrant Shares. However, we cannot confirm this definitively, since the determination of whether a company (or a subsidiary) has provided security, has given a price guarantee or has otherwise bound itself, with a view to the subscription or acquisition by third parties of shares in its share capital or depository receipts, as described above, is a matter of fact.

D. The opinions expressed in this opinion letter may be limited or affected by:

a.   rules relating to Insolvency Proceedings or similar proceedings under a foreign law and other rules affecting creditors’ rights generally;

b.  the provisions of fraudulent preference and fraudulent conveyance (Actio Pauliana) and similar rights available in other jurisdictions to insolvency practitioners and insolvency office holders in bankruptcy proceedings or creditors;

c.   claims based on tort (onrechtmatige daad);

d.  sanctions and measures, including but not limited to those concerning export control, pursuant to European Union regulations, under the Dutch Sanctions Act 1977 (Sanctiewet 1977) or other legislation;

e.   the Anti-Boycott Regulation, Anti Money Laundering Laws and related legislation;

f.   any intervention, recovery or resolution measure by any regulatory or other authority or governmental body in relation to financial enterprises or their affiliated entities; and

g.  the rules of force majeure (niet toerekenbare tekortkoming), reasonableness and fairness (redelijkheid en billijkheid), suspension (opschorting), dissolution (ontbinding), unforeseen circumstances (onvoorziene omstandigheden) and vitiated consent (i.e., duress (bedreiging), fraud (bedrog), abuse of circumstances (misbruik van omstandigheden) and error (dwaling)) or a difference of intention (wil) and declaration (verklaring).

E.  The term “non-assessable” has no equivalent in the Dutch language and for purposes of this opinion letter such term should be interpreted to mean that a holder of an Ordinary Share shall not by reason of merely being such a holder be subject to assessment or calls by the Company or its creditors for further payment on such Ordinary Share.

F.  This opinion letter does not purport to express any opinion or view on the operational rules and procedures of any clearing or settlement system or agency.

Each of the following:

a.  the written resolutions of the General Meeting, dated 21 November 2022;

b.  the written resolutions of the Board, dated 11 February 2024 and 13 February 2024; and

c.   the written resolutions of the pricing committee established by the Board dated 14 February 2024.