In May 2009, BELLUS Health issued 1,594,026 Common Shares in payment of interest on the outstanding Amended Notes and in June 2009, BELLUS Health issued 600,000 Common Shares upon conversion of Series A Preferred Shares.
In June 2009, options to purchase an aggregate of 600,000 Common Shares were granted to directors of the Company, options to purchase 410,851 Common Shares and 101,300 Common Shares have been cancelled and expired, respectively.
On January 8, 2009, the Company's common stock was delisted from the NASDAQ Capital Market following the Company's formal notice of its intention to voluntarily delist its common stock provided to the NASDAQ Stock Market, notice to the public by press release and the formal notice provided to the SEC, in December 2008. The decision was taken in light of the continuing, extreme short-term volatility in the financial markets and, accordingly, in the Company's market value. Originally, the Company received a NASDAQ Staff Deficiency Letter dated October 10, 2008, stating that, for 10 consecutive trading days, the market value of the Company's listed securities had been below the minimum $50,000,000 requirement for continued inclusion on the NASDAQ Global Market. The Company filed an application to transfer the listing of its common stock from the NASDAQ Global Market to the NASDAQ Capital Market and the transfer was effective as of November 14, 2008. The Company then received a Deficiency Letter dated December 1, 2008, from the NASDAQ Staff stating that, for 10 consecutive trading days, the market value of the Company's lis
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