InMed Pharmaceuticals Completes Closing of Merger with Mentari Therapeutics
The approximately $490 million financing total includes conversion of previously issued notes, not solely new cash.
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InMed Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: INM) completed its merger with privately held Mentari Therapeutics and changed its name to Mentari Therapeutics.
The combined company's shares are expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market as MTRI on November 9, 2026. Immediately before closing, InMed completed its redomestication from British Columbia to Nevada, and pre-merger Mentari completed private financings totaling approximately $490 million in gross proceeds, including conversion of $50.0 million of previously issued convertible notes plus accrued interest.
Each pre-merger Mentari common share converted into the right to receive approximately 0.20065 combined-company shares, adjusted for the 1-for-10 reverse split effected November 4, 2026. InMed holders of record at the November 5, 2026 close received one non-transferable contingent value right per common share.
How this balance works
Rhea-AI gives every point it takes from this document a weight. Minor counts 1, Moderate 3 and Major 9, so one Major point outweighs several Minor ones. The bar adds up the weights on each side, and when neither side holds more than 65% of the total the balance reads Mixed.
It reads the document as published, with the same rules for every company, and it does not look at what the market expected or at how the stock traded, so a point can be objectively good on a day the stock falls.
Rhea-AI Sentiment measures something else, the tone of the wording.
Positive
- Major pointCompleted merger combines InMed with privately held Mentari Therapeutics.
- Major pointApproximately $490 million in gross proceeds from pre-merger Mentari's completed financings includes note conversion. 68× market cap
Negative
- Minor pointMerger share issuance exchanges each pre-merger Mentari common share for rights to approximately 0.20065 combined-company shares, diluting holders.
Key Figures
- Private financing proceeds
- approximately $490 million
- Pre-merger Mentari financings; gross proceeds
- Convertible notes
- $50.0 million
- Previously issued notes converted; included in the financing proceeds
- Merger exchange ratio
- approximately 0.20065 shares
- Combined-company shares per pre-merger Mentari common share, adjusted for the 1-for-10 reverse stock split
- Contingent value rights
- 1 per eligible common share
- Non-transferable CVR distributed to holders of record
- Trading commencement
- November 9, 2026
- Expected Nasdaq trading under ticker MTRI
Previous Acquisition Reports
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Announced a 1-for-10 consolidation in connection with the proposed Mentari merger.
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Set the record date for one contingent value right per eligible common share.
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Amended merger terms to clarify financing effects on the exchange ratio and transaction sequencing.
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Announced the all-stock merger and a concurrent private placement to fund development.
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Key Terms
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reverse stock split financial
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Shares expected to trade on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol "MTRI" commencing November 9, 2026
Immediately prior to the closing of the merger, the Company completed its redomestication from
Holders of record of the Company's common shares as of the close of business on November 5, 2026 received one non-transferable contingent value right for each such share held.
About Mentari Therapeutics
Mentari Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation therapies for the prevention of migraine, a condition affecting more than 1 billion people globally. Mentari's lead programs are MT-001, an anti-PACAP monoclonal antibody, and MT-002, an anti-PACAP and anti-CGRP bispecific antibody with the potential to deliver greater efficacy for people with incomplete response to existing therapies. Mentari is advancing a robust portfolio of potentially best-in-class therapies that target validated pathways in migraine biology. The company's programs were discovered by Paragon. Mentari Therapeutics is based in Waltham, MA.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this press release, other than purely historical information, may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the federal securities laws, including for purposes of the "safe harbor" provisions under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, express or implied statements relating to Mentari's expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future of its pipeline and business including, without limitation, Mentari's ability to achieve the expected benefits or opportunities with respect to MT-001 and MT-002, including whether MT-001 and MT-002 will achieve clinical proof of concept, demonstrate superior efficacy or potency, achieve convenient dosing or achieve regulatory approval; the potential of MT-001 and MT-002 to become best-in-class therapies; and the timing of the combined company's trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market under a new ticker symbol and CUSIP number. The words "opportunity," "potential," "milestones," "pipeline," "can," "goal," "strategy," "target," "anticipate," "achieve," "believe," "contemplate," "continue," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intends," "may," "plan," "possible," "project," "should," "will," "would" and similar expressions (including the negatives of these terms or variations of them) may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and beliefs concerning future developments and their potential effects. There can be no assurance that future developments affecting Mentari will be those that have been anticipated. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties (some of which are beyond Mentari's control) or other assumptions that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, risks related to those uncertainties and factors more fully described in Mentari's most recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") (including the registration statement on Form S-4 (File No. 333-297234) filed by InMed Pharmaceuticals Inc. (now Mentari Therapeutics, Inc.), as most recently amended on September 29, 2026 and declared effective by the SEC on October 1, 2026, as well as Mentari's subsequent filings with the SEC, including Current Reports on Form 8-K), as well as risk factors associated with companies, such as Mentari, that operate in the biopharma industry. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should any of Mentari's assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material respects from those projected in these forward-looking statements. Nothing in this press release should be regarded as a representation by any person that the forward-looking statements set forth herein will be achieved or that any of the contemplated results of such forward-looking statements will be achieved. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements in this press release, which speak only as of the date they are made and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the cautionary statements herein. Mentari does not undertake or accept any duty to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements. This press release does not purport to summarize all the conditions, risks and other attributes of an investment in Mentari.
Contacts
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investors@mentaritx.com
Media:
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