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 Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): May 22, 2020 (May 20, 2020)

SCPHARMACEUTICALS INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

(617) 517-0730

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Not Applicable

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

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Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

Underwriting Agreement

On May 20, 2020, scPharmaceuticals Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with Jefferies LLC and SVB Leerink LLC, as representatives of the several underwriters listed therein (the “Underwriters”), related to an underwritten public offering (the “Offering”) of 5,780,347 shares (the “Shares”) of the Company’s common stock, $0.0001 par value per share (the “Common Stock”), at a public offering price of $8.65 per Share, before underwriting discounts and commissions. Pursuant to the terms of the Underwriting Agreement, the Company granted the Underwriters an option, exercisable for 30 days, to purchase up to an additional 867,052 shares of Common Stock. The gross proceeds to the Company, before deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated expenses associated with the Offering payable by the Company, are expected to be approximately $50.0 million (assuming the Underwriters do not exercise their option to purchase additional shares). The closing of the Offering is expected to occur on or about May 26, 2020, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.

The Offering was made pursuant to the Company’s effective registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-229120), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 3, 2019, which became effective on February 11, 2019 (the “Registration Statement”).

The Underwriting Agreement contains customary representations, warranties, covenants and agreements by the Company, customary conditions to closing, indemnification obligations of the Company and the Underwriters, including for liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, other obligations of the parties and termination provisions. The representations, warranties and covenants contained in the Underwriting Agreement were made only for purposes of such agreement and as of specific dates, were solely for the benefit of the parties to such agreement, and may be subject to limitations agreed upon by the contracting parties. A copy of the Underwriting Agreement is filed as Exhibit 1.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference. The foregoing description of the Underwriting Agreement is qualified in its entirety by reference to such exhibit.

A copy of the legal opinion of Goodwin Procter LLP, relating to the validity of the Shares issued in the Offering, is filed as Exhibit 5.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is filed with reference to, and is hereby incorporated by reference into, the Registration Statement.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits:

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This Current Report on Form 8-K includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements relate to our future expectations, beliefs, plans, strategies, objectives, results, conditions, financial performance, prospects, or other events. Such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, those regarding the anticipated closing of the public offering, the anticipated net proceeds from the public offering and our expectation with respect to granting a 30-day option to purchase additional shares of Common Stock. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as “will,” “may,” “believe,” “expect,” “look forward,” “on track,” “guidance,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “project” and similar expressions, and the negatives thereof (if applicable).

Our forward-looking statements are based on estimates and assumptions that are made within the bounds of our knowledge of our business and operations and that we consider reasonable. However, our business and operations are subject to significant risks, and, as a result, there can be no assurance that actual results of our research, development and commercialization activities and the results of our business and operations will not differ materially from the results contemplated in such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ from expectations in our forward-looking statements include the risks and uncertainties described in the “Risk Factors” section of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019, which we filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 24, 2020, subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the preliminary prospectus supplement related to this offering.

Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made and are not guarantees of future performance. Accordingly, you should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. We do not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise our forward-looking statements, except as required by law.

SIGNATURES

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.