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Exhibit 11.1

Brainsway Ltd.


Insider Trading Compliance Policy

 

This Insider Trading Compliance Policy (this “Policy”) consists of five sections:

·Section I provides an overview;
·Section II sets forth the policies of the Company prohibiting insider trading;
·Section III explains insider trading;
·Section IV consists of procedures that have been put in place by the Company to prevent insider trading;
·Section V sets forth additional transactions that are prohibited by this Policy.

I.       Summary

Preventing insider trading is necessary to comply with securities laws and to preserve the reputation and integrity of Brainsway Ltd. (the “Company”) as well as that of all persons affiliated with the Company. “Insider trading” occurs when any person purchases or sells a security while in possession of inside information relating to the security. As explained in Section III below, “inside information” is information that is both “material” and “non-public.” Insider trading is a crime both under Israeli law and under U.S. federal laws. The penalties for violating insider trading laws include imprisonment, disgorgement of profits, civil fines, and significant criminal fines of up to $5 million for individuals and $25 million for corporations. Insider trading is also prohibited by this Policy, and violation of this Policy may result in Company-imposed sanctions, including termination of employment for cause.

This Policy applies to all officers, directors and employees of the Company, members of the Company's advisory board as well as any other person designated by the Chief Financial Officer who have access to material non-public information of the Company ("Service Providers"). Individuals subject to this Policy are responsible for ensuring that members of their households also comply with this Policy. This Policy also applies to any entities controlled by individuals subject to the Policy, including any corporations, partnerships or trusts (such entities, together with all officers, directors, employees and Service Providers of the Company, are referred to as the “Covered Persons”), and transactions by these entities should be treated for the purposes of this Policy and applicable securities laws as if they were for the individual’s own account. This Policy extends to all activities within and outside an individual’s Company duties. Every officer, director, employee and Service Provider must review this Policy. Questions regarding the Policy should be directed to the Company’s Chief Financial Officer.

 

 

II.       Statement of Policies Prohibiting Insider Trading

No officer, director, employee or Service Provider shall purchase or sell any type of security while in possession of material, non-public information relating to the security, whether the issuer of such security is the Company or any other company.

Additionally, no officer, director, employee or Service Provider shall purchase or sell any security of the Company during the period beginning on the 14th calendar day before the end of any fiscal quarter of the Company and ending upon the completion of the second full trading day in the U.S. (and the lapse of at least one trading day in Israel) after the public release of earnings data for such fiscal quarter or during any other trading suspension period declared by the Company. For the purposes of this Policy, a “trading day” is a day on which national stock exchanges are open for trading.

These prohibitions do not apply to:

·purchases of the Company’s securities by a Covered Person from the Company or sales of the Company’s securities by a Covered Person to the Company;
·exercises of stock options or other equity awards or the surrender of shares to the Company in payment of the exercise price or in satisfaction of any tax withholding obligations in a manner permitted by the applicable equity award agreement, or vesting of equity-based awards, that in each case do not involve a market sale of the Company’s securities (the “cashless exercise” of a Company stock option through a broker does involve a market sale of the Company’s securities, and therefore would not qualify under this exception);
·bona fide gifts of the Company’s securities; or
·purchases or sales of the Company’s securities made pursuant to any binding contract, specific instruction or written plan entered into outside of a black-out period and while the purchaser or seller, as applicable, was unaware of any material, non-public information and which contract, instruction or plan (i) meets all of the requirements of the affirmative defense provided by Rule 10b5-1 (“Rule 10b5-1”) promulgated under the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “1934 Act”) (with respect to trades on the U.S. public markets)( “U.S. Trading Plan”) or of a blind trust as defined under the Israeli Securities Law, 1968 (with respect to trades on the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange)(“Israeli Trading Plan” and together with the U.S. Trading Plan, the “Trading Plan”), (ii) was pre-cleared in advance by the Company's Chief Financial Officer (and in the case of a plan adopted by the Chief Financial Officer, by the Chief Executive Officer) and (iii) has not been amended or modified in any respect after such initial pre-clearance without such amendment or modification being pre-cleared in advance pursuant to this Policy.

No officer, director, employee or Service Provider shall directly or indirectly communicate (or “tip”) material, non-public information to anyone outside of the Company (except in accordance with the Company’s policies regarding the protection or authorized external disclosure of Company information) or to anyone within the Company other than on a need-to-know basis.

 

 

III.       Explanation of Insider Trading

Insider trading refers to the purchase or sale of a security while in possession of “material,” “non-public” information relating to the security or its issuer.

Securities includes stocks, bonds, notes, debentures, options, warrants and other convertible securities, as well as derivative instruments.

Purchase and sale are defined broadly under both the Israeli and the U.S. federal securities law. “Purchase” includes not only the actual purchase of a security, but any contract to purchase or otherwise acquire a security. “Sale” includes not only the actual sale of a security, but any contract to sell or otherwise dispose of a security. These definitions extend to a broad range of transactions, including conventional cash-for-stock transactions, conversions, the exercise of stock options, and acquisitions and exercises of warrants or puts, calls or other derivative securities.

It is generally understood that insider trading includes the following:

·trading by insiders while in possession of material, non-public information;
·trading by persons other than insiders while in possession of material, non-public information, if the information either was given in breach of an insider’s fiduciary duty to keep it confidential or was misappropriated; and
·communicating or tipping material, non-public information to others, including recommending the purchase or sale of a security while in possession of such information.

Additionally, under Israeli regulations, when a Key Insider sells a company's securities within three months following the purchase of such securities, or alternatively, when a Key Insider purchases securities within three months following the sale of such securities, a rebuttable presumption arises that the Key Insider engaged in Insider Trading. A "Key Insider" is an officer or anyone who fills the position of an officer, a family member of an officer, a shareholder who holds 5% or more of the Company's securities or voting rights or can appoint at least one director, or a corporation controlled by any of them.

A.What Facts are Material?

The materiality of a fact depends upon the circumstances. A fact is considered “material” if there is a substantial likelihood that a reasonable investor would consider it important in making a decision to buy, sell or hold a security, or if the fact is likely to have a significant effect on the market price of the security. Material information can be positive or negative and can relate to virtually any aspect of a company’s business or to any type of security, debt or equity.

Examples of material information include (but are not limited to) information about:

·corporate earnings or earnings forecasts;
·possible mergers, acquisitions, tender offers or dispositions;
·major new products or product developments;

 

 

·important business developments such as trial results, developments regarding strategic collaborators or the status of regulatory submissions;
·management or control changes;
·significant financing developments including pending public sales or offerings of debt or equity securities;
·defaults on borrowings;
·bankruptcies; and
·significant litigation or regulatory actions.

Moreover, material information does not have to be related to a company’s business. For example, the contents of a forthcoming newspaper column that is expected to affect the market price of a security can be material.

A good general rule of thumb: When in doubt, do not trade.

B.What is Non-Public?

Information is “non-public” if it is not available to the general public. In order for information to be considered public, it must be widely disseminated in a manner making it generally available to investors through such media as Dow Jones, Business Wire, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, or United Press International, a broadcast on widely available radio or television programs, publication in a widely available newspaper, magazine or news web site, or public disclosure documents filed with the SEC that are available on the SEC’s web site.

The circulation of rumors, even if accurate and reported in the media, does not constitute effective public dissemination. In addition, even after a public announcement, a reasonable period of time must lapse in order for the market to react to the information. Generally, one should allow two full trading days following publication as a reasonable waiting period before such information is deemed to be public.

C.Who is an Insider?

“Insiders” include officers, directors, employees and certain third-party service providers of a company and anyone else who has access to material inside information about a company on or within six months prior to trading in the Company's securities. Insiders have independent fiduciary duties to their company and its stockholders not to trade on material, non-public information relating to the company’s securities. All officers, directors, employees and Service Providers of the Company should consider themselves insiders with respect to material, non-public information about the Company’s business, activities and securities. Officers, directors, employees and Service Providers may not trade in the Company’s securities while in possession of material, non-public information relating to the Company, nor may they tip such information to anyone outside the Company (except in accordance with the Company’s policies regarding the protection or authorized external disclosure of Company information) or to anyone within the Company other than on a need-to-know basis.

 

 

Individuals subject to this Policy are responsible for ensuring that members of their households also comply with this Policy. This Policy also applies to any entities controlled by individuals subject to the Policy, including any corporations, partnerships or trusts, and transactions by these entities should be treated for the purposes of this Policy and applicable securities laws as if they were for the individual’s own account.

D.Trading by Persons Other than Insiders

Insiders may be liable for communicating or tipping material, non-public information to a third party (“tippee”), and insider trading violations are not limited to trading or tipping by insiders. Persons other than insiders also can be liable for insider trading, including tippees who trade on material, non-public information tipped to them or individuals who trade on material, non-public information that has been misappropriated.

Tippees inherit an insider’s duties and are liable for trading on material, non-public information illegally tipped to them by an insider. Similarly, just as insiders are liable for the insider trading of their tippees, so are tippees who pass the information along to others who trade. In other words, a tippee’s liability for insider trading is no different from that of an insider. Tippees can obtain material, non-public information by receiving overt tips from others or through, among other things, conversations at social, business, or other gatherings.

E.Penalties for Engaging in Insider Trading

Penalties for trading on or tipping material, non-public information can extend significantly beyond any profits made or losses avoided, both for individuals engaging in such unlawful conduct and their employers. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and United States Department of Justice have made the civil and criminal prosecution of insider trading violations a top priority. Enforcement remedies available to the government or private plaintiffs under the U.S. federal securities laws include:

·SEC administrative sanctions;
·securities industry self-regulatory organization sanctions;
·civil injunctions;
·damage awards to private plaintiffs;
·disgorgement of all profits;
·civil fines for the violator of up to three times the amount of profit gained or loss avoided;
·civil fines for the employer or other controlling person of a violator (i.e., where the violator is an employee or other controlled person) of up to the greater of $1,525,000 (subject to adjustment for inflation) or three times the amount of profit gained or loss avoided by the violator;
·criminal fines for individual violators of up to $5,000,000 ($25,000,000 for an entity); and
·jail sentences of up to 20 years.

 

 

In Israel, the use of inside information may be a criminal offense and Israeli courts sentence violators of inside trading rules to jail sentences and to heavy fines.

In addition, insider trading could result in serious sanctions by the Company, including dismissal. Insider trading violations are not limited to violations of the Israeli or U.S. federal securities laws. Other U.S. federal, state and Israeli civil or criminal laws, such as the laws prohibiting mail and wire fraud and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), also may be violated in connection with insider trading.

F.Size of Transaction and Reason for Transaction Do Not Matter

The size of the transaction or the amount of profit received does not have to be significant to result in prosecution. The SEC has the ability to monitor even the smallest trades, and the SEC performs routine market surveillance. Brokers and dealers are required by law to inform the SEC of any possible violations by people who may have material, non-public information. The SEC aggressively investigates even small insider trading violations.

G.Examples of Insider Trading

Examples of insider trading cases include:

·actions brought against corporate officers, directors, employees and third-party service providers who traded in a company’s securities after learning of significant confidential corporate developments;
·friends, business associates, family members and other tippees of such officers, directors, employees and third-party service providers who traded in the securities after receiving such information;
·government employees who learned of such information in the course of their employment; and
·other persons who misappropriated, and took advantage of, confidential information from their employers.

The following are illustrations of insider trading violations. These illustrations are hypothetical and, consequently, not intended to reflect on the actual activities or business of the Company or any other entity.

Trading by Insider

An officer of X Corporation learns that earnings to be reported by X Corporation will increase dramatically. Prior to the public announcement of such earnings, the officer purchases X Corporation’s stock. The officer, an insider, is liable for all profits as well as penalties of up to three times the amount of all profits. The officer also is subject to, among other things, criminal prosecution, including up to $5,000,000 in additional fines and 20 years in jail. Depending upon the circumstances, X Corporation and the individual to whom the officer reports also could be liable as controlling persons.

 

 

Trading by Tippee

An officer of X Corporation tells a friend that X Corporation is about to publicly announce that it has concluded an agreement for a major acquisition. This tip causes the friend to purchase X Corporation’s stock in advance of the announcement. The officer is jointly liable with his friend for all of the friend’s profits, and each is liable for all civil penalties of up to three times the amount of the friend’s profits. The officer and his friend are also subject to criminal prosecution and other remedies and sanctions, as described above.

H.Prohibition of Records Falsification and False Statements

Section 13(b)(2) of the 1934 Act requires companies subject to the Act to maintain proper internal books and records and to devise and maintain an adequate system of internal accounting controls. The SEC has supplemented the statutory requirements by adopting rules that prohibit (1) any person from falsifying records or accounts subject to the above requirements and (2) officers or directors from making any materially false, misleading, or incomplete statement to any accountant in connection with any audit or filing with the SEC. These provisions reflect the SEC’s intent to discourage officers, directors and other persons with access to the Company’s books and records from taking action that might result in the communication of materially misleading financial information to the investing public.

IV.       Statement of Procedures Preventing Insider Trading

The following procedures have been established, and will be maintained and enforced, by the Company to prevent insider trading. Every officer, director, employee and Service Provider is required to follow these procedures.

A.Pre-Clearance of All Trades by All Officers and Directors, and Certain Employees and Service Providers

To provide assistance in preventing inadvertent violations of applicable securities laws and to avoid the appearance of impropriety in connection with the purchase and sale of the Company’s securities, all transactions in the Company’s securities (including without limitation, acquisitions and dispositions of Company stock, the exercise of stock options and the sale of Company stock issued upon exercise of stock options) by officers, directors and such other employees and Service Providers as are designated from time to time by the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer or the Chief Financial Officer as being subject to this pre-clearance process (a “Pre-Clearance Person”) must be pre-cleared by the Company’s Chief Financial Officer. Pre-clearance does not relieve anyone of his or her responsibility under SEC rules.

A request for pre-clearance may be oral or in writing (including without limitation by e-mail), should be made at least two business days in advance of the proposed transaction and should include the identity of the Pre-Clearance Person, the type of proposed transaction (for example, an open market purchase, a privately negotiated sale, an option exercise, etc.), the proposed date of the transaction and the number of shares or options to be involved. In addition, unless otherwise determined by the Chief Financial Officer, the Pre-Clearance Person must execute a certification (in the form approved by the Chief Financial Officer) that he, she or it is not aware of material, nonpublic information about the Company. The Chief Financial Officer shall have sole discretion to decide whether to clear any contemplated transaction (The Chief Executive Officer shall have sole discretion to decide whether to clear transactions by the Chief Financial Officer or persons or entities subject to this policy as a result of their relationship with the Chief Financial Officer). All trades that are pre-cleared must be effected within five business days of receipt of the pre-clearance unless a specific exception has been granted by the Chief Financial Officer (or the Chief Executive Officer, in the case of the Chief Financial Officer or persons or entities subject to this policy as a result of their relationship with the Chief Financial Officer). A pre-cleared trade (or any portion of a pre-cleared trade) that has not been effected during the five business day period must be pre-cleared again prior to execution. Notwithstanding receipt of pre-clearance, if the Pre-Clearance Person becomes aware of material, non-public information or becomes subject to a black-out period before the transaction is effected, the transaction may not be completed.

 

 

B.Black-Out Periods

Additionally, no officer, director, employee or Service Provider shall purchase or sell any security of the Company during the period beginning on the 14th calendar day before the end of any fiscal quarter of the Company and ending upon the completion of the second full trading day in the U.S. (and the lapse of at least one trading day in Israel) after the public release of earnings data for such fiscal quarter or during any other trading suspension period declared by the Company, except for purchases and sales made pursuant to the permitted transactions described in Section II.

Exceptions to the black-out period policy may be approved only by the Company’s Chief Financial Officer (or, in the case of an exception for the Chief Financial Officer or persons or entities subject to this policy as a result of their relationship with the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Executive Officer or, in the case of exceptions for directors or persons or entities subject to this policy as a result of their relationship with a director, the Board of Directors).

From time to time, the Company, through the Board of Directors, the Company’s disclosure committee or the Chief Financial Officer, may recommend that officers, directors, employees, Service Providers or others suspend trading in the Company’s securities because of developments that have not yet been disclosed to the public. Subject to the exceptions noted above, all of those affected should not trade in the Company’s securities while the suspension is in effect, and should not disclose to others that the Company has suspended trading.

If the Company is required to impose a “pension fund black-out period” under Regulation BTR, each director and executive officer shall not, directly or indirectly sell, purchase or otherwise transfer during such black-out period any equity securities of the Company acquired in connection with his or her service as a director or officer of the Company, except as permitted by Regulation BTR.

C.Post-Termination Transactions

With the exception of the pre-clearance requirement, this Policy continues to apply to transactions in the Company’s securities even after termination of service to the Company. If an individual is in possession of material, non-public information when his or her service terminates, that individual may not trade in the Company’s securities until that information has become public or is no longer material.

 

 

D.Information Relating to the Company

1.       Access to Information

Access to material, non-public information about the Company, including the Company’s business, earnings or prospects, should be limited to officers, directors, employees and Service Providers of the Company on a need-to-know basis. In addition, such information should not be communicated to anyone outside the Company under any circumstances (except in accordance with the Company’s policies regarding the protection or authorized external disclosure of Company information) or to anyone within the Company on an other than need-to-know basis.

In communicating material, non-public information to employees and Service Providers of the Company, all officers, directors, employees and Service Providers must take care to emphasize the need for confidential treatment of such information and adherence to the Company’s policies with regard to confidential information.

2.       Inquiries From Third Parties

Inquiries from third parties, such as industry analysts or members of the media, about the Company should be directed to the Chief Financial Officer.

E.Limitations on Access to Company Information

The following procedures are designed to maintain confidentiality with respect to the Company’s business operations and activities.

All officers, directors, employees and Service Providers should take all steps and precautions necessary to restrict access to, and secure, material, non-public information by, among other things:

·maintaining the confidentiality of Company-related transactions;
·conducting their business and social activities so as not to risk inadvertent disclosure of confidential information. Review of confidential documents in public places should be conducted so as to prevent access by unauthorized persons;
·restricting access to documents and files (including computer files) containing material, non-public information to individuals on a need-to-know basis (including maintaining control over the distribution of documents and drafts of documents);
·promptly removing and cleaning up all confidential documents and other materials from conference rooms following the conclusion of any meetings;
·disposing of all confidential documents and other papers, after there is no longer any business or other legally required need, through shredders when appropriate;
·restricting access to areas likely to contain confidential documents or material, non-public information;
·safeguarding laptop computers, mobile devices, tablets, memory sticks, CDs and other items that contain confidential information; and

 

 

·avoiding the discussion of material, non-public information in places where the information could be overheard by others such as in elevators, restrooms, hallways, restaurants, airplanes or taxicabs.

Personnel involved with material, non-public information, to the extent feasible, should conduct their business and activities in areas separate from other Company activities.

3.       Limitation on Liability

None of the Company, the Chief Financial Officer, the Authorizing Officer, the Company’s other employees, the Company's other Service Providers or any other person will have any liability for any delay in reviewing, or refusal of, a request for pre-clearance submitted pursuant to Section IV of this Policy or a Trading Plan submitted pursuant to this Policy. Notwithstanding any review of pre-clearance of a transaction pursuant to Section IV of this Policy or a Trading Plan submitted pursuant to this Policy, none of the Company, the Chief Financial Officer, the Authorizing Officer, the Company’s other employees, the Company's other Service Providers or any other person assumes any liability for the legality or consequences of such Trading Plan or transaction to the person engaging in or adopting such Trading Plan or transaction.

V.       Additional Prohibited Transactions

The Company has determined that there is a heightened legal risk and/or the appearance of improper or inappropriate conduct if the persons subject to this Policy engage in certain types of transactions. Therefore, officers, directors, employees and Service Providers shall comply with the following policies with respect to certain transactions in the Company securities:

A.Short Sales

Short sales of the Company’s securities evidence an expectation on the part of the seller that the securities will decline in value, and therefore signal to the market that the seller has no confidence in the Company or its short-term prospects. In addition, short sales may reduce the seller’s incentive to improve the Company’s performance. For these reasons, short sales of the Company’s securities are prohibited by this Policy.

B.Publicly Traded Options

A transaction in options is, in effect, a bet on the short-term movement of the Company’s stock and therefore creates the appearance that an officer, director, employee or Service Provider is trading based on inside information. Transactions in options also may focus an officer’s, director’s, employee’s or Service Provider's attention on short-term performance at the expense of the Company’s long-term objectives. Accordingly, transactions in puts, calls or other derivative securities involving the Company’s equity securities, on an exchange or in any other organized market, are prohibited by this Policy.

C.Hedging Transactions

Certain forms of hedging or monetization transactions, such as zero-cost collars and forward sale contracts, allow an officer, director, employee or Service Provider to lock in much of the value of his or her stock holdings, often in exchange for all or part of the potential for upside appreciation in the stock. These transactions allow the officer, director, employee or Service Provider to continue to own the covered securities, but without the full risks and rewards of ownership. When that occurs, the officer, director, employee or Service Provider may no longer have the same objectives as the Company’s other stockholders. Therefore, all hedging transactions involving the Company’s equity securities are prohibited by this Policy.

 

 

D.Purchases of the Company’s Securities on Margin; Pledging the Company’s Securities to Secure Margin or Other Loans

Purchasing on margin means borrowing from a brokerage firm, bank or other entity in order to purchase the Company’s securities (other than in connection with a cashless exercise of stock options through a broker under the Company’s equity plans). Margin purchases of the Company’s securities are prohibited by this Policy. Pledging the Company’s securities as collateral to secure loans is prohibited. This prohibition means, among other things, that you cannot hold the Company’s securities in a “margin account” (which would allow you to borrow against your holdings to buy securities).

E.Director and Executive Officer Cashless Exercises

The Company will not arrange with brokers to administer cashless exercises on behalf of directors and executive officers of the Company. Directors and executive officers of the Company may use the cashless exercise feature of their equity awards only if (i) the director or officer retains a broker independently of the Company, (ii) the Company’s involvement is limited to confirming that it will deliver the stock promptly upon payment of the exercise price, (iii) the director or officer uses a cashless exercise arrangement, in which the Company agrees to deliver stock against the payment of the purchase price on the same day the sale of the stock underlying the equity award settles and (iv) the director or officer otherwise complies with this Policy. Under a cashless exercise, a broker, the issuer, and the issuer’s transfer agent work together to make all transactions settle simultaneously. This approach is to avoid any inference that the Company has “extended credit” in the form of a personal loan to the director or executive officer. Questions about cashless exercises should be directed to the Chief Financial Officer.

F.Partnership Distributions

Nothing in this Policy is intended to limit the ability of a venture capital partnership or other similar entity with which a director is affiliated to distribute Company securities to its partners, members or other similar persons. It is the responsibility of each affected director and the affiliated entity, in consultation with their own counsel (as appropriate), to determine the timing of any distributions, based on all relevant facts and circumstances and applicable securities laws.