On June 24, 2019 Zymeworks Inc. (NYSE/TSX: ZYME), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing multifunctional biotherapeutics (the "Company"), reported the closing of its previously announced underwritten public offering (the "Offering") (Press release, Zymeworks, JUN 24, 2019, View Source [SID1234537235]). The Offering consisted of 7,013,892 common shares, including the exercise in full of the underwriters’ over-allotment option to purchase 1,458,336 additional shares, and, in lieu of common shares, to a certain investor, pre-funded warrants to purchase up to 4,166,690 common shares. The common shares were offered at a price to the public of US$18.00 per common share and the pre-funded warrants were offered at a price of US$17.9999 per pre-funded warrant, for aggregate gross proceeds to the Company of approximately US$201.3 million, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated Offering expenses.
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The Company intends to use the net proceeds of the Offering to accelerate and expand the global development of ZW25 both as a single agent and in combination with other anti-cancer agents in a variety of HER2-expressing tumors, including gastroesophageal, breast and other underserved cancers; to accelerate and expand the clinical development of ZW49 through its ongoing adaptive Phase 1 clinical trial and follow-on global studies; to advance other novel preclinical programs, including those involving non-HER2-expressing tumors; and for general corporate purposes.
J.P. Morgan Securities, LLC acted as active book-running manager for the Offering. Wells Fargo Securities, LLC and Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated acted as passive book-running managers, Raymond James Ltd. acted as co-lead manager and Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc. acted as co-manager.
The securities described above were offered in Canada pursuant to Zymeworks’ final prospectus supplement, dated June 19, 2019 (the "Canadian Supplement"), to its Canadian final base shelf prospectus, dated March 6, 2019 (the "Base Prospectus"), and in the United States pursuant to Zymeworks’ final prospectus supplement, dated June 19, 2019 (the "U.S. Supplement", together with the Canadian Supplement, the "Supplements"), to its U.S. shelf registration statement on Form S-3, as amended, including a prospectus dated January 31, 2019 (the "Registration Statement"). The Supplements were filed in Canada and the United States on June 20, 2019.
The Company relied on the exemption set forth in Section 602.1 of the TSX Company Manual, which provides that the TSX will not apply its standards to certain transactions involving eligible interlisted issuers on a recognized exchange, such as the NYSE.
The Supplements and the Registration Statement contain important detailed information about the Offering. A copy of the Canadian Supplement can be found on SEDAR at www.sedar.com, and a copy of the U.S. Supplement and the related Registration Statement can be found on EDGAR at www.sec.gov. Copies of the Supplements may also be obtained from J.P. Morgan Securities, LLC, Attention; Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, or by telephone at (866) 803-9204; Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Attention; Equity Syndicate Department, 375 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10152, by telephone at (800) 326-5897, or by email at [email protected]; or Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated, Attention: Syndicate, One Montgomery Street, Suite 3700, San Francisco, CA 94104, by telephone at (415) 364-2720, or by email at [email protected]. Prospective investors should read the Supplements and the Registration Statement before making an investment decision.
This news release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any province, state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such province, state or jurisdiction.