On July 27, 2022 Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: LXRX) ("Lexicon") reported that it has commenced an underwritten public offering to offer and sell, subject to market and other conditions, shares of its common stock, par value $0.001 (the "Common Stock") (Press release, Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, JUL 27, 2022, View Source [SID1234617010]). In addition, Lexicon intends to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase additional shares of Common Stock. There can be no assurance as to whether or when the offering may be completed, or as to the actual size or terms of the offering.
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Citigroup and Piper Sandler are acting as joint book-running managers for the proposed offering.
Lexicon currently intends to use the net proceeds that it will receive from the offering, together with its existing cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments, for (i) funding pre-commercial and commercial launch activities for sotagliflozin in heart failure; (ii) funding continued development of sotagliflozin in heart failure and LX9211 in neuropathic pain; and (iii) working capital and other general corporate purposes.
A shelf registration statement on Form S-3 relating to the proposed offering was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on August 6, 2021 and declared effective by the SEC on September 14, 2021 (File No. 333-258564). A preliminary prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the proposed offering will be filed with the SEC and will be available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. When available, copies of the preliminary prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus may also be obtained from Citigroup Global Markets Inc., c/o Broadridge Financial Services, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, or by telephone at 1-800-831-9146, or by email at [email protected]; or Piper Sandler & Co., 800 Nicollet Mall, J12S03, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402, Attn: Prospectus Department, by telephone at 1-800-747-3924, or by email at [email protected].
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy, these securities, nor will there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale is not permitted.