ORIC Pharmaceuticals Announces Closing of Initial Public Offering and Full Exercise of Underwriters’ Option to Purchase Additional Shares

On April 28, 2020 ORIC Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ORIC), a clinical stage oncology company focused on developing treatments that address mechanisms of therapeutic resistance, reported the closing of its initial public offering of 8,625,000 shares of its common stock, which includes the exercise in full of the underwriters’ option to purchase 1,125,000 additional shares of its common stock, at a price to the public of $16.00 per share (Press release, ORIC Pharmaceuticals, APR 28, 2020, View Source [SID1234556692]). The gross proceeds from the offering were $138.0 million, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses. All of the shares were offered by ORIC. The shares began trading on The Nasdaq Global Select Market on April 24, 2020, under the symbol "ORIC."

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J.P. Morgan, Citigroup, Jefferies and Guggenheim Securities acted as joint book-running managers for the offering.

Registration statements relating to these securities have been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and became effective on April 23, 2020. The offering was made only by means of a prospectus. Copies of the final prospectus may be obtained from: J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Attention: Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, by telephone at (866) 803-9204 or by email at [email protected]; Citigroup Global Markets Inc., c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717 or by telephone at (800) 831-9146; Jefferies LLC, Attention: Equity Syndicate Prospectus Department, 520 Madison Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10022, by telephone at (877) 821-7388 or by email at [email protected]; or Guggenheim Securities, LLC, Attention: Equity Syndicate Department, 330 Madison, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10017, by telephone at (212) 518-9658 or by email at [email protected].

This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy, nor will there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful before registration or qualification under the securities laws of that state or jurisdiction.