On June 30, 2020 CRISPR Therapeutics (Nasdaq:CRSP), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing transformative gene-based medicines for serious diseases, reported the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 6,428,572 common shares at a public offering price of $70.00 per share (Press release, CRISPR Therapeutics, JUN 30, 2020, View Source [SID1234561639]). In addition, the underwriters have a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 964,285 common shares at the public offering price less the underwriting discount. CRISPR Therapeutics anticipates its gross proceeds from the offering, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other offering expenses, to be approximately $450.0 million, excluding any exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares. The offering is expected to close on or about July 6, 2020, subject to customary closing conditions.
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Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, BofA Securities and Jefferies are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering. Canaccord Genuity, William Blair, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey and Roth Capital Partners are acting as co-managers for the offering.
The common shares will be offered and sold pursuant to the Company’s previously filed automatically effective shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-227427) filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on September 19, 2018. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
A preliminary prospectus supplement relating to and describing the terms of the offering was filed with the SEC on June 29, 2020. The final prospectus supplement relating to the offering will be filed with the SEC and will be available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. A copy of the final prospectus supplement may be obtained, when available, from Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC by mail at 200 West Street, New York, NY 10282, Attention: Prospectus Department, by telephone at (866) 471-2526, or by email at [email protected]; from BofA Securities by mail at NC1-004-03-43, 200 North College Street, 3rd floor, Charlotte, NC 28255-0001, Attn: Prospectus Department, or by email at [email protected]; or from Jefferies, Attention: Equity Syndicate Prospectus Department, 520 Madison Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10022, by telephone at (877) 547-6340, or by email at [email protected].