Horizon Therapeutics plc Announces Pricing of Public Offering of Ordinary Shares

On August 6, 2020 Horizon Therapeutics plc (Nasdaq: HZNP) reported the pricing of its underwritten public offering of 11,800,000 of its ordinary shares at a price to the public of $71.00 per share (Press release, Horizon Therapeutics, AUG 6, 2020, View Source [SID1234563164]). The net proceeds to the Company from this offering are expected to be approximately $798.9 million, after deducting underwriting discounts and other estimated offering expenses payable by the Company. The Company has also granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,770,000 ordinary shares. The offering is expected to close on or about August 11, 2020, subject to customary closing conditions.

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Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Piper Sandler and Stifel are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering. Cowen is acting as a financial advisor to the Company for the offering.

The Company intends to use the net proceeds from this offering to fund future acquisitions or licenses of, or investments in, businesses, technologies, medicines and medicine candidates that the Company believes are complementary to its own, although the Company has no present commitments or agreements to do so, and for general corporate purposes.

A registration statement relating to the ordinary shares described above was previously filed with and became effective by rule of the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). A preliminary prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus related to the offering was filed with the SEC and is available on the SEC’s website located at View Source Copies of the final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus, when available, may be obtained on the SEC’s website or by contacting Citigroup Global Markets Inc., c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717 or by phone at 800-831-9146; Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, 180 Varick Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10014, Attention: Prospectus Department or by email at [email protected]; J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, by email at [email protected] or by phone at 866-803-9204; Piper Sandler & Co., Attention: Prospectus Department, 800 Nicollet Mall, J12S03, Minneapolis, MN 55402, by email at [email protected] or by phone at 800-747-3924; or Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated, Attention: Prospectus Department, One Montgomery Street, Suite 3700, San Francisco, CA 94104, by email at [email protected] or by phone at 415-364-2720.

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of, the shares in any state or other jurisdiction which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction