SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Omeros Corporation (NASDAQ: OMER) today announced that on August 18, 2017, as scheduled, it closed the underwritten public offering that was priced on August 14, 2017, relating to the sale of 3,000,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $22.75 per share. After deducting underwriting fees and discount and other estimated offering expenses, Omeros received net proceeds from the transaction of approximately $63.6 million. Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. has a 30-day option to purchase up to 450,000 additional shares of common stock from Omeros at the same price per share as the shares sold by Omeros in the initial closing.
Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. acted as the sole bookrunner for the offering. H.C. Wainwright & Co. acted as lead manager and JonesTrading Institutional Services LLC and Maxim Group LLC acted as co-managers in the offering.
Omeros intends to use the $63.6 million of net proceeds from this offering for general corporate purposes, including expenses related to funding research and development for its OMS721 programs and clinical trials, pre-clinical studies, manufacturing and other costs associated with advancing its product candidates toward Biologic License Application and New Drug Application submissions. Omeros may also use the net proceeds for working capital, the repayment of debt obligations, acquisitions or investments in businesses, products or technologies that are complementary to its own, and other capital expenditures. In addition to the net proceeds from this financing, as of June 30, 2017 Omeros had $29.7 million of cash and cash equivalents available for operations.
A registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-219959) relating to the securities was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 14, 2017. The securities may be offered only by means of a prospectus, including a prospectus supplement, forming a part of the effective registration statement. A final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus were filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 16, 2017. An electronic copy of the preliminary prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering are available on the website of the Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov. Copies of the final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering may be obtained by contacting Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., Attn: Capital Markets, 499 Park Ave., 5th Floor, New York, New York 10022, or by telephone at 212-829-7122, or by e-mail at prospectus@cantor.com.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities of Omeros, and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale of any security 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.
About Omeros Corporation
Omeros is a commercial stage biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering, developing and commercializing both small-molecule and protein therapeutics for large-market as well as orphan indications targeting inflammation, complement-mediated diseases and disorders of the central nervous system.
Forward-looking Statements
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