CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--InVivo Therapeutics Holdings Corp. (NVIV), today announced the closing of the exercise of the over-allotment option granted to the underwriters in connection with its previously announced public offering. The underwriters purchased an additional 560,000 shares of InVivo's common stock, bringing the total proceeds of the offering to approximately $32.2 million, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other estimated offering expenses, and excluding the exercise of any warrants. In connection with the initial closing of the offering on March 18, 2016, InVivo issued 3,733,333 units at a price of $7.50 per unit, each unit consisting of one share of common stock and .50 of a warrant to purchase a share of common stock at an exercise price of $10.00 per share. At the initial closing, the underwriters exercised their over-allotment option to purchase additional warrants to purchase an additional 280,000 shares of common stock. InVivo intends to use the net proceeds from this offering to fund ongoing clinical trials and for general corporate purposes.
Raymond James & Associates, Inc. acted as the sole book-running manager in the offering. Ladenburg Thalmann and Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. acted as co-managers in the offering.
The offering was made pursuant to a shelf registration statement on Form S-3, previously filed with and declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). A final prospectus supplement related to the offering has been filed with the SEC and is available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Electronic copies of the final prospectus supplement and the accompanying base prospectus may be obtained from Raymond James & Associates, Inc., Attention: Equity Syndicate, 880 Carillon Parkway, St. Petersburg, Florida, or by telephone, at (800) 248-8863, or e-mail at prospectus@raymondjames.com, or by accessing the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.
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About InVivo Therapeutics
InVivo Therapeutics Holdings Corp. is a research and clinical-stage biomaterials and biotechnology company with a focus on treatment of spinal cord injuries. The company was founded in 2005 with proprietary technology co-invented by Robert Langer, Sc.D., Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Joseph P. Vacanti, M.D., who then was at Boston Children’s Hospital and who now is affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital. In 2011, the company earned the David S. Apple Award from the American Spinal Injury Association for its outstanding contribution to spinal cord injury medicine. In 2015, the company’s investigational Neuro-Spinal Scaffold received the 2015 Becker’s Healthcare Spine Device Award. The publicly-traded company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA. For more details, visit www.invivotherapeutics.com.
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