NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kadmon Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:KDMN) today announced the closing of its previously announced public offerings for gross proceeds of approximately $80.4 million, which includes the full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares and warrants. The financing was led by respected biotech investors, including RA Capital Management, Vivo Capital and Acuta Capital, among others.
Proceeds from the offerings will be used to advance the development of Kadmon’s product candidates, including KD025, the company’s lead Rho-associated coiled-coil kinase (ROCK) inhibitor, which is currently in Phase 2 clinical studies in autoimmune and fibrotic disease indications.
“This financing is transformative for Kadmon and provides the resources to advance our various programs, in particular KD025 in chronic graft-versus-host disease and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, through multiple key inflection points,” said Harlan W. Waksal, M.D., President and CEO at Kadmon. “In parallel, we will continue to build our portfolio of preclinical ROCK inhibitors for the treatment of autoimmune, fibrotic and neurodegenerative diseases.”
“We have strengthened our balance sheet and expanded our investor base to include top biotech funds that participated based on the value of our scientific programs, validating our efforts to date,” said Konstantin Poukalov, CFO at Kadmon.
Closing occurred with respect to a total of 22,275,000 shares of common stock, with accompanying warrants to purchase an aggregate of 8,910,000 shares of common stock, including the full exercise of the over-allotment option, at a combined public offering price of $3.001 per share and accompanying warrant (the “Offerings”). The Offerings consisted of an underwritten offering (the “Underwritten Offering”) and a registered direct offering (the “Direct Offering”) to certain institutional investors. The closing of the remaining 4,500,000 shares of common stock and warrants to purchase 1,800,000 shares of common stock in the Direct Offering is expected to occur on or about October 10, 2017.
Jefferies LLC and Piper Jaffray & Co. acted as the joint book-running managers for the Underwritten Offering. H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC acted as the lead manager for the Underwritten Offering.
The securities described above were offered pursuant to a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 that was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on August 11, 2017. The Offerings were conducted only by means of a written prospectus and prospectus supplement that form a part of the registration statement. A final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the Offerings have been filed with the SEC and are available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Copies of the final prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus relating to the Underwritten Offering may also be obtained by request at Jefferies LLC, Attention: Equity Syndicate Prospectus Department, 520 Madison Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10022, or by telephone at (877) 821-7388, or by email at Prospectus_Department@Jefferies.com; or at Piper Jaffray & Co., Attention: Prospectus Department, 800 Nicollet Mall, J12S03, Minneapolis, MN 55402, telephone: (800) 747-3924, email: prospectus@pjc.com.
This news release is for informational purposes only and shall not constitute an offer to sell or the 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 of these securities would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
About Kadmon Holdings, Inc.
Kadmon Holdings, Inc. is a fully integrated biopharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative products for significant unmet medical needs. We have a product pipeline focused on autoimmune and fibrotic diseases.
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