Edgewise Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: EWTX), a leading muscle disease biopharmaceutical company, today announced the pricing of an underwritten offering of 21,818,182 shares of its common stock at an offering price of $11.00 per share. Edgewise anticipates gross proceeds from the offering to be approximately $240 million, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses. The closing of the offering is expected to occur on January 23, 2024, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
The deal included new investors RA Capital Management, TCGX, and Venrock Healthcare Capital Partners, as well as existing investors Cormorant Asset Management, an affiliate of Deerfield Management Company, Frazier Life Sciences, Janus Henderson Investors, Novo Holdings A/S, Orbimed, Perceptive Advisors and Surveyor Capital (a Citadel company), among other funds. Leerink Partners and Wedbush PacGrow acted as joint book-running managers for the offering.
Edgewise intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to support the potential U.S. commercial launch of EDG-5506 in patients with Becker muscular dystrophy, completion of a Phase 3 trial with EDG-5506 in Duchenne, completion of Phase 2 trials of EDG-7500 in patients with obstructive and non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and the advancement of Edgewise’s ongoing research and development programs, and for working capital and general corporate purposes. The shares are being offered by Edgewise pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-3 previously filed with, and declared effective by, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC). A prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering will also be filed with the SEC. These documents can be accessed for free through the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.
When available, a copy of the prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus relating to the offering may also be obtained from: Leerink Partners LLC, Attention: Syndicate Department, 53 State Street, 40th Floor, Boston, MA 02109, by telephone at (800) 808-7525, ext. 6105, or by email at [email protected]; Wedbush Securities Inc., Attn: ECM Department, 600 Montgomery Street, 29th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94111 or via email at [email protected].
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or other jurisdiction in 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.
