BioLineRx Ltd (BLRX)

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BioLineRx Increases Previously Announced Bought Deal Offering to $30 Million

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/biolinerx-increases-previously-announced-bought-024200150.html

Published: Jan. 19, 2021 at 9:42 p.m. ET

TEL AVIV, Israel, Jan. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- TEL AVIV, Israel, Jan. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- BioLineRx Ltd. (NASDAQ: BLRX) (TASE: BLRX), a late clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on oncology, today announced that due to demand, the underwriter has agreed to increase the size of the previously announced offering and purchase on a firm commitment basis 12,500,000 American Depositary Shares (ADSs) of the Company, at a price to the public of $2.40 per ADS, less underwriting discounts and commissions. Each ADS represents fifteen ordinary shares, par value NIS 0.10 per share, of the Company. The closing of the offering is expected to occur on or about January 22, 2021, subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions.

H.C. Wainwright & Co. is acting as the sole book-running manager for the offering.

The Company also has granted to the underwriter a 30-day option to purchase up to additional 1,875,000 ADSs at the public offering price, less underwriting discounts and commissions.

The gross proceeds to BioLineRx, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses and assuming no exercise of the underwriter's option to purchase additional ADSs, are expected to be approximately $30 million. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from this offering for general corporate purposes, which may include but are not limited to working capital and funding clinical trials.