JSPR announces pricing of public offering: 60 million shares @ $1.50/share. JSPR now has approximately 100 million shares outstanding. The offering gets them another two years to advance Briquilimab. Perhaps, they now have a little leverage to negotiate ex-U.S. rights in MDS/AML.
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Jasper Therapeutics Announces Pricing of $90 Million Public Offering of Common Stock
Jasper Therapeutics
Wed, January 25, 2023 at 5:00 AM PST
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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 25, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Jasper Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: JSPR) (“Jasper”), a biotechnology company focused on developing novel antibody therapies targeting c-Kit (CD117) to address diseases such as chronic spontaneous urticaria and lower to intermediate risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) as well as novel stem cell transplant conditioning regimes, announced today the pricing of its underwritten public offering of 60,000,000 shares of its common stock. Each share of common stock will be sold at a public offering price of $1.50 per share, for gross proceeds of approximately $90 million, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses. Jasper intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for general corporate purposes, which may include capital expenditures, working capital and general and administrative expenses. In addition, Jasper has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to 9,000,000 additional shares of its common stock, at the public offering price, less underwriting discounts and commissions. All of the shares of common stock are being offered by Jasper. The offering is expected to close on or about January 27, 2023, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and William Blair & Company, L.L.C. are acting as the active book-running managers for the proposed offering. Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. is acting as a passive book-running manager for the proposed offering.
The securities described above were offered by Jasper pursuant to an effective “shelf” registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-267777) previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on October 7, 2022 and declared effective by the SEC on October 18, 2022. The securities may be offered only by means of a prospectus. A preliminary prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus relating to and describing the offering has been filed with the SEC. Electronic copies of the preliminary prospectus and, when available, copies of the final prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus relating to the offering may be obtained by visiting the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov or by contacting Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, One Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010, by calling toll-free (800) 221-1037 or by emailing newyork.prospectus@credit-suisse.com, William Blair & Company, L.L.C., Attention: Prospectus Department, 150 North Riverside Plaza, Chicago, IL 60606, by calling toll-free (800) 621-0687, or by emailing prospectus@williamblair.com or Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., Attention: Syndicate Prospectus Department, 85 Broad Street, 26th Floor, New York, NY 10004, or by telephone at (212) 667-8055, or by email at EquityProspectus@opco.com.
About Jasper
Jasper is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing briquilimab, a monoclonal antibody targeting c-Kit (CD117) as a therapeutic for chronic mast and stem cell diseases such as chronic urticaria and lower to intermediate risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and as a conditioning agent for stem cell transplants for rare diseases such as sickle cell disease (SCD), Fanconi anemia (FA) and severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID). To date, briquilimab has a demonstrated efficacy and safety profile in over 130 dosed subjects and healthy volunteers, with clinical outcomes as a conditioning agent in SCID, acute myeloid leukemia (AML), MDS, FA, and SCD. In addition, briquilimab is being advanced as a transformational non-genotoxic conditioning agent for gene therapy.
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