InterMune Inc. (ITMN)

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Secondary offering of 7,500,000 shares by ITMN (extra 1,125,000 available):


InterMune Announces Proposed Public Offering of Common Stock
Wed March 12, 2014 4:02 PM|PR Newswire | About: ITMN


BRISBANE, Calif., March 12, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- InterMune, Inc. (ITMN) today announced that it plans to offer, subject to market and other conditions, 7,500,000 shares of its common stock in an underwritten public offering. The company expects to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,125,000 shares of common stock in connection with the offering. All of the shares in the offering will be sold by InterMune. The shares will be issued pursuant to a prospectus supplement filed as part of a shelf registration statement previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Form S-3.

InterMune intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to fund the commercialization activities in anticipation of the potential commercial launch of Esbriet® (pirfenidone) in the United States and ongoing commercialization in Europe, to fund research and development programs with Esbriet and other compounds intended to address idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and other fibrotic diseases, and for general corporate purposes.

Goldman, Sachs & Co. and J. P. Morgan Securities LLC are acting as joint book-running managers of the proposed offering. The common stock offering will be conducted by means of a prospectus supplement filed as part of an effective shelf registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Form S-3. Before investing in the offering, interested parties may read the prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus for such offering and the other documents InterMune has filed with the SEC (SCUR), which are incorporated by reference in the prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus and provide more complete information about InterMune and the offering. Copies of the preliminary prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus relating to the offering may be obtained, when available, from Goldman, Sachs & Co. (Attn: Prospectus Department, 200 West Street, New York, New York 10282, Fax: [phone] or Email at [e-mail] or by calling 1-866-471-2526) or J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717 or by calling 866-803-9204). Electronic copies of the prospectus supplement may be obtained by visiting EDGAR on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov/.