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01/31/23 3:11 PM

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Summit Therapeutics Announces Timing for Rights Offering for Up to $500 Million
January 30 2023 - 08:00AM
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Summit Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: SMMT) (“Summit” or the “Company”) today announced that the Company’s Board of Directors has set the record date for the Company’s previously announced rights offering, which will be available to all holders of record of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 (the “Common Stock”), as of the close of the market on February 6, 2023 (the “Record Date”).

The Company intends to distribute to all holders of Common Stock as of the Record Date non-transferable subscription rights to purchase up to 476,190,476 shares of Common Stock at a price per share equal to the lesser of (i) $1.05 per share, or (ii) the volume weighted-average price of the Common Stock for the five consecutive trading days through and including the expiration date of the offering, currently contemplated to be March 1, 2023. Assuming that the rights offering is fully subscribed, the Company will receive gross proceeds of up to $500 million, less expenses related to the rights offering. As indicated below, please refer to the registration statement on Form S-3 for more complete information regarding the Company’s rights offering.

The rights offering will include an over-subscription right to permit each rights holder that exercises its basic subscription rights in full to purchase additional shares of Common Stock that remain unsubscribed at the expiration of the offering. The availability of the over-subscription right will be subject to certain terms and conditions to be set forth in the offering documents.

Robert W. Duggan, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and the beneficial owner of approximately 78.1% of Summit’s Common Stock prior to this rights offering, and Dr. Maky Zanganeh, Co-Chief Executive Officer, President, a member of the Board of Directors, and the beneficial owner of approximately 6.0% of the Company’s Common Stock prior to this rights offering, have each indicated that they intend to participate in the rights offering for at least the full amount of their basic subscription rights, but have not made any formal binding commitment to participate.

Summit has filed a registration statement (including a prospectus) on Form S-3 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on December 21, 2022, as amended on January 23, 2023, which has not yet become effective. The registration statement covers, among other things, the rights offering to which this communication relates. Such securities may not be sold nor may offers to buy be accepted prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective. Before you invest, you should read the final prospectus in that registration statement, together with any prospectus supplement, that we will file prior to commencing any rights offering, and the documents incorporated by reference in the prospectus (or any prospectus supplement), as well as the other documents Summit has filed with the SEC for more complete information about Summit and the rights offering. You may get these documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.

This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor will 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 registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.

Summit Therapeutics’ Mission Statement

To build a viable, long-lasting health care organization that assumes full responsibility for designing, developing, trial execution and enrollment, regulatory submission and approval, and successful commercialization of patient, physician, caregiver, and societal-friendly medicinal therapy intended to: improve quality of life, increase potential duration of life, and resolve serious medical health care needs. To identify and control promising product candidates based on exceptional scientific development and administrational expertise, develop our products in a rapid, cost-efficient manner, and to engage commercialization and/or development partners when appropriate.

We accomplish this by building a team of world class professional scientists and business administrators that apply their experience and knowledge to this mission. Team Summit exists to pose, strategize, and execute a path forward in medicinal therapeutic health care that places Summit in a well-deserved, top mar