Chiasma Announces Pricing of a Public Offering of $70 Million of Common Stock and Pre-Funded Warrants
July 01 2020 - 8:05AM
Chiasma, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHMA), a commercial biopharmaceutical
company focused on developing and commercializing oral therapies
utilizing its proprietary Transient Permeability Enhancer (TPE®)
delivery platform technology to reduce the burden of chronic
injections for people with rare diseases, today announced the
pricing of its previously announced underwritten public offering of
12,500,000 shares of its common stock and, to certain investors in
lieu thereof, pre-funded warrants to purchase up to 5,000,000
shares of its common stock at an exercise price of $0.0001 per
share. The public offering price of each share of common stock is
$4.00 and the public offering price of each pre-funded warrant is
$3.9999 per underlying share. In addition, Chiasma has granted the
underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional
2,625,000 shares of its common stock at the public offering price,
less underwriting discounts and commissions. This offering is
expected to close on or about July 6, 2020, subject to satisfaction
of customary closing conditions.
Jefferies, Piper Sandler & Co. and Cantor
are acting as book-running managers for the offering. H.C.
Wainwright & Co. is acting as lead manager for the offering and
Brookline Capital Markets, a division of Arcadia Securities, LLC is
acting as co-manager for the offering.
Chiasma expects to receive gross proceeds of $70
million, before deducting underwriting discounts and offering
expenses (without giving effect to any exercise of the
underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares, if any).
Chiasma intends to use the net proceeds from the offering primarily
for advancing the ongoing commercialization of MYCAPSSA® in the
United States for the treatment of acromegaly; activities to
support the planned submission of a marketing authorization
application to the European Medicines Agency for regulatory
approval of MYCAPSSA in the European Union for acromegaly, assuming
positive data from the MPOWERED Phase 3 trial; early clinical
development of one or more potential pipeline candidates using its
TPE platform technology; and working capital and other general
corporate purposes.
The securities are offered pursuant to a shelf
registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-233654), including
a base prospectus, filed by Chiasma on September 18, 2019 and
declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission, or
the SEC, on September 25, 2019. The offering will be made only by
means of a prospectus. A preliminary prospectus supplement related
to the offering has been filed with the SEC and a final prospectus
supplement related to the offering will be filed with the SEC and
will be available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. When
available, copies of the final prospectus supplement and the
accompanying prospectus relating to the offering may also be
obtained from the offices of Jefferies LLC, Attention: Equity
Syndicate Prospectus Department, 520 Madison Avenue, 2nd Floor, New
York, NY 10022, by telephone at 877-821-7388 or by email at
Prospectus_Department@Jefferies.com; Piper Sandler & Co.,
Attention: Prospectus Department, 800 Nicollet Mall, J12S03,
Minneapolis, MN 55402, via telephone at (800) 747-3924 or via email
at prospectus@psc.com; or Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., Attention:
Capital Markets, 499 Park Ave., 6th Floor, New York, New York
10022, or by email at prospectus@cantor.com.
This press release shall not constitute an offer
to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be
any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which
such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to
registration or qualification under the securities laws of such
state or jurisdiction.
About Chiasma
Chiasma is focused on developing and
commercializing oral therapies to improve the lives of
patients who face challenges associated with their existing
treatments for rare and serious chronic diseases. Employing its
Transient Permeability Enhancer (TPE®) technology platform, Chiasma
seeks to develop oral medications that are currently available only
as injections. On June
26, 2020, Chiasma received FDA approval of MYCAPSSA
for long-term maintenance
therapy in acromegaly patients who have
responded to and tolerated treatment with octreotide
or lanreotide. MYCAPSSA is the first and only oral
somatostatin analog approved by the FDA. Chiasma is
headquartered in Needham, MA with a wholly
owned subsidiary in Israel. MYCAPSSA, TPE and CHIASMA are
registered trademarks of Chiasma. For more information, please
visit the company’s website at www.chiasma.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains “forward-looking
statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995, including, but not limited to, statements
regarding Chiasma’s public offering, future expectations, plans and
prospects for Chiasma. Such statements are subject to numerous
important factors, risks and uncertainties, many of which are
beyond the company’s control, that may cause actual events or
results to differ materially from the company’s current
expectations. Any forward-looking statements in this press release
are based on management’s current expectations of future events and
are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause
actual results to differ materially and adversely from those set
forth in or implied by such forward-looking statements. For a
discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties, and other
important factors, any of which could cause the company’s actual
results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking
statements, see the section entitled “Risk Factors” in
Chiasma’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for
the quarter ended March 31, 2020, and
in subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
All information in this press release is as of the date of the
release, and Chiasma undertakes no duty to update this information
unless required by law.
Corporate Contact:Dawn SchottlandtVice
President, Investor Relations and Corporate
Communications617-928-5208dawn.schottlandt@chiasmapharma.com
Media Relations:Patrick BurseyLifeSci
Communications646-876-4932pbursey@lifescicomms.com
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