Nanobiotix Bags EUR 25.1 Million Private Placement
NANOBIOTIX SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETES APPROX. EUR 25.1 MILLION PRIVATE PLACEMENT OF NEW SHARES
Funds raised via an accelerated bookbuild offering announced on April 6, 2017
Paris, France and Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA), April 7, 2017 - NANOBIOTIX (the "Company") (Euronext: NANO - ISIN: FR0011341205), a late clinical-stage nanomedicine company pioneering new approaches to the local treatment of cancer, announces today the successful completion of a private placement of a total amount of approximately EUR 25.1 million via an accelerated bookbuild offering.
Terms of the offering
1,596,527 new shares, par value EUR 0.03 each, have been placed with qualified institutional investors in the United States and Europe. The order book was well covered based on strong demand from new US and European life sciences specialist and generalist investors as well as existing shareholders reinforcing their position. The new shares, representing 9.99% of the outstanding Company shares prior to the offering, have been issued today by a decision of the Chairman of management board of the Company, using the delegation granted by the Management Board on April 6, 2017, following the supervisory board approval on the same day, in accordance with resolution 10 of the extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the Company held on June 23, 2016.
The offering was conducted by way of an accelerated bookbuild offering in accordance with article L. 411-2 II.2 of the French Monetary and Financial Code (code monétaire et financier).
The issue price of the new shares has been set at EUR 15.75 per share, representing a 12% discount to the weighted average price of the Company's share over the last five trading days immediately preceding today (31 March, 2017 - 6 April, 2017 inclusive), which was EUR 17.9188, pursuant to resolution 13 of the extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders of the Company held on June 23, 2016.
Use of proceeds
The net proceeds of the offering will be used for:
- Next clinical steps of the head and neck cancer program with NBTXR3, both in the U.S. and Europe
- Market preparations for NBTXR3's launch on the European market
- Expansion of Nanobiotix's Immuno-Oncology program into patients
- General corporate purposes
Admission to listing of the new shares
The new shares are expected to be admitted to trading on the regulated market of Euronext in Paris on April 11, 2017 or shortly thereafter. They will be listed under the same code as the existing shares (ISIN FR0011341205) and will carry dividend rights as from their issue date and be immediately fungible in all respects with the Company's existing shares.
The offering is not subject to a prospectus to be approved by the French financial markets authority (Autorité des marchés financiers).
Standstill and lock-up provisions
In relation to the offering, the Company has agreed with the Joint Bookrunners to a 90-days standstill period on future share issuances subject to (i) the issuance of shares pursuant to the offering, (ii) waiver by the Joint Bookrunners, and (iii) customary exceptions. The Company's management board members and supervisory board members agreed with the Joint Bookrunners to a 90-days lock-up on future share disposals, subject to (i) waiver by the Joint Bookrunners, and (ii) a carve-out for three board members (Laurent Lévy, Elsa Borghi and Bernd Muehlenweg) to collectively sell up to 100,000 shares from 15 June onwards to repay loans with respect to the exercise of founders warrants (bons de souscription de parts de créateur d'entreprise) or warrants (bons de souscription d'actions) and/or to cover tax liabilities, as set forth in the press release published by the Company on December 19, 2016. The remainder of their shares will be subject to the 90-day lock-up period. On 19 December 2016, the Company published a press release announcing that those three individuals could sell shares in relation to exercising the warrants.
Risk factors
The Company draws the public's attention to the risk factors related to the Company and its activities presented in section 1.5 of the reference document update (actualisation du document de référence) filed with the French financial markets authority under number D.16-0732-A01 on December 27, 2016, which is available free of charge on the websites of the Company (www.nanobiotix.fr) and/or the French financial markets authority (www.amf-france.org).
Jefferies and Kempen & Co acted as Joint Global Coordinators, and together with Gilbert Dupont as Joint Bookrunners, in the offering.
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About NANOBIOTIX: www.nanobiotix.com
Nanobiotix (Euronext: NANO / ISIN: FR0011341205) is a late clinical-stage nanomedicine company pioneering novel approaches for the local treatment of cancer. The Company's first-in-class, proprietary technology, NanoXray, enhances radiotherapy energy with a view to provide a new, more efficient treatment for cancer patients.
NanoXray products are compatible with current radiotherapy treatments and are meant to treat potentially a wide variety of solid tumors including soft tissue sarcoma, head and neck cancers, liver cancers, prostate cancer, breast cancer, glioblastoma, etc., via multiple routes of administration.
NBTXR3 is being evaluated in: soft tissue sarcoma (STS), head and neck cancers, prostate cancer, and liver cancers (primary and metastases). Additionally, head and neck cancer and rectal cancer trials led by Nanobiotix's Taiwanese partner, PharmaEngine, are underway in the Asia Pacific region. The Company has filed in August 2016 for market approval (CE Marking) in Europe for its lead product NBTXR3.
The Company started in 2016 a new preclinical research program in Immuno-oncology with its lead product NBTXR3, which could have the potential to bring a new dimension to cancer immunotherapies.
Nanobiotix is listed on the regulated market of Euronext Paris (ISIN: FR0011341205, Euronext ticker: NANO, Bloomberg: NANO: FP). The Company Headquarter is based in Paris, France. Affiliate in Cambridge, United States.
Contact
| Nanobiotix | |||
| Sarah Gaubert Director, Communications & Public Affairs +33 (0)1 40 26 07 55 sarah.gaubert@nanobiotix.com / contact@nanobiotix.com | Noël Kurdi Director, Investor Relations +1 (646) 241-4400 noel.kurdi@nanobiotix.com / investors@nanobiotix.com | ||
| Media relations | |||
| France - Springbok Consultants Marina Rosoff +33 (0)6 71 58 00 34 marina@springbok.fr | United States - RooneyPartners Marion Janic +1 (212) 223-4017 mjanic@rooneyco.com | ||
Disclaimer
In France, the offer of Nanobiotix shares described above will take place solely as a private placement, in accordance with Article L. 411-2 of the Code monétaire et financier and applicable regulations. The offering does not constitute a public offering in France, as defined in Article L. 411-1 of the Code monétaire et financier and no prospectus reviewed or approved by the Autorité des marchés financiers will be published.
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