Gamida Cell Announces Pricing of $35 Million Public Offering of Ordinary Shares

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Gamida Cell Ltd. (Nasdaq: GMDA), a leading cellular and immune therapeutics company, today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 7,000,000 ordinary shares at a public offering price of $5.00 per share for aggregate gross proceeds of $35 million, before deducting underwriting discounts and commission and estimated offering expenses. In addition, Gamida Cell has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,050,000 ordinary shares at the public offering price, less the underwriting discounts and commissions. The offering is expected to close on or about July 1, 2019, subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions.

RBC Capital Markets and JMP Securities are acting as joint book-running managers for this offering. Oppenheimer & Co. and Needham & Company are acting as co-lead managers for this offering.

A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC, and was declared effective by the SEC on June 26, 2019. This offering will be made only by means of a prospectus, which is part of the effective registration statement. When available, copies of the final prospectus related to this offering may be obtained, when available, from: RBC Capital Markets, 200 Vesey Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10281, Attention: Equity Syndicate Department, Telephone: (877) 822-4089, Email: equityprospectus@rbccm.com or JMP Securities LLC, 600 Montgomery Street, 10th Floor, San Francisco, California 94111, Attention: Prospectus Department, Telephone: (415) 835-8985, Email: syndicate@jmpsecurities.com.

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, 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 any such state or jurisdiction.

About Gamida Cell
Gamida Cell is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to developing advanced cell therapies with the potential to cure blood cancers and rare, serious hematologic diseases. We are leveraging our proprietary nicotinamide-based, or NAM-based, cell expansion technology to develop product candidates designed to address the limitations of cell therapies.

Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including with respect to the timing of the closing of the public offering. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including those that are described in the Risk Factors section of the preliminary prospectus for such offering filed with the SEC on June 26, 2019, and other filings that Gamida Cell makes with the SEC from time to time (which are available at http://www.sec.gov), which could cause the events and circumstances discussed in such forward-looking statements not occur on the terms described or at all. Prospective investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. Gamida Cell undertakes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements after the date hereof, except as required by law.

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