For more information please contact: Investment Banking
James Antonopoulos
Managing Director Co-Head of Healthcare Investment Banking
(646) 358-1906
jantonopoulos@roth.com
Eric B. Cheng
Managing Director Co-Head of Healthcare Investment Banking
(646) 358-1901
echeng@roth.com
Aparna Beeram
Vice President
(646) 358-1912
abeeram@roth.com
Equity Capital Markets
Aaron Gurewitz
Head of Equity
Capital Markets
(949) 720-5703
agurewitz@roth.com
Nazan Akdeniz
Senior Vice President
(949) 720-5740
nakdeniz@roth.com
Lou Ellis
Senior Vice President
(949) 720-5739
lellis@roth.com |
Transaction Information
Translate Bio, Inc. (Nasdaq: TBIO), a clinical-stage messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics company developing a new class of potentially transformative medicines to treat diseases caused by protein or gene dysfunction, has closed an underwritten public offering of 12,506,811 shares of its common stock. Translate Bio issued and sold 5,681,819 shares and an existing stockholder, Shire Human Genetic Therapies, Inc. (Shire), a subsidiary of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, sold 6,824,992 shares.
The shares were sold at the public offering price of $22.00 per share, resulting in the gross proceeds of approximately $275.2 million. Translate Bio will not receive any proceeds from the sale of the shares by Shire. In addition, Translate Bio has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to 1,876,021 additional shares of common stock at the public offering price.
ROTH Capital Partners acted as a lead manager for the offering.
About Translate Bio
Translate Bio is a clinical-stage mRNA therapeutics company developing a new class of potentially transformative medicines to treat diseases caused by protein or gene dysfunction. Translate Bio is primarily focused on applying its technology to treat pulmonary diseases caused by insufficient protein production or where the reduction of proteins can modify disease. Translate Bio’s lead program is being developed as a treatment for cystic fibrosis (CF) and is in a Phase 1/2 clinical trial. The Company also believes its technology is applicable to a broad range of diseases, including diseases that affect the liver. Additionally, the platform may be applied to various classes of treatments, such as therapeutic antibodies or vaccines in areas such as infectious disease and oncology.
For more information, please visit
https://translate.bio.
(Source: Company Press Release | 06.25.20)
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Date of Announcement: 07.06.20
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