On June 1, 2020 BioLineRx Ltd. (Nasdaq: BLRX) (TASE: BLRX), a late clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on oncology, reported that it has entered into definitive agreements with several healthcare-focused, institutional and accredited investors for the purchase and sale of 2,510,286 of the Company’s American Depositary Shares (ADSs), at a purchase price of $1.75 per ADS, in a registered direct offering (Press release, BioLineRx, JUN 1, 2020, View Source [SID1234558793]). BioLineRx has also agreed to issue and sell to the investors, in a concurrent private placement, unregistered warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 2,510,286 ADSs. Each ADS represents fifteen (15) ordinary shares, par value NIS 0.10 per share, of BioLineRx. The offering is expected to close on or about June 3, 2020, subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
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H.C. Wainwright & Co. is acting as the exclusive placement agent for the offering.
The warrants will have an exercise price of $2.25 per ADS and will be exercisable at any time upon issuance and will expire two and one-half years from the date of issuance.
The gross proceeds from the offering (without taking into account any proceeds from any future exercises of warrants issued in the concurrent private placement), before deducting the placement agent’s fees and other estimated offering expenses payable by the Company, are expected to be $4.39 million. BioLineRx intends to use the net proceeds for general corporate purposes, which may include but are not limited to working capital and funding clinical trials.
The ADSs (but not the warrants or the ADSs underlying the warrants) are being offered by BioLineRx pursuant to a "shelf" registration statement on Form F-3 (File No. 333-222332) originally filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on December 28, 2017 and declared effective by the SEC on January 19, 2018. The offering of the ADSs will be made only by means of a prospectus, including a prospectus supplement, forming a part of the effective registration statement. A final prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus relating to the ADSs being offered will be filed with the SEC. Electronic copies of the final prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus may be obtained, when available, on the SEC’s website at View Source or by contacting H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC at 430 Park Avenue, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10022, by phone at (646) 975-6996 or e-mail at [email protected].
The warrants described above were offered in a private placement under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Act"), and Regulation D promulgated thereunder and, along with the ADSs underlying the warrants, have not been registered under the Act, or applicable state securities laws. Accordingly, the warrants and underlying ADSs may not be offered or sold in the United States except pursuant to an effective registration statement or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Act and such applicable state securities laws.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.