On October 23, 2020 Milestone Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: MIST), a Phase 3 clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing and commercializing etripamil for the treatment of cardiovascular indications, reported the pricing of its previously announced underwritten public offering of 3,810,097 of its common shares, and to certain investors in lieu thereof, pre-funded warrants to purchase 4,761,903 of its common shares at an exercise price of $0.01 per share (Press release, Milestone Pharmaceuticals, OCT 23, 2020, View Source [SID1234568940]). The public offering price of each common share is $5.25 and the public offering price of each pre-funded warrant is $5.24 per underlying share. In addition, Milestone has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,285,800 common shares. The offering is expected to close on October 27, 2020, subject to customary closing conditions.
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Jefferies and Piper Sandler are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering. Oppenheimer & Co. is acting as lead manager for the offering.
Milestone expects to receive gross proceeds of $45 million from the offering, before deducting underwriting discounts and offering expenses. Milestone intends to use the net proceeds from the offering primarily to fund the clinical development of its lead product candidate etripamil, and for working capital, capital expenditures and other general corporate purposes.
The securities described above are being offered by Milestone pursuant to a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-239318) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on June 19, 2020 and declared effective by the SEC on July 6, 2020. A preliminary prospectus supplement relating to the offering is, and a final prospectus supplement related to the offering will be, filed with the SEC and available on the SEC’s website at View Source Copies of the preliminary and final prospectus supplements relating to the offering may be obtained, when available, by contacting Jefferies LLC, Attention: Equity Syndicate Prospectus Department, 520 Madison Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10022, by telephone at (877) 547-6340 or by email at [email protected]; or Piper Sandler & Co., Attention: Prospectus Department, 800 Nicollet Mall, J12S03, Minneapolis, MN 55402, by telephone at (800) 747-3924 or by email at [email protected].
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 other jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction.