Poseida Therapeutics Announces Closing of Public Offering of Common Stock and Full Exercise of Underwriters’ Option to Purchase Additional Shares

On August 8, 2022 Poseida Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: PSTX), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company utilizing proprietary genetic engineering platform technologies to create cell and gene therapeutics with the capacity to cure, reported the closing of its previously announced underwritten public offering of 23,000,000 shares of its common stock at a public offering price of $3.50 per share, including 3,000,000 shares sold pursuant to the full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares (Press release, Poseida Therapeutics, AUG 8, 2022, View Source [SID1234617821]). All of the shares were sold by Poseida. Including the option exercise, the aggregate gross proceeds to Poseida from the offering, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other offering expenses, were $80.5 million.

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Piper Sandler and William Blair & Company, L.L.C. acted as joint book-running managers for the offering. Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. and BTIG, LLC also acted as book-running managers for the offering.

The offering was made pursuant to a shelf registration statement on Form S-3, including a base prospectus, previously filed and declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). The offering was made only by means of a written prospectus and prospectus supplement that formed a part of the registration statement. A copy of the final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering have been filed with the SEC and are available for free on the website of the SEC at www.sec.gov. Copies of the final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering may be obtained by contacting Piper Sandler, Attention: Prospectus Department, 800 Nicollet Mall, J12S03, Minneapolis, MN 55402, by telephone at (800) 747-3924 or by email at [email protected]; or William Blair & Company, L.L.C., Attention: Prospectus Department, 150 North Riverside Plaza, Chicago, IL 60606, by telephone at (800) 621-0687 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.