Reata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Announces Closing of Class A Common Stock Public Offering and Full Exercise of Underwriters’ Option to Purchase Additional Shares

On November 18, 2019 Reata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: RETA) ("Reata" or the "Company"), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, reported the closing of its previously announced underwritten public offering of 2,760,000 shares of its Class A common stock, which included 360,000 shares sold pursuant to the underwriters’ full exercise of their option to purchase additional shares, at a price to the public of $183.00 per share (Press release, Reata Pharmaceuticals, NOV 18, 2019, View Source [SID1234551431]). The gross proceeds to Reata from the offering, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other offering expenses, are expected to be approximately $505.1 million.

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Citigroup, Jefferies, SVB Leerink and Stifel acted as the joint book-running managers for the offering. Baird, Cantor and Ladenburg Thalmann acted as the co-managers for the offering.

Reata intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for working capital and general corporate purposes, which include, but are not limited to, advancing the development of bardoxolone methyl and omaveloxolone through clinical trials, preparing to file New Drug Applications for bardoxolone for the treatment of patients with Alport syndrome and omaveloxolone for the treatment of patients with Friedreich’s ataxia, planning for commercialization of its potential products, and making payments due under our agreement with AbbVie Inc.

The securities described above were offered pursuant to an automatically effective shelf registration statement on Form S-3 that was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on July 23, 2018. The offering was conducted only by means of a written prospectus and prospectus supplement that form a part of the registration statement. A final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering have been filed with the SEC and are available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Copies of the final prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus may also be obtained by request at Citigroup, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717 (Tel: 800-831-9146); at Jefferies, Attention: Equity Syndicate Prospectus Departments, 520 Madison Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10022, by phone at (877) 821-7388, or by email at [email protected]; at SVB Leerink, Attention: Syndicate Department, One Federal Street, 37th Floor, Boston, MA 02110, by telephone at 1-800-808-7525, ext. 6132, or by email at [email protected]; or Stifel, Attention: Syndicate, One Montgomery Street, Suite 3700, San Francisco, CA 94104, or by telephone at (415) 364-2720, or by email at [email protected].

This news release is for informational purposes only and shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities, in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, or sale of these securities would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.