Benzinga | Jul 14, 2020 05:34AM EDT

Altimmune Prices 3.3M Share Public Offering of Common Stock @$23/Share and Pre-Funded Warrants @$22.999/Underlying Share

Altimmune, Inc. (NASDAQ:ALT) announced the pricing of its previously announced underwritten public offering of 3,369,564 shares of its common stock and, to certain investors in lieu thereof, pre-funded warrants to purchase 1,630,436 shares of its common stock at an exercise price of $0.0001 per share. The public offering price of each share of common stock is $23.00 and the public offering price of each pre-funded warrant is $22.999 per underlying share. In addition, Altimmune has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 750,000 shares of its common stock at the public offering price, less underwriting discounts and commissions. This offering is expected to close on or about July 16, 2020, subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions.

Altimmune expects to receive gross proceeds of $115.0 million, before deducting underwriting discounts and offering expenses (without giving effect to any exercise of the underwriters' option to purchase additional shares, if any). Altimmune anticipates using the net proceeds from the offering for general corporate purposes, which may include, but are not limited to, scale up of manufacturing and advanced clinical trials of AdCOVID, a single dose intranasal COVID-19 vaccine candidate; the continued development of ALT-801, its dual GLP-1/glucagon receptor agonist for the treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), including manufacturing and clinical trials; and for capital expenditures and working capital.

Jefferies, Evercore ISI and Piper Sandler are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering. Roth Capital Partners is acting as co-manager for the offering.