Benzinga | Jul 29, 2020 05:25AM EDT

ESSA Pharma Prices 7.1 Share Public Offering @$6/Share

ESSA Pharma Inc. ("ESSA", or the "Company") (NASDAQ:EPIX) (TSXV:EPI) announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 7,100,000 common shares at a public offering price of US$6.00 per share, before underwriting discounts, for an aggregate offering of approximately US$42.6 million (the "Offering"). ESSA has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase, in whole or in part, up to an additional 1,065,000 shares of its common shares (the "Option"). The proceeds to ESSA from the Offering are expected to be approximately US$39.0 million after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other estimated offering expenses but excluding any exercise of the Option. ESSA intends to use the net proceeds of the Offering for pre-clinical and clinical activities, chemistry, manufacturing and controls, research and development, as well as working capital and general corporate purposes. All common shares to be sold in the Offering will be offered by ESSA.

Jefferies is acting as sole book-running manager for the Offering.Oppenheimer & Co. is acting as lead manager for the Offering and Bloom Burton Securities Inc. is acting as co-manager for the Offering.

The securities described above are being offered by ESSA in the United States pursuant to a shelf registration statement on Form F-3 (File No. 333-225969) that was previously filed by ESSA with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") and became effective on July 17, 2018 and in Canada pursuant to ESSA's Canadian short form base shelf prospectus (the "Canadian Base Shelf Prospectus") dated July 12, 2018 that was previously filed with the securities regulatory authorities in each of the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario.