Iterum Therapeutics Announces Expiration and Preliminary Results of Rights Offering
Iterum Therapeutics plc (Nasdaq: ITRM) announced the expiration of its rights offering subscription period on August 31, 2020. The offering allowed rights holders to purchase units consisting of Exchangeable Senior Subordinated Notes and Limited Recourse Royalty-Linked Subordinated Notes. The company reported preliminary results with 6,374 units subscribed, estimating gross proceeds of approximately $6.37 million, excluding estimated expenses of $1.5 million. Settlement is expected around September 8, 2020. The offering was linked to a prior private placement involving new securities.
- Raised approximately $6.37 million from the rights offering.
- Presence of a well-defined plan to combat multi-drug resistant pathogens with the development of sulopenem.
- Estimated expenses relating to the rights offering may reduce net proceeds significantly.
- Potential uncertainties with clinical trials and regulatory approvals for sulopenem.
DUBLIN, Ireland and CHICAGO, Aug. 31, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Iterum Therapeutics plc (Nasdaq: ITRM) (the “Company”), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company focused on developing next generation oral and IV antibiotics to treat infections caused by multi-drug resistant pathogens in both community and hospital settings, today announced that the subscription period of its previously announced rights offering expired at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on August 31, 2020. As previously disclosed, the Company had agreed to undertake the rights offering in connection with the Company’s January 2020 private placement of units consisting of
Pursuant to the rights offering, the Company and Iterum Therapeutics Bermuda Limited, the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiary (“Iterum Bermuda”), distributed to holders of record of the Company’s ordinary shares as of August 5, 2020, and to eligible warrant holders, rights entitling the holder thereof to purchase, at a subscription price of
In the rights offering, rights holders subscribed for 6,374 units at a subscription price of
Rights that were not properly exercised by 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on August 31, 2020, have expired and are no longer exercisable. Settlement and delivery of the Exchangeable Notes and Royalty-Linked Notes is expected to take place on or about September 8, 2020.
Computershare Trust Company, N.A. is acting as the subscription agent, and Georgeson LLC is acting as the information agent, for the rights offering.
A registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-237326) relating to the rights offering has been filed with and declared effective by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). The rights offering was made only by means of a prospectus, copies of which can be accessed through the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov and may also be obtained from the information agent, Georgeson LLC, toll free at (888) 607-6511.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, nor will there be any sale of any securities in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
About Iterum Therapeutics plc
Iterum Therapeutics plc is a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company dedicated to developing differentiated anti-infectives aimed at combatting the global crisis of multi-drug resistant pathogens to significantly improve the lives of people affected by serious and life-threatening diseases around the world. Iterum Therapeutics is advancing its first compound, sulopenem, a novel penem anti-infective compound, in Phase 3 clinical development with an oral formulation and IV formulation. Sulopenem has demonstrated potent in vitro activity against a wide variety of gram-negative, gram-positive and anaerobic bacteria resistant to other antibiotics. Iterum Therapeutics has received Qualified Infectious Disease Product (QIDP) and Fast Track designations for its oral and IV formulations of sulopenem in seven indications.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, statements regarding the timing, terms, level of participation in and completion of the rights offering and the Company’s plans, strategies and prospects for its business. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by words such as “may,” “believes,” “intends,” “seeks,” “anticipates,” “plans,” “estimates,” “expects,” “should,” “assumes,” “continues,” “could,” “would,” “will,” “future,” “potential” or the negative of these or similar terms and phrases. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the Company’s actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include all matters that are not historical facts. Actual future results may be materially different from what is expected due to factors largely outside the Company’s control, including the closing of the rights offering on the terms described or at all, the expected proceeds to the Company from the rights offering, the uncertainties inherent in the initiation and conduct of clinical trials, availability and timing of data from clinical trials, changes in regulatory requirements or decisions of regulatory authorities, the Company’s ability to apply for regulatory approval, changes in public policy or legislation, commercialization plans and timelines, if sulopenem is approved, the actions of third-party clinical research organizations, suppliers and manufacturers, the accuracy of the Company’s expectations regarding how far into the future the Company’s cash on hand will fund the Company’s ongoing operations, the sufficiency of the Company’s cash resources and the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern, the impact of COVID-19 and related responsive measures thereto, the Company’s ability to maintain listing on the Nasdaq Stock Market, risks and uncertainties concerning the outcome, impact, effects and results of the Company’s evaluation of corporate, organizational, strategic, financial and financing alternatives, including the terms, timing, structure, value, benefits and costs of any corporate, organizational, strategic, financial or financing alternative and the Company’s ability to complete one at all, the price of the Company’s securities, the expected use of proceeds from the rights offering and other factors discussed under the caption “Risk Factors” in its most recently filed Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, and other documents filed with the SEC from time to time. Forward-looking statements represent the Company’s beliefs and assumptions only as of the date of this press release. Except as required by law, the Company assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements publicly, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future.
Investor Contact:
Judy Matthews
Chief Financial Officer 312-778-6073
IR@iterumtx.com
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