GERMANTOWN, Md., Jan. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Precigen,
Inc. (Nasdaq: PGEN) announced today the closing of its
previously announced underwritten public offering of common stock.
Precigen sold 17,250,000 shares of its common stock at a public
offering price of $7.50 per share,
including the exercise in full by the underwriters of their option
to purchase an additional 2,250,000 shares of common stock. Gross
proceeds to Precigen from the offering were approximately
$129.4 million before deducting the
underwriting discount and other offering expenses payable by
Precigen.
Wells Fargo Securities and Stifel acted as joint book-running
managers for the offering. JMP Securities acted as lead manager and
H.C. Wainwright & Co. acted as co-manager for the offering.
The public offering was made pursuant to a shelf registration
statement on Form S-3 that was previously filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission (SEC) and became effective on July 2, 2020. A final prospectus supplement
relating to and describing the terms of the offering has been filed
with the SEC and is available on the website of the SEC at
www.sec.gov. Copies of the final prospectus supplement and
accompanying base prospectus relating to the offering may also be
obtained from Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Attention: Equity
Syndicate Department, 500 West 33rd Street, New York, NY 10001, by telephone at
(800) 326-5897, or by email at cmclientsupport@wellsfargo.com; or
Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated, Attention: Syndicate,
One Montgomery Street, Suite 3700,
San Francisco, California 94104,
by telephone at (415) 364-2720, or by email at
syndprospectus@stifel.com.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a
solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of
these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such an
offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration
or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or
jurisdiction.
Precigen: Advancing Medicine with
Precision™
Precigen (Nasdaq: PGEN)
is a dedicated discovery and clinical stage biopharmaceutical
company advancing the next generation of gene and cell therapies
using precision technology to target the most urgent and
intractable diseases in our core therapeutic areas of
immuno-oncology, autoimmune disorders, and infectious diseases. Our
technologies are designed to enable us to find innovative solutions
for affordable biotherapeutics in a controlled manner. Precigen
operates as an innovation engine progressing a preclinical and
clinical pipeline of well-differentiated unique therapies toward
clinical proof-of-concept and commercialization.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking
Statements
Some of the statements made in this press release
are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements
are based upon Precigen's current expectations and projections
about future events. Various factors may cause differences between
Precigen's expectations and actual results, including risks and
uncertainties associated with market conditions. For further
information on potential risks and uncertainties, and other
important factors, any of which could cause Precigen's actual
results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking
statements, see the section entitled "Risk Factors" in Precigen's
most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent reports filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
For more
information, contact:
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Investor
Contact:
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Media
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Steven
Harasym
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Glenn
Silver
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Vice President,
Investor Relations
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Lazar-FINN
Partners
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Tel: +1 (301)
556-9850
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glenn.silver@finnpartners.com
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investors@precigen.com
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