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Aurinia Closes US$200 Million Public Offering of Common Shares
VICTORIA, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:AUPH) (TSX:AUP) (“Aurinia” or the “Company”), a late-stage clinical
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[{"type":"text","content":" VICTORIA, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nAurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:AUPH) (TSX:AUP) (“Aurinia” or the “Company”), a late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical company focused on advancing voclosporin in multiple indications, today announced the closing of its previously announced underwritten public offering of 13,333,334 common shares (the “Offering”). The shares were sold at a public offering price of US$15.00 per share. The gross offering proceeds to the Company from this Offering are approximately US$200 million, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other offering expenses.\n\n\nJefferies and SVB Leerink acted as joint book-running managers for the Offering. Cantor acted as lead manager and Oppenheimer & Co. and H.C. Wainwright & Co. acted as co-managers for the Offering. The Company has granted the underwriters an option exercisable, in whole or in part, in the sole discretion of the underwriters, to purchase 2,000,000 additional common shares, for a period of up to 30 days.\n\n\nFor the purposes of the TSX approval, the Company relied on the exemption set forth in Section 602.1 of the TSX Company Manual, which provides that the TSX will not apply its standards to certain transactions involving eligible inter-listed issuers on a recognized exchange, such as NASDAQ.\n\n\nThe Company intends to use the net proceeds of the Offering for pre-commercialization and launch activities, research and development, as well as working capital and general corporate purposes.\n\n\nThe Offering was made pursuant to a U.S. registration statement on Form F-10, declared effective by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on June 19, 2020 (the “Registration Statement”), and the Company’s existing Canadian short form base shelf prospectus (the “Base Shelf Prospectus”) dated June 17, 2020. The prospectus supplements relating to the Offering (together with the Base Shelf Prospectus and the Registration Statement, the “Offering Documents”) have been filed with the securities commissions in the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario in Canada, and with the SEC in the United States. The Offering Documents contain important detailed information about the securities being offered. Before you invest, you should read the Offering Documents and the other documents the Company has filed for mo...