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EyePoint Pharmaceuticals Announces Closing of $115.4 Million Public Offering
WATERTOWN, Mass., Nov. 19, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- EyePoint Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: EYPT), a pharmaceutical company committed to developing and
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[{"type":"text","content":"WATERTOWN, Mass., Nov. 19, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- EyePoint Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: EYPT), a pharmaceutical company committed to developing and commercializing therapeutics to help improve the lives of patients with serious eye disorders, today announced the closing of the previously announced underwritten public offering of 5,122,273 shares of its common stock, which included the exercise in full by the underwriters of their option to purchase an additional 1,095,000 shares of common stock, and pre-funded warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 3,272,727 shares of its common stock. The shares of common stock were sold at a public offering price of $13.75 per share, and the pre-funded warrants were sold at a purchase price of $13.74 per pre-funded warrant, for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $115.4 million, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other offering expenses payable by EyePoint. All of the securities were sold by EyePoint. Cowen and Guggenheim Securities acted as joint book-running managers for the offering. Cantor acted as passive book-running manager for the offering. EyePoint intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to advance EYP-1901 into and through Phase 2 clinical trials for wet AMD, DR, and RVO, as well as support its earlier stage pipeline development initiatives, and for general corporate purposes. The securities described above were offered by the Company pursuant to a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-258598) previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on August 6, 2021 and declared effective by the SEC on August 11, 2021. The securities were offered by means of a prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering that form a part of the registration statement. A final prospectus supplement relating to and describing the terms of the offering was filed with the SEC on November 18, 2021 and is available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Copies of the final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering may be obtained from Cowen and Company, LLC, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, Attn: Prospectus Department, by telephone at (833) 297-2926, or by email at [email protected], Guggenheim Securities, LL...