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Fate Therapeutics Announces Completion of Public Offering of Common Stock and Full Exercise of Underwriters' Option to Purchase Additional Shares
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 18, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fate Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Company” or “Fate Therapeutics”) (NASDAQ: FATE), a clinical-stage

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[{"type":"text","content":"SAN DIEGO, Sept. 18, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fate Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Company” or “Fate Therapeutics”) (NASDAQ: FATE), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of programmed cellular immunotherapies for cancer and immune disorders, today announced the closing of an underwritten public offering of 9,890,000 shares of its common stock, which included 1,290,000 shares that were issued pursuant to the full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares, at a public offering price of $17.50 per share. Aggregate gross proceeds from this offering, including exercise of the option, were approximately $173.1 million, prior to deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses. Fate Therapeutics intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to fund clinical trials and nonclinical studies, the manufacture of its clinical product candidates, the expansion of its cGMP compliant manufacturing operations, the conduct of preclinical research and development, and for general corporate purposes.\n Jefferies, Citigroup, SVB Leerink and Wells Fargo Securities acted as joint book-running managers for the offering. Wedbush PacGrow and Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. acted as co-managers for the offering. The securities described above were offered by Fate Therapeutics pursuant to a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-228513) previously filed with and declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). A final prospectus supplement related to the offering was filed with the SEC on September 13, 2019 and is available on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov. Copies of the final prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus relating to the securities offered may also be obtained by contacting Jefferies LLC, Attention: Equity Syndicate Prospectus Department, 520 Madison Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10022, by e-mail at [email protected] or by telephone at (877) 821-7388; Citigroup Global Markets Inc., c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, or by telephone at (800) 831-9146; SVB Leerink LLC, Attention: Syndicate Department, One Federal Street, 37th Floor, Boston, MA 02110, by telephone at (800) 808-7525 ext. 6132 or by email at [email protected]; or Wells ...