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Iovance Biotherapeutics Announces Closing of $172.5 Million Common Stock Public Offering
Offering Includes Exercise in Full of the Underwriters’ Option to Purchase an Additional 3 Million Shares of Common Stock SAN CARLOS, Calif., July 13, 2023
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[{"type":"text","content":"Offering Includes Exercise in Full of the Underwriters’ Option to Purchase an Additional 3 Million Shares of Common Stock\nSAN CARLOS, Calif., July 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: IOVA), a biotechnology company focused on innovating, developing, and delivering novel polyclonal tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapies for patients with cancer, today announced the closing of an underwritten public offering of 23,000,000 shares of its common stock at a public offering price of $7.50 per share. The shares of common stock issued and sold in the offering include 3,000,000 shares issued upon the exercise in full by the underwriters of their option to purchase additional shares at the public offering price, less the underwriting discounts and commissions. The gross proceeds from the offering, before deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions and other estimated offering expenses payable by Iovance, are $172.5 million. Iovance intends to use the proceeds from this offering to fund preparations for the commercial launch of lifileucel (if approved), including continuing to prepare the Iovance Cell Therapy Center, the Company’s manufacturing facility in Philadelphia, to support ongoing clinical programs including its NSCLC registration-directed study and its frontline advanced melanoma Phase 3 confirmatory trial, to expand the combination of TIL and immune checkpoint inhibitors (“ICIs”) in ICI naïve patient cohorts, to support the continued development of our pipeline candidates, to support Proleukin integration activities and for other general corporate purposes. Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and Jefferies LLC acted as joint lead book-running managers for the offering. The shares of common stock described above were offered by Iovance pursuant to its shelf registration statement on Form S-3 that became automatically effective upon filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 16, 2023. The offering was made by means of a prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus, copies of which may be obtained by contacting Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC by mail at 200 West Street, New York, NY 10282, Attention: Prospectus Department, by telephone at (866) 471-2526, or by email at [email protected] or Jefferies LLC, Attention: Equity Syndicate Prospectus Department, 520 Madison Avenue,...