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Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. Announces Closing of $603.7 Million Common Stock Public Offering
Offering Includes Exercise in Full of the Underwriters’ Option to Purchase an Additional 2.5 Million Shares of Common Stock SAN CARLOS, Calif., June 02, 2020
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[{"type":"text","content":"Offering Includes Exercise in Full of the Underwriters’ Option to Purchase an Additional 2.5 Million Shares of Common Stock\nSAN CARLOS, Calif., June 02, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq:IOVA) (“Iovance” or “Company”), a late-stage biotechnology company developing novel T cell-based cancer immunotherapies (tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte, TIL, and peripheral-blood lymphocyte, PBL), today announced the closing of an underwritten public offering of 19,475,806 shares of its common stock at a public offering price of $31.00 per share. The gross proceeds from the offering, before deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions and other estimated offering expenses payable by Iovance, are $603.7 million. The shares of common stock issued and sold in the offering include 2,540,322 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.\n Iovance intends to use the proceeds from this offering to fund the expansion of its organization to support the potential commercial launch of lifileucel for advanced melanoma and LN-145 for advanced cervical cancer, to initiate a program directed at registration of Iovance’s tumor infiltrating lymphocyte therapies in non-small cell lung cancer, to continue support of ongoing commercial manufacturing activities, and for the development of Iovance’s IL-2 analog, IOV-3001, and for other general corporate purposes. Additional indications or TIL products may be explored with the use of proceeds. Jefferies LLC and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC acted as joint lead book-running managers for the offering. Wells Fargo Securities, LLC also acted as book-running manager for the offering. Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. acted as lead co-manager for the offering. Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated and H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC acted as co-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 (the “SEC”) on May 27, 2020. The offering has been made only by means of a prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus. A preliminary prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relati...