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Soleno Therapeutics Announces Closing of Approximately $15 Million Underwritten Public Offering
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 01, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Soleno Therapeutics, Inc. (Soleno) (NASDAQ: SLNO), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company
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[{"type":"text","content":"REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 01, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Soleno Therapeutics, Inc. (Soleno) (NASDAQ: SLNO), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics for the treatment of rare diseases, today announced the closing of an underwritten public offering of 40,000,000 shares of its common stock at a public offering price of $0.25 per share and, for certain investors, in lieu of common stock, pre-funded warrants to purchase 20,000,000 shares of its common stock at a public offering price of $0.24 per pre-funded warrant, which represents the per share public offering price for the common stock less the $0.01 per share exercise price for each pre-funded warrant. Each share of common stock or pre-funded warrant was sold together with one, immediately exercisable, common warrant with a five year term to purchase one share of common stock at an exercise price of $0.30 per share. Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. acted as the sole book-running manager for the offering. Laidlaw & Company (UK) Ltd. acted as co-manager for the offering. The aggregate gross proceeds of the offering were approximately $14.8 million, before deducting the underwriting discount and other estimated offering expenses, and assuming that no pre-funded warrants are immediately exercised. All shares of common stock, and accompanying common warrants, and pre-funded warrants, and accompanying common warrants, in the offering were offered by Soleno. Soleno intends to use the net proceeds from this offering to fund its current research and development efforts primarily focused on advancing its lead candidate, DCCR tablets for the treatment of Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS), and to provide for general corporate purposes, which may include working capital, capital expenditures, other clinical trials, other corporate expenses and acquisitions of complementary products, technologies or businesses, though the company does not have agreements or commitments for any specific acquisitions at this time. The offering was conducted pursuant to the Company’s shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-252108) previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on January 14, 2021 and subsequently declared effective by the SEC on February 9, 2021, a preliminary prospectus supplement filed with the SEC on March 28, 2022 and a final prospectus supp...