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Aeglea BioTherapeutics Announces Closing of Public Offering and Full Exercise of Underwriters’ Option to Purchase Additional Shares
AUSTIN, Texas, April 30, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aeglea BioTherapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq:AGLE), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing
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[{"type":"text","content":"AUSTIN, Texas, April 30, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aeglea BioTherapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq:AGLE), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation human enzyme therapeutics as solutions for rare and other high-burden diseases, today announced the closing of its public offering of 15,442,303 shares of its common stock at a public offering price of $4.75 per share, which includes the exercise in full of the underwriters’ option to purchase 3,789,473 shares of common stock. In addition, and in lieu of common stock, Aeglea sold to certain investors pre-funded warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 13,610,328 shares of common stock at a purchase price of $4.7499 per pre-funded warrant, which represents the per share public offering price for the common stock less the $0.0001 per share exercise price for each such pre-funded warrant. The aggregate gross proceeds to Aeglea, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by Aeglea, were approximately $138 million.\n J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Evercore Group L.L.C. and Piper Sandler & Co. acted as joint book-running managers in the offering. JonesTrading Institutional Services LLC and Needham & Company, LLC acted as co-managers. The securities described above were offered by Aeglea pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-3 previously filed and declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The offering was made only by means of the written prospectus and prospectus supplement that form a part of the registration statement. A final prospectus supplement and accompanying base prospectus relating to and describing the terms of the offering were filed with the SEC and are available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Copies of the final prospectus supplement and accompanying base prospectus may also be obtained from J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Attention: Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, by telephone at (866) 803-9204 or by email at [email protected]; Evercore Group L.L.C., Attention: Equity Capital Markets, 55 East 52nd Street, 36th Floor, New York, NY 10055, by telephone at (888) 474-0200, or by e-mail at: [email protected]; or Piper Sandler & Co., 800 Nicollet Mall, J12S03, Minneapolis, MN 55402, Attention: Prospectus Department, ...