Molecular Templates Announces Up to $40 Million Private Placement Offering

AUSTIN, Texas, July 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Molecular Templates, Inc. (Nasdaq: MTEM, “Molecular Templates,” or “MTEM”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of proprietary targeted biologic therapeutics, engineered toxin bodies (“ETBs”), to create novel therapies with potent differentiated mechanisms of action for cancer, announced today it has entered into a definitive securities purchase agreement with certain healthcare investors that will provide up to $40 million in gross proceeds to MTEM through a private placement in two tranches. The financing is being led by existing investor BVF Partners LP and includes existing investors BB Biotech AG and Adage Capital Management, and other leading institutional investors.   

The purchase is comprised of an initial tranche of $20 million in exchange for 42.6 million shares of common stock (or pre-funded warrants in lieu thereof) for a purchase price per common share of $0.47, the closing price of the common stock on July 12, 2023, and up to an additional $20 million in a mandatory second tranche if certain stock price and trading levels are achieved within a 12 month period, as described below. The first tranche is expected to close on July 17, 2023, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.

The second tranche of $20 million, consisting of the sale of an additional 42.6 million shares of common stock (or pre-funded warrants in lieu thereof) on the same pricing terms, would close if the following conditions are met: within a 12 month measurement period defined in the stock purchase agreement, MTEM’s common stock trades for a 10-day volume weighted average price of at least $1.41 per share with aggregate trading volume during the same 10-day period of at least 10 million shares, and other customary closing conditions are satisfied. In addition, upon such second tranche closing, MTEM will issue to the investors common stock warrants representing the right to purchase an additional 85.2 million shares of MTEM common stock at an exercise price of $0.47 per share, in exchange for the payment of $0.125 per warrant. In the aggregate, these warrants would represent 100% warrant coverage of the number of shares of common stock (or pre funded warrants) sold in the initial and second tranche, and would have a term of five years.