Larimar Therapeutics Announces Closing of Underwritten Public Offering of Common Stock and Exercise in Full of the Underwriters’ Option to Purchase Additional Shares
BALA CYNWYD, Pa., Feb. 16, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Larimar Therapeutics, Inc. (“Larimar”) (Nasdaq: LRMR), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing treatments for complex rare
diseases, today announced the closing of its previously announced underwritten public offering of 19,736,842 shares of its common stock, which includes the exercise in full of the underwriters’
option to purchase 2,574,370 additional shares, at the public offering price of $8.74 per share, the closing price of its common stock on February 13, 2024. The aggregate gross proceeds to Larimar
from this offering, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses, were approximately $172.5 million.
Leerink Partners, Citigroup and Guggenheim Securities acted as joint bookrunning managers for the offering. LifeSci Capital acted as lead manager for the offering.
Larimar intends to use the net proceeds from the proposed offering to support the development of nomlabofusp (CTI-1601) and other pipeline candidates, and for working capital and general corporate purposes, including research and development expenses.
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The shares were offered pursuant to a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-268312) that was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on November 21, 2022. A final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering were filed with the SEC on February 14, 2024 and is available for free on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Copies of the final prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus relating to the offering may also be obtained from Leerink Partners LLC, Attention: Syndicate Department, 53 State Street, 40th Floor, Boston, Massachusetts 02109, by telephone at (800) 808-7525, ext. 6105 or by email at syndicate@leerink.com; or Citigroup, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, New York 11717, or by telephone at (800) 831-9146; or Guggenheim Securities, LLC, Attention: Equity Syndicate Department, 330 Madison Avenue, 8th Floor, New York, New York 10017 by telephone at (212) 518-9544 or by email at GSEquityProspectusDelivery@guggenheimpartners.com.