Molecular Templates Announces $9.5 Million Private Placement Offering and Agreement to Amend Second Tranche of July 2023 Purchase Agreement

AUSTIN, Texas, March 28, 2024 (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, known as engineered toxin bodies, to create novel therapies with potent and differentiated mechanisms of action for cancer, announced today it has entered into a definitive amended and restated securities purchase agreement with certain healthcare investors that will provide $9.5 million in gross proceeds to MTEM through the closing of the second tranche of its previously announced July 2023 private placement and purchase agreement on amended terms. The financing is being led by existing investor BVF Partners L.P. and includes existing investors BB Biotech AG and Santé, and other leading institutional investors.   

At the closing of the second tranche, MTEM expects to issue an aggregate of 1,209,612 shares of its common stock (and, in lieu thereof, prefunded warrants to purchase 2,460,559 shares of common stock) and accompanying warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 7,340,342 shares of its common stock (or prefunded warrants in lieu thereof) at a combined purchase price of $2.60 per share and accompanying warrants, in accordance with the “Minimum Price” requirement as defined in the Nasdaq rules. The closing of the second tranche is subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.

Stifel is acting as the sole placement agent in connection with the financing.

MTEM intends to use the net proceeds from the proceeds of the second tranche to fund its ongoing clinical studies, working capital and for general corporate purposes.

The securities sold in the second tranche, including the shares of common stock underlying the warrants, are being made in a transaction not involving a public offering and have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or applicable state securities laws and may not be reoffered or resold in the United States except pursuant to an effective registration statement or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws. MTEM has agreed to file a resale registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission registering the resale of the securities issued in the second tranche.