CureVac Announces Proposed Public Offering of Common Shares

TÜBINGEN, GERMANY / BOSTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / February 7, 2023 / CureVac N.V. (NASDAQ:CVAC) ("CureVac"), a global biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of transformative medicines based on messenger ribonucleic acid ("mRNA"), announced today that it intends to offer $200 million of its common shares in an underwritten public offering. In addition, CureVac intends to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 15% of the number of common shares to be sold in the offering on the same terms and conditions. All of the shares in the offering are to be sold by CureVac N.V. The offering is subject to market and other conditions, and there can be no assurances as to whether or when the offering may be completed or as to the actual size or terms of the offering.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Jefferies LLC, and SVB Securities LLC are acting as bookrunners for the proposed offering. Van Lanschot Kempen (USA) Inc. is acting as lead manager for the proposed offering.

The offering is being made pursuant to an automatically effective shelf registration statement on Form F-3 filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on September 17, 2021. The offering may be made only by means of a base prospectus and a related prospectus supplement, copies of which will be available on the SEC's website located at www.sec.gov or may be obtained from Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, 200 West Street, New York, New York 10282, telephone: [phone], facsimile: 212-902-9316 or by emailing [e-mail]; Jefferies LLC, Attention: Equity Syndicate Prospectus Department, 520 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10022, by telephone at [phone] or by email at [e-mail]; and SVB Securities LLC, Attention: Syndicate Department, 53 State Street, 40 ^th Floor, Boston, MA 02109, or by telephone at [phone], ext. 6105, or by email at [e-mail].

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.

About CureVac

CureVac (Nasdaq: CVAC) is a global biopharmaceutical company in the field of messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, with more than 20 years of expertise in developing, optimizing, and manufacturing this versatile biological molecule for medical purposes. The principle of CureVac's proprietary technology is the use of optimized mRNA as a data carrier to instruct the human body to produce its own proteins capable of fighting a broad range of diseases. In July 2020, CureVac entered in a collaboration with GSK to jointly develop new products in prophylactic vaccines for infectious diseases based on CureVac's second-generation mRNA technology. This collaboration was later extended to the development of second-generation COVID-19 vaccine candidates, and modified mRNA vaccine technologies. Based on its proprietary technology, CureVac has built a deep clinical pipeline across the areas of prophylactic vaccines, cancer therapies, antibody therapies, and the treatment of rare diseases. CureVac N.V. has its headquarters in Tübingen, Germany, and has more than 1,000 employees across its sites in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and the U.S. Further information can be found at www.curevac.com.