NewAmsterdam Pharma Announces Commencement of Public Offering of Ordinary Shares and Pre-Funded Warrants

NAARDEN, The Netherlands and MIAMI, Feb. 13, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NewAmsterdam Pharma Company N.V. (Nasdaq: NAMS; “NewAmsterdam” or the “Company”), a late-stage, clinical biopharmaceutical company developing oral, non-statin medicines for patients at risk of cardiovascular disease with elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (“LDL-C”), for whom existing therapies are not sufficiently effective or well-tolerated, today announced the commencement of an underwritten public offering of the Company’s ordinary shares, with a nominal value of €0.12 per share (“Ordinary Shares,”) and, to certain investors that so choose in lieu of Ordinary Shares, pre-funded warrants to purchase Ordinary Shares (“Pre-Funded Warrants,” such offering, the “Offering”). All Ordinary Shares and Pre-Funded Warrants to be sold in the proposed Offering will be sold by the Company. In addition, the Company expects to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase a number of additional shares not to exceed 15% of the securities sold in the proposed Offering. The proposed Offering is subject to market and other conditions and there can be no assurance as to whether or when the proposed Offering may be completed, or as to the actual size or terms of the proposed Offering.

Jefferies, Leerink Partners, Piper Sandler, and RBC Capital Markets are acting as joint book-running managers for the proposed Offering.

The proposed Offering will be made pursuant to a registration statement on Form F-3, including a base prospectus, that was initially declared effective by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on December 19, 2023. The proposed Offering will be made only by means of a preliminary prospectus supplement and an accompanying prospectus, which will be filed with the SEC and will be available on the SEC’s website located at www.sec.gov. A copy of the preliminary prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus, when available, may also be obtained from: Jefferies LLC, Attention: Equity Syndicate Prospectus Department, 520 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022, or by telephone at [phone], or by email at [e-mail]; Leerink Partners 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]; Piper Sandler & Co., Attention: Prospectus Department, 800 Nicollet Mall, J12S03, Minneapolis, MN 55402, or by telephone at [phone], or by email at [e-mail]; or RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Attention: Equity Capital Markets, 200 Vesey Street, 8^th Floor, New York, NY 10281, or by telephone at [phone], or by email at [e-mail].