Nkarta Announces Pricing of $240 Million Underwritten Offering

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nkarta, Inc. (Nasdaq: NKTX), a biopharmaceutical company developing engineered natural killer (NK) cell therapies, today announced the pricing of an underwritten offering of 21,010,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $10.00 per share and pre-funded warrants to purchase 3,000,031 shares of common stock. The pre-funded warrants are being sold at a price of $9.9999 per warrant, which represents the per share offering price for the common stock less the $0.0001 per share exercise price.

New and existing investors participated in the offering, including Adage Capital Partners LP, Boxer Capital, Commodore Capital, Cormorant Asset Management, an affiliate of Deerfield Management, EcoR1 Capital, Janus Henderson Investors, OrbiMed, RA Capital Management, Ridgeback Capital Investments, Samsara BioCapital, SR One, and a leading mutual fund.

Gross proceeds to Nkarta from this offering are approximately $240.1 million, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses. Nkarta intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to fund the continued research and clinical development of NKX019, the continued buildout of internal manufacturing capabilities, and for working capital and for general corporate purposes. The offering is expected to close on or about March 27, 2024, subject to customary closing conditions.

Leerink Partners, TD Cowen, Stifel and Mizuho are acting as joint bookrunners for the offering.

All securities in the offering are to be issued and sold by Nkarta. The offering was conducted pursuant to a shelf registration statement (File No. 333-270680), which was initially filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on March 17, 2023 and declared effective by the SEC on May 5, 2023. The offering was made only by means of a prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus describing the terms of the offering. Copies of the prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus relating to this offering may be obtained by contacting the following: Leerink Partners LLC, Syndicate Department, 53 State Street, 40th Floor, Boston, MA 02109, or by telephone at [phone] ext. 6105, or by email at [e-mail]; Cowen and Company, LLC, 599 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10022, by telephone at [phone], or by email at [e-mail]; Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated, Attention: Prospectus Department, One Montgomery Street, Suite 3700, San Francisco, CA 94104, by telephone at [phone] or by email at [e-mail]; Mizuho Securities USA LLC, Attention: Equity Capital Markets, 1271 Avenue of the Americas, 3rd Floor, New York, New York 10020, by telephone at [phone] or by email at [e-mail]. These documents may also be obtained for free on the SEC’s website located at http://www.sec.gov.