Evaxion announces pricing of $10.8 million public offering
31 January 2025 - 12:00AM
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, January 30, 2025 - Evaxion
Biotech A/S (NASDAQ: EVAX) (“Evaxion”), a clinical-stage TechBio
company specializing in developing AI-Immunology™ powered vaccines,
today announced the pricing of a public offering of an aggregate of
3,997,361 of its American Depositary Shares (“ADSs”) and warrants
to purchase up to 50% of the ADSs offered at a combined public
offering price of $2.71 per ADS with one accompanying warrant for
each two ADSs.
MSD Global Health Innovation Fund, a corporate
venture capital arm of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA, who
became an Evaxion shareholder in December 2023, is also
participating in this offering along with healthcare-focused
investment funds. There is also participation from Evaxion’s Board
of Directors and Management.
The warrants will have an exercise price of
$2.71 per ADS, will be exercisable immediately upon issuance and
will expire five years following the date of issuance. Each ADS
represents fifty ordinary shares of the company. The closing of the
offering is expected to occur on or about January 31, 2025, subject
to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
Lake Street Capital Markets, LLC and Jones are
acting as the exclusive placement agents for the offering. The
gross proceeds to the company from the offering are expected to be
$10.8 million, before deducting the placement agent’s fees and
other offering expenses payable by the company. The company intends
to use the net proceeds of this offering to advance the company’s
preclinical and clinical pipeline, and for continuing operating
expenses and working capital.
The securities described above are being offered
pursuant to a registration statement on Form F-1, as amended (File
No. 333-283304), which was declared effective by the Securities and
Exchange Commission (“SEC”), on January 29, 2025. The offering is
made only by means of a prospectus forming a part of the effective
registration statement relating to the offering.
A preliminary prospectus relating to the
offering has been filed with the SEC and a final prospectus
relating to the offering will be filed with the SEC. Electronic
copies of the final prospectus, when available, may be obtained on
the SEC’s website located at http://www.sec.gov and may also be
obtained by contacting Lake Street Capital Markets, LLC at Attn:
Syndicate Department, 920 Second Avenue South, Suite 700,
Minneapolis, MN 55402, by calling (612) 326-1305, or by emailing
syndicate@lakestreetcm.com or JonesTrading Institutional Services
LLC (“Jones”) at Attn: Equity Capital Markets, 325 Hudson Street,
6th Floor, New York, NY 10013, by emailing
ecm@jonestrading.com.
This press release shall not constitute an offer
to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any of the securities
described herein, nor shall there be any sale of these securities
in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer,
solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or
qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other
jurisdiction.
Contact
information Evaxion Biotech A/SMads KronborgVice
President, Investor Relations & Communication+45 53 54 82 96
mak@evaxion.ai
About EVAXION Evaxion Biotech
A/S is a pioneering TechBio company based upon its AI platform,
AI-Immunology™. Evaxion’s proprietary and scalable AI prediction
models harness the power of artificial intelligence to decode the
human immune system and develop novel immunotherapies for cancer,
bacterial diseases, and viral infections. Based upon
AI-Immunology™, Evaxion has developed a clinical-stage oncology
pipeline of novel personalized vaccines and a preclinical
infectious disease pipeline in bacterial and viral diseases with
high unmet medical needs. Evaxion is committed to transforming
patients’ lives by providing innovative and targeted treatment
options.
Forward-looking
statement This announcement contains
forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A
of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The
words “target,” “believe,” “expect,” “hope,” “aim,” “intend,”
“may,” “might,” “anticipate,” “contemplate,” “continue,”
“estimate,” “plan,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “will,” “can
have,” “likely,” “should,” “would,” “could,” and other words and
terms of similar meaning identify forward-looking
statements. Actual results may differ materially from those
indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of various
factors, including, but not limited to, risks related to: our
ability the consummate the offering and satisfy the closing
conditions of the offering; our financial condition and need for
additional capital; our development work; cost and success of our
product development activities and preclinical and clinical trials;
commercializing any approved pharmaceutical product developed using
our AI platform technology, including the rate and degree of market
acceptance of our product candidates; our dependence on third
parties including for conduct of clinical testing and product
manufacture; our inability to enter into partnerships; government
regulation; protection of our intellectual property rights;
employee matters and managing growth; our ADSs and ordinary
shares, the impact of international economic, political,
legal, compliance, social and business factors, including
inflation, and the effects on our business from other
significant geopolitical and macro-economic events; and other
uncertainties affecting our business operations and financial
condition. For a further discussion of these risks, please
refer to the risk factors included in our most recent Annual Report
on Form 20-F and other filings with the U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission (SEC), which are available
at www.sec.gov. We do not assume any
obligation to update any forward-looking statements except as
required by law.
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