EyePoint Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: EYPT), a company committed
to developing and commercializing innovative therapeutics to
improve the lives of patients with serious retinal diseases, today
announced that it has commenced an underwritten public offering of
$100 million of shares of its common stock. All of the shares are
being offered by EyePoint. In addition, EyePoint intends to grant
the underwriters an option for a period of 30 days to purchase up
to an additional $15 million of shares of EyePoint’s common stock
at the public offering price, less the underwriting discount.
J.P. Morgan, Citigroup and Guggenheim Securities
are acting as joint book running managers for the offering. The
offering is subject to market conditions and there can be no
assurance as to whether or when the offering may be completed, or
as to the actual size or terms of the offering.
EyePoint intends to use the net proceeds that it
will receive from the offering to advance clinical development of
DURAVYU™ for wet age related macular degeneration (wet AMD) and
diabetic macular edema (DME), as well as support its earlier stage
pipeline development initiatives, and for general corporate
purposes.
The securities described above to be issued and
sold are being offered by the Company pursuant to a shelf
registration statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-281391) previously
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on August
8, 2024 and declared effective by the SEC on August 16, 2024.
The securities will be offered by means of a
prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the
offering that form a part of the registration statement. A
preliminary prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus
relating to and describing the terms of the offering will be filed
with the SEC and will be available on the SEC’s website at
www.sec.gov. Copies of the preliminary prospectus supplement, when
available, and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering may
be obtained from J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, c/o Broadridge
Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717,
by telephone at (866) 803-9204, or by email at
prospectus-eq_fi@jpmchase.com; Citigroup, c/o Broadridge Financial
Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, or by
telephone at (800) 831-9146; or Guggenheim Securities, LLC,
Attention: Equity Syndicate Department, 330 Madison Avenue, 8th
Floor, New York, NY 10017, or by telephone at (212) 518-9544, or by
email at GSEquityProspectusDelivery@guggenheimpartners.com.
This press release shall not constitute an offer
to sell or the 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 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 EyePoint
Pharmaceuticals
EyePoint Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: EYPT) is
a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to developing
and commercializing innovative therapeutics to help improve the
lives of patients with serious retinal diseases. The Company's
pipeline leverages its proprietary bioerodible Durasert
E™ technology for sustained intraocular drug delivery. The
Company’s lead product candidate, DURAVYU™ (f/k/a EYP-1901),
is an investigational sustained delivery treatment for
VEGF-mediated retinal diseases combining vorolanib, a selective and
patent-protected tyrosine kinase inhibitor with bioerodible
Durasert E™. DURAVYU is presently in Phase 3 global, pivotal
clinical trials as a sustained delivery treatment for wet AMD, the
leading cause of vision loss among people 50 years of age and older
in the United States, and in a Phase 2 clinical trial in DME.
EyePoint expects full topline data from the Phase 2 clinical trial
in DME in Q1 2025 and topline data from both Phase 3 pivotal trials
in wet AMD in 2026.
Pipeline programs include EYP-2301, a TIE-2
agonist, razuprotafib, formulated in Durasert E™ to
potentially improve outcomes in serious retinal diseases. The
proven Durasert® drug delivery technology has been safely
administered to thousands of patient eyes across
four U.S. FDA approved products. EyePoint
Pharmaceuticals is headquartered in Watertown,
Massachusetts.
Vorolanib is licensed to EyePoint exclusively by
Equinox Sciences, a Betta Pharmaceuticals affiliate, for the
localized treatment of all ophthalmic diseases outside
of China, Macao, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
DURAVYU™ has been conditionally accepted by the
FDA as the proprietary name for EYP-1901. DURAVYU is an
investigational product; it has not been approved by the FDA. FDA
approval and the timeline for potential approval is uncertain.
SAFE HARBOR STATEMENTS UNDER THE PRIVATE
SECURITIES LITIGATION ACT OF 1995: To the extent any statements
made in this press release deal with information that is not
historical, these are forward-looking statements under the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements include,
but are not limited to, statements regarding the timing and success
of the proposed offering, the anticipated use of proceeds for the
proposed offering, EyePoint’s clinical development plans and the
expected timing thereof; and other statements identified by words
such as “will,” “potential,” “could,” “can,” “believe,” “intends,”
“continue,” “plans,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “estimates,” “may,”
other words of similar meaning or the use of future dates.
Forward-looking statements by their nature address matters that
are, to different degrees, uncertain. Uncertainties and risks may
cause EyePoint’s actual results to be materially different than
those expressed in or implied by EyePoint’s forward-looking
statements. For EyePoint, this includes satisfaction of the
customary closing conditions of the offering; delays in obtaining
required stock exchange or other regulatory approvals; stock price
volatility and uncertainties relating to the financial markets, the
medical community and the global economy; the timing, progress and
results of the company’s clinical development activities;
uncertainties and delays relating to the design, enrollment,
completion, and results of clinical trials; unanticipated costs and
expenses; the company’s cash and cash equivalents may not be
sufficient to support its operating plan for as long as
anticipated; the risk that results of clinical trials may not be
predictive of future results, and interim and preliminary data are
subject to further analysis and may change as more data becomes
available; unexpected safety or efficacy data observed during
clinical trials; uncertainties related to the regulatory
authorization or approval process, and available development and
regulatory pathways for approval of the company’s product
candidates; changes in the regulatory environment; changes in
expected or existing competition; the success of current and future
license agreements; our dependence on contract research
organizations, and other outside vendors and service providers;
product liability; the impact of general business and economic
conditions; protection of our intellectual property and avoiding
intellectual property infringement; retention of key personnel;
delays, interruptions or failures in the manufacture and supply of
our product candidates; the availability of and the need for
additional financing; the company’s ability to obtain additional
funding to support its clinical development programs; uncertainties
regarding the timing and results of the August 2022 subpoena from
the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts;
uncertainties regarding the FDA warning letter pertaining to the
company’s Watertown, MA manufacturing facility; and other factors
described in our filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. More detailed information on these and additional
factors that could affect EyePoint’s actual results are described
in EyePoint’s filings with the SEC, including its Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, as
revised or supplemented by its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and
other documents filed with the SEC. All forward-looking statements
in this news release speak only as of the date of this news
release. EyePoint undertakes no obligation to update or revise any
forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise.
Investors:Christina
TartagliaPrecision AQ (formerly Stern IR)Direct:
212-698-8700christina.tartaglia@sternir.com
Media ContactAmy PhillipsGreen
Room CommunicationsDirect:
412-327-9499aphillips@greenroompr.com
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