MabCure Secures $10 Million Funding Commitment from an Institutional Investor Managed by Roswell Capital Partners
21 January 2011 - 12:24AM
Business Wire
Biotechnology company MabCure, Inc. (OTCBB: MBCI) today
announced the signing of a $10,000,000 Equity Funding Facility with
Centurion Private Equity, LLC (“Centurion”), an institutional
investor managed by Roswell Capital Partners, LLC. MabCure intends
to use the funding facility to fund clinical trials and ongoing
research and development, and to support general corporate
purposes.
Centurion has committed to purchase for cash consideration,
subject to certain conditions and limitations described in the
agreement, up to an aggregate of $10,000,000 of MabCure’s common
stock. Under the Equity Funding Facility, MabCure may, at its
discretion, periodically sell to Centurion shares of MabCure’s
common stock at a price based upon the market price (as defined in
the agreement) of MabCure’s common stock.
As part of the transaction, Centurion also agreed to advance
MabCure $100,000 in the form of a nine-month 8% per annum secured
convertible debenture. The debenture may be converted into shares
of common stock at any time prior to maturity.
Additional details on the transaction are available in the
Company’s 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
MabCure CEO, Dr. Amnon Gonenne, stated: "MabCure is committed to
building on its efforts to date as we continue to develop our
various antibodies against cancer. Securing this funding facility
provides MabCure with the means to ensure that we are adequately
capitalized and capable of meeting the requirements of our clinical
trials and ongoing R&D. The funding facility from Centurion is
exercisable at our discretion, which allows for flexibility. We are
pleased to have in place the necessary means to ensure that we can
meet our operational and growth requirements going forward."
Paul Gorski, Senior Investment Officer at Roswell, added: "We
are very excited to be working with MabCure and look forward to
providing them with capital and support to help them achieve their
potential in the coming years."
Roswell Capital Partners, LLC is a fund management company
focused on private equity investments in small-cap publicly traded
securities. Since 1994, its members have served in the Private
Equity Markets as the Principal or Investment Banker for over 125
public companies including several biotechnology companies such as
Celgene, and Peregrine Pharmaceuticals
About MabCure
MabCure is a U.S. biotechnology company whose mission is to
change the perception of cancer as being a largely incurable
disease. MabCure owns proprietary technology for the creation of
unique and highly specific monoclonal antibodies (MAbs), which the
company plans to develop as diagnostic tools, imaging agents and
therapeutic drugs to treat lethal cancers. The company’s initial
focus is on the development of novel diagnostic tests for the early
detection of ovarian, prostate, and colorectal cancers, each with
multi-billion dollar global market potential. MabCure is also
currently exploring the potential of its anti-melanoma antibodies
for the development of imaging and therapeutic agents. For
more information about MabCure and to sign up for e-mail updates,
visit www.mabcure.com.
This news release contains “forward-looking statements.”
Statements in this news release which are not purely historical are
forward-looking statements and include any statements regarding
beliefs, plans, expectations or intentions regarding the future.
Actual results could differ from those projected in any
forward-looking statements due to numerous factors. Such factors
include, among others, the change of business focus of the
management of the Company and the inability of the Company to
pursue its current objectives. These forward-looking statements are
made as of the date of this news release and the Company assumes no
obligation to update the forward-looking statements, or to update
the reasons why actual results could differ from those projected in
the forward-looking statements.
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