Lytix Biopharma AS – Preliminary results in the share offering

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Oslo, Norway, 24 April 2024: Reference is made to the stock exchange announcements published by Lytix Biopharma AS ("Lytix" or the "Company") on 9 and 10 April 2024, regarding the launch of a partially guaranteed share offering (the "Offering") based on a prospectus dated 9 April 2024 (the "Prospectus"). The application period for the Offering expired today, on 24 April 2024, at 16:00 hours (CEST). At the expiration of the application period, the Company had received valid applications to subscribe for the Offer Shares, resulting in the total size of the Offering amounting to NOK 50 million (including Offer Shares subscribed for based on pre-commitments and guarantees).

 

The Offering attracted strong interest from both existing and new high-quality investors.

 

“We are very pleased by the strong support from existing shareholders as well as interest from new investors. This is yet another validation of our technology and showcases the great business potential of Lytix. Our unique technology may overcome cancer heterogeneity - the major challenge of today’s cancer treatment - by generating broad tumor-specific immune responses in cancer patients,” says Dr. Øystein Rekdal, CEO of Lytix.

 

Lytix expects multiple key value-inflecting milestones in the coming period, related to the Company's two ongoing phase II studies in cancer patients with different types of skin cancer diseases. Furthermore, the Company will commence another phase II study in Norway in early-stage melanoma patients, at the Oslo University Hospital, Radium Hospitalet.

 

“We are becoming a mature clinical company – with several phase II studies ongoing investigating major cancer indications worldwide. The next months will be marked by several exciting milestones, such as the results this summer from the promising phase II study with our licensing partner Verrica Pharmaceuticals. This study is investigating the treatment of patients with skin cancer diseases (basal cell carcinoma) and has great market potential, including milestone payments to Lytix.” he says.

 

The board of directors of the Company has called for an extraordinary general meeting to take place on 25 April 2024 (the "EGM") to resolve the issuance of the Offer Shares. Based on the received applications, the board proposes that the Company issues Offer Shares to raise gross proceeds of NOK 50 million in accordance with the allocation criteria set out in the Prospectus. Completion of the Offering is subject to approval from the EGM.

 

All Shareholders (as defined the Prospectus) who have applied for Offer Shares will receive a full allocation in the Offering. Notifications of allocated Offer Shares and the corresponding subscription amount to be paid by each subscriber are expected to be distributed on or about 25 April 2024, subject to the EGM's approval of the Offering. Payment for the allocated Offer Shares is expected to fall due on 30 April 2024.

 

The Offer Shares may not be transferred or traded until they have been fully paid for, and the share capital increase related to the Offering has been registered with the Norwegian Register of Business Enterprises (Nw. Foretaksregisteret). Registration of the share capital increase is anticipated to occur during the first half of May 2024. Subsequently, the Offer Shares are expected to be registered in the Norwegian Central Securities Depository (the "VPS") in book-entry form and delivered to the applicants' VPS accounts approximately on the same day. It is also anticipated that the Offer Shares will be admitted to trading on Euronext Growth concurrently with their delivery to the applicants' VPS accounts.

 

Advisors:

Advokatfirmaet Thommessen AS is acting as legal advisor to the Company.

Redeye AB is acting as financial advisor to the Company.

 

Disclosure regulation:
This information is subject to a duty of disclosure pursuant to the Company's continuing obligations as a company listed on Euronext Growth Oslo.

 

For more information, please contact:
Gjest Breistein, CFO
+47 952 60 512
[email protected]

 

Important notices:
This announcement is not and does not form a part of any offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to purchase, any securities of the Company. The distribution of this announcement and other information may be restricted by law in certain jurisdictions. Copies of this announcement are not being made and may not be distributed or sent into any jurisdiction in which such distribution would be unlawful or would require registration or other measures. Persons into whose possession this announcement or such other information should come are required to inform themselves about and to observe any such restrictions.

 

The securities referred to in this announcement have not been and will not be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and accordingly may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and in accordance with applicable U.S. state securities laws. The Company does not intend to register any part of the offering or their securities in the United States or to conduct a public offering of securities in the United States. Any sale in the United States of the securities mentioned in this announcement will be made solely to "qualified institutional buyers" as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act.

 

In any EEA Member State, this communication is only addressed to and is only directed at (i) qualified investors in that Member State within the meaning of the Prospectus Regulation, and (ii) to fewer than 150, natural or legal persons , subject to obtaining the prior consent of the Company for any such offer, i.e., only to investors who can receive the offer without an approved prospectus in such EEA Member State. The expression "Prospectus Regulation" means Regulation 2017/1129 as amended together with any applicable implementing measures in any Member State.

 

This communication is only being distributed to and is only directed at persons in the United Kingdom who are qualified investors within the meaning of Article 2(1)(e) of the Prospectus Regulation, as the term is used in Article 1(4) and (6) of the Prospectus Regulation, that are also (i) investment professionals falling within Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005, as amended (the Order) or (ii) high net worth entities, and other persons to whom this announcement may lawfully be communicated, falling within Article 49(2)(a) to (d) of the Order (all such persons together being referred to as Relevant Persons). This communication must not be acted on or relied on by persons who are not relevant persons. Any investment or investment activity to which this communication relates is available only for relevant persons and will be engaged in only with relevant persons.

 

Persons distributing this communication must satisfy themselves that it is lawful to do so.

 

The information contained in this announcement speak only as at its date, and are subject to change without notice. The Company does not undertake any obligation to review, update, confirm, or to release publicly any revisions to any of the content of this announcement.

 

The Company makes no representation as to the accuracy or completeness of this announcement and does not accept any responsibility for the contents of this announcement or any matters referred to herein. This announcement is for information purposes only and is not to be relied upon in substitution for the exercise of independent judgment. It is not intended as investment advice and under no circumstances is it to be used or considered as an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities or a recommendation to buy or sell any securities in the Company. The Company accepts no liability arising from the use of this announcement.

 

About Lytix

Based in Oslo, Norway, Lytix Biopharma is a clinical-stage biotech company with a highly novel technology based on world leading research in host-defense peptide-derived molecules. Lytix Biopharma’s lead product, LTX-315, is a first-in-class oncolytic molecule representing a new principle to boost anti-cancer immunity. Lytix Biopharma has a pipeline of molecules that can work in many different cancer indications and treatment settings, both as mono- and combination therapy.