iBio Prices Public Offering of Warrants to Purchase 71.5M Shares

iBio Inc. has announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of pre-funded warrants to purchase 71.54 million shares of common stock and accompanying Series G and Series H warrants. The offering consists of two parts: (i) pre-funded warrants to purchase 71.54 million shares of common stock and (ii) accompanying Series G and Series H warrants representing the right to purchase 71.54 million shares of common stock. The combined public offering price of one pre-funded warrant and one Series G warrant is $0.125 per share.

iBio Inc. (Nasdaq: IBIO) has announced the pricing of a $50 million public offering of pre-funded warrants and accompanying Series G and H warrants. The offering includes 71,540,000 pre-funded warrants to purchase common stock and Series G warrants to purchase 35,770,000 shares, along with Series H warrants. The combined offering price is set at $0.699 per unit, with Series G and H warrants having an exercise price of $0.70 per share. If all warrants are exercised, iBio could receive additional gross proceeds of approximately $50 million. The company plans to use the proceeds to advance its preclinical cardiometabolic programs, including IBIO-610 and IBIO-600, and fund working capital requirements [1].

The pre-funded warrants will be exercisable immediately and will be exercisable until all of the pre-funded warrants are exercised in full. The Series G warrants and Series H warrants will each be exercisable from their date of issuance and will have an exercise price equal to $0.70 per share of iBio’s common stock (or $0.699 per pre-funded warrant) and in the case of the Series G warrants, the accompanying Series H warrant. The Series G warrants will expire on the date that is the earlier of (i) 30 trading days following iBio’s public announcement that an Investigational New Drug Application (“IND”) filed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a Clinical Trial Notification filed with the applicable foreign governmental body in Australia, a Clinical Trial Application filed with the European Medicines Agency, or an equivalent submission filed with a foreign governmental body to initiate a clinical trial in any other foreign jurisdiction has been accepted or has otherwise gone into effect, as applicable (such public filing or announcement, the “Trial Initiation Milestone”) and (ii) five years from the date of issuance. In addition, each Series G warrant will immediately expire in proportion to the extent that the corresponding pre-funded warrant held by a holder is exercised prior to the occurrence of the Trial Initiation Milestone (solely to the extent the proportion of the unexercised portion of the Series G warrant relative to the originally issued Series G warrant is greater than the proportion of the unexercised portion of the pre-funded warrant relative to the originally issued pre-funded warrant). When issued upon exercise of the Series G warrants, the Series H warrants will expire on the four-year anniversary of the closing date of this offering [1].

The estimated gross proceeds from the offering are expected to be approximately $50 million before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses. The pre-funded warrants and Series G warrants (and the Series H warrants upon exercise of the Series G warrants) may be exercised for cash or, in certain circumstances at the holder’s discretion, on a net exercise or “cashless” basis. If all of the Series G warrants sold in this offering and all of the Series H warrants underlying the Series G warrants were to be exercised in cash at their exercise price, iBio would receive additional gross proceeds of approximately $50 million, before deducting expenses and fees [1].

iBio intends to use the net proceeds received from the offering to advance its preclinical cardiometabolic programs, including IBIO-610, the myostatin and activin A bispecific, and IBIO-600 programs, through key development milestones, as well as to continue to progress its other preclinical pipeline assets, and the balance, if any, to fund iBio’s working capital requirements and for other general corporate purposes [1].

Leerink Partners acted as the lead bookrunner for the offering. LifeSci Capital and Oppenheimer & Co. acted as bookrunning managers. Brookline Capital Markets, a division of Arcadia Securities, LLC, acted as a financial advisor to iBio [1].

The offering is being made by iBio pursuant to a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-280680), as amended (the “registration statement”), initially filed with the SEC on July 3, 2024 and, which became effective on August 6, 2024. The offering is being made only by means of a prospectus supplement and accompanying base prospectus that form a part of the registration statement. A final prospectus supplement relating to and describing the terms of the offering will be filed with the SEC and may be obtained for free by visiting the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Copies of the final prospectus supplement and the accompanying base prospectus relating to the offering, when available, may be obtained by contacting Leerink Partners LLC, Syndicate Department, 53 State Street, 40th Floor, Boston, MA 02109, or by telephone at (800) 808-7525 ext. 6105, or by email at syndicate@leerink.com [1].

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, 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 [1].

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