WARRINGTON, Pa., March 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Windtree
Therapeutics, Inc. (NasdaqCM: WINT) ("Windtree" or the "Company"),
a biotechnology and medical device company focused on advancing
multiple late-stage interventions for acute cardiovascular and
pulmonary disorders, today announced the closing of its previously
announced public offering of 9,230,500 shares of its common stock,
par value $0.001 per share, together
with warrants to purchase up to 9,230,500 shares of its common
stock. Each share of common stock was sold at a public offering
price of $3.25 per share of common
stock, together with a warrant to purchase one share of common
stock. Each warrant has an exercise price of $3.60 per share, is exercisable immediately and
expires on the fifth anniversary of the date of issuance. The
shares of common stock and the warrants were immediately separable
and were issued separately but were purchased together in this
offering.
Windtree received gross proceeds of approximately $30.0 million, before deducting underwriting
discounts and commissions and other estimated offering expenses.
All of the shares of common stock and warrants in the offering were
sold by Windtree.
Windtree intends to use the net proceeds from the offering,
together with other available funds, for the continued advancement
of its lead product candidate istaroxime, a first-in-class,
dual-acting agent being developed to improve cardiac function in
patients with acute heart failure as well as in early cardiogenic
shock, including for start-up activities for a second phase
2b clinical trial in acute heart
failure, and for the development of its other pipeline product
candidates and for working capital and general corporate
purposes.
Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. and Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc.
acted as joint book-running managers for the offering. National
Securities Corporation acted as the lead manager for the
offering.
The offering was conducted pursuant to Windtree's shelf
registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-248874) previously
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on
September 17, 2020, and declared
effective by the SEC on September 29,
2020. A final prospectus supplement and accompanying
prospectus relating to the offering has been filed with the SEC and
is available on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov. Electronic
copies of the final prospectus supplement and accompanying
prospectus relating to this offering may be obtained from
Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., Attention: Syndicate Prospectus
Department, 85 Broad Street, 26th Floor, New York, NY, 10004, by telephone at (212)
667-8055, or by email at equityprospectus@opco.com; or from
Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc., Prospectus Department, 640 Fifth
Avenue, 4th Floor, New York, New
York 10019 or by email at prospectus@ladenburg.com.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or
the 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.
About Windtree Therapeutics
Windtree Therapeutics, Inc. is advancing multiple late-stage
interventions for acute cardiovascular and pulmonary disorders to
treat patients in moments of crisis. Using new clinical approaches,
Windtree is developing a multi-asset franchise anchored around
compounds with an ability to activate SERCA2a, with lead candidate
istaroxime being developed as a first-in-class treatment for acute
heart failure and early cardiogenic shock in heart failure.
Windtree has also focused on developing AEROSURF® as a non-invasive
surfactant treatment for premature infants with respiratory
distress syndrome, and is facilitating transfer of clinical
development of AEROSURF® to its licensee in Asia, Lee's
HK, while Windtree evaluates other uses for its synthetic KL4
surfactant for the treatment of acute pulmonary conditions
including lung injury due to viral, chemical and radiation induced
insults. Also in its portfolio is rostafuroxin, a novel precision
drug product targeting hypertensive patients with certain genetic
profiles.
For more information, please visit the Company's website
at www.windtreetx.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements within
the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995. The Company may, in some cases, use terms such as "predicts,"
"believes," "potential," "proposed," "continue," "estimates,"
"anticipates," "expects," "plans," "intends," "may," "could,"
"might," "will," "should" or other words that convey uncertainty of
future events or outcomes to identify these forward-looking
statements. Such statements are based on information available to
the Company as of the date of this press release and are subject to
numerous important factors, risks and uncertainties that may cause
actual events or results to differ materially from the Company's
current expectations. Examples of such risks and uncertainties
include risks and uncertainties associated with the Company's
expectations regarding the use of proceeds from the offering. These
and other risks are described in the prospectus supplement and in
the Company's periodic reports, including the annual report on Form
10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form
8-K, filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange
Commission and available at www.sec.gov. Any
forward-looking statements that the Company makes in this press
release speak only as of the date of this press release. The
Company assumes no obligation to update forward-looking statements
whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise,
after the date of this press release.
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