FREYR Battery Announces Pricing of Upsized $230,000,000 Public Offering of Ordinary Shares
December 01 2022 - 09:15AM
Business Wire
FREYR Battery (NYSE: FREY) (“FREYR”), a developer of clean,
next-generation battery cell production capacity, today announced
the pricing of its upsized underwritten public offering of
20,000,000 of its Ordinary Shares, without nominal value. Each
Ordinary Share is being offered at a public offering price of
$11.50 per share, less underwriting discounts and commissions. The
gross proceeds to FREYR from the offering, before deducting the
underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses
payable by FREYR, are expected to be $230,000,000. FREYR has
granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to
3,000,000 additional Ordinary Shares at the price to the public,
less underwriting discounts and commissions.
FREYR intends to use the net proceeds from this offering for (i)
the continued construction of Giga Arctic facilities, (ii)
development expenditures for Giga America and (iii) general
corporate purposes. General corporate purposes may include the
financing of FREYR’s operations or investments.
Credit Suisse, BofA Securities and Morgan Stanley are acting as
book-running managers for the offering. The offering is expected to
close on December 5, 2022, subject to customary closing
conditions.
The offering is being made only by means of a previously filed
effective registration statement (including a base prospectus) and
a preliminary prospectus supplement. Copies of the preliminary
prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus relating to
the proposed offering, when available, may be obtained from Credit
Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Attn: Prospectus Department, 6933
Louis Stephens Drive, Morrisville, North Carolina 27560, by
telephone at (800) 221-1037 or by email at
usa.prospectus@credit-suisse.com; BofA Securities, Inc., Attn:
Prospectus Department, NC1-004-03-43, 200 North College Street, 3rd
Floor, Charlotte, NC 28255-0001, Dg.prospectus_requests@bofa.com;
or Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Attn: Prospectus Department, 180
Varick Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10014. Before you invest,
you should read the prospectus in that registration statement and
other documents FREYR has filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission for more complete information about FREYR and the
proposed offering.
This press release does 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 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 FREYR Battery
FREYR Battery aims to provide industrial scale clean battery
solutions to reduce global emissions. Listed on the New York Stock
Exchange, FREYR’s mission is to produce green battery cells to
accelerate the decarbonization of energy and transportation systems
globally. FREYR has commenced building the first of its planned
factories in Mo i Rana, Norway and announced potential development
of industrial scale battery cell production in Vaasa, Finland, and
the United States. FREYR intends to install 50 GWh of battery cell
capacity by 2025 and 100 GWh annual capacity by 2028 and 200 GWh of
annual capacity by 2030.
Cautionary Statement Concerning Forward-Looking
Statements
All statements, other than statements of present or historical
fact included in this press release, including, without limitation,
statements regarding FREYR’s use of proceeds from the offering are
forward-looking and involve significant risks and uncertainties
that could cause the actual results to differ materially from the
expected results.
Most of these factors are outside FREYR’s control and difficult
to predict. Information about factors that could materially affect
FREYR is set forth under the “Risk Factors” section in FREYR’s
Registration Statement on Form S-3 filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on September 1, 2022, and in other
SEC filings available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.
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Investor contact: Jeffrey Spittel Vice President,
Investor Relations jeffrey.spittel@freyrbattery.com Tel: (+1)
281-222-0161 Media contact: Katrin Berntsen Vice President,
Communication and Public Affairs katrin.berntsen@freyrbattery.com
Tel: (+47) 920 54 570
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