Janux Therapeutics Announces Closing of Underwritten Public Offering of Common Stock and Pre-Funded Warrants Including Full Exercise of Underwriters’ Option to Purchase Additional Shares for Total Gross Proceeds of $402.5 Million
December 06 2024 - 7:43PM
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Janux Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: JANX) (Janux), a
clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a broad
pipeline of novel immunotherapies by applying its proprietary
technology to its Tumor Activated T Cell Engager (TRACTr) and Tumor
Activated Immunomodulator (TRACIr) platforms, today announced the
closing of its previously announced underwritten public offering of
6,150,793 shares of its common stock, which includes the exercise
in full by the underwriters of their option to purchase up to
833,333 additional shares of common stock, at a public offering
price of $63.00 per share and pre-funded warrants to purchase
238,095 shares of common stock at a price of $62.999 per pre-funded
warrant, which represents the per share price for the common stock
less the $0.001 per share exercise price for each such pre-funded
warrant. The aggregate gross proceeds to Janux from the offering,
before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other
estimated offering expenses and excluding the exercise of any
pre-funded warrants, were approximately $402.5 million.
BofA Securities, TD Cowen, Stifel, Cantor and William Blair
acted as joint book-running managers for the offering. Wedbush
PacGrow, LifeSci Capital, BTIG and Jones acted as co-managers for
the offering.
The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to
advance clinical development of its internal product pipeline and
for general corporate purposes.
The securities were offered by the company pursuant to a
Registration Statement on Form S-3 filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC) that became automatically effective upon
filing. A final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus
relating to the offering were filed with the SEC and are available
on the SEC’s website, located at www.sec.gov. Copies of the final
prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus relating to
this offering may be obtained from BofA Securities, NC1-022-02-25,
201 North Tryon Street, Charlotte, North Carolina 28255-0001,
Attention: Prospectus Department, or by email at
dg.prospectus_requests@bofa.com; TD Securities (USA) LLC, 1
Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, New York 10017, by telephone at (855)
495-9846 or by email at TD.ECM_Prospectus@tdsecurities.com; Stifel,
Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated, Attention: Syndicate, One
Montgomery Street, Suite 3700, San Francisco, California 94104, by
telephone at (415) 364-2720, or by email at
syndprospectus@stifel.com; Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., Attention:
Capital Markets, 110 East 59th Street, 6th Floor, New York, New
York 10022, or by email at prospectus@cantor.com; or William Blair
& Company, L.L.C., Attention: Prospectus Department, 150 North
Riverside Plaza, Chicago, Illinois 60606, by telephone at (800)
621-0687 or by email at prospectus@williamblair.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 other jurisdiction
in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior
to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of
any such state or other jurisdiction.
About Janux Therapeutics, Inc.
Janux is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing
tumor-activated immunotherapies for cancer. Janux’s proprietary
technology enabled the development of two distinct bispecific
platforms: TRACTr and TRACIr. The goal of both platforms is to
provide cancer patients with safe and effective therapeutics that
direct and guide their immune system to eradicate tumors while
minimizing safety concerns. Janux is currently developing a broad
pipeline of TRACTr and TRACIr therapeutics directed at several
targets to treat solid tumors. Janux has two TRACTr therapeutic
candidates in clinical trials, the first targeting PSMA is in
development for prostate cancer, and the second targeting EGFR is
being developed for colorectal carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma
of the head and neck, non-small cell lung cancer, renal cell
carcinoma, small cell lung cancer, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
and triple-negative breast cancer.
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements contained in this press release regarding matters
that are not historical facts are “forward-looking statements”
within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
of 1995. Such forward-looking statements include statements
regarding, among other things, the anticipated use of proceeds from
the public offering. Because such statements are subject to risks
and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those
expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These
forward-looking statements are based upon Janux’s current
expectations and involve assumptions that may never materialize or
may prove to be incorrect. Actual results could differ materially
from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements as a
result of various risks and uncertainties, which include, without
limitation, risks and uncertainties associated with market
conditions, the satisfaction of customary closing conditions
related to the public offering, and the other risks described in
Janux’s filings with the SEC. All forward-looking statements
contained in this press release speak only as of the date on which
they were made. Janux undertakes no obligation to update such
statements to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist
after the date on which they were made, except as required by
law.
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