Roivant Sciences Announces Close of Business Combination with Montes Archimedes Acquisition Corp. and Concurrent PIPE Financing
October 01 2021 - 8:00AM
Roivant Sciences, a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to
improving the delivery of healthcare to patients, today announced
that it has closed its business combination with Montes Archimedes
Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: MAAC), a special purpose acquisition
company, as well as a concurrent PIPE financing.
Outstanding shares and warrants of MAAC have been exchanged for
newly issued Roivant shares and warrants, which will begin trading
on Nasdaq under the ticker symbols "ROIV" and “ROIVW” later today.
At the close of this transaction on September 30, 2021, Roivant’s
consolidated cash position is approximately $2.5 billion.
“Roivant was founded to address inefficiencies in the
traditional pharma model. As we begin our life as a public company,
we now have the opportunity to accelerate that vision and create
significant value for patients, shareholders, and society,” said
Matt Gline, Chief Executive Officer of Roivant Sciences. “I would
like to thank our new investors for their support as we continue to
advance transformational medicines and novel modalities.”
In addition, the company announced that Richard Pulik has joined
Roivant as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Pulik brings over twenty
years of industry experience.
Prior to joining Roivant, Mr. Pulik was the Global Head of
Business Development & Licensing and Portfolio Management,
Oncology at Novartis and a member of Novartis’s Innovation
Management Board and the Novartis Oncology Leadership Team. Mr.
Pulik joined Novartis in 2012 as a Senior Director, Mergers &
Acquisitions based in Basel, Switzerland. Earlier in his career Mr.
Pulik worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Monitor Group and
UBS Investment Bank, focusing on mergers and acquisitions and
strategy in the healthcare sector. Mr. Pulik received a B.S. in
Finance from The Wharton School and a B.A. in Economics and
International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania in
2001.
“I am humbled to join a company that has accomplished so much
over the last seven years,” said Mr. Pulik. “I look forward to
working with its leadership to create a next-generation biopharma
company that develops meaningful medicines for patients around the
world.”
Roivant R&D Day
Roivant held a virtual R&D Day on the afternoon of September
28th highlighting the company’s drug discovery platform and recent
clinical milestones. Recordings of R&D Day presentations and
corresponding slides are available at
https://investor.roivant.com/news-events/events.
Advisors
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC served as a financial advisor and
capital markets advisor to Roivant and as a lead placement agent
for the PIPE. SVB Leerink LLC served as a capital markets advisor
to Roivant and as a lead placement agent for the PIPE. Goldman
Sachs & Co. LLC served as a financial advisor to Roivant. Cowen
and Company, LLC served as a financial advisor and capital markets
advisor to Roivant. Citigroup Global Markets Inc. served as a
placement agent for the PIPE. Truist Securities, Inc. served as a
capital markets advisor to Roivant and as a placement agent for the
PIPE. Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP acted as legal
counsel to Roivant. Kirkland & Ellis LLP acted as legal counsel
to MAAC. Okapi Partners served as the proxy solicitor for MAAC.
About Roivant Sciences
Roivant's mission is to improve the delivery of healthcare to
patients by treating every inefficiency as an opportunity. Roivant
develops transformative medicines faster by building technologies
and developing talent in creative ways, leveraging the Roivant
platform to launch 'Vants' – nimble and focused biopharmaceutical
and health technology companies. For more information, please
visit www.roivant.com.
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hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future, and
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about the clinical and therapeutic potential of our product
candidates and the availability and success of topline results from
our ongoing clinical trials and preclinical studies. In addition,
any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other
characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any
underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements.
Although we believe that our plans, intentions, expectations and
strategies as reflected in or suggested by those forward-looking
statements are reasonable, we can give no assurance that the plans,
intentions, expectations or strategies will be attained or
achieved. Furthermore, actual results may differ materially from
those described in the forward-looking statements and will be
affected by a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions,
including, but not limited to, those risks set forth in Item 1A
“Risk Factors” of our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on September 21, 2021.
Moreover, we operate in a very competitive and rapidly changing
environment in which new risks emerge from time to time. These
forward-looking statements are based upon the current expectations
and beliefs of our management as of the date of this press release,
and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause
actual results to differ materially from those described in the
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we assume no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking
statements, whether as a result of new information, future events
or otherwise.
Contacts:
Investors
Roivant Investor Relations(646) 495-5310ir@roivant.com
Media
Paul Davispaul.davis@roivant.com
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