Exhibit 99.1
INOVIO Announces Pricing of $30 Million Public Offering
PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA – December 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ – INOVIO Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: INO), a biotechnology company focused on developing and commercializing DNA medicines to help treat and protect people from HPV-related diseases, cancer, and infectious diseases, today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 10,000,000 shares of its common stock and accompanying warrants to purchase 10,000,000 shares of its common stock at an exercise price of $3.76 per share of common stock, at a combined public offering price of $3.00 per share of common stock and accompanying warrant. All of the securities in the offering are being sold by INOVIO. The offering is expected to close on December 16, 2024, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
The gross proceeds from the offering, before deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses payable by INOVIO and assuming no exercise of the accompanying warrants, are expected to be $30 million.
Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. and Citizens JMP are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering. Stephens Inc. is acting as lead manager for the offering.
A shelf registration statement relating to the shares of common stock and accompanying warrants offered in the offering described above was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on November 9, 2023 and declared effective by the SEC on January 31, 2024. The offering is being made only by means of a written prospectus and prospectus supplement that form a part of the registration statement. A preliminary prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to and describing the terms of the offering were filed with the SEC and are available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Copies of the final prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus, when available, may also be obtained by contacting: 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 Citizens JMP Securities, LLC, 600 Montgomery Street, Suite 1100, San Francisco, California 94111, by telephone at (415) 835-8985, or by email at syndicate@jmpsecurities.com.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the securities being offered, nor shall there be any sale of the securities being offered 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.
