Exhibit 99.1
SAVARA ANNOUNCES PRICING OF $80 MILLION UNDERWRITTEN OFFERING OF COMMON
STOCK AND PRE-FUNDED WARRANTS
LANGHORNE, Pennsylvania – July 13, 2023 – Savara Inc. (Nasdaq: SVRA), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on rare respiratory diseases, today announced the pricing of an underwritten offering of 21,000,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $3.00 per share and, in lieu of common stock to certain investors that so choose, 5,666,667 pre-funded warrants to purchase common stock at a price of $2.999 per pre-funded warrant, in each case before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions, for total gross proceeds of approximately $80 million. All of the securities to be sold in the offering are being sold by Savara. The offering included new investors TCGX, Frazier Life Sciences, and Janus Henderson Investors, as well as existing investors Bain Capital Life Sciences, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Adage Capital Partners LP, and Venrock Healthcare Capital Partners. The offering is expected to close on July 17, 2023, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
Jefferies LLC and Piper Sandler are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering. Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. is acting as the co-lead manager and H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC is acting as co-manager for the offering.
These securities were offered by Savara pursuant to its existing shelf registration statement (File No. 333-257709) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on July 6, 2021 and declared effective on July 16, 2021. A prospectus supplement describing the terms of the offering will be filed with the SEC and will form a part of the effective registration statement. Copies of the prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering may be obtained by contacting Jefferies LLC, Attention: Equity Syndicate Prospectus Department, 520 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10022, by telephone at (877) 821-7388, or by email at Prospectus Department@Jefferies.com or Piper Sandler & Co., Attention: Prospectus Department, 800 Nicollet Mall, J12S03, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402, by telephone at (800) 747-3924, or by email at prospectus@psc.com. An electronic copy of the prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering will be available on the SEC website at www.sec.gov.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of offers to buy any securities of Savara, and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation, or sale of any security 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 Savara
Savara is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on rare respiratory diseases. Savara’s lead program, molgramostim nebulizer solution, is an inhaled granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) in Phase 3 development for autoimmune pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (aPAP). Molgramostim is delivered via an investigational eFlow® Nebulizer System (PARI Pharma GmbH). Savara’s management team has significant experience in rare respiratory diseases and pulmonary medicine, identifying unmet needs, and effectively advancing product candidates to approval and commercialization.
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