Ascendis Pharma A/S Announces Pricing of Public Offering of ADSs
Ascendis estimates net proceeds from the offering to be approximately $210.8 million (assuming no exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional ADSs), after deducting the underwriting commissions and estimated offering expenses. Ascendis intends to use the net proceeds of the offering to support clinical development, regulatory approval and commercial preparations for TransCon Growth Hormone, to fund development of its other rare disease endocrinology programs, including TransCon PTH and TransCon CNP, to identify and progress development of new product candidates including in new therapeutic areas, to strengthen its TransCon technology and for working capital and general corporate purposes.
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Ascendis Pharma is a biopharmaceutical company applying its TransCon technology to develop a pipeline of sustained release prodrug therapies with best-in-class profiles to address significant unmet medical needs in rare diseases.
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Internal contact:Scott T. Smith Chief Financial Officer (650) 352-8389 ir@ascendispharma.com Investor contact:Patti Bank Westwicke Partners (415) 513-1284 patti.bank@westwicke.com Media contact:Ami Knoefler SparkBioComm (650) 739-9952 ami@sparkbiocomm.com