Silexion Therapeutics Prices Public Offering to Raise $5 Million for RNAi Cancer Therapy Development

16 January 2025 | Thursday | News

The clinical-stage biotech company offers shares and warrants to fund pre-clinical studies and support ongoing research into KRAS-driven cancers.
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Silexion Therapeutics Corp (NASDAQ: SLXN) (“Silexion Therapeutics” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage biotech developing RNA interference (RNAi) therapies for KRAS-driven cancers, announced the pricing of a public offering of an aggregate of 3,703,703 of the Company’s ordinary shares (or ordinary share equivalents) and warrants to purchase up to 3,703,703 ordinary shares at a combined public offering price of $1.35 per share (or per ordinary share equivalent) and accompanying warrant. The warrants will have an exercise price of $1.35 per share, will be exercisable immediately upon issuance and will expire five years from the date of issuance. The closing of the offering is expected to occur on or about January 17, 2025, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.

H.C. Wainwright & Co. is acting as the exclusive placement agent for the offering. 

The gross proceeds from the offering, before deducting the placement agent's fees and other offering expenses, are expected to be approximately $5.0 million.  The Company intends to use the net proceeds from this offering to advance the Company’s pre-clinical studies, and for general corporate purposes.

The securities described above are being offered pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-282932), which was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on January 15, 2025. The offering is being made only by means of a prospectus forming part of the effective registration statement relating to the offering. A preliminary prospectus relating to the offering has been filed with the SEC. Electronic copies of the final prospectus, when available, may be obtained on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov and may also be obtained by contacting H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC at 430 Park Avenue, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10022, by phone at (212) 856-5711 or e-mail at placements@hcwco.com.

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any of the securities described herein, 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.

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