Summit Therapeutics (SMMT) Announces 10.35M Share Offering at $22.70/sh

Summit Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: SMMT) (“Summit,” “we,” or the “Company”) today announced that the Company accepted offers from multiple leading biotech institutional and individual investors to purchase an aggregate of approximately 10.35 million shares of the Company’s common stock at $22.70 per share, the closing price on Wednesday, September 11, 2024, for aggregate gross proceeds to the Company of approximately $235 million. The capital raise was completed without bankers’ fees.

All of Summit’s Section 16 officers participated in the capital raise. A total of $79 million was raised by insiders, including Robert W. Duggan, Dr. Maky Zanganeh, Manmeet S. Soni, and Bhaskar Anand, as well as Jeff Huber, a member of the Board of Directors, who invested via a controlled entity. The remaining $156 million was raised with multiple leading biopharma institutional investors.

Summit intends to use the net proceeds to advance, in part, the clinical development of ivonescimab, including in non-small cell lung cancer and in settings outside of lung cancer by leveraging the data that will be presented at ESMO, which may include, but is not limited to, colorectal cancer, and triple-negative breast cancer, in addition to working capital needs and general corporate purposes.

The securities described above have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. Accordingly, these securities may not be offered or sold in the United States, except pursuant to an effective registration statement or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. Summit has agreed to file a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) registering the resale of the shares of common stock following the closing of the securities purchase agreement.

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, 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 jurisdiction.

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