Ascendis Pharma (ASND) Prices 4.225M ADS Offering at $14/ADS

Ascendis Pharma A/S (NASDAQ: ASND) today announced the pricing of its underwritten public offering of 4,225,352 American Depositary Shares (“ADSs”), each of which represents one ordinary share of Ascendis, at a price to the public of $142.00 per ADS. All of the ADSs are being offered by Ascendis. The offering is expected to close on or about July 10, 2020 subject to customary closing conditions. In addition, Ascendis has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 633,802 ADSs at the public offering price, less the underwriting commissions.

Ascendis estimates net proceeds from the offering to be approximately $569.2 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 the clinical development, regulatory approval and commercial preparations for TransCon hGH, to fund clinical development of its other endocrinology rare disease programs, including TransCon PTH and TransCon CNP, to identify and progress development of new product candidates, including in the therapeutic area of oncology, and for working capital and general corporate purposes.

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Evercore Group L.L.C. and SVB Leerink LLC are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering. Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. and Canaccord Genuity LLC are acting as co-lead managers for the offering and Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., Wedbush Securities Inc. and Kempen & Co are acting as co-managers for the offering.

A shelf registration statement relating to these securities was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on May 30, 2018 and automatically became effective upon filing.

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