Lexaria Bioscience (LEXX) Prices 1.63M Share Offering at $3.06/sh

Lexaria Bioscience Corp. (Nasdaq: LEXX, LEXXW) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement for the purchase and sale of 1,633,987 shares of common stock at a purchase price of $3.06 per share in a registered direct offering priced at-the-market under Nasdaq rules. In a concurrent private placement, the Company will issue unregistered warrants to purchase up to 4,551,019 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $3.06 per share. The warrants will be exercisable beginning on the effective date of stockholder approval of the issuance of the shares issuable upon exercise of the warrants (the "Stockholder Approval Date") and will expire five years from the Stockholder Approval Date. The closing of the offering is expected to occur on or about October 16, 2024, 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 to the Company from the offering are expected to be approximately $5 million before deducting placement agent fees and other offering expenses payable by the Company. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for working capital and other general corporate purposes.

The common stock (but not the unregistered warrants and the shares of common stock underlying the warrants) described above are being offered by the Company pursuant to a "shelf" registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-262402) that was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on February 4, 2022. The offering of the shares of common stock in the registered direct offering is being made only by means of a prospectus, including a prospectus supplement, forming a part of the effective registration statement. A final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the registered direct offering will be filed with the SEC. Electronic copies of the final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus may be obtained, when available, on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov and may also be obtained, when available, by contacting H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC at 430 Park Avenue, 3rd Floor, New York, New York 10022, by phone at (212) 856-5711 or e-mail at [email protected].

The unregistered warrants described above are being offered in a private placement under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and/or Regulation D promulgated thereunder and, along with the shares of common stock underlying such unregistered warrants, have not been registered under the Securities Act, or applicable state securities laws. Accordingly, the unregistered warrants and underlying shares of common stock 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 and such applicable state securities laws.

In addition, effective on the closing of the offering certain outstanding warrants to purchase 2,917,032 shares of the Company's common stock issued in April 2024 will be cancelled.

This press release does 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 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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