Blueprint Medicines Announces Closing of Initial Public Offering

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Blueprint Medicines (NASDAQ: BPMC) today announced the closing of its initial public offering of 9,367,708 shares of common stock at a public offering price of $18.00 per share, including shares of common stock issued upon the full exercise by the underwriters of their option to purchase additional shares. The gross proceeds from the initial public offering to Blueprint Medicines were approximately $168.6 million, before underwriting discounts and estimated offering expenses.

Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Cowen and Company acted as joint book-running managers for the offering. JMP Securities acted as a co-manager for the offering. Wedbush PacGrow also acted as a co-manager for the offering.

A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed and was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 29, 2015. The offering was made only by means of a written prospectus forming part of the effective registration statement. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.

A copy of the final prospectus relating to the offering has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and may be obtained from Goldman, Sachs & Co. by mail at 200 West Street, New York, New York 10282, Attention: Prospectus Department, by telephone at (866) 471-2526, or by email at [email protected], and from Cowen and Company, LLC, c/o Broadridge Financial Services, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, Attention: Prospectus Department, by telephone at (631) 274-2806, or by fax at (631) 254-7140. 

About Blueprint MedicinesBlueprint Medicines makes kinase drugs to treat patients with genomically defined diseases. Led by a team of industry innovators, Blueprint Medicines integrates a novel target discovery engine and a proprietary compound library to understand the blueprint of cancer and craft highly selective therapies. This empowers the Blueprint Medicines team to develop patient-defined medicines aimed at eradicating cancer.

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