NEEDHAM, Mass., Dec. 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Candel Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: CADL), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing multimodal biological immunotherapies to help patients fight cancer, today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 10,000,001 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $6.00 per share and pre-funded warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 3,333,333 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $5.99 per pre-funded warrant to purchase one share of the common stock, which represents the per share public offering price for the common stock less the $0.01 per share exercise price for each such pre-funded warrant. The gross proceeds from the offering to Candel are expected to be approximately $80 million, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other offering expenses. The offering is expected to close on or about December 16, 2024, subject to customary closing conditions. In addition, Candel has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to 2,000,000 additional shares of common stock at the public offering price, less the underwriting discount.
Candel intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to continue the development of its product candidates, including preparing submission of a Biologics License Application for CAN-2409 in prostate cancer and for general corporate purposes.
Citigroup, BofA Securities and Canaccord Genuity are acting as joint bookrunning managers for the offering. H.C. Wainwright & Co. is acting as lead manager for the offering.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the securities being offered, nor shall there be any sale of the securities being offered 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.
About Candel Therapeutics
Candel is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing off-the-shelf multimodal biological immunotherapies that elicit an individualized, systemic anti-tumor immune response to help patients fight cancer. Candel has established two clinical stage multimodal biological immunotherapy platforms based on novel, genetically modified adenovirus and herpes simplex virus (HSV) gene constructs, respectively. CAN-2409 is the lead product candidate from the adenovirus platform and is currently in ongoing clinical trials in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) (phase 2) and borderline resectable pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) (phase 2), and recently completed phase 2b and phase 3 clinical trials in localized, non-metastatic prostate cancer. CAN-3110 is the lead product candidate from the HSV platform and is currently in an ongoing phase 1b clinical trial in recurrent high-grade glioma (rHGG). Finally, Candel’s enLIGHTEN™ Discovery Platform is a systematic, iterative HSV-based discovery platform leveraging human biology and advanced analytics to create new viral immunotherapies for solid tumors.
