BioAge Labs Announces Closing of Initial Public Offering, Full Exercise of Underwriters’ Option to Purchase Additional Shares and Closing of the Concurrent Private Placement
RICHMOND, Calif., Oct. 01, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — BioAge Labs, Inc. (“BioAge”) (Nasdaq: BIOA), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing therapeutic product candidates for metabolic diseases, such as obesity, by targeting the biology of aging, today announced the closing of its upsized initial public offering of 12,650,000 shares of its common stock, which includes the exercise in full by the underwriters of their option to purchase 1,650,000 additional shares, at the initial public offering price of $18.00 per share. All of the shares were offered by BioAge.
In addition to the shares sold in the initial public offering, BioAge today announced the closing on September 27, 2024 of its sale of 588,888 shares of its common stock at the initial public offering price per share in a concurrent private placement to an existing stockholder. The sale of the shares of common stock in the concurrent private placement was not registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Morgan Stanley, Jefferies, and Citigroup acted as joint book-running managers for the offering and as placement agents for the concurrent private placement.
The gross proceeds to BioAge from the initial public offering, including full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares, and the concurrent private placement, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions, placement agent fees and offering and private placement expenses, were approximately $238.3 million…
