UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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Form 6-K
REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16 UNDER THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the month of July, 2006
Commission File Number ________________
Novogen Limited
(Translation of registrant’s name into English)
140 Wicks Road, North Ryde, NSW, Australia
(Address of principal executive office)
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
Novogen Limited
(Registrant)
/s/ Ron Erratt
Ronald Lea Erratt
Company Secretary
Date 12 July, 2006
ASX & MEDIA RELEASE
12 JULY, 2006
Novogen Limited’s subsidiary, Marshall Edwards Inc. (NASDAQ: MSHL), has just made the following announcement:
MARSHALL EDWARDS, INC. RAISES APPROXIMATELY $14 MILLION
IN PRIVATE EQUITY FINANCING;
(Washington DC; and Sydney Australia — July 12, 2006) — Marshall Edwards, Inc. (Nasdaq: MSHL) announced today that it entered into definitive agreements for an approximately $14 million private placement consisting of 4,950,001 shares of common stock and warrants to purchase 1,732,499 shares of common stock at a purchase price of $2.90 per unit. The warrants are exercisable beginning January 11, 2007 and ending on July 11, 2010. The exercise price of the warrants is $4.35 per share.
Marshall Edwards has agreed to file a resale registration statement in connection with the private placement. Marshall Edwards intends to use the proceeds from the private placement to fund certain clinical trials and pre-clinical development and for general corporate purposes.
About Marshall Edwards, Inc.
Marshall Edwards, Inc. is a US clinical development oncology company and is majority owned by Novogen Limited (ASX: NRT; Nasdaq: NVGN), an Australian biotechnology company specializing in the development of a range of therapeutics across the fields of oncology, cardiovascular disease and inflammatory diseases.
More information on the Novogen group of companies can be found at www.marshalledwardsinc.com and www.novogen.com.
This news release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities. The common stock and warrants sold in the offering have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements under the Securities Act or applicable state securities laws.
Under U.S. law, a new drug cannot be marketed until it has been investigated in clinical trials and approved by the FDA as being safe and effective for the intended use. Statements included in this press release that are not historical in nature are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. You should be aware that our actual results could differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements, which are based on management’s current expectations and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, our failure to successfully commercialize our product candidates; costs and delays in the development and/or FDA approval, or the failure to obtain such approval, of our product candidates; uncertainties in clinical trial results; our inability to maintain or enter into, and the risks resulting from our dependence upon, collaboration or contractual arrangements necessary for the development, manufacture, commercialization, marketing, sales and distribution of any products; competitive factors; our inability to protect our patents or proprietary rights and obtain necessary rights to third party patents and intellectual property to operate our business; our inability to operate our business without infringing the patents and proprietary rights of others; general economic conditions; the failure of any products to gain market acceptance; our inability to obtain any additional required financing; technological changes; government regulation; changes in industry practice; and one-time events. We do not intend to update any of these factors or to publicly announce the results of any revisions to these forward-looking statements.