Exhibit 99.1
SAVARA ANNOUNCES PRICING OF $100.0 MILLION UNDERWRITTEN OFFERING OF COMMON STOCK
LANGHORNE, Pa., June 28, 2024— Savara Inc. (Nasdaq: SVRA), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on rare respiratory diseases, today announced the pricing of an underwritten offering of 26,246,720 shares of its common stock at a price of $3.81 per share before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions, for total gross proceeds of approximately $100.0 million. All of the securities to be sold in the offering are being sold by Savara. The offering included the following investors: Bain Capital Life Sciences, Farallon Capital Management, Frazier Life Sciences, Wellington Management, Nantahala Capital, TCGX and First Light Asset Management, among others. The offering is expected to close on July 1, 2024, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
Jefferies, Piper Sandler and Guggenheim Securities are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering. Oppenheimer & Co. is acting as the lead manager for the offering.
These securities were offered by Savara pursuant to its existing shelf registration statement (File No. 333-279274) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on May 9, 2024 and declared effective on May 21, 2024. A prospectus supplement describing the terms of the offering will be filed with the SEC and will form a part of the effective registration statement. Copies of the prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering may be obtained by contacting Jefferies LLC, Attention: Equity Syndicate Prospectus Department, 520 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10022, by telephone at (877) 821-7388, or by email at Prospectus_Department@Jefferies.com, Piper Sandler & Co., Attention: Prospectus Department, 800 Nicollet Mall, J12S03, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402, by telephone at (800) 747-3924, or by email at prospectus@psc.com, or Guggenheim Securities, LLC, Attention: Equity Syndicate Department, 330 Madison Avenue, 8th Floor, New York, New York 10017, by telephone at (212) 518-9544, or by email at GSEquityProspectusDelivery@guggenheimpartners.com. An electronic copy of the prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering will be available on the SEC website at www.sec.gov.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of offers to buy any securities of Savara, and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation, or sale of any security 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.
About Savara
Savara is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on rare respiratory diseases. Savara’s lead program, molgramostim nebulizer solution, is an inhaled granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) in Phase 3 development for autoimmune pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (aPAP). Molgramostim is delivered via an investigational eFlow® Nebulizer System (PARI Pharma GmbH) specifically developed for inhalation of a large molecule. Savara’s management team has significant experience in rare respiratory diseases and pulmonary medicine, identifying unmet needs, and effectively advancing product candidates to approval and commercialization.