Exhibit 99.2
Aldeyra Therapeutics, Inc. Announces Pricing of $125 Million Public Offering of Common Stock
LEXINGTON, Mass., April 28, 2021 – Aldeyra Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALDX) (Aldeyra), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the development of novel therapies with the potential to improve the lives of patients with immune-mediated diseases, today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 10,000,000 shares of its common stock at a public offering price of $12.50 per share. The gross proceeds from the offering, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses payable by Aldeyra, are expected to be $125 million. In addition, Aldeyra has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to 1,500,000 additional shares of common stock at the public offering price, less the underwriting discounts and commissions. All of the shares in the offering are being sold by Aldeyra. Aldeyra anticipates using the net proceeds from the offering for the preparation of a potential New Drug Application submission for Aldeyra’s lead compound, reproxalap; the preparations for the commercial launch of reproxalap and the subsequent commercialization of reproxalap, if approved; early stage pipeline development programs, as well as for working capital and other general corporate purposes. The offering is expected to close on or about May 3, 2021, subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
Jefferies and SVB Leerink are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering. BTIG, H.C. Wainwright & Co., JonesTrading Institutional Services LLC and Laidlaw & Company (UK) Ltd. are acting as co-lead managers for the offering.
The shares of common stock described above are being offered by Aldeyra pursuant to a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and declared effective by the SEC on April 15, 2021. A preliminary prospectus supplement relating to and describing the terms of the offering has been filed with the SEC and is available on the SEC’s web site at www.sec.gov. Copies of the final prospectus supplement (when available) and accompanying prospectus relating to these shares of common stock may also be obtained by sending a request to: Jefferies LLC, Attention: Equity Syndicate Prospectus Department, 520 Madison Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, New York 10022, by telephone at 877-821-7388 or by email at Prospectus_Department@Jefferies.com, or from SVB Leerink LLC, Attention: Syndicate Department, One Federal Street, 37th Floor, Boston, Massachusetts 02110, by telephone at 1-800-808-7525, ext. 6105, or by email at syndicate@svbleerink.com.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any of these securities, nor will there be any sale of these securities 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 jurisdictions.
About Aldeyra Therapeutics, Inc.
Aldeyra Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the development of novel therapies with the potential to improve the lives of patients with immune-mediated diseases. Two of the company’s lead investigational compounds, reproxalap and ADX-629, target RASP (reactive aldehyde species), which are elevated in ocular and systemic inflammatory disease and result in cytokine release via activation of a broad array of inflammatory factors, including NF-kB, inflammasomes, and Scavenger Receptor A. Reproxalap is being evaluated in Phase 3 clinical trials in patients with dry eye disease and allergic conjunctivitis. The company’s clinical pipeline also includes ADX-2191, a dihydrofolate reductase inhibitor in Phase 3 testing for proliferative vitreoretinopathy.
