Exhibit 99.1
Zogenix Announces Proposed Public Offering of Common Stock
EMERYVILLE, CA – March 3, 2020 – Zogenix, Inc. (Nasdaq: ZGNX), a global pharmaceutical company developing rare disease therapies, announced today that it intends to offer and sell, subject to market and other conditions, shares of its common stock in an underwritten public offering. Zogenix also expects to grant to the underwriters a30-day option to purchase up to an additional 15% of the shares of common stock offered in the public offering. All of the shares to be sold in the offering are to be sold by Zogenix.
Zogenix intends to use the net proceeds from the proposed offering to support its activities related to the potential commercialization of FINTEPLA® for the treatment of Dravet syndrome, submission of regulatory applications in the United States and the European Union for FINTEPLA for the treatment of Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, funding of future clinical trials of FINTEPLA for other indications, continuing development and activities related to the potential commercialization of MT1621 for the treatment of thymidine kinase 2 deficiency, and for working capital and general corporate purposes.
SVB Leerink and Stifel are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering. The offering is subject to market conditions, and there can be no assurance as to whether or when the offering may be completed, or as to the actual size or terms of the offering.
The securities described above are being offered by Zogenix pursuant to a shelf registration statement filed by Zogenix with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that became automatically effective on October 2, 2017. A preliminary prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to this offering will be filed with the SEC. When available, copies of the preliminary prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus relating to this offering may be obtained from: SVB Leerink LLC, Attention: Syndicate Department, One Federal Street, 37th Floor, Boston, MA 02110, by telephone at800-808-7525, ext. 6218 or by email at syndicate@svbleerink.com; or from Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated, Attention: Syndicate, One Montgomery Street, Suite 3700, San Francisco, CA 94104, by telephone at415-364-2720 or by email at syndprospectus@stifel.com. Electronic copies of the preliminary prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus will also be available on the website of the SEC at http://www.sec.gov.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.
About Zogenix
Zogenix, Inc. is a global pharmaceutical company committed to developing and commercializing therapies with the potential to transform the lives of patients and their families living with rare diseases. The company has two late-stage development programs underway: FINTEPLA for the treatment of seizures associated with Dravet and Lennox-Gastaut syndromes, two rare and often-catastrophic childhood-onset epilepsies, and MT1621, a novel substrate enhancement therapy for the treatment of a rare genetic disorder called TK2 deficiency.
