Exhibit 99.2
Kura Oncology Announces Pricing of $100 Million Public Offering of Common Stock
SAN DIEGO, June 18, 2019–Kura Oncology, Inc.(Nasdaq: KURA), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of precision medicines for oncology, today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 5,900,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $17.00 per share. Kura has granted the underwriters a30-day option to purchase up to an additional 885,000 shares of its common stock. The offering is expected to close on or about June 21, 2019, subject to customary closing conditions. The gross proceeds to Kura from the offering, excluding any exercise by the underwriters of their30-day option to purchase additional shares, are expected to be $100.3 million, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other offering expenses payable by Kura.
SVB Leerink and Cowen are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering. Wedbush PacGrow and Oppenheimer & Co. are acting asco-lead managers, and H.C. Wainwright & Co. is acting asco-manager for the offering.
The securities described above are being offered by Kura pursuant to a shelf registration statement on FormS-3, including a base prospectus, that was previously filed by Kura with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and that was declared effective on November 21, 2018. A final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering will be filed with the SEC and will be available for free on the SEC’s website located at http://www.sec.gov. Copies of the final prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus relating to the offering, when available, may be obtained from SVB Leerink LLC, Attention: Syndicate Department, One Federal Street, 37th Floor, Boston, MA 02110, by telephone at (800)808-7525, ext. 6132, or by email atsyndicate@svbleerink.com, or Cowen and Company, LLC c/o Broadridge Financial Services, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, Attention: Prospectus Department, or by telephone at (631)592-5973, or by email atPostSaleManualRequests@broadridge.com.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall 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 jurisdiction.
About Kura Oncology
Kura Oncology is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to realizing the promise of precision medicines for the treatment of cancer. Kura’s pipeline consists of small molecule drug candidates that target cancer signaling pathways where there is a strong scientific and clinical rationale to improve outcomes by identifying those patients most likely to benefit from treatment. Kura’s lead drug candidate is tipifarnib, a farnesyl transferase inhibitor, for which Kura has initiated a registration-directed trial in recurrent or metastatic patients with HRAS mutant HNSCC. In addition, tipifarnib is being evaluated in multiple other Phase 2 clinical trials in solid tumor and hematologic indications. Kura’s pipeline also includesKO-947, an ERK inhibitor, currently in a Phase 1 dose-escalation trial, andKO-539, a menin-MLL inhibitor, which has been cleared to begin a Phase 1 clinical trial.
