Exhibit 5.1
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May 22, 2024 | | | | |
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Dyne Therapeutics, Inc.
1560 Trapelo Road
Waltham, MA, 02451
Re: | Dyne Therapeutics, Inc. – Registration Statement on Form S-3 |
Ladies and Gentlemen:
This opinion is being furnished to you in connection with (i) the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-277655) (the “Registration Statement”) filed by Dyne Therapeutics, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), for the registration of, among other things, shares of the Company’s common stock, $0.0001 par value per share (the “Common Stock”), which may be issued from time to time on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act at an indeterminate aggregate offering price, as set forth in the Registration Statement and the base prospectus contained therein (the “Base Prospectus”), (ii) the prospectus supplement, dated May 20, 2024 (the “Prospectus Supplement” and, together with the Base Prospectus, the “Prospectus”) and (iii) the issuance and sale by the Company pursuant to the Registration Statement of up to 12,075,000 shares of Common Stock, including up to 1,575,000 shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of an option to purchase additional shares granted by the Company (the “Shares”).
The Shares are to be issued and sold by the Company pursuant to an underwriting agreement, dated May 21, 2024 (the “Underwriting Agreement”), by and among the Company and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Jefferies LLC, Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated and Guggenheim Securities, LLC, as representatives of the underwriters named therein. The Underwriting Agreement is being filed with the Commission as Exhibit 1.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed on the date hereof.
We are acting as counsel for the Company in connection with the issue and sale by the Company of the Shares. We have examined and relied upon a signed copy of the Registration Statement and the Prospectus, each as filed with the Commission. We have also examined and relied upon the Underwriting Agreement, minutes of meetings and actions of the stockholders and the Board of Directors of the Company, including the committees thereof, as provided to us by the Company, the Restated Certificate of Incorporation and Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company, each as restated and/or amended to date, and such other documents, instruments and certificates as we have deemed necessary for the purposes of rendering the opinions hereinafter set forth.
In our examination of the foregoing documents, we have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals, the conformity to original documents of all documents submitted to us as copies, the authenticity of the originals of such latter documents and the legal competence of all signatories to such documents.