Forward-Looking Statements Certain statements in this press release constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such statements. These statements include statements relating to QLT's future financial and operating results and its proposed acquisition of Atrix, including our expectation that the acquisition will be successfully completed, anticipated revenue, dilution and/or accretion, earnings per share, approval of products, scope of research and development commitments, timing of closing, execution of integration plans and management and organization structure resulting from the proposed acquisition. Words such as "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "will," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," "should," "may," "could" and variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. These statements are based on management's current expectations and beliefs and actual events or results may differ materially. There are many factors that could cause such actual events or results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements to differ materially from any future results expressed or implied by such statements, including, but not limited to, the ability of the companies to obtain shareholder and regulatory approvals for the transaction or the risk that the proposed acquisition fails to close due to closing conditions not being satisfied, prevailing conditions in the capital markets or for any other reason, the reaction of customers, suppliers, marketing and collaboration partners and other third parties to the proposed acquisition and the risk that the businesses of the two companies suffer due to uncertainty, the potential inability of the two parties to successfully execute their integration strategies, the diversion of management's time on acquisition-related issues, uncertainties regarding the two companies' future operating results, the risk that future sales of Visudyne(r) and Eligard may be less than expected, currency fluctuations in QLT's primary markets, uncertainty and timing of pricing and reimbursement relating to Visudyne(r), uncertainty regarding the outcome of the pending patent and securities litigation against QLT, the timing, expense and uncertainty associated with the regulatory approval process for products, the safety and effectiveness of the two companies' products and technologies, the ability of the companies' marketing partners to successfully market their respective products, Atrix's expectation of receiving royalties on sales of its products and its plans to manufacture certain of its products at its facility in Fort Collins, Colorado, the timing of new product launches by QLT, Atrix or their competitors, general competitive conditions within the biotechnology and drug delivery industry and general economic conditions, and other risks that are described in QLT's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 12, 2004, and its filings with Canadian securities regulatory authorities, or described in Atrix's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 3, 2004. Forward looking statements are based on current expectations and neither company assumes any obligation to update such information to reflect later events or developments, except as required by law. |