NEWTON, Mass., Dec. 14, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Acer Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq:ACER), a pharmaceutical company focused on the acquisition, development and commercialization of therapies for serious rare and ultra-rare diseases with critical unmet medical need, today announced the closing of the previously announced underwritten public offering of 916,667 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $12.00 per share. The gross proceeds to Acer from this offering were $11.0 million, before deducting the underwriting discount and other estimated offering expenses. All of the shares in the offering were sold by Acer. In addition, Acer has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 137,500 shares of common stock.
Acer intends to use the net proceeds from this offering to fund its research and development efforts, to seek regulatory approval for EDSIVO™, to invest in pre-commercial activities for EDSIVO™ and for general corporate purposes, including working capital and other general and administrative purposes.
William Blair & Company, L.L.C. acted as sole book-running manager of the offering. H.C. Wainwright & Co. acted as lead manager of the offering.
About Acer Therapeutics
Acer, headquartered in Newton, MA, is a pharmaceutical company focused on the acquisition, development and commercialization of therapies for patients with serious rare and ultra-rare diseases with critical unmet medical need. Acer’s late-stage clinical pipeline includes two candidates for severe genetic disorders for which there are few or no FDA-approved treatments: EDSIVO™ (celiprolol) for vEDS, and ACER-001 (a fully taste-masked, immediate release formulation of sodium phenylbutyrate) for urea cycle disorders (UCD) and Maple Syrup Urine Disease (MSUD). There are no FDA-approved drugs for vEDS and MSUD and limited options for UCD, which collectively impact more than 4,000 patients in the United States. Acer’s product candidates have clinical proof-of-concept and mechanistic differentiation, and Acer intends to seek approval for them in the U.S. by using the regulatory pathway established under section 505(b)(2) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, or FFDCA, that allows an applicant to rely for approval at least in part on third-party data, which is expected to expedite the preparation, submission, and potential approval of a marketing application.
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