Alector, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALEC) shares fell back Wednesday. The San Francisco-based biotechnology company, pioneering immuno-neurology, today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 10,869,566 shares of its common stock for total gross proceeds of $75 million before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by Alector. The offering is expected to close this Friday, subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions. All of the shares in the offering are being sold by Alector.
Alector has granted the underwriter a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,630,434 shares of its common stock offered in the public offering, at the public offering price, less underwriting discounts and commissions.
Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. is acting as sole book-running manager for the offering.
The San Francisco-based Alector is a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering immuno-neurology, a novel therapeutic approach for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. Immuno-neurology targets immune dysfunction as a root cause of multiple pathologies that are drivers of degenerative brain disorders. Alector has discovered and is developing a broad portfolio of innate immune system programs, designed to functionally repair genetic mutations that cause dysfunction of the brain’s immune system and enable rejuvenated immune cells to counteract emerging brain pathologies.
ALEC shares dipped $1.05, or 13.7%, to $6.59.
