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PureTech to receive up to $115.4 million from sale of Karuna Therapeutics

Posted on August 9, 2022August 9, 2022 by Muhammad Ali

LONDON: PureTech Health plc , a biotherapeutics company dedicated to changing the treatment paradigm for patients with devastating diseases, has raised aggregate proceeds of up to approximately $115.4 million, net of transaction fees, through the sale of shares of its Founded Entity, Karuna Therapeutics, comprising a sale of 125,000 Karuna shares in on-market transactions and expected completion of call options covering up to 477,100 Karuna shares.

PureTech intends to use the proceeds from the Transaction to further the advancement and growth of the Company and will update its cash runway guidance in its half-yearly results for the six months ended June 30, 2022, to be announced on August 25, 2022.

Following the Transaction and presuming the exercise of all call options written by the Company, PureTech will have generated an aggregate total of approximately $681.1 million in sales of Karuna equity since Karuna’s initial public offering. PureTech will continue to hold 1,054,464 shares of Karuna common stock, which is equal to approximately 3.5% of Karuna’s outstanding shares as of August 3, 2022, with a market value of approximately $254.3 million as of market close on August 8, 2022.

Additionally, as the founder of Karuna and co-inventor of the KarXT program, PureTech also has a right to royalty payments of 3% of net sales of any commercialized product as well as 20% of sublicense income covered by the license agreement. The license agreement covers the KarXT program in key territories including the United States, European Union, and Japan. PureTech is also eligible to receive certain milestone payments upon the achievement of regulatory approvals.

The Transaction constitutes a class 2 transaction for the purposes of the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s Listing Rules. 

About Karuna Therapeutics

Karuna Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company driven to create and deliver transformative medicines for people living with psychiatric and neurological conditions. www.karunatx.com.

About PureTech Health

PureTech is a biotherapeutics company dedicated to discovering, developing and commercializing highly differentiated medicine and changing the treatment paradigm for devastating diseases. The Company has created a broad and deep pipeline through the expertise of its experienced research and development team and its extensive network of scientists, clinicians and industry leaders.

This pipeline, which is being advanced both internally and through PureTech’s Founded Entities, is comprised of 27 therapeutics and therapeutic candidates, including two that have received both U.S. FDA clearance and European marketing authorization, as of the date of PureTech’s most recently filed Annual Report and corresponding Form 6-K. All of the underlying programs and platforms that resulted in this pipeline of therapeutic candidates were initially identified or discovered and then advanced by the PureTech team through key validation points based on unique insights in immunology and drug development.

www.puretechhealth.com 

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