$20 mil LONDON, ON, Feb. 4, 2021 /CNW/ - Sernova Corp. ("Sernova" or the "Company") (TSX-V: SVA) (OTCQB: SEOVF) (FSE: PSH), a leading clinical-stage regenerative medicine therapeutics company, is pleased to announce that it has entered into an amendment (the "Amendment") to its previously announced agreement with Canaccord Genuity Corp. and Leede Jones Gable Inc., as co-lead underwriters (together, the "Underwriters"), pursuant to which the Underwriters have agreed to increase the size of the previously announced bought deal financing. Pursuant to the Amendment, the Underwriters have agreed to purchase, on a bought deal basis pursuant to the filing of a short form prospectus, an aggregate of 16,700,000 units of the Company (the "Units") at a price of C$1.20 per Unit for gross proceeds to the Company of approximately C$20,040,000 (the "Offering").
The Company has granted the Underwriters an option (the "Over-allotment Option"), exercisable in part or in whole at the Underwriters' discretion, at any time until thirty (30) days following the Closing Date, to purchase up to the number of additional Units equal to 15% of the aggregate number of Units sold in the Offering to cover over-allotments, if any.
All other terms of the Offering remain consistent with the Company's previous announcement on February 3, 2021.
The net proceeds of the Offering will be used to advance the Company's clinical development program, including its US Phase I/II Cell Pouch clinical trial, expand Sernova's research and development programs, including our local immune protection technologies for the Cell Pouch, as well as for working capital and general corporate purposes.