bluebird bio Announces Pricing of Public Offering of Common Stock
bluebird bio, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLUE) today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 3,384,616 shares of its
common stock at a public offering price of $162.50 per share, before underwriting discounts. In addition, bluebird bio has granted
the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 507,692 shares of common stock. All of the shares in the offering
are to be sold by bluebird bio.
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, BofA Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Cowen are acting as joint book-running
managers and Wells Fargo Securities is acting as co-manager of the offering. The offering is expected to close on or about July 27,
2018, subject to customary closing conditions.
bluebird bio anticipates the total gross proceeds from the offering (before deducting underwriters’ discounts and commissions
and estimated offering expenses) will be approximately $550 million, excluding any exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase
additional shares.
The shares are being offered by bluebird bio pursuant to an automatically effective shelf registration statement that was
previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). A preliminary prospectus supplement relating to and describing
the terms of the offering was filed with the SEC on July 23, 2018. The final prospectus supplement relating to the offering will be
filed with the SEC and will be available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. When available, copies of the final prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus relating
to these securities may also be obtained by contacting one of the following: Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Attn: Prospectus
Department, 200 West Street, New York, NY 10282, telephone: (866) 471-2526, facsimile: (212) 902-9316, email: prospectus-ny@ny.email.gs.com; BofA Merrill Lynch, NC1-004-03-43, 200
North College Street, 3rd floor, Charlotte, NC 28255-0001, Attn: Prospectus Department, email: dg.prospectus_requests@baml.com; J.P. Morgan Securities LLC,
c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, or by telephone at (866) 803-9204; or
Cowen and Company, LLC, c/o Broadridge Financial Services, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY, 11717, Attn: Prospectus
Department, by telephone at (631) 274-2806 or by fax at (631) 254-7140.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of,
these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration
or qualification under the securities laws of such state or jurisdiction.
About bluebird bio, Inc.
With its lentiviral-based gene therapies, T cell immunotherapy expertise and gene editing capabilities, bluebird bio has built a
pipeline with broad potential application in severe genetic diseases and cancer.
bluebird bio's gene therapy clinical programs include investigational treatments for cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy,
transfusion-dependent β-thalassemia, also known as β-thalassemia major, and severe sickle cell disease.
bluebird bio's oncology pipeline is built upon the company's lentiviral gene delivery and T cell engineering, with a focus on
developing novel T cell-based immunotherapies, including chimeric antigen receptor (CAR T) and T cell receptor (TCR) therapies. The
company’s lead oncology programs are anti-BCMA CAR T programs partnered with Celgene.
bluebird bio’s discovery research programs include utilizing megaTAL/homing endonuclease gene editing technologies with the
potential for use across the company's pipeline.
bluebird bio has operations in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Seattle, Washington; Durham, North Carolina and Zug, Switzerland.
Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995,
including statements regarding the anticipated final terms, timing and completion of the proposed offering, and bluebird bio’s
existing product candidates and research programs. Any forward-looking statements are based on management’s current expectations of
future events and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially and
adversely from those set forth in or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not
limited to, risks and uncertainties related to market conditions and satisfaction of customary closing conditions related to the
proposed public offering, that the preliminary results from our clinical trials will not continue or be repeated in our ongoing
clinical trials, the risk of cessation or delay of any of the ongoing or planned clinical studies and/or our development of our
product candidates, the risk of a delay in the enrollment of patients in our clinical studies, risks that the current or planned
clinical studies of the LentiGlobin drug product will be insufficient to support regulatory submissions or marketing approval in
the United States and European Union, risks that the current clinical study of Lenti-D will be insufficient to support regulatory
submissions or marketing approval in the United States and European Union, the risk that our collaborations, including the
collaboration with Celgene, will not continue or will not be successful, and the risk that any one or more of our product
candidates will not be successfully developed, approved or commercialized. There can be no assurance that bluebird bio will be able
to complete the proposed public offering on the anticipated terms, or at all. For a discussion of other risks and uncertainties,
and other important factors, any of which could cause our actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking
statements, see the section entitled “Risk Factors” in our annual report on Form 10-K and our most recent quarterly report on Form
10-Q, as well as discussions of potential risks, uncertainties, and other important factors in our subsequent filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. All information in this press release is as of the date of the release, and bluebird bio
undertakes no duty to update this information unless required by law.
bluebird bio
Investors:
Elizabeth Pingpank, 617-914-8736
epingpank@bluebirdbio.com
or
Media:
Stephanie Fagan, 201-572-9581
sfagan@bluebirdbio.com
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