BiondVax Announces Rights Offering Fully Subscribed at US$20 Million

JERUSALEM, Israel, July 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- BiondVax Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (Nasdaq: BVXV) is proud to announce today the results of its previously announced rights offering. The Company has received subscriptions from existing shareholders for all the offered American Depositary Shares ("ADSs") and ordinary shares, being a total of 3,057,466 ADSs and 18,298,898 ordinary shares, raising total gross proceeds of US$20 Million.

Mr. Marius Nacht has fully subscribed for the entire allotment available to him in the rights offering through his wholly owned entity Angels Investments in High Tech Ltd. ("AIHT"). He also exercised his option to purchase, under the same terms of the rights offering, 2,203,640 ADSs and 141,538 ordinary shares offered in the rights offering that were not purchased by other shareholders. In total, Mr. Nacht's investment through AIHT in this offering was US$16.67 Million, making Mr. Nacht a Controlling Shareholder (as defined under the Israeli Companies Law) with a holding of about 42% in BiondVax. 

Dr. Ron Babecoff, BiondVax's President and CEO, commented, "The $20 Million raised in this rights offering, together with the recent additional European Investment Bank financing of ?4 Million, for a total of ?24 Million of non-dilutive funding committed by the EIB, will fund our operations through to the end of our ongoing pivotal, clinical efficacy, Phase 3 trial. I would like to personally thank, on my behalf and on behalf of the entire BiondVax team, our shareholders and in particular Marius Nacht, Yair Schindel, Isaac Devash, and their partners and colleagues at aMoon 1 for their strong, ongoing support and belief in our mission to bring our universal flu vaccine to the market.  I am optimistic that together we are closer than ever to bringing our revolutionary 'one-for-all' universal influenza vaccine to the world."

The Company expects that the new ADSs and ordinary shares will be delivered to subscribers by the end of July 2019.

The funds will be used to support operations through the end of 2020, including scale-up of manufacturing and completion of the ongoing pivotal, clinical efficacy, Phase 3 trial of BiondVax's M-001 universal flu vaccine candidate. Approximately 8,000 participants are currently being enrolled in the trial's second cohort, following 4,094 who were recruited in the first cohort prior to the 2018/19 flu season. Results are expected by the end of 2020.

About BiondVax
BiondVax (NASDAQ: BVXV) is a Phase 3 clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing a universal flu vaccine. The vaccine candidate, called M-001, is designed to provide multi-strain and multi-season protection against current and future, seasonal and pandemic influenza. BiondVax's proprietary technology utilizes a unique combination of conserved and common influenza virus peptides intended to stimulate both arms of the immune system for a cross-protecting and long-lasting effect. In a total of 6 completed Phase 1/2 and Phase 2 clinical trials, covering 698 participants, the vaccine has been shown to be safe, well-tolerated, and immunogenic. The ongoing pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial aims to assess safety and effectiveness of M-001 in reducing flu illness and severity. Please visit www.biondvax.com.

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