REHOVOT, Israel , Aug. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Evogene Ltd. ("Evogene" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: EVGN , TASE: EVGN), a leading computational biology company aiming to revolutionize life-science-based product discovery and development utilizing cutting-edge computational biology technologies across multiple market segments, announced today that it has entered into definitive agreements with a single health-care focused institutional investor for the purchase and sale of 1,692,308 ordinary shares (or ordinary share equivalents in lieu thereof) in a registered direct offering.
In a concurrent private placement, the Company also agreed to issue unregistered Series A ordinary warrants to purchase up to 1,692,308 ordinary shares, and unregistered Series B ordinary warrants to purchase up to 1,692,308 ordinary shares. Each ordinary share (or ordinary share equivalent in lieu thereof) is being sold with one Series A ordinary warrant to purchase one ordinary share and one Series B ordinary warrant to purchase one ordinary share at a combined purchase price of US$3.25 (the "Offering").
The Series A ordinary warrants will have an exercise price of US$3.55 per share, will be immediately exercisable upon issuance and will expire five years from issuance. The Series B ordinary warrants will have an exercise price of US$3.
55 per share, will be immediately exercisable upon issuance and will expire eighteen months from issuance. The closing of the Offering is expected to occur on or about A.