Abivax Announces Full Exercise of Underwriters’ Option to Purchase Additional ADSs, Bringing Gross Proceeds of Offering to $920M (€807M)
Abivax Announces Full Exercise of Underwriters’ Option to Purchase Additional ADSs, Bringing Gross Proceeds of Offering to $920M (€807M)
PARIS, France, July 2, 2026 – 8:00 a.m. CEST – Abivax SA (PARIS:FR, NASDAQ:ABVX) ("Abivax" or the "Company"), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing therapeutics that harness the body’s natural regulatory mechanisms to stabilize the immune response in patients with chronic inflammatory diseases, today announces that the underwriters of its offering of 6,400,000 American Depositary Shares ("ADSs"), each representing one ordinary share, €0.01 nominal value per share (each an "Ordinary Share"), of the Company, in the United States (the "Offering") have exercised in full their option to purchase 960,000 additional ADSs (the "Additional ADSs"), representing 15% of the total number of ADSs initially sold in the Offering, pursuant to the 23rd resolution of the Company’s combined shareholders’ meeting held on May 11, 2026. The Additional ADSs are expected to be delivered concurrently with the closing of the Offering, which is expected to close on July 6, 2026.
Following the exercise in full of the over-allotment option, the total number of ADSs issued in the Offering will amount to 7,360,000 ADSs, resulting in gross proceeds for the Company of approximately $920.0 million (€807.4 million) and estimated net proceeds, after deducting underwriting commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by the Company, of approximately $874.1 million (€767.1 million).
The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the Offering for:
- expenses relating to potential commercialization of the Company’s lead drug candidate, obefazimod, in the United States;
- clinical research and development expenses, primarily related to ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease; and
- the remainder, if any, for general corporate purposes.
The expected use of proceeds represents the Company’s intentions based upon its current plans and business conditions.
The offering price of $125.00 per Additional ADS (corresponding to €109.71 per additional Ordinary Share, based on the exchange rate of €1.00 = $1.1394 as published by the European Central Bank on June 30, 2026) is equal to the volume weighted average price of the Ordinary Shares on the regulated market of Euronext Paris over the last 3 trading sessions preceding the pricing of the Offering (i.e., June 26 to June 30, 2026), plus a premium of 2.39% and has been determined by the Chief Executive Officer upon subdelegation from the Board of Directors pursuant to the 18th and 27th resolutions of the Company’s combined shareholders’ meeting held on May 11, 2026.
The Company’s ADSs are listed on The Nasdaq Global Market under the ticker symbol "ABVX." The Company’s Ordinary Shares are listed on the regulated market of Euronext in Paris under the symbol "ABVX."
In accordance with Article 6 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1052 of March 8, 2016, Leerink Partners, acting as the stabilizing agent on its own behalf and on behalf of the other underwriters, reported that no stabilization activities had been carried out and the stabilization period is now closed.
An automatic shelf registration statement on Form F-3 (including a prospectus) relating to the Company’s securities was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on July 23, 2025 and became effective upon filing and was amended on June 30, 2026. The Company also intends to file with the SEC a final prospectus supplement (and accompanying prospectus) describing the terms of the Offering (the "Final Prospectus Supplement"). These documents may be obtained free of charge by visiting EDGAR on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, a copy of the Final Prospectus Supplement (and accompanying prospectus) may be obtained from Leerink Partners LLC, Attention: Syndicate Department, 53 State Street, 40th Floor, Boston, MA 02109, by telephone at (800) 808-7525, ext. 6105, or by email at syndicate@leerink.com; Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, 180 Varick Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10014, or by email at prospectus@morganstanley.com; Piper Sandler & Co., 350 North 5th Street, Suite 1300, Minneapolis, MN 55402, Attention: Prospectus Department, by telephone at (800) 747-3924 or by email at prospectus@psc.com; or Guggenheim Securities, LLC, Attention: Equity Syndicate Department, 330 Madison Avenue, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10017, by telephone at (212) 518-9544 or by email at GSEquityProspectusDelivery@guggenheimpartners.com.
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About Abivax
Abivax is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing therapeutics that harness the body’s natural regulatory mechanisms to stabilize the immune response in patients with chronic inflammatory diseases. Based in France and the United States, Abivax’s lead drug candidate, obefazimod (ABX464), is in Phase 3 clinical trials for the treatment of moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis.
Contacts:
| Abivax Investor Relations Patrick Malloy patrick.malloy@abivax.com +1 847 987 4878 Media Contact: LifeSci Communications Karissa Baltz, Ph.D. Associate Director LSC_ABIVAX@lifescicomms.com |
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