Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.
On February 14, 2024, Prime Medicine, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into an Underwriting Agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Jefferies LLC, Cowen and Company, LLC and BMO Capital Markets Corp., as representatives of the several underwriters listed on Schedule 1 thereto (collectively, the “Underwriters”), related to an underwritten public offering (the “Offering”) of 19,200,001 shares (the “Underwritten Shares”) of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.00001 per share (“Common Stock”), at a public offering price of $6.25 per share, and, in lieu of Common Stock to certain investors, pre-funded warrants (the “Pre-Funded Warrants”) to purchase 3,200,005 shares of Common Stock at a public offering price of $6.24999 per Pre-Funded Warrant, which represents the price per share at which shares of Common Stock are being sold to the public in this offering, minus $0.00001, which is the exercise price of each Pre-Funded Warrant. In addition, the Company has granted the Underwriters an option, exercisable in whole or in part at any time for a period of 30 days from the date of the Underwriting Agreement, to purchase, at the public offering price, less the underwriting discounts and commissions, up to an additional 3,360,000 shares of Common Stock (the “Option Shares” and together with the Underwritten Shares, the “Shares”).
The Company estimates that the net proceeds from the Offering, after deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by the Company, will be approximately $150.9 million. The Company may receive nominal proceeds, if any, from the exercise of the Pre-Funded Warrants. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the Offering, together with its existing cash, cash equivalents, short-term investments, and related party short-term investments, to primarily fund research and development and clinical development to support the advancement of its current or future product candidates and the expansion of its research and development programs, and the remainder for working capital, capital expenditures and other general corporate purposes. The Offering is expected to close on or about February 20, 2024, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. All of the Shares and Pre-Funded Warrants in the Offering are being sold by the Company.
The exercise price and the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of each Pre-Funded Warrant are subject to appropriate adjustments in the event of certain stock dividends and distributions, stock splits, stock combinations, reclassifications or similar events affecting Common Stock. The Pre-Funded Warrants are exercisable from the date of issuance and do not expire. Each Pre-Funded Warrant is exercisable, in the holder’s discretion, by (i) payment in full in immediately available funds for the number of shares of Common Stock purchased upon exercise, or (ii) a cashless exercise, in which case the holder would receive upon such exercise the net number of shares of Common Stock determined according to the formula set forth in the Pre-Funded Warrant. Under the Pre-Funded Warrants, the Company may not effect the exercise of any Pre-Funded Warrants, and a holder will not be entitled to exercise any portion of any Pre-Funded Warrant that, upon giving effect to such exercise, would result in: (i) the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by such holder (together with its affiliates) exceeding 4.99% of the total number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to the exercise; or (ii) the combined voting power of the Company’s securities beneficially owned by such holder (together with its affiliates and other attribution parties) exceeding 4.99% of the combined voting power of all of the Company’s securities outstanding immediately after giving effect to the exercise, as such percentage ownership is determined in accordance with the terms of the Pre-Funded Warrants, which percentage may be changed at the holder’s election to a higher or lower percentage not in excess of 19.99% upon at least 61 days’ notice to the Company.
In the event of a Fundamental Transaction (as defined in the Pre-Funded Warrants), a holder of Pre-Funded Warrants will be entitled to receive, upon exercise of the Pre-Funded Warrants, the kind and amount of securities, cash or other property that such holder would have received had they exercised the Pre-Funded Warrants immediately prior to such Fundamental Transaction without regard to any limitations on exercise contained in the Pre-Funded Warrants.
The Company made certain customary representations, warranties and covenants concerning the Company and the registration statement in the Underwriting Agreement and also agreed to indemnify the Underwriters against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). The Offering is being made pursuant to the Company’s shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-275321), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on November 3, 2023 and declared effective by the SEC on November 13, 2023, including the base prospectus therein, as supplemented by a final prospectus supplement, dated February 14, 2024 and filed with the SEC on February 15, 2024. This Current Report on Form 8-K does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any of the shares of Common Stock or the Pre-Funded Warrants.
The foregoing description of certain terms of the Underwriting Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, the full text of the Underwriting Agreement, which is filed as Exhibit 1.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference herein.