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CENTOGENE Announces Pricing of Primary and Secondary Public Offering of Common Shares
July 15, 2020
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and ROSTOCK, Germany and BERLIN, July 9, 2020
(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Centogene N.V. (Nasdaq: CNTG) (“Centogene” or the “Company”), a commercial-stage company focused on rare diseases that transforms real-world clinical and genetic data into actionable information for patients, physicians, and pharmaceutical companies, announced today the pricing of its primary and secondary public offering of 3,500,000 common shares of the Company, consisting of 2,000,000 common shares offered by the Company and 1,500,000 common shares offered by selling shareholders at price to the public of $14.00 per common share for total gross proceeds to the Company of $28 million and total gross proceeds to the selling shareholders of $21 million. The Company will not receive any proceeds from the sale of common shares by the selling shareholders. In addition, the selling shareholders have granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 525,000 common shares at the public offering price, less underwriting discounts and commissions. The offering is expected to close on or about July 14, 2020, subject to customary closing conditions. Credit Suisse and SVB Leerink are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering, with Baird, BTIG and Kempen & Co acting as co-managers. Centogene intends to use the net proceeds of the offering for research and development to support orphan drug development with its knowledge-driven information platform, as well as for working capital and other general corporate purposes. A portion of the net proceeds may also be used to acquire or invest in complementary businesses, assets or technologies. A registration statement relating to these securities was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on July 9, 2020. The offering is being made only by means of a prospectus. Copies of the final prospectus relating to the offering may be obtained, when available, for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, copies of the final prospectus, when available, may be obtained from Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, 6933 Louis Stephens Drive, Morrisville, NC 27560, by telephone at (800) 221-1037, or by email at usa.prospectus@credit-suisse.com; or SVB Leerink LLC, Attention: Syndicate Department, One Federal Street, 37th Floor, Boston, MA 02110, by telephone at (800) 808-7525, ext. 6218 or by email at syndicate@svbleerink.com. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, 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 registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.