$1.9 million raised from exercise of 1ADOA options
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ASX Announcement | 3 June 2024
AdAlta Limited (ASX:1AD)
$1.9 million raised from exercise of 1ADOA options
The new funds provided give AdAlta enhanced financing flexibility as it
advances strategic partnerships
Investment highlights
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$1.9 million of new equity raised from the exercise of listed 1ADOA options
The options were exercised at a 20% premium to closing price on 29 May 2024
Option exercise led by an existing major shareholder
Proceeds from the exercised options will provide further strategic flexibility for AdAlta to:
o Advance strategic partnerships
o Maximise benefits of other funding sources
AdAlta Limited (ASX:1AD) (“AdAlta” or “the Company”) is pleased to announce that it raised a total of
$1.9 million in new equity from the exercise of the Company’s listed 1ADAO options.
AdAlta CEO and Managing Director, Tim Oldham said: "We are thrilled by the vote of confidence in our
strategy exhibited by the option holders who exercised their 1ADOA options. I wish in particular to
acknowledge the substantial investment by existing major shareholder Stuart Morris. This is another
example of the strong support we have from major, long-term shareholders.
The new equity flowing from the exercised options means AdAlta now has the funding needed to materially
advance its AdSolis, AdCella and discovery programs into the second half of calendar 2024. And it also
provides the Company with increased flexibility over the timing of any further drawdowns from the tranched
institutional investments announced in April 2024. We now look forward to further AdSolis and AdCella
milestones in the months ahead."
Exercised options increase AdAlta shareholders’ equity by $1.9 million
In 2023 AdAlta issued 173,075,186 options as part of private placements and entitlement offers (1ADOA
Options). These options had an exercise price of $0.03 per share, and an expiry date of 29 May 2024.
At the expiry date, 62,570,306 (36.2%) options were exercised, raising $1,877,109 at a 20% premium to the
closing price of AdAlta shares on 29 May 2024 of $0.025 per share. The new equity generated by these
exercised options included an investment of $1.8 million made by an entity associated with Stuart Morris,
one of AdAlta’s top 5 shareholders. As a result of this investment, Mr Morris increased his holding in AdAlta
to 16.36%. 1
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See Form 604 Notice of change of interest of a substantial holder lodged today
AdAlta Limited (ASX:1AD)
15/2 Park Drive, Bundoora 3083 Victoria Australia
ABN: 92 120 332 925
www.adalta.com.au
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New equity will fund partnering strategies; increase financial flexibility
The new equity flowing from the exercise of these options will help finance near-term transaction
opportunities and internal development programs across AdAlta’s three priority areas:
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AdSolis: partnering and third-party investment to progress AD-214 into Phase II clinical trials for
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF)
AdCella: accelerating due diligence towards in-licensing a pipeline of Asian originated, clinical stage
cellular immunotherapies
Discovery: evaluating opportunities to maximise the productivity of AdAlta’s discovery programs and
processes.
The new funding generated by the exercised options has also enhanced AdAlta’s look-ahead funding
strategy. As a consequence of this additional equity, AdAlta now has increased flexibility over the timing of
optional drawdowns under the recently announced investment agreements with New Life Sciences Capital,
LLC (up to $3 million) and existing shareholder the Meurs Group (up to $0.7 million). 2 To date, the Company
has accessed an initial investment of $1.2 million of the total $3.7 million available via these agreements.
For the opportunity to engage in a virtual discussion see: https://investorhub.adalta.com.au/link/DP4Aqy
This ASX announcement has been authorised for release by the Board of AdAlta Limited (ASX:1AD).
For further information, please contact:
AdAlta Limited (ASX:1AD)
Tim Oldham
CEO & Managing Director
P: +61 3 9479 5159
E: t.oldham@adalta.com.au
Media & Investor Enquiries
The Capital Network
Lelde Smits
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E: lel@thecapitalnetwork.com.au
About AdAlta Limited
AdAlta Limited (ASX:1AD) is a clinical stage drug development company headquartered in Melbourne,
Australia. The Company is using its proprietary i-body® technology platform to solve challenging drug
targeting problems and generate a promising new class of single domain antibody-enabled protein and cell
therapeutics with the potential to treat some of today’s most challenging medical conditions.
The i-body® technology creates a range of unique proteins capable of interacting with high selectivity,
specificity and affinity with previously difficult to access targets such as G-protein coupled receptors
(GPCRs) that are implicated in many serious diseases. i-bodies are the first fully human single domain
antibody scaffold and the first based on the shark motif to reach clinical trials.
AdAlta’s strategy is to maximise the products developed using its next generation i-body® platform by
discovering and developing selected i-body®-enabled product candidates useful in fibrosis, inflammation and
cancer; and partnering with other biopharmaceutical companies to develop these and other product
candidates in a range of indications and product formats
AdAlta’s current lead i-body® enabled candidate is AD-214, which is taking a wholly new approach to treat
lung fibrosis (IPF) and other fibrotic diseases. In accord with its business model, AdAlta is creating a private,
unlisted subsidiary called AdSolis to advance AD-214 into Phase II clinical trials through licensing and/or
third-party investment.
AdAlta believes that the i-body® technology is ideally suited for use in the creation of advanced cellular
immunotherapies for cancer and that this field represents an opportunity to expand its clinical stage pipeline.
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See ASX announcement dated 29 April 2024).
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It has entered a Memorandum of Understanding with SYNthesis BioVentures to investigate the formation of
a jointly owned entity, to be called AdCella, that, once established, will provide innovative cellular
immunotherapies originating in Asia with a pathway to western regulated markets via Australian clinical trials
and further enhancement with AdAlta’s i-body® technology.
The Company is also entering collaborative discovery partnerships to advance the development of its ibody® platform. It has a collaboration with Carina Biotech to codevelop precision engineered, i-body®
enabled CAR-T cell therapies (i-CAR-T) to bring new hope to patients with cancer. It has an agreement with
GE Healthcare to co-develop i-bodies as diagnostic imaging agents (i-PET imaging) against Granzyme B, a
biomarker of response to immuno-oncology drugs, a program now in preclinical development.
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