Burning Rock Announces Pricing of Upsized Registered Secondary Public Offering of American Depositary Shares
GUANGZHOU, China, Dec. 04, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Burning Rock Biotech Limited (NASDAQ: BNR, the “Company” or “Burning Rock”), a company focused on the application of next generation sequencing (NGS) technology in the field of precision oncology, today announced the pricing of an upsized secondary public offering by certain selling shareholders (the “Offering”) of 2,243,000 American Depositary Shares (“ADSs”), each representing one Class A ordinary share of the Company, at a public offering price of US$25.75 per ADS. The aggregate offering size of the Offering is approximately US$57.8 million, assuming the underwriters do not exercise their option to purchase additional ADSs. The selling shareholders have granted the underwriters an option, exercisable within 30 days from the date of the final prospectus, to purchase up to 336,450 additional ADSs.
The Company will not receive any proceeds from the sale of the ADSs by the selling shareholders.
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, BofA Securities, Inc. and Cowen and Company, LLC are acting as joint bookrunners for the Offering.
The Offering is being made only by means of a prospectus forming part of the effective registration statement. A copy of the prospectus relating to the Offering may be obtained by contacting: Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, 180 Varick Street, New York, NY 10014, via telephone: 1-917-606-8487, or via email: prospectus@morganstanley.com; BofA Securities, Inc., Attention: Prospectus Department, NC1-004-03-43, 200 North College Street, 3rd floor, Charlotte NC 28255-0001, via email: dg.prospectus_requests@bofa.com; and Cowen and Company, LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, via telephone: 1-833-297-2926, or via email: PostSaleManualRequests@broadridge.com.
A registration statement on Form F-1 was initially filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on December 1, 2020, and has been declared effective on December 3, 2020. An additional registration statement on Form F-1 was filed with the SEC pursuant to Rule 462(b) and became automatically effective on December 3, 2020. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, the securities of the Company described herein, nor shall there be any offer, solicitation or sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
About Burning Rock
Burning Rock Biotech Limited (NASDAQ: BNR), whose mission is to guard life via science, focuses on the application of next generation sequencing (NGS) technology in the field of precision oncology. Its business consists of i) NGS-based therapy selection testing for late-stage cancer patients, with the leading market share in China and over 185,000 tissue and liquid-based tests completed cumulatively, and ii) cancer early detection, which has moved beyond proof-of-concept R&D into the clinical validation stage.
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