BIOTIE THERAPIES CORP. STOCK EXCHANGE RELEASE 14 May 2015 at 1.50 p.m.
Biotie Has Filed Registration Statement for U.S. Public Offering
In accordance with its previously announced plans, Biotie Therapies Corp. ("Biotie") has filed a registration statement on Form F-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") relating to its proposed U.S. public offering of American Depositary Shares, representing Biotie's ordinary shares ("ADSs"). The number of ADSs to be offered and the price range for the offering have not yet been determined. Biotie has made an initial submission to list its ADSs on the NASDAQ Global Market under the ticker symbol "BITI".
RBC Capital Markets and Stifel are acting as joint book-running managers. JMP Securities is acting as lead manager and Roth Capital Partners is acting as a co-manager.
A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the SEC but has not yet become effective. These securities may not be sold nor may offers to buy be accepted prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective. Copies of the registration statement can be accessed through the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. This stock exchange release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the 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.
The proposed offering will be made only by means of a prospectus. When available, copies of the preliminary prospectus related to the offering may be obtained from: RBC Capital Markets, LLC, 200 Vesey Street, 8th Floor, New York, New York 10281, attn.: Equity Syndicate Department, or by calling +1 877 822 4089, or by emailing equityprospectus@rbccm.com, or from Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated, Attention: Syndicate, One Montgomery Street, Suite 3700, San Francisco, California 94104, by telephone at +1 415 364 2720 or by email at syndprospectus@stifel.com.
Turku, 14 May 2015
Biotie Therapies Corp.
Timo Veromaa
President and CEO
Contact:
Virve Nurmi, Investor Relations Manager, Biotie Therapies Corp.
tel. +358 2 274 8900, e-mail: virve.nurmi@biotie.com
DISTRIBUTION:
NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd
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About Biotie
Biotie is a specialized drug development company focused on products for neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders. Biotie's development has delivered Selincro (nalmefene) for alcohol dependence, which received European marketing authorization in 2013 and is currently being rolled out across Europe by partner Lundbeck. The current development products include tozadenant for Parkinson's disease, which is transitioning into Phase 3 development, and two additional compounds which are in Phase 2 development for cognitive disorders including Parkinson's disease dementia, and primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), a rare fibrotic disease of the liver.
Disclaimer
The information herein may not be distributed or sent into Australia, Canada, Japan or South Africa.
The issue, exercise and/or sale of securities in the offerings are subject to specific legal or regulatory restrictions in certain jurisdictions. The Company assumes no responsibility in the event there is a violation by any person of such restrictions. Investors must neither accept any offer for, nor acquire, any securities to which this document refers, unless they do so on the basis of the information contained in the applicable prospectus published or offering circular distributed by the Company.
The Company has not authorized any offer to the public of securities in any Member State of the European Economic Area. With respect to each Member State of the European Economic Area other than potentially Finland and which has implemented the Prospectus Directive (each, a "Relevant Member State"), no action has been undertaken or will be undertaken to make an offer to the public of securities requiring publication of a prospectus in any Relevant Member State. As a result, the securities may only be offered in Relevant Member States (a) to any legal entity which is a qualified investor as defined in the Prospectus Directive; or (b) in any other circumstances falling within Article 3(2) of the Prospectus Directive. For the purposes of this paragraph, the expression an "offer of securities to the public" means the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the securities to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to exercise, purchase or subscribe the securities, as the same may be varied in that Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that Member State and the expression "Prospectus Directive" means Directive 2003/71/EC (and amendments thereto, including the 2010 PD Amending Directive, to the extent implemented in the Relevant Member State), and includes any relevant implementing measure in the Relevant Member State and the expression "2010 PD Amending Directive" means Directive 2010/73/EU.
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