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Cell Therapeutics, Inc. Announces Institutional Investors Purchase $30 Million of Preferred Stock and Warrants Last Update: 1/13/2010 6:03:00 PM
Cell Therapeutics, Inc. Announces Institutional Investors Purchase $30 Million of Preferred Stock and Warrants SEATTLE, Jan 13, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq and MTA: CTIC) (the "Company") today announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell $30 million of shares of its Series 3 Preferred Stock and warrants to purchase shares of its common stock in a registered offering to two institutional investors. Each share of Series 3 Preferred Stock is convertible at the option of the holder, at any time during its existence, into approximately 823 shares of common stock at a conversion price of $1.21375 per share of common stock, for a total of approximately 24,690,000 common shares.
In connection with the offering, the investors received warrants to purchase up to 8,640,000 shares of common stock. The warrants have an exercise price of $1.18 per warrant share, for total potential additional proceeds to the Company of approximately $10.2 million upon exercise of the warrants. The warrants are exercisable immediately upon issuance and terminate one year and one day after the date of issuance.
The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for working capital and general corporate purposes, which may include, among other things, paying interest on and/or retiring portions of its outstanding debt, funding research and development, preclinical and clinical trials, the preparation and filing of new drug applications, and general working capital.
Shares of the Series 3 Preferred Stock will receive dividends in the same amount as any dividends declared and paid on shares of common stock and have no voting rights on general corporate matters.
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