UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): October 24, 2007
Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Florida | 000-27836 | 65-0643773 | ||||
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation) |
(Commission
File Number) |
(IRS Employer
Identification No.) |
2 Snunit Street
Science Park
POB 455
Carmiel, Israel 20100
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: +972-4-988-9488
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):
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Item 8.01. Other Events
On October 24, 2007, the Company issued a press release announcing the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 10,000,000 shares of Common Stock at a public offering price of $5.00 per share. The press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits
(d) Exhibits
99 | .1 | Press release dated October 24, 2007. |
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
PROTALIX BIOTHERAPEUTICS, INC. | ||||||
Date: October 25, 2007 | By: | /s/ Yossi Maimon | ||||
Name: | Yossi Maimon | |||||
Title: | Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer |
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Exhibit 99.1
Protalix BioTherapeutics Announces Pricing of Public Offering of Common Stock
Carmiel, Israel – October 24, 2007 – Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc. (AMEX: PLX), announced today the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 10,000,000 shares of its common stock at a public offering price of $5.00 per share. The Company has granted a 30-day option to the underwriters to purchase up to 1,500,000 additional shares of common stock to cover over-allotments, if any.
UBS Investment Bank is acting as sole book-running manager for this offering. CIBC World Markets Corp. is acting as co-manager for this offering.
Copies of the prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus may be obtained from UBS Investment Bank, Attn: Prospectus Department, 299 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10171, Toll Free: (888) 827-7275.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.
About Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc.
Protalix is a biopharmaceutical company. Its goal is to become a fully integrated biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of proprietary recombinant therapeutic proteins to be expressed through its proprietary plant cell based expression system. Protalix’s ProCellExTM presents a proprietary method for the expression of recombinant proteins that Protalix believes is safe and scalable and will allow for the cost-effective, industrial-scale production of recombinant therapeutic proteins. Protalix has initiated enrollment and treatment of patients in its pivotal phase III clinical trial in the United States of its lead product candidate, prGCD, for its enzyme replacement therapy for Gaucher disease, a lysosomal storage disorder in humans, and has reached an agreement with the Unite d States Food and Drug Administration on the final design of the pivotal phase III clinical trial through the FDA’s Special Protocol Assessment (SPA) process. Protalix is also advancing additional recombinant biopharmaceutical drug development programs.
Safe Harbor Statement:
To the extent that statements in this press release are not strictly historical, all such statements are forward-looking, and are made pursuant to the safe-harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause actual future experience and results to differ materially from the statements made. These statements are based on our current beliefs and expectations as to such future outcomes. Drug discovery and development involve a high degree of risk. Factors that might cause such a material difference include, among others, uncertainties related to the ability to attract and retain partners for our technologies and products under development, the identification of lead compounds, the successful preclinical development of our products, the completion of clinical trials, the review process of the FDA, foreign regulatory bodies and other governm ental regulation, and other factors described in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The statements are valid only as of the date hereof and we disclaim any obligation to update this information.
For additional information, contact Protalix BioTherapeutics at:
investors@protalix.com
AMEX IR Alliance for Protalix BioTherapeutics
Lee Roth / David Burke
212-896-1209 / 1258
lroth@kcsa.com / dburke@kcsa.com