Catabasis Pharmaceuticals Announces Closing of Public Offering of Common Stock and Full Exercise of Over-Allotment Option – Yahoo Finance

Catabasis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("Catabasis," the "Company," "we," "our," or "us") (NASDAQ: CATB), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced the closing of its previously announced underwritten public offering of an aggregate of 5,290,000 shares of common stock at a public offering price of $5.00 per share, including 690,000 shares issued upon the exercise in full by the underwriter of its over-allotment option.

Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. acted as sole underwriter for the offering.

The gross proceeds of the offering are expected to be approximately $26.5 million, prior to deducting the underwriting discount and other estimated offering expenses.

Catabasis intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for clinical trial and other research and development activities; initial commercialization preparations; and for working capital and other general corporate purposes.

The securities described above were offered pursuant to a prospectus supplement and an accompanying base prospectus forming part of a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-231441), which was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") on May 23, 2019. A final prospectus supplement relating to the offering was filed with the SEC on January 30, 2020 and is available on the SECs website located at http://www.sec.gov. Copies of the final prospectus supplement and the accompanying base prospectus may be obtained for free by contacting Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. Attention: Syndicate Prospectus Department, 85 Broad St., 26th Floor, New York, NY 10004, by telephone at (212) 667-8055 or by email at EquityProspectus@opco.com.

This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any of the securities described herein, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction.

About Catabasis

At Catabasis Pharmaceuticals, our mission is to bring hope and life-changing therapies to patients and their families. Our lead program is edasalonexent, an NF-kB inhibitor in Phase 3 development for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Forward Looking Statements

Any statements in this press release about future expectations, plans and prospects for the Company, including statements about the anticipated use of net proceeds from the offering, among other things, statements containing the words "believes," "anticipates," "plans," "expects," "may" and similar expressions, constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including: risks and uncertainties associated with the Companys intended use of proceeds, as well as uncertainties inherent in the initiation and completion of preclinical studies and clinical trials and clinical development of the Companys product candidates; whether interim results from a clinical trial will be predictive of the final results of the trial or the results of future trials; expectations for regulatory approvals to conduct trials or to market products; availability of funding sufficient for the Companys foreseeable and unforeseeable operating expenses and capital expenditure requirements; other matters that could affect the availability or commercial potential of the Companys product candidates; and general economic and market conditions and other factors discussed in the "Risk Factors" section of the prospectus supplement and the accompanying base prospectus to the Companys Registration Statement on Form S-3 relating to this offering, and the Companys Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2019, each of which is on file with the SEC, and in other filings that the Company may make with the SEC in the future. In addition, the forward-looking statements included in this press release represent the Companys views as of the date of this press release. The Company anticipates that subsequent events and developments will cause the Companys views to change. However, while the Company may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing the Companys views as of any date subsequent to the date of this release.

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Contacts

Investor and Media Contact Andrea Matthews Catabasis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. T: (617) 349-1971 amatthews@catabasis.com

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