The development of the trade in shares Galapagos has induced KBC Securities and Kempen & Co, the joint lead managers in Galapagos’ IPO, to exercise their over-allotment right to purchase 289,795 additional shares from Galapagos at € 7 per share. KBC and Kempen have placed these shares with investors together with the 2,939,704 base shares at the time of the IPO.
As a result, in total 3,229,499 shares have been placed in the offering, of which 289,795 through the exercise of the over-allotment option and 82,562 in connection with the exercise of warrants. The total number of shares outstanding now amounts to 9,170,165. Galapagos has raised a total amount of € 22,408,414 in the offering: € 22.0 million from the placement of new shares and € 0.4 million from the placement of new shares in connection with the exercise of warrants.
Further information on the capital increase and the listing can be found in the offering prospectus, in the press releases of April 15, April 29, and May 5, 2005, as well as on the company website of Galapagos, www.glpg.com.
Galapagos
Onno van de Stolpe, CEO
Tel: +32 15 342 900
Email: onno@galapagos.be
Internet: www.glpg.com
Smink, van der Ploeg & Jongsma Financial Communication
Leon Melens, Kees Jongsma
Tel: +31 206478181
Mob: +31 6 5381 6427
Email: lmelens@spj.nl
About Galapagos
Galapagos is a publicly traded, genomics-based drug discovery company (Euronext Brussels, GLPG; Euronext Amsterdam, GLPGA) that has successfully discovered and validated novel targets in the bone and joint diseases – osteoarthritis, osteoporosis and rheumatoid arthritis, as well as in asthma and Alzheimer’s disease. Proprietary targets and compounds resulting from these programs are used for Galapagos’ internal drug discovery programs, combined with selected out-licensing and partnering of projects during development.
Galadeno, Galapagos’ services unit provides reagents and functional screens to leading pharmaceutical, biotech and nutraceutical companies for rapid identification and validation of novel drug targets. Galapagos currently employs 69 people, including 17 PhDs, and occupies facilities in Mechelen, Belgium, and Leiden, The Netherlands. Partners include Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Celgene, GlaxoSmithKline, Vertex and Wyeth.
For more information, visit www.glpg.com.