UroGen Pharma Announces Closing of Initial Public Offering and Exercise of Underwriters’ Option

RA’ANANA, Israel and NEW YORK, May 10, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — UroGen Pharma Ltd. (NASDAQ:URGN), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing advanced non-surgical treatments to address unmet needs in the field of urology with a focus on uro-oncology, announced today the closing of its initial public offering on May 9, 2017 of an aggregate of 5,144,378 ordinary shares at a public offering price of $13.00 per share, including the exercise in full of the underwriters’ option to purchase an additional 671,005 shares, resulting in gross proceeds of approximately $66.9 million.

Jefferies LLC and Cowen and Company, LLC acted as joint book-running managers for the offering.  Raymond James & Associates, Inc. and Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. acted as co-managers for the offering.

A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with and was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 3, 2017. The offering is being made only by means of a prospectus. A copy of the final prospectus relating to the offering will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and may be obtained from Jefferies LLC, Attention: Equity Syndicate Prospectus Department, 520 Madison Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10022, or by telephone at (877) 547-6340, or by e-mail at Prospectus_Department@Jefferies.com; or from Cowen and Company, LLC, c/o Broadridge Financial Services, Attention: Prospectus Department, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, or by telephone at (631) 274-2806.

This press 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 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 UroGen Pharma Ltd.
UroGen Pharma is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing advanced non-surgical treatments to address unmet needs in the field of urology, with a focus on uro-oncology.  The Company has developed RTGel, a proprietary sustained release, hydrogel-based formulation for potentially improving the efficacy and safety profiles of existing drugs.  UroGen Pharma’s sustained release technology is designed to enable longer exposure of the urinary tract tissue to medications, making local therapy a potentially more effective treatment option.  UroGen Pharma’s lead product candidates, MitoGel and VesiGel, are designed to potentially remove tumors by non-surgical means and to treat several forms of non-muscle invasive urothelial cancer, including low-grade UTUC and bladder cancer.  UroGen Pharma is headquartered in Israel and also maintains a corporate office in New York City.

CONTACT: CONTACT:
Gary Titus, UroGen Pharma Ltd.
689 Fifth Avenue, 14th Floor
New York, NY 10022
garyt@urogen.com 
646-768-9531

Stephanie Carrington, ICR, Inc. 
685 Third Avenue, 2nd Floor 
New York, NY 10017
stephanie.carrington@icrinc.com 
646-277-1282

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