BioMarin Announces Proposed Offering of $300 Milli

SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Oct. 7, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. (Nasdaq: BMRN ) announced today an offering, subject to market and other conditions, of $600 million of its senior subordinated convertible notes consisting of $300 million Senior Subordinated Convertible Notes due 2018 (the "2018 Notes") and $300 million Senior Subordinated Convertible Notes due 2020 (the "2020 Notes" and together with the 2018 Notes, the "Notes"). BioMarin intends to use the net proceeds from the offering for general corporate purposes, including working capital and research and development. In addition, the Company intends to use a portion of the net offering proceeds to fund payment of the cost of the capped call transactions described below. The Notes will be convertible into BioMarin common stock at a price to be determined.

BioMarin also expects to grant the underwriters an option to purchase up to an additional $70 million aggregate principal amount of Notes. The Notes will be convertible, under certain circumstances, into cash, shares of BioMarin's common stock or a combination thereof at BioMarin's election. BofA Merrill Lynch, Goldman, Sachs & Co., J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley are acting as joint book-running managers for this offering. Barclays is acting as co-manager.

In connection with the pricing of each of the 2018 Notes and the 2020 Notes, BioMarin expects to enter into privately-negotiated capped call transactions with respect to 50% of the principal amount of the 2018 Notes and 50% of the principal amount of the 2020 Notes with one or more of the underwriters or their affiliates or persons unrelated to this offering (the "hedge counterparties"). The capped call transactions are generally expected to reduce potential dilution to BioMarin's common stock upon conversion of the relevant Notes in excess of the principal amount of such converted Notes. If the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional Notes, BioMarin intends to enter into additional capped call transactions with the hedge counterparties with respect to 50% of the principal amount of such additional Notes.

BioMarin has been advised by the hedge counterparties that in connection with establishing their initial hedges of the capped call transactions, the hedge counterparties (or their affiliates) expect to enter into various derivative transactions with respect to BioMarin's common stock concurrently with, and/or purchase shares of BioMarin's common stock shortly after, the pricing of the relevant Notes. These activities could have the effect of increasing, or reducing the size of any decrease in, the price of the relevant Notes and/or BioMarin's common stock concurrently with, or shortly after, the pricing of the relevant Notes.

The offering of the Notes has been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and BioMarin refers you to its Registration Statement on Form S-3, which BioMarin filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission today, for additional information about the Notes, the offering and the capped call transactions. The preliminary prospectus relating to the offering, and the final prospectus when available, may be obtained from BofA Merrill Lynch, 222 Broadway, New York, NY 10038, Attn: Prospectus Department, or e-mail dg.prospectus_requests@baml.com ; from Goldman, Sachs & Co., 200 West Street, New York, NY 10282, or e-mail prospectus-ny@ny.email.gs.com ; from J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, or by calling (866) 803-9204; or from Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, 180 Varick Street, New York, NY 10014, Attn: Prospectus Delivery Department, or email prospectus@morganstanley.com .

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy the Notes or any other securities, and will not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. The offering of these securities will be made only by means of the prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus.

Forward-Looking Statement

This press release contains forward-looking statements about the business prospects of BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc., including, without limitation, statements related to the anticipated public offering of senior subordinated convertible notes, the expectations of BioMarin to enter into a privately negotiated capped call transaction and statements regarding BioMarin's intentions regarding the use of proceeds from the offering. These forward-looking statements are based on the current expectations of the management of BioMarin as of the date of this press release and are subject to risks, uncertainties, changes in circumstances, assumptions and other factors that may cause actual results of BioMarin to be materially different from those reflected in the forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements include, among others, market risks. These and other risks are discussed in BioMarin's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, without limitation, BioMarin's 2012 Annual Report on Form 10-K, and our periodic reports on Form 10-Q and Form 8-K as well as the risks identified in the registration statement and the preliminary prospectus relating to the offering. Given these uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. BioMarin is under no obligation, and expressly disclaims any obligation to update or alter any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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Aldurazyme® is a registered trademark of BioMarin/Genzyme LLC.

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