Altimmune Restructures Financing Agreement with Ma

GAITHERSBURG, Md., July 12, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Altimmune, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALT ), a clinical-stage immunotherapeutics company focused on preventing infectious diseases, today announced it has entered into agreements with substantially all of the remaining investors in its Series B Financing to restructure and terminate the previous arrangements. Under terms of these new agreements, long term investors Novartis Ventures, HealthCap, Truffle Capital, Fidelis Capital and Bonaventure Capital have partnered with Altimmune to receive common shares as repayment of the final installment of the Series B preferred stock and to terminate all outstanding warrants held by them. Together with the restructuring announced on June 22, approximately 97% of the Series B Financing has now been restructured and, as of July 17, no shares of the Company’s Series B preferred stock will be outstanding and only 75,995 of the associated warrants will remain outstanding.

The Company completed the restructuring in order to provide an improved capital structure and financial outlook by removing substantially all of the warrants and the associated impediments to share price appreciation.

The securities offered in exchange for the warrants have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements.

About Altimmune Altimmune is a clinical-stage immunotherapeutics company focused on the development of products to stimulate robust and durable immune responses for the prevention and treatment of infectious disease. NasoVAX our influenza vaccine candidate has unique characteristics, stimulating multiple arms of the immune system that offer the potential to stop infection and the spread of flu, while being easier to administer through an intranasal spray. NasoShield and SparVax-L are two next-generation anthrax vaccine candidates that are intended to improve protection and safety while having favorable dosage and storage requirements compared to other anthrax vaccines.

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