scPharmaceuticals Announces Proposed Underwritten Public Offering of Common Stock and Pre-Funded Warrants

BURLINGTON, Mass., Aug. 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- scPharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: SCPH) (the “Company”), a pharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing products that have the potential to optimize the delivery of infused therapies, advance patient care, and reduce healthcare costs, today announced a proposed underwritten public offering of shares (“Shares”) of its common stock or, in lieu of Shares, pre-funded warrants (the “Pre-Funded Warrants”) to purchase Shares (the “Offering”). scPharmaceuticals also expects to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 15% of Shares offered in the Offering. All Shares and Pre-Funded Warrants to be sold in the Offering will be offered by scPharmaceuticals. The Offering is subject to market and other conditions, and there can be no assurance as to whether or when the Offering may be completed, or as to the actual size or terms of the offering.

Leerink Partners and TD Cowen are acting as joint book-running managers for the Offering.

The Offering is being made pursuant to a shelf registration statement on Form S-3, including a base prospectus, which was filed by the Company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on March 13, 2024, and declared effective on March 22, 2024 (the “Registration Statement”). A preliminary prospectus supplement related to the Offering will be filed with the SEC and will be available on the SEC’s website at . Copies of the preliminary prospectus supplement and the accompanying base prospectus relating to the Offering, when available, may be obtained from: Leerink Partners LLC, Attention: Syndicate Department, 53 State Street, 40th Floor, Boston, MA 02109, by telephone at (800) 808-7525, ext. 6105, or by email at ; and TD Securities (USA) LLC, 1 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017, by telephone at (855) 495-9846 or by email at .

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

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements relate to our future expectations, beliefs, plans, strategies, objectives, results, conditions, financial performance, prospects, or other events. Such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, those regarding the completion of the proposed public offering and our expectation with respect to granting a 30-day option to purchase additional shares of common stock. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as “will,” “may,” “believe,” “expect,” “look forward,” “on track,” “guidance,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “project” and similar expressions, and the negatives thereof (if applicable).

Our forward-looking statements are based on estimates and assumptions that are made within the bounds of our knowledge of our business and operations and that we consider reasonable. However, our business and operations are subject to significant risks, and, as a result, there can be no assurance that actual results of our research, development and commercialization activities and the results of our business and operations will not differ materially from the results contemplated in such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ from expectations in our forward-looking statements include the risks and uncertainties described in the “Risk Factors” section of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023, which we filed with the SEC on March 13, 2024, subsequent filings with the SEC and the preliminary prospectus supplement related to this offering.

Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made and are not guarantees of future performance. Accordingly, you should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. We do not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise our forward-looking statements, except as required by law.

Katherine Miranda

scPharmaceuticals Inc., 781-301-6869

Investors:

PJ Kelleher

LifeSci Advisors, 617-430-7579