SEATTLE, Aug. 10, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Omeros Corporation (NASDAQ: OMER) today announced an agreement to sell $40 million of shares of its common stock to Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., as the sole underwriter, in a registered underwritten public offering.

Omeros intends to use the net proceeds of the offering for general corporate purposes, including funding research and development expenses for its clinical OMS721 program and clinical trials, pre-clinical studies, manufacturing development and other costs associated with advancing its product candidates toward Biologic License Application and New Drug Application submissions, and supporting the continued commercialization of OMIDRIA. The net offering proceeds may also be used for working capital, the repayment of debt obligations, acquisitions or investments in businesses, products or technologies that are complementary to its own, and other capital expenditures.

A registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-201581) relating to the securities was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 16, 2015 and amended on March 15, 2016. The securities may be offered only by means of a prospectus, including a prospectus supplement, forming a part of the effective registration statement. A preliminary prospectus supplement related to the offering will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 10, 2016. An electronic copy of the preliminary prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering will be available on the website of the Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov.  Copies of the final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering may be obtained, when available, by contacting Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., Attn: Capital Markets, 499 Park Ave., 5th Floor, New York, New York 10022, or by telephone at 212-829-7122, or by e-mail at prospectus@cantor.com.

This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities of Omeros, and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale of any security in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.

About Omeros Corporation

Omeros is a biopharmaceutical company committed to discovering, developing and commercializing both small-molecule and protein therapeutics for large-market as well as orphan indications targeting inflammation, coagulopathies and disorders of the central nervous system. 

Forward-looking Statements

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which are subject to the "safe harbor" created by those sections for such statements. All statements other than statements of historical facts are forward-looking statements. Terms such as "anticipate," "believe," "could," "estimate," "expect," "goal," "intend," "may," "plan," "potential," "predict," "project," "should," "will," "would" and similar expressions and variations thereof are intended to identify forward-looking statements, but these terms are not the exclusive means of identifying such statements. Forward-looking statements are based on management's beliefs and assumptions and on information available to management only as of the date of this press release. Omeros' actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements for many reasons, including, without limitation, Omeros' unproven preclinical and clinical development activities, regulatory oversight, product commercialization, intellectual property claims, competitive developments, litigation,  and the risks, uncertainties and other factors described under the heading "Risk Factors" in the company's most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Given these risks, uncertainties and other factors, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, and the company assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future.

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