Virax Biolabs Group Limited Announces $5 Million Private Placement
LONDON, December 3, 2025/PRNewswire/-- Virax Biolabs Group Limited (“Virax” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: VRAX), an innovative biotechnology company dedicated to the advancement of immunology research and diagnostics, announced today that it has entered into definitive agreements for the purchase and sale of 12,500,000 ordinary shares (or ordinary share equivalents) and preferred investment options to purchase up to an aggregate of 12,500,000 ordinary shares at a purchase price of $0.40 per ordinary share and associated preferred investment option in a private placement .
The preferred investment options have an exercise price of $0.40 per ordinary share and will be exercisable immediately upon issuance for a period of five years from the effective date of the Initial Registration Statement (as defined below).
H.C. Wainwright & Co. is acting as the exclusive placement agent for the offering.
The gross proceeds from the private placement are expected to be $5 million, before deducting placement agent fees and other offering expenses. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the private placement for working capital and other general corporate purposes. The private placement is expected to close on or about December 4, 2025, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
The offer and sale of the foregoing securities are being made in a transaction not involving a public offering and the securities have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or applicable state securities laws. Accordingly, the securities may not be reoffered or resold in the United States except pursuant to an effective registration statement or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and such applicable state securities laws. Under an agreement with the investors, Virax agreed to file an initial registration statement (the “Initial Registration Statement”) with the SEC covering the resale of the ordinary shares to be issued to the investors (including the ordinary shares issuable upon the exercise of the any ordinary share equivalents and preferred investment options) and have the registration statement declared effective as promptly as practical thereafter, and in any event no later than 45 days following the date of the agreement in the event of a "full review" by the SEC.
Effective as of the closing, the Company has agreed to (i) reduce the exercise price of those certain Series A Preferred Investment Options and Series B Preferred Investment Options issued to the investor on March 10, 2023 to the exercise price of the preferred investment options being issued in this offering and (ii) extend the term of such prior preferred investment options to expire at 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the five year anniversary of the effective date of the Initial Registration Statement.
This press release does 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 Virax Biolabs Group Limited
Virax Biolabs Group Limited is an innovative biotechnology company focused on the detection of immune responses to and diagnosis of viral diseases. Virax Biolabs Group Limited is developing T cell-based test