The Life Sciences team advised BridgeBio Pharma, Inc. (“BridgeBio”) on the sale of $632.5 million aggregate principal amount of 0.75% convertible senior notes due 2033 in a private offering to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The notes included $82.5 million aggregate principal amount sold to the initial purchasers in the offering. Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., TD Securities (USA) LLC, Evercore Group L.L.C., Mizuho Securities USA LLC and Piper Sandler & Co. acted as initial purchasers for the offering.
BridgeBio used a portion of the net proceeds from the offering to repurchase shares of its common stock and intends to use the remaining net proceeds to settle future conversion obligations in respect of or repay at maturity a portion of its convertible senior notes due 2027, and for general corporate purposes.
BridgeBio Pharma, Inc. is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company founded to discover, create, test, and deliver transformative medicines to treat patients who suffer from genetic diseases and cancers with clear genetic drivers. BridgeBio’s pipeline of development programs ranges from early science to advanced clinical trials. BridgeBio was founded in 2015 and its team of experienced drug discoverers, developers and innovators are committed to applying advances in genetic medicine to help patients as quickly as possible.
The Goodwin deal team was led by Jim Barri, Kim de Glossop, Maggie Wong, Natalie T. Martirossian, Alicia Tschirhart, Della Fok, Dan Liu, Seva Castleberry, Elizabeth Mulkey, Dan Karelitz, Garrett Gaughan, and Ettore Santucci, with invaluable assistance from Christina Keeney.
For more information on the deal, please read the press release.