HAMBURG, Germany, Sept. 2, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Evotec AG (Frankfurt:EVT)
(TecDAX) today announced the Closing of the agreement to acquire DeveloGen as
announced in detail on 14 July 2010.
Following the successful fulfilment of various Closing conditions, the sellers
of 99.3% of the shares in DeveloGen AG today transferred their shares to Evotec
AG. Evotec AG issues 6,750,014 new Evotec Shares from its authorized capital as
part consideration for the transaction. Following the registration of these
shares at the trade register, Evotec’s issued share capital will increase to
EURO115,588,729.
The transaction adds two complementary alliances – one with Boehringer Ingelheim
and one with Andromeda (Teva) – to Evotec’s portfolio of core assets. In
addition, it augments and complements Evotec’s high-end drug discovery platform
and capability with DeveloGen’s target discovery, validation and in vivo/in
vitro pharmacology expertise and adds core disease biology know-how in metabolic
diseases and endocrine disorders. These skills further enhance Evotec’s ability
to deliver high quality, innovative solutions to its partners on a global scale.
ABOUT EVOTEC AG
Evotec is a leader in the discovery and development of novel small molecule
drugs with operational sites in Europe and Asia. The Company has built
substantial drug discovery expertise and an industrialised platform that can
drive new innovative small molecule compounds into the clinic. In addition,
Evotec has built a deep internal knowledge base in the treatment of diseases
related to neuroscience, pain, oncology, inflammation and metabolic diseases.
Leveraging these skills and expertise the Company intends to develop
best-in-class differentiated therapeutics and deliver superior science-driven
discovery alliances with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Evotec has
long-term discovery alliances with partners including Boehringer Ingelheim,
CHDI, Genentech, Novartis, Ono Pharmaceutical and Roche. Evotec has product
candidates in clinical development and a series of preclinical compounds and
development partnerships, including for example a strategic alliance with Roche
for the EVT 100 compound family, subtype selective NMDA receptor antagonists for
use in treatment-resistant depression. For additional information please go to
www.evotec.com.
ABOUT DEVELOGEN
DeveloGen is a privately held biotechnology company based in Göttingen,
Germany. The company was founded in 1997 and currently employs 21 employees.
Following the transaction, DeveloGen will be fully integrated into the value
chain of Evotec’s operations.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS – Information set forth in this press release
contains forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks and
uncertainties. Such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to,
statements about our 2010 financial outlook and our expected financial results
in future quarters, our revised revenue guidance for 2010 and expected revenue
growth, our ability to deliver on our liquidity guidance, our belief that we are
on course to sustainable profitability latest in 2012, our expectations and
assumptions concerning regulatory, clinical and business strategies, the
progress of our clinical development programmes and timing of the commencement
and results of our clinical trials, strategic collaborations and management’s
plans, objectives and strategies. These statements are neither promises nor
guarantees, but are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties, many of
which are beyond our control, and which could cause actual results to differ
materially from those contemplated in these forward-looking statements. In
particular, the risks and uncertainties include, among other things: risks that
product candidates may fail in the clinic or may not be successfully marketed or
manufactured; the risk that we will not achieve the anticipated benefits of our
collaborations, partnerships and acquisitions in the timeframes expected, or at
all; risks relating to our ability to advance the development of product
candidates currently in the pipeline or in clinical trials; our inability to
further identify, develop and achieve commercial success for new products and
technologies; the risk that competing products may be more successful; our
inability to interest potential partners in our technologies and products; our
inability to achieve commercial success for our products and technologies; our
inability to protect our intellectual property and the cost of enforcing or
defending our intellectual property rights; our failure to comply with
regulations relating to our products and product candidates, including FDA
requirements; the risk that the FDA may interpret the results of our studies
differently than we have; the risk that clinical trials may not result in
marketable products; the risk that we may be unable to successfully secure
regulatory approval of and market our drug candidates; and risks of new,
changing and competitive technologies and regulations in the U.S. and
internationally.
The list of risks above is not exhaustive. Our most recent Annual Report on
Form 20-F, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and other
documents filed with, or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission,
contain additional factors that could impact our businesses and financial
performance. We expressly disclaim any obligation or undertaking to release
publicly any updates or revisions to any such statements to reflect any change
in our expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on
which any such statement is based.
CONTACT: Evotec AG
Dr Werner Lanthaler, Chief Executive Officer
+49.(0)40.56081-242
werner.lanthaler@evotec.com
