Rapport closes $215.7 million stock offering and $172.5 million convertible notes sale
Both offerings closed October 30, 2026, with underwriters fully exercising options on shares and notes, as Rapport advances RAP-219 toward Phase 3 trials in epilepsy and bipolar mania.
Rapport Therapeutics closed its underwritten common stock offering and convertible notes offering on October 30, 2026, according to an 8-K filed the same day. The Common Stock Offering closed on October 30, 2026.1 On October 28, 2026, the Equity Offering Underwriters exercised their option in full to purchase 1,428,571 Option Shares.1 The Company estimates that the net proceeds from the Common Stock Offering, after deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by the Company, will be approximately $215.7 million, including proceeds from exercise of the Equity Offering Underwriters' option to purchase Option Shares.1
On October 30, 2026, the Notes Offering closed and the Company issued an aggregate of $172,500,000 principal amount of the Notes, which included the Notes sold pursuant to the exercise in full by the Underwriters of their over-allotment option.1 The net proceeds to the Company from the Notes Offering were approximately $166.8 million, after deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by the Company.1 A concurrent private placement also closed: the Company agreed to sell to the Investors 1,428,571 shares of the Common Stock at a price per share equal to the Offering Price, for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $30.0 million. The Private Placement closed on October 30, 2026.1
The Company currently intends to use the net proceeds from the Offerings primarily to fund its ongoing and planned clinical trials advancing RAP-219, for other research and development, and for working capital and general corporate purposes, and believes that the net proceeds, together with its existing cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments, will enable it to fund its operations through the end of 2029.1
The financing follows Rapport's October 20, 2026 announcement of positive Phase 2 topline results for RAP-219 in acute bipolar mania, in which the trial met its primary endpoint, with RAP-219 achieving a 3.1-point placebo-adjusted improvement in the Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS) total score at Week 3 (mean reduction from baseline of 15.4 points with RAP-219 versus 12.3 points with placebo (p=0.045)2). Rapport plans to meet with the FDA in the first quarter of 2027 to discuss the Phase 2 data and registrational trial design for RAP-219 in bipolar mania, with initiation of two Phase 3 trials expected in the second half of 2027.2 The Common Stock Offering was made pursuant to the Company's automatically effective shelf registration statement on Form S-3ASR, as supplemented by a final prospectus filed with the SEC on October 30, 2026.1
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