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GENFIT Announces the Preliminary Results of the Repurchase Offer to 2025 OCEANEs holders and the Convening of the 2025 OCEANEs holders’ general meeting

In This Article:

  • Put Option Agreements signed to date with 2025 OCEANEs holders representing 95.3% of the outstanding 2025 OCEANEs

  • 2025 OCEANEs holders' general meeting convened for March 10, 2025

Lille (France), Cambridge (Massachusetts, United States), Zurich (Switzerland), February 21, 2025 - GENFIT (Nasdaq and Euronext: GNFT), a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to improving the lives of patients with rare and life-threatening liver diseases, today announces that it has signed Put Option Agreements with 2025 OCEANEs holders and the convening of the general meeting of the 2025 OCEANEs holders for March 10, 2025.

Preliminary results of the Repurchase

As announced on February 10, 2025 and February 14, 2025, GENFIT has proposed to all of the 2025 OCEANEs holders to enter into a Put Option Agreement, pursuant to which GENFIT will unconditionally and irrevocably undertake to repurchase the 2025 OCEANEs of such holder, subject to approval by the general meeting of the 2025 OCEANEs holders of the amendment of the terms and conditions of the 2025 OCEANEs and the closing of the royalty financing (the “Repurchase”).

GENFIT has signed to date Put Option Agreements with 2025 OCEANEs holders for a total of 1,812,475 2025 OCEANEs at a price of EUR 32.75 per bond, representing 95.3% of the outstanding 2025 OCEANEs.

2025 OCEANEs holders having signed a Put Option Agreement will have until March 19, 2025 to exercise their option thereunder.

As stated above, the Repurchase is subject to approval by the general meeting of the 2025 OCEANEs holders convened to approve the amendment of the terms and conditions of the 2025 OCEANEs and the closing of the royalty financing transaction announced on January 30, 2025.

Repurchased 2025 OCEANEs will be cancelled.

Convening of the 2025 OCEANEs holders’ general meeting

In order to obtain approval of the royalty financing by the 2025 OCEANEs holders, GENFIT has convened today a general meeting of the holders to be held on March 10, 2025.

A Consent Solicitation Memorandum and a report of the Company's Chief Executive Officer to the 2025 OCEANEs holders, together with the documents required by French law, will be made available for inspection by the 2025 OCEANEs holders on the website of GENFIT (www.genfit.com) and at the registered office of GENFIT and at the specified office of Uptevia, La Défense – Cœur Défense Tour A – 90-110 Esplanade du Général de Gaulle – 92400 Courbevoie – France,
Email: ct-assemblees@uptevia.com.

2025 OCEANEs holders are invited to consult these documents to find out how to participate in the general meeting.