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Inventiva secures €21.4 million and completes the first tranche of the previously announced multi-tranche financing of up to €348 million

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    • Inventiva secures €21.4 million leading to completion of the first tranche of the financing for c. €116 million, part of the multi-tranche equity financing of up to €348 million announced on October 14, 2024.


    • Proceeds from the completed first tranche to be primarily used to advance Inventiva’s Phase III, NATiV3 clinical trial evaluating lanifibranor in patients with MASH.


    • Appointment of Mark Pruzanski as new Chairman of the Board of Directors and Srinivas Akkaraju as new member of the Board of Directors.

Daix (France), New York City (New York, United States), December 16, 2024 – Inventiva (Euronext Paris and Nasdaq: IVA) (“Inventiva” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of oral small molecule therapies for the treatment of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (“MASH”) and other diseases with significant unmet medical needs, today announced that, following the general meeting of the shareholders held on December 11, 2024 (the “General Meeting”), the Board of Directors decided to use the delegations granted by the General Meeting to issue the second phase of Tranche 1 (the “T1 bis Transaction”) for a gross amount of €21.4 million (net amount of €20.1 million) of the multi-tranche equity financing of up to €348 million announced on October 14, 2024 (the “Multi-Tranche Financing”).

Frédéric Cren, Chief Executive Officer of Inventiva, stated:  "We are pleased to announce that we secured €21.4 million successfully completing the first tranche of the financing announced in October. The multi-tranche equity raise of up to €348 million has been instrumental to keep Inventiva on track with recruitment for our pivotal Phase III clinical trial of our asset lanifibranor. We believe that lanifibranor holds significant potential to address unmet medical needs, and we are encouraged by the intensification of trial activities, with a completion of our recruitment expected in the first half of 2025. I am also delighted to welcome Mark and Srinivas to our Board of Directors. Their expertise and strategic insights will be invaluable as we advance our clinical program and prepare for a potential NDA filing for lanifibranor."

On October 14, 20241 the Company announced the Multi-Tranche Financing and the completion of a capital increase of an aggregate of €94.1 million through the issuance of 34,600,507 new ordinary shares of the Company, par value €0.01 per share (the “T1 New Shares”) at a price of €1.35 per T1 New Share, and the issuance of 35,399,481 prefunded warrants to purchase up to 35,399,481 ordinary shares at an exercise price of €0.01 per new ordinary share (the “T1 BSAs”) at a subscription price of €1.34 per T1 BSA, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. Settlement and delivery of the T1 New Shares and the T1 BSAs, took place on October 17, 2024.