Evotec SE announced today that it has commenced a public offering in the United States of up to 22,000,000 American Depositary Shares (“ADSs”) representing 11,000,000 of its ordinary shares pursuant to a registration statement on Form F-1, as amended, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Evotec expects to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 3,300,000 ADSs. The sale of the ADSs and the issuance of the underlying ordinary shares will be made under exclusion of shareholders pre-emptive rights based on Evotec’s existing authorized capital. Evotec has applied to list its ADSs on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol “EVO”.
