LB Pharmaceuticals announces $150M private placement
On July 28, 2026, LB Pharmaceuticals Inc agreed to a private placement with institutional investors involving 3,577,560 shares of common stock and pre-funded warrants exercisable for up to 715,513 additional shares.
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On July 28, 2026, LB Pharmaceuticals Inc agreed to a private placement with institutional investors involving 3,577,560 shares of common stock and pre-funded warrants exercisable for up to 715,513 additional shares. Each share is priced at $34.94 and each pre-funded warrant at $34.9399, with a warrant exercise price of $0.0001 per share. The transaction is expected to close on or about July 30, 2026 and is anticipated to generate approximately $150 million in gross proceeds before expenses.
The company plans to use net proceeds, together with existing cash, to expand development of its lead candidate LB-102 into additional indications such as negative symptoms of schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease agitation/psychosis, and for working capital and general corporate purposes. The pre-funded warrants are immediately exercisable, do not expire, and include beneficial ownership limits generally set at 4.99% or 9.99%, adjustable up to 19.99% with notice. LB Pharmaceuticals granted investors registration rights requiring an S-3 resale registration filing within 90 days of closing and efforts to keep it effective until the securities can be sold or resold under Rule 144 without restriction.
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| Item 1.01 | Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. |
On July 28, 2026, LB Pharmaceuticals Inc (the “Company”) entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with certain investors (the “Investors”) pursuant to which the Company, in a private placement (the “Private Placement”), agreed to issue and sell to the Investors an aggregate of (i) 3,577,560 shares (the “Shares”) of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”) and (ii) pre-funded warrants (the “Pre-Funded Warrants”) to purchase up to 715,513 shares of Common Stock (such shares issuable upon exercise of the Pre-Funded Warrants, the “Warrant Shares”, and together with the Shares and the Pre-Funded Warrants, the “Securities”). Each Share was offered and sold at a purchase price of $34.94 before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and each Pre-Funded Warrant was offered and sold at a purchase price of $34.9399, which is equal to the purchase price per Share less the $0.0001 exercise price of each Pre-Funded Warrant, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions.
Each Pre-Funded Warrant has an initial exercise price per share of $0.0001, subject to certain adjustments. The Pre-Funded Warrants are exercisable immediately and may be exercised at any time until all of the Pre-Funded Warrants are exercised in full. The Pre-Funded Warrants do not expire.
Under the terms of the Pre-Funded Warrants, the Company may not effect the exercise of any Pre-Funded Warrant, and a holder will not be entitled to exercise any portion of any Pre-Funded Warrant (i) if immediately prior to the exercise, a holder (together with its affiliates), beneficially owns an aggregate number of shares of Common Stock greater than 4.99% or 9.99%, as applicable (the “Maximum Percentage”), of the total number of issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company without taking into account any Warrant Shares, or (ii) to the extent that immediately following the exercise, the holder (together with its affiliates) would beneficially own in excess of the Maximum Percentage of the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to the issuance of such shares of Common Stock, which such percentage may be changed at the holder’s election to a higher or lower percentage not in excess of 19.99% upon 61 days’ notice to the Company.
The Private Placement is expected to close on or about July 30, 2026, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. The Company estimates that the gross proceeds to the Company from the Private Placement will be approximately $150.0 million, before deducting any transaction-related expenses.
The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the Private Placement, together with the Company’s existing cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities, to fund pipeline expansion of LB-102 into new indications with strong mechanistic rationale and validating clinical and real-world experience from amisulpride, potentially including negative symptoms of schizophrenia (with potential for trial initiation in the second half of 2027, subject to regulatory feedback and other factors) and Alzheimer’s disease agitation/psychosis, and for working capital and general corporate purposes.
Leerink Partners LLC and Piper Sandler & Co. acted as placement agents for the Private Placement. The Company has agreed to pay the placement agents customary placement fees in their capacity as placement agents for the sale of the Securities to the Investors.
In connection with the Private Placement, the Company also entered into a Registration Rights Agreement, dated July 28, 2026 (the “Registration Rights Agreement”), with the Investors. Pursuant to the terms of the Registration Rights Agreement, the Company is obligated to prepare and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) a registration statement on Form S-3 (the “Registration Statement”) to register for resale of the Shares and the Warrant Shares within 90 days of the closing date of the Private Placement and to use its reasonable best efforts to have the Registration Statement declared effective as soon as possible, but no later than 90 days after the initial filing date of the Registration Statement, subject to extension under the terms of the Registration Rights Agreement. The Company also agreed to use reasonable best efforts to keep such registration statement effective until the earlier of the date the Shares and the Warrant Shares covered by such registration statement have been sold or may be resold pursuant to Rule 144 without restriction. The Registration Rights Agreement includes customary provisions regarding payment of fees and expenses and indemnification.
The foregoing descriptions of the Purchase Agreement, the Registration Rights Agreement and the Pre-Funded Warrants do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the full text of the form of Purchase Agreement, the form of Registration Rights Agreement and the form of Pre-Funded Warrant, which are filed as Exhibits 10.1 10.2 and 4.1, respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.
The representations, warranties and covenants contained in the Purchase Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement were made solely for the benefit of the parties to the Purchase Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement and may be subject to limitations agreed upon by the contracting parties. Accordingly, the Purchase Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement are incorporated herein by reference only to provide investors with information regarding the terms of the Purchase Agreement and the Registration Rights Agreement and not to provide investors with any other factual information regarding the Company or its business, and should be read in conjunction with the disclosures in the Company’s periodic reports and other filings with the SEC.
| Item 3.02 | Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities. |
The disclosures set forth in Item 1.01 above regarding the Private Placement are incorporated into this Item 3.02.
The Shares have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), in reliance on the exemption from registration afforded by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act. Each of the Investors has provided representations appropriate for a private placement of securities. The sale of the Shares did not involve a public offering and was made without general solicitation or general advertising.
Neither this Current Report on Form 8-K nor any exhibit attached hereto is an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy shares of Common Stock or other securities of the Company.
| Item 7.01 | Regulation FD Disclosure. |
On July 29, 2026, the Company issued a press release announcing the Private Placement. A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated herein by reference.
The information furnished under this Item 7.01, including Exhibit 99.1, shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or subject to the liabilities of that section or Sections 11 and 12(a)(2) of the Securities Act. The information in this Item 7.01, including Exhibit 99.1, shall not be deemed incorporated by reference into any other filing with the SEC made by the Company, whether made before or after the date hereof, regardless of any general incorporation language in such filing.
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| 99.1 | Press Release, dated July 29, 2026. | |
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| + | Certain schedules and attachments have been omitted pursuant to Item 601(a)(5) of Regulation S-K. The Company agrees to provide, on a supplemental basis, a copy of any omitted schedules and attachments to the Securities and Exchange Commission or its staff upon request. |
This Current Report on Form 8-K contains forward-looking statements which are subject to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts, reflect management’s expectations as of the date of hereof, and involve certain risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements herein with respect to implied or express statements regarding the aggregate amount of proceeds to be received from the Private Placement, the closing of the Private Placement, the anticipated use of proceeds from the Private Placement, any anticipated regulatory feedback on LB-102 and any additional indication and clinical trial the Company may pursue. These forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations and may differ materially from actual results due to a variety of factors including, without limitation, the factors that are described under the caption “Risk Factors” in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on May 12, 2026, and its subsequent filings with the SEC. The forward-looking statements herein are based on information available to the Company as of the date hereof, and the Company disclaims any obligation to update any forward looking statements, except as required by law.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
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| Date: July 29, 2026 | By: | /s/ Heather Turner | ||||
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Exhibit 99.1
LB Pharmaceuticals Announces $150 Million Private Placement
NEW YORK, July 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – LB Pharmaceuticals Inc (“LB Pharmaceuticals” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: LBRX), a neuromedicines company dedicated to developing and commercializing high-impact therapies that address the multiple dimensions of underserved brain diseases, today announced that it has entered into a securities purchase agreement to sell 3,577,560 shares of its common stock and pre-funded warrants to purchase up to 715,513 shares of its common stock to a limited group of institutional investors in a private placement. The purchase price of each share of common stock is $34.94. The purchase price of each pre-funded warrant is $34.9399, which represents the per share purchase price for the common stock less the $0.0001 per share exercise price for such pre-funded warrant. LB Pharmaceuticals anticipates the gross proceeds from the private placement to be approximately $150 million, before deducting any transaction-related expenses. The private placement is expected to close on or about July 30, 2026, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.
The financing includes participation from new and existing institutional investors, including Adage Capital Partners, L.P., BB Biotech, Caligan Partners, Commodore Capital, Deep Track Capital, funds managed by Farallon Capital Management, Integral Health Asset Management, Janus Henderson Investors, Spruce Street Capital, StemPoint Capital LP, a leading mutual fund and other investors.
Leerink Partners and Piper Sandler acted as placement agents for the private placement.
LB Pharmaceuticals intends to use the net proceeds from the private placement to fund pipeline expansion of LB-102 into new indications with strong mechanistic rationale and validating clinical and real-world experience from amisulpride, potentially including negative symptoms of schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease agitation/psychosis, and for working capital and general corporate purposes.
The offer and sale of the securities to be sold in the private placement have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or any state or other applicable jurisdiction’s securities laws, and such securities may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state or other jurisdictions’ securities laws. Concurrently with entering into the securities purchase agreement, LB Pharmaceuticals and the investors entered into a registration rights agreement pursuant to which LB Pharmaceuticals has agreed to file a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission registering the resale of the shares of common stock issued in the private placement, including the shares of common stock underlying the pre-funded warrants.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.
About LB-102
LB-102 is a novel, once-daily, orally administered investigational small molecule and potential first benzamide antipsychotic in the United States for the treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders. LB-102 is a methylated derivative of amisulpride, a widely used antipsychotic outside the United States, and LB-102 was developed to retain amisulpride’s benefits while addressing its limitations. LB-102 is a potent and selective antagonist of D2, D3 and 5HT-7 receptors with few off-target effects and broad therapeutic potential across psychosis and mood disorders. In early 2025, LB Pharmaceuticals announced positive data from a four-week placebo-controlled, double-blinded, Phase 2 trial in patients with acute schizophrenia. In this trial, LB-102 demonstrated statistically significant benefit versus placebo at all doses studied, including rapid onset of effect at week 1 and sustained benefit through the endpoint of the trial, a potentially class-leading safety profile with low rates of EPS (including akathisia), minimal sedation and few GI side effects, alongside observed effects on negative symptoms and cognitive performance. These data underscore LB-102’s potential to address multiple dimensions of neuropsychiatric illness. The pivotal Phase 3 NOVA-2 trial of LB-102 for acute schizophrenia and the Phase 2 ILLUMINATE-1 trial of LB-102 for bipolar 1 depression are ongoing, and a Phase 2 trial of LB-102 in adjunctive treatment of MDD is planned. Additional expansion opportunities for LB-102 include predominantly negative symptoms of schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease psychosis and agitation, as well as other neuropsychiatric diseases.
About LB Pharmaceuticals
LB Pharmaceuticals is a neuromedicines company dedicated to developing and commercializing high-impact therapies that address the multiple dimensions of underserved brain diseases. The Company is building a pipeline that leverages the broad therapeutic potential of its lead product candidate, LB-102, which the Company believes has the opportunity to be the first benzamide antipsychotic drug approved for neuropsychiatric disorders in the United States. LB-102, if approved, has the potential to become a mainstay of psychiatric practice by offering a balanced clinical activity and tolerability profile that provides a potentially attractive alternative to branded and generic therapeutics for the treatment of a broad range of neuropsychiatric diseases.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Statements contained in this press release regarding matters that are not historical facts are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended. Words such as “aim,” “anticipate,” “assume,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “continue,” “could,” “design,” “due,” “estimate,” “expect,” “goal,” “intend,” “may,” “objective,” “plan,” “positioned,” “potential,” “predict,” “seek,” “should,” “target,” “will,” “would” or similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical facts contained in this press release are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements concerning the expected proceeds from the private placement, expected use of proceeds, and the expected closing of the private placement; the expected clinical development and regulatory pathway and therapeutic benefits of LB-102; the design, objectives, initiation, timing, progress and results of clinical trials of LB-102, including the pivotal Phase 3 NOVA-2 trial in acute schizophrenia, our open label trial (NOVA-3), the Phase 2 ILLUMINATE-1 trial in bipolar 1 depression and the Phase 2 trial for the adjunctive treatment of MDD and any other trials we may initiate in the future; the Company’s ability to advance its strategy to build a fully integrated neuropsychiatric company; and continuing
advancement of LB-102 and the Company’s portfolio. Because such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, among others: the Company’s limited operating history and historical losses; the Company’s ability to raise additional funding to complete the development and any commercialization of LB-102; the Company’s dependence on the success of its lead product candidate, LB-102; the Company’s ability to obtain regulatory approval of and successfully commercialize its product candidate; the early stages of clinical development of the Company’s lead product candidate, LB-102; any undesirable side effects or other properties of the Company’s product candidate; that the Company may be delayed in initiating, enrolling or completing any clinical trials; competition from third parties that are developing products for similar uses; the Company’s ability to obtain, maintain and protect its intellectual property; and the Company’s dependence on third parties in connection with manufacturing, clinical trials and preclinical studies.
These and other risks are described more fully in the section titled “Risk Factors” in the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2026 and its other documents to be subsequently filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date on which they were made. Except to the extent required by law, the Company undertakes no obligation to update such statements to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made.
Media and Investor Contact:
Ellen Rose
erose@lbpharma.us