Coherus Oncology, Inc. Announces Proposed Public Offering of Common Stock
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 12, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Coherus Oncology, Inc. ("Coherus" or the "Company") (NASDAQ:CHRS), today announced a proposed underwritten public offering of its common stock (the "Offering"). In addition, Coherus intends to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase additional shares of its common stock in an amount up to 15% of the shares offered in the Offering, at the public offering price per share less underwriting discounts and commissions. All of the shares in the Offering are being offered by Coherus.
Coherus intends to use the net proceeds from the proposed Offering to support the ongoing commercialization of LOQTORZI® (toripalimab-tpzi), to continue clinical development of its product candidates, and for working capital and other general corporate purposes.
TD Cowen, Guggenheim Securities, and Oppenheimer & Co. are acting as joint bookrunners for the proposed Offering.
The proposed Offering is subject to market and other conditions, and there can be no assurance as to whether or when the Offering may be completed, or as to the actual size or terms of the Offering.
The securities described above are being offered by Coherus pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-291520) that was previously filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on November 13, 2025. The Offering will be made only by means of a written prospectus and a prospectus supplement that form a part of the registration statement. A preliminary prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to and describing the terms of the Offering has been filed with the SEC and is available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Copies of the preliminary prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus relating to these securities may also be obtained by request from: TD Securities (USA) LLC, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, or by email at TDManualrequest@broadridge.com; Guggenheim Securities, LLC, Attention: Equity Syndicate Department, 330 Madison Avenue, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10017, by telephone at (212) 518-9544, or by email at GSEquityProspectusDelivery@guggenheimpartners.com; or Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. Attention: Syndicate Prospectus Department, 85 Broad Street, 26th Floor, New York, NY 10004, or by telephone at (212) 667-8055, or by email at EquityProspectus@opco.com.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction.
About Coherus Oncology, Inc.
Coherus Oncology is a fully integrated commercial-stage innovative oncology company with an approved next-generation PD-1 inhibitor, LOQTORZI® (toripalimab-tpzi), and a pipeline that includes two mid-stage clinical candidates targeting liver, prostate, head & neck, colorectal and other cancers. The Company's strategy is to grow sales of LOQTORZI in R/M nasopharyngeal carcinoma and advance the development of new indications for LOQTORZI in combination with both its pipeline candidates as well as through its partners.
Coherus' innovative oncology pipeline includes multiple antibody immunotherapy candidates focused on enhancing the innate and adaptive immune responses to enable a robust antitumor response and enhance outcomes for patients with cancer. Tagmokitug is a highly selective cytolytic anti-CCR8 antibody currently in Phase 1b/2a studies in patients with advanced solid tumors, including head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, colorectal cancer, gastric cancer, and esophageal cancer. Casdozokitug is a novel IL-27 antagonistic antibody currently being evaluated in a Phase 2 study in patients with first-line hepatocellular carcinoma.
LOQTORZI® is a registered trademark of Coherus Oncology, Inc.
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Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical facts contained herein, including, without limitation, statements regarding the completion, timing and size of the proposed Offering, the grant to the underwriters of an option to purchase additional shares and the anticipated use of proceeds from the proposed Offering, are forward-looking statements reflecting the current beliefs and expectations of Coherus' management made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements represent Coherus' current expectations regarding future events and are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those implied by the forward-looking statements. Among those risks and uncertainties are market conditions, including market interest rates, tariffs, the trading price and volatility of Coherus' common stock, the satisfaction of closing conditions related to the proposed Offering, and risks relating to Coherus' business, including those identified in the "Risk Factors" section of Coherus' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, in its subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other filings with the SEC, as well as the preliminary prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the proposed Offering. The forward-looking statements included in this press release speak only as of the date of this press release, and Coherus does not undertake to update the statements included in this press release for subsequent developments, except as may be required by law.
Coherus Oncology Contact Information:
For Investors:
Carrie Graham
VP, Investor Relations & Advocacy
IR@coherus.com
