Benefitfocus Announces Full Exercise of Underwriters’ Option to Purchase Additional Shares in Secondary Offering
01 April 2019 - 1:00PM
Benefitfocus, Inc. (NASDAQ: BNFT), a leading cloud-based benefits
management platform and services provider, today announced that the
underwriters of the previously announced offering of its common
stock by certain of its stockholders have exercised in full their
option to purchase an additional 855,714 shares of common
stock at the public offering price of $48.25 per share before
underwriting discounts and commissions. After giving effect to the
full exercise of the underwriters’ option, the selling stockholders
will sell a total of 6,560,472 shares in the offering. All of the
shares are being sold by funds managed by Goldman Sachs & Co.
LLC and Mercer LLC. The purchase by the underwriters of the
additional shares is expected to close on or about April 2, 2019,
subject to customary closing conditions. Benefitfocus will not
receive any proceeds from the sale of the shares.
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, and
BofA Merrill Lynch are acting as lead book-running managers of the
offering and Piper Jaffray & Co., Raymond James &
Associates, Inc., Wedbush Securities Inc. and First Analysis
Securities Corporation are co-managers.
The offering of these securities is being made pursuant to a
registration statement (including a prospectus) on Form S-3 (File
no. 333-229877), which was filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission on February 26, 2019 and became automatically effective.
You may obtain these documents free of charge by visiting EDGAR on
the SEC website at www.sec.gov. Alternatively, copies of the
prospectus and accompanying prospectus supplement may be obtained
from: J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, c/o Broadridge Financial
Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, telephone:
866-803-9204, email: prospectus-eq_fi@jpmchase.com; Goldman Sachs
& Co. LLC, Prospectus Department, 200 West Street, New York, NY
10282, telephone: 1-866-471-2526, facsimile: 212-902-9316 or email:
Prospectus-ny@ny.email.gs.com; and BofA Merrill Lynch, 200 North
College Street, 3rd Floor, Charlotte, NC 28255-0001, Attn:
Prospectus Department, e-mail: dg.prospectus_requests@baml.com.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the
solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of
these securities in any state or other jurisdiction in which such
an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to
registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such
state or other jurisdiction.
About BenefitfocusBenefitfocus (NASDAQ: BNFT)
unifies the entire U.S. benefits industry on a single technology
platform to protect consumers' health, wealth and lifestyle. Our
powerful cloud-based software, data-driven insights and
thoughtfully-designed services, enable employers, insurance
brokers, carriers and suppliers to simplify the complexity of
benefits administration and deliver a world-class benefits
experience.
Safe Harbor StatementExcept for historical
information, all of the statements, expectations, and assumptions
contained in this press release are forward-looking statements.
Actual results might differ materially from those explicit or
implicit in the forward-looking statements. Important factors that
could cause actual results to differ materially include: risks
regarding the impact of the exercise of the underwriters’ option on
the trading price of our common stock; potential volatility; risks
associated with our business and the other risk factors set forth
from time to time in our registration statement and other SEC
filings, copies of which are available free of charge within the
Investor Relations section of the Benefitfocus website at
http://investor.benefitfocus.com/sec-filings or upon request from
our Investor Relations Department. Benefitfocus assumes no
obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking
statements, except as required by law.
Source: Benefitfocus, Inc.
Benefitfocus, Inc.843-284-1052 ext. 3527pr@benefitfocus.com
Investor Relations:Michael Bauer843-284-1052 ext.
6654michael.bauer@benefitfocus.com
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