Halozyme Announces Pricing of 6.8M Share Public Offering at $10.61

Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: HALO) today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 6,800,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $10.61 per share. The offering is expected to settle and close on February 15, 2012, subject to customary closing conditions.

Barclays Capital Inc. is the sole book-running manager of the offering, and Halozyme has granted them a thirty (30) day option to purchase up to 1,020,000 shares of common stock. Halozyme intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to build commercial inventory for anticipated product launches, fund research and development of proprietary programs, and for general corporate purposes.