Akebia Prices 7.25M Share Offering @$9.00/Share

Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. 

announced Wednesday, the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 7,250,000 shares of common stock at a price to the public of $9.00 per share. In addition, Akebia has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,087,500 shares of common stock in connection with the offering. All shares are being sold by Akebia. The net proceeds of the offering are expected to be approximately $61.0 million (or approximately $70.2 million if the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional shares in full), after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other estimated offering expenses payable by Akebia. The offering is expected to close on January 12, 2016, subject to the satisfaction of