Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Commences Tender Offer for All Outstanding Shares of Allos Therapeutics at $1.82/Share for Each Allos Stock

Spectrum Pharmaceuticals SPPI today announced that it commenced on Friday, April 13, 2012 a cash tender offer to purchase all of the outstanding shares of common stock of Allos Therapeutics, Inc. ALTH. The tender offer is being made pursuant to an Offer to Purchase, dated April 13, 2012, and in connection with the previously announced Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated April 4, 2012. Upon successful completion of the tender offer, stockholders of Allos will receive $1.82 in cash for each share of Allos common stock validly tendered and not validly withdrawn, without interest and less any required withholding taxes, plus one contingent value right (a “CVR”) to receive additional consideration of $0.11 per share in cash upon the achievement of certain milestones. The CVR represents the non-transferable contingent right to receive, for each share of Allos common stock tendered in the offer and accepted for payment, an additional $0.11 per share in cash, without interest and less any applicable withholding taxes, if (1) Allos' Marketing Authorisation Application for FOLOTYN® (pralatrexate injection) for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory peripheral T-cell lymphoma is approved by the European Medicines Agency by December 31, 2012 and (2) the first reimbursable commercial sale of FOLOTYN is achieved in at least three major market countries in the European Union by December 31, 2013.