PEARL RIVER, NY – December 5, 2016 – Hudson Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: HDSN) announced today that it intends to offer and sell up to $45 million of shares of its common stock, together with certain selling shareholders who intend to offer and sell up to $4 million of shares of common stock, subject to market and other conditions, in an underwritten public offering pursuant to an effective shelf registration. Hudson Technologies also expects to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 15% of shares of common stock offered in the public offering solely to cover overallotments, if any. Hudson Technologies intends to use the net proceeds from this offering for working capital and general corporate purposes which may include, among other things, funding acquisitions, although the Company has no present commitments or agreements with respect to any such transactions. Hudson Technologies may also use a portion of the proceeds to reduce or repay indebtedness under its loan agreement with its existing commercial lender.
William Blair & Company, L.L.C. and Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC are acting as joint book-running managers. Roth Capital Partners and B. Riley & Co., LLC are acting as co-managers for the offering.
A shelf registration statement relating to the shares of common stock to be issued in the offering was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), on Form S-3 (File No. 333-207969) which the SEC declared effective on December 18, 2015. A preliminary prospectus supplement relating to the offering will be filed with the SEC. When available, copies of the preliminary prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering may be obtained by contacting William Blair & Company, L.L.C. at 222 West Adams Street, Chicago, IL 60606, Attention: Prospectus Department, by telephone at (800) 621-0687, or by email at prospectus@williamblair.com; or by contacting Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC at 222 South Ninth Street, Suite 350, Minneapolis, MN 55402, by telephone at (612) 334-6300, or by email at prospectus@craig-hallum.com. Electronic copies of the final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus will also be available on the SEC website at http://www.sec.gov.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell, or the 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 is not permitted.