Reata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Secures $35 Million Term Loan Facility

IRVING, Texas, April 03, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:RETA) (“Reata” or “the Company”), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, today announced that it entered into a $35 million loan and security agreement with Oxford Finance LLC and Silicon Valley Bank. Proceeds from the loan will be utilized primarily to support Reata’s multiple Phase 2 and 3 clinical trial programs for bardoxolone methyl and omavaloxolone.
The loan proceeds are available to Reata in two tranches. The first $20 million tranche was funded on Friday, March 31st. The additional $15 million tranche will be available to Reata from July 1, 2017 to March 31, 2018, and after Reata enrolls the first patient in either (a) the Phase 3 portion of the ongoing Phase 2/3 clinical trial of bardoxolone methyl in chronic kidney disease caused by Alport syndrome or (b) Part 2 of the ongoing two-part clinical trial, or a separate Phase 3 clinical trial, of omavaloxolone in Friedreich’s ataxia.




Reata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Secures $35 Million Term Loan Facility