InVivo Therapeutics Announces Closing of $9 Million Registered Direct and Private Placement Offerings, Priced At-the-Market Under Nasdaq Rules

InVivo Therapeutics Holdings Corp. (Nasdaq: NVIV), a research and clinical-stage biomaterials and biotechnology company with a focus on the treatment of spinal cord injuries, today announced that it has closed its previously announced registered direct offering for the sale and issuance of 154,000 shares of the Company’s common stock and pre-funded warrants to purchase up to 369,810 shares of common stock to a single healthcare-focused institutional investor. The Company also closed its previously announced private placement priced at-the-market under Nasdaq rules for the sale and issuance of pre-funded warrants to purchase up to 1,190,476 shares of common stock with the same investor in the registered direct offering. In addition, the Company has issued to the investor unregistered preferred investment options to purchase up to an aggregate of 1,714,286 shares of the Company’s common stock in a private placement. The preferred investment options have an exercise price of $5.05 per share, are immediately exercisable, and will expire five and one-half (5.5) years from the date of issuance. The combined purchase price for one share of common stock or pre-funded warrant and the associated preferred investment option was $5.25.

H.C. Wainwright & Co. acted as the exclusive placement agent for the offerings.

The gross proceeds to the Company from the offerings were approximately $9.0 million, before deducting placement agent fees and other offering expenses payable by the company. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the offerings primarily for working capital and general corporate purposes, which may include activities in furtherance of potential commercialization of its investigational Neuro-Spinal Scaffold device, such as regulatory submissions and manufacturing matters, as well as for business development purposes.

The shares of common stock, pre-funded warrants and shares of common stock underlying the pre-funded warrants offered by the Company in the registered direct offering (but excluding the securities issued in the private placement and the preferred investment options and the shares of common stock underlying the preferred investment options) were offered pursuant to a "shelf" registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-234353) initially filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on October 28, 2019, and declared effective by the SEC on November 14, 2019. The offering of the common stock and pre-funded warrants and shares of common stock underlying the pre-funded warrants in the registered direct offering was made only by means of a prospectus, including a prospectus supplement, forming a part of the effective registration statement. A final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the securities being offered was filed with the SEC. Electronic copies of the final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus may be obtained on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov. and may also be obtained by contacting H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC at 430 Park Avenue, 3rd Floor, New York, New York 10022, by phone at (212) 856-5711 or e-mail at placements@hcwco.com.

The pre-funded warrants sold in the private placement, as well as the preferred investment options and the shares of common stock issuable thereunder, were offered in a transaction not involving a public offering and have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or applicable state securities laws. Accordingly, those securities may not be reoffered or resold in the United States except pursuant to an effective registration statement or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and such applicable state securities laws.

Under a registration rights agreement entered into with the investor, the Company has agreed to file a registration statement with the SEC covering the resale of the shares of common stock underlying the pre-funded warrants issued in the private placement and the preferred investment options.

The Company also amended certain existing warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 80,139 shares of common stock of the Company that were previously issued to the investor, with an exercise price per share ranging from $20.00 to $68.75 and expiration dates ranging from March 10, 2025 to October 26, 2025, so that the amended warrants have a reduced exercise price of $5.05 per share and expire five and one-half years following the closing of the offerings.

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a 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 would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction.

About InVivo Therapeutics

InVivo Therapeutics Holdings Corp. is a research and clinical-stage biomaterials and biotechnology company with a focus on treatment of spinal cord injuries. The company was founded in 2005 with proprietary technology co-invented by Robert Langer, Sc.D., Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Joseph P. Vacanti, M.D., who then was at Boston Children’s Hospital and who now is affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital. The publicly traded company is headquartered in Cambridge, MA. For more details, visit www.invivotherapeutics.com.

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