BOSTON, Jan. 18, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:PRTK), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative therapies based upon its expertise in novel tetracycline chemistry, today announced that it has sold 3,205,128 shares of its common stock in a registered underwritten public offering for total proceeds of approximately $50 million. The offering is expected to close on January 22, 2018, subject to customary closing conditions. All of the shares sold in the offering were sold by Paratek. In addition, Paratek has granted the underwriter a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 480,769 shares of its common stock.

BTIG, LLC is acting as sole book-running manager for the offering.

About Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative therapeutics based upon tetracycline chemistry. Paratek has used its expertise in biology and tetracycline chemistry to create chemically diverse and biologically distinct small molecules derived from the minocycline core structure. Paratek’s two lead product candidates are the antibacterials, omadacycline and sarecycline.