WALTHAM, Mass., (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Dyne Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: DYN), a muscle disease company focused on advancing innovative life-transforming therapeutics for patients with genetically driven diseases, today announced the closing of its initial public offering of 14,089,314 shares of its common stock at an initial public offering price of $19.00 per share, including 1,837,736 additional shares of common stock issued upon the exercise in full by the underwriters of their option to purchase additional shares. All of the shares in the offering were sold by Dyne. The gross proceeds of the offering, before deducting the underwriting discount and commissions and other offering expenses payable by Dyne, were approximately $268 million.

The shares began trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on Thursday, September 17, 2020 under the ticker symbol “DYN.”

J.P. Morgan, Jefferies, Piper Sandler and Stifel acted as joint book-running managers for the offering.

About Dyne Therapeutics

Dyne Therapeutics is building a leading muscle disease company focused on advancing innovative life-transforming therapeutics for patients with genetically driven diseases. The Company utilizes its proprietary FORCE™ platform to overcome the current limitations of muscle tissue delivery with modern oligonucleotide therapeutic candidates. Dyne is developing a broad portfolio of therapeutics for muscle diseases, including lead programs in myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD).