NEWARK, N.J., June 04, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rafael Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: RFL; NYSE American: RFL-WT) announced today the final results and closing of its $25.0 million rights offering (the “Rights Offering”). The subscription period of the Rights Offering expired at 5:00 P.M. Eastern Time, on May 29, 2025. The Rights Offering resulted in subscriptions for 3,130,480 shares of Class B common stock at an exercise price of $1.28 per share for aggregate gross proceeds of $4,007,014.40.The subscriptions do not reflect subscription rights held by Howard Jonas, Chief Executive Officer, President and Executive Chairman of the Company and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company, and his affiliates who held, prior to the rights offering, approximately 32% of the outstanding common stock of the Company. Due to Mr. Jonas' previously disclosed commitment to backstop the Rights Offering through a private placement of shares in the event that the Rights Offering was not fully subscribed (the “Backstop Private Placement”), those holders did not exercise their subscription rights. Mr. Jonas and certain related parties are purchasing the unsubscribed shares for an aggregate amount of $20,992,985.60.
