Afya Limited, or Afya (Nasdaq: AFYA), today announced that it
closed its follow-on public offering of 12,426,740 Class A common
shares at a public offering price of $27.50 per share. Afya issued
and sold 3,019,928 Class A common shares, and certain selling
shareholders of Afya (the “Selling Shareholders”), including
Crescera Educacional II Fundo de Investimento em Participações
Multiestratégia (“Crescera”), sold 9,406,812 Class A common shares,
pursuant to a registration statement on Form F-1 filed with
the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Afya
estimates the net proceeds to it from the offering to be
approximately US$80.2 million, after deducting underwriting
discounts and commissions (before expenses). Afya will not receive
any proceeds from the sale of Class A common shares by the Selling
Shareholders.
BofA Securities, UBS Securities LLC, Goldman
Sachs & Co. LLC and Itau BBA USA Securities, Inc. acted as
Global Coordinators in this public offering, and BofA Securities,
UBS Securities LLC, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Itau BBA USA
Securities, Inc., Banco BTG Pactual S.A. – Cayman Branch, Credit
Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, and Morgan
Stanley & Co. LLC collectively acted as Bookrunners in the
offering.
The offering was made only by means of a
prospectus. Copies of the final prospectus relating to, and
describing the terms of, the offering may be obtained from BofA
Securities, NC1-004-03-43, 200 North College Street, 3rd floor,
Charlotte NC 28255-0001, Attention: Prospectus Department or by
emailing dg.prospectus_requests@bofa.com; UBS Securities LLC,
Attention: Prospectus Department, 1285 Avenue of the Americas, New
York, NY 10019, by telephone at (888) 827-7275 or by emailing
ol-prospectus-request@ubs.com; Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC,
Attention: Prospectus Department, 200 West Street, New York, New
York 10282, telephone: 1-866-471-2526, facsimile: 212-902-9316 or
by emailing prospectus-ny@ny.email.gs.com; Itau BBA USA Securities,
Inc., 540 Madison Avenue 24th Floor, New York, NY 10022, Attention:
Equity Sales Desk, telephone: 1-212-710-6756 or by emailing
roadshowdesk@itaubba.com; Banco BTG Pactual S.A. – Cayman Branch,
Attention: Prospectus Department, 601 Lexington Avenue, 57th Floor,
New York, NY 10022, or by emailing
OL-BTGPactual-ProspectusDepartment@btgpactual.com; Credit Suisse
Securities (USA) LLC, Attention: Credit Suisse Prospectus
Department, Eleven Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010, telephone:
1-800-221-1037, or by emailing usa.prospectus@credit-suisse.com;
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, via Broadridge Financial Solutions,
1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, New York 11717; and Morgan
Stanley & Co. LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, 180 Varick
Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10014.
A registration statement on Form F-1 relating to
these securities has been filed with, and declared effective by,
the SEC. Copies of the registration statement can be accessed
through the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. This press
release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of
an offer to buy the securities described herein, nor will there be
any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which
such an offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful prior to
registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such
state or jurisdiction.
About Afya
Afya is a leading medical education group in
Brazil based on number of medical school seats, delivering an
end-to-end physician-centric ecosystem that serves and empowers
students to be lifelong medical learners from the moment they join
us as medical students through their medical residency preparation,
graduation program, and continuing medical education
activities.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes “forward-looking
statements” within the meaning of the U.S. federal securities laws.
Statements contained herein that are not clearly historical in
nature are forward-looking, and the words “anticipate,” “believe,”
“continues,” “expect,” “estimate,” “intend,” “project” and similar
expressions and future or conditional verbs such as “will,”
“would,” “should,” “could,” “might,” “can,” “may,” or similar
expressions are generally intended to identify forward-looking
statements. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the
date hereof and are based on Afya’s current plans, estimates of
future events, expectations and trends that affect or may affect
our business, financial condition, results of operations, cash
flow, liquidity, prospects and the trading price of our
Class A common shares, and are subject to several known and
unknown uncertainties and risks, many of which are beyond Afya’s
control. As a consequence, current plans, anticipated actions and
future financial position and results of operations may differ
significantly from those expressed in any forward-looking
statements in this press release. You are cautioned not to unduly
rely on such forward-looking statements when evaluating the
information presented. None of Afya or the Global Coordinators
undertakes any obligation to update publicly or to revise any
forward-looking statements after we distribute this press release
because of new information, future events or other factors.
Our independent public auditors have neither examined nor compiled
the forward-looking statements and, accordingly, do not provide any
assurance with respect to such statements. In light of the risks
and uncertainties described above, the future events and
circumstances discussed in this press release might not occur and
are not guarantees of future performance. Because of these
uncertainties, you should not make any investment decision based
upon these estimates and forward-looking statements.
Contact:Investor Relations:
ir@afya.com.br
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