Vitae Pharmaceuticals Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering

FORT WASHINGTON, Pa., Sep 24, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) --

Vitae Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical stage biotechnology company, today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 6,875,000 shares of common stock at an initial public offering price of $8.00 per share. The shares are expected to begin trading on The NASDAQ Global Market on September 24, 2014 under the ticker symbol "VTAE." In addition, Vitae Pharmaceuticals has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,031,250 shares of common stock to cover over-allotments, if any, at the initial public offering price.

Stifel and BMO Capital Markets are acting as joint book-running managers and JMP Securities and Wedbush PacGrow Life Sciences are acting as co-managers for the offering.

A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with, and declared effective by, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on September 24, 2014.

The offering is being made only by means of a written prospectus forming part of the effective registration statement. Copies of the prospectus related to the offering may be obtained from Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Inc., Attention: Syndicate, One Montgomery Street, Suite 3700, San Francisco, CA 94104, telephone: (415) 364-2720, email: [email protected]; or from BMO Capital Markets Corp., 3 Times Square, New York, NY 10036, Attention: Equity Syndicate Department, Telephone: (800) 414-3627, Email: [email protected].

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of, these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of such state or jurisdiction.

CONTACT: Investors: Vitae Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Richard S. Morris, CPA Chief Financial Officer