Carnegie acted as Joint Global Coordinator and Joint Bookrunner in the initial public offering of Orphazyme on Copenhagen Stock Exchange.
Orphazyme is a Danish biotech company with a late stage orphan drug pipeline, developing new treatment options for orphan protein misfolding diseases. The Company was founded in 2009 based on early scientific discovery in heat shock proteins (“HSPs”). Since inception, the Company has translated scientific discovery into a late stage clinical development programme. The Company is headquartered in Copenhagen and currently has 30 employees.
The Company focuses on severe and mostly fatal diseases with a high unmet need, and with a particularly strong commitment to neuromuscular diseases and a group of severe genetic diseases called lysosomal storage diseases. The Company plans to pursue development of its lead candidate through to registration in the EU and the United States after which launch and commercialisation is expected to be undertaken by the Company.
The lead candidate arimoclomol is in development as a potential treatment for four orphan diseases; two neuromuscular diseases, sporadic Inclusion Body Myositis (“sIBM”) and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (“ALS”), and two lysosomal storage diseases, Niemann Pick type C (“NPC”) and Gaucher disease.