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MEI Pharma Announces $27.5 Million Private Placement
Date:11/5/2012

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MEI Pharma, Inc. (Nasdaq: MEIP), an oncology company focused on the clinical development of novel therapies for cancer, announced today that it has obtained commitments to purchase $27.5 million of its common stock and warrants in a private placement.

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The financing was led by new investors Vivo Ventures and New Leaf Venture Partners with participation from additional institutional investors, including RA Capital Management and Three Arch Opportunity Fund, among others.

"We and Vivo Ventures are excited to have had the opportunity to build a high-quality syndicate of long-term investors that allows MEI Pharma to aggressively pursue development of Pracinostat," said Srini Akkaraju, M.D., Ph.D., Managing Director at New Leaf Venture Partners. "We are particularly encouraged by Pracinostat's evidence of clinical activity in hematologic malignancies with large unmet medical needs, such as myelodysplastic syndrome and acute myeloid leukemia."

"We believe that Pracinostat has the potential to become a best-in-class compound and that MEI Pharma's management team is equipped with the drug development expertise to secure marketing approval and realize its significant market potential," said Albert Cha, M.D., Ph.D., Managing Partner at Vivo Ventures.

MEI Pharma has entered into a securities purchase agreement with the investors pursuant to which the Company will sell units consisting of an aggregate of 55,000,000 shares of its common stock and warrants to purchase up to 38,500,000 additional shares of common stock. Each unit, consisting of one share of common stock and a warrant to purchase 0.7 of a share of common stock, will be sold for a purchase price of $0.50. The warrants
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