ESSA Pharma Announces Exercise of Option in Connection with Recently Completed $130 Million Financing News provided by Share this article Share this article VANCOUVER, BC and HOUSTON, March 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - ESSA Pharma Inc. ("ESSA", or the "Company") (Nasdaq: EPIX), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company focused on developing novel therapies for the treatment of prostate cancer, today announced that the underwriters have exercised their option (the "Option") to purchase an additional 724,637 common shares in the capital of the Company (the "Common Shares"), in connection with the Company's recently completed underwritten public offering of 4,830,918 Common Shares, which closed on February 22, 2021 (the "Offering"). On closing of the Option, the Company will have issued 5,555,555 Common Shares pursuant to the Offering for gross proceeds of approximately $150 million.