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Nephros Announces Completion of Rights Offering
RIVER EDGE, NJ, May 23, 2013 /PR Newswire-FirstCall/ -- Nephros,
Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board:NEPH), a commercial stage medical device company that develops and sells high performance liquid purification
ultrafilters, announced today the successful completion of its rights offering. In addition, the concurrent temporary reduction
in exercise price for the company's March 2011 warrants expired on May 17, 2013.
Nephros estimates that it will receive gross proceeds of $3.0
million from the rights offering. A portion of the proceeds will be used for the repayment of the $1.3 million note, plus all accrued
interest thereon ($46,800), issued to Lambda Investors LLC, Nephros' largest stockholder, in February 2013 in connection
with its loan to Nephros, the payment of an 8% sourcing/transaction fee ($104,000) in respect of the note and an aggregate of $100,000
for reimbursement of Lambda Investors' legal fees incurred in connection with the loan and the rights offering. Based on
holders of subscription rights who exercised their basic subscription rights in full and subscribed for additional shares of Common
Stock pursuant to the over subscription privilege, the rights offering was fully subscribed. Nephros expects to issue a total of
5,000,000 shares of common stock to the holders of subscription rights who validly exercised their subscription rights and paid
the subscription price in full, including pursuant to the exercise of the over subscription privilege.
Nephros will also receive gross proceeds of approximately $206,000
from holders of the warrants issued in March 2011 who validly exercised their warrants during the period that Nephros temporarily
reduced the exercise price. Nephros expects to issue a total of 687,793 shares of common stock to these warrant holders.
"Nephros is pleased to have closed the shareholders rights
offering and related temporary reduction in exercise price for the March 2011 warrants." said John C. Houghton, President
and Chief Executive Officer, "The net proceeds from these transactions will provide Nephros with funds to pursue the further
commercialization of our high performance liquid purification filters for the Dialysis, Hospital and Military markets."
Nephros is a commercial stage medical device
company that develops and sells high performance liquid purification filters. Our filters, which we call ultrafilters, are primarily
used in dialysis centers and healthcare facilities for the production of ultrapure water and bicarbonate.
We were founded in 1997 by healthcare professionals
affiliated with Columbia University Medical Center/New York-Presbyterian Hospital to develop and commercialize an alternative method
to hemodialysis (HD). In 2009, we began to extend our filtration technologies to meet the demand for liquid purification in other
areas, in particular water purification.
Presently, we offer seven types of ultrafilters
for sale to customers in four markets:
For more information about Nephros, please visit the company's
website at www.nephros.com.
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statements." Such statements include statements regarding the efficacy and intended use of our technologies under development,
the timelines for bringing such products to market and the availability of funding sources for continued development of such products
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subject to various known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control. Actual results may differ materially
from the expectations contained in the forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause such differences include, but are not
limited to, the risks that:
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and the risk factors that may affect the realization of forward-looking statements, including the forward-looking statements in
this press release, is set forth in our filings with the SEC, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
December 31, 2012 and our other periodic reports filed with the SEC. We urge you to read those documents free of charge at the
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a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.