Tekla World Healthcare Fund Announces Completion of its Rights Offering

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tekla World Healthcare Fund (the “Fund”) (NYSE: THW) is pleased to announce the completion of its one for three non-transferable rights offering (the “Offering”) which expired Tuesday, April 6, 2021 (the “Expiration Date”). Pursuant to the Offering, record date shareholders were entitled to purchase one newly issued share of the Fund for every three non-transferrable rights held.

The subscription price for each newly issued share was determined to be $14.262 per share, which, under the terms of the prospectus, was equal to 95% of the volume weighted average price of a share on the NYSE on the Expiration Date and each of the four preceding trading days.

In the Offering, the Fund received subscription requests for 6,930,639 shares from rights holders (including oversubscription requests). Accordingly, the Fund expects to issue 6,930,639 new shares for these subscriptions on or about April 9, 2021. Gross proceeds from the Offering are expected to total approximately $98.8 million.

Tekla World Healthcare Fund (NYSE: THW) is a closed-end fund that invests in public and private companies in the healthcare industry. Tekla Capital Management LLC, based in Boston, serves as Investment Adviser to the Fund. Shares of the Fund can be purchased on the New York Stock Exchange through any securities broker.

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

For additional information regarding the Offering please call AST Fund Solutions, LLC at [phone].