Rexahn Pharmaceuticals completes Registered Direct Offering of common stock and warrants

Rexahn Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE Amex: RNN) announced today that it has completed its previously announced Registered Direct Offering of common stock and warrants. Rodman & Renshaw, LLC, a subsidiary of Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group, Inc. (NasdaqGM: RODM), acted as the exclusive placement agent for this transaction.

On October 23, 2009, Rexahn received gross proceeds of $5 million cash for the sale to five institutional investors of 6,072,383 shares of common stock at $0.8234 per share and warrants to buy an additional 2,125,334 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $1.00 per share. Rodman & Renshaw, LLC, a subsidiary of Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group, Inc. (NasdaqGM: RODM), acted as the exclusive placement agent for this transaction and received warrants to purchase 245,932 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $1.029 per share. Rexahn plans to use the proceeds from the offering for research and development and general corporate purposes. Rexahn has 71,924,496 shares outstanding following the completion of the offering.