ARYA Sciences Acquisition Corp., announced today that it priced its initial public offering of 12,500,000 units at $10.00 per unit for aggregate gross proceeds of $125,000,000. The sponsor of ARYA is ARYA Sciences Holdings, which is controlled by principals of Perceptive Advisors, LLC. The Company has granted the underwriters a 45-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,875,000 units to cover over-allotments, if any. The units are expected to begin trading on The Nasdaq Capital Market on October 5, 2018 under the symbol "ARYAU". Each unit consists of one Class A ordinary share and one-half of one redeemable warrant, each whole warrant entitling the holder thereof to purchase one Class A ordinary share. No fractional warrants will be issued upon separation of the units and only whole warrants will trade.

About ARYA

We are a newly organized blank check company newly incorporated as a Cayman Islands exempted company for the purpose of effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities. We have not selected any business combination target and we have not, nor has anyone on our behalf, initiated any substantive discussions, directly or indirectly, with respect to identifying any business combination target.