(Source: MARKETWIRE)Eurand N.V. (NASDAQ: EURX), a global specialty pharmaceutical company, today announced the pricing of its previously disclosed public offering of 8,500,000 ordinary shares at an initial price to the public of $11.25 per share. The shares are being offered through an underwriting syndicate led by Deutsche Bank Securities and BofA Merrill Lynch, together with co-managers Cowen and Company and Thomas Weisel Partners. The offering is expected to close on or about October 27, 2009.

Of the 8,500,000 shares being offered, 2,000,000 are newly issued by Eurand N.V., and the remaining 6,500,000 are currently issued and outstanding. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the sale of its 2,000,000 ordinary shares to fund potential product acquisitions and/or potential acquisitions of complementary businesses and research and development of additional product candidates, as well as to fund working capital and other general corporate purposes.

Eurand Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Gearoid Faherty, the Company's second-largest shareholder, has elected not to sell any shares in this offering. The other selling stockholders will increase their sale of shares so that the total offering size remains 8,500,000 shares. Those selling stockholders also have granted the underwriters an option to purchase an additional 1,275,000 ordinary shares at the public offering price to cover over-allotments, if any.

The offering may be made only by means of a prospectus. Copies of the prospectus, when available, can be obtained from Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., by mail, Attn: Prospectus Department, 100 Plaza One, Floor 2, Jersey City, NJ 07311, by telephone at (800)-503-4611 or by email: prospectusrequest@list.db.com, and from BofA Merrill Lynch, by mail, 4 World Financial Center, New York, 10080, attention: Preliminary Prospectus Department, or by e-mail: prospectus.requests@ml.com.

A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with and declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any of these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which the offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of such state or jurisdiction.

About Eurand

Eurand is a specialty pharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and commercializes enhanced pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical products based on its proprietary pharmaceutical technologies.