Total: $1,473.08M

Company (Symbol)#

Type Of Financing

Number Of Shares, Units Or Warrants (M)

Amount Raised (M)

Investors; Placement Agents; Details (Date)@


Access Pharmaceuticals Inc. (AMEX:AKC)

Private placement of stock and warrants

1.8S and 0.45W

$9.7

Access sold the shares at $5.40 each, and the five- year warrants are exercisable at $7.10 per share; investors included SDS Merchant Fund, Baystar Capital and WPG Farber Funds; SCO Securities LLC was placement agent (2/24)

Advanced Viral Research Corp. (OTC BB:ADVR)

Private placement of stock and warrants

120S and 15W

$12

Advanced Viral sold 120M shares to James Dicke II and James Dicke III, and warrants to purchase 15M shares at $0.20 per share; the investment will be made in four installments of $3M each, every three months; Dicke II is chairman and CEO of Crown Equipment Corp. and a former Advanced Viral director (2/4)

Alfacell Inc. (OTC BB:ACEL)

Private placement of stock and warrants

0.379S and 0.19W

$1.5

Alfacell issued 379,170 shares of common stock at $3.96 per share and warrants to purchase an additional 189,585 shares at $4.75 per share; the investor was an undisclosed institution (2/2)

Antares Pharma Inc. (OTC BB:ANTR)

Private placement of stock and warrants

5.1S and 1.68W

$5.1

Antares sold shares at $1 each and warrants to buy 1.68M additional shares at $1.25 each; the deal is an add-on to a financing earlier in February; SCO Securities LLC was placement agent (2/23)

Antares Pharma Inc. (OTC BB:ANTR)

Private placement of stock and warrants

9.55S and 3.15W

$9.55

Antares sold shares at $1 each and warrants to buy 3.15M additional shares at $1.25 each; investors included Perceptive Life Sciences Fund and SDS Merchant Fund; SCO Securities LLC was placement agent (2/10)

Astralis Ltd. (OTC BB:ASTR)

Private placement of units

10.46U

$5.23

Astralis raised the money in two closings of a financing round, in January and February; the units, sold at about $0.50 each, consisted of one share and one warrant to purchase a share at an undisclosed price (2/19)

Avant Immuno-
therapeutics Inc.
(AVAN)

Private placement of stock

8.965S

$24.65

The shares were sold at $2.75 each to undisclosed institutional investors under an existing shelf registration statement (2/13)

BioCryst Pharmaceuticals Inc. (BCRX)

Registered direct offering

3.57S

$21.43

BioCryst sold the shares at $6 each to institutional investors; Leerink, Swann & Co. was placement agent (2/17)

Biotech Holdings Ltd. (Canada; TSE:BIO)

Private placement of stock and warrants

1.805S and 1.805W

C$0.426 (US$0.319)

Biotech Holdings raised about US$319,000 by selling shares at prices ranging from C$0.225 to C$0.25 each; the two-year warrants are exercisable at prices from C$0.225 to C$0.375 each; most of the money came from company insiders (2/4 and 2/27)

BioTime Inc. (AMEX:BTX)

Subscription rights offering

2.99U

$4.18

Each unit consists of one common share and half a four-year warrant for the purchase of one share at $2; the total includes shares sold to guarantors of the offer (2/11)

Boston Biomedica Inc. (BBII)

Credit facility

N/A

$2.5

The company entered a $2.5 million revolving credit and security agreement with CapitalSource Finance LLC (2/11)

Chiral Quest Inc. (OTC BB:CQST)

Private placement of stock and warrants

4.8S and 2.4W

$7.2

Investors purchased the shares at $1.50 each, and for every two shares received a five-year warrant to purchase a share at $1.65; ThinkEquity Partners LLC, Paramount Capital Inc. and Casimir Capital LP were placement agents (2/26)

Connetics Corp. (CNCT)

Private placement of stock

3S

$60.75

Connetics sold the shares at $20.25 each; the institutional investors participating in the deal were not disclosed (2/12)

Corautus Genetics Inc. (AMEX:CAQ)

Private placement of stock and warrants

0.252S and 0.050W

$1

Corautus sold 251,950 shares at about $3.98 each; investors also got warrants for 50,390 shares exercisable at $6.7625 each (2/2)

CuraGen Corp. (CRGN)

Sale of convertible subordinated notes

N/A

$100

The 4% notes are due in 2011 and are convertible into CuraGen shares at $9.69 per share; investors in the private placement have an option on another $20M in notes (2/10)

DUSA Pharmaceuticals Inc. (DUSA)

Private placement of stock

2.25S

$24.75

DUSA is selling the shares at $11 each to new and existing institutional and other accredited investors, which have an option to purchase another 337,500 shares at that price (2/27)

Entropin Inc. (OTC BB:ETOP)

Private placement of stock

ND

$3.85

InvestLinc Securities LLC acted as placement agent in the financing, details of which were not disclosed (2/18)

Epoch Biosciences Inc. (EBIO)

Private placement of stock and warrants

2.47S and 0.741W

$6.18

Epoch sold the shares at $2.50 each, and the five-year warrants are exercisable at $3.89 per share; Reedland Capital Partners was placement agent (2/24)

Generex Biotechnology Corp. (GNBT)

Private placement of stock and warrants

1.113S and 0.278W

$1.76

Generex sold the shares and warrants to five accredited institutional investors, which got rights to purchase the same number of units on the same terms (2/27)

Incyte Corp. (INCY)

Convertible notes sale

N/A

$200M

Incyte sold $200M of 3.5% convertible subordinated notes due 2011 in a private placement; the conversion price initially was set at $11.22 per share; the institutional investors have an option to buy another $50M of notes (2/12)

InterMune Inc. (ITMN)

Private sale of convertible notes

N/A

$150

InterMune sold 0.25% convertible senior notes due 2011; the shares are convertible into stock at about $21.63 per share; purchasers have an option to buy another $20M in notes (2/11)

Invitrogen Corp. (IVGN)

Private sale of convertible notes

N/A

$450

Invitrogen sold 1.5% senior convertible notes due 2024 to institutional buyers, which have an option to buy $67.5M more in notes; the notes are convertible at $102.03 per share (2/12).

Keryx Biopharmaceuticals Inc. (KERX)

Private placement of stock

3.2S

$32

Keryx sold the shares at $10 each; the principal investors were Deerfield Partners, Maverick Capital and T. Rowe Price, which together invested $25M (2/13)

La Jolla Pharmaceutical Co. (LJPC)

Underwritten offering

8.696S

$27.4

Pacific Growth Equities LLC is underwriting the offering, which is being made from a shelf registration statement; the shares will be sold at $3.15 each; Pacific Growth has an option to buy another 1.3M shares to cover overallotments (2/20)

MGI Pharma Inc. (MOGN)

Private placement of convertible notes

N/A

$225

MGI sold senior subordinated convertible notes due 2024; they are convertible into common stock at $62.92 per share, a premium of about 30% at the time of the deal; the institutional buyers have an option topurchase another $35M in notes (2/26)

Micrologix Biotech Inc. (Canada; TSE:MBI)

Firm- commitment underwritten deal

5U

C$5 (US$3.71)

Canaccord Capital Corp. agreed to buy 5 million units at C$1 each, each consisting of one share and a two-year, one-half-share warrant; a full warrant entitles the holder to purchase one share at C$1.25; Canaccord has an option to purchase another 2.5M units on the same terms (2/19)

NeoRx Corp. (NERX)

Private placement of stock and warrants

1.845S and 0.923W

$9.69

The shares were sold at $5.25 each, and the five-year warrants are exercisable at $7 per share; Reedland Capital Partners was placement agent (2/23)

Northfield Laboratories Inc. (NFLD)

Registered direct offering

0.237S

$1.37

Investors in a registered direct offering exercised their option to purchase another 237,008 shares, bringing the offering's total to $16.4M; they have an option to purchase another 409,483 shares (2/19)

Pharming Group NV (the Netherlands; OTC BB:PHGUF)

Warrants exercise

2.385S

€3.34 (US$4.19)

Investors in a €25 financing in January exercised warrants for the purchase of another 2.385M shares at €1.40 each; investors got one-year warrants to purchase 15% more shares at €2 each (2/20)

Phytopharm plc (UK; LSE:PYM)

Private placement of stock

3.88S

£6.5 (US$11.89)

Phytopharm sold the shares at 167 pence each to institutional investors, at a discount of about 7%; Nomura International plc and Canaccord Capital (Europe) Ltd. were placement agents (2/25)

ReGen Therapeutics plc (UK; LSE:RGT)

Private placement of stock

18.18S

£0.5 (US$0.93)

ReGen placed 18.18M shares at 2.75 pence each with new and existing investors (2/12)

Scolr Inc. (AMEX:DDD)

Private placement of stock and warrants

3.207S and 0.802W

$10.4

Scolr sold the shares at $3.25 each, and the five-year warrants are exercisable at $4.75 per share; Rodman & Renshaw Inc. was placement agent (2/24)

Senesco Technologies Inc. (AMEX:SNT)

Private placement of units

0.485U

$1.15

Senesco sold the units consisting of one common share and a warrant to purchase half a share exercisable at $3.79 per full share; investors in a Feb. 3 financing got an additional warrant for 0.15 share to match the terms of the deal (2/13)

Senesco Technologies Inc. (AMEX:SNT)

Private placement of units

1U

$2.5

Senesco sold 1M units consisting of one common share and a warrant to purchase 0.35 share exercisable at $3.79 per share; institutional and other accredited investors participated (2/3)

Tissera Inc. (Israel; OTC BB: TSSR)

Private equity placement

ND

$1.6

Details on the deal with private and institutional investors were not disclosed (2/20)

Valentis Inc. (VLTS)

Private placement of stock and warrants

1.7S and 0.7W

$3.5

Valentis sold the remaining shares from a private placement, the first $6.5M of which was disclosed in December; among the investors was Perseus-Soros Biopharmaceutical Fund LP (2/4)

Vion Pharmaceuticals Inc. (VION)

Private placement of stock and warrants

13.55S and 3.39W

$35.2

The shares were sold at $2.60 each and the warrants are exercisable at $3.25 per share; Rodman & Renshaw, the lead placement agent, also got 300,000 warrants exercisable at $3.25 (2/10)

V.I. Technologies Inc. (VITX)

Private placement of stock and warrants

0.82S

$0.9

The company added to a January financing, which now totals $10.9M; in total it sold 11.1M shares; terms of the warrants and options involved in this part of the deal were not disclosed (2/11)


Notes:

This chart does not include real estate or manufacturing plant financings.

# Unless otherwise indicated, shares are traded on the Nasdaq exchange.

@ Dates refer to the date of the press release.

N/A = Not available, applicable or reported.

AMEX = American Stock Exchange; LSE = London Stock Exchange; OTC BB = Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board; TSE = Toronto Stock Exchange.