Total: $238.456M

Company (Symbol)#

Type Of
Financing

Number Of Shares, Units Or Warrants (M)

Amount Raised (M)

Investors; Placement Agents; Details (Date)@


Ariad Pharmaceuticals
Inc.
(ARIA)

Private placement of common stock

2.2S

$6.1

Ariad raised $6.1M in a placement of 2.2M shares at $2.75 per share; Rodman & Renshaw Inc. served as placement agent for the offering (11/11)

Cellegy Pharmaceuticals
Inc.
(CLGY)

Private placement of common stock

2.2S

$5.5

Company raised $5.5M in a private placement of its common stock to John Gregory, the managing partner at SJ Strategic Investments LLC (11/7)

Discovery Labs
Inc.
(DSCO)

Private placement of common stock

6.4S

$12.8

Discovery Laboratories raised $12.8M in a private placement led by BioAsia Investments; other investors were Heartland Value Fund, Special Situations Funds, State Street Research Health Science Fund, PharmaBioDevelopment Inc., SDS Capital Partners, DMG LLC and others; the placement agent was Gerard Klauer Mattison & Co. Inc. (11/6)

ISTA Pharmaceuticals
Inc.
(ISTA)

Private placement of common stock and warrants

N/A

$40

ISTA completed a private placement of $40M of its common stock and warrants exercisable for an additional $6M of common stock to investors, including The Sprout Group, Sanderling Venture Partners, Investor Growth Capital Ltd., Gund Investment Corp., KBL Healthcare, MDS Capital and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board (11/20)

Ligand Pharmaceuticals
Inc.
(LGND)

Private placement of convertible subordinated notes

N/A

$135

Ligand raised $135M with a private placement of its 6% convertible subordinated notes due Nov. 16, 2007; the notes are convertible into shares of Ligand common stock at $6.17 per share (11/21)

Miravant
Medical
Technologies
Inc. (OTC BB:MRVT)

Convertible
line of credit

N/A

-

Miravant signed a nonbinding letter of intent with a private party for a convertible line of credit up to $12M; the funds will be available in increments of up to $1M per month with associated warrants for shares of common stock (11/22)

NeoTherapeutics
Inc.
(NEOT)

Private placement of common stock

N/A

$1.566

NeoTherapeutics raised $1.566M in two separate private placements, one issuing 356,926 shares and raising $628,190 to be used to pay off debt to five vendors, and the other raising $938,000 by selling stock to five investors, who also received five-year warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 107,870 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $3 per share (11/21)

Ortec
International

Inc.
(ORTC)

Private placement of common stock

N/A

$8.7

Ortec closed an $8.7M private placement with new and existing institutional investors (11/14)

Palatin Technologies
Inc.
(AMEX:
PTN)

Private placement of common stock

9.37S

$11.5

Palatin raised $11.5M with a private placement of 9.37M shares; for every five shares purchased, investors received a five-year warrant to purchase one common stock share at a 25% premium to the $1.23 per-share purchase price in the offering (11/20)

Photogen Technologies
Inc.
(PHGN)

Private placement of common stock

N/A

$9

Photogen sold $9M of common stock; investors were Mi3 LP, Oxford Biosciences and Tannebaum LLC (11/15)

TM Bioscience Corp. (Canada; CDNX:TMC)

Debt financing

N/A

-

Tm Bioscience closed a debt financing with Canadian Medical Discoveries Fund Inc. for C$4.67M (US$2.96M); the loan has a term of 39 months (11/13)

Transition Therapeutics
Inc.
(Canada; CDNX:TTH)

Private placement of common stock

5.7S

C$2
(US
$1.29)

Transition raised US$1.29M in a private placement (11/27)

ViroLogic
Inc.
(VLGC)

Private placement of preferred stock

N/A

$7

ViroLogic raised $7M through the sale of newly issued shares of 8% convertible preferred stock to a group of unnamed investors; the purchasers also will receive warrants to purchase a total of 4.4M shares of common stock at a price based on a five-day trading average (11/15)


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; CDNX = Canadian Venture Exchange; OTC BB = Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board