Total: $519.8M |
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Company (Symbol)# | Type Of Financing | Number Of Shares, Units Or Warrants (M) | Amount Raised ($M)* | Investors; Placement Agents; Details(Date)@ |
Aeterna Laboratories Inc. (Canada;TSE:AEL) | Bought deal | 0.16S | C$2.1 (US$1.4) | Aeterna raised an additional C$2.1M (US$1.4M)from 5/00 bought deal through the underwriters'exercise of an overallotment option for 0.16M shares at C$13.25 (US$9.04) per share; the syndicate was led by Yorkton Securities Inc. and included HSBC Securities Inc., Canaccord Capital Corp., BLC Securities Inc. and Desjardins Securities Inc. (7/25) |
Advanced Polymer Systems Inc.(APOS) | Sale of product lines and technology rights | -- | $25 | Advanced Polymer sold its cosmeceutical product lines and technology rights for certain topical pharmaceuticals to R.P. Scherer Corp. (subsidiary of Cardinal Health Inc. [NYSE:CAH]); Advanced Polymer received $25M up front and could receive an additional $26.5M in milestone payments over the next three years (7/26) |
Antisoma plc; LSE:ASM) | Private placement of ordinary shares | 7.68S | #9 (US$13.6) | Antisoma raised #9M (US$13.6M) by placing 7.68M ordinary shares at 117p (US$1.77) per share,a discount of approximately 8% to the closing middle market price on the London Stock Exchange on 7/26; Nomura International arranged the placement (7/27) |
Aurora Biosciences Corp. (ABSC) | Sale of equity in another company | - | $1.7- | Aurora recognized a $1.7M gain as the result of the sale of its equity stake in Cytovia Inc. to Maxim Pharmaceuticals (MAXM), which in June acquired Cytovia in an all-stock transaction valued at more than $80M (7/20) |
Avant Immuno therapeutics Inc.(AVAN) | Private placement of common stock | 4.65S | $36.5 | Avant raised $36.5M through a private placement of 4.65M shares at $7.85 per share (a 7.6% discount to the 7/14/00 closing price); PaineWebber Inc. served as placement agent (7/17) |
Axys Pharmaceuticals Inc.(AXPH) | Private placement of common stock | 1.639S | $10 | Acqua Wellington North American Equities Fund agreed to purchase up to $50M of discounted Axys common stock over the next 15 months; the initial sale is of 1.639M shares at $6.10 each, for a total of $10M (7/21) |
Bioject Medical Technologies (BJCT) | Private placement of common stock | 1.3S | $10 | Bioject sold 1.3M shares at $7.75 each for proceeds of $10M; Lone Pine Capital led the financing, and four other institutional investors participated (7/28) |
Genelabs Technologies Inc.(GNLB) | Private placement of common stock | 1S | $4 | Acqua Wellington North American Equities Fund Ltd. agreed to buy up to $29M worth of Genelabs' common stock over the next 18 months; Acqua Wellington made an initial investment of $4M through a purchase of 1M shares at $4 per share (7/11) |
Genome Therapeutics Corp.(GENE) | Sale of common stock through shelf registration | 1.5S | $44.7 | GTC sold 1.5M shares at a weighted average price of $31.01 under a 4/00 shelf registration that replaced a public offering attempt; Tucker Anthony Inc. acted as placement agent (7/10) |
Ixion Biotechnology | Private placement of stock | 3.34S | $6.7 | Qvestor LLC, a U.S. subsidiary of Q-Med AB, purchased 3.34M shares of Ixion stock for $2 each for a total of $6.68M; Q-Med already had 0.56M shares of Ixion and had an option to acquire up to 50 percent of the company; after the closing, Q-Med owns 59 percent of Ixion (7/17) |
La Jolla Pharmaceutical Co. (LJPC) | Private placement of common stock | 4.8S | $29.4 | La Jolla entered definitive agreements for the sale of 4.8M shares at $6.125 per share, for a total of $29.4M (7/19) |
Matrix Pharmaceutical Inc. (MATX) | Private placement of common stock | 2.5S | $31 | Matrix entered definitive agreements to sell 2.5M shares at $12.50 per share (a discount of approximately 6% from the prior 20-day average trading Banc of America Securities LLC served as price); placement agent (7/13) |
Meditech Pharmaceuticals Inc. (OTC BB:MDCH) | Common stock equity line | - | - | Meditech secured a $30M equity line from an undisclosed institutional investor (7/6) |
Nabi(NABI) | Private placement of common stock | 1.25S | $10 | Nabi raised $10M through a private placement of an estimated 1.25M shares of common stock (based on the 7/13 closing price of $8.013 per share) (7/13) |
Oncolytics Biotech Inc. (Canada; TSE:ONC) | Private placement of common stock | 0.245S | C$3 (US$2.02) | Oncolytics sold 0.245M shares at C$12.25 (US$8.25) per share to Innovatech Grand Montreal (7/17) |
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.(Israel; TEVA) | Multicurrency five-year term loan credit facility | - | $135 | Teva established a $135M multicurrency five-year term loan credit facility with a syndicate of banks, primarily based in Europe; the syndicate was arranged by The Sumitomo Bank Ltd. and Deutsche Bank AG and includes 12 other banks; Teva expected to fully draw down the facility within a month (7/17) |
Theratechnologies (TSE:TH) | Exercise of warrants | 0.208S | C$1.27 (US$0.85) | The Societe generale de financement du Quebec exercised 0.208M warrants at C$6.10 (US $4.12)per share, for proceeds of C$1.27M (US$0.85M);warrants were issued as part of a 6/99 financing (7/4) |
United Therapeutics Corp. (UTHR) | Private placement of common stock | 1.3S | $143 | United raised $143M through the sale of 1.3M shares of common stock at $110 per share; Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown served as placement agent (7/13) |
Xenova Group plc(XNVA) | Private placement of units | 2.9U | #10 (US$14.9) | Xenova raised #10M (US$14.9M) by issuing 2.9M units at #3.45 (US$5.18); each unit consist of five new shares and four warrants at 85 pence each (exercisable between 1/1/01 and 10/31/01); Nomura International plc underwrote the issue (7/19) |
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# Unless otherwise indicated, shares are traded on the Nasdaq exchange. |
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* Non-U.S. currencies converted at the exchange rate on the date of the announcement. |
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@ Dates refer to the date of the press release. |
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ASX = Australian Stock Exchange |
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LSE = London Stock Exchange |
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TSE = Toronto Stock Exchange |
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VSE = Vancouver Stock Exchange |
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OTC BB = Over The Counter Bulletin Board |