Company | Type Of | Number Of | Amount | Investors; Placement Agents; |
(Symbol) | Financing | Shares, Units | Raised (M) | Details (Date) |
Or Warrants (M) | ||||
Access | Private | 0.95S | $2.9 | Access raised $2.9M in the 1st closing of a |
Pharmaceuticals | placement | private placement of $7.8M total; the com- | ||
Inc. (OTC Bulletin | pany sold 0.95M shares of unregistered | |||
Board:AXCS) | common stock at $3.053 each to undis- | |||
closed investors; the company will register | ||||
the stock for resale; Sunrise Securities | ||||
Corp. acted as the placement agent (6/18) | ||||
CoCensys Inc. | Private | ND | $8 | CoCensys placed $8M in convertible pre- |
(COCN) | placement | ferred stock, which carries a 7.5% annual | ||
dividend; the shares are convertible for 3 | ||||
years into common stock at a price based in | ||||
part on market value at the time of conver- | ||||
sion but not to exceed $3.93 per share; | ||||
the holders also get warrants to buy 0.35M | ||||
shares of common stock at $4.50 each and | ||||
additional warrants to buy 0.1M shares if | ||||
the investors hold a specified amount of | ||||
preferred stock for at least 5 months after | ||||
purchase; CoCensys may sell an additional | ||||
$2M of convertible preferred stock at a | ||||
later date (6/9) | ||||
Demeter | Private | ND | $2 | Demeter placed $2M in convertible pre- |
BioTechnologies | placement | ferred stock with the CEO Venture Fund III | ||
Ltd. (OTC Bulletin | (6/18) | |||
Board:DBOT) | ||||
Genelabs | Sale of shares | 8.5S | $4.3 | Genelabs received $4.3M from the sale of |
Technologies Inc. | in affiliate | some of the shares in its Taiwan affiliate, | ||
(GNLB) | Genelabs Biotechnology Co. Ltd., to a | |||
single investor, Long Bon Development | ||||
Co.; Genelabs sold 8.48M shares at $0.507 | ||||
each; it still holds a 16% stake in the affil- | ||||
iate (prices converted at a rate of NT34.55/ | ||||
US$1) (6/10) | ||||
Genzyme Tissue | Long-term | — | $66 | Genzyme Corp. has committed up to $66M |
Repair (GENZL) | financing | to its subsidiary Genzyme Tissue Repair; | ||
Genzyme has increased the equity line of | ||||
credit available to Genzyme Tissue from | ||||
$12M to $50M, which the latter may draw | ||||
down as needed on a quarterly basis in | ||||
exchange for stock; Genzyme also will buy | ||||
Genzyme Tissue's manufacturing facility | ||||
for $16M in cash; Genzyme Tissue will | ||||
lease back part of the facility (6/9) | ||||
Inflazyme | Private | 7U | $4.1 | Inflazyme raised US$4.1M from current |
Pharmaceuticals | placement | and new investors Biotechnology Invest- | ||
Ltd. (VSE:IZP; Canada) | ments Ltd., The Goldman Sachs Group LP, | |||
Royal Bank Capital Corp. and Royal Trust | ||||
Corp. of Canada; the company sold 7.02M | ||||
units at US$0.582 each; each unit consists | ||||
of 1 common share and 1/5 common share | ||||
purchase warrant; each whole warrant can | ||||
be used to buy 1 share for US$0.776 before | ||||
12/25/01; Biotechnology Investments' pur- | ||||
chase gives it a 16.5% stake in Inflazyme; | ||||
the investors must hold the shares and war- | ||||
rants for 1 year before trading (prices con- | ||||
verted at a rate of C$1.47/US$1) (6/26) | ||||
Oncor Inc. (ONC) | Line of | — | $1 | Oncor raised $1M through 2 cash infusions |
credit | from certain of its directors and a major | |||
shareholder of the company, which provi- | ||||
ded credit support expanding Oncor's exist- | ||||
ing bank line of credit (6/23) | ||||
Shaman | Equity | ND | $7 | A group of Shaman's existing investors will |
Pharmaceuticals | financing | buy up to $7M of 5.5% convertible prefer- | ||
Inc. (SHMN) | facility | red stock over a 9-month period if Shaman | ||
elects to use this financing facility; the | ||||
investors, led by Delta Opportunity Fund | ||||
Ltd., will get warrants to buy shares at a | ||||
15% premium to market over the next 3 | ||||
months; Diaz Altschul Capital LLC acted | ||||
as the placement agent (6/11) | ||||
Techniclone Corp. | Line of | ND | $20 | Techniclone set up a $20M equity-based |
(TCLN) | credit | line of credit with 2 institutional investors; | ||
the company gets $3.5M immediately in | ||||
exchange for 2.33M shares at $1.50 each | ||||
(current market value); the remainder of the | ||||
potential financing is available through | ||||
6/01 but Techniclone is not required to | ||||
draw down those funds; future stock issued | ||||
under the line of credit will be sold at a 15% | ||||
discount to market price (6/16) | ||||
Theratechnologies | Private | 0.38U | $1.2 | Theratechnologies sold 0.375M units at |
Inc. (MSE:TH; Canada) | placement | US$3.10/each primarily to institutional | ||
investors; this was to satisfy the overallot- | ||||
option from the company's private place- | ||||
ment in 5/98; each unit consists of 1 com- | ||||
mon share and 0.5 purchase warrant; 1 war- | ||||
rant can be used to buy 1 share common | ||||
stock for US$3.45 until 11/30/99; the com- | ||||
pany will register the underlying shares for | ||||
resale; Levesque Beaubien Geoffrion was | ||||
the lead underwriter (prices converted at a | ||||
rate of C$1.45/US$1) (6/11) | ||||
Unigene | Private | — | $4 | Unigene received $4M of an $8M private |
Laboratories Inc. | placement | placement of its stock with a worldwide | ||
(UGNE) | equity fund (not disclosed); Unigene sold | |||
debentures with a 5% coupon that can be | ||||
converted into common stock after 6 | ||||
months; beginning 1/1/99, 15%-20% of the | ||||
debentures are convertible into common | ||||
stock each month at a conversion price that | ||||
depends on market value; on conversion | ||||
the holder also gets share purchase war- | ||||
rants (6/30) | ||||
Xoma Corp. (XOMA) | Private | — | $12.5 | Xoma drew down the remaining $12.5M of |
placement | a $25M financing arranged in 8/97; the | |||
company sold $12.5M in 5% convertible | ||||
preferred stock to an affiliate of Credit | ||||
Suisse First Boston, Southbrook Internat- | ||||
ional Investments Ltd. and HBK Invest- | ||||
ments LP; conversions to common stock | ||||
will be based on market price of Xoma | ||||
common stock at the time; there is no initial | ||||
discount, but 2% will be added for each | ||||
month the stock is held, up to 12% maxi- | ||||
mum; the investors also get 3-year war- | ||||
rants to buy 0.55M shares of common | ||||
stock at $7 each; Shipley Raidy Capital | ||||
Partners LP acted as the placement agent | ||||
(6/29) | ||||
TOTAL: $133.0M | ||||
NOTES: | ||||
MSE = Montreal Stock Exchange; ND = Not disclosed, reported and/or available; S = Shares; U = Units; VSE = Vancouver Stock Exchange; | ||||
W = Warrants | ||||
The financings in this chart include loans, bridge financings and other interim measures as well as sale of business units, debt offerings, rights offerings, exercise of warrants, institutional offerings of registered stock and standard private placements. |