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Compliance into the Weeds-Episode 85-Professor Coffee on the Dearth of IPOs
Life Sciences Quarterly: A View From Washington: What to Expect From the SEC
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Form 10s as Alternatives to Traditional IPOs – Interview with Bill Hicks, Member, Mintz Levin
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Many biopharmaceutical companies are facing challenges raising cash through traditional equity markets. While venture investment activity saw a slight increase in the first half of 2024 as compared to the equivalent period in...more
In an encouraging sign that the equity capital markets may be improving for biotechnology companies, Bicara Therapeutics Inc. and Zenas Biopharma, Inc. filed S-1 registration statements yesterday, signaling their intention to...more
Wilson Sonsini’s inaugural Biotech Summit will address topics of critical importance to Biotech and Biopharmaceutical companies, including early and late-stage venture financing, partnering strategies, current and future AI...more
Heading into 2024, expectations for biotech venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) investments were low following two lackluster years, but as we wrap up Q1, those expectations have been turned on their head after a...more
Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area, and San Diego are once again the top markets for life sciences commercial real estate in the U.S., with plenty of opportunities for growth as biotech readies for a comeback, according to a...more
In this issue of the 2022 Technology and Life Sciences IPO Report, we present analysis related to 10 initial public offerings (IPOs), valued at over $75 million, completed by U.S.-based technology and life sciences companies...more
点击此处阅读调查报告全文 Our third annual report on Hong Kong-listed biotech companies examines how the sector performed during the challenging conditions for capital markets globally over the past 12 months. Although aggregate listing...more
After a market flush with cash and deal flow from 2020 through the first half of 2022, in the last six to twelve months the markets have been particularly tight. Particularly impacted in this turbulent market have been small...more
As biotech markets begin to show signs of life, how should company leaders and investors prepare for what’s next? Biotech executives, investment bankers and partners from Deloitte’s life sciences practice and Fenwick’s...more
As we predicted in the previous edition of this report, 2021 turned out to be a very strong year indeed for US life sciences dealmaking, marked by high transaction values and volumes as the industry continued on its...more
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati’s 2021 Technology and Life Sciences IPO Report presents analysis related to 179 initial public offerings and 6 direct listings completed by U.S.-based technology and life sciences companies...more
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati’s 2021 Mid-Year Technology and Life Sciences IPO Report presents analyses related to the pricing of 123 initial public offerings completed by U.S.-based technology and life sciences companies...more
Caribou Biosciences, Inc., a Berkeley, California-based CRISPR genome-editing biopharmaceutical company, raised $304M in an initial public offering, one of the most lucrative IPOs in gene-editing. In June 2021, Gene editing...more
Wilson Sonsini’s 2020 Technology and Life Sciences IPO Report presents analysis and data related to the pricing of 123 initial public offerings completed by U.S.-based technology and life sciences companies between January 1...more
It is now a year since the WHO declared an International Public Health Emergency after the first international case of a novel coronavirus infection was identified outside of China. We remain right in the middle of spiralling...more
Version 3.0 of the PPP kicked off yesterday, with community lenders leading the way by focusing on “underserved borrowers—including women-led businesses and those run by Black, Latino and Asian owners and other minorities” in...more
In our 2018 year-end review of life sciences and tech IPOs, we noted that life sciences offerings totaled 67 raising an average of $133 million while there were 45 technology deals raising an average of more than $380...more
With 58 U.S. biopharma IPOs in 2018, the biotech industry entered the new year with confidence. By all appearances, the longest and largest biotech IPO window in history was not going to close anytime soon. ...more
As a pioneer in DNA synthesis with several patents to her name, Dr. Emily Leproust could have enjoyed a distinguished career without ever leaving the lab. Instead she founded (and just took public) a company that promises to...more
Coming off a year that saw a record number of new drug approvals, significant scientific breakthroughs and a year-end tax reform package that both significantly lowers corporate taxes and provides the long-awaited tax...more
The IPO market in May produced 15 IPOs, doubling the count for the first five months of 2016 to 30 IPOs. Gross proceeds for the month were $3.56 billion, buoyed by a pair of billion-dollar IPOs, the first such sized offerings...more
On May 24, 2016, the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) published a study, “Emerging Therapeutic Company Investment and Deal Trends,” which collects ten years of data to identify trends affecting “emerging...more
The first quarter of 2016 produced a meager eight IPOs with gross proceeds of $667 million. Only once over the prior 12 years has the first quarter produced a lower tally—there were only two new offerings in the glum...more
These are tough times in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries: Funding is drying up, investors are fleeing the space, the IPO door is pretty firmly shut, valuations are dropping, activists are lurking and the headlines...more
The November IPO market produced a dozen IPOs with gross proceeds of $1.30 billion. The month’s tally brings the total number of IPOs over the first 11 months of 2015 to 150 with total gross proceeds of $24.63...more