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Follow-on roundup: ImmunoGen, Mirati, Zymeworks, Viking, OptiNose

June 7, 2018 2:05 PM UTC

ImmunoGen Inc. (NASDAQ:IMGN), Mirati Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ:MRTX), Zymeworks Inc. (NYSE:ZYME; TSX:ZYME), Viking Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ:VKTX) and OptiNose Inc. (NASDAQ:OPTN) each priced follow-ons, raising a total of more than $465 million.

ImmunoGen raised $150.7 million through the sale of 13.7 million shares at $11 in an upsized follow-on underwritten by J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Cowen, Canaccord Genuity and H.C. Wainwright. The price is a 4% discount to ImmunoGen's closing price of $11.47 on Tuesday, when it proposed after hours to sell 12 million shares. ImmunoGen dipped $0.08 to $11.39 on Wednesday, and lost $1.05 to $10.34 on Thursday. The company is conducting the Phase III FORWARD I study of mirvetuximab soravtansine (IMGN853) to treat ovarian cancer; the therapy is an antibody-drug conjugate comprising a folate receptor 1 (FOLR1; FR-alpha)-targeting mAb linked to ImmunoGen's DM4 cytotoxic agent...