Biotech IPOs: Why Values Will Increase

Acquisitions and crossover investors are just beginning to push up IPO prices for the best biotech offerings, providing the first hints of real competition for shares of new issues.

Roger Longman

"Everybody knows," says one prominent venture capitalist, "that biotech IPOs are controlled by six people."

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