Finance Watch: Five More Biopharma IPOs In The US Raise $624.7m

Public Company Edition: Outside the US, Zai Lab raised more in its recent Hong Kong initial public offering – $766.4m – than PMV, Prelude, Taysha, Graybug and Greenwich combined. Also, Gilead priced debt to fund its $21bn Immunomedics buy and ADC Therapeutics raised $204m.

Finance Watch

Initial public offerings in the US have been remarkable across industries, but the biopharmaceutical sector has dominated in terms of the number of IPOs and the performance of newly issued stocks in the weeks and months to follow. 

PMV Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Prelude Therapeutics Incorporated, Taysha Gene Therapies, Inc., Graybug Vision, Inc. and Greenwich LifeSciences went public in the US on 24 September and four of the five firms still were trading in positive territory on 28 September

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