Article: FINANCINGS ROUNDUP PROXIMAGEN DEFIES GLOOMY UK FINANCING TRENDS, RAISES [pounds sterling]50M.

Byline: Jennifer Boggs, Assistant Managing Editor

Proximagen Neuroscience plc is aiming to raise [pounds sterling]50 million (US$80 million) through the placement of 35.7 million shares, in what the firm said is one of the largest UK biotech financings in the past decade.

On top of that, the London-based company said it is placing the shares at a price of 140 pence each, representing only a small 2 percent discount to its Thursday closing bid price of 142.5 pence.

It's an impressive financing by any account, but particularly in the UK, where firms are struggling to bring in even modest funding rounds, many of which are raised at sizeable ...

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