Article: Financings Roundup The 'Rights' Stuff: Offering Gains Pharmacyclics $24M.

Byline: Jennifer Boggs, Assistant Managing Editor

Rebounding from its 2007 troubles with lung cancer drug Xcytrin, Pharmacyclics Inc. has emerged with a retooled management team, a multiproduct pipeline and a rather unusual -- at least for biotech -- money-raising strategy.

Rather than trying to brave the public markets or risk significant dilution through a PIPE investment, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based firm has opted for a rights offering -- making about 18.8 million shares of its stock available to current stakeholders for $1.28 each -- hoping to pad its lean balance sheet by $24 million. It's the company's first fundraising since Robert Duggan stepped ...

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