Mereo re­verse merges with a flail­ing On­coMed and preps for a back flip on­to Nas­daq

Long af­ter the bright lights had dimmed and the mar­quee part­ners had large­ly slipped away from On­coMed $OMED, the Cal­i­for­nia biotech has one last role to play.

The com­pa­ny, with a mar­ket cap that had dwin­dled to less than cash, has be­come a re­verse merg­er ve­hi­cle for the UK’s Mereo, which will now do a back flip on­to Nas­daq as the mar­ket re­mains tur­bu­lent. Mereo — which is list­ed on the Lon­don ex­change, some­thing of a back­wa­ter these days — had tak­en a shot at a US IPO in bet­ter days, though, drop­ping out of the queue last spring.

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