Per­cep­tive fields SPAC #3 as an­oth­er group of biotechs scoops up $364M in lat­est Nas­daq romp

There’s no sign that the wind­fall of cash drop­ping biotech’s way on Wall Street is abat­ing. Three more bio­phar­mas priced IPOs on Thurs­day and Fri­day morn­ing, rid­ing a his­toric boom with a $364 mil­lion pay­off.

Lon­don-based biotech Free­line Ther­a­peu­tics took home the li­on’s share of the cash with $159 mil­lion af­ter pric­ing 8,823,529 shares at $18 a pop. Check­mate Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals, of Cam­bridge, MA, raised $75 mil­lion with an of­fer of 5 mil­lion shares at $15 — right at the mid­point of its range. And Arya Sci­ences Ac­qui­si­tion Corp III, the third in a se­ries from Per­cep­tive, priced 13,000,000 shares at $10 per share.

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