Prothena hopes to raise $180M af­ter Ei­sai Alzheimer's da­ta prompt­ed stock surge

Dublin-based Prothena has opened up 3 mil­lion of its com­mon shares via an un­der­writ­ten pub­lic of­fer­ing, trad­ing un­der the tick­er $PR­TA. Un­der­writ­ers get 30 days to grab an­oth­er 15% of the num­ber of shares sold.

That’s a $180 mil­lion raise as of to­day, with Prothena’s stock trad­ing at $60 per share, al­though the com­pa­ny said in a press re­lease there is no as­sur­ance as to the ac­tu­al size or terms of the of­fer­ing and when it will be com­plet­ed.

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