Shut­down thrusts Gos­samer Bio on­to a rarely used path for fixed-price IPO

From day 1 Gos­samer has al­ways been a biotech in a hur­ry. And they’re not about to let a lit­tle thing like a gov­ern­ment shut­down stymy their plans for an IPO.

As the par­tial US gov­ern­ment shut­down con­tin­ues to par­a­lyze the SEC, Gos­samer Bio has elect­ed to use a rare and riski­er method to make the leap in­to Nas­daq. The biotech is fore­go­ing the typ­i­cal­ly lengthy SEC re­view of their prospec­tus to green­light the list­ing in fa­vor of en­abling their reg­is­tra­tion by lock­ing in their IPO price 20 days be­fore mak­ing a mar­ket de­but.

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