Fluidigm Announces $60 Million Public Offering of Common Stock
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The shares include 549,000 shares of common stock sold pursuant to the over-allotment option granted by Fluidigm to the underwriters, which option was exercised in full. The net proceeds from the sale of the shares, after deducting the underwriters’ discounts and commissions and other estimated offering expenses payable by Fluidigm, will be approximately $56.1 million.
Fluidigm currently plans to use the net proceeds from this offering for research and development, commercialization of its products, working capital and other general corporate purposes.
Piper Jaffray & Co. and Cowen and Company, LLC acted as the joint book-running managers for the offering. Leerink Swann LLC, Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. and Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. acted as the co-managers for the offering.
A shelf registration statement (File No. 333-180550) relating to these securities was filed on April 4, 2012, as amended on May 7, 2012, and declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 10, 2012. A final prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus describing the terms of the offering was filed with the SEC on August 16, 2012. Copies of the prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering may be obtained from Piper Jaffray & Co., Attention: Prospectus Department, 800 Nicollet Mall, J12S03, Minneapolis, MN 55402 or by telephone at 800-747-3924 or by email at prospectus@pjc.com, or from Cowen and Company, LLC (c/o Broadridge Financial Services, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY, 11717, Attn: Prospectus Department, Phone: 631-274-2806, Fax: 631-254-7140). An electronic copy of the prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering is available on the website of the Securities and Exchange Commission at http://www.sec.gov/.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of offers to buy any securities of Fluidigm, and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale of any security in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
