BOSTON, March 29, 2010 – Goodwin Procter recently advised Anthera Pharmaceuticals as the company completed its $42 million initial public offering. Deutsche Bank Securities was the sole book-running manager of the offering, Piper Jaffray & Co. was co-lead manager and Cowen and Company, LLC and Merriman Curhan Ford & Co acted as co-managers.
Concurrently with the completion of the offering, Anthera sold approximately $17 million of common stock to existing investors in a private placement and issued $3.5 million to Eli Lilly and Shionogi & Co. in satisfaction of future milestone payment obligations.
Anthera is a San Francisco Bay Area-based biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing products to treat serious diseases associated with inflammation, including cardiovascular and autoimmune diseases.
The Goodwin Procter deal team consisted of Mitzi Chang.
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