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Geron Corporation Announces Proposed Public Offering of Common Stock and Warrants
FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Geron Corporation (Nasdaq: GERN), a late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical company, today announced that it intends to
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[{"type":"text","content":" FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nGeron Corporation (Nasdaq: GERN), a late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical company, today announced that it intends to offer and sell shares of its common stock, or for certain investors that so choose, in lieu of shares of its common stock, pre-funded warrants to purchase shares of its common stock, together with accompanying warrants to purchase shares of its common stock in an underwritten public offering. All of the securities in the proposed offering are to be sold by Geron. The offering is subject to market and other conditions, and there can be no assurance as to whether or when the offering may be completed, or as to the actual size or terms of the offering.\n\nStifel and Baird are acting as joint book-running managers for the proposed offering. Needham & Company is acting as lead manager for the proposed offering.\n\nA shelf registration statement on Form S-3 relating to the public offering of the shares of common stock, pre-funded warrants and accompanying warrants described above was previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and subsequently declared effective by the SEC. A preliminary prospectus supplement relating to and describing the terms of the proposed offering will be filed with the SEC and will be available on the SEC’s web site at www.sec.gov. When available, copies of the preliminary prospectus supplement relating to the proposed offering may also be obtained from Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated, Attention: Syndicate, One Montgomery Street, Suite 3700, San Francisco, California 94104, by telephone at 415-364-2720 or by email at [email protected] or Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated, Attention: Syndicate Department, 777 East Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202, by telephone at 800-792-2473 or by email at [email protected].\n\nThis press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any of these securities, nor will there be any sale of these securities in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction.\n\nAbout Geron\n\nGeron is a late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and potential commercia...