Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Aduro Biotech IPO priced at $17 per share - underwriter

<span id="midArticle_start"/> (Reuters) - Aduro Biotech Inc's initialpublic offering has been priced at $17 per share, an underwritersaid, valuing the cancer immunotherapy drug developer at about$1 billion.



<span id="midArticle_0"/>The upsized offering, which was priced on par with thecompany's expectation, raised about $119 million.



<span id="midArticle_1"/>Aduro, which counts Johnson & Johnson and NovartisAG among its investors, is selling all the 7 millionshares in the offering.



<span id="midArticle_2"/>The company had previously planned to sell 5 million sharesand expected the offering to be priced at $14-$16 per share.



<span id="midArticle_3"/>Shares of Aduro are expected to start trading on Wednesdayon the Nasdaq under the symbol "ADRO."



<span id="midArticle_4"/>BofA Merrill Lynch and Leerink Partners are the mainunderwriters for the offering. (Reporting by Avik Das in Bengaluru; Editing by SaumyadebChakrabarty)



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