Genset IPO Case

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Genset IPO Case

• Week 13, April 13, 2006

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Genset Valuations 2006 DNA
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Genset Valution 2006 Contracts
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Genset Share Price IPO to Halt
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End of Genset Story

• Acquired by Serono, Europes largest biotech
  company, in June 2002
• Price 105 million
• 9.75 Euros per share, 138 premium
• Many European biotech firms are desperate for
  more financing, since tgheir fledgling drug
  pipelines will take years to bear any fruit.
  (WSJ, 6/27/2002)