AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. – ACRX – Pricing of Public Offering of Common Stock


Nasdaq: ACRX), announced the pricing of its previously announced underwritten public offering of 12,500,000 shares of its common stock, offered at a price of $3.31 per share to the public.  The gross proceeds to AcelRx from this offering are expected to be approximately $41.38 million, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions, and other estimated offering expenses payable by AcelRx.  All of the shares in the offering are to be sold by AcelRx. The offering is expected to close on or about December 12, 2012, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.  AcelRx has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an aggregate of 1,875,000 additional shares of common stock.

Jefferies & Company, Inc. and Cowen and Company, LLC are acting as joint book-running managers for the proposed offering, with Canaccord Genuity Inc. acting as co-lead manager.

On Dec. 5, 2012 AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ACRX), announced a proposed underwritten public offering of 10,000,000 shares of its common stock pursuant to a registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).   AcelRx will grant the underwriters a 30-day option to acquire up an additional 1,500,000 shares to cover over-allotments, if any.  All of the shares in the offering are to be sold by AcelRx. The offering is subject to market and other conditions, and there can be no assurance as to the timing and actual size or terms of the offering.

About AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. – ACRX

AcelRx Pharmaceuticals (ACRX) is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative therapies for the treatment of acute and breakthrough pain. ACRX is a United States-based Pharmaceutical Company, which develops and commercializes therapies for the treatment of pain. ACRX’s products include ARX-01 Sufentanil NanoTab PCA System, to solve the problems associated with post-operative intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (IV PCA); ARX-02 Sufentanil NanoTab BTP Management System is a treatment option for cancer patients who suffer from breakthrough pain (BTP). ARX-03 Sufentanil/Triazolam NanoTab, provides non-invasive mild sedation, anxiety reduction and pain relief; and ARX-04 Sufentanil Acute Pain NanoTab, is a sublingual sufentanil product candidate designed to provide a non-invasive, fast-onset treatment of patients with moderate-to-severe acute pain, both on the battlefield and in civilian settings of trauma or injury.

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Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing.

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