** Drug developer's shares CALA.O fall ~27% to $0.43
premarket; stock among top pct losers across U.S. exchanges
** Co prices offering of 18.5 mln shares at $0.54/shr, for
gross proceeds of ~$10 mln
** Each share of common stock is accompanied by a short-term
warrant and long-term warrant, each can be used to purchase one
share of common stock at an exercise price of $0.54/shr
** CALA has ~74.93 mln shares outstanding and ~75.88 mln
shares in free float - Refinitiv
** Offering is expected to close on April 1
** SVB Leerink and H.C. Wainwright & Co are acting as joint
book-running managers for the offering
** Stock has fallen 10.15% YTD
(Reporting by Mrinalika Roy in Bengaluru)
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