** Shares of insurance holding co FNHC.O down 10.5% at
$5.08 premarket
** Co prices underwritten public offering of 3.5 mln shares
of its common stock at $4.75 per share for gross proceeds of
$16.625 mln urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nGNX88643f
** Offer price represents a 16.37% discount to stock's last
close
** The net proceeds from the sale of shares the will be
about $15.2 mln
** Also grants the underwriter a 30-day option to purchase
up to 525,000 additional shares of common stock
** The offering is expected to close on March 15
** Piper Sandler & Co. is serving as sole bookrunner for the
offering
** Up to last close, stock down ~4% this year
(Reporting by Rithika Krishna in Bengaluru)
((Rithika.Krishna@thomsonreuters.com;))