** Reneo Pharmaceuticals Inc's RPHM.O shares down 15.8% at
$8.31 premarket after overnight follow-on prices
** Genetic disorder drug developer sells ~6.9 mln shares at
$8 for $55 mln
** Offering price represents 18.9% discount to last sale
** Additionally, RPHM to sell shares worth $5 mln to
Abingworth Bioventures in concurrent private placement
** Abingworth is #4 RPHM investor with ~2 mln shares, or ~8%
stake, per Refinitiv
** Co to use proceeds from both transactions to fund
completion of its mavodelpar program, to treat adult patients
with primary mitochondrial myopathies (PMM)
** RPHM's stock has more than quadrupled YTD through Weds
close
** Jefferies, BofA and Piper Sandler jt bookrunners for
equity offering
(Lance Tupper is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed
are his own)
((lance.tupper@thomsonreuters.com
lance.tupper@tr.com 1-646-279-6380))