** Shares of Second Sight Medical Products Inc EYES.O
plunge 23.3% to $8.5 pre-market
** Co to offer 4.7 mln shares at price of $6/shr in private
placement, a discount of 45.5% to its closing price on Tuesday
** Co says offering to result in gross proceeds of $27.9 mln
** Net proceeds from private placement are expected to
provide working capital for co - EYES
** Offer size represents ~35% of co's free float - Refinitiv
data
** Up to last close, stock had risen nearly six-fold YTD
(Reporting by Dania Nadeem in Bengaluru)
((Dania.Nadeem@thomsonreuters.com;))