NorthWest Biotherapeutics Inc (NWBO)

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Austin: Edited: Possibly ensuring controlling interest?

with late edits:

Linda Powers talks a lot about contingencies... risk management. For patients and others this is apparently disturbing. However, it makes sense to me. If DCVax-L, and particularly DCVax-Direct are as good as hoped, there would be takeover efforts... I would think.

At the same time, in the realm of risk management, there is the small possibility that the broader markets could tank resulting in the situation NWBO was in 5 years ago. They do need more financing to finish Phase 3 for L and to continue Direct. She can't count on early approval. For years now, bears have predicted a broad market collapse once stimulus is withdrawn. It is now being withdrawn... for real. Linda would not have to be predicting a collapse, but just adding insurance in case it happens. In case funding becomes scarce at the same time that the stock price drops with wider markets. In such a scenario she would have to offer very large quantities of stock to support the company.

Wouldn't the arrangements with Cognate also benefit NWBO as a hedge against takeover given that she controls Cognate and Cognate will be increasing shares in these deals?

(In the last post I had belatedly added a line to the end of the wrong paragraph. I do stuff like that.)