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Whiskey/Sausage

04/07/17 1:01 PM

#99930 RE: NWDR #99929

Effectively, you are correct.

The vote is to give a % of shares to another company in some sort of partnership deal. Otherwise yes, you are absolutely correct, why make them 'preffered shares' when they could just re-dilute with 'common shares'?

Ipso facto, this has nothing to do with dilution or raising cash, and everything to do with a partnership.
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Reyeton

04/07/17 1:01 PM

#99931 RE: NWDR #99929

Nobody called regarding my share vote but I recently voted Yes on all according to management's recommendation. Dr. Missling hasn't steered us wrong in the several years I have been here so it seems reasonable to me to let him continue and hopefully move our pipeline forward, find some disease arrests or cures along the way and make me better off financially than I am today, in that order.
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frrol

04/07/17 2:58 PM

#99959 RE: NWDR #99929

Well handled. The fact is we have over $250MM of existing capital authorization and "encouraging" (per mgmt and in my view) 2-73 results going into a Phase 2/3, and nowhere near $250MM of funding needs for our entire advanced pipeline. The authorization increase and blank check preferred are not foreseeably necessary by a long shot. And the company has said there is no take-over threat. It is likely not for selling a chunk of us to a strategic partner: we already have more than the shares currently o/s in authorization left in our current shelf. The company likely has some acquisition(s) in mind. That's normally OK but given what's on our plate now, I'd say it's full. And given the breathtaking size of these two asks, I'm not inclined to blank checks. Those preferred could conceivably have a conversion ratio of another several multiples of our common o/s. Blank check preferreds are dangerous.
I voted no to them. As 2-73 and 3-71 advance, and with more word from management, I'd be more amenable to assenting in the future.