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This certain seems like Perceptive is making an attempt to rearrange a reverse merger transaction with Athira Pharma because the shell. This concept is a little bit riskier, Athira hasn’t declared strategic alternate options and has some fairly vital money burn, time is not on Perceptive’s aspect to a get a deal accomplished. If we get nicely into 2025 and there is no deal, the money burn may push the corporate to lift fairness and pursue the unique plan.
This is my again of the envelope math on Athira:
The pretty small money stability obtainable to a reverse merger candidate may very well be a difficulty (I usually do not take a look at ones a lot smaller than this one), however as we noticed with ATVE, a few of these offers have been structured in a approach the place the reverse-merger candidate is absolutely solely within the public itemizing shell and legacy money will be paid out as a particular dividend to unique shareholders.
Disclosure: I personal shares of ATHA