Berkeley Lights (BLI) IPO Opens 132% Higher

Today's IPO for Berkeley Lights, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLI) opened for trading at $51.05 after pricing 8,100,000 shares of common stock at a public offering price of $22.00 per share. All of the shares of common stock are being offered by Berkeley Lights. In addition, Berkeley Lights has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,215,000 shares of common stock at the initial public offering price, less the underwriting discounts and commissions. Berkeley Lights’ common stock is expected to begin trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on July 17, 2020, under the ticker symbol “BLI.” The gross proceeds from the offering, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other offering expenses payable by Berkeley Lights, are expected to be approximately $178.2 million, excluding any exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares. The offering is expected to close on July 21, 2020, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions.

J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley and Cowen are acting as lead book-running managers for the offering. William Blair is acting as a co-manager.

Berkeley Lights is a leading Digital Cell Biology company focused on enabling and accelerating the rapid development and commercialization of biotherapeutics and other cell-based products for our customers. The Berkeley Lights Platform captures deep phenotypic, functional and genotypic information for thousands of single cells in parallel and can also deliver the live biology customers desire in the form of the best cells. Our platform is a fully integrated, end-to-end solution, comprising proprietary consumables, including our OptoSelect chips and reagent kits, advanced automation systems, and application software. We developed the Berkeley Lights Platform to provide the most advanced environment for rapid functional characterization of single cells at scale, the goal of which is to establish an industry standard for our customers throughout their cell-based product value chain.

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