European IPOs Hold Their Own
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
The conventional wisdom is that European biopharma IPOs lag those in the US both in number and average size, held back by fragmented markets, stingy risk-averse investors, and a lack of specialists. The wisdom's changed (or some of it, anyway).
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