BioNotebook: Four financings, layoffs at Regado and four IPO updates
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Executive Summary
Tesaro prices convertible notes; Avanir sells $200m in stock; Trevena gets up to $35m loan; Tracon raises $27m in VC cash; and Regado fires 20 employees. Plus, IPO news from Coherus, Civitas, Vitae, DBV Technologies.
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