January was a remarkable month for initial public offerings in the US as seven biopharmaceutical companies launched IPOs and provided a remarkable average return of 52.8%. Even Solid Biosciences Inc., which revealed on the day of its offering that the Phase I/II clinical trial for its lead product candidate is on a partial clinical hold, returned 70.7% to investors as of Feb. 1.
Solid priced its 7.8m shares at $16 each, which was below an earlier range of $18 to $19, to raise...






