Press Release

Ovid – $75 Million IPO

June 12, 2017

Palo Alto – June 12, 2017 – Cooley advised Ovid on its $75 million initial public offering of 5,000,000 shares of common stock.

Ovid, which now trades on The NASDAQ Global Select Market as “OVID,” is a biopharmaceutical company focused exclusively on developing impactful medicines for patients and families living with rare neurological disorders.

This transaction follows a series of life sciences IPOs that Cooley advised on in the first half of the year.

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