Jazz slashes expected IPO price, follows “date rape” controversy

Jazz slashes expected IPO price, follows “date rape” controversy

Jazz Pharmaceuticals, the generally unexciting specialty-pharmaceutical maker that hoped to raise $179.4 million in an IPO, has collided with reality.

The Palo Alto, Calif. company today slashed its expected IPO price by a fifth.

We’ve written before about Jazz and its wildly overrated strategy of salvaging poorly… Continue Reading

Jazz Pharma ratchets down IPO hopes amid drug controversy

Jazz Pharma ratchets down IPO hopes amid drug controversy

(UPDATED: See below.) Jazz Pharmaceuticals, the generally unexciting specialty-pharmaceutical maker that had hoped to raise $179.4 million in an IPO, has collided with reality.

The company today lowered its expected IPO take to a maximum of $144.9 million, a drop of almost 20 percent, based on an expected… Continue Reading