Cadence Pharmaceuticals Completes $86.6 Million Private Placement of Co...( SAN DIEGO Feb. 19 /- Cadence Pharmace...),Health

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: CADX) announced today that it completed its previously announced private placement of approximately 12 million shares of the Company's common stock at a price of $7.13 per share and five-year warrants to purchase up to approximately 6 million additional shares of the Company's common stock, exercisable in cash or by net exercise at a price of $7.84 per share, for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $86.6 million. The price paid for the common stock is equal to the consolidated closing bid price on the Nasdaq Global Market on the day of pricing, February 13, 2009.

The financing was led by Venrock with participation by Frazier Healthcare Ventures, Domain Associates, Versant Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Bay City Capital and T. Rowe Price Associates.

The securities sold in this private placement have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any state securities laws, and were sold in a private placement pursuant to Regulation D of the Securities Act. The securities may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities laws. The Company has agreed to file a registration statement covering the resale of the shares of common stock acquired by the investors and shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants acquired by the investors.

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state.

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