Cardica Announces Exercise of Over-Allotm...( REDWOOD CITY Calif. Dec. 10 /- Ca...),Health

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Dec. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Cardica, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRDC) today announced the partial exercise of the over-allotment option granted to the underwriters of Cardica's November 2007 underwritten public offering. The underwriters exercised their option to purchase 481,170 shares of common stock from Cardica at a purchase price of $8.00 per share.

William Blair & Company, L.L.C. acted as the sole book-running manager of the offering. Allen & Company LLC, Needham & Company, LLC and Merriman Curhan Ford & Co. acted as co-managers of the offering.

These shares are being issued pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement. This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy nor will there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction. The offering is being made only by means of a prospectus, including a prospectus supplement, forming a part of the effective registration statement. Printed copies of the final prospectus supplement and base prospectus relating to the offering may be obtained from William Blair & Company, L.L.C., Prospectus Department, 222 West Adams Street, Chicago, Illinois 60606, (312) 236-1600. Cardica has filed a final prospectus supplement relating to the offering with the SEC, which is available along with the base prospectus filed with the SEC in connection with the shelf registration on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov/.

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Cardica is a leading provider of automated anastomosis systems
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