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Jun. 2, 2011

Hybrid Company Performs Well in IPO

South San Francisco-based biofuel company Solazyme Inc. raised $197.6 million in an initial public offering by attracting clean tech investors in a market that is wary of biotech companies.


By Mandy Jackson


Daily Journal Staff Writer


South San Francisco-based biofuel developer Solazyme Inc. straddles the line between biotechnology and clean technology, and that may be one reason its initial public offering was successful at a time when biotechnology companies have had a hard time raising money in the public markets.


Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP partner Alan F. Denenberg in Menlo Park represented Solazyme in an IPO Friday that ra...

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