IDENIX ANNOUNCES COMPLETION OF STOCK SALE WORTH AROUND $23M

Idenix Pharmaceuticals Inc. reports that the underwriters of its public offering exercised in full their over-allotment option and completed the purchase at the public offering price of $20.61 per share of 1.1 million additional shares of Idenix common stock from certain stockholders of the company. The Cambridge company did not receive any proceeds from the over-allotment option exercise or sale of the shares by selling stockholders.

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