07:58 AM EDT, 10/14/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Inventiva ( IVA ) shares were up more than 65% pre-bell Monday after the company said it secured up to 348 million euros ($379.9 million) in equity financing to advance its phase 3 trial of a treatment candidate for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis.

Expion360 ( XPON ) stock was 57% higher following a 3.9% gain in the previous session.

Longboard Pharmaceuticals ( LBPH ) shares were up 51% after the company said it agreed to be acquired by Lundbeck in a deal valued at $2.60 billion.

Jasper Therapeutics ( JSPR ) stock was 26% higher after the company reported that 14 of 15 patients enrolled in both dose cohorts of its phase 1b/2a trial of a treatment candidate for chronic inducible urticaria achieved a clinical response.

B. Riley Financial ( RILY ) shares were up nearly 23% after the company said it has agreed to sell its Great American Group unit to Oaktree in a deal valued at $386 million.

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