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To me, that kind of information is invaluable… so much so that I brought ModernIR with me to my new company. Possessing that sort of information, we knew in almost real-time exactly how investors and arbitragers were responding.

They were able to consistently parse through a huge amount of trading data to give us high-quality answers regarding the shifting demographics of our equity marketplace, even through the process of our acquisition by Allergan. While at my previous company, KYTHERA Biopharmaceuticals, we brought in the ModernIR team to help provide their unique insights on our trading.
