NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / September 25, 2020 / Juan Monteverde, founder and managing partner at Monteverde & Associates PC, a national securities firm headquartered at the Empire State Building in New York City, is investigating:

• Pfenex Inc. (PFNX) relating to its sale to Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated. Under the terms of the agreement, PFNX shareholders will receive $12.00 in cash for each share of PFNX stock owned. Click here for more information: https://www.monteverdelaw.com/case/pfenex-inc. It is free and there is no cost or obligation to you.

• Dime Community Bancshares (DCOM) relating to its combination with Bridge Bancorp, Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, Dime shareholders will receive 0.6480 shares of Bridge Bancorp common stock for each share of Dime common stock owned. Click here for more information: https://www.monteverdelaw.com/case/dime-community-bancshares-inc. It is free and there is no cost or obligation to you.

• Cellular Biomedicine Group, Inc. (CBMG) relating to its sale to a consortium that includes members of CBMG management and several entities. Under the terms of the agreement, CBMG shareholders will receive $19.75 in cash for each share of CBMG stock they own. Click here for more information: https://www.monteverdelaw.com/case/cellular-biomedicine-group-inc-0. It is free and there is no cost or obligation to you.

About Monteverde & Associates PC

We are a national class action securities litigation law firm that has recovered millions of dollars and is committed to protecting shareholders from corporate wrongdoing. Our lawyers have significant experience litigating Mergers & Acquisitions and Securities Class Actions. Mr. Monteverde is recognized by Super Lawyers as a Rising Star in Securities Litigation in 2013, 2017-2019, an award given to less than 2.5% of attorneys in a particular field. He has also been selected by Martindale-Hubbell as a 2017-2019 Top Rated Lawyer. Our firm's recent successes include changing the law in a significant victory that lowered the standard of liability under Section 14(e) of the Exchange Act in the Ninth Circuit. Thereafter, our firm successfully preserved this victory by obtaining dismissal of a writ of certiorari as improvidently granted at the United States Supreme Court. Emulex Corp. v. Varjabedian, 139 S. Ct. 1407 (2019). Also, in 2019 we recovered or secured six cash common funds for shareholders in mergers & acquisitions class action cases.

If you own common stock in any of the above listed companies and wish to obtain additional information and protect your investments free of charge, please visit our website or contact Juan E. Monteverde, Esq. either via e-mail at jmonteverde@monteverdelaw.com or by telephone at (212) 971-1341.