UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): March 1, 2019

 

ANTARES PHARMA, INC.

(Exact name of registrant specified in its charter)

 

 

(609) 359-3020

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Not Applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the Registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§ 230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§ 240.12b-2 of this chapter).  

Emerging growth company  ☐  

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.    ☐

 

 

 

 

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(b)  Effective March 1, 2019, Jacques Gonella, Ph.D., retired as a member of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Antares Pharma, Inc. (the “Company”). Dr. Gonella’s retirement from the Board is not a result of any dispute or disagreement with the Company.  

(d) Upon the recommendation of the Board’s Governance and Nominating Committee, the Board appointed Karen L. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., LL.M., to the Board as a Class III Director effective as of March 1, 2019 to fill the vacancy on the Board created by Dr. Gonella’s retirement. Dr. Smith’s term will expire at the Company’s 2019 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

 

Dr. Smith will be compensated pursuant to the Company’s non-employee director compensation plan as disclosed in the Company’s Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A for the 2018 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Proxy Statement”) including, without limitation, an initial grant of options to purchase 20,000 shares of the Company’s common stock at an exercise price per share that is equal to the closing price per share of the Company’s common stock on the date of the grant.  Dr. Smith also will enter into an indemnification agreement with the Company substantially in the form used for other directors as disclosed in the Proxy Statement.

 

There is no arrangement or understanding between Dr. Smith and any other persons pursuant to which Dr. Smith was appointed to serve as a director of the Company.  There are no relationships between Dr. Smith and the Company that would require disclosure pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.

 

Item 7.01   Regulation FD Disclosure.

 

A copy of the Company’s press release announcing the retirement of Dr. Gonella from the Board and the appointment of Dr.  Smith to the Board is attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated into this Item 7.01 by reference.

 

The information disclosed under this Item 7.01, including Exhibit 99.1 hereto, is being furnished and shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, nor shall it be incorporated by reference into any registration statement or other document pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, except as expressly set forth in such filing.

 

 

(d) Exhibits.

 

 

 

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.