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 28, 2019

NABRIVA THERAPEUTICS PLC

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (610) 816-6640

Not Applicable

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

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Item 8.01 Other Events.

On March 28, 2019, Nabriva Therapeutics Ireland Designated Activity Company (the “Company”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Nabriva Therapeutics plc (“Nabriva Therapeutics”), entered into a license and commercialization agreement (the “License Agreement”) with Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Canada Inc. (“Sunovion”). Under the License Agreement, the Company granted Sunovion an exclusive (subject to certain retained rights of the Company) license under certain patent rights, trademark rights and know-how to commercialize certain products containing lefamulin in the forms clinically developed by the Company or any of its affiliates (“Licensed Products”) in Canada in all uses in humans in community-acquired bacterial pneumonia and in any other indication for which the Licensed Products have received regulatory approval in Canada (the “Field”).

Under the terms of the License Agreement, the Company is entitled to receive an upfront payment, potential milestone payments upon the achievement of certain regulatory and sales milestone events and royalties on net sales, if any, of Licensed Products in Canada.

Sunovion is responsible for all costs related to developing, obtaining regulatory approval of, and commercializing the Licensed Products in the Field in Canada.

Forward-looking Statements

Any statements in this Form 8-K about future expectations, plans and prospects for Nabriva Therapeutics, including but not limited to statements about the development of Nabriva Therapeutics’ product candidates, such as the future development or commercialization of lefamulin in Canada, the potential benefits under its license agreement with Sunovion, the development of additional formulations of lefamulin and other statements containing the words “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “predict,” “project,” “target,” “potential,” “likely,” “will,” “would,” “could,” “should,” “continue,” and similar expressions, constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including: the uncertainties inherent in the initiation and conduct of clinical trials, availability and timing of data from clinical trials, whether results of early clinical trials or trials in different disease indications will be indicative of the results of ongoing or future trials, uncertainties associated with regulatory review of clinical trials and applications for marketing approvals, the availability or commercial potential of product candidates including lefamulin for use as a first-line empiric monotherapy for the treatment of moderate to severe community-acquired bacterial pneumonia and such other important factors as are set forth under the caption “Risk Factors” in Nabriva Therapeutics’ annual and quarterly reports on file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In addition, the forward-looking statements included in this Form 8-K represent Nabriva Therapeutics’ views as of the date of this Form 8-K. Nabriva Therapeutics anticipates that subsequent events and developments will cause its views to change. However, while Nabriva Therapeutics may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, it specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing Nabriva Therapeutics’ views as of any date subsequent to the date of this Form 8-K.

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.

	NABRIVA THERAPEUTICS PLC

Date: April 1, 2019	By:	/s/ Gary Sender
		Gary Sender
		Chief Financial Officer

Ireland

001-37558

Not Applicable

(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation)

(Commission File Number)

(I.R.S. Employer Identification
No.)

25-28 North Wall Quay,
IFSC, Dublin 1, Ireland

Not Applicable

(Address of principal executive offices)

(Zip Code)