0001193125-19-256524.txt : 20190927 0001193125-19-256524.hdr.sgml : 20190927 20190927072402 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-19-256524 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20190926 ITEM INFORMATION: Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers FILED AS OF DATE: 20190927 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20190927 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: AVEO PHARMACEUTICALS INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001325879 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS [2834] IRS NUMBER: 000000000 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-34655 FILM NUMBER: 191119591 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE BROADWAY STREET 2: 14TH FLOOR CITY: CAMBRIDGE STATE: MA ZIP: 02142 BUSINESS PHONE: 617- 531-2130 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: ONE BROADWAY STREET 2: 14TH FLOOR CITY: CAMBRIDGE STATE: MA ZIP: 02142 8-K 1 d797351d8k.htm 8-K 8-K

 

 

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): September 26, 2019

 

 

AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   001-34655   04-3581650

(State or Other Jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

  

(Commission

File Number)

  

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

 

One Broadway, 14th Floor  
Cambridge, Massachusetts   02142
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (617) 588-1960

(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):

 

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Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

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Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

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Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

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Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of each class

  

Trading

Symbol(s)

  

Name of each exchange

on which registered

Common Stock, $0.001 par value   AVEO   Nasdaq Capital Market

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.  ☐

 

 

 

Item 5.02

Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

(b) Effective October 8, 2019, Nikhil Mehta, Ph.D., senior vice president of regulatory and quality assurance of AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the “Company”), will step down as an officer of the Company to pursue another opportunity.

Michael Needle, M.D., chief medical officer, and Emile Farhan, Ph.D., senior vice president of CMC and quality, will lead the efforts to complete the preparation of a potential tivozanib New Drug Application for advanced renal cell carcinoma. Drs. Needle and Farhan successfully led the Company’s efforts to prepare the marketing authorization application (“MAA”) supporting EUSA’s 2016 MAA submission to the European Medicines Agency, which resulted in the approval of tivozanib in 2017 as a treatment for first line advanced renal cell carcinoma in that agency’s covered territories.

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.

 

  AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
By:  

/s/ Michael Bailey

  Michael Bailey
  President and Chief Executive Officer

Date: September 27, 2019