IVAX CORPORATION

-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, HBWQ9CtWrc/rLATPJEtSPshjz/mHrQJ524TAExjfdcCM2g8cIAuMELC6nFDiMpKf 6lFmBi170jGrnUhFNPCXWQ== 0000950144-02-008504.txt : 20020814 0000950144-02-008504.hdr.sgml : 20020814 20020814080948 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000950144-02-008504 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 3 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20020814 ITEM INFORMATION: Financial statements and exhibits ITEM INFORMATION: FILED AS OF DATE: 20020814 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: IVAX CORP /DE CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000772197 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS [2834] IRS NUMBER: 161003559 STATE OF INCORPORATION: FL FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-09623 FILM NUMBER: 02731608 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 4400 BISCAYNE BLVD CITY: MIAMI STATE: FL ZIP: 33137 BUSINESS PHONE: 3055756000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 4400 BISCAYNE BOULEVARD CITY: MIAMI STATE: FL ZIP: 33137 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: IVAX CORP DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: IVACO INDUSTRIES INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19871213 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: INLAND VACUUM INDUSTRIES INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19870611 8-K 1 g77718e8vk.htm IVAX CORPORATION IVAX CORPORATION

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): August 14, 2002

IVAX CORPORATION
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)


Florida	1-09623	16-1003559
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)	(Commission File Number)	(IRS Employer Identification No.)

4400 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, Florida 33137
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

(305) 575-6000
(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

N/A
(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed since Last Report)

ITEM 7. EXHIBITS

The following are annexed as Exhibits:


Exhibit
Number		Description

99.1		Statement Under Oath of Phillip Frost, M.D., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IVAX Corporation, Regarding Facts and Circumstances Relating to Exchange Act Filings

99.2		Statement Under Oath of Thomas E. Beier, Senior Vice President — Finance and Chief Financial Officer of IVAX Corporation, Regarding Facts and Circumstances Relating to Exchange Act Filings

ITEM 9. REGULATION FD DISCLOSURE.

On August 14, 2002, Phillip Frost, M.D., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IVAX Corporation (the “Company”) and Thomas E. Beier, Senior Vice President — Finance and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, each filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) a statement under oath regarding facts and circumstances relating to certain of the Company’s filings under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, as required by the SEC’s order Requiring the Filing of Sworn Statements Pursuant to Section 21(a)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act (File No. 4-460, June 27, 2002).

SIGNATURE

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.


Date: August 14, 2002				IVAX CORPORATION


				By: /s/ STEVEN D. RUBIN

				Steven D. Rubin Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

Exhibit Index


Exhibit

99.1		Statement Under Oath of Phillip Frost, M.D., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IVAX Corporation, Regarding Facts and Circumstances Relating to Exchange Act Filings

99.2		Statement Under Oath of Thomas E. Beier, Senior Vice President - - Finance and Chief Financial Officer of IVAX Corporation, Regarding Facts and Circumstances Relating to Exchange Act Filings

4 EX-99.1 3 g77718exv99w1.htm CERTIFICATION OF CEO CERTIFICATION OF CEO

EXHIBIT 99.1

STATEMENT UNDER OATH OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER REGARDING FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES RELATING TO EXCHANGE ACT FILINGS

I, Phillip Frost, M.D., state and attest that:

(1) To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the covered reports of IVAX Corporation (the “Company”), and, except as corrected or supplemented in a subsequent covered report:

• no covered report contained an untrue statement of a material fact as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed); and

• no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements in the covered report, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed).

(2) I have reviewed the contents of this statement with the Company’s audit committee.

(3) In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed on or before the date of this statement, is a “covered report”:

• Annual Report of IVAX Corporation on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2001 filed with the Commission on March 27, 2002;

• all reports on Form 10-Q, all reports on Form 8-K and all definitive proxy materials of IVAX Corporation filed with the Commission subsequent to the filing of the Form 10-K identified above; and

• any amendments to any of the foregoing.

/s/ PHILLIP FROST M.D.

Phillip Frost, M.D.,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Date: August 14, 2002 Subscribed and sworn to

before me this 14th day of
August, 2002.

/s/ CAROLE I. AMSTER

Notary Public

My Commission Expires:

1/8/2004

EX-99.2 4 g77718exv99w2.htm CERTIFICATION OF CFO CERTIFICATION OF CFO

EXHIBIT 99.2

STATEMENT UNDER OATH OF PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL OFFICER REGARDING FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES RELATING TO EXCHANGE ACT FILINGS

I, Thomas E. Beier, state and attest that:

(1) To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the covered reports of IVAX Corporation (the “Company”), and, except as corrected or supplemented in a subsequent covered report:


/s/ THOMAS E. BEIER Thomas E. Beier Senior Vice President — Finance and Chief Financial Officer Date: August 14, 2002		Subscribed and sworn to before me this 14th day of August, 2002.

		/s/ CAROLE I. AMSTER
		Notary Public

		My Commission Expires:

		1/8/2004

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	•		no covered report contained an untrue statement of a material fact as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed); and

	•		no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary to make the statements in the covered report, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date on which it was filed).

(2)		I have reviewed the contents of this statement with the Company’s audit committee.

(3)		In this statement under oath, each of the following, if filed on or before the date of this statement, is a “covered report”:

	•		Annual Report of IVAX Corporation on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2001 filed with the Commission on March 27, 2002;

	•		all reports on Form 10-Q, all reports on Form 8-K and all definitive proxy materials of IVAX Corporation filed with the Commission subsequent to the filing of the Form 10-K identified above; and

	•		any amendments to any of the foregoing.