Cohen Fred E Form 4 CareDx / Fred E Cohen ownership change

SEC Form 4

FORM 4

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person^*

Cohen Fred E

(Last) (First) (Middle)

C/O CAREDX, INC.

3260 BAYSHORE BOULEVARD

(Street)

BRISBANE CA 94005

(City) (State) (Zip)

2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
CareDx, Inc. [ CDNA ]

5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)

X	Director	10% Owner
	Officer (give title below)	Other (specify below)

3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year)
11/08/2017

4. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)

6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)

X	Form filed by One Reporting Person
	Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 3)	2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed Of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)			5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4)	6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
			Code	V	Amount	(A) or (D)	Price

Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3)	2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	4. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)		6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 3 and 4)		8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5)	9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4)	10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
				Code	V	(A)	(D)	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares
Option to Purchase Common Stock	$12.4	11/08/2017		D			10,948	(1)	06/19/2024	Common Stock	10,948	(2)	0	D
Option to Purchase Common Stock(3)	$5.49(4)	11/09/2017		A		6,679		(5)(6)	11/09/2024	Common Stock	6,679	(2)	6,679	D

Explanation of Responses:

1. The shares underlying the cancelled option were vested and immediately exercisable.

2. On November 8, 2017, pursuant to the offer by CareDx, Inc. (the "Company") to exchange certain outstanding stock options for new options as more fully described in the Schedule TO-I, filed with the Securities Exchange Commission on October 12, 2017, as amended and supplemented on October 24, 2017 and November 9, 2017(the "Exchange Offer"), the Company cancelled a stock option for 10,948 shares granted to the reporting person on June 19, 2014. In exchange for such cancelled stock option, the reporting person received a new stock option for 6,679 shares.

3. Represents a stock option granted pursuant to the Exchange Offer (the "New Options").

4. The exercise price per share equals the closing price per share of the Company's common stock, as quoted by NASDAQ, on November 9, 2017.

5. The New Options are scheduled to vest in three equal installments based upon the Company's achievement of certain performance goals as follows: (i) one third of the New Options vest upon the Company's determination, which has been reviewed by the Company's independent registered public accounting firm, that the Company has achieved $10 million of total cumulative sales of Allosure, its proprietary next-generation sequencing-based test to detect donor-derived, cell-free DNA after transplantation, commencing after the completion of the Exchange Offer, (ii) one third of the New Options vest upon the Company's determination, which has been reviewed by the Company's independent registered public accounting firm, that the Company has achieved quarterly revenues of at least $18.75 million for two consecutive fiscal quarters commencing after the completion of the Exchange Offer,

6. (Continued from Footnote 5) and (iii) one third of the New Options vest in the event the closing sales price of the Company's common stock is at or above $5.00 per share, as quoted by NASDAQ, for 10 consecutive trading days after the completion of the Exchange Offer.

Remarks:

	/s/ Peter Maag as attorney-in-fact for Fred E. Cohen	11/10/2017
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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