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): May 30, 2018
Celgene Corporation
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| Delaware | 001-34912 | 22-2711928 | ||
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) | (Commission File Number) | (IRS Employer Identification No.) |
86 Morris Avenue
Summit, New Jersey 07901
(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)
(908) 673-9000
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
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| Item 7.01 | Regulation FD Disclosure. |
As previously reported by Celgene Corporation (the “Company”) on May 24, 2018, the Company issued a press release announcing the authorization of the repurchase of up to an additional $3.0 billion of the Company’s common stock and that the Company planned to enter into an accelerated share repurchase (“ASR”) agreement to repurchase an aggregate of $2 billion of the Company’s common stock.
On May 30, 2018, the Company entered into an agreement (the “ASR Agreement”) with Citibank, N.A. (“Citibank”), to implement an accelerated share repurchase program (the “ASR Program”). The ASR Agreement provides, among other things, that the Company paid Citibank $2.0 billion and initially received 17,987,922 shares of its common stock. The total number of shares to ultimately be purchased by the Company pursuant to the ASR Program will generally be based on the average of the daily Rule 10b-18 volume weighted average prices of the Company’s common stock during the term of the ASR Program.
Upon final settlement of the ASR Agreement, the Company may be entitled to receive additional shares of the Company’s common stock from Citibank or, under certain circumstances specified in the ASR Agreement, the Company may be required to deliver shares of its common stock to Citibank. The ASR Program is expected to be completed on or before August 31, 2018 and was funded with a combination of cash on hand and proceeds of commercial paper borrowings the Company expects to repay by the end of 2018.
The information contained in this Item 7.01 shall not be deemed to be “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, and shall not be incorporated by reference into any registration statement or other document filed under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific references in such filing.
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.
| CELGENE CORPORATION | ||
| Date: May 31, 2018 | By: | /s/ Peter N. Kellogg |
| Peter N. Kellogg | ||
| Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | ||