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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 30, 2006
Registration No. 333-135821
 
 
UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
Amendment No. 1
to
FORM S-1
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Under
The Securities Act of 1933
 
CADENCE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
 
         
Delaware   2834   41-2142317
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
  (Primary Standard Industrial
Classification Code Number)
  (I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)
12730 High Bluff Drive, Suite 410
San Diego, CA 92130
(858) 436-1400
(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of Registrant’s principal executive offices)
 
Theodore R. Schroeder
President and Chief Executive Officer
Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
12730 High Bluff Drive, Suite 410
San Diego, CA 92130
(858) 436-1400
(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
 
Copies to:
     
Faye H. Russell, Esq.
Cheston J. Larson, Esq.
Ali D. Fawaz, Esq.
Latham & Watkins LLP
12636 High Bluff Drive, Suite 400
San Diego, CA 92130
(858) 523-5400
  Mark B. Weeks, Esq.
Ross L. Burningham, Esq.
Ryan A. Murr, Esq.
Heller Ehrman LLP
4350 La Jolla Village Drive, 7th Floor
San Diego, CA 92122
(858) 450-8400
 
     Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: As soon as practicable after the effective date of this Registration Statement.
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     The Registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 or until the Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.
 
 


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The information contained in this prospectus is not complete and may be changed. We may not sell these securities until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and we are not soliciting offers to buy these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted.
Subject to Completion
Preliminary Prospectus dated August 30, 2006
P R O S P E C T U S
                                     Shares
(CADENCE PHARMACEUTICALS LOGO)
Common Stock
 
          This is our initial public offering. We are offering                      shares of common stock.
          We expect the initial public offering price to be between $          and $           per share. Currently, no public market exists for our common stock. After pricing of the offering, we expect that our common stock will be quoted on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol “CADX.”
          Investing in our common stock involves risks that are described in the “Risk Factors” section beginning on page 8 of this prospectus.
 
                 
    Per Share   Total
         
Public offering price
    $       $  
Underwriting discount
    $       $  
Proceeds, before expenses, to us
    $       $  
          The underwriters may also purchase up to an additional                      shares of common stock from us at the public offering price, less the underwriting discount, within 30 days from the date of this prospectus to cover overallotments.
          Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.
          The shares of common stock will be ready for delivery on or about                     , 2006.
 
Merrill Lynch & Co.
  Deutsche Bank Securities
  Pacific Growth Equities, LLC
  JMP Securities
 
The date of this prospectus is                     , 2006.


 

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          You should rely only on the information contained in this prospectus. We have not, and the underwriters have not, authorized anyone to provide you with information different from or in addition to that contained in this prospectus. If anyone provides you with different or inconsistent information, you should not rely on it. We are offering to sell, and seeking offers to buy, shares of our common stock only in jurisdictions where offers and sales are permitted. The information contained in this prospectus is accurate only as of the date of this prospectus, regardless of the time of delivery of this prospectus or of any sale of our common stock. Our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects may have changed since that date.
          For investors outside the United States: Neither we nor any of the underwriters have done anything that would permit this offering or possession or distribution of this prospectus in any jurisdiction where action for that purpose is required, other than in the United States. You are required to inform yourselves about and to observe any restrictions relating to this offering and the distribution of this prospectus.


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PROSPECTUS SUMMARY
          This summary does not contain all of the information you should consider before buying shares of our common stock. You should read the entire prospectus carefully, especially the “Risk Factors” section and our financial statements and the related notes appearing at the end of this prospectus, before deciding to invest in shares of our common stock. Unless the context requires otherwise, references in this prospectus to “Cadence,” “we,” “us” and “our” refer to Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Our Company
          We are a biopharmaceutical company focused on in-licensing, developing and commercializing proprietary product candidates principally for use in the hospital setting. Since our inception in 2004, we have in-licensed rights to two Phase III product candidates, both of which have been studied in prior Phase III clinical trials conducted by our licensors. We have in-licensed the exclusive U.S. and Canadian rights to IV APAP, an intravenous formulation of acetaminophen that is currently marketed in Europe for the treatment of acute pain and fever by Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, or BMS. We believe that IV APAP is the only stable, pharmaceutically-acceptable intravenous formulation of acetaminophen. We have also in-licensed the exclusive North American and European rights to omiganan pentahydrochloride 1% aqueous gel, or omiganan, for the prevention and treatment of device-related, surgical wound-related and burn-related infections. We believe that the hospital setting is a concentrated, underserved market for pharmaceuticals and anticipate building our own, hospital-focused sales force as our product candidates approach potential U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, approval. We intend to build a leading franchise in the hospital setting, continuing to focus on products that are in late-stages of development, currently commercialized outside the United States, or approved in the United States but with significant commercial potential for proprietary new uses or formulations.
The Hospital Market
          Large, multinational pharmaceutical companies have generally decreased marketing efforts focused on hospital-use drugs, instead focusing on drugs that can be marketed in the larger outpatient setting. We believe this reduced emphasis on the hospital marketplace presents us with an excellent opportunity to in-license, acquire, develop and commercialize products that address unmet medical needs in the hospital setting. We believe the concentrated nature of the hospital marketplace will allow for our expansion into other therapeutic areas without substantial investment in additional commercial infrastructure.
          According to data from IMS Health Inc., or IMS, an independent marketing research firm, approximately $28 billion was spent on promotional activities by the pharmaceutical industry in 2004. Of this amount, IMS estimates that only $1 billion was directed towards hospital-based physicians and directors of pharmacies. In contrast, U.S. hospitals and clinics accounted for approximately $54 billion or 21% of U.S. pharmaceutical sales in 2005, according to IMS. Furthermore, we believe pharmaceutical sales to acute care hospitals are highly concentrated among a relatively small number of large institutions. For example, according to Wolters Kluwer Health, an independent marketing research firm, only 2,000 of the approximately 5,000 acute care hospitals in the United States represent more than 80% of injectable analgesic sales. We believe the relative lack of promotional efforts directed toward the highly concentrated hospital marketplace makes it an underserved and compelling opportunity, especially for a biopharmaceutical company commercializing its products directly through its own dedicated sales force.
Our Product Candidates
IV APAP for the Treatment of Acute Pain and Fever
          We are developing IV APAP in the U.S. market for the treatment of acute pain and fever. According to IMS, over 500 million units of injectable analgesics, typically used to treat acute pain, were sold in the United States in 2005. Opioids represent the majority of unit volume in the market but are

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associated with a variety of unwanted side effects including sedation, nausea, vomiting, constipation, cognitive impairment and respiratory depression. Ketorolac, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, or NSAID, is the only non-opioid injectable analgesic available in the United States for the treatment of acute pain. However, ketorolac carries strong warnings from the FDA for various side effects, including an increased risk of bleeding — a particularly troubling side-effect in the surgical setting.
          Acetaminophen was first available for sale in the United States in 1955 when it was introduced under the brand name Tylenol. Acetaminophen is the most widely used drug for pain relief and the reduction of fever in the United States and is currently available in over 600 pharmaceutical products. Historically, poor stability in aqueous solutions and inadequate solubility of acetaminophen prevented the development of an intravenous dosage form. The patent protection for IV APAP extends through various dates in 2017 to 2021.
          IV APAP has previously been studied in six completed Phase III trials studying pain in both adult and pediatric subjects and fever in pediatric subjects, and is currently marketed in Europe by BMS. Since its introduction in Europe in mid-2002, over 100 million doses of IV APAP have been administered to patients, and it has become the market share leader among injectable analgesics, with 2005 sales of more than $140 million according to IMS. In the fourth quarter of 2006, we expect to initiate the remaining Phase III clinical trial requirements. We expect these Phase III clinical trial results to be available in the first half of 2008 and, if positive, to subsequently submit a new drug application, or NDA, for IV APAP in the second half of 2008.
Omiganan for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections
          We are currently developing omiganan for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections. According to the February 2004 Catheter: Global Markets & Technologies report from Theta Reports, eight million central venous catheters, or CVCs, were sold in the United States in 2003, and unit sales are projected to grow to 11 million by 2007. Although CVCs have become an important part of medical care, they can give rise to dangerous and costly complications, including: local catheter site infections, or LCSIs, which are infections at the catheter insertion site; catheter colonization, which is the growth of microorganisms on the portion of the catheter below the skin surface; and catheter-related bloodstream infections, or CRBSIs, which are infections in the bloodstream caused by microorganisms associated with the catheter. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there are 250,000 CRBSIs each year in the United States. The attributable mortality rate of CRBSIs is approximately 12% to 25% with an average marginal cost to the healthcare system of $25,000 per infection. Currently, topical antiseptics are the primary agent used to cleanse the skin surface around the catheter insertion site prior to insertion. However, the utility of these antiseptics is limited, principally due to their short duration of antimicrobial activity.
          Omiganan is a topical antimicrobial that has been demonstrated to be rapidly bactericidal and fungicidal with prolonged duration of activity against microorganisms commonly found on the skin surface, including multi-drug resistant microorganisms such as methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA. Importantly, resistance to omiganan has not been induced in the laboratory after extensive study, nor has omiganan demonstrated potential to induce cross-resistance to other antimicrobial therapeutics. We have in-licensed the patents and the exclusive development and commercialization rights to omiganan in North America and Europe for the prevention of device-related, surgical wound-related and burn-related infections from Migenix Inc. The patent protection for omiganan extends through various dates in 2017 to 2022.
          Omiganan has previously been studied in a large, completed Phase III trial that demonstrated statistically significant outcomes for the prevention of LCSI and catheter colonization. The presence of an LCSI may result in replacement of the catheter and/or administration of antibiotics, both of which create additional costs to hospitals and have the potential for adverse safety outcomes. In addition, catheter colonization is well correlated with CRBSIs, according to a published review of clinical trials. However, despite the favorable, statistically significant results for prevention of LCSI and catheter colonization, the

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study did not show statistical significance for the primary endpoint, the prevention of CRBSIs. After in-licensing omiganan, we reached agreement with the FDA through the special protocol assessment, or SPA, process on the trial design, endpoints and statistical analysis plan for a single confirmatory Phase III clinical trial with a primary endpoint of prevention of LCSIs. The SPA process provides for official FDA evaluation of a proposed Phase III clinical trial protocol and generally provides a product sponsor with a binding agreement from the FDA that the design and analysis of the trial are adequate to support a license application submission if the trial is performed according to the SPA. We initiated this Phase III clinical trial in August 2005 and expect the results to be available in the second half of 2007 and, if positive, to subsequently submit an NDA for omiganan in the first half of 2008.
Our Strategy
          Our goal is to be a leading biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of proprietary pharmaceuticals principally for use in the hospital setting. Specifically, we intend to:
  Obtain regulatory approval for our Phase III hospital product candidates. We have designed our Phase III clinical programs in an effort to reduce clinical development risk, facilitate regulatory approval and optimize marketing claims. To that end, we plan to resume a U.S. Phase III program later this year for IV APAP previously initiated by BMS, and we expect to submit an NDA in the second half of 2008 based on the previously completed trials and any further trials that may be required by the FDA. In addition, we have reached a written agreement with the FDA through the SPA process for a single confirmatory Phase III study of omiganan for the prevention of LCSIs.
 
  Build a highly leverageable sales organization targeting hospitals. We intend to build a commercial organization focused on promoting our products principally to hospitals in the United States. We believe that both IV APAP and omiganan can be effectively promoted by our own sales force targeting key hospitals in the United States. Importantly, we believe the number of institutions in the hospital marketplace is relatively limited and a small number of these institutions account for a substantial portion of the prescribing activity. The concentrated nature of this market creates the opportunity for significant marketing synergies as we intend to leverage our sales force across multiple therapeutic categories in the hospital. Outside the United States, we intend to establish strategic partnerships for the commercialization of our products where we have commercialization rights.
 
  Expand our product portfolio through acquiring or in-licensing additional late-stage, hospital-focused products with well-understood risk profiles. We will seek additional opportunities to acquire or in-license products to more fully exploit our clinical, regulatory, manufacturing, sales and marketing capabilities. We believe that our focus on the hospital market enables us to evaluate a broader range of products across multiple therapeutic areas for possible acquisition. We focus on products that are in late-stages of development, currently commercialized outside the United States, or approved in the United States but with significant commercial potential for proprietary new uses, including new indications, dosage forms or delivery systems.
 
  Pursue additional indications and commercial opportunities for our product candidates. We will seek to maximize the value of IV APAP, omiganan and any other product candidates we may in-license, acquire or develop by pursuing other indications and commercial opportunities for such candidates. For example, we have rights to develop and commercialize omiganan for additional indications related to the prevention and treatment of device-related, surgical wound-related and burn-related infections.

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Risk Factors
          We are a development stage company with no revenues, and our operations to date have generated substantial and increasing needs for cash. Our net loss was $7.5 million in 2005, and as of June 30, 2006, we had an accumulated deficit of $44.3 million. Our business and our ability to execute on our business strategy are subject to a number of risks that you should be aware of before you decide to buy our common stock. In particular, you should consider the following risks, which are discussed more fully in “Risk Factors” beginning on page 8:
  •  we are largely dependent on the success of our only two product candidates, IV APAP and omiganan, and we cannot be certain that our planned clinical development programs will be sufficient to support NDA submissions or that either product candidate will receive regulatory approval or be successfully commercialized;
 
  delays in the commencement, enrollment or completion of clinical testing for either of our product candidates could result in increased costs to us and delay or limit our ability to obtain regulatory approval;
 
  even if our product candidates are approved by regulatory authorities, we expect intense competition in the hospital marketplace for our targeted indications;
 
  •  the patent rights that we have in-licensed covering IV APAP are limited to a specific intravenous formulation of acetaminophen, and our market opportunity for this product candidate may be limited by the lack of patent protection for the active ingredient itself and other formulations that may be developed by competitors; and
 
  we will require substantial additional funding and may be unable to raise capital when needed, which would force us to delay, reduce or eliminate our development programs and commercialization efforts.
Corporate Information
          We were incorporated in Delaware on May 26, 2004. Our principal executive offices are located at 12730 High Bluff Drive, Suite 410, San Diego, California 92130, and our telephone number is (858) 436-1400. Prior to November 2004, we were named Strata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Our website address is http://www.cadencepharm.com. The information on, or accessible through, our website is not part of this prospectus.
          The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued a Notice of Allowance in connection with our intent-to-use trademark application for the mark CADENCEtm, covering pharmaceutical preparations for the treatment or prevention of diseases or infections of the body’s major organs, including the heart, lungs, liver and kidneys; pharmaceutical preparations for the treatment or prevention of diseases of the body’s systems, including the immune system and the cardiovascular system; and pharmaceutical preparations to treat or manage pain, anesthesia, surgical and medical procedures. A Notice of Allowance is a notice issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to an intent-to-use application once all steps of the application process have been completed. Once the Notice of Allowance has been issued, the applicant has six months to file a statement of use or an extension, showing that it is using the mark in commerce, in order for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to issue a certificate of registration. This prospectus also contains trademarks of others, including Bactroban®, Betadine®, BioPatch®, DepoDur®, Dermagraft®, Habitrol®, Lotensin®, Neosporin®, Perfalgan®, Pro-Dafalgan®, Toradol® and Tylenol®.

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THE OFFERING
Common stock offered                     shares
 
Common stock to be outstanding after this offering                     shares
 
Use of proceeds We expect to use the net proceeds from this offering to fund clinical trials and other research and development activities, and to fund working capital, capital expenditures and other general corporate purposes. We may also use a portion of the net proceeds to in-license, acquire or invest in complementary businesses or products.
 
Risk factors See “Risk Factors” and other information included in this prospectus for a discussion of factors you should carefully consider before deciding to invest in shares of our common stock.
 
Proposed Nasdaq Global Market symbol CADX
          The number of shares of common stock to be outstanding after this offering is based on 88,182,195 shares outstanding as of June 30, 2006, and excludes:
  •  5,769,471 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of options outstanding as of June 30, 2006 at a weighted average exercise price of $0.38 per share;
 
  •  385,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants outstanding as of June 30, 2006 at a weighted average exercise price of $1.00 per share; and
 
  •                      shares of common stock reserved for future issuance under our 2006 equity incentive award plan, which will become effective on the day prior to the day on which we become subject to the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act (including 1,678,789 shares of common stock reserved for future grant or issuance under our 2004 equity incentive award plan, which shares will be added to the shares to be reserved under our 2006 equity incentive award plan upon the effectiveness of the 2006 equity incentive award plan).
          Except as otherwise indicated, all information in this prospectus assumes:
  no exercise by the underwriters of their option to purchase up to an additional                      shares of common stock to cover over-allotments;
 
  the filing of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws upon completion of this offering;
 
  the conversion of all outstanding shares of our preferred stock into 79,630,455 shares of common stock upon completion of this offering; and
 
  a one-for-          reverse stock split of our common stock to be effected before the completion of this offering.

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SUMMARY FINANCIAL DATA
          The following table summarizes certain of our financial data. The summary financial data are derived from our audited financial statements for the period from May 26, 2004 (inception) through December 31, 2004, and the year ended December 31, 2005. Data are also derived from our unaudited financial statements for the six-month periods ended June 30, 2005 and 2006, and for the period from May 26, 2004 (inception) through June 30, 2006. The data should be read together with our financial statements and related notes, “Selected Financial Data,” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” included elsewhere in this prospectus. The pro forma as adjusted balance sheet data gives effect to the conversion of all outstanding shares of our preferred stock into 79,630,455 shares of our common stock and our sale of                      shares of our common stock in this offering at the initial offering price of $           per share, after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering costs payable by us.
                                           
    Period from               Period from
    May 26, 2004           May 26, 2004
    (Inception)       Six Months Ended   (Inception)
    Through   Year Ended   June 30,   Through
    December 31,   December 31,       June 30,
    2004   2005   2005   2006   2006
                     
    (In thousands, except per share amounts)
Statement of Operations Data:
                                       
Operating expenses:
                                       
 
Research and development
  $ 2,233     $ 6,126     $ 2,402     $ 32,374     $ 40,734  
 
Marketing
    41       240       142       317       598  
 
General and administrative
    877       1,412       540       1,488       3,777  
                               
Total operating expenses
    3,151       7,778       3,084       34,179       45,109  
                               
Loss from operations
    (3,151 )     (7,778 )     (3,084 )     (34,179 )     (45,109 )
Other income (expense):
                                       
 
Interest income
    9       255       14       553       818  
 
Interest expense
                      (44 )     (44 )
                               
Total other income
    9       255       14       509       774  
                               
Net loss
  $ (3,142 )   $ (7,523 )   $ (3,070 )   $ (33,670 )   $ (44,335 )
                               
Basic and diluted net loss per share(1)
  $ (0.86 )   $ (1.63 )   $ (0.68 )   $ (6.77 )        
                               
Shares used to compute basic and diluted net loss per share(1)
    3,658       4,624       4,527       4,974          
                               
Pro forma basic and diluted net loss per share(1)
          $ (0.36 )           $ (0.57 )        
                               
Shares used to compute pro forma basic and diluted net loss per share(1)
            20,649               58,711          
                               
 
(1)  See Note 1 of Notes to Financial Statements for an explanation of the method used to compute the historical and pro forma net loss per share and the number of shares used in the computation of the per share amounts.

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    As of June 30, 2006
     
        Pro Forma
    Actual   As Adjusted(1)
         
    (In thousands)
Balance Sheet Data:
               
Cash and cash equivalents
  $ 42,881     $    
Working capital
    38,676          
Total assets
    46,355          
Long-term debt, less current portion
    5,968          
Deficit accumulated during the development stage
    (44,335 )        
Total stockholders’ equity
    35,628          
 
(1)  Each $1.00 increase or decrease in the assumed initial public offering price of $          would increase or decrease, respectively, the amount of cash and cash equivalents, working capital, total assets and total stockholders’ equity by $          , assuming the number of shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering costs payable by us.

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RISK FACTORS
          Investing in our common stock involves a high degree of risk. You should carefully consider the following risk factors, as well as the other information in this prospectus, before deciding whether to invest in shares of our common stock. The occurrence of any of the following risks could harm our business, financial condition, results of operations or growth prospects. In that case, the trading price of our common stock could decline, and you may lose all or part of your investment.
Risks Related to Our Business and Industry
We are largely dependent on the success of our two product candidates, IV APAP and omiganan, and we cannot be certain that either of these product candidates will receive regulatory approval or be successfully commercialized.
          We currently have no drug products for sale and we cannot guarantee that we will ever have marketable drug products. The research, testing, manufacturing, labeling, approval, selling, marketing and distribution of drug products are subject to extensive regulation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, and other regulatory authorities in the United States and other countries, which regulations differ from country to country. We are not permitted to market our product candidates in the United States until we receive approval of a new drug application, or NDA, from the FDA. We have not submitted an NDA or received marketing approval for either of our product candidates. Obtaining approval of an NDA is a lengthy, expensive and uncertain process. We currently have only two product candidates, and our business success currently depends entirely on their successful development and commercialization.
          We have not developed either of our product candidates independently. We recently in-licensed exclusive rights to IV APAP, an intravenous formulation of acetaminophen that is currently marketed in Europe for the treatment of acute pain and fever by Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, or BMS. We intend to conduct six clinical trials to provide the FDA with data to support multiple dose efficacy for soft tissue surgery, efficacy for fever and safety in adults and children, based on the preliminary feedback we received from the FDA in our meeting in August 2006. In July 2004, we in-licensed the rights to our only other product candidate, omiganan pentahydrochloride 1% aqueous gel, or omiganan, which is currently being evaluated in a single Phase III clinical trial for the prevention of local catheter site infections, or LCSIs, and will require the successful completion of this Phase III clinical trial before we are able to submit an NDA to the FDA for approval. Our clinical development programs for IV APAP and omiganan may not lead to commercial products if we fail to demonstrate that the product candidates are safe and effective in clinical trials and we may therefore fail to obtain necessary approvals from the FDA and similar foreign regulatory agencies, or because we may have inadequate financial or other resources to advance these product candidates through the clinical trial process. Any failure to obtain approval of IV APAP or omiganan would have a material and adverse impact on our business.
If clinical trials of our current or future product candidates do not produce results necessary to support regulatory approval in the United States or elsewhere, we will be unable to commercialize these products.
          To receive regulatory approval for the commercial sale of IV APAP, omiganan or any other product candidates that we may in-license or acquire, we must conduct, at our own expense, adequate and well controlled clinical trials to demonstrate efficacy and safety in humans. Clinical testing is expensive, takes many years and has an uncertain outcome. Clinical failure can occur at any stage of the testing. Our clinical trials may produce negative or inconclusive results, and we may decide, or regulators may require us, to conduct additional clinical and/or non-clinical testing. For example, Migenix Inc., or Migenix, the licensor for our omiganan product candidate, together with its former collaborator, Fujisawa Healthcare, Inc., or Fujisawa, completed enrollment in a Phase III trial in February 2003 that demonstrated statistically significant results for the secondary endpoints of the trial: the prevention of LCSIs and catheter colonization, which is the growth of microorganisms on the portion of the catheter below the skin

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surface. However, the trial did not show statistical significance for the primary endpoint, the prevention of catheter-related bloodstream infections, or CRBSIs.
          After the termination of the collaboration between Migenix and Fujisawa in January 2004, we in-licensed the rights to omiganan from Migenix in July 2004 and subsequently reached an agreement under the special protocol assessment, or SPA, process with the FDA concerning the protocol for our own Phase III clinical trial for omiganan. In connection with the SPA for omiganan, the FDA agreed that a single confirmatory Phase III trial will be required for approval of omiganan and that the prevention of LCSIs will be the sole primary efficacy endpoint. However, we cannot be certain that our ongoing Phase III trial for omiganan will demonstrate statistical significance or otherwise demonstrate sufficient efficacy and safety to support the filing of an NDA or ultimately lead to regulatory approval. Furthermore, despite having completed the SPA process, the FDA’s agreement with us on the trial protocol remains subject to future public health concerns unrecognized at the time of the FDA’s protocol assessment.
          Our failure to adequately demonstrate the efficacy and safety of IV APAP, omiganan or any other product candidates that we may in-license or acquire would prevent receipt of regulatory approval and, ultimately, the commercialization of that product candidate.
Because the results of earlier clinical trials are not necessarily predictive of future results, IV APAP, omiganan or any other product candidate we advance into clinical trials may not have favorable results in later clinical trials or receive regulatory approval.
          Success in clinical testing and early clinical trials does not ensure that later clinical trials will generate adequate data to demonstrate the efficacy and safety of the investigational drug. A number of companies in the pharmaceutical industry, including those with greater resources and experience, have suffered significant setbacks in Phase III clinical trials, even after promising results in earlier clinical trials.
          In March 2006, we in-licensed the rights to IV APAP from BMS, which is currently marketing IV APAP in Europe and other parts of the world under the brand name Perfalgan. BMS has completed nine clinical trials, mostly in Europe, primarily in support of European regulatory approvals for this product candidate. However, we do not know at this time what regulatory weight, if any, the U.S. and Canadian regulatory agencies will give to these clinical data in supplementing clinical data generated by us for potential regulatory approval of IV APAP in the United States and Canada. The FDA and foreign regulatory agencies may reject these clinical trial results if they determine that the clinical trials were not conducted in accordance with requisite regulatory standards and procedures. Furthermore, we have not audited or verified the accuracy of the primary clinical data provided by BMS and cannot determine their applicability to our regulatory filings. Even though BMS has obtained marketing approval in Europe and other territories for IV APAP, we must conduct additional adequate and well controlled clinical trials in the United States to demonstrate IV APAP’s safety and efficacy in specific indications to gain regulatory approval in the United States. We may not be able to demonstrate the same safety and efficacy for IV APAP in our planned Phase III clinical trial as was demonstrated previously by BMS.
          Our other product candidate, omiganan, is a novel antimicrobial peptide and is not yet approved in any jurisdiction. No antimicrobial peptide has been approved by the FDA, including two antimicrobial peptides with mechanisms of action similar to omiganan that were studied in Phase III clinical trials. Although omiganan has been studied in more than 750 patients, all of the patients studied were enrolled in trials conducted or sponsored by Migenix or Fujisawa. Since in-licensing rights to omiganan from Migenix in July 2004, we have initiated a Phase III clinical trial in which we are still seeking to enroll the target patient population. We do not expect to complete enrollment in this Phase III clinical trial until the second half of 2007. Similar to IV APAP, we have obtained electronic databases from the completed Phase III trials sponsored by Migenix and Fujisawa, and are currently analyzing these data. We have not audited or verified the accuracy of the primary clinical data provided by our licensor and its former collaborator and cannot determine their applicability to our regulatory filings. Although the Phase III clinical trial for omiganan conducted by Migenix and Fujisawa demonstrated favorable, statistically significant results for the prevention of LCSIs and catheter colonization, secondary endpoints in their trial,

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we may not observe similar results in our ongoing Phase III clinical trial. Furthermore, the earlier Phase III clinical trial failed to show statistical significance for the primary endpoint of that trial, the prevention of CRBSIs. While we will measure the prevention of CRBSIs as a secondary endpoint in our ongoing Phase III clinical trial for omiganan, our trial is not designed to demonstrate statistical significance for this secondary endpoint. Although we are targeting a different primary endpoint in our trial, the prevention of LCSIs, it is possible that we will experience similar, unexpected results. Failure to satisfy a primary endpoint in a Phase III clinical trial would generally mean that a product candidate would not receive regulatory approval without a further successful Phase III clinical trial.
          The data collected from our clinical trials may not be adequate to support regulatory approval of IV APAP, omiganan or any other product candidates that we may in-license or acquire. Moreover, all clinical data reported is taken from databases that may not have been fully reconciled against medical records kept at the clinical sites. Despite the results reported by others in earlier clinical trials for our product candidates, we do not know whether any Phase III or other clinical trials we may conduct will demonstrate adequate efficacy and safety to result in regulatory approval to market our product candidates.
Delays in the commencement or completion of clinical testing could result in increased costs to us and delay or limit our ability to obtain regulatory approval for our product candidates.
          Delays in the commencement or completion of clinical testing could significantly affect our product development costs. We do not know whether planned clinical trials for IV APAP will begin on time or be completed on schedule, if at all. Similarly, we may not complete enrollment for our ongoing Phase III clinical trial for omiganan on schedule, or at all. The commencement and completion of clinical trials requires us to identify and maintain a sufficient number of trial sites, many of which may already be engaged in other clinical trial programs for the same indication as our product candidates or may not be eligible to participate in or may be required to withdraw from a clinical trial as a result of changing standards of care. For example, the number of potential clinical trial sites for our Phase III clinical trial for omiganan is limited as a result of the increasing use of the topical antiseptic chlorhexidine to sterilize the catheter insertion site, rather than 10% povidone-iodine, the comparator product agreed to with the FDA under the SPA process for use in our trial. The commencement and completion of clinical trials can be delayed for a variety of other reasons, including delays related to:
  reaching agreements on acceptable terms with prospective clinical research organizations, or CROs, and trial sites, the terms of which can be subject to extensive negotiation and may vary significantly among different CROs and trial sites;
 
  obtaining regulatory approval to commence a clinical trial;
 
  obtaining institutional review board approval to conduct a clinical trial at a prospective site;
 
  recruiting and enrolling patients to participate in clinical trials for a variety of reasons, including competition from other clinical trial programs for the same indication as our product candidates; and
 
  retaining patients who have initiated a clinical trial but may be prone to withdraw due to the treatment protocol, lack of efficacy, personal issues, side effects from the therapy or who are lost to further follow-up.
          In addition, a clinical trial may be suspended or terminated by us, the FDA or other regulatory authorities due to a number of factors, including:
  failure to conduct the clinical trial in accordance with regulatory requirements or our clinical protocols;
 
  inspection of the clinical trial operations or trial sites by the FDA or other regulatory authorities resulting in the imposition of a clinical hold;

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  unforeseen safety issues or any determination that a trial presents unacceptable health risks; or
 
  lack of adequate funding to continue the clinical trial, including the incurrence of unforeseen costs due to enrollment delays, requirements to conduct additional trials and studies and increased expenses associated with the services of our CROs and other third parties.
          Additionally, changes in regulatory requirements and guidance may occur and we may need to amend clinical trial protocols to reflect these changes. Amendments may require us to resubmit our clinical trial protocols to institutional review boards for reexamination, which may impact the costs, timing or successful completion of a clinical trial. If we experience delays in the completion of, or if we terminate, our clinical trials, the commercial prospects for our product candidates will be harmed, and our ability to generate product revenues will be delayed. In addition, many of the factors that cause, or lead to, a delay in the commencement or completion of clinical trials may also ultimately lead to the denial of regulatory approval of a product candidate. Even if we are able to ultimately commercialize our product candidates, other therapies for the same indications may have been introduced to the market and established a competitive advantage.
We expect intense competition in the territories in which we have rights to our product candidates, and new products may emerge that provide different or better therapeutic alternatives for our targeted indications.
          The biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries are subject to rapid and intense technological change. We face, and will continue to face, competition in the development and marketing of our product candidates from academic institutions, government agencies, research institutions and biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. There can be no assurance that developments by others will not render our product candidates obsolete or noncompetitive. Furthermore, new developments, including the development of other drug technologies and methods of preventing the incidence of disease, occur in the pharmaceutical industry at a rapid pace. These developments may render our product candidates obsolete or noncompetitive.
          We intend to develop IV APAP for the treatment of acute pain in the hospital setting, which will compete with well established injectable drugs for this and similar indications, including opioids such as morphine, fentanyl, meperidine and hydromorphone, each of which is available generically from several manufacturers, as well as an extended release injectable formulation of morphine, DepoDur, currently marketed by an affiliate of Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc. Ketorolac, an injectable non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, or NSAID, is also available generically from several manufacturers and used to treat acute pain. During the time that it will take us to obtain regulatory approval for IV APAP, if at all, we anticipate that several additional products may be developed for the treatment of acute pain, including other injectable NSAIDs, novel opioids, new formulations of currently available opioids, long-acting local anesthetics and new chemical entities as well as alternative delivery forms of various opioids and NSAIDs.
          We are also developing our omiganan product candidate for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections in the hospital setting. If approved, omiganan will compete with well established topical products that are currently used in practice to prevent these infections as well as BioPatch, a device marketed by Johnson & Johnson, which has been approved for wound dressing and prevention of catheter-related infections. Other competitive products may be under development.
          In addition, competitors may seek to develop alternative formulations of our product candidates that address our targeted indications that do not directly infringe on our in-licensed patent rights. For example, we are aware of several U.S. and Canadian patents and patent applications covering various potential injectable formulations of acetaminophen, including intravenous formulations, as well as methods of making and using these potential formulations. Furthermore, analogs of omiganan have been developed by others that are not covered by patents licensed to or owned by us. The commercial opportunity for our product candidates could be significantly harmed if competitors are able to develop alternative

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formulations outside the scope of our in-licensed patents. Compared to us, many of our potential competitors have substantially greater:
  capital resources;
 
  development resources, including personnel and technology;
 
  clinical trial experience;
 
  regulatory experience;
 
  expertise in prosecution of intellectual property rights; and
 
  manufacturing, distribution and sales and marketing experience.
          As a result of these factors, our competitors may obtain regulatory approval of their products more rapidly than we are able to or may obtain patent protection or other intellectual property rights that limit our ability to develop or commercialize our product candidates. Our competitors may also develop drugs that are more effective, useful and less costly than ours and may also be more successful than us in manufacturing and marketing their products. We also expect to face similar competition in our efforts to identify appropriate collaborators or partners to help develop or commercialize our product candidates in markets outside the United States.
If any of our product candidates for which we receive regulatory approval do not achieve broad market acceptance, the revenues that we generate from their sales will be limited.
          The commercial success of our product candidates for which we obtain marketing approval from the FDA or other regulatory authorities will depend upon the acceptance of these products by the medical community and coverage and reimbursement of them by third-party payors, including government payors. The degree of market acceptance of any of our approved products will depend on a number of factors, including:
  limitations or warnings contained in a product’s FDA-approved labeling, including potential limitations or warnings for IV APAP that may be more restrictive than oral formulations of acetaminophen;
 
  changes in the standard of care for the targeted indications for either of our product candidates, including, in the case of omiganan, the decreasing use of 10% povidone-iodine, the comparator product in our ongoing Phase III clinical trial, in favor of another topical antiseptic, chlorhexidine, which change could reduce the marketing impact of any superiority claims that we could make following FDA approval;
 
  limitations inherent in the approved indication for either of our product candidates compared to more commonly-understood or addressed conditions, including, in the case of omiganan, the ability to promote omiganan to hospitals and physicians who may be more focused on an indication specifically for the prevention of CRBSIs compared to the prevention of LCSIs, the primary endpoint in our ongoing Phase III clinical trial; and
 
  potential advantages over, and availability of, alternative treatments, including, in the case of IV APAP, a number of products already used to treat acute pain in the hospital setting, and in the case of omiganan, a number of competitive topical products as well as a device that has been approved for wound dressing and prevention of catheter-related infections.
          Our ability to effectively promote and sell our product candidates in the hospital marketplace will also depend on pricing and cost effectiveness, including our ability to produce a product at a competitive price and our ability to obtain sufficient third-party coverage or reimbursement. Since many hospitals are members of group purchasing organizations, which leverage the purchasing power of a group of entities to obtain discounts based on the collective buying power of the group, our ability to attract customers in the hospital marketplace will also depend on our ability to effectively promote our product candidates to group

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purchasing organizations. We will also need to demonstrate acceptable evidence of safety and efficacy as well as relative convenience and ease of administration. Market acceptance could be further limited depending on the prevalence and severity of any expected or unexpected adverse side effects associated with our product candidates. If our product candidates are approved but do not achieve an adequate level of acceptance by physicians, health care payors and patients, we may not generate sufficient revenue from these products, and we may not become or remain profitable. In addition, our efforts to educate the medical community and third-party payors on the benefits of our product candidates may require significant resources and may never be successful.
Even if our product candidates receive regulatory approval, they may still face future development and regulatory difficulties.
          Even if U.S. regulatory approval is obtained, the FDA may still impose significant restrictions on a product’s indicated uses or marketing or impose ongoing requirements for potentially costly post-approval studies. Any of these restrictions or requirements could adversely affect our potential product revenues. For example, the label ultimately approved for IV APAP, omiganan or any other product candidates that we may in-license or acquire, if any, may include a restriction on the term of its use, or it may not include one or more of our intended indications.
          Our product candidates will also be subject to ongoing FDA requirements for the labeling, packaging, storage, advertising, promotion, record-keeping and submission of safety and other post-market information on the drug. In addition, approved products, manufacturers and manufacturers’ facilities are subject to continual review and periodic inspections. If a regulatory agency discovers previously unknown problems with a product, such as adverse events of unanticipated severity or frequency, or problems with the facility where the product is manufactured, a regulatory agency may impose restrictions on that product or us, including requiring withdrawal of the product from the market. If our product candidates fail to comply with applicable regulatory requirements, such as current Good Manufacturing Practices, or cGMPs, a regulatory agency may:
  issue warning letters or untitled letters;
 
  require us to enter into a consent decree, which can include imposition of various fines, reimbursements for inspection costs, required due dates for specific actions and penalties for noncompliance;
 
  impose other civil or criminal penalties;
 
  suspend regulatory approval;
 
  suspend any ongoing clinical trials;
 
  refuse to approve pending applications or supplements to approved applications filed by us;
 
  impose restrictions on operations, including costly new manufacturing requirements; or
 
  seize or detain products or require a product recall.
Even if our product candidates receive regulatory approval in the United States, we may never receive approval or commercialize our products outside of the United States.
          Our rights to IV APAP are limited to the United States and Canada, and our rights to omiganan are limited to North America and Europe. In order to market any products outside of the United States, we must establish and comply with numerous and varying regulatory requirements of other countries regarding safety and efficacy. Approval procedures vary among countries and can involve additional product testing and additional administrative review periods. The time required to obtain approval in other countries might differ from that required to obtain FDA approval. The regulatory approval process in other countries may include all of the risks detailed above regarding FDA approval in the United States as well as other risks. Regulatory approval in one country does not ensure regulatory approval in another, but a

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failure or delay in obtaining regulatory approval in one country may have a negative effect on the regulatory process in others. Failure to obtain regulatory approval in other countries or any delay or setback in obtaining such approval could have the same adverse effects detailed above regarding FDA approval in the United States. As described above, such effects include the risks that our product candidates may not be approved for all indications requested, which could limit the uses of our product candidates and have an adverse effect on product sales and potential royalties, and that such approval may be subject to limitations on the indicated uses for which the product may be marketed or require costly, post-marketing follow-up studies.
We have never marketed a drug before, and if we are unable to establish an effective sales and marketing infrastructure, we will not be able to successfully commercialize our product candidates.
          In the United States, we plan to build our own sales force to market our products directly to physicians, nurses, hospitals, group purchasing organizations and third-party payors. We currently do not have significant internal sales, distribution and marketing capabilities. In order to commercialize any of our product candidates, we must either acquire or internally develop sales and marketing capabilities, or enter into collaborations with partners to perform these services for us. The acquisition or development of a hospital-focused sales and marketing infrastructure for our domestic operations will require substantial resources, will be expensive and time consuming and could negatively impact our commercialization efforts, including delay any product launch. Moreover, we may not be able to hire a sales force that is sufficient in size or has adequate expertise. If we are unable to establish our sales and marketing capability or any other capabilities necessary to commercialize any products we may develop, we will need to contract with third parties to market and sell our products. If we are unable to establish adequate sales and marketing capabilities, whether independently or with third parties, we may not be able to generate any product revenue, may generate increased expenses and may never become profitable.
Our product candidates may have undesirable side effects that could delay or prevent their regulatory approval or commercialization.
          Undesirable side effects caused by our product candidates could interrupt, delay or halt clinical trials and could result in the denial of regulatory approval by the FDA or other regulatory authorities for any or all targeted indications, and in turn prevent us from commercializing our product candidates and generating revenues from their sale. When used outside the current guidelines for administration, acetaminophen has the potential to cause liver toxicity. While administration of acetaminophen in intravenous form is not expected to result in an increased risk of toxicity to the liver compared with an equivalent dose of acetaminophen administered orally, we cannot be certain that increased liver toxicity or other drug-related side effects will not be observed in future clinical trials or that the FDA will not require additional trials or impose more severe labeling restrictions due to liver toxicity or other concerns. In addition, while the drug-related adverse events observed in clinical trials completed to date for omiganan have all been related to the skin, including the catheter insertion site, we cannot be certain that other drug-related side effects will not be reported in clinical trials or thereafter.
          If either of our product candidates receives marketing approval and we or others later identify undesirable side effects caused by the product:
  regulatory authorities may require the addition of labeling statements, specific warnings or a contraindication;
 
  regulatory authorities may withdraw their approval of the product;
 
  we may be required to change the way the product is administered, conduct additional clinical trials or change the labeling of the product; and
 
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          Any of these events could prevent us from achieving or maintaining market acceptance of the affected product or could substantially increase our commercialization costs and expenses, which in turn could delay or prevent us from generating significant revenues from its sale.
If the government or third-party payors fail to provide coverage and adequate coverage and payment rates for our future products, if any, or if hospitals choose to use therapies that are less expensive, our revenue and prospects for profitability will be limited.
          In both domestic and foreign markets, our sales of any future products will depend in part upon the availability of coverage and reimbursement from third-party payors. Such third-party payors include government health programs such as Medicare, managed care providers, private health insurers and other organizations. In particular, many U.S. hospitals receive a fixed reimbursement amount per procedure for certain surgeries and other treatment therapies they perform. Because this amount may not be based on the actual expenses the hospital incurs, hospitals may choose to use therapies which are less expensive when compared to our product candidates. Accordingly, IV APAP, omiganan or any other product candidates that we may in-license or acquire, if approved, will face competition from other therapies and drugs for these limited hospital financial resources. We may need to conduct post-marketing studies in order to demonstrate the cost-effectiveness of any future products to the satisfaction of hospitals, other target customers and their third-party payors. Such studies might require us to commit a significant amount of management time and financial and other resources. Our future products might not ultimately be considered cost-effective. Adequate third-party coverage and reimbursement might not be available to enable us to maintain price levels sufficient to realize an appropriate return on investment in product development.
          Governments continue to propose and pass legislation designed to reduce the cost of healthcare. In the United States, we expect that there will continue to be federal and state proposals to implement similar governmental controls. For example, in December 2003, Congress enacted a limited prescription drug benefit for Medicare beneficiaries in the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003. Under this program, drug prices for certain prescription drugs are negotiated by drug plans, with the goal to lower costs for Medicare beneficiaries. In some foreign markets, the government controls the pricing of prescription pharmaceuticals. In these countries, pricing negotiated with governmental authorities can take six to 12 months or longer after the receipt of regulatory marketing approval for a product. Cost control initiatives could decrease the price that we would receive for any products in the future, which would limit our revenue and profitability. Accordingly, legislation and regulations affecting the pricing of pharmaceuticals might change before our product candidates are approved for marketing. Adoption of such legislation could further limit reimbursement for pharmaceuticals.
If we breach any of the agreements under which we license rights to our product candidates from others, we could lose the ability to continue the development and commercialization of our product candidates.
          In March 2006, we entered into an exclusive license agreement with BMS relating to our IV APAP product candidate for the United States and Canada, and in July 2004, we entered into an exclusive license agreement with Migenix relating to our omiganan product candidate for North America and Europe. Because we have in-licensed the rights to our two product candidates from third parties, if there is any dispute between us and our licensors regarding our rights under these license agreements, our ability to develop and commercialize these product candidates may be adversely affected. Any uncured, material breach under these license agreements could result in our loss of exclusive rights to the related product candidate and may lead to a complete termination of our product development efforts for the related product candidate.

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If BMS breaches the underlying agreement under which we sublicense the rights to our IV APAP product candidate, we could lose the ability to develop and commercialize IV APAP.
          Our license for IV APAP is subject to the terms and conditions of a license from SCR Pharmatop to BMS, under which BMS originally licensed the intellectual property rights covering IV APAP. If BMS materially breaches the terms or conditions of this underlying license from SCR Pharmatop, and neither BMS nor we adequately cure that breach, or BMS and SCR Pharmatop otherwise become involved in a dispute, the breach by BMS or disputes with SCR Pharmatop could result in a loss of, or other material adverse impact on, our rights under our license agreement with BMS. While we would expect to exercise all rights and remedies available to us, including seeking to cure any breach by BMS, and otherwise seek to preserve our rights under the patents licensed by SCR Pharmatop, we may not be able to do so in a timely manner, at an acceptable cost or at all. Any uncured, material breach under the license from SCR Pharmatop to BMS could result indirectly in our loss of exclusive rights to our IV APAP product candidate and may lead to a complete termination of our product development and any commercialization efforts for IV APAP.
We rely on third parties to conduct our clinical trials, including our planned Phase III clinical program for IV APAP and our ongoing Phase III clinical trial for omiganan. If these third parties do not successfully carry out their contractual duties or meet expected deadlines, we may not be able to obtain regulatory approval for or commercialize our product candidates on our anticipated timeline or at all.
          We intend to rely primarily on third-party CROs to oversee our clinical trials for our IV APAP and omiganan product candidates, and we depend on independent clinical investigators, medical institutions and contract laboratories to conduct our clinical trials. Although we rely on CROs to conduct our clinical trials, we are responsible for ensuring that each of our clinical trials is conducted in accordance with its investigational plan and protocol. Moreover, the FDA requires us to comply with regulations and standards, commonly referred to as good clinical practices, or GCPs, for conducting, monitoring, recording and reporting the results of clinical trials to ensure that the data and results are scientifically credible and accurate and that the trial subjects are adequately informed of the potential risks of participating in clinical trials. Our reliance on CROs does not relieve us of these responsibilities and requirements. CROs and investigators are not our employees, and we cannot control the amount or timing of resources that they devote to our programs. If our CROs or independent investigators fail to devote sufficient time and resources to our drug development programs, or if their performance is substandard, it will delay the approval of our FDA applications and our introductions of new products. The CROs with which we contract for execution of our clinical trials play a significant role in the conduct of the trials and the subsequent collection and analysis of data. Failure of the CROs to meet their obligations could adversely affect clinical development of our product candidates. Moreover, these independent investigators and CROs may also have relationships with other commercial entities, some of which may have competitive products under development or currently marketed. If independent investigators and CROs assist our competitors, it could harm our competitive position. If any of these third parties do not successfully carry out their contractual duties or obligations or meet expected deadlines, or if the quality or accuracy of the clinical data is compromised for any reason, our clinical trials may be extended, delayed or terminated, and we may not be able to obtain regulatory approval for IV APAP, omiganan or future product candidates.
If the manufacturers upon whom we rely fail to produce our product candidates in the volumes that we require on a timely basis, or to comply with stringent regulations applicable to pharmaceutical drug manufacturers, we may face delays in the development and commercialization of, or be unable to meet demand for, our products and may lose potential revenues.
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scale manufacturing of a product candidate may result in a delay in FDA approval of the product candidate or may impair our ability to manufacture commercial quantities, which would adversely affect our business. For example, our manufacturers will need to produce specific batches of our product candidates to demonstrate acceptable stability under various conditions and for commercially viable lengths of time. We and our contract manufacturers will need to demonstrate to the FDA and other regulatory authorities this acceptable stability data for our product candidates, as well as validate methods and manufacturing processes, in order to receive regulatory approval to commercialize IV APAP, omiganan or any other product candidate. Furthermore, if our commercial manufacturers fail to deliver the required commercial quantities of bulk drug substance or finished product on a timely basis and at commercially reasonable prices, we would likely be unable to meet demand for our products and we would lose potential revenues.
          We currently have what we believe are adequate clinical supplies of our omiganan product candidate. We entered into a clinical supply agreement with Lawrence Laboratories, an affiliate of BMS, under which Lawrence Laboratories has manufactured a single batch of clinical supplies of IV APAP and a single batch of placebo. With these batches, we believe we will have adequate clinical supplies of our IV APAP product candidate and placebo. The term of the clinical supply agreement generally extends until the earlier of the receipt by us of regulatory approval for IV APAP or December 31, 2008. In addition, the clinical supply agreement could terminate upon mutual written consent of the parties, the termination of the IV APAP agreement or our dissolution. The clinical supply agreement may also be terminated by either party upon written notice to the other party of an uncured, material breach. We are currently negotiating with suppliers for the potential commercial supply of the finished drug product for IV APAP. We do not have any long-term commitments from our suppliers of clinical trial material or guaranteed prices for our product candidates or placebos. The manufacture of pharmaceutical products requires significant expertise and capital investment, including the development of advanced manufacturing techniques and process controls. Manufacturers of pharmaceutical products often encounter difficulties in production, particularly in scaling up initial production. These problems include difficulties with production costs and yields, quality control, including stability of the product candidate and quality assurance testing, shortages of qualified personnel, as well as compliance with strictly enforced federal, state and foreign regulations. Our manufacturers may not perform as agreed. If our manufacturers were to encounter any of these difficulties, our ability to provide product candidates to patients in our clinical trials would be jeopardized.
          In addition, all manufacturers of our product candidates must comply with cGMP requirements enforced by the FDA through its facilities inspection program. These requirements include quality control, quality assurance and the maintenance of records and documentation. Manufacturers of our product candidates may be unable to comply with these cGMP requirements and with other FDA, state and foreign regulatory requirements. We have little control over our manufacturers’ compliance with these regulations and standards. A failure to comply with these requirements may result in fines and civil penalties, suspension of production, suspension or delay in product approval, product seizure or recall, or withdrawal of product approval. If the safety of any quantities supplied is compromised due to our manufacturers’ failure to adhere to applicable laws or for other reasons, we may not be able to obtain regulatory approval for or successfully commercialize our product candidates.
Our future growth depends on our ability to identify and acquire or in-license products and if we do not successfully identify and acquire or in-license related product candidates or integrate them into our operations, we may have limited growth opportunities.
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marketplace. Future in-licenses or acquisitions, however, may entail numerous operational and financial risks, including:
  exposure to unknown liabilities;
 
  disruption of our business and diversion of our management’s time and attention to develop acquired products or technologies;
 
  incurrence of substantial debt or dilutive issuances of securities to pay for acquisitions;
 
  higher than expected acquisition and integration costs;
 
  increased amortization expenses;
 
  difficulty and cost in combining the operations and personnel of any acquired businesses with our operations and personnel;
 
  impairment of relationships with key suppliers or customers of any acquired businesses due to changes in management and ownership; and
 
  inability to retain key employees of any acquired businesses.
          We have limited resources to identify and execute the acquisition or in-licensing of third-party products, businesses and technologies and integrate them into our current infrastructure. In particular, we may compete with larger pharmaceutical companies and other competitors in our efforts to establish new collaborations and in-licensing opportunities. These competitors likely will have access to greater financial resources than us and may have greater expertise in identifying and evaluating new opportunities. Moreover, we may devote resources to potential acquisitions or in-licensing opportunities that are never completed, or we may fail to realize the anticipated benefits of such efforts.
We will need to increase the size of our organization, and we may experience difficulties in managing growth.
          As of June 30, 2006, we had 24 full-time employees. We will need to continue to expand our managerial, operational, financial and other resources in order to manage and fund our operations and clinical trials, continue our development activities and commercialize our product candidates. Our management, personnel, systems and facilities currently in place may not be adequate to support this future growth. Our need to effectively manage our operations, growth and various projects requires that we:
  manage our clinical trials effectively, including our planned Phase III clinical program for IV APAP, which will be conducted at numerous clinical trial sites, and our ongoing Phase III clinical trial for omiganan, which is being conducted at numerous clinical sites;
 
  manage our internal development efforts effectively while carrying out our contractual obligations to licensors and other third parties; and
 
  continue to improve our operational, financial and management controls, reporting systems and procedures.
          We may be unable to successfully implement these tasks on a larger scale and, accordingly, may not achieve our development and commercialization goals.
We may not be able to manage our business effectively if we are unable to attract and retain key personnel.
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and our ability to implement our business strategy. In particular, if we lose any members of our senior management team, we may not be able to find suitable replacements, and our business may be harmed as a result. Although we have employment agreements with our senior management, these agreements are terminable at will at any time with or without notice and, therefore, we may not be able to retain their services as expected.
          Our industry has experienced a high rate of turnover of management personnel in recent years. We are highly dependent on the product acquisition, development, regulatory and commercialization expertise of our senior management. If we lose one or more of the members of our senior management team or other key employees, our ability to implement our business strategy successfully could be seriously harmed. Replacing key employees may be difficult and may take an extended period of time because of the limited number of individuals in our industry with the breadth of skills and experience required to develop, gain regulatory approval of and commercialize products successfully. Competition to hire from this limited pool is intense, and we may be unable to hire, train, retain or motivate these additional key personnel.
          In addition, we have scientific and clinical advisors who assist us in our product development and clinical strategies. These advisors are not our employees and may have commitments to, or consulting or advisory contracts with, other entities that may limit their availability to us, or may have arrangements with other companies to assist in the development of products that may compete with ours.
We face potential product liability exposure, and if successful claims are brought against us, we may incur substantial liability for a product candidate and may have to limit its commercialization.
          The use of our product candidates in clinical trials and the sale of any products for which we obtain marketing approval expose us to the risk of product liability claims. Product liability claims might be brought against us by consumers, health care providers or others using, administering or selling our products. If we cannot successfully defend ourselves against these claims, we will incur substantial liabilities. Regardless of merit or eventual outcome, liability claims may result in:
  withdrawal of clinical trial participants;
 
  termination of clinical trial sites or entire trial programs;
 
  decreased demand for our product candidates;
 
  impairment of our business reputation;
 
  costs of related litigation;
 
  substantial monetary awards to patients or other claimants;
 
  loss of revenues; and
 
  the inability to commercialize our product candidates.
          We have obtained limited product liability insurance coverage for our clinical trials with a $10 million annual aggregate coverage limit and additional amounts in selected foreign countries where we are conducting clinical trials. However, our insurance coverage may not reimburse us or may not be sufficient to reimburse us for any expenses or losses we may suffer. Moreover, insurance coverage is becoming increasingly expensive, and, in the future, we may not be able to maintain insurance coverage at a reasonable cost or in sufficient amounts to protect us against losses due to liability. We intend to expand our insurance coverage to include the sale of commercial products if we obtain marketing approval for our product candidates in development, but we may be unable to obtain commercially reasonable product liability insurance for any products approved for marketing. On occasion, large judgments have been awarded in class action lawsuits based on drugs that had unanticipated side effects. A successful product liability claim or series of claims brought against us could cause our stock price to fall and, if judgments exceed our insurance coverage, could decrease our cash and adversely affect our business.

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Recent proposed legislation may permit re-importation of drugs from foreign countries into the United States, including foreign countries where the drugs are sold at lower prices than in the United States, which could materially adversely affect our operating results and our overall financial condition.
          Legislation has been introduced in Congress that, if enacted, would permit more widespread re-importation of drugs from foreign countries into the United States, which may include re-importation from foreign countries where the drugs are sold at lower prices than in the United States. Such legislation, or similar regulatory changes, could decrease the price we receive for any approved products which, in turn, could materially adversely affect our operating results and our overall financial condition. For example, BMS markets IV APAP in Europe and other countries principally under the brand name Perfalgan. Although Perfalgan is not labeled for sale in the United States and we have an exclusive license from BMS and its licensor to develop and sell our product candidate in the United States, it is possible that hospitals and other users may in the future seek to import Perfalgan rather than purchase IV APAP in the United States for cost-savings or other reasons. We would not receive any revenues from the importation and sale of Perfalgan into the United States.
Our business involves the use of hazardous materials and we and our third-party manufacturers must comply with environmental laws and regulations, which can be expensive and restrict how we do business.
          Our third-party manufacturers’ activities and, to a lesser extent, our own activities involve the controlled storage, use and disposal of hazardous materials, including the components of our product candidates and other hazardous compounds. We and our manufacturers are subject to federal, state and local laws and regulations governing the use, manufacture, storage, handling and disposal of these hazardous materials. Although we believe that the safety procedures for handling and disposing of these materials comply with the standards prescribed by these laws and regulations, we cannot eliminate the risk of accidental contamination or injury from these materials. In the event of an accident, state or federal authorities may curtail our use of these materials and interrupt our business operations.
Our business and operations would suffer in the event of system failures.
          Despite the implementation of security measures, our internal computer systems are vulnerable to damage from computer viruses, unauthorized access, natural disasters, terrorism, war and telecommunication and electrical failures. Any system failure, accident or security breach that causes interruptions in our operations could result in a material disruption of our drug development programs. For example, the loss of clinical trial data from completed or ongoing clinical trials for IV APAP or omiganan could result in delays in our regulatory approval efforts and significantly increase our costs to recover or reproduce the data. To the extent that any disruption or security breach results in a loss or damage to our data or applications, or inappropriate disclosure of confidential or proprietary information, we may incur liability and the further development of our product candidates may be delayed.
Risks Related to Intellectual Property
The patent rights that we have in-licensed covering IV APAP are limited to a specific intravenous formulation of acetaminophen, and our market opportunity for this product candidate may be limited by the lack of patent protection for the active ingredient itself and other formulations that may be developed by competitors.
          The active ingredient in IV APAP is acetaminophen. There are no patents claiming acetaminophen as a single-agent active ingredient in the territories licensed to us: the United States and Canada. As a result, competitors who obtain the requisite regulatory approval can offer products with the same active ingredient as IV APAP so long as the competitors do not infringe any process or formulation patents that we have in-licensed from BMS and its licensor, SCR Pharmatop. We are aware of a number of third-party patents in the United States that claim methods of making acetaminophen. If a supplier of the active pharmaceutical ingredient, or API, for our IV APAP product candidate is found to infringe any

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of these method patents covering acetaminophen, our supply of the API could be delayed and we may be required to locate an alternative supplier. We are also aware of several U.S. and Canadian patents and patent applications covering various potential injectable formulations of acetaminophen as well as methods of making and using these potential formulations. In addition, Injectapap, a formulation of acetaminophen for intramuscular injection was approved by the FDA for the reduction of fever in adults in March 1986 but was withdrawn from the market by McNeil Pharmaceutical in July 1986. Although we are not aware of any announcement regarding the reasons for Injectapap’s withdrawal, we believe it was likely withdrawn from the market due to product-related concerns either related to the intramuscular injection mode of administration or the sodium bisulfite in the formulation.
          The number of patents and patent applications covering products in the same field as IV APAP indicates that competitors have sought to develop and may seek to market competing formulations that may not be covered by our licensed patents and patent applications. In addition, the Canadian patent applications that we have in-licensed have yet to be examined by the Canadian Patent Office. Thus, they may issue with claims that cover less than the corresponding in-licensed U.S. patents, or simply not issue at all. The commercial opportunity for our IV APAP product candidate could be significantly harmed if competitors are able to develop an alternative formulation of acetaminophen outside the scope of our in-licensed patents.
The patent rights that we have in-licensed covering omiganan are limited in scope and limited to specific territories.
          We have an exclusive license from Migenix for omiganan in North America and Europe for the licensed field, although currently there are issued patents only in the United States and certain European countries. Canadian applications are pending; however, the claims that ultimately issue in Canada may be narrower than the protection obtained in the United States and Europe or may simply not issue at all. In addition, no patent protection has been sought in Mexico. Accordingly, the manufacture, sale and use of omiganan in Mexico by a competitor cannot be prevented. Furthermore, analogs of omiganan have been developed by others that are not covered by patents licensed to us. At least some of these analogs are covered by third-party patents. It is possible that competitors having rights to these third-party patents may develop competing products having the same, similar or better efficacy compared to omiganan.
          Furthermore, our license agreement with Migenix may be construed to cover only the use of omiganan for the licensed field, which is the treatment of burn-related, surgical wound-related, or device-related infections. Thus, Migenix or third-party licensees of Migenix may be able to market omiganan for other uses, including treatment of non-surgery related wound infections. We may be unable to prevent physicians from using any such competitive omiganan product off-label for the field licensed to us. Furthermore, the license covers only omiganan pentahydrochloride and its pharmaceutical formulations. Although the license agreement may prevent Migenix from developing a competing product for use in the licensed field, the agreement may not prevent Migenix from licensing a competing product, such as another salt of omiganan, to a third-party for use in the licensed field. Accordingly, we may face competition from a third-party licensee of Migenix using a different formulation of omiganan.
We depend on our licensors for the maintenance and enforcement of our intellectual property and have limited control, if any, over the amount or timing of resources that our licensors devote on our behalf.
          We depend on our licensors, BMS and Migenix, to protect the proprietary rights covering IV APAP and omiganan. Regarding IV APAP, either BMS or its licensor, SCR Pharmatop, depending on the patent or application, is responsible for maintaining issued patents and prosecuting patent applications. Regarding omiganan, Migenix is responsible for maintaining issued patents and prosecuting patent applications. We have limited, if any, control over the amount or timing of resources that our licensors devote on our behalf or the priority they place on maintaining these patent rights and prosecuting these patent applications to our advantage. SCR Pharmatop is under a contractual obligation to BMS to diligently prosecute their patent applications and allow BMS the opportunity to consult, review and comment on patent office communications. However, we cannot be sure that SCR Pharmatop will perform

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as required. Should BMS decide it no longer wants to maintain any of the patents licensed to us, BMS is required to afford us the opportunity to do so at our expense. However, we cannot be sure that BMS will perform as required. If BMS does not perform, and if we do not assume the maintenance of the licensed patents in sufficient time to make required payments or filings with the appropriate governmental agencies, we risk losing the benefit of all or some of those patent rights. For patents and applications licensed from Migenix, Migenix is obligated to use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain and maintain patent rights covering omiganan in North America and Europe. If Migenix intends to abandon prosecution or maintenance of any patents or applications, they are obligated to notify us, and at that time, we will be granted an opportunity to maintain and prosecute the patents and applications. In such a case, Migenix is required to transfer all necessary rights and responsibilities to facilitate our maintenance and prosecution of the patents and applications. Similar to BMS, however, we cannot be certain that Migenix will perform its contractual obligations as required or that we will be able to adequately assume the prosecution or maintenance of the omiganan-related patents and applications.
          As part of a financing transaction, Migenix has pledged as collateral to its lenders the patents and patent applications covering omiganan. While we believe our license agreement with Migenix would survive any foreclosure on these patents and patent applications, we cannot be sure that the lenders will have adequate expertise or resources to properly perform Migenix’s obligations to us under the license agreement, including maintaining and prosecuting the patents and patent applications.
          While we intend to take actions reasonably necessary to enforce our patent rights, we depend, in part, on our licensors to protect a substantial portion of our proprietary rights. In the case of the IV APAP patents, BMS has the first right to prosecute a third-party infringement of the SCR Pharmatop patents, and has the sole right to prosecute third-party infringement of the BMS patents. We will have the ability to cooperate with BMS in third-party infringement suits involving the SCR Pharmatop patents. In certain instances, we may be allowed to pursue the infringement claim ourselves. With respect to omiganan, we have the first right to prosecute a third-party for infringement of the in-licensed Migenix patents provided the infringing activities are in North America or Europe and relate primarily to the licensed field of use. Migenix is obligated to reasonably cooperate with any such suit.
          Our licensors may also be notified of alleged infringement and be sued for infringement of third-party patents or other proprietary rights. We may have limited, if any, control or involvement over the defense of these claims, and our licensors could be subject to injunctions and temporary or permanent exclusionary orders in the United States or other countries. Our licensors are not obligated to defend or assist in our defense against third-party claims of infringement. We have limited, if any, control over the amount or timing of resources, if any, that our licensors devote on our behalf or the priority they place on defense of such third-party claims of infringement. Finally, Migenix is not obligated to defend or assist in our defense of a third-party infringement suit relating to our omiganan product candidate; however, Migenix has the right to control the defense and settlement that relates to the validity and enforceability of claims in the in-licensed Migenix patents.
          For a third-party challenge to the SCR Pharmatop in-licensed patents relating to IV APAP, we will have some ability to participate in either SCR Pharmatop’s or BMS’s defense thereof. In the case that neither party elects to defend the third-party challenge, then we may have the opportunity to defend it. For a third-party challenge to the in-licensed BMS patents relating to IV APAP, BMS has the sole right to defend such challenge. If it chooses not to, we may have the right to renegotiate or terminate the license regarding the in-licensed BMS patents.
          Because of the uncertainty inherent in any patent or other litigation involving proprietary rights, we or our licensors may not be successful in defending claims of intellectual property infringement by third parties, which could have a material adverse affect on our results of operations. Regardless of the outcome of any litigation, defending the litigation may be expensive, time-consuming and distracting to management.

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Because it is difficult and costly to protect our proprietary rights, we may not be able to ensure their protection.
          Our commercial success will depend in part on obtaining and maintaining patent protection and trade secret protection for IV APAP, omiganan or any other product candidates that we may in-license or acquire and the methods we use to manufacture them, as well as successfully defending these patents against third-party challenges. We will only be able to protect our technologies from unauthorized use by third parties to the extent that valid and enforceable patents or trade secrets cover them.
          The patent positions of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies can be highly uncertain and involve complex legal and factual questions for which important legal principles remain unresolved. No consistent policy regarding the breadth of claims allowed in pharmaceutical or biotechnology patents has emerged to date in the United States. The patent situation outside the United States is even more uncertain. Changes in either the patent laws or in interpretations of patent laws in the United States and other countries may diminish the value of our intellectual property. Accordingly, we cannot predict the breadth of claims that may be allowed or enforced in our patents or in third-party patents.
          The degree of future protection for our proprietary rights is uncertain, because legal means afford only limited protection and may not adequately protect our rights or permit us to gain or keep our competitive advantage. For example:
  our licensors might not have been the first to make the inventions covered by each of our pending patent applications and issued patents;
 
  our licensors might not have been the first to file patent applications for these inventions;
 
  others may independently develop similar or alternative technologies or duplicate any of our product candidates or technologies;
 
  it is possible that none of the pending patent applications licensed to us will result in issued patents;
 
  the issued patents covering our product candidates may not provide a basis for commercially viable active products, may not provide us with any competitive advantages, or may be challenged by third parties;
 
  we may not develop additional proprietary technologies that are patentable; or
 
  patents of others may have an adverse effect on our business.
          Patent applications in the United States are maintained in confidence for at least 18 months after their earliest effective filing date. Consequently, we cannot be certain that our licensors were the first to invent or the first to file patent applications on some of our product candidates. In the event that a third party has also filed a U.S. patent application relating to our product candidates or a similar invention, we may have to participate in interference proceedings declared by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to determine priority of invention in the United States. The costs of these proceedings could be substantial and it is possible that our efforts would be unsuccessful, resulting in a material adverse effect on our U.S. patent position. Furthermore, we may not have identified all U.S. and foreign patents or published applications that affect our business either by blocking our ability to commercialize our drugs or by covering similar technologies that affect our drug market.
          In addition, some countries, including many in Europe, do not grant patent claims directed to methods of treating humans, and in these countries patent protection may not be available at all to protect our drug candidates. Even if patents issue, we cannot guarantee that the claims of those patents will be valid and enforceable or provide us with any significant protection against competitive products, or otherwise be commercially valuable to us.
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reasonable efforts to protect our trade secrets, our licensors, employees, consultants, contractors, outside scientific collaborators and other advisors may unintentionally or willfully disclose our information to competitors. Enforcing a claim that a third party illegally obtained and is using our trade secrets is expensive and time consuming, and the outcome is unpredictable. In addition, courts outside the United States are sometimes less willing to protect trade secrets. Moreover, our competitors may independently develop equivalent knowledge, methods and know-how.
          If our licensors or we fail to obtain or maintain patent protection or trade secret protection for IV APAP, omiganan or any other product candidate we may in-license or acquire, third parties could use our proprietary information, which could impair our ability to compete in the market and adversely affect our ability to generate revenues and achieve profitability.
If we are sued for infringing intellectual property rights of third parties, it will be costly and time consuming, and an unfavorable outcome in any litigation would harm our business.
          Our ability to develop, manufacture, market and sell IV APAP, omiganan or any other product candidates that we may in-license or acquire depends upon our ability to avoid infringing the proprietary rights of third parties. Numerous U.S. and foreign issued patents and pending patent applications, which are owned by third parties, exist in the general fields of pain treatment and prevention of infections and cover the use of numerous compounds and formulations in our targeted markets. In addition, because patent applications can take many years to issue, there may be currently pending applications, unknown to us, which may later result in issued patents that IV APAP or omiganan may infringe. There could also be existing patents of which we are not aware that IV APAP or omiganan may inadvertently infringe.
          There is a substantial amount of litigation involving patent and other intellectual property rights in the biotechnology and biopharmaceutical industries generally. If a third party claims that we infringe on their products or technology, we could face a number of issues, including:
  infringement and other intellectual property claims which, with or without merit, can be expensive and time consuming to litigate and can divert management’s attention from our core business;
 
  substantial damages for past infringement which we may have to pay if a court decides that our product infringes on a competitor’s patent;
 
  a court prohibiting us from selling or licensing our product unless the patent holder licenses the patent to us, which it is not required to do;
 
  if a license is available from a patent holder, we may have to pay substantial royalties or grant cross licenses to our patents; and
 
  redesigning our processes so they do not infringe, which may not be possible or could require substantial funds and time.
We may be subject to claims that our employees have wrongfully used or disclosed alleged trade secrets of their former employers.
          As is common in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry, we employ individuals who were previously employed at other biotechnology or pharmaceutical companies, including our competitors or potential competitors. Although no claims against us are currently pending, we may be subject to claims that these employees or we have inadvertently or otherwise used or disclosed trade secrets or other proprietary information of their former employers. Litigation may be necessary to defend against these claims. Even if we are successful in defending against these claims, litigation could result in substantial costs and be a distraction to management.

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Risks Related to Our Finances and Capital Requirements
We have incurred significant operating losses since our inception and anticipate that we will incur continued losses for the foreseeable future.
          We are a development stage company with a limited operating history. We have focused primarily on in-licensing and developing our two product candidates, IV APAP and omiganan, with the goal of supporting regulatory approval for these product candidates. We have financed our operations almost exclusively through private placements of preferred stock and have incurred losses in each year since our inception in May 2004. Net losses were $3.1 million in 2004, $7.5 million in 2005 and $33.7 million for the first six months of 2006. The net loss for the first six months of 2006 was principally attributed to our expense related to the $25.0 million licensing fee for IV APAP paid to BMS and clinical trial and regulatory expenses. As of June 30, 2006, we had an accumulated deficit of $44.3 million. These losses, among other things, have had and will continue to have an adverse effect on our stockholders’ equity and working capital. We expect our development expenses as well as clinical product manufacturing expenses to increase in connection with our ongoing and planned Phase III clinical trials for our product candidates. In addition, if we obtain regulatory approval for IV APAP or omiganan, we expect to incur significant sales, marketing and outsourced manufacturing expenses as well as continued development expenses. As a result, we expect to continue to incur significant and increasing operating losses for the foreseeable future. Because of the numerous risks and uncertainties associated with developing pharmaceutical products, we are unable to predict the extent of any future losses or when we will become profitable, if at all.
We currently have no source of revenue and may never be profitable.
          Our ability to become profitable depends upon our ability to generate revenue. To date, we have not generated any revenue from our development-stage product candidates, and we do not know when, or if, we will generate any revenue. Our ability to generate revenue depends on a number of factors, including, but not limited to, our ability to:
  successfully complete our ongoing and planned clinical trials for IV APAP and omiganan;
 
  obtain regulatory approval for either of our two product candidates;
 
  assuming these regulatory approvals are received, manufacture commercial quantities of our product candidates at acceptable cost levels; and
 
  successfully market and sell any approved products.
          Even if one or more of our product candidates is approved for commercial sale, we anticipate incurring significant costs associated with commercializing any approved product. We also do not anticipate that we will achieve profitability for at least several years after generating material revenues, if ever. If we are unable to generate revenues, we will not become profitable and may be unable to continue operations without continued funding.
Our short operating history makes it difficult to evaluate our business and prospects.
          We were incorporated in May 2004 and have only been conducting operations with respect to our IV APAP product candidate since March 2006 and our omiganan product candidate since July 2004. Our operations to date have been limited to organizing and staffing our company, in-licensing our two product candidates and initiating product development activities for our two product candidates. We have not yet demonstrated an ability to obtain regulatory approval for or successfully commercialize a product candidate. Consequently, any predictions about our future performance may not be as accurate as they could be if we had a history of successfully developing and commercializing pharmaceutical products.

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We will need additional funding and may be unable to raise capital when needed, which would force us to delay, reduce or eliminate our product development programs or commercialization efforts.
          Developing products for use in the hospital setting, conducting clinical trials, establishing outsourced manufacturing relationships and successfully manufacturing and marketing drugs that we may develop is expensive. We will need to raise additional capital to:
  fund our operations and continue to conduct adequate and well-controlled clinical trials to provide clinical data to support regulatory approval of marketing applications;
 
  continue our development activities;
 
  qualify and outsource the commercial-scale manufacturing of our products under cGMP; and
 
  commercialize IV APAP, omiganan or any other product candidates that we may in-license or acquire, if any of these product candidates receive regulatory approval.
          We believe that our existing cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments will be sufficient to meet our projected operating requirements through at least June 30, 2007. We have based this estimate on assumptions that may prove to be wrong, and we could spend our available financial resources much faster than we currently expect. Our future funding requirements will depend on many factors, including, but not limited to:
  the rate of progress and cost of our clinical trials and other product development programs for IV APAP, omiganan and any other product candidates that we may in-license or acquire;
 
  the costs of filing, prosecuting, defending and enforcing any patent claims and other intellectual property rights associated with our product candidates;
 
  the cost and timing of completion of an outsourced commercial manufacturing supply for each product candidate;
 
  the costs and timing of regulatory approval;
 
  the costs of establishing sales, marketing and distribution capabilities;
 
  the effect of competing technological and market developments; and
 
  the terms and timing of any collaborative, licensing, co-promotion or other arrangements that we may establish.
          Future capital requirements will also depend on the extent to which we acquire or invest in additional complementary businesses, products and technologies, but we currently have no commitments or agreements relating to any of these types of transactions.
          Until we can generate a sufficient amount of product revenue, if ever, we expect to finance future cash needs through public or private equity offerings, debt financings or corporate collaboration and licensing arrangements, as well as through interest income earned on cash balances. We cannot be certain that additional funding will be available on acceptable terms, or at all. If adequate funds are not available, we may be required to delay, reduce the scope of or eliminate one or more of our development programs or our commercialization efforts.
Our quarterly operating results may fluctuate significantly.
          We expect our operating results to be subject to quarterly fluctuations. Our net loss and other operating results will be affected by numerous factors, including:
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  our execution of other collaborative, licensing or similar arrangements, and the timing of payments we may make or receive under these arrangements;
 
  our addition or termination of clinical trials or funding support;
 
  variations in the level of expenses related to our two existing product candidates or future development programs;
 
  any intellectual property infringement lawsuit in which we may become involved;
 
  regulatory developments affecting our product candidates or those of our competitors; and
 
  if either of our product candidates receives regulatory approval, the level of underlying hospital demand for our product candidates and wholesalers’ buying patterns.
          If our quarterly operating results fall below the expectations of investors or securities analysts, the price of our common stock could decline substantially. Furthermore, any quarterly fluctuations in our operating results may, in turn, cause the price of our stock to fluctuate substantially. We believe that quarterly comparisons of our financial results are not necessarily meaningful and should not be relied upon as an indication of our future performance.
Raising additional funds by issuing securities may cause dilution to existing stockholders and raising funds through lending and licensing arrangements may restrict our operations or require us to relinquish proprietary rights.
          To the extent that we raise additional capital by issuing equity securities, our existing stockholders’ ownership will be diluted. If we raise additional funds through licensing arrangements, it may be necessary to relinquish potentially valuable rights to our potential products or proprietary technologies, or grant licenses on terms that are not favorable to us. Any debt financing we enter into may involve covenants that restrict our operations. These restrictive covenants may include limitations on additional borrowing and specific restrictions on the use of our assets as well as prohibitions on our ability to create liens, pay dividends, redeem our stock or make investments. For example, in February 2006, we entered into a $7.0 million loan and security agreement with Silicon Valley Bank and Oxford Finance Corporation which contains a variety of affirmative and negative covenants, including required financial reporting, limitations on the disposition of assets other than in the ordinary course of business, limitations on the incurrence of additional debt and other requirements. To secure our performance of our obligations under the loan and security agreement, we pledged substantially all of our assets other than intellectual property assets, to the lenders. Our failure to comply with the covenants in the loan and security agreement could result in an event of default that, if not cured or waived, could result in the acceleration of all or a substantial portion of our debt.
We will incur significant increased costs as a result of operating as a public company, and our management will be required to devote substantial time to new compliance initiatives.
          As a public company, we will incur significant legal, accounting and other expenses that we did not incur as a private company. In addition, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, as well as rules subsequently implemented by the SEC and the Nasdaq Global Market, have imposed various new requirements on public companies, including requiring establishment and maintenance of effective disclosure and financial controls and changes in corporate governance practices. Our management and other personnel will need to devote a substantial amount of time to these new compliance initiatives. Moreover, these rules and regulations will increase our legal and financial compliance costs and will make some activities more time-consuming and costly. For example, we expect these rules and regulations to make it more difficult and more expensive for us to obtain director and officer liability insurance, and we may be required to accept reduced policy limits and coverage or incur substantially higher costs to obtain the same or similar coverage. As a result, it may be more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified persons to serve on our board of directors, our board committees or as executive officers.

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          The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires, among other things, that we maintain effective internal controls for financial reporting and disclosure controls and procedures. In particular, commencing in fiscal 2008, we must perform system and process evaluation and testing of our internal controls over financial reporting to allow management and our independent registered public accounting firm to report on the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting, as required by Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Our testing, or the subsequent testing by our independent registered public accounting firm, may reveal deficiencies in our internal controls over financial reporting that are deemed to be material weaknesses. Our compliance with Section 404 will require that we incur substantial accounting expense and expend significant management efforts. We currently do not have an internal audit group, and we will need to hire additional accounting and financial staff with appropriate public company experience and technical accounting knowledge. Moreover, if we are not able to comply with the requirements of Section 404 in a timely manner, or if we or our independent registered public accounting firm identifies deficiencies in our internal controls over financial reporting that are deemed to be material weaknesses, the market price of our stock could decline and we could be subject to sanctions or investigations by Nasdaq, the SEC or other regulatory authorities, which would require additional financial and management resources.
Risks Relating to Securities Markets and Investment in Our Stock
There may not be a viable public market for our common stock.
          Prior to this offering, there has been no public market for our common stock, and there can be no assurance that a regular trading market will develop and continue after this offering or that the market price of our common stock will not decline below the initial public offering price. The initial public offering price will be determined through negotiations between us and the representatives of the underwriters and may not be indicative of the market price of our common stock following this offering. Among the factors considered in such negotiations are prevailing market conditions, certain of our financial information, market valuations of other companies that we and the representatives of the underwriters believe to be comparable to us, estimates of our business potential, the present state of our development and other factors deemed relevant. See “Underwriting” for additional information.
As a new investor, you will experience immediate and substantial dilution in the net tangible book value of your shares.
          The initial public offering price of our common stock in this offering is considerably more than the net tangible book value per share of our outstanding common stock. Investors purchasing shares of common stock in this offering will pay a price that substantially exceeds the value of our assets after subtracting liabilities. As a result, investors will:
  incur immediate dilution of $           per share, based on an assumed initial public offering price of $           per share, the midpoint of our expected public offering price range; and
 
  contribute      % of the total amount invested to date to fund our company based on an assumed initial offering price to the public of $           per share, the mid point of our expected public offering price range, but will own only      % of the shares of common stock outstanding after the offering.
          To the extent outstanding stock options or warrants are exercised, there will be further dilution to new investors.
          We believe that our existing cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments will be sufficient to meet our projected operating requirements through at least June 30, 2007. However, because we will need to raise additional capital to fund our clinical development programs, among other things, we may conduct substantial additional equity offerings. These future equity issuances, together with the exercise of outstanding options or warrants and any additional shares issued in connection with acquisitions, will result in further dilution to investors.

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We expect that the price of our common stock will fluctuate substantially.
          The initial public offering price for the shares of our common stock sold in this offering has been determined by negotiation between the representatives of the underwriters and us. This price may not reflect the market price of our common stock following this offering. The price of our common stock may decline. In addition, the market price of our common stock is likely to be highly volatile and may fluctuate substantially due to many factors, including:
  the results from our clinical trial programs, including our planned Phase III clinical program for IV APAP and our ongoing Phase III clinical trial for omiganan;
 
  the results of clinical trial programs for IV APAP and omiganan being performed by others;
 
  FDA or international regulatory actions, including failure to receive regulatory approval for any of our product candidates;
 
  failure of any of our product candidates, if approved, to achieve commercial success;
 
  announcements of the introduction of new products by us or our competitors;
 
  market conditions in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors;
 
  developments concerning product development results or intellectual property rights of others;
 
  litigation or public concern about the safety of our potential products;
 
  actual and anticipated fluctuations in our quarterly operating results;
 
  deviations in our operating results from the estimates of securities analysts or other analyst comments;
 
  additions or departures of key personnel;
 
  third-party coverage and reimbursement policies;
 
  developments concerning current or future strategic collaborations; and
 
  discussion of us or our stock price by the financial and scientific press and in online investor communities.
          The realization of any of the risks described in these “Risk Factors” could have a dramatic and material adverse impact on the market price of our common stock. In addition, class action litigation has often been instituted against companies whose securities have experienced periods of volatility in market price. Any such litigation brought against us could result in substantial costs and a diversion of management’s attention and resources, which could hurt our business, operating results and financial condition.
Our management team may invest or spend the proceeds of this offering in ways in which you may not agree or in ways which may not yield a return.
          Our management will have broad discretion over the use of proceeds from this offering. The net proceeds from this offering will be used to fund clinical trials and other research and development activities, and to fund working capital, capital expenditures and other general corporate purposes. We may also use a portion of the net proceeds to in-license, acquire or invest in complementary businesses or products. We have no present understandings, commitments or agreements with respect to any such in-licenses, acquisitions or investments and no portion of the net proceeds has been allocated for any specific transaction. Our management will have considerable discretion in the application of the net proceeds, and you will not have the opportunity, as part of your investment decision, to assess whether the proceeds are being used appropriately. The net proceeds may be used for corporate purposes that do not increase our

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operating results or market value. Until the net proceeds are used, they may be placed in investments that do not produce significant income or that lose value.
Future sales of our common stock may depress our stock price.
          Sales of a substantial number of shares of our common stock in the public market could occur at any time. These sales, or the perception in the market that the holders of a large number of shares intend to sell shares, could reduce the market price of our common stock. After this offering, we will have outstanding shares of common stock based on the number of shares outstanding as of June 30, 2006. This includes the shares that we are selling in this offering, which may be resold in the public market immediately. Of the remaining shares,                    shares are currently restricted as a result of securities laws or lock-up agreements but will be available for resale in the public market as described in the “Shares Eligible for Future Sale” section of this prospectus. As a result of the lock-up agreements between our underwriters and our security holders and the provisions of Rule 144, Rule 144(k) and Rule 701 under the Securities Act, the shares of our common stock (excluding the shares sold in this offering) that will be available for sale in the public market are as follows:
                      shares will be eligible for sale on the date of this prospectus;
 
  •                      shares will be eligible for sale upon the expiration of the lock-up agreements beginning 180 days after the date of this prospectus;
 
  •                      shares will be eligible for sale, upon exercise of vested options, upon the expiration of the lock-up agreements, beginning 180 days after the date of this prospectus;
 
  •                      shares will be eligible for sale, upon exercise of outstanding warrants, upon the expiration of the lock-up agreements, beginning 180 days after the date of this prospectus; and
 
  •  the remaining                     restricted shares will be eligible for sale from time to time thereafter upon expiration of their respective one-year holding periods.
          Moreover, after this offering, holders of approximately 83,555,455 shares of common stock and the holders of warrants to purchase 385,000 shares of our common stock will have rights, subject to some conditions, to require us to file registration statements covering their shares or to include their shares in registration statements that we may file for ourselves or other stockholders. These rights will continue following this offering and will terminate seven years following the completion of this offering, or for any particular holder with registration rights, at such time following this offering when all securities held by that stockholder subject to registration rights may be sold pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act. We also intend to register all shares of common stock that we may issue under our equity compensation plans. Once we register these shares, they can be freely sold in the public market upon issuance, subject to the lock-up agreements described in the “Underwriting” section of this prospectus.
Our executive officers and directors and their affiliates will exercise control over stockholder voting matters in a manner that may not be in the best interests of all of our stockholders.
          Immediately following this offering, our executive officers and directors and their affiliates will together control approximately      % of our outstanding common stock. As a result, these stockholders will collectively be able to significantly influence all matters requiring approval of our stockholders, including the election of directors and approval of significant corporate transactions. The concentration of ownership may delay, prevent or deter a change in control of our company even when such a change may be in the best interests of all stockholders, could deprive our stockholders of an opportunity to receive a premium for their common stock as part of a sale of our company or our assets and might affect the prevailing market price of our common stock.

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Anti-takeover provisions under our charter documents and Delaware law could delay or prevent a change of control which could limit the market price of our common stock and may prevent or frustrate attempts by our stockholders to replace or remove our current management.
          Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws, which are to become effective at the closing of this offering, contain provisions that could delay or prevent a change of control of our company or changes in our board of directors that our stockholders might consider favorable. Some of these provisions include:
  a board of directors divided into three classes serving staggered three-year terms, such that not all members of the board will be elected at one time;
 
  a prohibition on stockholder action through written consent;
 
  a requirement that special meetings of stockholders be called only by the chairman of the board of directors, the chief executive officer, the president or by a majority of the total number of authorized directors;
 
  advance notice requirements for stockholder proposals and nominations;
 
  a requirement of approval of not less than 662/3% of all outstanding shares of our capital stock entitled to vote to amend any bylaws by stockholder action, or to amend specific provisions of our certificate of incorporation; and
 
  the authority of the board of directors to issue preferred stock on terms determined by the board of directors without stockholder approval.
          In addition, we are governed by the provisions of Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporate Law, which may prohibit certain business combinations with stockholders owning 15% or more of our outstanding voting stock. These and other provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation, amended and restated bylaws and Delaware law could make it more difficult for stockholders or potential acquirers to obtain control of our board of directors or initiate actions that are opposed by the then-current board of directors, including to delay or impede a merger, tender offer or proxy contest involving our company. Any delay or prevention of a change of control transaction or changes in our board of directors could cause the market price of our common stock to decline.
We have never paid dividends on our capital stock, and we do not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future.
          We have paid no cash dividends on any of our classes of capital stock to date and we currently intend to retain our future earnings, if any, to fund the development and growth of our business. We do not anticipate paying any cash dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future. Furthermore, our loan and security agreement with Silicon Valley Bank and Oxford Finance Corporation restricts our ability to pay dividends. As a result, capital appreciation, if any, of our common stock will be your sole source of gain for the foreseeable future.
We may become involved in securities class action litigation that could divert management’s attention and harm our business.
          The stock markets have from time to time experienced significant price and volume fluctuations that have affected the market prices for the common stock of pharmaceutical companies. These broad market fluctuations may cause the market price of our common stock to decline. In the past, securities class action litigation has often been brought against a company following a decline in the market price of its securities. This risk is especially relevant for us because biotechnology and biopharmaceutical companies have experienced significant stock price volatility in recent years. We may become involved in this type of litigation in the future. Litigation often is expensive and diverts management’s attention and resources, which could adversely affect our business.

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SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
          This prospectus contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the progress and timing of clinical trials, the safety and efficacy of our product candidates, the goals of our development activities, estimates of the potential markets for our product candidates, estimates of the capacity of manufacturing and other facilities to support our products, projected cash needs and our expected future revenues, operations and expenditures. The forward-looking statements are contained principally in the sections entitled “Prospectus Summary,” “Risk Factors,” “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and “Business.” These statements relate to future events or our future financial performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievement to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, among others:
  our ability to successfully complete clinical development of our only two product candidates, IV APAP and omiganan, on expected timetables, or at all, which includes enrolling sufficient patients in our clinical trials and demonstrating the safety and efficacy of these product candidates in such trials;
 
  the content and timing of submissions to and decisions made by the FDA and other regulatory agencies, including foreign regulatory agencies, demonstrating to the satisfaction of the FDA and such other agencies the safety and efficacy of our product candidates;
 
  intense competition in our markets and the ability of our competitors, many of whom have greater resources than we do, to offer different or better therapeutic alternatives than our product candidates;
 
  market acceptance of and future development and regulatory difficulties relating to any product candidates for which we do receive regulatory approval;
 
  our ability to develop sales, distribution and marketing capabilities or enter into agreements with third parties to sell, distribute and market any of our product candidates that may be approved for sale;
 
  our ability to obtain coverage and reimbursement for any of our product candidates that may be approved for sale from the government or third-party payors, and the extent of such coverage and reimbursement, and the willingness of hospitals to pay for our product candidates versus less expensive therapies;
 
  our compliance with the agreements under which we license the rights to our product candidates;
 
  our reliance on third parties to conduct our clinical trials and manufacture our product candidates;
 
  our ability to grow our business by identifying and acquiring or in-licensing new product candidates, increasing the size of our organization and attracting and retaining key personnel;
 
  our and our licensors’ ability to obtain, maintain and successfully enforce adequate patent and other intellectual property protection of our product candidates and the rights relating thereto; and
 
  our short operating history, our lack of revenue and profitability, our significant historical operating losses and our ability to obtain additional funding to continue to operate our business, which funding may not be available on commercially reasonable terms, or at all.

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          Forward-looking statements include all statements that are not historical facts. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terms such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “would,” “expect,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “project,” “predict,” “potential,” or the negative of those terms, and similar expressions and comparable terminology intended to identify forward-looking statements. These statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and are based on assumptions and subject to risks and uncertainties. Given these uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements represent our estimates and assumptions only as of the date of this prospectus and, except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise after the date of this prospectus. The forward-looking statements contained in this prospectus are excluded from the safe harbor protection provided by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

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USE OF PROCEEDS
          We estimate that we will receive net proceeds of approximately $           million from the sale of the shares of common stock offered in this offering, based on an assumed initial public offering price of $           per share (the mid-point of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus) and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering costs payable by us. Each $1.00 increase or decrease in the assumed public offering price of $           per share would increase or decrease, the net proceeds to us from this offering by approximately $           million, assuming the number of shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering costs payable by us.
          The principal purposes for this offering are to fund clinical trials and other research and development activities, including with respect to our two product candidates, to fund our working capital, to make capital expenditures, for other general corporate purposes, to create a public market for our common stock, to increase our ability to access the capital markets in the future and to provide liquidity for our existing stockholders.
          We currently expect to use our net proceeds from this offering as follows:
  •  approximately $58.0 million to fund clinical trials for IV APAP and omiganan and other research and development activities; and
 
  the remainder to fund working capital, capital expenditures and other general corporate purposes.
          We anticipate that the net proceeds from this offering, together with our existing cash and cash equivalents, will allow us to complete the clinical trials necessary to support NDA filings for IV APAP and omiganan.
          We may also use a portion of the net proceeds to in-license, acquire or invest in complementary businesses or products. However, we have no current understandings, commitments or agreements to do so.
          The amounts and timing of our actual expenditures will depend on numerous factors, including the progress in, and costs of, our clinical trials and other product development programs. We therefore cannot estimate the amount of net proceeds to be used for all of the purposes described above. We may find it necessary or advisable to use the net proceeds for other purposes, and we will have broad discretion in the application of the net proceeds. Pending the uses described above, we intend to invest the net proceeds in short-term, interest-bearing, investment-grade securities.
DIVIDEND POLICY
          We have never declared or paid any cash dividends on our capital stock and we do not currently intend to pay any cash dividends on our common stock. We expect to retain future earnings, if any, to fund the development and growth of our business. The payment of dividends by us on our common stock is limited by our loan and security agreement with Silicon Valley Bank and Oxford Finance Corporation. Any future determination to pay dividends on our common stock will be at the discretion of our board of directors and will depend upon, among other factors, our results of operations, financial condition, capital requirements and contractual restrictions.

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CAPITALIZATION
          The following table sets forth our capitalization as of June 30, 2006:
  on an actual basis; and
 
  on a pro forma as adjusted basis to reflect the conversion of all outstanding shares of our preferred stock into 79,630,455 shares of common stock and our receipt of the estimated net proceeds from this offering, based on an assumed initial public offering price of $           per share (the mid-point of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus) and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering costs payable by us.
          The pro forma information below is illustrative only and our capitalization following the completion of this offering will be adjusted based on the actual initial public offering price and other terms of this offering determined at pricing. You should read this table together with “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and our financial statements and the related notes appearing elsewhere in this prospectus.
                     
    As of June 30, 2006
     
        Pro Forma
    Actual   as Adjusted(1)
         
    (In thousands, except share
    and par value amounts)
Cash and cash equivalents
  $ 42,881          
             
Long-term debt, less current portion
  $ 5,968          
Stockholders’ equity:
               
Preferred stock, $0.0001 par value actual and pro forma as adjusted; actual — 80,015,455 shares authorized; 79,630,455 issued and outstanding; pro forma as adjusted — 10,000,000 shares authorized; no shares issued and outstanding
             
 
Series A-1 convertible preferred stock, actual — 8,085,108 shares authorized, issued and outstanding; pro forma as adjusted — no shares authorized; no shares issued and outstanding
    1          
 
Series A-2 convertible preferred stock, actual — 18,060,347 shares authorized; 17,675,347 issued and outstanding; pro forma as adjusted — no shares authorized; no shares issued and outstanding
    2          
 
Series A-3 convertible preferred stock, actual — 53,870,000 shares authorized, issued and outstanding; pro forma as adjusted — no shares authorized; no shares issued and outstanding
    5          
Common stock, $0.0001 par value; actual — 100,000,000 shares authorized; 8,551,740 shares issued and outstanding; pro forma as adjusted — 100,000,000 shares authorized;            shares issued and outstanding
    1          
Additional paid-in capital
    79,954          
Deficit accumulated during the development stage
    (44,335 )        
             
 
Total stockholders’ equity
    35,628          
             
   
Total capitalization
  $ 41,596          
             
 
(1)  Each $1.00 increase or decrease in the assumed public offering price of $           per share would increase or decrease, respectively, the amount of cash and cash equivalents, additional paid-in capital and total capitalization by approximately $           million, assuming the number of shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering costs payable by us.

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          The number of pro forma as adjusted common shares shown as issued and outstanding in the table is based on the number of shares of our common stock outstanding as of June 30, 2006, and excludes:
  •  5,769,471 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of options outstanding as of June 30, 2006 at a weighted average exercise price of $0.38 per share;
 
  •  385,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants outstanding as of June 30, 2006 at a weighted average exercise price of $1.00 per share; and
 
  •             shares of our common stock reserved for future issuance under our 2006 equity incentive award plan, which will become effective on the day prior to the day on which we become subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act (including 1,678,789 shares of common stock reserved for future grant or issuance under our 2004 equity incentive award plan, which shares will be added to the shares to be reserved under our 2006 equity incentive award plan upon the effectiveness of the 2006 equity incentive award plan).

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DILUTION
          If you invest in our common stock in this offering, your interest will be diluted to the extent of the difference between the public offering price per share of our common stock and the pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value per share of our common stock after this offering. As of June 30, 2006, our historical net tangible book value was $35.6 million, or $0.40 per share of common stock. Our historical net tangible book value per share represents the amount of our total tangible assets reduced by the amount of our total liabilities, divided by the total number of shares of our common stock outstanding as of June 30, 2006, after giving effect to the conversion of all outstanding shares of our preferred stock into 79,630,455 shares of our common stock. After giving effect to our sale in this offering of                      shares of our common stock at an assumed initial public offering price of $           per share (the mid-point of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus) and after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering costs payable by us, our pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value as of June 30, 2006 would have been $           million, or $           per share of our common stock. This represents an immediate increase of net tangible book value of $           per share to our existing stockholders and an immediate dilution of $           per share to investors purchasing shares in this offering. The following table illustrates this per share dilution:
                   
Assumed initial public offering price per share
          $    
 
Historical net tangible book value per share as of June 30, 2006
  $ 0.40          
 
Increase per share attributable to investors purchasing shares in this offering
               
             
Pro forma net tangible book value per share, as adjusted to give effect to this offering
               
             
Dilution to investors purchasing shares in this offering
          $    
             
          Each $1.00 increase or decrease in the assumed public offering price of $           per share would increase or decrease, our pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value by approximately $           million, the pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value per share after this offering by approximately $           per share and the dilution as adjusted to investors purchasing shares in this offering by approximately $           per share, assuming the number of shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering costs payable by us.
          If the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option in full, the pro forma net tangible book value per share after giving effect to this offering would be $           per share, and the dilution in pro forma net tangible book value per share to investors in this offering would be $           per share.

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          The following table summarizes, as of June 30, 2006, the differences between the number of shares of common stock purchased from us, after giving effect to the conversion of our preferred stock into common stock, the total effective cash consideration paid, and the average price per share paid by our existing stockholders and by our new investors purchasing stock in this offering at an assumed initial public offering price of $           per share (the mid-point of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus) before deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering costs payable by us:
                                           
    Shares Purchased   Total Consideration    
            Average Price
    Number   Percent   Amount   Percent   Per Share
                     
Existing stockholders before this offering
    88,182,195         %   $ 79,742,641         %   $ 0.90  
Investors purchasing shares in this offering
                                       
                               
 
Total
            100.0 %   $         100.0 %   $    
                               
          Each $1.00 increase or decrease in the assumed public offering price of $           per share would increase or decrease total consideration paid by new investors, total consideration paid by all stockholders and the average price per share paid by all stockholders by $           million, $           million and $          , respectively, assuming the number of shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering costs payable by us.
          If the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option in full, our existing stockholders would own      % and our new investors would own      % of the total number of shares of our common stock outstanding after this offering.
          The above information assumes no exercise of stock options or warrants outstanding as of June 30, 2006. As of June 30, 2006, there were:
  •  5,769,471 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of options outstanding as of June 30, 2006 at a weighted average exercise price of $0.38 per share;
 
  •  385,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants outstanding as of June 30, 2006 at a weighted average exercise price of $1.00 per share; and
 
  •             shares of our common stock reserved for future issuance under our 2006 equity incentive award plan, which will become effective on the day prior to the day on which we become subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act (including 1,678,789 shares of common stock reserved for future grant or issuance under our 2004 equity incentive award plan, which shares will be added to the shares to be reserved under our 2006 equity incentive award plan upon the effectiveness of the 2006 equity incentive award plan).

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SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA
          The following selected statement of operations data for the period from May 26, 2004 (inception) through December 31, 2004, the year ended December 31, 2005 and the balance sheet data as of December 31, 2004 and 2005 have been derived from our audited financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus. The statement of operations data for the six-month periods ended June 30, 2005 and 2006, the period from May 26, 2004 (inception) through June 30, 2006 and the balance sheet data as of June 30, 2006 have been derived from our unaudited financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus. The unaudited financial statements have been prepared on a basis consistent with our audited financial statements and, in the opinion of management, contain all adjustments, consisting only of normal recurring adjustments, we consider necessary for the fair presentation of the financial data. The selected financial data should be read in conjunction with “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and our financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this prospectus.
                                           
    Period from               Period from
    May 26, 2004           May 26, 2004
    (Inception)       Six Months Ended   (Inception)
    Through   Year Ended   June 30,   Through
    December 31,   December 31,       June 30,
    2004   2005   2005   2006   2006
                     
    (In thousands, except per share amounts)
Statement of Operations Data:
                                       
Operating expenses:
                                       
 
Research and development
  $ 2,233     $ 6,126     $ 2,402     $ 32,374     $ 40,734  
 
Marketing
    41       240       142       317       598  
 
General and administrative
    877       1,412       540       1,488       3,777  
                               
Total operating expenses
    3,151       7,778       3,084       34,179       45,109  
                               
Loss from operations
    (3,151 )     (7,778 )     (3,084 )     (34,179 )     (45,109 )
Other income (expense):
                                       
 
Interest income
    9       255       14       553       818  
 
Interest expense
                      (44 )     (44 )
                               
Total other income
    9       255       14       509       774  
                               
Net loss
  $ (3,142 )   $ (7,523 )   $ (3,070 )   $ (33,670 )   $ (44,335 )
                               
Basic and diluted net loss per share(1)
  $ (0.86 )   $ (1.63 )   $ (0.68 )   $ (6.77 )        
                               
Shares used to compute basic and diluted net loss per share(1)
    3,658       4,624       4,527       4,974          
                               
Pro forma basic and diluted net loss per share(1)
          $ (0.36 )           $ (0.57 )        
                               
Shares used to compute pro forma basic and diluted net loss per share(1)
            20,649               58,711          
                               
 
(1)  See Note 1 of Notes to Financial Statements for an explanation of the method used to compute the historical and pro forma net loss per share and the number of shares used in the computation of the per share amounts.

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    As of December 31,   As of
        June 30,
    2004   2005   2006
             
    (In thousands)
Balance Sheet Data:
                       
Cash and cash equivalents and securities available-for-sale
  $ 4,271     $ 15,025     $ 42,881  
Working capital
    4,161       14,405       38,676  
Total assets
    4,536       15,769       46,355  
Long-term debt, less current portion
                5,968  
Deficit accumulated during the development stage
    (3,142 )     (10,665 )     (44,335 )
Total stockholders’ equity
    4,422       14,623       35,628  

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MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF
FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
          The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with “Selected Financial Data” and our financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this prospectus. In addition to historical information, this discussion and analysis contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Our actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors, including but not limited to those set forth under “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this prospectus.
Overview
Background
          We are a biopharmaceutical company focused on in-licensing, developing and commercializing proprietary product candidates principally for use in the hospital setting. Since our inception in 2004, we have in-licensed rights to two Phase III product candidates, both of which have been studied in prior Phase III clinical trials conducted by our licensors. We have in-licensed the exclusive U.S. and Canadian rights to IV APAP, an intravenous formulation of acetaminophen that is currently marketed in Europe for the treatment of acute pain and fever by Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, or BMS. We believe that IV APAP is the only stable, pharmaceutically-acceptable intravenous formulation of acetaminophen. We have also in-licensed the exclusive North American and European rights to omiganan pentahydrochloride 1% aqueous gel, or omiganan, for the prevention and treatment of device-related, surgical wound-related and burn-related infections.
          We believe that the hospital setting is a concentrated, underserved market for pharmaceuticals and anticipate building our own, hospital-focused sales force as our product candidates approach potential U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, approval. We intend to build a leading franchise in the hospital setting, continuing to focus on products that are in late-stages of development, currently commercialized outside the United States, or approved in the United States but with significant commercial potential for proprietary new uses or formulations.
          We were incorporated in May 2004. During 2004, we focused on hiring our management team and initial operating employees and on in-licensing our first product candidate, omiganan. Substantial operations did not commence until September 2004. During 2005, we completed the special protocol assessment, or SPA, for omiganan, and initiated Phase III clinical trials for this product candidate. In March 2006, we in-licensed rights to IV APAP from BMS. Pending further discussions with the FDA concerning our Phase III development program for IV APAP, we plan to initiate the remaining Phase III clinical trial requirements for this product candidate in the fourth quarter of 2006.
          We are a development stage company. We have incurred significant net losses since our inception. As of June 30, 2006, we had an accumulated deficit of $44.3 million. These losses have resulted principally from costs incurred in connection with research and development activities, including license fees, costs of clinical trial activities associated with our current product candidates and general and administrative expenses. We expect to continue to incur operating losses for the next several years as we pursue the clinical development and market launch of our product candidates and acquire or in-license additional products, technologies or businesses that are complementary to our own.
Revenues
          We have not generated any revenues to date, and we do not expect to generate any revenues from licensing, achievement of milestones or product sales until we are able to commercialize our product candidates ourselves or execute a collaboration arrangement.

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Research and Development Expenses
          Our research and development expenses consist primarily of license fees, salaries and related employee benefits, costs associated with clinical trials managed by our contract research organizations, or CROs, and costs associated with non-clinical activities, such as regulatory expenses. Our most significant costs are for license fees and clinical trials. The clinical trial expenses include payments to vendors such as CROs, investigators, clinical suppliers and related consultants. Our historical research and development expenses relate predominantly to the in-licensing of IV APAP and omiganan and clinical trials for omiganan. We charge all research and development expenses to operations as incurred because the underlying technology associated with these expenditures relates to our research and development efforts and has no alternative future uses.
          We use external service providers and vendors to conduct our clinical trials, to manufacture our product candidates to be used in clinical trials and to provide various other research and development related products and services. A substantial portion of these external costs are tracked on a project basis.
          We use our internal research and development resources across several projects and many resources are not attributable to specific projects. A substantial portion of our internal costs, including personnel and facility related costs, are not tracked on a project basis and are included in the “unallocated” category in the table below.
          The following summarizes our research and development expenses for the periods indicated:
                                         
    Period from               Period from
    May 26, 2004           May 26, 2004
    (Inception)       Six Months Ended   (Inception)
    Through   Year Ended   June 30,   Through
    December 31,   December 31,       June 30,
Product Candidate   2004   2005   2005   2006   2006
                     
    (In thousands)
IV APAP
  $     $     $     $ 25,698     $ 25,698  
Omiganan
    2,001       4,802       1,850       5,038       11,841  
Unallocated
    232       1,324       552       1,638       3,195  
                               
    $ 2,233     $ 6,126     $ 2,402     $ 32,374     $ 40,734  
                               
          At this time, due to the risks inherent in the clinical trial process and given the early stage of our product development programs, we are unable to estimate with any certainty the costs we will incur in the continued development of our product candidates for potential commercialization. Clinical development timelines, the probability of success and development costs vary widely. While we are currently focused on advancing each of our product development programs, our future research and development expenses will depend on the determinations we make as to the scientific and clinical success of each product candidate, as well as ongoing assessments as to each product candidate’s commercial potential. In addition, we cannot forecast with any degree of certainty which product candidates will be subject to future collaborations, when such arrangements will be secured, if at all, and to what degree such arrangements would affect our development plans and capital requirements.
          We expect our development expenses to be substantial over the next few years as we continue the advancement of our product development programs. We initiated our Phase III clinical trial program for omiganan in August 2005, and we have not yet commenced our own Phase III clinical trials for IV APAP. We expect to receive results from the ongoing omiganan clinical trial in the second half of 2007. In the fourth quarter of 2006, we expect to initiate the remaining Phase III clinical trial requirements for IV APAP for submission to the FDA and expect these Phase III clinical trial results to be available in the first half of 2008. The lengthy process of completing clinical trials and seeking regulatory approval for our product candidates requires the expenditure of substantial resources. Any failure by us or delay in completing clinical trials, or in obtaining regulatory approvals, could cause our research and development expense to increase and, in turn, have a material adverse effect on our results of operations.

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Marketing
          Our marketing expenses consist primarily of market research studies, salaries, benefits and professional fees related to building our marketing capabilities. We anticipate increases in marketing expenses as we add personnel and continue to develop and prepare for the potential commercialization of our product candidates.
General and Administrative
          Our general and administrative expenses consist primarily of salaries, benefits and professional fees related to our administrative, finance, human resources, legal, business development and internal systems support functions, as well as insurance and facility costs. We anticipate increases in general and administrative expenses as we add personnel, comply with the reporting obligations applicable to publicly-held companies, and continue to build our corporate infrastructure in support of our continued development and preparation for the potential commercialization of our product candidates.
Interest and Other Income
          Interest and other income consist primarily of interest earned on our cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments.
Income Taxes
          As of December 31, 2005, we had both federal and state net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $8.7 million. If not utilized, the net operating loss carryforwards will begin expiring in 2024 for federal purposes and 2014 for state purposes. As of December 31, 2005, we had both federal and state research and development tax credit carryforwards of approximately $0.3 million and $0.1 million, respectively. The federal tax credits will begin expiring in 2024 unless previously utilized and the state tax credits carryforward indefinitely. Under Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or the Internal Revenue Code, substantial changes in our ownership may limit the amount of net operating loss carryforwards that could be utilized annually in the future to offset taxable income. Any such annual limitation may significantly reduce the utilization of the net operating losses before they expire. In each period since our inception, we have recorded a valuation allowance for the full amount of our deferred tax asset, as the realization of the deferred tax asset is uncertain. As a result, we have not recorded any federal or state income tax benefit in our statement of operations.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
          Our management’s discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations is based on our financial statements, which have been prepared in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States. The preparation of these financial statements requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, expenses and related disclosures. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
          We believe the following accounting policies to be critical to the judgments and estimates used in the preparation of our financial statements.
Research and Development Expenses
          A substantial portion of our on-going research and development activities are performed under agreements we enter into with external service providers, including CROs, who conduct many of our research and development activities. We accrue for costs incurred under these contracts based on factors such as estimates of work performed, milestones achieved, patient enrollment and experience with similar contracts. As actual costs become known, we adjust our accruals. To date, our accruals have been within management’s estimates, and no material adjustments to research and development expenses have been recognized. We expect to expand the level of research and development activity performed by external

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service providers in the future. As a result, we anticipate that our estimated accruals will be more material to our operations in future periods. Subsequent changes in estimates may result in a material change in our accruals, which could also materially affect our results of operations.
Stock-Based Compensation
          Effective January 1, 2006, we adopted Statement of Financial Accounting Standards, or SFAS, No. 123(R), Share-Based Payment, which revises SFAS No. 123, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation and supersedes Accounting Principles Board, or APB, Opinion No. 25, Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees. SFAS No. 123(R) requires that share-based payment transactions with employees be recognized in the financial statements based on their fair value and recognized as compensation expense over the vesting period. Prior to SFAS No. 123(R), we disclosed the pro forma effects of applying SFAS No. 123 under the minimum value method. We adopted SFAS No. 123(R) effective January 1, 2006, prospectively for new equity awards issued subsequent to December 31, 2005. The adoption of SFAS No. 123(R) in the first quarter of 2006 did not result in the recognition of additional stock-based compensation expense.
          Under SFAS No. 123(R), we calculate the fair value of stock option grants using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model. The assumptions used in the Black-Scholes model were 6.06-6.08 years for the expected term, 70% for the expected volatility, 4.36-5.08% for the risk free rate and 0% for dividend yield for the six months ended June 30, 2006. Future expense amounts for any particular quarterly or annual period could be affected by changes in our assumptions.
          The weighted average expected option term for 2006 reflects the application of the simplified method set out in SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin, or SAB, No. 107 which was issued in March 2005. The simplified method defines the life as the average of the contractual term of the options and the weighted average vesting period for all option tranches.
          Estimated volatility for fiscal 2006 also reflects the application of SAB No. 107 interpretive guidance and, accordingly, incorporates historical volatility of similar public entities.
          As of June 30, 2006, we had approximately $1.5 million of unrecognized share-based compensation costs related to nonvested equity awards. As of June 30, 2006, we had outstanding vested options to purchase 341,768 shares of our common stock and unvested options to purchase 5,427,703 shares of our common stock with an intrinsic value of                     and                     , respectively, based on an estimated initial public offering price of                     per share.
          Prior to January 1, 2006, we applied the intrinsic-value-based method of accounting prescribed by APB Opinion No. 25 and related interpretations. Under this method, if the exercise price of the award equaled or exceeded the fair value of the underlying stock on the measurement date, no compensation expense was recognized. The measurement date was the date on which the final number of shares and exercise price were known and was generally the grant date for awards to employees and directors. If the exercise price of the award was below the fair value of the underlying stock on the measurement date, then compensation cost was recorded, using the intrinsic-value method, and was generally recognized in the statements of operations over the vesting period of the award.
          The fair value of our common stock has been established by our board of directors and took into consideration contemporaneous independent valuations of the Company’s common stock beginning in March 2006. We have applied the guidance in the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, or AICPA, Audit and Accounting Practice Aid Series, Valuation of Privately-Held-Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, to determine the fair value of our common stock for purposes of setting the exercise prices of stock options granted to employees and others. This guidance emphasizes the importance of the operational development in determining the value of the enterprise. As a development stage enterprise, we are at an early stage of existence, primarily focused on development with an unproven business model. To date, we have been funded primarily by venture capitalists with a history of funding start-up, high-risk entities with the potential for high returns in the event the investments are successful.

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Prior to the licensing of IV APAP in March 2006, we valued our common stock at a nominal amount when we were considered to be in a very early stage of development (stages 1 and 2 as defined in the AICPA guidance) where the preferences of the preferred stockholders, in particular the liquidation preferences, are very meaningful. We utilized an asset-based approach for enterprise value and allocated such value to preferred and common stock based on the current value method. We did not obtain a contemporaneous independent valuation prior to 2006 as we were focused on product development and fund raising and believed our board of directors, all of whom are related parties, had the requisite experience in valuing early stage companies. Subsequent to our licensing of IV APAP but prior to the initiation of our initial public offering process on June 14, 2006, based on a contemporaneous independent valuation performed by an unrelated valuation specialist, we allocated additional enterprise value to our common stock with an increase in the common stock valuation to $0.34 per share. The increase in our common stock valuation primarily related to the licensing of IV APAP and the advancement of our business model. Subsequent to the initiation of our initial public offering process, based on a contemporaneous independent valuation performed by an unrelated valuation specialist, we increased our common stock valuation to $0.80 per share. The increase in our common stock valuation primarily related to the prospect of an initial public offering.
          Equity instruments issued to non-employees are recorded at their fair value as determined in accordance with SFAS No. 123(R) and Emerging Issues Task Force 96-18, Accounting for Equity Instruments That are Issued to Other Than Employees for Acquiring, or in Conjunction with Selling Goods and Services, and are periodically revalued as the equity instruments vest and are recognized as expense over the related service period.
Results of Operations
Comparison of six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005
          Research and Development Expenses. Research and development expenses increased to $32.4 million for the six months ended June 30, 2006 from $2.4 million for the comparable period during 2005. This increase of $30.0 million primarily was due to:
  •  an increase of $25.7 million in our IV APAP program primarily as a result of a $25.0 million license fee which was immediately expensed as in-process research and development;
 
  •  an increase of $3.2 million in our omiganan program as a result of clinical trial and related costs for a Phase III clinical trial initiated in August 2005; and
 
  •  an increase of $1.1 million in unallocated expenses as a result of increased salaries and related personnel costs from increased research and development staff to support our clinical and regulatory efforts related to both omiganan and IV APAP.
          Marketing Expenses. Marketing expenses increased to $0.3 million for the six months ended June 30, 2006 from $0.1 million for the comparable period during 2005. This increase of $0.2 million primarily was due to higher market research and branding and personnel costs in 2006.
          General and Administrative Expenses. General and administrative expenses increased to $1.5 million for the six months ended June 30, 2006 from $0.5 million for the comparable period during 2005. This increase of $1.0 million primarily was due to legal fees related to the IV APAP license agreement and our new facility lease, other professional fees and consulting fees.
          Interest Income. Interest income increased to $553,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2006 from $14,000 for the comparable period during 2005. This increase of $539,000 primarily was due to the increase in average cash and investment balances as a result of preferred stock sales and higher interest rates in 2006.
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interest expense related to the warrants issued to Silicon Valley Bank and Oxford Finance Corporation in connection with their February 2006 commitment to lend us $7.0 million.
Comparison of year ended December 31, 2005 to the period from May 26, 2004 (inception) through December 31, 2004
          Research and Development Expenses. Research and development expenses increased to $6.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2005 from $2.2 million for the period from May 26, 2004 (inception) through December 31, 2004. This increase of $3.9 million primarily was due to:
  an increase of $2.8 million in our omiganan program as a result of clinical trial and related costs offset by a decrease in license fees; and
 
  an increase of $1.1 million in unallocated expenses as a result of increased salaries and related personnel costs from increased research and development staff to support our initial clinical and regulatory efforts.
          Marketing Expenses. Marketing expenses increased to $240,000 for the year ended December 31, 2005 from $41,000 for the period from May 26, 2004 (inception) through December 31, 2004. This increase of $199,000 primarily was due to market research, branding and personnel costs in 2005.
          General and Administrative Expenses. General and administrative expenses increased to $1.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2005 from $0.9 million for the period from May 26, 2004 (inception) through December 31, 2004. This increase of $0.5 million primarily was due to salaries and related costs as we expanded our general and administrative functions to support our operations, as well as legal fees, other professional fees and consulting fees.
          Interest Income. Interest income increased to $256,000 for the year ended December 31, 2005 from $9,000 for the period from May 26, 2004 (inception) through December 31, 2004. This increase of $247,000 primarily was due to the increase in average cash and investment balances and interest rates in 2005.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
          Since inception, our operations have been financed primarily through the private placement of equity securities. Through June 30, 2006, we received net proceeds of approximately $79.5 million from the sale of shares of our preferred and common stock as follows:
  •  from July 2004 to June 2006, we issued and sold a total of 8,551,740 shares of common stock for aggregate net proceeds of $0.6 million;
 
  from July 2004 to August 2004, we issued and sold a total of 8,085,108 shares of Series A-1 preferred stock for aggregate net proceeds of $7.5 million;
 
  from June 2005 to September 2005, we issued and sold 17,675,347 shares of Series A-2 preferred stock for aggregate net proceeds of $17.6 million; and
 
  in March 2006, we issued and sold a total of 53,870,000 shares of Series A-3 preferred stock for aggregate net proceeds of $53.8 million.
          In February 2006, we entered into a $7.0 million loan and security agreement with Silicon Valley Bank and Oxford Finance Corporation to provide us with growth capital. We drew down $7.0 million in June 2006 and have no further credit available under this agreement. We are required to make interest only payments on the loan balance for the first six months of the loan, and beginning February 2007, we are required to make the first of 30 equal monthly principal and interest payments. Interest accrues on all outstanding amounts at the fixed rate of 11.47%. The loan is collateralized by substantially all of our assets other than intellectual property. We are subject to prepayment penalties. Under the terms of the agreement, we are precluded from entering into certain financing and other transactions, including disposing of certain assets and paying dividends, and are subject to various non-financial covenants.

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          In conjunction with the loan and security agreement, we issued warrants to the lenders to purchase 385,000 shares of Series A-2 preferred stock at an exercise price of $1.00 per share.
          As of June 30, 2006, we had $42.9 million in cash and cash equivalents. We have invested a substantial portion of our available cash funds in money market funds placed with reputable financial institutions for which credit loss is not anticipated. We have established guidelines relating to diversification and maturities of our investments to preserve principal and maintain liquidity.
          Our operating activities used net cash in the amount of $31.1 million in the six months ended June 30, 2006, $6.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2005 and $3.1 million for the period from May 26, 2004 (inception) through December 31, 2004. The increase in net cash used in operating activities from 2004 to 2005 primarily was due to an increase in our net loss as a result of increased expenses related to the clinical development of omiganan and increased salaries and overhead of company personnel. The increase in net cash used in operating activities from 2005 to 2006 primarily was due to an increase in our net loss as a result of increased expenses related to the license fee paid for IV APAP. We cannot be certain if, when or to what extent we will receive cash inflows from the commercialization of our product candidates. We expect our development expenses to be substantial and to increase over the next few years as we continue the advancement of our product development programs.
          As a biopharmaceutical company focused on in-licensing, developing and commercializing proprietary pharmaceutical product candidates, we have entered into license agreements to acquire the rights to develop and commercialize our two product candidates, IV APAP and omiganan. Pursuant to these agreements, we obtained exclusive licenses to the patent rights and know-how for selected indications and territories. Under the IV APAP agreement, we paid to BMS a $25.0 million up-front fee and may be required to make future milestone payments totaling up to $50.0 million upon the achievement of various milestones related to regulatory or commercial events. Under the omiganan agreement, we paid to Migenix Inc. an aggregate of $2.0 million in the form of an up-front fee, including the purchase of 617,284 shares of Migenix common stock, and may be required to make future milestone payments totaling up to $27.0 million upon the achievement of various milestones related to regulatory or commercial events. Under both agreements, we are also obligated to pay royalties on any net sales of the licensed products.
          Our future capital uses and requirements depend on numerous forward-looking factors. These factors include but are not limited to the following:
  the progress of our clinical trials, including expenses to support the trials and milestone payments that may become payable to BMS or Migenix;
 
  our ability to establish and maintain strategic collaborations, including licensing and other arrangements;
 
  the costs involved in enforcing or defending patent claims or other intellectual property rights;
 
  the costs and timing of regulatory approvals;
 
  the costs of establishing sales or distribution capabilities;
 
  the success of the commercialization of our products; and
 
  the extent to which we in-license, acquire or invest in other indications, products, technologies and businesses.
          We believe that our existing cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments will be sufficient to meet our projected operating requirements through at least June 30, 2007.
          Until we can generate significant cash from our operations, we expect to continue to fund our operations with existing cash resources generated from the proceeds of offerings of our equity securities and our existing borrowings under our loan and security agreement. In addition, we may finance future cash needs through the sale of additional equity securities, strategic collaboration agreements and debt

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financing. However, we have drawn down all available amounts under our existing loan and security agreement, and we may not be successful in obtaining strategic collaboration agreements or in receiving milestone or royalty payments under those strategic collaboration agreements. In addition, we cannot be sure that our existing cash and investment resources will be adequate, that additional financing will be available when needed or that, if available, financing will be obtained on terms favorable to us or our stockholders. Having insufficient funds may require us to delay, scale-back or eliminate some or all of our development programs, relinquish some or even all rights to product candidates at an earlier stage of development or renegotiate less favorable terms than we would otherwise choose. Failure to obtain adequate financing also may adversely affect our ability to operate as a going concern. If we raise additional funds by issuing equity securities, substantial dilution to existing stockholders would likely result. If we raise additional funds by incurring additional debt financing, the terms of the debt may involve significant cash payment obligations as well as covenants and specific financial ratios that may restrict our ability to operate our business.
Contractual Obligations and Commitments
          The following table describes our long-term contractual obligations and commitments as of December 31, 2005:
                                           
    Payments Due by Period
     
        Less Than    
    Total   1 Year   1 - 3 Years   4-5 Years   After 5 Years
                     
    (In thousands)
Long-term debt obligations(1)
  $     $     $     $     $  
Operating lease obligations(2)
    147       147                    
License obligations(3)
                             
                               
 
Total
  $ 147     $ 147     $     $     $  
                               
 
(1)  Long-term debt obligations do not include $7.0 million of indebtedness incurred in June 2006 under our loan and security agreement with Silicon Valley Bank and Oxford Finance Corporation.
 
(2)  In May 2006, we entered into a six-year operating lease for 23,494 square feet of office space. Operating lease obligations do not include $6.7 million of non-cancelable operating lease payments related to this lease. Future minimum payments under the operating lease total $0.2 million, $1.0 million, $1.1 million, $1.1 million, $1.2 million, $1.2 million and $0.9 million for the years ending December 31, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012, respectively.
 
(3)  License obligations do not include additional payments of up to $77.0 million due upon the occurrence of certain milestones related to regulatory or commercial events. We may also be required to pay royalties on any net sales of the licensed products. License payments may be increased based on the timing of various milestones and the extent to which the licensed technologies are pursued for other indications. These milestone payments and royalty payments under our license agreements are not included in the table above because we cannot, at this time, determine when or if the related milestones will be achieved or the events triggering the commencement of payment obligations will occur.
          We also enter into agreements with third parties to manufacture our product candidates, conduct our clinical trials and perform data collection and analysis. Our payment obligations under these agreements depend upon the progress of our development programs. Therefore, we are unable at this time to estimate with certainty the future costs we will incur under these agreements.
Related Party Transactions
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Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
          We have not engaged in any off-balance sheet activities.
Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
          Our cash and cash equivalents as of June 30, 2006 consisted primarily of cash and money market funds. Our primary exposure to market risk is interest income sensitivity, which is affected by changes in the general level of U.S. interest rates, particularly because the majority of our investments are in short-term marketable securities. The primary objective of our investment activities is to preserve principal while at the same time maximizing the income we receive from our investments without significantly increasing risk. Some of the securities that we invest in may be subject to market risk. This means that a change in prevailing interest rates may cause the value of the investment to fluctuate. For example, if we purchase a security that was issued with a fixed interest rate and the prevailing interest rate later rises, the value of our investment will probably decline. To minimize this risk, we intend to continue to maintain our portfolio of cash equivalents and short-term investments in a variety of securities including commercial paper, money market funds and government and non-government debt securities, all with various maturities. In general, money market funds are not subject to market risk because the interest paid on such funds fluctuates with the prevailing interest rate.

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BUSINESS
Overview
          We are a biopharmaceutical company focused on in-licensing, developing and commercializing proprietary product candidates principally for use in the hospital setting. Since our inception in 2004, we have in-licensed rights to two Phase III product candidates. We have in-licensed the exclusive U.S. and Canadian rights to IV APAP, an intravenous formulation of acetaminophen that has previously been studied in six completed Phase III trials and is currently marketed in Europe for the treatment of acute pain and fever by Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, or BMS. We believe that IV APAP is the only stable, pharmaceutically-acceptable intravenous formulation of acetaminophen. We intend to initiate Phase III development for the treatment of acute pain in the fourth quarter of 2006 and Phase III development for the treatment of fever in the first half of 2007. We also in-licensed the exclusive North American and European rights to omiganan pentahydrochloride 1% aqueous gel, or omiganan, for the prevention and treatment of device-related, surgical wound-related and burn-related infections. We are currently conducting a Phase III trial of omiganan for the prevention of local catheter site infections, or LCSI, to confirm the results observed for the prevention of LCSI, a secondary endpoint, in a large, completed Phase III trial. We believe that the hospital setting is a concentrated, underserved market for pharmaceuticals and anticipate building our own, hospital-focused sales force as our products approach potential U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, approval. We intend to build a leading franchise in the hospital setting, continuing to focus on products that are in late-stages of development, currently commercialized outside the United States or approved in the United States but with significant commercial potential for proprietary new uses or formulations.
          Our current portfolio consists of the following product candidates:
  •  IV APAP for the treatment of acute pain and fever. We are developing IV APAP in the U.S. market for the treatment of acute pain and fever. According to IMS Health, Inc., or IMS, an independent marketing research firm, over 500 million units of injectable analgesics, typically used to treat pain, were sold in the United States in 2005. Opioids such as morphine, meperdine, hydromorphone and fentanyl represent the majority of unit volume in the market but are associated with a variety of unwanted side effects including sedation, nausea, vomiting, constipation, cognitive impairment and respiratory depression. Ketorolac, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, or NSAID, is the only non-opioid injectable analgesic available for the treatment of acute pain in the United States. However, ketorolac carries strong warnings from the FDA for various side effects, including an increased risk of bleeding — a particularly troubling side-effect in the surgical setting.
  In March 2006, we in-licensed the patents and the exclusive development and commercialization rights to IV APAP in the United States and Canada from BMS. IV APAP has been marketed outside the United States for approximately four years. Since its introduction in Europe in mid-2002, over 100 million doses of IV APAP have been administered to patients, and it has become the market share leader among injectable analgesics with 2005 sales of more than $140 million according to IMS. With approval in over 40 countries, the addition of IV APAP to our product pipeline is consistent with our strategy to in-license and develop pharmaceutical candidates with well-understood risk profiles. In the fourth quarter of 2006, we expect to initiate the remaining Phase III clinical trial requirements. We expect these Phase III clinical trial results to be available in the first half of 2008 and, if positive, to subsequently submit a new drug application, or NDA, in the second half of 2008.
  Omiganan for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections. We are developing omiganan for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections in the United States and Europe. According to the February 2004 Catheter: Global Markets & Technologies report from Theta Reports, eight million central venous catheters, or CVCs, were sold in the United States in 2003, and unit sales are projected to grow to 11 million by 2007. Although

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  CVCs have become an important part of medical care, they can give rise to dangerous and costly complications, including: LCSIs, which are infections at the catheter insertion site; catheter colonization, which is the growth of microorganisms on the portion of the catheter below the skin surface; and catheter-related bloodstream infections, or CRBSIs, which are infections in the bloodstream caused by microorganisms associated with the catheter. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the CDC, estimates that there are 250,000 CRBSIs each year in the United States. The attributable mortality rate of CRBSIs is approximately 12% to 25% with an average marginal cost to the healthcare system of $25,000 per infection. Currently, topical antiseptics are the primary agent used to cleanse the skin surface around the catheter insertion site prior to insertion. However, the utility of these antiseptics is limited, principally due to the relatively short duration of antimicrobial activity.
  Omiganan is a topical antimicrobial that has been demonstrated to be rapidly bactericidal and fungicidal with prolonged duration of activity against all microorganisms commonly found on the skin surface including multi-drug resistant microorganisms such as methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA. Importantly, resistance to omiganan has not been induced in the laboratory after extensive study nor has omiganan demonstrated potential to induce cross-resistance to other antimicrobial therapeutics. In July 2004, we in-licensed the patents and the exclusive development and commercialization rights to omiganan in North America and Europe for the prevention of device-related, surgical wound-related and burn-related infections.
 
  Omiganan has previously been studied in a large, completed Phase III trial that demonstrated statistically significant outcomes for the prevention of LCSIs and catheter colonization. The presence of an LCSI may result in replacement of the catheter and/or administration of antibiotics, both of which create additional costs to hospitals and have the potential for adverse safety outcomes. In addition, catheter colonization is well correlated with CRBSIs, according to a published review of clinical trials. In August 2005, we initiated a confirmatory Phase III clinical trial with a primary endpoint, the prevention of LCSIs. We reached agreement with the FDA on the trial design, endpoints and statistical analysis plan received through the special protocol assessment, or SPA, process. We expect these Phase III results to be available in the second half of 2007 and to subsequently submit an NDA for omiganan in the first half of 2008.
  Other product candidates. We are also exploring the opportunity to develop new formulations of omiganan for the prevention and treatment of other device-related, surgical wound-related and burn-related infections. We are currently preparing preclinical experiments in animal models prior to initiating human clinical trials.
Our Strategy
          Our goal is to be a leading biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of proprietary pharmaceuticals principally for use in the hospital setting. Our near-term strategy is to focus on completing the development of and commercializing our existing product candidates. Our long-term strategy is to in-license, acquire, develop and commercialize additional product candidates that are in late-stages of development, currently commercialized outside the United States or approved in the United States but with significant commercial potential for proprietary new uses or formulations. Specifically, we intend to:
  Obtain regulatory approval for our Phase III hospital product candidates, IV APAP and omiganan. We are applying the expertise of our development teams to conduct and successfully complete the Phase III clinical trials associated with each product candidate. We have designed our Phase III clinical programs in an effort to reduce clinical development risk, facilitate regulatory approval and optimize marketing claims. To that end,

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  we plan to resume a U.S. Phase III program later this year for IV APAP previously initiated by BMS, and we expect to submit an NDA in the second half of 2008 based on the previously completed trials and any further trials that may be required by the FDA. In addition, we have reached a written agreement with the FDA through the SPA process for a single confirmatory Phase III study of omiganan for the prevention of LCSIs.
 
  Build a highly leverageable sales organization targeting hospitals. We intend to build a commercial organization focused on promoting our products principally to hospitals in the United States. We believe that both IV APAP and omiganan can be effectively promoted by our own sales force targeting key hospitals in the United States. Importantly, the number of institutions comprising the hospital marketplace is relatively limited and we believe a small number of these institutions account for a substantial portion of the prescribing activity. The concentrated nature of this market creates the opportunity for significant marketing synergies as we intend to leverage our sales force across multiple therapeutic categories in the hospital. Outside the United States, we intend to establish strategic partnerships for the commercialization of our products where we have commercialization rights.
 
  Expand our product portfolio through acquiring or in-licensing additional late-stage, hospital-focused products with well-understood risk profiles. We will seek additional opportunities to acquire or in-license products to more fully exploit our clinical, regulatory, manufacturing, sales and marketing capabilities. We believe that our focus on the hospital market enables us to evaluate a broader range of products across multiple therapeutic areas for possible acquisition. In addition, competition from large pharmaceutical companies has generally diminished in the hospital marketplace as greater emphasis has shifted toward larger opportunities in the primary care setting. To reduce the time-to- market and the risks and costs of clinical development, we focus on products that are in late-stages of development, currently commercialized outside the United States or approved in the United States but with significant commercial potential for proprietary new uses or formulations.
 
  Pursue additional indications and commercial opportunities for our product candidates. We will seek to maximize the value of IV APAP, omiganan and any other product candidates we may in-license, acquire or develop by pursuing other indications and commercial opportunities for such candidates. For example, we have rights to develop and commercialize omiganan for additional indications related to the prevention and treatment of device-related, surgical wound-related and burn-related infections.
The Hospital Market
          Large, multinational pharmaceutical companies have generally decreased marketing efforts focused on hospital-use drugs, instead focusing on drugs that can be marketed in the larger outpatient setting. We believe this reduced emphasis on the hospital marketplace presents us with an excellent opportunity to in-license, acquire, develop and commercialize products that address unmet medical needs in the hospital setting. We believe the concentrated nature of the hospital marketplace will allow for our expansion into other therapeutic areas without substantial investment in additional commercial infrastructure.
          According to IMS, approximately $28 billion was spent on promotional activities by the pharmaceutical industry in 2004. Of this amount, IMS estimates that only $1 billion was directed towards hospital-based physicians and directors of pharmacies. This hospital-focused spending represents approximately 3% of total promotional expenditures and has declined from approximately 6% of total spending in 1996. The significant imbalance towards the outpatient market is highlighted by spending on direct-to-consumer campaigns and drug sampling which now make up close to 80% of promotional spending for pharmaceuticals.
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we believe pharmaceutical sales to acute care hospitals are highly concentrated among a relatively small number of large institutions. For example, according to Wolters Kluwer Health, an independent marketing research firm, only 2,000 of the approximately 5,000 acute care hospitals in the United States represent more than 80% of injectable analgesic sales. The concentration of high-prescribing institutions enables effective promotion of pharmaceuticals utilizing a relatively small, dedicated sales and marketing organization. We believe the relative lack of promotional efforts directed toward the highly concentrated hospital marketplace makes it an underserved and compelling opportunity, especially for a biopharmaceutical company commercializing its products directly through its own dedicated sales force.
          We believe a typical sales representative focused on office-based physicians can generally promote only two to three products effectively; whereas, a typical hospital-focused sales representative can effectively promote five to six products. Furthermore, we believe a typical sales representative focused on office-based physicians can effectively reach five to seven physicians per day; whereas, a typical hospital-focused sales representative can reach many more physicians, nurses and pharmacy directors within a given institution. Notably, a hospital-focused sales representative also faces significantly less travel time between sales calls and less wait time in physician offices as a large number of prescribers can be found in a single location. Furthermore, drug sampling generally does not occur in hospitals, which represents a significant cost advantage versus marketing to office-based physicians. A single sales representative can promote products from multiple therapeutic categories to multiple prescribers within the institution.
          In addition to hospitals, we intend to promote our products to certain ambulatory care centers, including ambulatory surgery centers and dialysis clinics, which tend to be located in close proximity to a hospital and can be targeted with our hospital sales force. According to Verispan, there are approximately 5,000 outpatient surgery centers in the United States. We estimate that fewer than 500 of these surgery centers represent the high opportunity segment for our products. According to the U.S. General Accounting Office, there are approximately 4,000 dialysis clinics in the United States, of which we believe most are either co-located with a hospital or located in close proximity to a hospital.
          In recent years there has also been significant activity by both government agencies and accrediting organizations to hold hospitals accountable for improving patient outcomes across a wide variety of areas, including infection control, pain management, cardiovascular care and others. For example, according to the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, there are now 13 U.S. states that require hospitals to publicly report their infections rates and there are more than 20 other states that have had legislative activity related to public reporting of infection rates in 2006. These types of initiatives support our view that significant unmet medical needs remain in hospitals today.

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Our Product Development Programs
          Our current product development programs are focused on late-stage development products principally for use in the hospital setting. Our portfolio consists of the following product candidates:
                                 
        Development        
        Stage in the   Development   Cadence
Product Candidate   Indication   United States   Stage in Europe   Commercial Rights
                 
IV APAP(1)
  Treatment of acute pain — adults     Phase III       Marketed (by BMS)       United States, Canada  
    Treatment of acute pain — pediatrics     Phase III       Marketed (by BMS)       United States, Canada  
    Treatment of fever — adults     Phase III       Marketed (by BMS)       United States, Canada  
    Treatment of fever — pediatrics     Phase III       Marketed (by BMS)       United States, Canada  
 
Omiganan
  Prevention of local catheter site infections     Phase III       Phase III       North America, Europe  
     
 
  (1)  In March 2006, we in-licensed the patents and the exclusive development and commercialization rights to IV APAP in the United States and Canada from BMS. BMS has completed Phase III trials with respect to the above indications, excluding the treatment of fever in adults, for IV APAP in Europe and the United States, which we intend to use in our NDA filing following agreement with the FDA on additional clinical trials needed in the United States for approval. In the fourth quarter of 2006, we expect to initiate the remaining Phase III clinical trial requirements for submission in the United States. We expect these Phase III clinical trial results to be available in the first half of 2008 and, if positive, to submit an NDA in the second half of 2008.
IV APAP for the Treatment of Acute Pain and Fever
Acute Pain Background
          Acute pain is generally defined as pain with relatively short duration and recent onset with an easily identifiable cause. It serves to warn the patient of tissue damage and is often sharp initially and followed by aching pain. In the hospital setting, acute pain is generally classified as post-operative or non-operative.
          Post-operative pain is a response to tissue damage during surgery that stimulates peripheral nerves, which signal the brain to produce a sensory and emotional response. Post-operative pain may occur not only at the surgical site but also in areas not directly affected by the surgical procedure. The pain may be experienced by an inpatient or outpatient and can be felt after surgical procedures.
          Numerous studies reveal that the incidence and severity of post-operative pain is primarily determined by the type of surgery, duration of surgery and the treatment choice following surgery. Post-operative pain is usually greatest with abdominal, head-neck, orthopedic and thoracic surgery and may last up to eight days after the surgical procedure. In comparison, surgical procedures such as arthroscopy, breast biopsy, hernia repair and plastic surgery tend to be less invasive and generally produce minor surgical trauma.
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pain relief often leads to nausea, vomiting, decreased mobilization and reduced nutritional intake — all of which impede patient recovery — and can lead to infections and blood clots in the legs and lungs — all of which jeopardize patient safety. All of these factors have a major impact on patient care and hospital economic outcomes, including prolonged hospital stays.
          Non-operative pain in the hospital is typically associated with diseases, disorders, trauma and other conditions. The most common non-operative pain types among hospitalized patients include pain associated with cancer, trauma, burns, gallstones and cardiovascular events. Other incidences of non-operative pain among hospitalized patients are often related to HIV, pancreatitis, sickle cell disease and other diseases. Inadequate pain management in these patients also leads to poor health and economic outcomes.
Market for Injectable Analgesics
          Drugs used to treat pain are collectively known as analgesics. Injectable formulations of analgesics are typically used when patients are unable to take medications by mouth, faster onset of analgesia is required, or it is otherwise more convenient to administer drugs in injectable form. Hospitalized patients may be unable to take medications by mouth for a variety of reasons including post-anesthesia sedation, other forms of sedation, nausea, vomiting, gastrointestinal limitations or other conditions.
          According to IMS, the U.S. market for injectable analgesics exceeded 500 million units in 2005. Morphine is the current market leader and accounted for more than 300 million units in 2005. Other injectable opioids such as meperidine, hydromorphone and fentanyl, which are all available in generic forms, accounted for more than 135 million units in 2005. Ketorolac (Toradol), a genericized NSAID, is the only non-opioid injectable analgesic for acute pain available in the United States. According to IMS, injectable ketorolac sold more than 40 million units in 2005.
          According to Datamonitor, up to 53 million patients undergo surgical procedures each year in the United States. Datamonitor projects the number of surgical procedures to increase as the elderly population increases and as technological advances allow new surgical procedures to be performed. As such, we expect that the need for safe and effective drugs to treat pain in the post-operative setting will continue to increase.
Limitations of Current Therapies
          Only two classes of injectable analgesics, opioids and NSAIDs, are currently available in the United States for the treatment of acute pain.
          Opioids have been used as analgesics for over 2,000 years and continue to be the mainstay of post-operative pain management. Opioids activate certain receptors in the central nervous system, which produce analgesia, euphoria and other positive effects. A range of opioids are available in injectable form including morphine, fentanyl, meperidine and hydromorphone.
          Opioids, however, are associated with a variety of unwanted side effects including sedation, nausea, vomiting, constipation, headache, cognitive impairment and respiratory depression. Respiratory depression can lead to death if not monitored closely. Side effects from opioids have been demonstrated to reduce quality of life and side-effect-related dosing limitations can result in suboptimal pain relief due to under-dosing. All of these side effects may require additional medications or treatments and can prolong patient stay in the post-anesthesia care unit as well as a patient’s overall stay in the hospital or in an ambulatory surgical center.
          Opioid-related side effects also impose significant economic burdens on hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers. For example, nausea and vomiting, common opioid-related side effects, can cause the need for administration of anti-nausea medication, increased monitoring by nurses, increased length of stay in the post-anesthesia care unit and overall length of stay in the hospital, diverting resources that could otherwise be utilized in revenue-generating activities. Studies have demonstrated increased costs related to

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post-operative opioid administration from not only increased personnel time and length of stay but also increased supply and drug costs, including drugs to manage the nausea and vomiting.
          The only non-opioid injectable analgesic for acute pain available in the United States is the NSAID ketorolac. NSAIDs act as non-selective inhibitors of the enzyme cyclooxygenase, inhibiting both the cyclooxygenase-1, or COX-1, and cyclooxygenase-2, or COX-2, enzymes. The inhibition of COX-2 produces an anti-inflammatory effect resulting in analgesia. Since NSAIDs do not produce respiratory depression or impair gastrointestinal motility, they are considered to be useful alternatives to opioids for the relief of acute pain. Studies have also demonstrated the opioid-sparing potential of ketorolac when used in combination with opioids, as well as resulting decreases in hospital costs. Published studies have shown lower overall per-patient costs ranging from $326 to $2,031 for the patients treated with ketorolac and opioids compared to those treated with opioids alone.
          Despite these economic advantages, the use of ketorolac is severely limited in the post-operative period. Non-specific NSAIDs such as ketorolac block COX-1, which plays a major role in the release of prostaglandins to regulate platelet aggregation and protect the lining of the stomach. As a result, bleeding, gastrointestinal and renal complications are significant impediments to the post-operative use of ketorolac. The product carries a black box warning for these side effects. A black box warning is the strongest type of warning that the FDA can require for a drug and is generally reserved for warning prescribers about adverse drug reactions that can cause serious injury or death. The FDA specifically warns that ketorolac should not be used in various patient populations that are at-risk for bleeding, as a prophylactic analgesic prior to major surgery or for intraoperative administration when stoppage of bleeding is critical.
          The World Health Organization, or WHO, has established a three-step analgesic ladder for the treatment of pain, which recommends initial treatment with a non-opioid such as acetaminophen, aspirin, or NSAIDs followed by the addition of opioids as pain increases. The WHO analgesic ladder is consistent with the practice of multimodal analgesia, which involves the use of more than one class of drug for pain control to obtain additional analgesia, reduce side effects or both. In the United States, this recommended practice of multimodal analgesia is not fully available to physicians given the current lack of an intravenous formulation of acetaminophen. With the availability of IV APAP in Europe, physicians are able to treat post-operative pain with IV APAP as baseline therapy and use opioids in combination as needed for increasing levels of pain.
Fever
          Fever is an increase in internal body temperature above its normal range of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. A significant fever is usually defined as an oral or ear temperature of greater than 102 degrees Fahrenheit or a rectal temperature of greater than 103 degrees Fahrenheit. Very high fevers may cause hallucinations, confusion, irritability, convulsions or death. Fever is most often an important immune system response to a viral or bacterial infection since most viruses and bacteria cannot thrive in hot environments. White blood cells release substances called pyrogens that act on the hypothalamus in the brain to raise body temperature.
          Hospitalized patients are at especially high risk for developing fever given the potential exposure to various infectious microorganisms, invasive procedures and medications. Surgery is the most common source of fever in the hospital setting, and published incidence rates range from 14% to 91% of post-operative patients. Infections such as wound infections, urinary tract infections and pneumonia are the next most frequent causes. However, deep venous thrombosis, pulmonary emboli, myocardial infarction and medications are also important potential sources of fever. Many patients also present with fever upon arrival at the hospital due to community-acquired infections, underlying diseases, including cancer and HIV, severe sunburn, and often the origin of a fever is unknown.
          Fever is also the most common reason parents bring their children to the emergency rooms of hospitals. Pediatric fever is particularly worrisome as approximately 4% of children under age five experience fever-induced seizures, or febrile seizures. The signs of febrile seizures, which occur when a child’s temperature rises or falls rapidly, include loss of consciousness and convulsions.

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          Acetaminophen, ibuprofen and aspirin are the most commonly used medications to treat fever. The use of ibuprofen, an NSAID, and aspirin are limited due to gastrointestinal side-effects and the risk of bleeding. Ibuprofen is not approved for children under six months of age and is not recommended for patients that are dehydrated or vomiting continuously. Aspirin is contraindicated in children and teenagers with viral infections due to the risk of acquiring Reye’s syndrome, a potentially fatal disease.
          In the United States, acetaminophen, ibuprofen and aspirin are not available in intravenous dosage form. However, oral delivery of medications is often not possible for hospitalized patients that are unconscious, sedated, fasting, experiencing nausea and vomiting or are otherwise unable to take medications by mouth. Rectal delivery of medications is sometimes possible; however, drug absorption is often erratic, resulting in unpredictable levels of efficacy. Rectal delivery in infants is further complicated by frequent bowel movements which may lead to difficulty determining the amount of medication delivered. It is often more convenient to administer medications in intravenous dosage form, particularly for patients that currently have an intravenous line in place. We believe that the availability of IV APAP in the United States would offer a significant new treatment option for hospitalized patients with fever.
IV APAP
          IV APAP has been marketed by BMS in Europe since its launch in France in mid-2002 and subsequent approvals in other countries throughout Europe and other parts of the world. After obtaining these approvals, BMS elected to seek a partner to develop and commercialize IV APAP in the United States and Canada based on a new corporate strategy to focus the company’s research and development on 10 specific disease areas, which do not include the treatment of pain. In March 2006, we completed our agreement with BMS to in-license these rights.
          Acetaminophen is the most widely used drug for pain relief and the reduction of fever in the United States. The mechanism of action of acetaminophen remains not well understood; however, it is believed that acetaminophen acts in part on central COX enzymes without the peripheral anti-inflammatory effects, platelet inhibition or other side effects associated with NSAIDs. Acetaminophen was discovered in the late 19th century but was not available for sale until 1955 when it was introduced under the brand name Tylenol in the United States. Acetaminophen is currently available in over 600 combination and single ingredient prescription and over-the-counter medicines, including tablet, caplet, orally-dosed liquid suspension, powder and suppository forms for both adults and children.
          Historically, poor stability in aqueous solutions and inadequate solubility of acetaminophen prevented the development of an intravenous dosage form. Acetaminophen will decompose in the presence of moisture or water. The rate of decomposition is accelerated as the temperature is increased and upon exposure to light. The stability is also a function of the solution’s pH, which creates a further challenge to formulate acetaminophen in an aqueous solution suitable for intravenous administration. We believe that IV APAP is the only stable, pharmaceutically-acceptable intravenous formulation of acetaminophen.
          Prior to the introduction of IV APAP in Europe, BMS had developed an intravenous formulation of propacetamol, a prodrug that is rapidly converted in the bloodstream to acetaminophen. This formulation was developed as an alternative approach given the challenges associated with formulating acetaminophen itself in solution. Available in Europe for more than 20 years, intravenous propacetamol was marketed under the brand name Pro-Dafalgan and was generally indicated for the treatment of acute moderate pain and the reduction of fever. Pro-Dafalgan was provided for use as a dried powder to be reconstituted in solution prior to intravenous administration. In healthcare workers reconstituting the drug, there were reported incidences of allergic reactions, including mild allergic reactions on the skin and severe allergic shock from inhalation. Intravenous propacetamol was also associated with pain at the injection site and other local reactions in approximately 50% of patients receiving the drug.
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profile similar to placebo with significantly better tolerability than intravenous propacetamol upon infusion. Pain at the injection site has been demonstrated to be no different than placebo.
          IV APAP is the only intravenous formulation of acetaminophen available anywhere in the world and has now been approved in over 40 countries. BMS markets IV APAP in Europe and other countries principally under the brand name Perfalgan. When BMS launched IV APAP, it withdrew intravenous propacetamol from the market. Two strengths of IV APAP are commercially available in these countries in a ready-to-use solution: a 50mL bottle containing 0.5g acetaminophen and a 100mL bottle containing 1g acetaminophen. Both are labeled for administration via a 15-minute intravenous infusion.
          In Europe, IV APAP was initially launched in France in mid-2002, followed by Germany and Spain in 2003, the United Kingdom in 2004 and Italy in 2005. Despite this country-by-country launch, according to IMS, IV APAP achieved a 43% dollar share (20% of unit volume) among all injectable analgesics sold in Europe in less than four years. In 2005, IV APAP sold more than 55 million units for total sales exceeding $140 million (U.S. dollars) according to IMS.
          We believe the United States represents a substantially larger market opportunity for IV APAP than Europe. According to IMS, over 500 million units of injectable analgesics were sold in the United States in 2005 compared to approximately 320 million in Europe. More significantly, pharmaceutical pricing continues to be higher in the United States on average. Each country in the European Union currently employs direct and other forms of price controls, including reference systems where prices for new drugs are based upon the prices of existing drugs that provide similar therapeutic benefit or prices of drugs in other European countries. According to IMS, the average selling price in Europe was approximately $2.50 (U.S. dollars) per unit.
          We believe that the key product attributes that will drive adoption include the proven efficacy and established safety profile of acetaminophen, the potential ability to reduce concomitant use of morphine and other opioids, a more convenient dosage form for some patients and a more rapid onset of action.
Clinical Development History
          Clinical Overview. There have been 2,241 subjects, including 1,780 subjects that received IV APAP, studied in nine clinical trials completed by BMS, largely submitted to support the Marketing Authorization Application, or MAA, that resulted in European approval. These trials included two Phase I trials, six Phase III trials and one large Phase IV trial. Overall, we believe that the results of these nine studies demonstrate that IV APAP is safe and effective in the treatment of post-operative pain in adults and children. These trials have also demonstrated that IV APAP reduces the consumption of opioids when used in combination.
          Clinical Studies for Post-Operative Pain in Adults. One Phase III study evaluated 150 adult subjects with moderate-to-severe pain following total hip and total knee replacements. Subjects were randomized to receive IV APAP, intravenous propacetamol or placebo. We believe this study best demonstrates the efficacy of IV APAP since the patients in the trial were undergoing surgical procedures with more severe levels of pain. On the primary efficacy endpoint, pain relief scores in the patients treated with IV APAP were statistically higher (p-value<0.05) than those treated with placebo and not statistically different than those treated with intravenous propacetamol from 15 minutes to six hours, at which point patients received a second dose. P-values indicate the likelihood that clinical trial results were due to random statistical fluctuations rather than a true cause and effect. The lower the p-value, the more likely there is a true cause-and-effect relationship. Therefore, p-values provide a sense of the reliability of the results of the study in question. Typically, the FDA requires a p-value of less than 0.05 to establish the statistical significance of a clinical trial.

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          The following graph presents the results for pain relief reported by patients in this Phase III study for post-operative pain in adults following major orthopedic surgery, based on a five point verbal scale, with four representing complete pain relief and zero representing no pain relief:
(GRAPH)
          In addition, this Phase III study demonstrated the following results:
             
Outcome Measure   Result   p-value
         
Median time to morphine rescue
  3.0 hours for IV APAP vs. 0.8 hours for placebo     <0.001  
Reduction in morphine consumption over the 24-hour period
  33% reduction (19.1mg) for IV APAP compared to placebo     <0.01  
          This Phase III study also demonstrated a statistically significant reduction in pain intensity and a statistically significant improvement in patient satisfaction with pain treatment for IV APAP compared to placebo. Drug-related adverse events in this trial were similar to placebo.
          Two Phase III studies evaluated a total of 349 adult subjects with moderate-to-severe pain following third molar surgery. Subjects were randomized to receive IV APAP, intravenous propacetamol or placebo. Statistically significant effects versus placebo (p-value<0.01) were obtained with IV APAP for all efficacy criteria, including pain relief, pain intensity difference, duration of analgesia and patients’ global evaluation. There were no statistically significant differences in treatment-related adverse events between IV APAP and placebo. IV APAP demonstrated similar results on all efficacy parameters compared to intravenous propacetamol with significantly lower incidence of pain at the injection site.
          One Phase III study evaluated 163 adult subjects with moderate-to-severe pain following minor gynecologic surgery. Subjects were randomized to receive IV APAP or intravenous propacetamol. IV APAP demonstrated similar results on all efficacy parameters compared to intravenous propacetamol with statistically significantly lower incidence of pain at the injection site.
          One Phase IV study evaluated 1,061 subjects with mild-to-moderate pain following surgery. All subjects received up to four doses of IV APAP over a 24-hour period. This trial provided additional data regarding the administration of multiple-doses of IV APAP.
          Clinical Studies for Post-Operative Pain in Children. One Phase III study evaluated 183 pediatric subjects with moderate-to-severe pain following surgery for hernia repair. Subjects were randomized to receive IV APAP or intravenous propacetamol. IV APAP demonstrated similar results on all efficacy parameters compared to intravenous propacetamol with significantly lower incidence of pain at the injection site.

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          Clinical Studies for Fever in Children. One Phase III study evaluated 67 pediatric subjects (age one month to 12 years) with fever of infectious origin. Subjects were randomized to receive IV APAP or intravenous propacetamol. IV APAP demonstrated similar results on all efficacy parameters compared to intravenous propacetamol with statistically significantly lower incidence of pain at the injection site.
          Safety Summary. The safety of acetaminophen has been well-established through decades of use in oral, suppository and intravenous formulations. The primary safety concern with acetaminophen is hepatotoxicity, which is well-understood and occurs rarely when acetaminophen is dosed in accordance with the recommended guidelines. In addition, an effective antidote, N-acetylcysteine, is available to treat acetaminophen overdose. We believe there is no evidence that IV APAP poses an increased risk for hepatoxicity or any other adverse event. In fact, in the 1,780 subjects receiving IV APAP in nine clinical trials previously completed by BMS, the product has exhibited a safety profile consistent with published data for oral acetaminophen. This is also consistent with observations from the European post-marketing safety database of IV APAP which covers a time period in which over 100 million doses were administered to patients.
          In pharmacokinetic trials, the peak plasma concentration of acetaminophen ranged from 50% to 74% higher for IV APAP compared to oral acetaminophen; however, total plasma concentrations over time were not meaningfully different. Further, these results demonstrated that urinary elimination of acetaminophen metabolites, including metabolites with potential to interact with the liver, was not meaningfully different for IV APAP compared to oral acetaminophen at 12 and 24 hour measurements. Therefore, the study concluded that IV APAP would not be expected to be associated with an increased risk of toxicity to the liver compared with an equivalent dose of acetaminophen administered orally.
          Opioid Sparing Summary. The use of IV APAP in clinical trials has consistently been associated with at least a 33% reduction in opioid consumption compared to placebo. In these cases, opioids were available at the discretion of patients utilizing patient controlled analgesia, or PCA, devices.
Clinical Development Plan
          We are developing IV APAP based on a targeted indication for the treatment of acute pain, usually in the post-operative setting, and the treatment of fever. We are seeking approval for use in both adults and children for these indications. Our proposed development plan to support this indication integrates the existing body of intravenous propacetamol data, IV APAP data and the data generated by clinical studies of IV APAP to be conducted by us. Under our agreement with BMS, we have rights to reference these BMS data. We intend to submit a 505(b)(2) NDA for IV APAP based on these data sets as well as references to the extensive literature which supports the safety and efficacy of acetaminophen in oral formulations. Section 505(b)(2) of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act permits the submission of an NDA where at least some of the information required for approval comes from studies not conducted by or for the applicant and for which the applicant has not obtained a right of reference.
          In August 2006, we met with the FDA to discuss the clinical trial requirements for submission of a 505(b)(2) NDA for IV APAP. Based on the preliminary feedback from the FDA, we intend to conduct six clinical trials to provide the FDA with additional data to support multiple dose efficacy for soft tissue surgery, efficacy for fever and safety in adults and children. These trials include:
  •  Phase III trial in female patients with moderate-to-severe pain following total abdominal hysterectomy: this trial will be a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, multi-center study to assess the efficacy and safety of single and multiple doses of IV APAP.
 
  •  Phase III trial in adults with fever: this trial will be a randomized, controlled, double-blind study to assess the efficacy and safety of single and multiple doses of IV APAP.
 
  •  Pharmacokinetic study in adult subjects: this trial will be a randomized, single center study to assess the pharmacokinetics of single and multiple doses of IV APAP compared to oral acetaminophen in adults.

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  •  Pharmacokinetic study in pediatric subjects: this trial will be a randomized, single center study to assess the pharmacokinetics of single and multiple doses of IV APAP compared to oral acetaminophen in children.
 
  •  Safety study in adult subjects: this trial will be an open-label, multi-center study to assess the safety of single and multiple doses of IV APAP in adults.
 
  •  Safety study in pediatric subjects: this trial will be an open-label, multi-center study to assess the safety of single and multiple doses of IV APAP in children.
          Total enrollment of the six clinical trials will be determined based on additional input expected from the FDA. We intend to initiate the abdominal hysterectomy Phase III trial and the adult pharmacokinetic study in the fourth quarter of 2006. We intend to initiate the other clinical trials in the first half of 2007.
Omiganan for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections
Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections Background
          The use of catheters for vascular access has become essential to medical practice. Intravascular catheters are inserted through the skin and advanced so that the tip rests in a vein or artery. Intravascular catheters are typically classified as either peripheral lines which access smaller veins or central lines (such as CVCs, peripherally inserted central catheters and arterial lines) to access larger veins (such as the jugular, femoral and subclavian veins) and arteries. Although such catheters provide necessary access to veins and arteries, their use puts patients at risk for dangerous and costly complications, including LCSIs, catheter colonization and CRBSIs, and, to a lesser degree, infections in other organs including the heart, lungs, brain and bones.
          Based on published clinical studies, we estimate that, of patients with a CVC, approximately 10% will develop an LCSI and 20% will develop catheter colonization. This translates into approximately one million LCSIs and two million incidences of catheter colonization in the United States each year. The presence of an LSCI may result in replacement of the catheter and/or administration of antibiotics, both of which create additional costs to hospitals and have the potential for adverse safety outcomes. In addition, catheter colonization is well correlated with CRBSIs, according to a published review of clinical trials.
          The CDC estimates that there are more than 250,000 CRBSIs among hospitalized patients and more than 75,000 CRBSIs among hemodialysis patients in the United States each year. Attributable mortality is estimated by the CDC to be 12% to 25% for each CRBSI, which translates into 39,000 to 81,250 deaths annually due to CRBSIs. Further, the CDC estimates that the average cost per infection is estimated to be $25,000 and, for patients in the intensive care unit, is estimated to be up to $56,000.
          The additional costs related to infectious complications from CVCs result in an estimated annual burden to the healthcare system exceeding $6 billion. The majority of these costs are shouldered by hospitals due to the reimbursement system. Adopted by Medicare in 1983, the Prospective Payment System for acute hospital inpatient services generally establishes pre-determined reimbursement amounts, or diagnosis-related groups, which are classifications based on the patient’s discharge diagnoses, procedures performed and other patient factors. Similar prospective payment systems were later adopted for certain other Medicare inpatient hospital services, such as rehabilitation and psychiatric hospitals. When the costs of treating a patient fall below or are above these prospective payment amounts, the hospital reaps the respective benefit or bears the respective cost. Therefore, there is a compelling economic incentive for these hospitals to use all available means to reduce infections.
          The CDC estimates that hospital-acquired bloodstream infections are the eighth leading cause of death in the United States and that intravascular catheters are the leading cause of hospital-acquired bloodstream infections. Furthermore, a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that 70% of these infections are antibiotic-resistant, making them more difficult and costly to treat. Consumer

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groups, the CDC and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, or JCAHO, are calling for greater scrutiny and wider reporting of data on hospital-acquired infections. JCAHO or other recognized accreditation is necessary for reimbursement eligibility with Medicare and most insurers. Laws have been passed mandating public reporting of hospital-acquired infection data in Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia. In 2006, more than 20 other states have had some legislative activity related to public reporting of hospital-acquired infections. We believe that the increased scrutiny on catheter-related infections in addition to compelling economic incentives will drive adoption of new products which show an ability to reduce infection rates.
Market for Antimicrobials to Prevent Intravascular Catheter Infections
          Theta Reports estimates that nearly 500 million intravascular catheters will be used in the United States in 2006, including approximately 10 million CVCs. Unit sales of CVCs are projected to grow at 9% per year. Outside the United States, Theta Reports estimates that approximately 11 million CVCs will be used in 2006. The number of CVC placements is increasing as the population continues to age and hospitalized patients become increasingly compromised. We estimate that patients with a CVC receive, on average, three to four topical antimicrobial applications during a hospital stay. This translates into more than an estimated 30 million applications in the United States in 2006 for CVCs alone.
          The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services indicate that there were more than 321,500 patients with end-stage renal disease receiving dialysis at the end of 2004, of which approximately 25% had a CVC. This patient population has been growing at an annual rate of approximately 8% due to the aging population, rise in diabetes, shortage of organ donors and improved technologies enabling longer survival of patients with end-stage renal disease. Patients on hemodialysis receive, on average, three topical antimicrobial applications per week. This translates into more than an estimated 12 million applications in the United States in 2006.
          The use of topical antimicrobials to prevent infections associated with other central lines, including arterial lines and peripherally inserted central catheters, also represents a significant market opportunity. According to Theta Reports, there are more than 2 million peripherally inserted central catheters inserted in the United States each year. We estimate there are also approximately 7 million arterials lines inserted in the United States each year.
Limitations of Current Therapies
          Microorganisms on the skin surface have been demonstrated to be the leading cause of intravascular device-related infections, including LCSIs and CRBSIs. The same microorganisms on the skin that cause LCSIs can lead to CRBSIs. Given the evidence for the importance of killing microorganisms on the skin surface to prevent the development of intravascular device-related infections, the use of topical antimicrobials is critical. However, currently available products have significant limitations.
          The standard of care for skin antisepsis prior to catheter insertion and at dressing changes has been dominated by either povidone-iodine, also known as Betadine, or chlorhexidine, although usage patterns are increasingly favoring chlorhexidine. In 2002, the CDC published guidelines that stated that although chlorhexidine is preferred, povidone-iodine can be used. In 2002, a meta-analysis of eight heterogeneous studies comparing various formulations of chlorhexidine to povidone-iodine for the prevention of catheter-related infections was published. While the meta-analysis indicated a benefit to chlorhexidine, only one of the eight studies on its own demonstrated a statistically significant prevention of CRBSIs. We believe that this change in medical practice despite the lack of robust clinical evidence underscores the desire and willingness of healthcare providers to address this significant unmet need.
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this lack of sustained antimicrobial activity can put patients at increased risk for acquiring an infection at the catheter insertion site.
          In order to address the limited duration of activity associated with topical antiseptics, topical antibiotics have been used, either alone or in combination with topical antiseptics, to confer protection against microbial invasion. Clinical trials have shown benefits attributable to topical antibiotics, but these products have either been associated with increased frequency of fungal infections or emergence of bacterial resistance, including MRSA. These drawbacks have significantly diminished the use of topical antibiotics for the prevention of catheter-related infections. As a result, the market has almost exclusively switched back to the use of topical antiseptics.
          There is some limited use of BioPatch, a chlorhexidine-impregnated foam dressing that is placed around the catheter at the insertion site. While this product delivers chlorhexidine to the catheter insertion site over a period of days, it has not been widely adopted reportedly due to difficulty in applying the dressing and the inability to visibly inspect the insertion site through the dressing. Physicians and nurses must lift up the BioPatch to monitor the insertion site for redness, swelling and other leading signs of infection. Such disruption of the dressing has the potential to interfere with the sterility of the site and promote the spread of pathogens.
          Other products either in use or in development to reduce catheter-related infections are focused on downstream aspects of the infectious process. Some catheters coated with antiseptics and antibiotics have demonstrated reductions in catheter-related infections. Other new technologies being developed include contamination-resistant hubs, attachable cuffs, new catheter-coatings and antiseptic catheter lock solutions. We believe any use of these products would be in addition to the use of antimicrobial agents on the skin surface to prevent catheter-related infections.
Omiganan
          Omiganan was discovered by researchers at Migenix. Migenix subsequently entered into a collaboration and license agreement with Fujisawa Healthcare, Inc., or Fujisawa. In that agreement, Fujisawa was granted the rights to commercialize omiganan in North America in return for licensing payments, funding of all remaining development costs and establishment of a joint development committee. In January 2004, Migenix reacquired all rights to omiganan from Fujisawa after completion of the first Phase III trial and then, in July 2004, licensed both the North American and European rights to us with the objective of completing the development program and commercializing the product.
          Unlike other topical antimicrobials, omiganan exhibits a combination of features that we believe make it an ideal product for the prevention of catheter-related infections. Such features include:
  broad spectrum bactericidal and fungicidal activity;
 
  activity against resistant strains, including MRSA;
 
  rapid and prolonged duration of effect;
 
  resistance to omiganan has not been induced in the laboratory;
 
  no demonstrated ability to generate cross-resistance to other antimicrobials;
 
  excellent safety profile; and
 
  convenient application.
          Omiganan is effective against a wide variety of bacteria and fungi. The compound has been tested against more than 285 strains of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria as well as more than 75 fungal strains. These studies demonstrate that omiganan has broad bactericidal and fungicidal activity against bacteria and fungi commonly found on the surface of human skin. Further, omiganan has also demonstrated the ability to kill multi-drug resistant microorganisms, including MRSA, and vancomycin-

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resistant enterococcus, or VRE. The incidence of resistant infections is increasing, and these microorganisms represent a potentially significant threat to the public health.
          Omiganan has demonstrated not only the ability to kill rapidly but also, unlike the topical antiseptics, a prolonged duration of effect. In preclinical studies with omiganan, most microorganisms were killed after only six minutes of exposure. In skin surface studies, omiganan demonstrated the ability to kill more than 99.9% of microorganisms for at least three days.
          In laboratory testing conducted by Migenix, resistance to omiganan, unlike the topical antiseptics, has not been demonstrated, nor has cross-resistance to other antimicrobials been demonstrated. A primary mechanism of action of omiganan is believed to be depolarization of the outer cell membrane of infectious microorganisms, resulting in cell death. Specific receptors within the cell have not been shown to be involved in the disruption of the cell membrane and, therefore, this non-specific mechanism of action decreases the likelihood of the development of resistance.
          Omiganan presents a benign toxicological profile when administered topically at doses as much as 30 times the planned human dose. The product has been demonstrated to be non-irritating to the skin, non-sensitizing to the skin, and not absorbed through the skin into the bloodstream (based on the inability to detect omiganan in the bloodstream at very low levels) and, therefore, has no meaningful systemic exposure.
          Omiganan is packaged in a convenient, single unit-of-use plastic squeeze vial. Omiganan, which is formulated as a 1% clear viscous, aqueous gel, is applied around the catheter insertion site by squeezing the plastic vial. Unlike the topical antiseptics, omiganan does not have to be scrubbed onto the skin surface. Unlike povidone-iodine, omiganan does not have the potential to stain the skin and clothes of patients and healthcare providers.
Clinical Development History
          Migenix completed one Phase I and two Phase II studies of omiganan in a total of 273 subjects. These trials demonstrated no evidence of sensitization, clinically significant irritation or systemic absorption. In addition, the Phase I trial exhibited killing of greater than 99.9% of bacteria and fungi on skin and maintained this level of antimicrobial activity for at least three days.
          Migenix and Fujisawa subsequently completed a multi-center, randomized, evaluation committee-blinded Phase III trial that compared omiganan to 10% povidone-iodine in patients receiving CVCs, peripherally inserted central catheters, and/or arterial lines. The study was conducted in 1,407 patients in 27 centers in the United States. The primary efficacy endpoint was to demonstrate the superiority of omiganan over 10% povidone-iodine for the prevention of CRBSIs, as determined by a treatment-blinded evaluation committee. Secondary efficacy endpoints included demonstrating the superiority of omiganan for the prevention of LCSI and catheter colonization.
          Treatment with omiganan resulted in a statistically significant prevention in catheter colonization compared to 10% povidone-iodine (p-value=0.002). The omiganan group had 21.9% fewer incidences of catheter colonization than the 10% povidone-iodine group.
                         
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Variable   10% povidone-iodine   omiganan   p-value
             
Catheter colonization present
    232/583 (39.8)%       180/578 (31.1)%       0.002  

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          Treatment with omiganan also resulted in a statistically significant prevention in LCSI (p-value=0.004). The table below summarizes data for LCSI in the modified intent-to-treat analysis set, which includes only those patients who did not have a bloodstream infection present at baseline. As shown in the table, the omiganan group had 49.2% fewer LCSIs than the 10% povidone-iodine group. Moreover, there was a greater than 50% reduction in the number of patients that had an LCSI and a catheter removed (p-value=0.002).
                         
    Treatment Arm    
         
Variable   10% povidone-iodine   omiganan   p-value
             
LCSI present
    48/699 (6.9)%       24/693 (3.5)%       0.004  
          Despite these favorable, statistically significant results for the prevention of LCSI and catheter colonization, the study did not show statistical significance for the primary endpoint: the prevention of CRBSI. The table below compares the incidence of CRBSI in the modified intent-to-treat analysis set after treatment with omiganan or 10% povidone-iodine. The rates of failure (development of CRBSI) and indeterminate response were similar for the two treatments arms. There was a 15.4% reduction in the incidence of microbiologically-proven CRBSI in the omiganan group compared to 10% povidone iodine; however, this outcome was not statistically significant.
                         
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Outcome   10% povidone-iodine   omiganan   p-value
             
Failure
    18/699 (2.6)%       15/693 (2.2)%       0.622  
Success
    635/699 (90.8)%       630/693 (90.9)%          
Indeterminate
    46/699 (6.6)%       48/693 (6.9)%          
          The definition of CRBSI required an organism isolated from a peripheral blood draw to be genotypically matched to an organism isolated from the catheter tip. In this study, many catheters were lost and the organisms could be not isolated from the catheter tip. Similarly, many patients were administered systemic antibiotics for suspected bloodstream infections but were given such antibiotics prior to taking a blood draw. As a result, the high rate of indeterminate events was observed, which we believe was a significant factor contributing to the lower than expected rate of CRBSI. In addition, the study enrolled a large number of patients that were at relatively low risk for developing a CRBSI, which we believe further decreased the event rate to a point where, as observed, a statistically significant difference for CRBSI between the two treatment arms could not be detected. We believe that the CRBSI endpoint, as defined in the previous study, is not achievable without a very significant increase the number of patients enrolled.
          Only 14 patients (2.0%) in each treatment group had adverse events that were considered drug-related. All of these omiganan adverse events were related to the catheter insertion site, and none were serious. Overall, there were no statistically significant differences between the treatment groups for any safety variable.
Clinical Development Plan
          In June 2005, we reached agreement on the clinical development plan for omiganan with the FDA under the FDA’s SPA process. The SPA process provides for a formal review and written agreement of clinical protocols that are binding on both the FDA and the company sponsor. Through the SPA process, the FDA agreed that a single confirmatory Phase III trial would be required for approval and that LCSI would be the sole primary efficacy endpoint. Secondary endpoints include catheter colonization and other measures of infection.
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CRBSIs. A published review of clinical trials found that catheter colonization is well correlated to CRBSIs.
          We have completed a market research study that indicates physicians only modestly favor (73% vs. 65%) a profile of omiganan that demonstrates a statistically significant prevention in LCSIs, catheter colonization and CRBSIs compared to a profile of omiganan that demonstrates a statistically significant prevention in LCSIs and catheter colonization alone. The FDA has communicated to us that LCSI is a clinically relevant indication and, based on these market research findings, we believe that a product indicated for the prevention of LCSIs is also a highly relevant indication to physicians.
          The confirmatory Phase III trial that we are conducting according to the SPA, known as the Central Line Infection Reduction Study, or CLIRS trial, is a multi-center, randomized, evaluation committee-blinded study in patients receiving a CVC. The primary efficacy endpoint of the study is to evaluate whether omiganan is superior to 10% povidone-iodine in the prevention of LCSI in patients requiring central venous catheterization. Secondary objectives of the study are to evaluate whether omiganan is superior to 10% povidone-iodine treatment in preventing significant catheter colonization, CRBSI and all-cause bloodstream infections in patients requiring central venous catheterization.
          The CLIRS trial is designed to recruit 1,250 patients randomized to receive either omiganan or 10% povidone-iodine. The study began enrollment in August 2005 and is currently being conducted at centers in the United States and Europe. We expect to complete enrollment and have results available in the second half of 2007. Omiganan for the prevention of LCSIs was awarded fast track status by the FDA, and we intend to submit an NDA to the FDA in the first half of 2008.
          We also intend to submit an MAA to European regulatory authorities in the first half of 2008. We have met with regulatory authorities in several European countries and believe that no additional clinical trials will be required for submission if the ongoing CLIRS trial is successful.
Additional Indications
          We intend to pursue a pediatric indication for omiganan for the prevention of catheter-related infections. As in the adult population, CVCs are frequently used in neonates, infants and children with wide variety of conditions. Pediatric CVCs are a significant source of infectious complications in hospitalized children.
          We have rights to develop and commercialize omiganan pentahydrochloride for additional indications related to the prevention and treatment of device-related, surgical wound-related and burn-related infections. We believe that omiganan pentahydrochloride may have significant opportunity in these areas. For example, the CDC estimates there are approximately 500,000 post-operative surgical site infections in the United States annually. The CDC also estimates that there are 50,000 hospitalizations from burn injuries and that 10,000 people will die from burn-related infections in the United States every year.
Commercialization Strategy
          We intend to build a commercial organization in the United States focused on promoting our products to physicians, nurses and pharmacy directors principally in the hospital setting. We believe that we can achieve our strategic goals by deploying an experienced sales organization supported by an internal marketing infrastructure that targets institutions with the greatest use of pharmaceutical products. We will consider opportunities to partner our products to reach markets outside the United States or to expand our reach to other physician groups outside the hospital where applicable. In particular, we believe that omiganan is an excellent candidate for partnering in countries outside the United States, and we anticipate launching the product in those countries with a partner who has the resources to be competitive in the hospital market.
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institutions, which we believe represents more than 60% of the market opportunity for the product. Sales calls will primarily target intensive care physicians, infectious disease physicians and infection control physicians and nurses. Other targets will include anesthesiologists, surgeons, intensive care and other nurses in the hospital, and physicians and nurses in outpatient dialysis centers. Key elements in the adoption of omiganan will include formulary acceptance followed by trial and usage and, ultimately, adoption to standing orders and protocols within the hospitals and specific units therein. We expect that omiganan will initially be used in combination with topical antiseptics but ultimately may be used as a stand-alone treatment after more widespread use.
          For the launch of IV APAP, we intend to expand the sales force to 150-200 people to reach the top 1,800 to 2,000 institutions, which we believe represents more than 80% of the opportunity for both products. The primary target audience will include anesthesiologists and surgeons. Other targets will include certified registered nurse anesthetists, emergency medicine physicians, obstetricians and other physicians throughout the hospital.
Licensing Agreements
IV APAP Agreement
          In March 2006, we in-licensed the patents and the exclusive development and commercialization rights to IV APAP in the United States and Canada from BMS. BMS has sublicensed these rights to us under a license agreement with SCR Pharmatop S.A., or Pharmatop.
          As consideration for the license, we paid a $25.0 million up-front fee and may be required to make future milestone payments totaling up to $50.0 million upon the achievement of various milestones related to regulatory or commercial events. We are also obligated to pay a royalty on net sales of the licensed products. We have the right to grant sublicenses to our affiliates.
          The term of the IV APAP agreement generally extends on a country-by-country basis until the last licensed patent expires, which is expected to occur in 2022. Either party may terminate the IV APAP agreement upon delivery of written notice if the other party commits a material breach of its obligations and fails to remedy the breach within a specified period or upon the occurrence of specified bankruptcy, reorganization, liquidation or receivership proceedings. In addition, BMS may terminate the IV APAP agreement if we breach, in our capacity as a sublicensee, any provision of the agreement between BMS and Pharmatop. The IV APAP agreement will automatically terminate in the event of a termination of the license agreement between BMS and Pharmatop. We may terminate the IV APAP agreement at any time upon specified written notice to BMS after the occurrence of events of default that relate to our territory and would entitle BMS to terminate the Pharmatop license agreement. The events of default include Pharmatop’s inability to maintain specified claims under listed patents, the marketing by a third party of a parenterally-administered product containing acetaminophen, subject to certain conditions, or a successful third party action that deprives Pharmatop of its rights to specified patents. We may also terminate the IV APAP agreement upon specified written notice after an uncured failure by Pharmatop to perform any of its material obligations under the Pharmatop license agreement with respect to our territory that would permit BMS to terminate the Pharmatop license agreement.
          Either BMS or Pharmatop may terminate the license agreement between them upon delivery of written notice after an uncured failure by the other party to perform any of its material obligations under the license agreement. BMS may generally terminate the agreement upon written notice to Pharmatop within a specified period so long as all payments due under the agreement to Pharmatop are current. Pharmatop may terminate the agreement upon specified written notice if BMS opposes any of the listed patent applications or challenges the validity or enforceability of any of the listed licensed patents. BMS is also entitled to terminate the Pharmatop agreement upon the occurrence of events of default that relate to the territory described above.

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Omiganan Agreement
          In July 2004, we in-licensed from Migenix the patents and the exclusive development and commercialization rights to omiganan pentahydrochloride for the prevention and treatment of device-related, surgical wound-related and burn-related infections in North America and Europe.
          As consideration for the license, we paid a $2.0 million up-front fee, of which $1.9 million was allocated to the value of the acquired technology and $100,000 was attributed to the acquisition of 617,284 shares of Migenix common stock. We may be required to make future milestone payments totaling up to $27.0 million upon the achievement of various milestones related to regulatory or commercial events. We are also obligated to pay a royalty on net sales of the licensed products. We have the right to grant sublicenses to third parties.
          The term of the omiganan agreement generally extends until the last licensed patent expires, which is expected to occur in November 2022. Either party may terminate the omiganan agreement upon specified written notice after the other party commits a material breach of its obligations and fails to remedy the breach or upon the cessation of operations of the other party or occurrence of specified bankruptcy, reorganization, liquidation or receivership proceedings involving the other party. We may terminate the omiganan agreement upon written notice if we determine, prior to regulatory approval in the United States, that the product is not reasonably expected to demonstrate safety or efficacy. We may also terminate the omiganan agreement upon specified written notice after receipt of any interim results or the executive summary following database lock of the on-going Phase III trial for omiganan.
Intellectual Property
IV APAP
          We are the exclusive licensee of two U.S. patents and two pending Canadian patent applications from Pharmatop, under BMS’s license to these patents from Pharmatop. U.S. Patent No. 6,028,222 (Canadian patent application 2,233,924) covers the formulation of IV APAP and expires in August 2017. U.S. Patent No. 6,992,218 (Canadian patent application 2,415,403) covers the process used to manufacture IV APAP and expires in June 2021.
          We have also in-licensed the non-exclusive rights to two U.S. patents from BMS. U.S. Patent No. 6,593,331 covers a method of treating pain with acetaminophen and concurrent administration of a hydroxyazapirone and expires in April 2022. US Patent No. 6,511,982 covers a method of treating pain with acetaminophen and concurrent administration of buspirone and expires in June 2020.
Omiganan
          We are the exclusive licensee of four U.S. patents, two pending U.S. applications, and their international equivalents in North America and Europe for the prevention and treatment of device-related, surgical wound-related, and burn-related infections. U.S. Patent No. 6,180,604 and U.S. Patent No. 6,538,106 cover composition of matter for certain analogues of indolicidin, including omiganan, and expire in August 2017. U.S. Patent No. 6,503,881 covers composition of matter for additional analogues of indolicidin (not including omiganan), pharmaceutical preparations of certain analogues of indolicidin, including omiganan, and methods of using the pharmaceutical preparations for treating microbial infections (including covering routes of administration). U.S. Patent No. 6,503,881 also expires in August 2017. U.S. Patent No. 6,835,536 covers specific pharmaceutical preparations of certain analogues of indolicidin, including omiganan, and methods of treatment by applying pharmaceutical preparations to a target site, including a target site were a medical device is inserted. U.S. Patent No. 6,835,536 expires in November 2022.
Manufacturing
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placebo. Under the terms of the agreement, Lawrence Laboratories is obligated to supply us with this single batch of IV APAP and a single batch of placebo at specified prices. With these batches, we believe we will have adequate clinical supplies of our IV APAP product candidate and placebo. The term of the clinical supply agreement generally extends until the earlier of the receipt by us of regulatory approval for IV APAP or December 31, 2008. In addition, the clinical supply agreement terminates upon mutual written consent of the parties, the termination of the IV APAP agreement or our dissolution. Either party may also terminate the clinical supply agreement upon written notice of an uncured, material breach by the other party. For commercial supply, the active pharmaceutical ingredient, or API, acetaminophen is readily available from multiple suppliers. We are currently negotiating with suppliers for commercial supply of the finished drug product for IV APAP.
          We have purchased clinical supplies of the API omiganan pentahydrochloride from UCB Bioproducts, which was recently acquired by Lonza Group, Ltd. We have purchased clinical supplies of the omiganan finished drug product from Cardinal Health, Inc. Lonza and Cardinal have produced the clinical supplies which we are using in our Phase III omiganan program. We are currently negotiating with suppliers for commercial supply of the API and finished drug product for omiganan.
Competition
          The pharmaceutical industry is subject to intense competition and characterized by extensive research efforts and rapid technological progress. Competition in our industry occurs on a variety of fronts, including developing and bringing new products to market before others, developing new technologies to improve existing products, developing new products to provide the same benefits as existing products at lower cost and developing new products to provide benefits superior to those of existing products. There are many companies, including generic manufacturers as well as large pharmaceutical companies, that have significantly greater financial and other resources than we do, as well as academic and other research institutions that are engaged in research and development efforts for the indications targeted by our product candidates.
IV APAP
          Our IV APAP product candidate is being developed for the treatment of acute pain, usually in the hospital setting. A wide variety of competitive products already address this target market, including:
Injectable opioids
  Morphine is the leading product for the treatment of acute post-operative pain, and is available generically from several manufacturers;
 
  DepoDur, currently marketed by Endo Pharmaceuticals, is an extended release injectable formulation of morphine; and
 
  other injectable opioids, including fentanyl, meperidine and hydromorphone, each of which is available generically from several manufacturers.
Injectable NSAIDs
  Ketorolac, an injectable NSAID, is available generically from several manufacturers.
Product Candidates
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SkyePharma Inc., St. Charles Pharmaceuticals, TheraQuest Biosciences, LLC and Xsira Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Omiganan
          We are developing our omiganan product candidate for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections. Although there are no approved drugs for this specific indication, a number of topical products are currently used in practice and one device has been approved for wound dressing and prevention of catheter-related infections. These competitive products include:
  topical antiseptics such as povidone-iodine and chlorhexidine, each of which is available generically from several manufacturers;
 
  Neosporin, a topical antibacterial ointment containing polymyxin, neomycin and bacitracin, available generically from several manufacturers;
 
  Bactroban, a topical antibacterial containing mupirocin, available generically from several manufacturers; and
 
  BioPatch, a chlorhexidine-impregnated foam dressing, from Johnson & Johnson that is approved both for wound dressing and the prevention of catheter-related infections.
          Other products may be in development; however, we are not aware of any other topical drugs being developed for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections.
Government Regulation
          Governmental authorities in the United States and other countries extensively regulate the testing, manufacturing, labeling, storage, record-keeping, advertising, promotion, export, marketing and distribution, among other things, of pharmaceutical products. In the United States, the FDA, under the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and other federal statutes and regulations, subjects pharmaceutical products to rigorous review. If we do not comply with applicable requirements, we may be fined, the government may refuse to approve our marketing applications or allow us to manufacture or market our products, and we may be criminally prosecuted.
          We and our manufacturers and clinical research organizations may also be subject to regulations under other federal, state and local laws, including the Occupational Safety and Health Act, the Environmental Protection Act, the Clean Air Act and import, export and customs regulations as well as the laws and regulations of other countries.
FDA Approval Process
          To obtain approval of a new product from the FDA, we must, among other requirements, submit data supporting safety and efficacy as well as detailed information on the manufacture and composition of the product and proposed labeling. The testing and collection of data and the preparation of necessary applications are expensive and time-consuming. The FDA may not act quickly or favorably in reviewing these applications, and we may encounter significant difficulties or costs in our efforts to obtain FDA approvals that could delay or preclude us from marketing our products.
          The process required by the FDA before a new drug may be marketed in the United States generally involves the following: completion of preclinical laboratory and animal testing in compliance with FDA regulations, submission of an investigational new drug application, or IND, which must become effective before human clinical trials may begin, performance of adequate and well-controlled human clinical trials to establish the safety and efficacy of the proposed drug for its intended use, and submission and approval of an NDA by the FDA. The sponsor typically conducts human clinical trials in three sequential phases, but the phases may overlap. In Phase I clinical trials, the product is tested in a small number of patients or healthy volunteers, primarily for safety at one or more dosages. In Phase II clinical trials, in addition to safety, the sponsor evaluates the efficacy of the product on targeted indications, and

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identifies possible adverse effects and safety risks in a patient population. Phase III clinical trials typically involve testing for safety and clinical efficacy in an expanded population at geographically-dispersed test sites.
          Clinical trials must be conducted in accordance with the FDA’s good clinical practices requirements. The FDA may order the partial, temporary or permanent discontinuation of a clinical trial at any time or impose other sanctions if it believes that the clinical trial is not being conducted in accordance with FDA requirements or presents an unacceptable risk to the clinical trial patients. The institutional review board, or IRB, generally must approve the clinical trial design and patient informed consent at each clinical site and may also require the clinical trial at that site to be halted, either temporarily or permanently, for failure to comply with the IRB’s requirements, or may impose other conditions.
          The applicant must submit to the FDA the results of the preclinical and clinical trials, together with, among other things, detailed information on the manufacture and composition of the product and proposed labeling, in the form of an NDA, including payment of a user fee. The FDA reviews all NDAs submitted before it accepts them for filing and may request additional information rather than accepting an NDA for filing. Once the submission is accepted for filing, the FDA begins an in-depth review of the NDA. Under the policies agreed to by the FDA under the Prescription Drug User Fee Act, or PDUFA, the FDA has 10 months in which to complete its initial review of a standard NDA and respond to the applicant. The review process and the PDUFA goal date may be extended by three months if the FDA requests or the NDA sponsor otherwise provides additional information or clarification regarding information already provided in the submission within the last three months of the PDUFA goal date. If the FDA’s evaluations of the NDA and the clinical and manufacturing procedures and facilities are favorable, the FDA may issue either an approval letter or an approvable letter, which contains the conditions that must be met in order to secure final approval of the NDA. If and when those conditions have been met to the FDA’s satisfaction, the FDA will issue an approval letter, authorizing commercial marketing of the drug for certain indications. According to the FDA, the median total approval time for NDAs approved during calendar year 2004 was approximately 13 months for standard applications. If the FDA’s evaluation of the NDA submission and the clinical and manufacturing procedures and facilities is not favorable, the FDA may refuse to approve the NDA and issue a not approvable letter.
Special Protocol Assessment Process
          The special protocol assessment, or SPA, process provides for official FDA evaluation of a proposed Phase III clinical trial protocol and generally provides a product sponsor with a binding agreement from the FDA that the design and analysis of the trial are adequate to support a license application submission if the trial is performed according to the SPA. The FDA’s guidance on the SPA process indicates that SPAs are designed to evaluate individual clinical trial protocols primarily in response to specific questions posed by the sponsors. In practice, the sponsor of a product candidate may request an SPA for proposed Phase III trial objectives, designs, clinical endpoints and analyses. A request for an SPA is submitted in the form of a separate amendment to an IND, and the FDA’s evaluation generally will be completed within a 45-day review period under applicable PDUFA goals, provided that the trials have been the subject of discussion at an end-of-Phase II and pre-Phase III meeting with the FDA, or in other limited cases. All agreements and disagreements between the FDA and the sponsor regarding an SPA, including the FDA’s responses to questions about protocol design, primary efficacy endpoints, study conduct, data analysis and prospective labeling statements must be documented in writing. In limited circumstances, the FDA may agree that a specific finding, such as a particular p-value on the primary efficacy endpoint of a study, will satisfy a specific objective, such as demonstration of efficacy, or support an approval decision. However, final determinations by the FDA are made after a complete review of the applicable NDA and are based on the entire data in the application, and any SPA is subject to future public health concerns unrecognized at the time of protocol assessment.

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Section 505(b)(2) New Drug Applications
          As an alternate path to FDA approval for new indications or improved formulations of previously-approved products, a company may file a Section 505(b)(2) NDA, instead of a “stand-alone” or “full” NDA. Section 505(b)(2) of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act was enacted as part of the Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act of 1984, otherwise known as the Hatch-Waxman Amendments. Section 505(b)(2) permits the submission of an NDA where at least some of the information required for approval comes from studies not conducted by or for the applicant and for which the applicant has not obtained a right of reference. For example, the Hatch-Waxman Amendments permit the applicant to rely upon the FDA’s findings of safety and effectiveness for an approved product. The FDA may also require companies to perform additional studies or measurements to support the change from the approved product. The FDA may then approve the new formulation for all or some of the label indications for which the referenced product has been approved, or the new indication sought by the Section 505(b)(2) applicant.
          To the extent that the Section 505(b)(2) applicant is relying on the FDA’s findings for an already-approved product, the applicant is required to certify to the FDA concerning any patents listed for the approved product in the FDA’s Orange Book publication. Specifically, the applicant must certify that: (1) the required patent information has not been filed; (2) the listed patent has expired; (3) the listed patent has not expired, but will expire on a particular date and approval is sought after patent expiration; or (4) the listed patent is invalid or will not be infringed by the manufacture, use or sale of the new product. A certification that the new product will not infringe the already approved product’s Orange Book-listed patents or that such patents are invalid is called a paragraph IV certification. If the applicant does not challenge the listed patents, the Section 505(b)(2) application will not be approved until all the listed patents claiming the referenced product have expired. The Section 505(b)(2) application may also not be approved until any non-patent exclusivity, such as exclusivity for obtaining approval of a new chemical entity, listed in the Orange Book for the referenced product has expired.
          If the applicant has provided a paragraph IV certification to the FDA, the applicant must also send notice of the paragraph IV certification to the NDA and patent holders once the NDA has been accepted for filing by the FDA. The NDA and patent holders may then initiate a legal challenge to the paragraph IV certification. The filing of a patent infringement lawsuit within 45 days of their receipt of a paragraph IV certification automatically prevents the FDA from approving the Section 505(b)(2) NDA until the earliest of 30 months, expiration of the patent, settlement of the lawsuit or a decision in the infringement case that is favorable to the Section 505(b)(2) applicant. For drugs with five-year exclusivity, if an action for patent infringement is initiated after year four of that exclusivity period, then the 30-month stay period is extended by such amount of time so that 7.5 years has elapsed since the approval of the NDA with five-year exclusivity. This period could be extended by six months if the NDA sponsor obtains pediatric exclusivity. Thus, the Section 505(b)(2) applicant may invest a significant amount of time and expense in the development of its products only to be subject to significant delay and patent litigation before its products may be commercialized. Alternatively, if the listed patent holder does not file a patent infringement lawsuit within the required 45-day period, the applicant’s NDA will not be subject to the 30-month stay.
          Notwithstanding the approval of many products by the FDA pursuant to Section 505(b)(2), over the last few years, certain brand-name pharmaceutical companies and others have objected to the FDA’s interpretation of Section 505(b)(2) and one pharmaceutical company has sued the FDA on the matter. Although the issues in that litigation are specific to the products involved, if the FDA does not prevail, it may be required to change its interpretation of Section 505(b)(2), which could delay or even prevent the FDA from approving any Section 505(b)(2) NDA that we submit.
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condition. Fast track designation does not apply to a product alone, but applies to a combination of the product and specific indication for which it is being studied. A sponsor may submit a request for fast track designation at the time of original submission of its IND, or at any time thereafter prior to receiving marketing approval of its NDA. Fast track status enables the sponsor to have more frequent and timely communication and meetings with the FDA regarding the product development plans. Fast track status may also result in eligibility for NDA priority review, under which the PDUFA review goal for the NDA is six months rather than ten months.
The Hatch-Waxman Act
          Under the Hatch-Waxman Act, newly-approved drugs and indications benefit from a statutory period of non-patent marketing exclusivity. The Hatch-Waxman Act provides five-year marketing exclusivity to the first applicant to gain approval of an NDA for a new chemical entity, meaning that the FDA has not previously approved any other new drug containing the same active moiety. Hatch-Waxman prohibits the submission of an abbreviated new drug application, or ANDA, or a Section 505(b)(2) NDA for another version of such drug during the five-year exclusive period; however, as explained above, submission of an ANDA or Section 505(b)(2) NDA containing a paragraph IV certification is permitted after four years, which may trigger a 30-month stay of approval of the ANDA or Section 505(b)(2) NDA. Protection under Hatch-Waxman will not prevent the submission or approval of another full NDA; however, the applicant would be required to conduct its own preclinical and adequate and well-controlled clinical trials to demonstrate safety and effectiveness. The Hatch-Waxman Act also provides three years of marketing exclusivity for the approval of new and supplemental NDAs, including Section 505(b)(2) NDAs, for, among other things, new indications, dosages or strengths of an existing drug, if new clinical investigations that were conducted or sponsored by the applicant are essential to the approval of the application.
Other Regulatory Requirements
          We may also be subject to a number of post-approval regulatory requirements. If we seek to make certain changes to an approved product, such as promoting or labeling a product for a new indication, making certain manufacturing changes or product enhancements or adding labeling claims, we will need FDA review and approval before the change can be implemented. While physicians may use products for indications that have not been approved by the FDA, we may not label or promote the product for an indication that has not been approved. Securing FDA approval for new indications or product enhancements and, in some cases, for manufacturing and labeling claims, is generally a time-consuming and expensive process that may require us to conduct clinical trials under the FDA’s IND regulations. Even if such studies are conducted, the FDA may not approve any change in a timely fashion, or at all. In addition, adverse experiences associated with use of the products must be reported to the FDA, and FDA rules govern how we can label, advertise or otherwise commercialize our products.
          There are current post-marketing safety surveillance requirements that we will need to meet to continue to market an approved product. The FDA also may, in its discretion, require post-marketing testing and surveillance to monitor the effects of approved products or place conditions on any approvals that could restrict the commercial applications of these products.
          In addition to FDA restrictions on marketing of pharmaceutical products, several other types of state and federal laws have been applied to restrict certain marketing practices in the pharmaceutical industry in recent years. These laws include anti-kickback statutes and false claims statutes. The federal health care program anti-kickback statute prohibits, among other things, knowingly and willfully offering, paying, soliciting or receiving remuneration to induce or in return for purchasing, leasing, ordering or arranging for the purchase, lease or order of any health care item or service reimbursable under Medicare, Medicaid or other federally financed health care programs. This statute has been interpreted to apply to arrangements between pharmaceutical manufacturers on the one hand and prescribers, purchasers and formulary managers on the other. Violations of the anti-kickback statute are punishable by imprisonment, criminal fines, civil monetary penalties and exclusion from participation in federal health care programs.

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Although there are a number of statutory exemptions and regulatory safe harbors protecting certain common activities from prosecution or other regulatory sanctions, the exemptions and safe harbors are drawn narrowly, and practices that involve remuneration intended to induce prescribing, purchases or recommendations may be subject to scrutiny if they do not qualify for an exemption or safe harbor.
          Federal false claims laws prohibit any person from knowingly presenting, or causing to be presented, a false claim for payment to the federal government, or knowingly making, or causing to be made, a false statement to have a false claim paid. Recently, several pharmaceutical and other health care companies have been prosecuted under these laws for allegedly inflating drug prices they report to pricing services, which in turn were used by the government to set Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates, and for allegedly providing free product to customers with the expectation that the customers would bill federal programs for the product. In addition, certain marketing practices, including off-label promotion, may also violate false claims laws. The majority of states also have statutes or regulations similar to the federal anti-kickback law and false claims laws, which apply to items and services reimbursed under Medicaid and other state programs, or, in several states, apply regardless of the payor.
          In addition, we and the manufacturers on which we rely for the manufacture of our products are subject to requirements that drugs be manufactured, packaged and labeled in conformity with current good manufacturing practice, or cGMP. To comply with cGMP requirements, manufacturers must continue to spend time, money and effort to meet requirements relating to personnel, facilities, equipment, production and process, labeling and packaging, quality control, record-keeping and other requirements. The FDA periodically inspects drug manufacturing facilities to evaluate compliance with cGMP requirements.
          Also, as part of the sales and marketing process, pharmaceutical companies frequently provide samples of approved drugs to physicians. This practice is regulated by the FDA and other governmental authorities, including, in particular, requirements concerning record-keeping and control procedures.
          Outside of the United States, our ability to market our products will also depend on receiving marketing authorizations from the appropriate regulatory authorities. The foreign regulatory approval process includes all of the risks associated with the FDA approval process described above. The requirements governing the conduct of clinical trials and marketing authorization vary widely from country to country.
Third-Party Reimbursement and Pricing Controls
          In the United States and elsewhere, sales of pharmaceutical products depend in significant part on the availability of coverage and reimbursement to providers and the consumer from third-party payors, such as government and private insurance plans. Third-party payors are increasingly challenging the prices charged for medical products and services. Our products may not be considered cost effective, and coverage and reimbursement may not be available or sufficient to allow us to sell our products on a competitive and profitable basis.
          In many foreign markets, including the countries in the European Union, pricing of pharmaceutical products is subject to governmental control. In the United States, there have been, and we expect that there will continue to be, a number of federal and state proposals to implement similar governmental pricing control. While we cannot predict whether such legislative or regulatory proposals will be adopted, the adoption of such proposals could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and profitability.
Employees
          As of June 30, 2006, we had 24 employees, consisting of clinical development, regulatory affairs, manufacturing and program management, administration, business development and marketing. We consider our relations with our employees to be good.

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Facilities
          We lease approximately 5,928 square feet of space in our headquarters in San Diego, California under a sublease that expires in September 2006. We have entered into a lease that expires in 2012 for approximately 23,494 square feet of space for our new headquarters in San Diego, California which we intend to occupy in September 2006. We intend to sublease approximately 5,800 square feet of our new headquarters for a period of two years. We have no laboratory, research or manufacturing facilities. We believe that our current facilities are adequate for our needs for the immediate future and that, should it be needed, suitable additional space will be available to accommodate expansion of our operations on commercially reasonable terms.
Legal Proceedings
          We are not engaged in any legal proceedings.

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MANAGEMENT
Executive Officers and Directors
          The following table sets forth certain information about our executive officers and directors as of July 15, 2006:
             
Name   Age   Position
         
Theodore R. Schroeder
    51     President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
James B. Breitmeyer, M.D., Ph.D. 
    52     Executive Vice President, Development and Chief Medical Officer
William S. Craig, Ph.D. 
    56     Senior Vice President, Pharmaceutical Development and Manufacturing
Kenneth R. Heilbrunn, M.D. 
    48     Senior Vice President, Clinical Development
William R. LaRue
    55     Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary
Richard E. Lowenthal
    40     Vice President, Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance
Mike A. Royal, M.D., J.D. 
    52     Vice President, Clinical Development, Analgesics
David A. Socks
    31     Vice President, Business Development
Cam L. Garner(1)
    58     Chairman of the Board of Directors
Brian G. Atwood(2)
    53     Director
Samuel L. Barker, Ph.D. 
    63     Director
Michael A. Berman, M.D.(2)(3)
    63     Director
James C. Blair, Ph.D.(1)
    67     Director
Alan D. Frazier(1)(3)
    54     Director
Alain B. Schreiber, M.D.(2)
    51     Director
Christopher J. Twomey(3)
    46     Director
     
 
  (1)  Member of the Compensation Committee.
  (2)  Member of the Nominating/ Corporate Governance Committee.
  (3)  Member of the Audit Committee.
Executive Officers
          Theodore R. Schroeder is one of our co-founders and has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our board of directors since our inception in May 2004. From August 2002 to February 2004, he served as Senior Vice President of North America Sales and Marketing of Elan Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a neuroscience-based pharmaceutical company. From February 2001 to August 2002, Mr. Schroeder served as General Manager of the Hospital Products Business Unit at Elan, a position he also held at Dura Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty respiratory pharmaceutical and pulmonary drug delivery company, from May 1999 to November 2000 until its acquisition by Elan. Prior to joining Dura, Mr. Schroeder held a number of hospital-related sales and marketing positions with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, a global pharmaceutical company. Mr. Schroeder holds a B.S. in management from Rutgers University.
          James B. Breitmeyer, M.D., Ph.D. has served as our Executive Vice President, Development and Chief Medical Officer since August 2006. From December 2001 to August 2006, Dr. Breitmeyer served as Chief Medical Officer and Vice President, Pharmaceutical Operations of Applied Molecular Evolution, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Eli Lilly and Company, a global pharmaceutical company. From February 2000 to July 2001, Dr. Breitmeyer was the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Harvard Clinical

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Research Institute. Prior to February 2000, Dr. Breitmeyer held various positions of increasing responsibility including Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Serono International S.A., a global biopharmaceutical company. Dr. Breitmeyer holds a B.A. in chemistry from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an M.D. and Ph.D. from Washington University School of Medicine.
          William S. Craig, Ph.D. has served as our Senior Vice President, Pharmaceutical Development and Manufacturing since November 2004. From January 2000 to November 2004, Dr. Craig served as Vice President, Research and Product Development of ISTA Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an ophthalmology-focused specialty pharmaceutical company. From 1996 to December 1999, Dr. Craig served as Vice President, Research and Development for Alpha Therapeutics Corporation, a biotechnology company. From 1988 to 1996, he served as Senior Director, Research and Development for Telios Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biotechnology company. Dr. Craig holds a B.S. in biochemistry from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California, San Diego.
          Kenneth R. Heilbrunn, M.D. has served as our Senior Vice President, Clinical Development since April 2005. From May 2002 to April 2005, Dr. Heilbrunn served as Vice President of Clinical Development of La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company, an autoimmune disease-focused biopharmaceutical company. From 1998 to April 2002, he held several positions, the most recent of which was Vice President of Clinical Research, at Advanced Tissue Sciences, Inc., a tissue engineering company, where he was responsible for a multicenter Phase III clinical trial which ultimately led to the FDA approval of Dermagraft, a bioengineered human tissue. From 1997 to 1998, Dr. Heilbrunn served as Vice President of Medical Affairs at Hepatix, Inc., a company engaged in the development of a bioengineered liver. From 1994 to 1996, he served as Staff Vice President of Medical Affairs at C.R. Bard, Inc., a manufacturer of healthcare products. From 1989 to 1994, he held several positions in the Medical Affairs department of Ciba-Geigy Pharmaceuticals Division, a pharmaceutical company, the most recent of which was Director for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Drugs, where he participated in the launch of the nicotine patch, Habitrol, and the antihypertensive drug, Lotensin. From 1986 to 1989, Dr. Heilbrunn served as Staff Internist and, ultimately, Director of the Critical Care unit at the 31st Tactical Air Force Hospital in Homestead, Florida. Dr. Heilbrunn received a B.A. from Brown University and an M.D. from New York Medical College.
          William R. LaRue has served as our Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary since June 2006. From April 2001 to May 2006, Mr. LaRue served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Micromet, Inc., formerly CancerVax Corporation, a biotechnology company focused on the treatment and control of cancer. From March 2000 to February 2001, Mr. LaRue served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of eHelp Corporation, a provider of user assistance software. From January 1997 to February 2000, Mr. LaRue served as Vice President and Treasurer of Safeskin Corporation, a medical device company, and from January 1993 to January 1997 he served as Treasurer of GDE Systems, Inc., a high technology electronic systems company. Mr. LaRue received a B.S. in business administration and an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California.
          Richard E. Lowenthal has served as our Vice President, Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance since November 2004. From November 2002 to November 2004, Mr. Lowenthal served as Senior Director, Worldwide Regulatory Affairs and Drug Safety of Maxim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company. From December 2001 to November 2002, he served as Vice President of Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance of AnGes, MG, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company. From June 1996 to December 2001, Mr. Lowenthal served in various roles in regulatory affairs at Janssen Research Foundation, a division of Johnson & Johnson, most recently as the Global Director of Chemistry, Manufacturing and Control Regulatory Affairs. Prior to joining Janssen, he served as the Director of Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance of Somerset Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a proprietary research and development pharmaceutical company. Mr. Lowenthal holds a B.S. in biochemistry and a M.S. in organic chemistry from Florida State University.
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Solstice Neurosciences, Inc., a specialty biopharmaceutical company. From May 2003 to December 2004, Dr. Royal served as Vice President, Strategic Brand Development and Global Medical Affairs of Alpharma Inc., a global specialty pharmaceutical company. From January 2002 to May 2003, he served as Senior Medical Director of Elan Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a neuroscience-based biotechnology company. From 1994 to January 2002, he owned and managed the largest private practice pain management clinic and research center in Oklahoma. Dr. Royal has also served as Director of the Acute Pain Service, Staff Anesthesiologist, and Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Dr. Royal is board certified in internal medicine, anesthesiology, pain management, and addiction medicine and has published extensively in the area of pain management. He holds a B.S. in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.D. from the University of Massachusetts, a J.D. from the University of Maryland and an M.B.A. from New York University (TRIUM).
          David A. Socks is one of our co-founders and has served as our Vice President, Business Development since our inception in May 2004. From May 2004 to June 2006, Mr. Socks also served as our Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, and Secretary. From July 2000 to May 2004, Mr. Socks was a Venture Partner at Windamere Venture Partners, a venture capital firm investing in early stage life science companies. In this capacity, Mr. Socks held management positions at two portfolio companies of Windamere Venture Partners. These positions included Vice President of Business Development of Kanisa Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an oncology-focused specialty pharmaceutical company and Vice President of Finance of CelTor Biosystems, Inc., a drug discovery company. Mr. Socks co-founded several pharmaceutical companies including Avera Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Kanisa Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Somaxon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Verus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and two medical technology companies including MiraMedica, Inc. and SpineWave, Inc. In 1999, Mr. Socks worked in business development at Neurocrine Biosciences, a biopharmaceutical company. In 1998, he worked in the venture capital arm of EFO Holdings, L.P., an investment firm. From 1995 to 1998, he worked at Kaiser Associates, Inc., a strategic management consulting firm, where he was most recently a Senior Manager. Mr. Socks holds a B.S. in business administration from Georgetown University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
Board of Directors
          Cam L. Garner is one of our co-founders and has served as a member of our board of directors since our inception in May 2004, and as the chairman of our board of directors since July 2004. Mr. Garner co-founded Verus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Somaxon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Xcel Pharmaceuticals, Inc., which are specialty pharmaceutical companies. Since July 2004, he has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Verus. He served as Chairman of Xcel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from January 2001 until it was acquired in March 2005 by Valeant Pharmaceuticals International. From August 2001 to February 2002, he served as acting Chief Executive Officer of Favrille, Inc., a biotechnology company, and is currently the Chairman of its board of directors. From 1989 to 1995, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Dura Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty respiratory pharmaceutical and pulmonary drug delivery company, and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from 1995 to 2000 until it was sold to Elan in November 2000. Previously, he served as Chairman of DJ Pharma, a specialty pharmaceutical sales and marketing company, which was sold to Biovail Corporation in 2000. Mr. Garner also serves on the board of directors of two publicly-held companies — Somaxon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Pharmion Corporation — and other privately-held pharmaceutical companies. In addition, Mr. Garner participates on the boards of several charitable organizations. Mr. Garner holds a B.A. in biology and an M.B.A. from Baldwin-Wallace College and an honorary Doctor of Science from Virginia Wesleyan College.
          Brian G. Atwood has served as a member of our board of directors since March 2006. Since 1999, Mr. Atwood has served as a Managing Director of Versant Ventures I, LLC, Versant Ventures II, LLC and Versant Ventures III, LLC (Versant Ventures), a venture capital firm focusing on healthcare that he co-founded. Prior to founding Versant Ventures, Mr. Atwood served as a general partner of Brentwood Associates, a venture capital firm. Mr. Atwood also serves on the board of directors of Pharmion

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Corporation, ForteBio, FivePrime Therapeutics, Inc., Saegis Pharmaceuticals, Helicos Biosciences Corp. and Spaltudaq Corporation. Mr. Atwood holds a B.S. in biological sciences from the University of California, Irvine, an M.S. in ecology from the University of California, Davis and an M.B.A. from Harvard University.
          Samuel L. Barker, Ph.D. has served as a member of our board of directors since August 2006. In March 2001, Dr. Barker co-founded Clearview Projects, Inc., a provider of partnering and transaction services to biopharmaceutical companies, and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer from July 2003 until his retirement in November 2004. Dr. Barker served in a series of leadership positions at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company until his initial retirement in 1999. His positions at Bristol-Myers Squibb included service as Executive Vice President, Worldwide Franchise Management and Strategy during 1998, President, United States Pharmaceuticals from 1992 to 1997, and President, Bristol-Myers Squibb Intercontinental Commercial Operations from 1990 to 1992. Prior to 1990, Dr. Barker held executive positions in research and development, manufacturing, finance, business development and sales and marketing at Squibb Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Barker also serves on the board of directors of AtheroGenics, Inc., a pharmaceutical company, and Lexicon Genetics Incorporated, a biopharmaceutical company, where he serves as chairman. Dr. Barker holds a B.S. from Henderson State College, an M.S. from the University of Arkansas and a Ph.D. from Purdue University.
          Michael A. Berman, M.D. has served as a member of our board of directors since April 2006. Since January 2005, Dr. Berman has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Michael A. Berman Group, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in the healthcare industry. Since January 2005, Dr. Berman has also served as a consultant for Stockamp and Associates, Inc., a business process consulting firm specializing in the healthcare industry. From October 1999 to January 2005, Dr. Berman served as Executive Vice President and Director of New York Presbyterian Hospital, and from September 1997 to October 1999 as its Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer. From April 1984 to September 1997, he served as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Berman holds a M.D. from the State University of New York, Syracuse.
          James C. Blair, Ph.D. has served as a member of our board of directors since September 2005. Since 1985, Mr. Blair has been a partner of Domain Associates, L.L.C., a venture capital management company focused on life sciences. Mr. Blair also serves on the board of directors of Cell Biosciences, Inc., Five Prime Therapeutics, Inc., GenVault Corporation, NeuroPace, Inc., Novacea, Inc., NuVasive, Inc., Pharmion Corporation, Verus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Volcano Corporation. Mr. Blair has over 35 years experience with venture and emerging growth companies. In the course of this experience, he has been involved in the creation and successful development at the board level of over forty life science ventures, including Amgen Inc., Aurora Biosciences Corporation, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Applied Biosystems Inc., Dura Pharmaceuticals, GeneOhm Sciences, Inc. and Molecular Dynamics Inc. A former managing director of Rothschild Inc., Mr. Blair was directly involved at a senior level with Rothschild/ New Court venture capital activities from 1978 to 1985. From 1969 to 1978, he was associated with F.S. Smithers and Co. and White, Weld and Co., two investment banking firms actively involved with new ventures and emerging growth companies. From 1961 to 1969, Mr. Blair was an engineering manager with RCA Corporation, during which time he received a David Sarnoff Fellowship. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Prostate Cancer Foundation, a philanthropic organization, and he is on the advisory boards of the Department of Molecular Biology at Princeton University and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Blair holds a B.S.E. from Princeton University and an M.S.E. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
          Alan D. Frazier has served as a member of our board of directors since March 2006. In 1991, Mr. Frazier founded Frazier Healthcare Ventures, a venture capital firm, and has served as the managing partner since its inception. From 1983 to 1991, Mr. Frazier served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Immunex Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company. From 1980 to 1983, Mr. Frazier was a principal in the Audit Department of Arthur Young & Company, which is now Ernst & Young LLP. Mr. Frazier is a member of the board of directors of Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

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and Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc., both of which are pharmaceutical companies. Mr. Frazier received a B.A. in economics from the University of Washington.
          Alain B. Schreiber, M.D. has served as a member of our board of directors since July 2004. Since 2000, Dr. Schreiber has been a General Partner of ProQuest Investments, a venture capital firm. From May 1992 to June 2000, Dr. Schreiber served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Vical Incorporated, a biopharmaceutical company. From July 1985 to April 1992, he held various positions with Rhone-Poulenc Rorer Inc., which is now Sanofi-Aventis, most recently as Senior Vice President of Discovery Research. From October 1982 to June 1985, Dr. Schreiber served as Biochemistry Department Head at Syntex Research, which is now Roche Bioscience. Dr. Schreiber currently serves on the board of several privately held companies including BioRexis Pharmaceutical Corporation, Concentric Medical, Inc. and Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Dr. Schreiber holds a B.S. in chemistry and an M.D. from the Free University in Brussels, Belgium.
          Christopher J. Twomey has served as a member of our board of directors since July 2006. Mr. Twomey joined Biosite Incorporated, a medical diagnostic company, in March 1990 and is currently its Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer. From 1981 to 1990, Mr. Twomey worked for Ernst & Young LLP, where he served as an Audit Manager. Mr. Twomey also serves on the board of directors of Senomyx, Inc., a biotechnology company, where he serves as Chair of the Audit Committee. Mr. Twomey holds a B.A. in business economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Board Composition
          Our board of directors is currently authorized to have eight members, and is currently composed of seven non-employee members and our current President and Chief Executive Officer, Theodore R. Schroeder. Upon completion of this offering, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation will provide for a classified board of directors consisting of three classes of directors, each serving staggered three-year terms. As a result, a portion of our board of directors will be elected each year. To implement the classified structure, prior to the consummation of this offering, two of the nominees to the board will be appointed to one-year terms, three will be appointed to two-year terms and three will be appointed to three-year terms. Thereafter, directors will be elected for three-year terms. Our Class I directors, whose terms will expire at the 2007 annual meeting of stockholders, will be Drs. Berman and Schreiber and Mr. Schroeder. Our Class II directors, whose terms will expire at the 2008 annual meeting of stockholders, will be Dr. Blair and Messrs. Frazier and Twomey. Our Class III directors, whose terms will expire at the 2009 annual meeting of stockholders, will be Dr. Barker and Messrs. Atwood and Garner.
          Pursuant to a voting agreement originally entered into in July 2004 and most recently amended in August 2006 by and among us and certain of our stockholders, Drs. Barker, Berman, Blair and Schreiber and Messrs. Atwood, Frazier, Garner, Schroeder and Twomey were each elected to serve as members on our board of directors and, as of the date of this prospectus, continue to so serve. The voting agreement will terminate upon completion of this offering, and members previously elected to our board of directors pursuant to this agreement will continue to serve as directors until their successors are duly elected by holders of our common stock. For a more complete description of the voting agreement, see “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions — Voting Agreement.”
Board Committees
          Our board of directors has established three committees: the audit committee, the compensation committee and the nominating/corporate governance committee. Our board of directors may establish other committees to facilitate the management of our business.
          Audit Committee. Our audit committee consists of Messrs. Twomey (chair and audit committee financial expert) and Frazier and Dr. Berman, each of whom our board of directors has determined is independent within the meaning of the independent director standards of the SEC and the Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc.

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          This committee’s main function is to oversee our accounting and financial reporting processes, internal systems of control, independent registered public accounting firm relationships and the audits of our financial statements. This committee’s responsibilities include:
  selecting and hiring our independent registered public accounting firm;
 
  evaluating the qualifications, independence and performance of our independent registered public accounting firm;
 
  approving the audit and non-audit services to be performed by our independent registered public accounting firm;
 
  reviewing the design, implementation, adequacy and effectiveness of our internal controls and our critical accounting policies;
 
  overseeing and monitoring the integrity of our financial statements and our compliance with legal and regulatory requirements as they relate to financial statements or accounting matters;
 
  reviewing with management and our auditors any earnings announcements and other public announcements regarding our results of operations;
 
  preparing the report that the SEC requires in our annual proxy statement; and
 
  reviewing and approving any related party transactions and reviewing and monitoring compliance with our code of conduct and ethics.
          Compensation Committee. Our compensation committee consists of Messrs. Garner (chair) and Frazier and Dr. Blair, each of whom our board of directors has determined is independent within the meaning of the independent director standards of the Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. This committee’s purpose is to assist our board of directors in determining the development plans and compensation for our senior management and directors and recommend these plans to our board. This committee’s responsibilities include:
  reviewing and recommending compensation and benefit plans for our executive officers and compensation policies for members of our board of directors and board committees;
 
  reviewing the terms of offer letters and employment agreements and arrangements with our officers;
 
  setting performance goals for our officers and reviewing their performance against these goals;
 
  evaluating the competitiveness of our executive compensation plans and periodically reviewing executive succession plans; and
 
  preparing the report that the SEC requires in our annual proxy statement.
          Nominating/ Corporate Governance Committee. Our nominating/corporate governance committee consists of Mr. Atwood (chair) and Drs. Berman and Schreiber, each of whom our board of directors has determined is independent within the meaning of the independent director standards of the Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. This committee’s purpose is to assist our board by identifying individuals qualified to become members of our board of directors, consistent with criteria set by our board, and to develop our corporate governance principles. This committee’s responsibilities include:
  evaluating the composition, size and governance of our board of directors and its committees and making recommendations regarding future planning and the appointment of directors to our committees;
 
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  evaluating and recommending candidates for election to our board of directors;
 
  overseeing our board of directors’ performance and self-evaluation process; and
 
  reviewing our corporate governance principles and providing recommendations to the board regarding possible changes.
Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation
          Prior to establishing the compensation committee, our board of directors as a whole performed the functions delegated to the compensation committee. None of the members of our compensation committee has ever been one of our officers or employees. None of our executive officers currently serves, or has served, as a member of the board of directors or compensation committee of any entity that has one or more executive officers serving as a member of our board of directors or compensation committee.
Director Compensation
          From September 2004 through August 2005, we paid Mr. Garner $5,000 per month plus qualified business expenses for his services as chairman of our board of directors under the terms of a consulting agreement between us and a limited liability company affiliated with Mr. Garner. The agreement expired on August 31, 2005. From September 2005 to February 2006, we continued to pay Mr. Garner $5,000 per month for his services as chairman of our board of directors. In February 2006, Mr. Garner’s monthly compensation for his services as chairman of our board of directors was increased to $8,333 per month.
          Other than to Mr. Garner, we have historically not provided cash compensation to directors for their services as directors or members of committees of the board of directors. Following the completion of this offering, we intend to provide cash compensation in the form of an annual retainer of $25,000 for each non-employee director. We will also pay an additional annual retainer to the non-employee director serving as (i) the chairman of our Audit Committee equal to $10,000, and (ii) the chairman of our Compensation Committee or our Nominating/ Corporate Governance Committee equal to $4,000. We will pay an additional annual retainer to non-employee directors (other than the chairman) serving on the Audit Committee equal to $5,000 and to non-employee directors (other than the chairman) serving on the Compensation Committee or the Nominating/Corporate Governance Committee equal to $2,000. We will pay additional cash compensation to the non-employee director serving as the chairman of our board of directors equal to $100,000 per year. We have reimbursed and will continue to reimburse our non-employee directors for their reasonable expenses incurred in attending meetings of our board of directors and committees of the board of directors.
          Following the completion of this offering, any non-employee director who is first elected to the board of directors will be granted a non-qualified option to purchase 25,000 shares of our common stock (subject to adjustment as provided in the 2006 plan described below) on the date of his or her initial election to the board of directors. Such options will have an exercise price per share equal to the fair market value of our common stock on the date of grant. In addition, on the date of each annual meeting of our stockholders following this offering, each non-employee director will be eligible to receive a non-qualified option to purchase 12,500 shares of common stock (subject to adjustment as provided in the 2006 plan described below).
          The initial options granted to non-employee directors described above will vest in thirty-six (36) equal monthly installments on the first day of each calendar month subsequent to the date of grant, subject to the director’s continuing service on our board of directors on those dates. The annual options granted to non-employee directors described above will vest in twelve equal monthly installments on the first day of each calendar month following the date of grant, subject to the director’s continuing service on our board of directors on those dates. The term of each option granted to a non-employee director shall be ten years. The terms of these options are described in more detail under “— Employee Benefit and Stock Plans.”

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Executive Compensation
          The following table summarizes the compensation that we paid to our Chief Executive Officer and each of our four other most highly compensated executive officers during the year ended December 31, 2005. We refer to these officers in this prospectus as our named executive officers.
Summary Compensation Table
                                           
                Long-Term    
            Compensation    
    Annual Compensation            
        Other Annual   Securities   All Other
Name and Principal Position   Salary   Bonus   Compensation   Underlying Options   Compensation
                     
Named Executive Officers
                                       
Theodore R. Schroeder
  $ 250,000     $ 30,000             250,000        
  President and Chief
Executive Officer
                                       
Richard E. Lowenthal
    220,000       25,430             564,000        
  Vice President, Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance                                        
William S. Craig, Ph.D. 
    220,000       23,161             350,000        
  Senior Vice President, Pharmaceutical Development
and Manufacturing
                                       
Kenneth R. Heilbrunn, M.D.(1)
    206,250       6,000             350,000        
  Senior Vice President,
Clinical Development
                                       
David A. Socks
    175,000       10,000                    
  Vice President,
Business Development
                                       
 
(1)  Dr. Heilbrunn joined us as our Senior Vice President, Clinical Development in April 2005 and, therefore, the amounts set forth above reflect less than a full year.
          In May 2006, Dr. Mike A. Royal, M.D., J.D. joined us as our Vice President, Clinical Development, Analgesics at an annual salary of $275,000. In June 2006, Mr. William R. LaRue joined us as our Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary at an annual salary of $265,000. In August 2006, Dr. James B. Breitmeyer joined us as our Executive Vice President, Development and Chief Medical Officer at an annual salary of $330,000.
Option Grants in Last Fiscal Year
          The following table sets forth certain information with respect to stock options granted to the individuals named in the Summary Compensation Table during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005, including the potential realizable value over the ten-year term of the options, based on assumed rates of stock appreciation of 5% and 10%, compounded annually, minus the applicable per share exercise price.
          These assumed rates of appreciation are mandated by the rules of the SEC and do not represent our estimate or projection of our future common stock price. We cannot assure you that any of the values in the table will be achieved. Actual gains, if any, on stock option exercises will be dependent on the future performance of our common stock and overall stock market conditions. The assumed 5% and 10% rates of stock appreciation are based on the assumed initial public offering price of $           per share (the mid-point of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus). The percentage of total options granted is based upon our granting of options to employees, directors and consultants in 2005 to purchase an aggregate of 3,077,000 shares of our common stock.

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                    Potential Realizable
                    Value at Assumed
                    Annual Rates of
                    Stock Price
        Appreciation for
    Individual Grants   Option Term
         
        % of        
    Number of   Total Options        
    Shares   Granted to        
    Underlying   Employees   Exercise        
    Options   In Last   Price Per   Expiration    
Name   Granted   Fiscal Year   Share   Date   5%   10%
                         
Theodore R. Schroeder
    250,000       8.12%     $ 0.10       12-29-2015     $       $    
Richard E. Lowenthal
    300,000       9.75%       0.10       2-15-2015                  
      264,000       8.58%       0.10       12-29-2015                  
William S. Craig, Ph.D. 
    350,000       11.37%       0.10       2-15-2015                  
Kenneth R. Heilbrunn, M.D. 
    350,000       11.37%       0.10       5-19-2015                  
David A. Socks
                                       
Aggregate Option Exercises in Last Fiscal Year and Fiscal Year-End Option Values
          The following table describes for the named executive officers the number and value of securities underlying exercisable and unexercisable options held by them as of December 31, 2005. The value realized and the value of unexercised in-the-money options at December 31, 2005 are based on the assumed initial public offering price of $           per share (the mid-point of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus) less the per share exercise price, multiplied by the number of shares issued or issuable, as the case may be, upon exercise of the option. All options were granted under our 2004 equity incentive award plan.
                                                 
            Number of Securities    
            Underlying   Value of Unexercised
            Unexercised Options at   In-the-Money Options at
    Number of       December 31, 2005   December 31, 2005
    Shares Acquired   Value        
Name   on Exercise   Realized   Exercisable   Unexercisable   Exercisable   Unexercisable
                         
Theodore R. Schroeder
    1,000,000 (1)   $                   $       $    
Richard E. Lowenthal
    564,000 (2)                                    
William S. Craig, Ph.D. 
                  350,000 (3)                      
Kenneth R. Heilbrunn, M.D. 
                  350,000 (4)                      
David A. Socks
                  100,000 (5)                      
 
(1)  Of these 1,000,000 shares, 765,625 were unvested as of December 31, 2005.
 
(2)  Of these 564,000 shares, 489,000 were unvested as of December 31, 2005.
 
(3)  Of these 350,000 shares, 255,208 were unvested as of December 31, 2005.
 
(4)  Of these 350,000 shares, 350,000 were unvested as of December 31, 2005.
 
(5)  Of these 100,000 shares, 68,750 were unvested as of December 31, 2005.
Employment Agreements
          We have entered into employment agreements with Theodore R. Schroeder, our President and Chief Executive Officer, James B. Breitmeyer, M.D., Ph.D., our Executive Vice President, Development and Chief Medical Officer, William S. Craig, Ph.D., our Senior Vice President, Pharmaceutical Development and Manufacturing, Kenneth R. Heilbrunn, M.D., our Senior Vice President, Clinical Development, William R. LaRue, our Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary, Richard E. Lowenthal, our Vice President, Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance, Mike A. Royal, M.D., J.D., our Vice President, Clinical Development, Analgesics, and David A. Socks, our Vice President, Business Development.

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          Pursuant to the employment agreements, each executive is required to faithfully, industriously and to the best of his or her ability, experience and talent perform all of the duties that may be assigned to such executive pursuant to his or her employment agreement, and shall devote substantially all of his or her productive time and efforts to the performance of such duties.
          The base salaries of the executives are set forth in the employment agreements. The employment agreements do not provide for automatic annual increases in salary, but each employment agreement provides for annual salary reviews. The employment agreements provide that each executive shall participate in any bonus plan that our board of directors or its designee may approve for our senior executives (see “— Employee Benefit and Stock Plans — Annual Bonus Plan” below). Each executive’s employment is at-will and may be terminated by us at any time, with or without notice. Similarly, each executive may terminate his or her employment with us at any time, with or without notice.
          The employment agreements provide each executive with certain severance benefits in the event his or her employment is terminated as a result of his or her death or permanent disability. Specifically, in the event of such a termination, each executive will receive any accrued but unpaid base salary as of the date of termination, a lump sum cash payment equal to the executive’s annual base salary, and a lump sum cash payment equal to the executive’s prorated annual bonus. Additionally, in the event of an executive’s death, his or her eligible dependents would receive 12 months healthcare benefits continuation coverage at our expense. In the event of an executive’s permanent disability, he or she will receive 12 months healthcare and life insurance benefits continuation at our expense.
          The employment agreements also provide each executive with certain severance benefits in the event his or her employment is terminated by us other than for “cause”, as defined in the agreements and described below, or if the executive resigns with “good reason”, as defined in the agreements and described below. Specifically, if such termination occurs within three months prior to or within 12 months following a change of control, each executive will receive any accrued but unpaid base salary as of the date of termination, a lump sum cash payment equal to the executive’s annual base salary, a lump sum cash payment equal to the executive’s prorated annual bonus, and 12 months healthcare and life insurance benefits continuation coverage at our expense, plus a maximum of $15,000 towards outplacement services. If such termination occurs more than three months prior to a change of control or more than 12 months following a change of control, each executive will receive the benefits described in the previous sentence, less the prorated annual bonus.
          The employment agreements provide that, in the event an executive’s employment is terminated by us other than for cause or as a result of the executive’s death or permanent disability, or if the executive resigns for good reason, that portion of the executive’s stock awards, and any unvested shares issued upon the exercise of such stock awards, which would have vested if the executive had remained employed for an additional 12 months following the date of termination will immediately vest on the date of termination. In addition, if an executive’s employment is terminated by us other than for cause or if an executive resigns for good reason within three months prior to or twelve months following a change of control, all of the executive’s remaining unvested stock awards, and any unvested shares issued upon the exercise of such stock awards, will immediately vest on the later of (1) the date of termination or (2) the date of the change of control. This accelerated vesting is in addition to any accelerated vesting provided under our stock option plans.
          Provided that the relevant stock award agreements do not specify a longer exercise period, an executive may generally exercise his or her stock awards until three months after the date of the executive’s termination of employment, except that the executive may also exercise his or her stock awards three months after the date of a change of control, if the executive’s employment is terminated by us other than for cause or if the executive resigns for good reason within three months prior to a change of control, and if such stock awards were granted on or after the effective date of the executive’s employment agreement. In no event, however, may an executive exercise any stock award later than its original outside expiration date.

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          In addition, the employment agreements provide that, in connection with a change of control, 50% of the executive’s unvested stock awards, and any unvested shares issued upon the exercise of stock awards, will immediately become vested. This accelerated vesting is in addition to any accelerated vesting provided under our stock option plans.
          The employment agreements also include standard noncompetition, nonsolicitation and nondisclosure covenants on the part of the executives. During the term of each executive’s employment with us, the employment agreements provide that he or she may not compete with our business in any manner, except that an executive may own insignificant equity positions in publicly traded companies so long as the executive does not control such company. During the term of each executive’s employment with us and for any period during which he or she is receiving severance, the employment agreements provide that he or she may not solicit our employees or consultants. The employment agreements also reaffirm the executives’ obligations under our standard employee proprietary information and inventions agreement to which each executive is a party.
          For purposes of the employment agreements, “cause” means, generally, the executive’s commission of an act of fraud, embezzlement or dishonesty that has a material adverse impact on us, the executive’s conviction of, or plea of guilty or no contest to a felony, the executive’s unauthorized use or disclosure of our confidential information or trade secrets that has a material adverse impact on us, the executive’s gross negligence, insubordination, material violation of any duty of loyalty to us or any other material misconduct on the part of the executive, the executive’s ongoing and repeated failure or refusal to perform or neglect of his or her duties (where such failure, refusal or neglect continues for 15 days following the executive’s receipt of written notice from our board), or a breach by the executive of any material provision of his or her employment agreement. Prior to any determination by us that “cause” has occurred, we will provide the executive with written notice of the reasons for such determination, afford the executive a reasonable opportunity to remedy any such breach, and provide the executive an opportunity to be heard prior to the final decision to terminate the executive’s employment.
          For purposes of the employment agreements, “good reason” means, generally, a change by us in the executive’s position or responsibilities, other than a change in the executive’s reporting relationship, that, in the executive’s reasonable judgment, represents a substantial and material reduction in the position or responsibilities as in effect immediately prior thereto, our assignment to the executive of any duties or responsibilities that, in the executive’s reasonable judgment, are materially inconsistent with such position or responsibilities, any removal of the executive from or failure to reappoint or reelect the executive to any of such positions, except in connection with the termination of the executive’s employment for cause, as a result of his or her permanent disability or death, or by the executive other than for good reason, a material reduction in the executive’s annual base salary (other than in connection with a general reduction in wages for personnel with similar status and responsibilities), our requiring the executive (without the executive’s consent) to be based at any place outside a 50-mile radius of his or her initial place of employment with us, except for reasonably required travel on behalf of our business, our failure to provide the executive with compensation and benefits substantially equivalent (in terms of benefit levels and/or reward opportunities) to those provided for under each of our material employee benefit plans, programs and practices as in effect immediately prior to the date of the employment agreement, or any material breach by us of our obligations to the executive under the employment agreement.
Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement
          Each of our named executive officers has also entered into a standard form agreement with respect to proprietary information and inventions. Among other things, this agreement obligates each named executive officer to refrain from disclosing any of our proprietary information received during the course of employment and, with some exceptions, to assign to us any inventions conceived or developed during the course of employment.

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Employee Benefit and Stock Plans
Annual Bonus Plan
          In August 2006, our board of directors approved our 2006 corporate bonus plan. Pursuant to the 2006 corporate bonus plan, our board of directors designated for each executive officer a target bonus amount, expressed as a percentage of his or her base salary (40% for our chief executive officer, 30% for our executive vice presidents and senior vice presidents and 25% for our other executive officers). Our executive officers are eligible to receive bonuses if certain individual and corporate performance criteria are achieved during the 2006 fiscal year, and such bonuses are payable as cash, stock, options, or a combination of the foregoing. Bonus payments will be based on the compensation committee’s evaluation of our achievement of corporate performance goals for 2006, which were determined by the compensation committee prior to the inception of the 2006 incentive plan. The use of corporate performance goals is intended to establish a link between the executive’s pay and our business performance. The individual performance of each of the executive officers during 2006 will be evaluated according to the achievement of individual performance goals, which were approved by the president and chief executive officer and the relevant vice presidents prior to the inception of the 2006 incentive plan. Our president and chief executive officer will receive a bonus determined solely by reference to the achievement of corporate performance goals. The compensation committee is responsible for approving any bonuses to our executive officers pursuant to the 2006 incentive plan.
2006 Equity Incentive Award Plan
          In August 2006, our board of directors approved our 2006 Equity Incentive Award Plan, or the 2006 plan, which was approved by our stockholders in August 2006. The 2006 plan will become effective on the day prior to the day of this offering.
          We have initially reserved                      shares of our common stock for issuance under the 2006 plan. In addition, the number of shares initially reserved under the 2006 plan will be increased by (i) the number of shares of common stock available for issuance and not subject to options granted under our 2004 equity incentive award plan as of the effective date of the 2006 plan, and (ii) the number of shares of common stock related to options granted under our 2004 equity incentive award plan that are repurchased, forfeited, expired or are cancelled on or after the effective date of the 2006 plan. The total number of shares described in clauses (i) and (ii) of the preceding sentence shall not exceed                      shares of our common stock. The 2006 plan contains an “evergreen provision” that allows for an annual increase in the number of shares available for issuance under the 2006 plan on January 1 of each year during the ten-year term of the 2006 plan, beginning on January 1, 2008. The annual increase in the number of shares shall be equal to the lesser of:
  4% of our outstanding common stock on the applicable January 1; and
 
  a lesser amount determined by our board of directors.
          Notwithstanding the “evergreen provision”, the 2006 plan also provides for an aggregate limit of 20,000,000 shares of common stock which may be issued under the 2006 plan over the course of its ten-year term. The material terms of the 2006 plan are summarized below. The 2006 plan is filed as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part.
          Administration. The compensation committee of our board of directors will administer the 2006 plan (except with respect to any award granted to “independent directors” (as defined in the 2006 plan), which must be administered by our full board of directors). To administer the 2006 plan, our compensation committee must consist of at least two members of our board of directors, each of whom is a “non-employee director” for purposes of Rule 16b-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and, with respect to awards that are intended to constitute performance-based compensation under Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, an “outside director” for purposes of Section 162(m). Subject to the terms and conditions of the 2006 plan, our compensation committee has the authority to select the persons to whom awards are to be made, to determine the type

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or types of awards to be granted to each person, the number of awards to grant, the number of shares to be subject to such awards, and the terms and conditions of such awards, and to make all other determinations and decisions and to take all other actions necessary or advisable for the administration of the 2006 plan. Our compensation committee is also authorized to adopt, amend or rescind rules relating to administration of the 2006 plan. Our board of directors may at any time abolish the compensation committee and revest in itself the authority to administer the 2006 plan. The full board of directors will administer the 2006 plan with respect to awards to non-employee directors.
          Eligibility. Options, stock appreciation rights, or SARs, restricted stock and other awards under the 2006 plan may be granted to individuals who are then our officers or employees or are the officers or employees of any of our subsidiaries. Such awards may also be granted to our non-employee directors and consultants but only employees may be granted incentive stock options, or ISOs. The maximum number of shares that may be subject to awards granted under the 2006 plan to any individual in any calendar year cannot exceed 1,000,000.
          Awards. The 2006 plan provides that our compensation committee (or the board of directors, in the case of awards to non-employee directors) may grant or issue stock options, SARs, restricted stock, restricted stock units, dividend equivalents, performance share awards, performance stock units, stock payments, deferred stock, performance bonus awards, performance-based awards, and other stock-based awards, or any combination thereof. The compensation committee (or the board of directors, in the case of awards to non-employee directors) will consider each award grant subjectively, considering factors such as the individual performance of the recipient and the anticipated contribution of the recipient to the attainment of the company’s long-term goals. Each award will be set forth in a separate agreement with the person receiving the award and will indicate the type, terms and conditions of the award.
  Nonqualified stock options, or NQSOs, will provide for the right to purchase shares of our common stock at a specified price which may not be less than par value of a share of common stock on the date of grant, and usually will become exercisable (at the discretion of our compensation committee or the board of directors, in the case of awards to non-employee directors) in one or more installments after the grant date, subject to the participant’s continued employment or service with us and/or subject to the satisfaction of performance targets established by our compensation committee (or the board of directors, in the case of awards to non-employee directors). NQSOs may be granted for any term specified by our compensation committee (or the board of directors, in the case of awards to non-employee directors), but the term may not exceed ten years.
 
  ISOs will be designed to comply with the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code and will be subject to specified restrictions contained in the Internal Revenue Code. Among such restrictions, ISOs must have an exercise price of not less than the fair market value of a share of common stock on the date of grant, may only be granted to employees, must expire within a specified period of time following the optionee’s termination of employment, and must be exercised within the ten years after the date of grant. In the case of an ISO granted to an individual who owns (or is deemed to own) more than 10% of the total combined voting power of all classes of our capital stock, the 2006 plan provides that the exercise price must be more than 110% of the fair market value of a share of common stock on the date of grant and the ISO must expire upon the fifth anniversary of the date of its grant.
 
  Restricted stock may be granted to participants and made subject to such restrictions as may be determined by our compensation committee (or the board of directors, in the case of awards to non-employee directors). Typically, restricted stock may be forfeited for no consideration if the conditions or restrictions are not met, and they may not be sold or otherwise transferred to third parties until restrictions are removed or expire. Recipients of restricted stock, unlike recipients of options, may have voting rights and may receive dividends, if any, prior to the time when the restrictions lapse.

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  Restricted stock units may be awarded to participants, typically without payment of consideration or for a nominal purchase price, but subject to vesting conditions including continued employment or on performance criteria established by our compensation committee (or the board of directors, in the case of awards to non-employee directors). Like restricted stock, restricted stock units may not be sold or otherwise transferred or hypothecated until vesting conditions are removed or expire. Unlike restricted stock, stock underlying restricted stock units will not be issued until the restricted stock units have vested, and recipients of restricted stock units generally will have no voting or dividend rights prior to the time when vesting conditions are satisfied.
 
  SARs may be granted in connection with stock options or other awards, or separately. SARs granted under the 2006 plan in connection with stock options or other awards typically will provide for payments to the holder based upon increases in the price of our common stock over the exercise price of the related option or other awards. Except as required by Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code with respect to an SAR intended to qualify as performance-based compensation as described in Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code, there are no restrictions specified in the 2006 plan on the exercise of SARs or the amount of gain realizable therefrom. Our compensation committee (or the board of directors, in the case of awards to non-employee directors) may elect to pay SARs in cash or in common stock or in a combination of both.
 
  Dividend equivalents represent the value of the dividends, if any, per share paid by us, calculated with reference to the number of shares covered by the stock options, SARs or other awards held by the participant.
 
  •  Performance awards (i.e., performance share awards, performance stock units, performance bonus awards, performance-based awards and deferred stock) may be granted by our compensation committee (or the board of directors, in the case of awards to non-employee directors) on an individual or group basis. Generally, these awards will be based upon specific performance targets and may be paid in cash or in common stock or in a combination of both. Performance awards may include “phantom” stock awards that provide for payments based upon increases in the price of our common stock over a predetermined period. Performance awards may also include bonuses that may be granted by our compensation committee (or the board of directors, in the case of awards to non- employee directors) on an individual or group basis, which may be paid on a current or deferred basis and may be payable in cash or in common stock or in a combination of both. The maximum amount of any such bonuses to a “covered employee” within the meaning of Section 162(m) of the Code shall not exceed $1,000,000 for any fiscal year during the term of the 2006 plan.
 
  Stock payments may be authorized by our compensation committee (or the board of directors, in the case of awards to non-employee directors) in the form of common stock or an option or other right to purchase common stock as part of a deferred compensation arrangement, made in lieu of all or any part of compensation, including bonuses, that would otherwise be payable to employees or consultants or members of our board of directors.
          Corporate Transactions. In the event of a change of control where the acquiror does not assume awards granted under the plan, awards issued under the 2006 plan will be subject to accelerated vesting such that 100% of the awards will become vested and exercisable or payable, as applicable. Under the 2006 plan, a change of control is generally defined as:
  the direct or indirect sale or exchange in a single or series of related transactions (other than an offering of our stock to the general public through a registration statement filed with the SEC) whereby any person or entity or related group of persons or entities (other than us, our subsidiaries, an employee benefit plan maintained by us or any of our subsidiaries or a person or entity that, prior to such transaction, directly or indirectly controls, is controlled

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  by, or is under common control with, us) directly or indirectly acquires beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) of more than 50% of the total combined voting power of our securities outstanding immediately after such acquisition;
 
  during any two-year period, individuals who, at the beginning of such period, constitute our board of directors together with any new director(s) whose election by our board of directors or nomination for election by our stockholders was approved by a vote of at least two-thirds of the directors then still in office who either were directors at the beginning of the two-year period or whose election or nomination for election was previously so approved, cease for any reason to constitute a majority of our board of directors;
 
  the merger, consolidation, reorganization, or business combination in which the company is a party (whether directly involving the company or indirectly involving the company through one or more intermediaries, other than a merger, consolidation, reorganization, or business combination that results in our outstanding voting securities immediately before the transaction continuing to represent a majority of the voting power of the acquiring company’s outstanding voting securities or a merger, consolidation, reorganization, or business combination after which no person or entity owns 50% of the successor company’s voting power); and
 
  the sale, exchange or transfer of all or substantially all of our assets.
          Amendment and Termination of the 2006 Plan. Our board of directors may terminate, amend or modify the 2006 plan. However, stockholder approval of any amendment to the 2006 plan will be obtained to the extent necessary and desirable to comply with any applicable law, regulation or stock exchange rule, or for any amendment to the 2006 plan that increases the number of shares available under the 2006 plan. If not terminated earlier by the compensation committee or the board of directors, the 2006 plan will terminate on the tenth anniversary of the date of its initial approval by our board of directors.
          Securities Laws and Federal Income Taxes. The 2006 plan is designed to comply with various securities and federal tax laws as follows:
  Securities Laws. The 2006 plan is intended to conform to all provisions of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act and any and all regulations and rules promulgated by the SEC thereunder, including without limitation, Rule 16b-3. The 2006 plan will be administered, and awards will be granted and may be exercised, only in such a manner as to conform to such laws, rules and regulations.
 
  General Federal Tax Consequences. Under current federal laws, in general, recipients of awards and grants of NQSOs, SARs, restricted stock, restricted stock units, dividend equivalents, performance awards and stock payments under the plan are taxable under Section 83 of the Internal Revenue Code upon their receipt of common stock or cash with respect to such awards or grants and, subject to Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code, we will be entitled to an income tax deduction with respect to the amounts taxable to such recipients. However, Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code provides certain new requirements on non-qualified deferred compensation arrangements. Certain awards under the 2006 plan are subject to the requirements of Section 409A, in form and in operation, such as restricted stock unit awards. We intend that all plan awards that are subject to Section 409A will satisfy the requirements of Section 409A. However, if a plan award is subject to and fails to satisfy the requirements of Section 409A, the recipient of that award may recognize ordinary income on the amounts deferred under the award, to the extent vested, which may be prior to when the compensation is actually or constructively received. Also, if an award that is subject to Section 409A fails to comply, Section 409A imposes an additional 20% federal income tax on compensation recognized as ordinary income, as well as interest on such deferred compensation.

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  Under Sections 421 and 422 of the Internal Revenue Code, recipients of ISOs are generally not taxed on their receipt of common stock upon their exercises of ISOs if the ISOs and option stock are held for specified minimum holding periods and, in such event, we are not entitled to income tax deductions with respect to such exercises. Participants in the 2006 plan will be provided with detailed information regarding the tax consequences relating to the various types of awards and grants under the 2006 plan.
  Section 162(m) Limitation. In general, under Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code, income tax deductions of publicly-held corporations may be limited to the extent total compensation (including base salary, annual bonus, stock option exercises and non-qualified benefits paid) for certain executive officers exceeds $1 million (less the amount of any “excess parachute payments” as defined in Section 280G of the Internal Revenue Code) in any one year. However, under Section 162(m), the deduction limit does not apply to certain “performance-based compensation” if an independent compensation committee determines performance goals, and if the material terms of the performance-based compensation are disclosed to and approved by our stockholders. In particular, stock options and SARs will satisfy the “performance-based compensation” exception if the awards are made by a qualifying compensation committee, the 2006 plan sets the maximum number of shares that can be granted to any person within a specified period and the compensation is based solely on an increase in the stock price after the grant date. Specifically, the option exercise price must be equal to or greater than the fair market value of the stock subject to the award on the grant date. Under a Section 162(m) transition rule for compensation plans of corporations which are privately held and which become publicly held in an initial public offering, the 2006 plan will not be subject to Section 162(m) until a specified transition date, which is the earlier of (i) the material modification of the 2006 plan, (ii) the issuance of all employer stock and other compensation that has been allocated under the 2006 plan, or (iii) the first annual meeting of stockholders at which directors are to be elected that occurs after the close of the third calendar year following the calendar year in which the initial public offering occurs. After the transition date, rights or awards granted under the 2006 plan, other than options and SARs, will not qualify as “performance-based compensation” for purposes of Section 162(m) unless such rights or awards are granted or vest upon pre-established objective performance goals, the material terms of which are disclosed to and approved by our stockholders.
We have attempted to structure the 2006 plan in such a manner that, after the transition date, the compensation attributable to stock options and SARs which meet the other requirements of Section 162(m) will not be subject to the $1 million limitation. We have not, however, requested a ruling from the Internal Revenue Service, or IRS, or an opinion of counsel regarding this issue.
2004 Equity Incentive Award Plan
          Our 2004 equity incentive award plan, or 2004 plan, was initially adopted by our board of directors and approved by our stockholders in November 2004. As amended to date, we have reserved a total of 11,500,000 shares of common stock for issuance under the 2004 plan. As of June 30, 2006, options to purchase 4,081,740 shares of common stock had been exercised (30,000 shares of which were repurchased by us), options to purchase 5,769,471 shares of common stock were outstanding and 1,678,789 shares of common stock remained available for grant. As of June 30, 2006, the outstanding options were exercisable at a weighted average exercise price of approximately $0.38 per share. The material terms of the 2004 plan are summarized below. The 2004 plan is filed as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part.
          No Further Grants. After the effective date of the 2006 Plan, no additional awards will be granted under the 2004 plan.

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          Administration. The compensation committee of our board of directors administers the 2004 plan. Following the completion of this offering, to administer the 2004 plan, our compensation committee must be constituted as described above in our description of the 2006 Plan. Subject to the terms and conditions of the 2004 plan, our compensation committee has the authority to select the persons to whom awards are to be made, to determine the number of shares to be subject thereto and the terms and conditions thereof, and to make all other determinations and to take all other actions necessary or advisable for the administration of the 2004 plan. Our compensation committee is also authorized to establish, adopt, amend or rescind rules relating to administration of the 2004 plan. Our board of directors may at any time abolish the compensation committee and revest in itself the authority to administer the 2004 plan. The full board of directors administers the 2004 plan with respect to awards to non-employee directors.
          Eligibility. Options and restricted stock under the 2004 plan may be granted to individuals who are then our officers or employees or are the officers or employees of any of our subsidiaries. Such awards may also be granted to our non-employee directors or consultants, but only employees may be granted ISOs.
          Awards. The 2004 plan provides that our compensation committee may grant or issue stock options and restricted stock, stock appreciation rights, performance share awards, restricted stock units, dividend equivalents, stock payments or performance-based awards or any combination thereof. Each award will be set forth in a separate agreement with the person receiving the award and will indicate the type, terms and conditions of the award.
  NQSOs provide for the right to purchase shares of our common stock at a specified price, which for purposes of the 2004 plan prior to the date of this offering, may be no less than 85% of the fair market value on the date of grant, and usually will become exercisable (at the discretion of our compensation committee (or the board of directors, in the case of awards to non-employee directors), in one or more installments after the grant date, subject to the participant’s continued employment or service with us and/or subject to the satisfaction of performance targets established by our compensation committee (or the board of directors, in the case of awards to non-employee directors). NQSOs may be granted for a maximum 10-year term.
 
  ISOs are designed to comply with the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code and will be subject to specified restrictions contained in the Internal Revenue Code and as further described above in connection with the 2006 Equity Incentive Award Plan.
          To date, we have only granted stock options under the 2004 plan.
          Corporate Transactions. In the event of a change of control where the acquiror does not assume awards granted under the plan and does not substitute substantially similar awards for those outstanding under the plan, awards issued under the plan will be subject to accelerated vesting such that 100% of the awards will become vested and exercisable or payable, as applicable. Under the 2004 plan, a change of control is generally defined as:
  a merger or consolidation of us with or into any other corporation or other entity or person; or
 
  a sale, lease, exchange or other transfer in one transaction or a series of related transactions of all or substantially all of our outstanding securities or all or substantially all of our assets.
          Amendment and Termination of the 2004 plan. The compensation committee, with the approval of the board of directors, may terminate, amend or modify the 2004 plan. However, stockholder approval of any amendment to the 2004 plan will be obtained to the extent necessary and desirable to comply with any applicable law, regulation, or stock exchange rule. If not terminated earlier by the compensation committee, with the approval of the board of directors, the 2004 plan will terminate on the tenth anniversary of the date of its initial adoption by our board of directors.

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401(k) Plan
          We provide a basic savings plan, or 401(k) plan, which is intended to qualify under Section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code so that contributions to our 401(k) plan by employees or by us, and the investment earnings thereon, are not taxable to employees until withdrawn from our 401(k) plan. If our 401(k) plan qualifies under Section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code, contributions by us, if any, will be deductible by us when made.
          All of our employees are eligible to participate in our 401(k) plan. Pursuant to our 401(k) plan, employees may elect to reduce their current compensation by up to the statutorily-prescribed annual limit of $15,000 in 2006 and to have the amount of this reduction contributed to our 401(k) plan. Our 401(k) plan permits, but does not require, additional matching or non-elective contributions to our 401(k) plan by us on behalf of all participants in our 401(k) plan. To date, we have not made any matching or non-elective contributions to our 401(k) plan.
Limitations of Liability and Indemnification Matters
          We will adopt provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation that limit the liability of our directors for monetary damages for breach of their fiduciary duties, except for liability that cannot be eliminated under the Delaware General Corporation Law. Delaware law provides that directors of a corporation will not be personally liable for monetary damages for breach of their fiduciary duties as directors, except liability for any of the following:
  any breach of their duty of loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders;
 
  acts or omissions not in good faith or that involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law;
 
  unlawful payments of dividends or unlawful stock repurchases or redemptions as provided in Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law; or
 
  any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit.
          This limitation of liability does not apply to liabilities arising under the federal securities laws and does not affect the availability of equitable remedies such as injunctive relief or rescission.
          Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and our amended and restated bylaws also will provide that we shall indemnify our directors and executive officers and may indemnify our other officers and employees and other agents to the fullest extent permitted by law. We believe that indemnification under our amended and restated bylaws covers at least negligence and gross negligence on the part of indemnified parties. Our amended and restated bylaws also permit us to secure insurance on behalf of any officer, director, employee or other agent for any liability arising out of his or her actions in this capacity, regardless of whether our amended and restated bylaws would permit indemnification.
          We have entered into separate indemnification agreements with our directors and executive officers, in addition to indemnification provided for in our charter documents. These agreements, among other things, provide for indemnification of our directors and executive officers for expenses, judgments, fines and settlement amounts incurred by this person in any action or proceeding arising out of this person’s services as a director or executive officer or at our request. We believe that these provisions and agreements are necessary to attract and retain qualified persons as directors and executive officers.

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PRINCIPAL STOCKHOLDERS
          The following table sets forth information about the beneficial ownership of our common stock at August 28, 2006, and as adjusted to reflect the sale of the shares of common stock in this offering, for:
  each person known to us to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of our common stock;
 
  each named executive officer and two additional executive officers;
 
  each of our directors; and
 
  all of our executive officers and directors as a group.
          Unless otherwise noted below, the address of each beneficial owner listed on the table is c/o Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 12730 High Bluff Drive, Suite 410, San Diego, CA 92130. We have determined beneficial ownership in accordance with the rules of the SEC. Except as indicated by the footnotes below, we believe, based on the information furnished to us by the stockholders, that the persons and entities named in the tables below have sole voting and investment power with respect to all shares of common stock that they beneficially own, subject to applicable community property laws. We have based our calculation of the percentage of beneficial ownership on 88,342,195 shares of common stock outstanding on August 28, 2006, which assumes the conversion of all outstanding shares of preferred stock into common stock and                      shares of common stock outstanding upon completion of this offering.
          In computing the number of shares of common stock beneficially owned by a person and the percentage ownership of that person, we deemed outstanding shares of common stock subject to options or warrants held by that person that are currently exercisable or exercisable within 60 days of August 28, 2006. We did not deem these shares outstanding, however, for the purpose of computing the percentage ownership of any other person.
                             
        Percentage of
        Common Stock
    Number of   Beneficially Owned
    Shares    
    Beneficially   Prior to   After
Beneficial Owner   Owned   Offering   Offering
             
5% or Greater Stockholders:
                       
 
Funds affiliated with Domain Associates, L.L.C.(1)
    22,964,492       26.0 %        
   
One Palmer Square, Suite 515
                       
   
Princeton, NJ 08542
                       
 
ProQuest Investments III, L.P.(2)
    12,322,698       13.9          
   
90 Nassau Street, 5th Floor
                       
   
Princeton, NJ 08542
                       
 
Frazier Healthcare V, LP(3)
    10,100,000       11.4          
   
601 Union Street, Suite 3200
                       
   
Seattle, WA 98101
                       
 
Funds affiliated with Versant Ventures II, L.L.C.(4)
    8,100,000       9.2          
   
3000 Sand Hill Road
                       
   
Building 4, Suite 210
                       
   
Menlo Park, CA 94025
                       
 
Funds affiliated with Technology Partners(5)
    8,000,000       9.1          
   
100 Shoreline Highway
                       
   
Suite 282, Building B
                       
   
Mill Valley, CA 94941
                       
 
BB Biotech Ventures II, L.P.(6)
    7,000,000       7.9          
   
Trafalgar Court, Les Banques
                       
   
St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands
                       
   
GY1 3QL
                       

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        Percentage of
        Common Stock
    Number of   Beneficially Owned
    Shares    
    Beneficially   Prior to   After
Beneficial Owner   Owned   Offering   Offering
             
Directors and Executive Officers:
                       
 
Theodore R. Schroeder(7)
    4,043,740       4.5          
 
James B. Breitmeyer, M.D., Ph.D.(8) 
    705,000       *          
 
William S. Craig, Ph.D.(9)
    705,303       *          
 
Kenneth R. Heilbrunn, M.D.(10)
    650,000       *          
 
William R. LaRue(11)
    899,000       1.0          
 
Richard E. Lowenthal(12)
    564,000       *          
 
Mike A. Royal, M.D., J.D.(13)
    375,000       *          
 
David A. Socks(14)
    1,692,728       1.9          
 
Cam L. Garner(15)
    4,250,123       4.8          
 
Brian G. Atwood(4)
    8,100,000       9.2          
 
Samuel L. Barker, Ph.D.(16)
    100,000       *          
 
Michael A. Berman, M.D.(17)
    100,000       *          
 
James C. Blair, Ph.D.(1)
    22,964,492       26.0          
 
Alan D. Frazier(3)
    10,100,000       11.4          
 
Alain B. Schreiber, M.D.(2)
    12,322,698       13.9          
 
Christopher J. Twomey(18)
    100,000       *          
 
Executive officers and directors as a group (16 persons)(19)
    67,672,084       71.2          
 
  * Represents beneficial ownership of less than one percent of our outstanding common stock.
  (1)  Includes 22,612,155 shares of common stock owned by Domain Partners VI, L.P., 242,337 shares of common stock owned by DP VI Associates, L.P. and 110,000 shares of common stock owned by Domain Associates, L.L.C. Of the 110,000 shares owned by Domain Associates, 86,875 will be subject to our right of repurchase within 60 days of August 28, 2006. Dr. Blair is a member of our board of directors and a managing member of Domain Associates, L.L.C. and a managing member of One Palmer Square Associates VI, L.L.C., which is the general partner of Domain Partners VI, L.P. and DP VI Associates, L.P. Dr. Blair disclaims beneficial ownership of these shares except to the extent of his pecuniary interest therein.
 
  (2)  Includes 12,212,698 shares of common stock owned by ProQuest Investments III, L.P. and 50,000 shares of common stock owned by ProQuest Management LLC. Of the 50,000 shares owned by ProQuest Management, 17,500 will be subject to our right of repurchase within 60 days of August 28, 2006. Also includes 60,000 shares Dr. Schreiber has the right to acquire pursuant to outstanding options which are immediately exercisable, 55,000 of which would be subject to our right of repurchase within 60 days of August 28, 2006. Dr. Schreiber is a member of our board of directors and a managing member of ProQuest Management LLC and a managing member of ProQuest Associates III LLC, the ultimate general partner of ProQuest Investments III, L.P.
 
  (3)  Includes 100,000 shares Mr. Frazier has the right to acquire pursuant to outstanding options which are immediately exercisable, 87,500 of which would be subject to our right of repurchase within 60 days of August 28, 2006. The voting and disposition of the shares held by Frazier Healthcare V, LP is determined by FHM V, LLC, which is the general partner of FHM V, LP, which is the general partner of Frazier Healthcare V, LP. Mr. Frazier is a member of our board of directors and a managing member of FHM V, LLC. Mr. Frazier disclaims beneficial ownership of these shares except to the extent of his pecuniary interest therein.
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  (4)  Includes 7,782,747 shares of common stock owned by Versant Venture Capital II, L.P., 147,695 shares of common stock owned by Versant Affiliates Fund II-A, L.P. and 69,558 shares of common stock owned by Versant Side Fund II, L.P. Also includes 100,000 shares Mr. Atwood has the right to acquire pursuant to outstanding options which are immediately exercisable, 87,500 of which would be subject to our right of repurchase within 60 days of August 28, 2006. Mr. Atwood is a member of our board of directors and a managing member of Versant Ventures II, L.L.C., which is the general partner of each of these Versant funds. Mr. Atwood disclaims beneficial ownership of shares owned by these Versant funds except to the extent of his pecuniary interest therein.
 
  (5)  Includes 7,520,000 shares of common stock owned by Technology Partners Fund VII, L.P. and 480,000 shares of common stock owned by Technology Partners Affiliates VII, L.P. The voting and disposition of the shares held by Technology Partners Fund VII, L.P. and Technology Partners Affiliates VII is determined by TP Management VII, L.L.C., which is the general partner of each of these Technology Partners funds. John E. Ardell III, Ira Ehrenpreis, James Glasheen, Sheila Mutter and Roger J. Quy share voting and dispositive authority over the shares held by Technology Partners.
 
  (6)  The voting and disposition of the shares held by BB Biotech Ventures II, L.P. is determined by its general partner, BB Biotech Ventures GP (Guernsey) Limited. Christopher Wilfred Cochrane, Benedict Peter Goronwy Morgan and Hans Jorg Graf, in their capacities as directors of the general partner, share voting and dispositive authority over the shares held by BB Biotech Ventures.
 
  (7)  Includes 2,043,740 shares Mr. Schroeder has the right to acquire pursuant to outstanding options which are immediately exercisable, all of which would be subject to our right of repurchase within 60 days of August 28, 2006. Also includes 1,000,000 unvested shares acquired by Mr. Schroeder upon the early exercise of stock options, 609,375 of which will be subject to our right of repurchase within 60 days of August 28, 2006.
 
  (8)  Includes 705,000 shares Dr. Breitmeyer has the right to acquire pursuant to outstanding options that are immediately exercisable, all of which would be subject to our right of repurchase within 60 days of August 28, 2006.
 
  (9)  Includes 705,303 shares Dr. Craig has the right to acquire pursuant to outstanding options which are immediately exercisable, 537,595 of which would be subject to our right of repurchase within 60 days of August 28, 2006.
  (10)  Includes 650,000 shares Dr. Heilbrunn has the right to acquire pursuant to outstanding options that are immediately exercisable, 518,750 of which would be subject to our right of repurchase within 60 days of August 28, 2006.
 
  (11)  Includes 44,000 shares acquired by Mr. LaRue upon exercise of stock options, 30,250 of which will be subject to our right of repurchase within 60 days of August 28, 2006. These 44,000 shares are held by a trust for the benefit of Mr. LaRue’s family. Also includes 855,000 shares of common stock Mr. LaRue has the right to acquire pursuant to outstanding options that are immediately exercisable, all of which would be subject to our right of repurchase within 60 days of August 28, 2006.
(12)  Includes 564,000 shares acquired by Mr. Lowenthal upon the exercise of stock options, 426,500 of which will be subject to our right of repurchase within 60 days of August 28, 2006. These 564,000 shares are held of record by a trust for the benefit of Mr. Lowenthal’s family.
 
(13)  Includes 375,000 shares Dr. Royal has the right to acquire pursuant to outstanding options which are immediately exercisable, all of which would be subject to our right of repurchase within 60 days of August 28, 2006.
 
(14)  Includes 842,728 shares Mr. Socks has the right to acquire pursuant to outstanding options which are immediately exercisable, 790,645 of which would be subject to our right of repurchase within 60 days of August 28, 2006.
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(15)  Includes 2,293,740 shares acquired by Mr. Garner upon the exercise of stock options, 2,058,414 of which will be subject to our right of repurchase within 60 days of August 28, 2006. Of these 2,293,740 shares, 2,153,740 shares are held of record by a trust for which Mr. Garner serves as trustee and 140,000 shares are held by a limited liability company for which Mr. Garner is the sole member. Also includes 1,750,000 shares acquired by Mr. Garner as one of our co-founders. Of these 1,750,000 shares, 1,600,000 shares are held by a limited liability company for which Mr. Garner is the sole member and 150,000 shares are held by siblings of Mr. Garner. Also includes 206,383 shares acquired by a limited liability company for which Mr. Garner is the sole member.
 
(16)  Includes 100,000 shares Dr. Barker has the right to acquire pursuant to outstanding options which are immediately exercisable, 91,667 of which would be subject to our right of repurchase within 60 days of August 28, 2006.
 
(17)  Includes 100,000 shares Dr. Berman has the right to acquire pursuant to outstanding options which are immediately exercisable, 90,000 of which would be subject to our right of repurchase within 60 days of August 28, 2006.
 
(18)  Includes 100,000 shares acquired by Mr. Twomey upon exercise of stock options, 91,667 of which would be subject to our right of repurchase within 60 days of August 28, 2006. These 100,000 shares are held of record by a trust for the benefit of Mr. Twomey’s family.
 
(19)  Includes 6,636,771 shares of common stock subject to outstanding options which are immediately exercisable, 6,237,397 of which would be subject to our right of repurchase within 60 days of August 28, 2006. Includes 4,161,740 shares of common stock acquired upon the exercise of options, 3,320,581 of which will be subject to our right of repurchase within 60 days of August 28, 2006.
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CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
          We describe below transactions and series of similar transactions, since our inception, to which we were a party or will be a party, in which:
  the amounts involved exceeded or will exceed $60,000; and
 
  a director, executive officer, holder of more than 5% of our common stock or any member of their immediate family had or will have a direct or indirect material interest.
          We also describe below certain other transactions with our directors, executive officers and stockholders.
Preferred Stock Issuances
          In July and August 2004, we issued in a private placement an aggregate of 8,085,108 shares of Series A-1 preferred stock at a per share price of $0.94, for aggregate consideration of $7,600,002. In June and September 2005, we issued in a private placement an aggregate of 17,675,347 shares of Series A-2 preferred stock at a per share price of $1.00, for aggregate consideration of $17,675,347. In March 2006, we issued in a private placement 53,870,000 shares of Series A-3 preferred stock at a per share price of $1.00, for aggregate consideration of $53,870,000.
          The following table sets forth the aggregate number of these securities acquired by the listed directors, executive officers or holders of more than 5% of our common stock, or their affiliates:
                         
    Shares of Preferred Stock
     
Investor   Series A-1   Series A-2   Series A-3
             
Funds affiliated with Domain Associates, L.L.C.(1)
    3,989,362       6,365,130       12,500,000  
ProQuest Investments III, L.P.(2)
    2,393,618       3,819,080       6,000,000  
Frazier Healthcare V, LP(3)
                10,000,000  
Funds affiliated with Versant Ventures II, L.L.C.(4)
                8,000,000  
Funds affiliated with Technology Partners(5)
                8,000,000  
BB Biotech Ventures II, L.P.(6)
          3,000,000       4,000,000  
Cam L. Garner(7)
    106,383             100,000  
 
(1)  Includes 3,947,061 shares of Series A-1 preferred stock, 6,297,638 shares of Series A-2 preferred stock and 12,367,456 shares of Series A-3 preferred stock owned by Domain Partners VI, L.P., and 42,301 shares of Series A-1 preferred stock, 67,492 shares of Series A-2 preferred stock, and 132,544 shares of Series A-3 preferred stock owned by DP VI Associates, L.P. Dr. Blair, a member of our board of directors, is a managing member of Domain Associates, L.L.C. and a managing member of One Palmer Square Associates VI, L.L.C., which is the general partner of Domain Partners VI, L.P. and DP VI Associates, L.P.
 
(2)  The voting and disposition of the shares held by ProQuest Investments III, L.P. is determined by ProQuest Associates III LLC, the ultimate general partner of ProQuest Investments III, L.P. Dr. Schreiber, a member of our board of directors, is a managing member of ProQuest Associates III LLC.
 
(3)  The voting and disposition of the shares held by Frazier Healthcare V, LP is determined by FHM V, LLC, which is the general partner of FHM V, LP, which is the general partner of Frazier Healthcare V, LP. Mr. Frazier, a member of our board of directors, is a managing member of FHM V, LLC.
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(4)  Includes 7,782,747 shares of Series A-3 preferred stock owned by Versant Venture Capital II, L.P., 147,695 shares of Series A-3 preferred stock owned by Versant Affiliates Fund II-A, L.P., and 69,558 shares of Series A-3 preferred stock owned by Versant Side Fund II, L.P. Mr. Atwood, a member of our board of directors, is a managing member of Versant Ventures II, L.L.C., which is the general partner of each of these Versant funds.
 
(5)  Includes 7,520,000 shares of Series A-3 preferred stock owned by Technology Partners Fund VII, L.P. and 480,000 shares of Series A-3 preferred stock owned by Technology Partners Affiliates VII, L.P. The voting and disposition of the shares held by Technology Partners Fund VII, L.P. and Technology Partners Affiliates VII is determined by TP Management VII, L.L.C., which is the general partner of each of these Technology Partners funds. John E. Ardell III, Ira Ehrenpreis, James Glasheen, Sheila Mutter and Roger J. Quy share voting and dispositive authority over the shares held by Technology Partners.
 
(6)  The voting and disposition of the shares held by BB Biotech Ventures II, L.P. is determined by its general partner, BB Biotech Ventures GP (Guernsey) Limited. Christopher Wilfred Cochrane, Benedict Peter Goronwy Morgan and Hans Jorg Graf, in their capacities as directors of the general partner, share voting and dispositive authority over the shares held by BB Biotech Ventures.
 
(7)  Shares held by a limited liability company for which Mr. Garner is the sole member.
Common Stock Issuances
          In July 2004, in connection with the inception of our company, we issued and sold a total of 4,500,000 shares of common stock for an aggregate consideration of $4,500. The price for the common stock was determined through negotiations between our board of directors and the purchasers based primarily on the early stage of our development at the time of the transaction. The following table sets forth the aggregate number of these securities acquired by the listed directors and executive officers or their affiliates:
         
Investor   Common Stock
     
Cam L. Garner(1)
    1,750,000  
Theodore R. Schroeder(2)
    1,000,000  
David A. Socks
    850,000  
 
(1)  Of these 1,750,000 shares, 1,600,000 shares are held by a limited liability company for which Mr. Garner is the sole member and 150,000 shares are held by siblings of Mr. Garner.
 
(2)  Shares held by a trust for the benefit of Mr. Schroeder’s family.
Investor Rights Agreement
          We have entered into an agreement with purchasers of our preferred stock that provides for certain rights relating to the registration of their shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of their preferred stock. The agreement also provides these rights to shares of common stock held by Messrs. Schroeder and Socks. These rights will continue following this offering and will terminate seven years following the completion of this offering, or for any particular holder with registration rights, at such time following this offering when all securities held by that stockholder subject to registration rights may be sold pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act. All holders of our preferred stock are parties to this agreement. See “Description of Capital Stock — Registration Rights” for additional information.
Voting Agreement
          Pursuant to a voting agreement originally entered into in July 2004 and most recently amended in March 2006 by and among us and certain of our stockholders, the following directors were each elected to serve as members on our board of directors and, as of the date of this prospectus, continue to so serve: Drs. Barker, Berman, Blair and Schreiber and Messrs. Atwood, Frazier, Garner and Schroeder. Pursuant

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to the voting agreement, Mr. Schroeder, as our president and chief executive officer, and Mr. Garner were initially selected to serve on our board of directors as representatives of our common stock, as designated by a majority of our common stockholders. Dr. Schreiber and Messrs. Atwood, Blair and Frazier were initially selected to serve on our board of directors as representatives of our preferred stock, as designated by ProQuest Investments III, L.P., Versant Venture Capital II, L.P., Domain Partners VI, L.P. and Frazier Healthcare V, LP, respectively. Drs. Barker and Berman and Mr. Twomey were selected to serve on our board of directors as representatives of our common stock and preferred stock, as designated by a majority of our common and preferred stockholders.
          The voting agreement will terminate upon completion of this offering, and members previously elected to our board of directors pursuant to this agreement will continue to serve as directors until their successors are duly elected by holders of our common stock.
Stock Option Grants
          Certain stock option grants to our directors and executive officers and related option grant policies are described in this prospectus under the captions “Management — Director Compensation” and “Management — Option Grants in Last Fiscal Year.” Prior to this offering, we granted the following options to certain non-employee directors:
  In November 2004, we granted to Dr. Schreiber an option to purchase 40,000 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $0.10 per share, vesting over 16 calendar quarters from September 2004.
 
  In November 2005, we granted to Dr. Blair an option to purchase 40,000 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $0.10 per share, vesting over 16 calendar quarters from September 2005.
 
  In November 2005, we granted to each of Dr. Schreiber and Mr. Garner an option to purchase 10,000 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $0.10 per share, vesting over four calendar quarters from September 2005.
 
  In December 2005, we granted to Mr. Garner an option to purchase 1,362,000 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $0.10 per share, vesting over four years from December 2005.
 
  In May 2006, we granted to Mr. Garner an option to purchase 781,740 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $0.34 per share, vesting over four years from February 2006.
 
  In May 2006, we granted to Dr. Berman an option to purchase 40,000 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $0.34 per share, vesting over 16 calendar quarters from April 2006.
 
  In May 2006, we granted to each of Messrs. Atwood and Frazier an option to purchase 40,000 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $0.34 per share, vesting over 16 calendar quarters from March 2006.
 
  •  In July 2006, we granted to Mr. Twomey an option to purchase 100,000 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $0.80 per share, vesting over 12 calendar quarters from July 2006.
 
  In July 2006, we granted to each of Mr. Atwood, Drs. Berman and Blair, Mr. Frazier and Dr. Schreiber an option to purchase 60,000 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $0.80 per share, vesting over 12 calendar quarters from July 2006.
 
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          In addition, we granted to each of Messrs. Craig, Heilbrunn and Socks an option in May 2006 to purchase 355,303, 300,000 and 742,728, respectively, shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $0.34 per share. In June 2006, we granted to each of Mr. LaRue and Dr. Royal an option to purchase 705,000 and 300,000, respectively, shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $0.80 per share. In August 2006, we granted to Dr. Breitmeyer an option to purchase 705,000 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $0.80 per share. Also in August 2006, we granted to each of Mr. LaRue and Dr. Royal an option to purchase 150,000 and 75,000 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $.80 per share. Each of these options vests with respect to 25% of the shares subject to the option one year after the applicable vesting commencement date and monthly thereafter over the following three years.
Employment Agreements
          We have entered into employment agreements with Theodore R. Schroeder, our President and Chief Executive Officer, James B. Breitmeyer, M.D., Ph.D., our Executive Vice President, Development and Chief Medical Officer, William S. Craig, Ph.D., our Senior Vice President, Pharmaceutical Development and Manufacturing, Kenneth R. Heilbrunn, M.D., our Senior Vice President, Clinical Development, William R. LaRue, our Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary, Richard E. Lowenthal, our Vice President, Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance, Mike A. Royal, M.D., J.D. our Vice President, Clinical Development, Analgesics, and David A. Socks, our Vice President, Business Development. For further information, see “Management — Employment Agreements.”
Indemnification of Officers and Directors
          Our restated certificate of incorporation and our amended and restated bylaws provide that we will indemnify each of our directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law. Further, we have entered into indemnification agreements with each of our directors and officers, and we have purchased a policy of directors’ and officers’ liability insurance that insures our directors and officers against the cost of defense, settlement or payment of a judgment under certain circumstances. For further information, see “Management — Limitations of Liability and Indemnification Matters.”
Consulting Agreement with Mr. Cam L. Garner
          From September 2004 through August 2005, we paid Mr. Garner $5,000 per month plus qualified business expenses for his services as chairman of our board of directors under the terms of a consulting agreement between us and a limited liability company affiliated with Mr. Garner. The agreement expired on August 31, 2005.
Other Transactions
          During 2004, Windamere III, LLC, a limited liability company affiliated with our former director, Scott L. Glenn, advanced $500,000 for pre-operating expenses and an exclusivity fee due in connection with the Collaboration and License Agreement between us and Migenix. The advance was settled with shares of our Series A-1 preferred stock.
          In May 2005, we executed an engagement letter with Clearview Projects, Inc., or Clearview, a provider of partnering and transaction services to biopharmaceutical companies. Dr. Barker is a founder of Clearview and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer from July 2003 until November 2004. Under the terms of the engagement letter, we made retainer payments and reimbursed expenses to Clearview totaling $205,341 in 2005 and made retainer and success fee payments totaling $375,000 from January 2006 through the conclusion of Clearview’s engagement in March 2006. The success fee was related to our in-license of rights to IV APAP from BMS in March 2006.

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DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK
          Upon completion of this offering and filing of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation, our authorized capital stock will consist of 100,000,000 shares of common stock, $0.0001 par value per share, and 10,000,000 shares of preferred stock, $0.0001 par value per share. The following description summarizes some of the terms of our capital stock. Because it is only a summary, it does not contain all the information that may be important to you. For a complete description you should refer to our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws, copies of which have been filed as exhibits to the registration statement of which the prospectus is a part.
Common Stock
          On June 30, 2006, there were 8,551,740 shares of common stock outstanding, held of record by 15 stockholders. This amount excludes our outstanding shares of preferred stock as of June 30, 2006 which will convert into 79,630,455 shares of common stock upon completion of the offering. After this offering, there will be                      shares of our common stock outstanding, or                      shares if the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option in full.
          The holders of our common stock are entitled to one vote for each share held of record on all matters submitted to a vote of the stockholders, including the election of directors, and do not have cumulative voting rights. Accordingly, the holders of a majority of the shares of common stock entitled to vote in any election of directors can elect all of the directors standing for election, if they so choose. Subject to preferences that may be applicable to any then outstanding preferred stock, holders of common stock are entitled to receive ratably those dividends, if any, as may be declared by the board of directors out of legally available funds. Upon our liquidation, dissolution or winding up, the holders of common stock will be entitled to share ratably in the net assets legally available for distribution to stockholders after the payment of all of our debts and other liabilities of our company, subject to the prior rights of any preferred stock then outstanding. Holders of common stock have no preemptive or conversion rights or other subscription rights and there are no redemption or sinking funds provisions applicable to the common stock. All outstanding shares of common stock are, and the common stock to be outstanding upon completion of this offering will be, fully paid and nonassessable.
Preferred Stock
          On June 30, 2006, there were 79,630,455 shares of preferred stock outstanding, held of record by 32 stockholders. Our stockholders have agreed to convert their shares of preferred stock to common stock in connection with the completion of this offering. Accordingly, upon the completion of this offering, all outstanding shares of preferred stock as of June 30, 2006 will automatically convert into 79,630,455 shares of our common stock.
          Following the offering, our board of directors will have the authority, without any action by the stockholders, to issue from time to time preferred stock in one or more series and to fix the number of shares, designations, preferences, powers, and relative, participating, optional or other special rights and the qualifications or restrictions thereof. The preferences, powers, rights and restrictions of different series of preferred stock may differ with respect to dividend rates, amounts payable on liquidation, voting rights, conversion rights, redemption provisions, sinking fund provisions, and purchase funds and other matters. The issuance of preferred stock could decrease the amount of earnings and assets available for distribution to holders of common stock or adversely affect the rights and powers, including voting rights, of the holders of common stock, and may have the effect of delaying, deferring or preventing a change in control of our company. The existence of authorized but unissued preferred stock may enable the board of directors to render more difficult or to discourage an attempt to obtain control of us by means of a merger, tender offer, proxy contest or otherwise. For example, if in the due exercise of its fiduciary obligations, the board of directors were to determine that a takeover proposal is not in our best interests, the board of directors could cause shares of preferred stock to be issued without stockholder approval in one or more

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private offerings or other transactions that might dilute the voting or other rights of the proposed acquirer or insurgent stockholder or stockholder group.
Warrants
          In February 2006, in connection with our loan and security agreement, we issued a warrant to purchase up to an aggregate of 192,500 shares of our Series A-2 preferred stock to each of Silicon Valley Bank and Oxford Finance Corporation. These warrants are immediately exercisable at an exercise price of $1.00 per share and, excluding certain mergers or acquisitions, expire upon the later of ten years from the date of grant, which is February 17, 2016, or five years after the closing of this offering. These warrants will become exercisable for an aggregate of 385,000 shares of our common stock, at an exercise price of $1.00 per share, upon completion of this offering.
          Each of these warrants has a net exercise provision under which its holder may, in lieu of payment of the exercise price in cash, surrender the warrant and receive, after this offering, a net amount of shares of our common stock based on the fair market value of our common stock at the time of exercise of the warrant after deduction of the aggregate exercise price. Each of these warrants for common stock also contains provisions for the adjustment of the exercise price and the aggregate number of shares issuable upon the exercise of the warrant in the event of stock dividends, stock splits, reorganizations and reclassifications and consolidations.
Registration Rights
          After this offering, the holders of approximately 83,555,455 shares of common stock and the holders of warrants to purchase 385,000 shares of common stock will be entitled to rights with respect to the registration of these shares under the Securities Act. These shares are referred to as registrable securities. Under the terms of the agreement between us and the holders of the registrable securities, if we propose to register any of our securities under the Securities Act, these holders are entitled to notice of such registration and are entitled to include their shares of registrable securities in our registration. Certain of these holders are also entitled to demand registration, pursuant to which they may require us to use our best efforts to register their registrable securities under the Securities Act at our expense, up to a maximum of two such registrations. Holders of registrable securities may also require us to file an unlimited number of additional registration statements on Form S-3 at our expense so long as the holders propose to sell registrable securities of at least $1.0 million and we have not already filed two such registration statements on Form S-3 in the previous twelve months.
          All of these registration rights are subject to certain conditions and limitations, among them the right of the underwriters of an offering to limit the number of shares included in such registration and our right not to effect a requested registration 60 days prior to or 180 days after an offering of our securities, including this offering. These registration rights have been waived by all of the holders thereof with respect to this offering.
Anti-Takeover Effects of Provisions of Our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, Our Amended and Restated Bylaws and Delaware Law
          Some provisions of Delaware law, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and our amended and restated bylaws contain provisions that could make the following transactions more difficult: acquisition of us by means of a tender offer; acquisition of us by means of a proxy contest or otherwise; or removal of our incumbent officers and directors. It is possible that these provisions could make it more difficult to accomplish or could deter transactions that stockholders may otherwise consider to be in their best interest or in our best interests, including transactions that might result in a premium over the market price for our shares.
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protection of our potential ability to negotiate with the proponent of an unfriendly or unsolicited proposal to acquire or restructure us outweigh the disadvantages of discouraging these proposals because negotiation of these proposals could result in an improvement of their terms.
Undesignated Preferred Stock
          The ability to authorize undesignated preferred stock makes it possible for our board of directors to issue preferred stock with voting or other rights or preferences that could impede the success of any attempt to change control of us. These and other provisions may have the effect of deterring hostile takeovers or delaying changes in control or management of our company.
Stockholder Meetings
          Our charter documents provide that a special meeting of stockholders may be called only by our chairman of the board, chief executive officer or president, or by a resolution adopted by a majority of our board of directors.
Requirements for Advance Notification of Stockholder Nominations and Proposals
          Our amended and restated bylaws establish advance notice procedures with respect to stockholder proposals and the nomination of candidates for election as directors, other than nominations made by or at the direction of the board of directors or a committee of the board of directors.
Elimination of Stockholder Action by Written Consent
          Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation eliminates the right of stockholders to act by written consent without a meeting.
Election and Removal of Directors
          Our board of directors is divided into three classes. The directors in each class will serve for a three-year term, one class being elected each year by our stockholders. For more information on the classified board, see “Management — Board of Directors.” This system of electing and removing directors may tend to discourage a third party from making a tender offer or otherwise attempting to obtain control of us, because it generally makes it more difficult for stockholders to replace a majority of the directors.
Delaware Anti-Takeover Statute
          We are subject to Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which prohibits persons deemed “interested stockholders” from engaging in a “business combination” with a publicly held Delaware corporation for three years following the date these persons become interested stockholders unless the business combination is, or the transaction in which the person became an interested stockholder was, approved in a prescribed manner or another prescribed exception applies. Generally, an “interested stockholder” is a person who, together with affiliates and associates, owns, or within three years prior to the determination of interested stockholder status did own, 15% or more of a corporation’s voting stock. Generally, a “business combination” includes a merger, asset or stock sale, or other transaction resulting in a financial benefit to the interested stockholder. The existence of this provision may have an anti-takeover effect with respect to transactions not approved in advance by the board of directors.
Amendment of Charter Provisions
          The amendment of any of the above provisions, except for the provision making it possible for our board of directors to issue preferred stock, would require approval by holders of at least 662/3% of our then outstanding common stock.
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takeovers and, as a consequence, they may also inhibit temporary fluctuations in the market price of our common stock that often result from actual or rumored hostile takeover attempts. These provisions may also have the effect of preventing changes in our management. It is possible that these provisions could make it more difficult to accomplish transactions that stockholders may otherwise deem to be in their best interests.
Transfer Agent and Registrar
          The transfer agent and registrar for our common stock is                      , located at                      .
Nasdaq Global Market Listing
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SHARES ELIGIBLE FOR FUTURE SALE
          Prior to this offering, there has been no public market for our common stock. Future sales of our common stock in the public market, or the availability of such shares for sale in the public market, could adversely affect market prices prevailing from time to time. As described below, only a limited number of shares will be available for sale shortly after this offering due to contractual and legal restrictions on resale. Nevertheless, sales of our common stock in the public market after such restrictions lapse, or the perception that those sales may occur, could adversely affect the prevailing market price at such time and our ability to raise equity capital in the future.
Sales of Restricted Shares
          Upon the closing of this offering, we will have outstanding an aggregate of approximately                      shares of common stock. Of these shares, the                      shares of common stock to be sold in this offering will be freely tradable without restriction or further registration under the Securities Act, unless the shares are held by any of our “affiliates” as such term is defined in Rule 144 of the Securities Act. All remaining shares of common stock held by existing stockholders were issued and sold by us in private transactions and are eligible for public sale only if registered under the Securities Act or if they qualify for an exemption from registration under Rule 144, Rule 144(k) or Rule 701 under the Securities Act, which rules are summarized below.
          As a result of the lock-up agreements described below and the provisions of Rule 144, Rule 144(k) and Rule 701 under the Securities Act, the shares of our common stock (excluding the shares sold in this offering) that will be available for sale in the public market are as follows:
                       shares will be eligible for sale on the date of this prospectus;
 
                       shares will be eligible for sale upon the expiration of the lock-up agreements, as more particularly and except as described below, beginning 180 days after the date of this prospectus;
 
  •                       shares will be eligible for sale, upon exercise of vested options, upon the expiration of the lock-up agreements, as more particularly and except as described below, beginning 180 days after the date of this prospectus;
 
  •                       shares will be eligible for sale, upon exercise of outstanding warrants, upon the expiration of the lock-up agreements, as more particularly and except as described below, beginning 180 days after the date of this prospectus; and
 
  the remaining                     restricted shares will be eligible for sale from time to time thereafter upon expiration of their respective one-year holding periods.
Lock-up Agreements
          We, each of our directors and executive officers, and all of the holders of our common stock and holders of securities exercisable for or convertible into shares of our common stock have each agreed not to sell or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly any shares of our common stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for shares of our common stock for a period of not less than 180 days from the date of this prospectus without the prior written consent of Merrill Lynch & Co.
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restrictions and provided that no filing by the transferor under Rule 144 of the Securities Act or Section 16 of the Exchange Act is required or will be voluntarily made in connection with such transfers.
Rule 144
          In general, under Rule 144 as currently in effect, beginning 90 days after the effective date of this offering, a person (or persons whose shares are required to be aggregated) who has beneficially owned restricted securities for at least one year, including the holding period of any prior owner other than one of our affiliates, is entitled to sell a number of restricted shares within any three-month period that does not exceed the greater of:
  one percent of the number of common shares then outstanding, which will equal                      shares immediately after this offering (assuming no exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option and no exercise of outstanding options or warrants); or
 
  the average weekly trading volume of our common shares on the Nasdaq Global Market during the four calendar weeks preceding the filing of a notice on Form 144 with respect to such sale.
          Sales of restricted shares under Rule 144 are also subject to requirements regarding the manner of sale, notice and the availability of current public information about us. Rule 144 also provides that affiliates that sell our common shares that are not restricted shares must nonetheless comply with the same restrictions applicable to restricted shares, other than the holding period requirement.
Rule 144(k)
          Under Rule 144(k), a person who is not deemed to have been our affiliate at any time during the 90 days preceding a sale and who has beneficially owned the shares proposed to be sold for at least two years, including the holding period of any prior owner other than an affiliate, may sell those shares without complying with the manner of sale, public information, volume limitation or notice provisions of Rule 144.
Rule 701
          In general, under Rule 701 as currently in effect, any of our employees, directors, officers, consultants or advisors who acquires common stock from us in connection with a compensatory stock or option plan or other written agreement before the effective date of this offering (to the extent such common stock is not subject to a lock-up agreement) is entitled to resell such shares 90 days after the effective date of this offering in reliance on Rule 144. The SEC has indicated that Rule 701 will apply to typical stock options granted by an issuer before it becomes subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, along with the shares acquired upon exercise of such options, including exercises after the date of this prospectus. Securities issued in reliance on Rule 701 are restricted securities and, subject to the lock-up agreements described above, beginning 90 days after the date of this prospectus, may be sold by persons other than affiliates, as defined in Rule 144, subject only to the manner of sale provisions of Rule 144 and by affiliates under Rule 144 without compliance with its one-year minimum holding period requirement.
Stock Plans
          We intend to file one or more registration statements on Form S-8 under the Securities Act to register shares of our common stock issued or reserved for issuance under our 2006 Equity Incentive Award Plan. The first such registration statement is expected to be filed soon after the date of this prospectus and will automatically become effective upon filing with the SEC. Accordingly, shares registered under such registration statement will be available for sale in the open market, unless such shares are subject to vesting restrictions with us or the lock-up restrictions described above.

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Warrants
          As of June 30, 2006, warrants to purchase a total of 385,000 shares of our Series A-2 preferred stock at a price of $1.00 per share were outstanding. Upon completion of this offering, these warrants will become exercisable for a total of 385,000 shares of our common stock at a price of $1.00 per share. See “Description of Capital Stock — Warrants.” All of these common shares are subject to the terms of the lock-up agreements with the underwriters.
Stock Options
          As of June 30, 2006, options to purchase a total of 5,769,471 shares of our common stock were outstanding, of which 5,419,165 were exercisable. All of the shares subject to options are subject to the terms of the lock-up agreements with the underwriters. An additional 1,678,789 shares of common stock were available for future option grants under our stock plan.

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MATERIAL U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSIDERATIONS TO NON-U.S. HOLDERS
          This section summarizes material U.S. federal income tax considerations relating to the ownership and disposition of common stock to non-U.S. holders. This summary does not provide a complete analysis of all potential tax considerations. The information provided below is based on existing authorities. These authorities may change, or the IRS might interpret the existing authorities differently. In either case, the tax considerations of owning or disposing of common stock could differ from those described below. For purposes of this summary, a “non-U.S. holder” is any beneficial owner of our common stock other than a citizen or resident of the United States, a corporation or a partnership organized under the laws of the United States or any state, a trust that is (i) subject to the primary supervision of a U.S. court and the control of one of more U.S. persons or (ii) has a valid election in effect under applicable U.S. Treasury regulations to be treated as a U.S. person, or an estate whose income is subject to U.S. income tax regardless of source. If a partnership or other flow-through entity is a beneficial owner of common stock, the tax treatment of a partner in the partnership or an owner of the entity will depend upon the status of the partner or other owner and the activities of the partnership or other entity. Accordingly, partnerships and flow-through entities that hold our common stock and partners or owners of such partnerships or entities, as applicable, should consult their own tax advisors. The summary generally does not address tax considerations that may be relevant to particular investors because of their specific circumstances, or because they are subject to special rules, including, without limitation, banks, insurance companies, or other financial institutions; persons subject to the alternative minimum tax; tax exempt organizations; dealers in securities or currencies; traders in securities that elect to use a mark to market method of accounting for their securities holdings; persons that own, or are deemed to own, more than five percent of our company (except to the extent specifically set forth below); certain former citizens or long term residents of the United States; persons who hold our common stock as a position in a hedging transaction, “straddle,” “conversion transaction” or other risk reduction transaction; or persons deemed to sell our common stock under the constructive sale provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. Finally, the summary does not describe the effects of any applicable foreign, state or local laws.
          INVESTORS CONSIDERING THE PURCHASE OF COMMON STOCK ARE URGED TO CONSULT THEIR OWN TAX ADVISORS REGARDING THE APPLICATION OF THE U.S. FEDERAL INCOME AND ESTATE TAX LAWS TO THEIR PARTICULAR SITUATIONS AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF FOREIGN, STATE, OR LOCAL LAWS, AND TAX TREATIES.
Dividends
          We have not made any distributions on our common stock, and we do not plan to make any distributions for the foreseeable future. However, if we do make distributions on our common stock, those payments will constitute dividends for U.S. tax purposes to the extent paid from our current and accumulated earnings and profits, as determined under U.S. federal income tax principles. To the extent those distributions exceed our current and accumulated earnings and profits, they will constitute a return of capital and will first reduce a non-U.S. holder’s basis in our common stock, but not below zero, and then will be treated as gain from the sale of stock. Any dividend paid to a non-U.S. holder on our common stock will generally be subject to U.S. withholding tax at a 30 percent rate. The withholding tax might not apply, however, or might apply at a reduced rate, under the terms of an applicable income tax treaty between the United States and the non-U.S. holder’s country of residence. A non-U.S. holder must demonstrate its entitlement to treaty benefits by certifying its nonresident status. A non-U.S. holder can meet this certification requirement by providing a Form W-8BEN or appropriate substitute form to us or our paying agent. If the holder holds the stock through a financial institution or other agent acting on the holder’s behalf, the holder will be required to provide appropriate documentation to such financial institution or the agent. The financial institution or the agent will then be required to provide certification to us or our paying agent, either directly or through other intermediaries. For payments made to a foreign partnership or other flow-through entity, the certification requirements generally apply to the partners or other owners rather than to the partnership or other entity, and the partnership or other entity must provide the partners’ or other owners’ documentation to us or our paying agent. Special rules, described

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below, apply if a dividend is effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business conducted by the non-U.S. holder.
Sale of Common Stock
          Non-U.S. holders will generally not be subject to U.S. federal income tax on any gains realized on the sale, exchange, or other disposition of common stock. This general rule, however, is subject to several exceptions. For example, the gain would be subject to U.S. federal income tax if:
  the gain is effectively connected with the conduct by the non-U.S. holder of a U.S. trade or business (in which case the special rules described below apply);
 
  the non-U.S. holder is an individual who holds our common stock as a capital asset (generally, an asset held for investment purposes) and who is present in the U.S. for a period or periods aggregating 183 days or more during the calendar year in which the sale or disposition occurs and certain other conditions are met;
 
  the non-U.S. holder was a citizen or resident of the United States and thus is subject to special rules that apply to expatriates; or
 
  the rules of the Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act, or FIRPTA (described below) treat the gain as effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business.
          An individual non-U.S. holder described in the second bullet point immediately above will be subject to a flat 30% tax on the gain derived from the sale, which may be offset by U.S. source capital losses, even though the individual is not considered a resident of the U.S. If a non-U.S. holder is described in the third bullet point above, the non-U.S. holder should consult its own tax advisor to determine the U.S. federal, state, local and other tax consequences that may be relevant to such holder.
          The FIRPTA rules may apply to a sale, exchange or other disposition of common stock if we are, or were within five years before the transaction, a “U.S. real property holding corporation,” or a USRPHC. In general, we would be a USRPHC if interests in U.S. real estate comprised most of our assets. We do not believe that we are a USRPHC or that we will become one in the future. If we are or become a USRPHC, so long as our common stock is regularly traded on an established securities market, only a non-U.S. holder who, actually or constructively, holds or held (at any time during the shorter of the five year period preceding the date of disposition or the holder’s holding period) more than 5% of our common stock will be subject to U.S. federal income tax on the disposition of our common stock.
Dividends or Gain Effectively Connected With a U.S. Trade or Business
          If any dividend on common stock, or gain from the sale, exchange or other disposition of common stock, is effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business conducted by the non-U.S. holder, then the dividend or gain will be subject to U.S. federal income tax at the regular graduated rates. If the non-U.S. holder is eligible for the benefits of a tax treaty between the United States and the holder’s country of residence, any “effectively connected” dividend or gain would generally be subject to U.S. federal income tax only if it is also attributable to a permanent establishment or fixed base maintained by the holder in the United States. Payments of dividends that are effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business, and therefore included in the gross income of a non-U.S. holder, will not be subject to the 30 percent withholding tax. To claim exemption from withholding, the holder must certify its qualification, which can be done by filing a Form W-8ECI. If the non-U.S. holder is a corporation, that portion of its earnings and profits that is effectively connected with its U.S. trade or business would generally be subject to a “branch profits tax.” The branch profits tax rate is generally 30 percent, although an applicable income tax treaty might provide for a lower rate.

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Backup Withholding and Information Reporting
          The Internal Revenue Code and the Treasury regulations require those who make specified payments to report the payments to the IRS. Among the specified payments are dividends and proceeds paid by brokers to their customers. The required information returns enable the IRS to determine whether the recipient properly included the payments in income. This reporting regime is reinforced by “backup withholding” rules. These rules require the payors to withhold tax from payments subject to information reporting if the recipient fails to cooperate with the reporting regime by failing to provide his taxpayer identification number to the payor, furnishing an incorrect identification number, or repeatedly failing to report interest or dividends on his returns. The withholding tax rate is currently 28 percent. The backup withholding rules do not apply to payments to certain exempt holders, including corporations, whether domestic or foreign, who establish their exempt status.
          Payments to non-U.S. holders of dividends on common stock will generally not be subject to backup withholding, and payments of proceeds made to non-U.S. holders by a broker upon a sale of common stock will not be subject to information reporting or backup withholding, in each case so long as the non-U.S. holder certifies its nonresident status. Some of the common means of certifying nonresident status are described under “— Dividends.” We must report annually to the IRS any dividends paid to each non-U.S. holder and the tax withheld, if any, with respect to such dividends. Copies of these reports may be made available to tax authorities in the country where the non-U.S. holder resides.
          Any amounts withheld from a payment to a holder of common stock under the backup withholding rules can be credited against any U.S. federal income tax liability of the holder.
          EACH PROSPECTIVE INVESTOR IS URGED TO CONSULT ITS OWN TAX ADVISOR REGARDING THE PARTICULAR U.S. FEDERAL, STATE, LOCAL, AND FOREIGN TAX CONSEQUENCES OF PURCHASING, HOLDING, AND DISPOSING OF OUR COMMON STOCK, INCLUDING THE CONSEQUENCES OF ANY PROPOSED CHANGE IN APPLICABLE LAWS.

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UNDERWRITING
          Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Pacific Growth Equities, LLC and JMP Securities LLC are acting as representatives of each of the underwriters named below. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in a purchase agreement among us and the underwriters, we have agreed to sell to the underwriters, and each of the underwriters has agreed, severally and not jointly, to purchase from us, the number of shares of common stock set forth opposite its name below.
         
    Number
    of Shares
Underwriter    
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith
Incorporated
       
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. 
       
Pacific Growth Equities, LLC
       
JMP Securities LLC
       
       
             Total
       
       
          Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the purchase agreement, the underwriters have agreed, severally and not jointly, to purchase all of the shares sold under the purchase agreement if any of these shares are purchased. If an underwriter defaults, the purchase agreement provides that the purchase commitments of the nondefaulting underwriters may be increased or the purchase agreement may be terminated.
          We have agreed to indemnify the underwriters against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act, or to contribute to payments the underwriters may be required to make in respect of those liabilities.
          The underwriters are offering the shares, subject to prior sale, when, as and if issued to and accepted by them, subject to approval of legal matters by their counsel, including the validity of the shares, and other conditions contained in the purchase agreement, such as the receipt by the underwriters of officer’s certificates and legal opinions. The underwriters reserve the right to withdraw, cancel or modify offers to the public and to reject orders in whole or in part.
Commissions and Discounts
          The representatives have advised us that the underwriters propose initially to offer the shares to the public at the initial public offering price set forth on the cover page of this prospectus and to dealers at that price less a concession not in excess of $           per share. The underwriters may allow, and the dealers may reallow, a discount not in excess of $           per share to other dealers. After the initial public offering, the public offering price, concession and discount may be changed.
          The following table shows the public offering price, underwriting discount and proceeds before expenses to us. The information assumes either no exercise or full exercise by the underwriters of their overallotment option.
                         
    Per Share   Without Option   With Option
             
Public offering price
    $       $       $  
Underwriting discount
    $       $       $  
Proceeds, before expenses, to us
    $       $       $  
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Overallotment Option
          We have granted an option to the underwriters to purchase up to                     additional shares at the public offering price, less the underwriting discount. The underwriters may exercise this option for 30 days from the date of this prospectus solely to cover any overallotments. If the underwriters exercise this option, each will be obligated, subject to conditions contained in the purchase agreement, to purchase a number of additional shares proportionate to that underwriter’s initial amount reflected in the above table.
No Sales of Similar Securities
          We and our officers, directors, stockholders, warrant holders and option holders, who hold all of our shares of common stock, on a fully diluted basis, have agreed, subject to certain exceptions, not to sell or transfer any common stock or securities convertible into, exchangeable for, exercisable for, or repayable with common stock, for 180 days after the date of this prospectus without first obtaining the written consent of Merrill Lynch. Specifically, we and these other individuals have agreed not to directly or indirectly
  offer, pledge, sell or contract to sell any common stock,
 
  sell any option or contract to purchase any common stock,
 
  purchase any option or contract to sell any common stock,
 
  grant any option, right or warrant for the sale of any common stock,
 
  lend or otherwise dispose of or transfer any common stock,
 
  request or demand that we file a registration statement related to the common stock, or
 
  enter into any swap or other agreement that transfers, in whole or in part, the economic consequence of ownership of any common stock, whether any such swap or transaction is to be settled by delivery of shares or other securities, in cash or otherwise.
          This lockup provision applies to common stock and to securities convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for or repayable with common stock. It also applies to common stock owned now or acquired later by the person executing the agreement or for which the person executing the agreement later acquires the power of disposition.
Quotation on the Nasdaq Global Market
          We expect the shares to be approved for quotation on the Nasdaq Global Market, subject to notice of issuance, under the symbol “CADX.”
          Before this offering, there has been no public market for our common stock. The initial public offering price will be determined through negotiations among us and the representatives. In addition to prevailing market conditions, the factors to be considered in determining the initial public offering price are
  the valuation multiples of publicly traded companies that the representatives believe to be comparable to us,
 
  our financial information,
 
  the history of, and the prospects for, our company and the industry in which we compete,
 
  an assessment of our management, its past and present operations, and the prospects for, and timing of, our future revenues,
 
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  the above factors in relation to market values and various valuation measures of other companies engaged in activities similar to ours.
          An active trading market for the shares may not develop. It is also possible that after the offering the shares will not trade in the public market at or above the initial public offering price.
          The underwriters do not expect to sell more than 5% of the shares in the aggregate to accounts over which they exercise discretionary authority.
Price Stabilization, Short Positions and Penalty Bids
          Until the distribution of the shares is completed, SEC rules may limit underwriters and selling group members from bidding for and purchasing our common stock. However, the representatives may engage in transactions that stabilize the price of the common stock, such as bids or purchases to peg, fix or maintain that price.
          In connection with the offering, the underwriters may purchase and sell our common stock in the open market. These transactions may include short sales, purchases on the open market to cover positions created by short sales and stabilizing transactions. Short sales involve the sale by the underwriters of a greater number of shares than they are required to purchase in the offering. “Covered” short sales are sales made in an amount not greater than the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares in the offering. The underwriters may close out any covered short position by either exercising their overallotment option or purchasing shares in the open market. In determining the source of shares to close out the covered short position, the underwriters will consider, among other things, the price of shares available for purchase in the open market as compared to the price at which they may purchase shares through the overallotment option. “Naked” short sales are sales in excess of the overallotment option. The underwriters must close out any naked short position by purchasing shares in the open market. A naked short position is more likely to be created if the underwriters are concerned that there may be downward pressure on the price of our common stock in the open market after pricing that could adversely affect investors who purchase in the offering. Stabilizing transactions consist of various bids for or purchases of shares of common stock made by the underwriters in the open market prior to the completion of the offering.
          The underwriters may also impose a penalty bid. This occurs when a particular underwriter repays to the underwriters a portion of the underwriting discount received by it because the representatives have repurchased shares sold by or for the account of such underwriter in stabilizing or short covering transactions.
          Similar to other purchase transactions, the underwriters’ purchases to cover the syndicate short sales may have the effect of raising or maintaining the market price of our common stock or preventing or retarding a decline in the market price of our common stock. As a result, the price of our common stock may be higher than the price that might otherwise exist in the open market.
          Neither we nor any of the underwriters make any representation or prediction as to the direction or magnitude of any effect that the transactions described above may have on the price of our common stock. In addition, neither we nor any of the underwriters make any representation that the representatives will engage in these transactions or that these transactions, once commenced, will not be discontinued without notice.
Electronic Offer, Sale and Distribution of Shares
          A prospectus in electronic format will be made available on the websites maintained by one or more of the underwriters of this offering. Other than the electronic prospectus, the information on the websites of the underwriters is not part of this prospectus. The underwriters may agree to allocate a number of shares to underwriters for sale to their online brokerage account holders. Internet distributions will be allocated to underwriters that may make Internet distributions on the same basis as other allocations.

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Other Relationships
          Some of the underwriters and their affiliates have provided from time to time, and may provide in the future, investment and commercial banking and financial advisory services to us in the ordinary course of business, for which they have received and may continue to receive customary fees and commissions.
LEGAL MATTERS
          The validity of our common stock offered by this prospectus will be passed upon for us by Latham & Watkins LLP, San Diego, California. Latham & Watkins LLP and certain attorneys and investment funds affiliated with the firm collectively own an aggregate of 90,000 shares of our preferred stock, which will convert into an aggregate of 90,000 shares of our common stock upon the completion of this offering. Certain legal matters in connection with this offering will be passed upon for the underwriters by Heller Ehrman LLP, San Diego, California.
EXPERTS
          Ernst & Young LLP, independent registered public accounting firm, has audited our financial statements as of December 31, 2004 and 2005 and for the period from May 26, 2004 (inception) through December 31, 2004 and for the year ended December 31, 2005 as set forth in their report. We have included our financial statements in this prospectus and elsewhere in the registration statement in reliance on Ernst & Young LLP’s report, given on their authority as experts in accounting and auditing.
WHERE YOU CAN FIND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
          We have filed with the SEC a registration statement on Form S-1 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, with respect to the shares of our common stock offered hereby. This prospectus does not contain all of the information set forth in the registration statement and the exhibits and schedules thereto. Some items are omitted in accordance with the rules and regulations of the SEC. For further information with respect to us and the common stock offered hereby, we refer you to the registration statement and the exhibits and schedules filed therewith. Statements contained in this prospectus as to the contents of any contract, agreement or any other document are summaries of the material terms of this contract, agreement or other document. With respect to each of these contracts, agreements or other documents filed as an exhibit to the registration statement, reference is made to the exhibits for a more complete description of the matter involved. A copy of the registration statement, and the exhibits and schedules thereto, may be inspected without charge at the public reference facilities maintained by the SEC at 100 F Street NE, Washington, D.C. 20549. Copies of these materials may be obtained from the Public Reference Section of the SEC at 100 F Street NE, Washington, D.C. 20549. Please call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further information on the operation of the public reference facility. The SEC maintains a web site that contains reports, proxy and information statements and other information regarding registrants that file electronically with the SEC. The address of the SEC’s website is http://www.sec.gov.

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INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
         
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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
The Board of Directors and Stockholders of
Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
          We have audited the accompanying balance sheets of Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a development stage company) as of December 31, 2004 and 2005 and the related statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for the period from May 26, 2004 (inception) through December 31, 2004 and for the year ended December 31, 2005. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.
          We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. We were not engaged to perform an audit of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Our audits included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
          In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a development stage company) at December 31, 2004 and 2005 and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the period from May 26, 2004 (inception) through December 31, 2004 and for the year ended December 31, 2005 in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States.
  /s/ Ernst & Young LLP
San Diego, California
April 21, 2006

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Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
(a development stage company)
BALANCE SHEETS
                                     
                Pro Forma
            Stockholders’
    December 31,       Equity at
        June 30,   June 30,
    2004   2005   2006   2006
                 
            (Unaudited)   (Unaudited)
ASSETS
Current assets:
                               
 
Cash and cash equivalents
  $ 4,271,229     $ 8,025,285     $ 42,881,305          
 
Securities available-for-sale
          7,000,000                
 
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
    3,854       526,173       438,274          
                         
Total current assets
    4,275,083       15,551,458       43,319,579          
Property and equipment, net
    108,735       117,740       770,693          
Restricted cash
                1,581,130          
Other assets
    152,159       100,000       683,405          
                         
Total assets
  $ 4,535,977     $ 15,769,198     $ 46,354,807          
                         
 
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
 
Current liabilities:
                               
 
Accounts payable
  $ 68,509     $ 715,781     $ 1,860,993          
 
Accrued liabilities
    45,965       430,220       1,749,955          
Current portion of long-term debt
                1,032,457          
                         
Total current liabilities
    114,474       1,146,001       4,643,405          
Deferred rent
                116,309          
Long-term debt, less current portion
                5,967,543          
Commitments
                               
Stockholders’ equity:
                               
 
Preferred stock, $0.0001 par value:
                               
   
Series A-1 convertible preferred stock, 8,085,108 shares authorized, issued and outstanding at December 31, 2004 and 2005 and June 30, 2006 (unaudited); aggregate liquidation preference of $7,600,002; no shares issued and outstanding pro forma (unaudited)
    809       809       809     $  
   
Series A-2 convertible preferred stock, 12,900,001 shares, 17,675,347 shares and 18,060,347 shares authorized at December 31, 2004 and 2005 and June 30, 2006 (unaudited), respectively; no shares, 17,675,347 shares and 17,675,347 shares issued and outstanding at December 31, 2004 and 2005 and June 30, 2006 (unaudited), respectively; aggregate liquidation preference of $17,675,347; no shares issued and outstanding pro forma (unaudited)
          1,767       1,767        
   
Series A-3 convertible preferred stock, 53,870,000 shares authorized at June 30, 2006 (unaudited); 53,870,000 shares issued and outstanding at June 30, 2006 (unaudited); aggregate liquidation preference of $53,870,000; no shares issued and outstanding pro forma (unaudited)
                5,387        
 
Common stock, $0.0001 par value; 33,000,000 shares, 40,000,000 shares and 100,000,000 shares authorized at December 31, 2004 and 2005 and June 30, 2006 (unaudited), respectively; 4,680,000 shares, 7,616,000 shares and 8,551,740 shares issued and outstanding at December 31, 2004 and 2005 and June 30, 2006 (unaudited), respectively; 88,182,195 shares issued and outstanding pro forma (unaudited)
    468       762       855       8,818  
 
Additional paid-in capital
    7,562,463       25,472,308       79,953,466       79,953,466  
 
Stock subscription receivable
          (187,600 )            
 
Deficit accumulated during the development stage
    (3,142,237 )     (10,664,849 )     (44,334,734 )     (44,334,734 )
                         
Total stockholders’ equity
    4,421,503       14,623,197       35,627,550     $ 35,627,550  
                         
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity
  $ 4,535,977     $ 15,769,198     $ 46,354,807          
                         
See accompanying notes.

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Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
(a development stage company)
STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
                                           
    Period from               Period from
    May 26, 2004               May 26, 2004
    (Inception)           (Inception)
    Through   Year Ended   Six Months Ended June 30,   Through
    December 31,   December 31,       June 30,
    2004   2005   2005   2006   2006
                     
            (Unaudited)   (Unaudited)   (Unaudited)
Operating expenses:
                                       
 
Research and development
  $ 2,233,357     $ 6,126,226     $ 2,401,589     $ 32,373,970     $ 40,733,553  
 
Marketing
    41,114       240,361       142,501       316,541       598,016  
 
General and administrative
    877,146       1,411,810       539,914       1,487,980       3,776,936  
                               
Total operating expenses
    3,151,617       7,778,397       3,084,004       34,178,491       45,108,505  
                               
Loss from operations
    (3,151,617 )     (7,778,397 )     (3,084,004 )     (34,178,491 )     (45,108,505 )
Other income (expense):
                                       
 
Interest income
    9,380       255,785       13,996       552,501       817,666  
 
Interest expense
                      (43,895 )     (43,895 )
                               
Total other income
    9,380       255,785       13,996       508,606       773,771  
                               
Net loss
  $ (3,142,237 )   $ (7,522,612 )   $ (3,070,008 )   $ (33,669,885 )   $ (44,334,734 )
                               
Basic and diluted net loss per share
  $ (0.86 )   $ (1.63 )   $ (0.68 )   $ (6.77 )        
                               
Shares used to compute basic and diluted net loss per share
    3,658,356       4,623,517       4,526,865       4,974,000          
                               
Pro forma basic and diluted net loss per share
          $ (0.36 )           $ (0.57 )        
                               
Shares used to compute pro forma basic and diluted net loss per share
            20,648,526               58,711,140          
                               
See accompanying notes.

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Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
(a development stage company)
STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
For the Period from May 26, 2004 (inception) through June 30, 2006
                                                                                                   
    Series A-1   Series A-2   Series A-3                   Deficit    
    Convertible   Convertible   Convertible               Accumulated    
    Preferred Stock   Preferred Stock   Preferred Stock   Common Stock   Additional   Stock   During the   Total
                    Paid-In   Subscription   Development   Stockholders’
    Shares   Amount   Shares   Amount   Shares   Amount   Shares   Amount   Capital   Receivable   Stage   Equity
                                                 
Issuance of common stock to founders for cash at $0.001 per share in July
        $           $           $       4,500,000     $ 450     $ 4,050     $     $     $ 4,500  
Exercise of common stock options for cash at $0.10 per share in December
                                        180,000       18       17,982                   18,000  
Issuance of Series A-1 preferred stock for cash at $0.94 per share, net of $59,573 of offering costs, in July and August
    8,085,108       809                                           7,539,620                   7,540,429  
Issuance of common stock options for consulting services in November
                                                    811                   811  
 
Net loss and comprehensive loss
                                                                (3,142,237 )     (3,142,237 )
                                                                         
Balance at December 31, 2004
    8,085,108       809                               4,680,000       468       7,562,463             (3,142,237 )     4,421,503  
Exercise of common stock options at $0.10 per share in February, June and December, net of the repurchase of 30,000 shares at $0.10 per share
                                        2,936,000       294       293,306       (187,600 )           106,000  
Issuance of Series A-2 preferred stock for cash at $1.00 per share, net of $57,041 of offering costs, in June and September
                17,675,347       1,767                               17,616,539                   17,618,306  
Net loss and comprehensive loss
                                                                (7,522,612 )     (7,522,612 )
                                                                         
Balance at December 31, 2005
    8,085,108       809       17,675,347       1,767                   7,616,000       762       25,472,308       (187,600 )     (10,664,849 )     14,623,197  
Exercise of common stock options for cash between $0.10 and $0.34 per share in January through June (unaudited)
                                        935,740       93       281,099                   281,192  
Collection of stock subscription receivable (unaudited)
                                                          187,600             187,600  
Issuance of Series A-3 preferred stock for cash at $1.00 per share, net of $94,987 of offering costs, in March (unaudited)
                            53,870,000       5,387                   53,769,626                   53,775,013  
Issuance of warrants in connection with loan and security agreement in February (unaudited)
                                                    313,572                   313,572  
Employee stock- based compensation recognized under SFAS No. 123(R) (unaudited)
                                                    116,861                   116,861  
Net loss and comprehensive loss (unaudited)
                                                                (33,669,885 )     (33,669,885 )
                                                                         
Balance at June 30, 2006 (unaudited)
    8,085,108     $ 809       17,675,347     $ 1,767       53,870,000     $ 5,387       8,551,740     $ 855     $ 79,953,466     $     $ (44,334,734 )   $ 35,627,550  
                                                                         
See accompanying notes.

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Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
(a development stage company)
STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
                                               
    Period from               Period from
    May 26, 2004               May 26, 2004
    (Inception)           (Inception)
    Through   Year Ended   Six Months Ended June 30,   Through
    December 31,   December 31,       June 30,
    2004   2005   2005   2006   2006
                     
            (Unaudited)   (Unaudited)   (Unaudited)
Operating activities
                                       
Net loss
  $ (3,142,237 )   $ (7,522,612 )   $ (3,070,008 )   $ (33,669,885 )   $ (44,334,734 )
 
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:
                                       
   
Depreciation
    8,389       36,876       15,771       28,862       74,127  
   
Stock-based compensation
    811                   116,861       117,672  
   
Non-cash interest expense
                      41,665       41,665  
   
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
                                       
     
Prepaid expenses and other assets
    (56,013 )     (470,160 )     (260,033 )     59,799       (466,374 )
     
Accounts payable, accrued liabilities and deferred rent
    114,474       1,031,527       1,157,612       2,310,041       3,456,042  
                               
Net cash used in operating activities
    (3,074,576 )     (6,924,369 )     (2,156,658 )     (31,112,657 )     (41,111,602 )
Investing activities
                                       
Purchases of marketable securities
    (100,000 )     (7,000,000 )                 (7,100,000 )
Maturities of marketable securities
                      7,000,000       7,000,000  
Restricted cash
                      (1,581,130 )     (1,581,130 )
Purchases of property and equipment
    (117,124 )     (45,881 )     (10,719 )     (681,815 )     (844,820 )
                               
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities
    (217,124 )     (7,045,881 )     (10,719 )     4,737,055       (2,525,950 )
Financing activities
                                       
Proceeds from issuance of common stock, net
    22,500       106,000       109,000       456,609       585,109  
Proceeds from sale of preferred stock, net of issuance costs
    7,540,429       17,618,306       13,661,958       53,775,013       78,933,748  
Borrowings under debt agreements
                      7,000,000       7,000,000  
                               
Net cash provided by financing activities
    7,562,929       17,724,306       13,770,958       61,231,622       86,518,857  
                               
Increase in cash and cash equivalents
    4,271,229       3,754,056       11,603,581       34,856,020       42,881,305  
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period
          4,271,229       4,271,229       8,025,285        
                               
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period
  $ 4,271,229     $ 8,025,285     $ 15,874,810     $ 42,881,305     $ 42,881,305  
                               
Supplemental schedule of non-cash investing and financing activities
                                       
 
Issuance of warrants in connection with loan and security agreement
  $     $     $     $ 313,572     $ 313,572  
                               
See accompanying notes.

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Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
(a development stage company)
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Information as of June 30, 2006 and thereafter and for the six months ended
June 30, 2005 and 2006 and the period from May 26, 2004 (inception)
through June 30, 2006 is unaudited)
1. The Company and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
The Company and Basis of Presentation
          Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the “Company”) was incorporated in the state of Delaware in May 2004. The Company is a biopharmaceutical company focused on in-licensing, developing and commercializing proprietary product candidates principally for use in the hospital setting.
          The Company’s primary activities since incorporation have been organizational activities, including recruiting personnel, establishing office facilities, conducting research and development, including clinical trials, and raising capital. To date, the Company has in-licensed rights to two Phase III product candidates. Since the Company has not begun principal operations of commercializing a product candidate, the Company is considered to be in the development stage.
Use of Estimates
          The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
Unaudited Interim Financial Statements
          The accompanying unaudited interim balance sheet as of June 30, 2006, the statements of operations and cash flows for the six months ended June 30, 2005 and 2006 and the period from May 26, 2004 (inception) through June 30, 2006 and the statement of stockholders’ equity for the six months ended June 30, 2006 are unaudited. The unaudited interim financial statements have been prepared on the same basis as the annual financial statements and, in the opinion of management, reflect all adjustments, which include only normal recurring adjustments necessary to present fairly the Company’s financial position as of June 30, 2006 and results of operations and cash flows for the six months ended June 30, 2005 and 2006. The results of operations for the six months ended June 30, 2006 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the year ending December 31, 2006 or for any other interim period or for any other future year.
Unaudited Pro Forma Stockholders’ Equity
          The unaudited pro forma stockholders’ equity information in the accompanying balance sheet assumes the conversion of the outstanding shares of convertible preferred stock at June 30, 2006 into 79,630,455 shares of common stock as though the completion of the initial public offering contemplated by the filing of this prospectus had occurred on June 30, 2006. Common shares issued in such initial public offering and any related estimated net proceeds are excluded from such pro forma information.
Cash and Cash Equivalents
          Cash and cash equivalents consists of cash and other highly liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less from the date of purchase.

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Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
(a development stage company)
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
(Information as of June 30, 2006 and thereafter and for the six months ended
June 30, 2005 and 2006 and the period from May 26, 2004 (inception)
through June 30, 2006 is unaudited)
Investment Securities Available-for-Sale
          The Company classifies all securities as available-for-sale, as the sale of such securities may be required prior to maturity to implement management strategies. These securities are carried at fair value, with the unrealized gains and losses reported as a component of accumulated other comprehensive loss until realized. Realized gains and losses from the sale of available-for-sale securities, if any, are determined on a specific identification basis. As of December 31, 2004 and 2005 and June 30, 2006, the carrying value of the investments approximated their fair market value.
Fair Value of Financial Instruments
          The carrying amount of cash and cash equivalents, accounts payable and accrued liabilities are considered to be representative of their respective fair values because of the short-term nature of those instruments.
Concentration of Credit Risk
          Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to a significant concentration of credit risk consist primarily of cash and cash equivalents and securities available-for-sale. The Company maintains deposits in federally insured financial institutions in excess of federally insured limits. However, management believes the Company is not exposed to significant credit risk due to the financial position of the depository institutions in which those deposits are held. Additionally, the Company has established guidelines regarding diversification of its investments and their maturities, which are designed to maintain safety and liquidity.
Property and Equipment
          Property and equipment, including leasehold improvements, are stated at cost. Depreciation is calculated using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the assets, generally two to five years. Leasehold improvements are amortized over the shorter of their useful lives or the terms of the related leases.
Impairment of Long-Lived Assets
          In accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 144, Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets, long-lived assets, such as property and equipment are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable. Recoverability of assets to be held and used is measured by a comparison of the carrying amount of an asset to estimated undiscounted future cash flows expected to be generated by the asset. If the carrying amount of an asset exceeds its estimated future cash flows, an impairment charge is recognized by the amount by which the carrying amount of the asset exceeds the fair value of the asset. Assets to be disposed of would be separately presented in the balance sheet and reported at the lower of the carrying amount or the fair value less costs to sell, and are no longer depreciated. The assets and liabilities of a disposed group classified as held for sale would be presented separately in the appropriate asset and liability sections of the balance sheet. Although the Company has accumulated losses since inception, the Company believes the future cash flows to be received from the long-lived assets will exceed the assets’ carrying value and, accordingly, the Company has not recognized any impairment losses through June 30, 2006.

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Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
(a development stage company)
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
(Information as of June 30, 2006 and thereafter and for the six months ended
June 30, 2005 and 2006 and the period from May 26, 2004 (inception)
through June 30, 2006 is unaudited)
Research and Development
          The Company accounts for research and development costs in accordance with SFAS No. 2, Accounting for Research and Development Costs. SFAS No. 2 specifies that research and development costs should be charged to expense until technological feasibility has been established for the product. Once technological feasibility is established, all product costs should be capitalized until the product is available for general release to customers. The Company has determined that technological feasibility for its product candidates is reached when the requisite regulatory approvals are obtained to make the product available for sale. The Company’s research and development expenses consist primarily of license fees, salaries and related employee benefits, costs associated with clinical trials managed by the Company’s contract research organizations, or CROs, and costs associated with non-clinical activities, such as regulatory expenses. The Company uses external service providers and vendors to conduct clinical trials, to manufacture product candidates to be used in clinical trials and to provide various other research and development related products and services. Through June 30, 2006, research and development expenses relate predominantly to the in-licensing of IV APAP and omiganan and clinical trials for omiganan.
Income Taxes
          Income taxes are accounted for under the asset and liability method. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases and operating loss and tax credit carryforwards. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period that includes the enactment date. The Company provides a valuation allowance against net deferred tax assets unless, based upon the available evidence, it is more likely than not that the deferred tax assets will be realized.
Stock-Based Compensation
          Effective January 1, 2006, the Company adopted the provisions of SFAS No. 123(R), Share-Based Payment, using the prospective transition method and therefore, prior period results will not be restated. SFAS No. 123(R) supersedes Accounting Principles Board (“APB”) Opinion No. 25, Accounting for Stock issued to Employees, and related interpretations, and revises guidance in SFAS No. 123, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation. Under this transition method, the compensation cost related to all equity instruments granted prior to, but not yet vested as of, the adoption date is recognized based on the grant-date fair value which is estimated in accordance with the original provisions of SFAS No. 123; however, those options issued prior to but unvested on January 1, 2006 and valued using the minimum value method are excluded from the options subject to SFAS No. 123(R). Compensation costs related to all equity instruments granted after January 1, 2006 is recognized at grant-date fair value of the awards in accordance with the provisions of SFAS No. 123(R). Additionally, under the provisions of SFAS No. 123(R), the Company is required to include an estimate of the number of the awards that will be forfeited in calculating compensation costs, which is recognized over the requisite service period of the awards on a straight-line basis.
          During the six months ended June 30, 2006, the Company recorded $116,861, or $0.02 per share, of stock-based compensation expense as a result of the adoption of SFAS No. 123(R). Of this amount,

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Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
(a development stage company)
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
(Information as of June 30, 2006 and thereafter and for the six months ended
June 30, 2005 and 2006 and the period from May 26, 2004 (inception)
through June 30, 2006 is unaudited)
the Company allocated $20,339, $84 and $96,438 to research and development, sales and marketing and general and administrative expenses, respectively, based on the department to which the associated employee reports. No related tax benefits of the stock-based compensation costs have been recognized since the inception of the Company.
          The following table shows the assumptions used to compute the stock-based compensation costs for the stock options granted during the six months ended June 30, 2006 using the Black-Scholes option pricing model:
         
Employee Stock Options
       
Risk-free interest rate
    4.36 – 5.08 %
Dividend yield
    0.00 %
Expected life of options (years)
    6.06 – 6.08  
Volatility
    70.00 %
          The risk-free interest rate assumption was based on the United States Treasury’s rates for U.S. Treasury zero-coupon bonds with maturities similar to those of the expected term of the award being valued. The assumed dividend yield was based on the Company’s expectation of not paying dividends in the foreseeable future. The weighted average expected life of options was calculated using the simplified method as prescribed by Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) Staff Accounting Bulletin (“SAB”) No. 107. This decision was based on the lack of relevant historical data due to the Company’s limited historical experience. In addition, due to the Company’s limited historical data, the estimated volatility also reflects the application of SAB No. 107, incorporating the historical volatility of comparable companies whose share prices are publicly available.
          The weighted average grant-date fair values of stock options granted during the six months ended June 30, 2006 was $0.29 per share.
          As of June 30, 2006, the Company has approximately $1,479,000 of unrecognized stock-based compensation costs related to the non-vested balance of the 5,549,211 stock options granted during the six months ended June 30, 2006 and expects to recognize such compensation over a weighted average period of 3.71 years.
          Prior to January 1, 2006, the Company applied the intrinsic-value-based method of accounting prescribed by APB Opinion No. 25, and related interpretations including Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Interpretation No. 44, Accounting for Certain Transactions involving Stock Compensation — an interpretation of APB Opinion No. 25, to account for its equity-based awards to employees and directors. Under this method, if the exercise price of the award equaled or exceeded the fair value of the underlying stock on the measurement date, no compensation expense was recognized. The measurement date was the date on which the final number of shares and exercise price were known and was generally the grant date for awards to employees and directors. If the exercise price of the award was below the fair value of the underlying stock on the measurement date, then compensation cost was recorded, using the intrinsic-value method, and was generally recognized in the statements of operations over the vesting period of the award.
          The effect on net loss as if the fair-value-based method had been applied to all outstanding and unvested awards in each period would have been less than a $10,000 increase in the net loss for each period in the period from May 26, 2004 (inception) through December 31, 2005. For purposes of

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Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
(a development stage company)
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
(Information as of June 30, 2006 and thereafter and for the six months ended
June 30, 2005 and 2006 and the period from May 26, 2004 (inception)
through June 30, 2006 is unaudited)
disclosures required by SFAS No. 123, the estimated fair value of the options was amortized on a straight-line basis over the vesting period. The fair value of these awards was estimated using the Minimum Value pricing model, with the following weighted-average assumptions for 2004 and 2005: risk-free interest rate of 3.53% and 4.17%, respectively; dividend yield of 0%; expected volatility of 0%; and a life of four years.
          Equity instruments issued to non-employees are recorded at their fair value as determined in accordance with SFAS No. 123(R) and Emerging Issues Task Force (“EITF”) 96-18, Accounting for Equity Instruments That are Issued to Other Than Employees for Acquiring, or in Conjunction with Selling Goods and Services, and are periodically revalued as the equity instruments vest and are recognized as expense over the related service period. Compensation expense related to the 10,000 stock options issued to a non-employee was $811 for both the period from May 26, 2004 (inception) through December 31, 2004 and the period from May 26, 2004 (inception) through June 30, 2006. The fair value of these stock options was estimated using the Black-Scholes pricing model, with the following weighted-average assumptions: risk-free interest rate of 4.19%; dividend yield of 0%; expected volatility of 70%; and a life of 10 years.
Comprehensive Income
          The Company has applied SFAS No. 130, Reporting Comprehensive Income, which requires that all components of comprehensive income, including net income, be reported in the financial statements in the period in which they are recognized. Comprehensive income is defined as the change in equity during a period from transactions and other events and circumstances from non-owner sources. Net income and other comprehensive income, including foreign currency translation adjustments and unrealized gains and losses on investments, shall be reported, net of their related tax effect, to arrive at comprehensive income. The net loss and comprehensive loss were the same for all periods presented.
Net Loss Per Share
          Basic net loss per share is calculated by dividing the net loss by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding for the period, without consideration for common stock equivalents. Diluted net loss per share is computed by dividing the net loss by the weighted average number of common share equivalents outstanding for the period determined using the treasury-stock method. For purposes of this calculation, convertible preferred stock, stock options and warrants are considered to be common stock equivalents and are only included in the calculation of diluted net loss per share when their effect is dilutive.
          The unaudited pro forma basic and diluted net loss per share is calculated by dividing the net loss by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding for the period plus the weighted average number of common shares resulting from the assumed conversion of the outstanding shares of convertible preferred stock. The assumed conversion is calculated using the as-if-converted method, as if such conversion had occurred as of the beginning of each period presented or as of the original issuance date, if later.

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Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
(a development stage company)
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
(Information as of June 30, 2006 and thereafter and for the six months ended
June 30, 2005 and 2006 and the period from May 26, 2004 (inception)
through June 30, 2006 is unaudited)
                                   
    Period from            
    May 26, 2004            
    (Inception)        
    Through   Year Ended   Six Months Ended June 30,
    December 31,   December 31,    
    2004   2005   2005   2006
                 
Historical
                               
Numerator:
                               
Net loss
  $ (3,142,237 )   $ (7,522,612 )   $ (3,070,008 )   $ (33,669,885 )
                         
Denominator:
                               
 
Weighted average common shares outstanding
    3,680,548       5,277,468       4,770,055       7,826,825  
 
Weighted average unvested common shares subject to repurchase
    (22,192 )     (653,951 )     (243,190 )     (2,852,825 )
                         
Weighted average common shares outstanding
    3,658,356       4,623,517       4,526,865       4,974,000  
                         
Basic and diluted net loss per share
  $ (0.86 )   $ (1.63 )   $ (0.68 )   $ (6.77 )
                         
Pro Forma
                               
Net loss used above
          $ (7,522,612 )           $ (33,669,885 )
                         
Pro forma basic and diluted net loss per share
          $ (0.36 )           $ (0.57 )
                         
Shares used above
            4,623,517               4,974,000  
Pro forma adjustments to reflect assumed weighted average effect of conversion of preferred stock
            16,025,009               53,737,140  
                         
Pro forma shares used to compute basic and diluted net loss per share
            20,648,526               58,711,140  
                         
Historical weighted average anti-dilutive securities not included in diluted net loss per share calculation
                               
Preferred stock
    5,661,130       16,025,009       8,085,108       53,737,140  
Common stock options
                      1,345,271  
Common stock subject to repurchase
    22,192       653,951       243,190       2,852,825  
                         
      5,683,322       16,678,960       8,328,298       57,935,236  
                         
2. Securities Available-for-Sale
          As of December 31, 2005, the Company held $7,000,000 of commercial paper issued by U.S. corporations and rated by debt rating agencies.

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Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
(a development stage company)
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
(Information as of June 30, 2006 and thereafter and for the six months ended
June 30, 2005 and 2006 and the period from May 26, 2004 (inception)
through June 30, 2006 is unaudited)
3. Property and Equipment
          Property and equipment are as follows:
                                 
        December 31,    
            June 30,
    Useful Lives   2004   2005   2006
                 
Leasehold improvements
    2 years     $ 1,146     $ 1,146     $ 1,146  
Computer equipment and software
    3 years       55,245       63,972       186,006  
Furniture and equipment
    5 years       60,733       94,982       94,982  
Manufacturing equipment
    7 years                   122,500  
Construction in-process
                      437,281  
                         
              117,124       160,100       841,915  
Less accumulated depreciation
            (8,389 )     (42,360 )     (71,222 )
                         
            $ 108,735     $ 117,740     $ 770,693  
                         
4. Related Party Transactions
          From September 2004 through August 2005, the Company paid Mr. Cam L. Garner $5,000 per month plus qualified business expenses for his services as chairman of the Company’s board of directors under the terms of a consulting agreement between the Company and a limited liability company affiliated with Mr. Garner. The agreement expired on August 31, 2005. From September 2005 to February 2006, the Company continued to pay Mr. Garner $5,000 per month for his services as chairman of the Company’s board of directors. In March 2006, Mr. Garner’s monthly compensation for his services as chairman of the Company’s board of directors was increased to $8,333 per month. For the period from May 26, 2004 (inception) through December 31, 2004, the year ended December 31, 2005, the six months ended June 30, 2005 and 2006 and the period from May 26, 2004 (inception) through June 30, 2006, the Company expensed $20,000, $60,000, $30,000, $43,333, and $123,333, respectively for payments to Mr. Garner for services as chairman of the Company’s board of directors. The unpaid balance as of December 31, 2004 and 2005 and June 30, 2006 was $20,000, $10,000 and $8,333, respectively.
          During 2004, a stockholder advanced $500,000 for pre-operating expenses and an exclusivity fee due for the collaboration and license agreement with Migenix (see Note 6). The advance was accounted for in accordance with the SEC SAB Topic 5T (SAB No. 79), Accounting for Expenses or Liabilities Paid by Principal Stockholder(s), which requires the Company to record expenses for services paid by stockholders for the benefit of the Company as if such expenses had been paid directly by the Company. The 531,915 shares of Series A-1 preferred stock issued in settlement of the $500,000 advance were valued at $0.94 per share, the price paid by new Series A-1 investors. The transaction was recorded as a $500,000 cash investment in Series A-1 preferred stock by the stockholder and a corresponding cash payment of $500,000 for operating expenses.
5. Commitments
Loan and Security Agreement
          In February 2006, the Company entered into a $7,000,000 loan and security agreement with Silicon Valley Bank and Oxford Finance Corporation to provide growth capital to the Company. In

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Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
(a development stage company)
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
(Information as of June 30, 2006 and thereafter and for the six months ended
June 30, 2005 and 2006 and the period from May 26, 2004 (inception)
through June 30, 2006 is unaudited)
June 2006, the Company drew down $7,000,000 under the loan and security agreement with Silicon Valley Bank and Oxford Finance Corporation and has no further credit available under this agreement. The Company will make interest only payments on growth capital advances until the first day of the month following the six month anniversary of each growth capital advance, at which date the Company will make the first of 30 equal principal and interest payments. Interest accrues on all outstanding amounts at the fixed rate equal to the greater of (a) 10.83% or (b) the Treasury Rate plus 6.25% as of the date the first principal and interest payment is due. The loans are collateralized by substantially all the assets of the Company (excluding intellectual property) and are subject to prepayment penalties. Under the terms of the agreement, the Company may be precluded from entering into certain financing and other transactions, including disposing of certain assets and paying dividends, and is subject to certain non-financial covenants. Upon the occurrence of an event of default, including a Material Adverse Change (as defined in the agreement), the lenders may declare all outstanding amounts due and payable.
          In conjunction with the loan and security agreement, the Company issued fully exercisable warrants to the lenders to purchase an aggregate of 385,000 shares of the Company’s Series A-2 preferred stock at an exercise price of $1.00 per share. Excluding certain mergers or acquisitions, the warrants expire upon the later of: (a) 10 years from issuance or (b) five years after the closing of an initial public offering of the Company’s common stock. The $313,572 fair value of the warrants was determined using the Black-Scholes valuation model, recorded as debt issuance costs which are included as other long-term assets in the accompanying balance sheets, and amortized to interest expense over the expected term of the loan agreement. The warrants were valued using the following assumptions: risk-free interest rate of 4.57%; dividend yield of 0%; expected volatility of 70%; and contractual term of 10 years.
Facility Leases
          In 2004, the Company subleased its corporate headquarters under a non-cancelable operating lease that expires in September 2006. As of December 31, 2005 and June 30, 2006, the sublessor held a security deposit of $50,685. In May 2006, the Company entered into a six-year operating lease for 23,494 square feet of office space. The Company will receive certain tenant improvement allowances and rent abatement and has an option to extend the lease for five years. Monthly rental payments are adjusted on an annual basis and the lease expires in September 2012. As security for the lease, the landlord required a letter of credit in the amount of $1,581,130. The letter of credit is collateralized by a certificate of deposit in the same amount that is classified as restricted cash in the accompanying balance sheet. The required amount subject to the letter of credit and corresponding certificate of deposit will be reduced by 22% on each of the first four anniversaries of the commencement of the lease. Rent expense was $67,579, $190,911, $89,542, $274,231 and $309,174 for the period from May 26, 2004 (inception) through December 31, 2004, the year ended December 31, 2005, the six months ended June 30, 2005 and 2006 and the period from May 26, 2004 (inception) through June 30, 2006, respectively. As of June 30, 2006, future minimum payments under the operating leases total $186,999, $1,009,000, $1,074,851, $1,112,206, $1,151,676, $1,191,851 and $917,676 for the years ending December 31, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012, respectively.
6. License Agreements and Acquired Development and Commercialization Rights
          In July 2004, the Company in-licensed from Migenix the technology and the exclusive development and commercialization rights to its omiganan product candidate for the prevention and treatment of device-related, wound-related, and burn-related infections in North America and Europe. As

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Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
(a development stage company)
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
(Information as of June 30, 2006 and thereafter and for the six months ended
June 30, 2005 and 2006 and the period from May 26, 2004 (inception)
through June 30, 2006 is unaudited)
consideration for the license, the Company paid a $2,000,000 up-front fee, of which $1,900,000 was allocated to the value of the acquired technology and $100,000 was recorded as other long-term assets in the accompanying balance sheet for the 617,284 shares of Migenix common stock acquired. The Company may also be required to make future milestone payments totaling up to $27,000,000 upon the achievement of various milestones related to regulatory or commercial events. The Company is also obligated to pay a royalty on future net sales (as defined) of the licensed products and has the right to grant sublicenses to affiliates. The Company expects results from Phase III clinical trials for the licensed product in the second half of 2007 but does not expect FDA approval prior to 2008. Accordingly, all payments related to the Migenix agreement (other than for the acquisition of common stock) have been recorded as research and development expense.
          In March 2006, the Company in-licensed the technology and the exclusive development and commercialization rights to its IV APAP product candidate in the United States and Canada from Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (“BMS”). BMS sublicensed these rights to the Company under a license agreement with SCR Pharmatop S.A. As consideration for the license, the Company paid a $25,000,000 up-front fee, and may be required to make future milestone payments totaling up to $50,000,000 upon the achievement of various milestones related to regulatory or commercial events. The Company is also obligated to pay a royalty on net sales of the licensed products and has the right to grant sublicenses to third parties. The Company expects to initiate Phase III clinical trials for the licensed product in 2006 but does not expect FDA approval prior to 2008. Accordingly, all payments related to the BMS agreement have been recorded as research and development expense.
7. Stockholders’ Equity
Convertible Preferred Stock
          In July and August 2004, the Company issued 8,085,108 shares of Series A-1 preferred stock at $0.94 per share for cash of $7,600,002. The Company incurred offering costs of $59,573 resulting in net cash proceeds of $7,540,429.
          In June and September 2005, the Company issued an aggregate of 17,675,347 shares of Series A-2 preferred stock at $1.00 per share for cash of $17,675,347. The Company incurred offering costs of $57,041 resulting in net cash proceeds of $17,618,306.
          In March 2006, the Company issued 53,870,000 shares of Series A-3 preferred stock at $1.00 per share for cash of $53,870,000. The Company incurred offering costs of $94,987 resulting in net cash proceeds of $53,775,013.
          Each holder of Series A-1, A-2 and A-3 preferred stock has the right, at the option of the holder at any time, to convert shares of preferred stock into shares of common stock at a conversion ratio of one-to-one, subject to adjustment for stock splits, certain capital reorganizations and dilutive stock issuances. As of June 30, 2006, there have been no adjustments to the conversion ratios of any series of preferred stock. Each share of preferred stock will automatically convert into shares of common stock, at the then effective applicable conversion rate upon the earlier of: (i) the day preceding the closing of the sale of the Company’s common stock in connection with a firmly underwritten public offering in which the Company receives gross proceeds of at least $30,000,000 at a price of at least $3.00 per share (as adjusted from time to time) or (ii) the consent of at least 60% of the then outstanding shares of preferred stock, as a single class.

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Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
(a development stage company)
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
(Information as of June 30, 2006 and thereafter and for the six months ended
June 30, 2005 and 2006 and the period from May 26, 2004 (inception)
through June 30, 2006 is unaudited)
          Unless 60% of the Series A-3 preferred stockholders vote otherwise, certain Series A-3 preferred stockholders that fail to participate in future equity financings up to specified amounts will lose their right of first offer related to any subsequent equity financings and any Series A-1 preferred stock held by them will automatically convert into newly created Series A-4 preferred stock and any Series A-2 and A-3 preferred stock held by them will automatically convert into newly created Series A-5 preferred stock. Series A-4 and A-5 preferred stock shall have identical rights and preferences as Series A-1, A-2 and A-3 preferred stock with the exception of certain anti-dilution protections.
          The holders of Series A-1, A-2 and A-3 preferred stock are entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Company’s Board of Directors out of legally available funds, non-cumulative dividends payable to holders of the preferred stock in an amount equal to $0.0752, $0.08 and $0.08 per share, respectively, in preference and priority to the payment of any dividends on common stock. As of December 31, 2005 and June 30, 2006, no dividends have been declared by the Board of Directors.
          In the event of any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, the holders of Series A-1, A-2 and A-3 preferred stock will be entitled to receive in preference to the holders of common stock, the amount of their original purchase price per share, plus declared and unpaid dividends, if any. If the assets and funds available to be distributed among the holders of the preferred stock shall be insufficient to permit the payment to such holders of the full preferences, then the entire assets and funds legally available for distribution to such holders shall be distributed ratably based on the total due each such holder. Any remaining assets of the Company will be distributed ratably among the holders of the common stock and preferred stock, with the preferred stock limited to the aggregate of three times the original purchase price per share, based upon the number of shares of common stock held by each stockholder, treating each share of preferred stock as if it were converted into shares of common stock at the then-applicable conversion rate.
          Preferred stockholders are entitled to the number of votes they would have upon conversion of their preferred shares into common stock at the then-applicable conversion rate. The preferred stockholders have been granted certain rights with regard to the election of board members and various other corporate actions.
Stock Options
          In 2004, the Company adopted the Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2004 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2004 Plan”). The 2004 Plan allows for the grant of options, restricted stock awards, performance share awards, dividend equivalents, restricted stock units, stock payments and stock appreciation rights to employees, directors and consultants of the Company. As of December 31, 2005 and June 30, 2006, respectively, the 2004 Plan had 4,500,000 and 11,500,000 shares of common stock reserved for issuance. Options granted under the 2004 Plan expire no later than 10 years from the date of grant. Options generally vest over a four-year period and may be immediately exercisable. After one year, the options generally vest 25%. Thereafter, options generally vest monthly in 36 equal installments. The exercise price of incentive stock options shall not be less than 100% of the fair value of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant. The exercise price of any option granted to a 10% stockholder may be no less than 110% of the fair value of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant. The fair value of the Company’s common stock is established contemporaneously by the Company’s board of directors all of whom are related parties. From May 26, 2004 (inception) through February 2006 the valuations were performed by the Company’s board of directors who have experience in valuing early stage companies. Beginning in

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Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
(a development stage company)
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
(Information as of June 30, 2006 and thereafter and for the six months ended
June 30, 2005 and 2006 and the period from May 26, 2004 (inception)
through June 30, 2006 is unaudited)
March 2006 the board of directors established the fair value of the Company’s common stock based on contemporaneous independent valuations of the Company’s common stock performed by an unrelated valuation specialist.
          The Company has applied the guidance in the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (“AICPA”) Audit and Accounting Practice Aid Series, Valuation of Privately-Held-Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, to determine the fair value of its common stock for purposes of setting the exercise prices of stock options granted to employees and others. This guidance emphasizes the importance of the operational development in determining the value of the enterprise. As a development stage enterprise, the Company is at an early stage of existence, primarily focused on product development with an unproven business model. To date, the Company has been funded primarily by venture capitalists with a history of funding start-up, high-risk entities with the potential for high returns in the event the investments are successful. Prior to the licensing of IV APAP in March 2006, the Company was considered to be in a very early stage of development as defined in the AICPA guidance where the preferences of the preferred stockholders, in particular the liquidation preferences, are very meaningful. Subsequent to the Company’s licensing of IV APAP but prior to the initiation of the Company’s initial public offering process on June 14, 2006, based on a contemporaneous independent valuation performed by an unrelated valuation specialist, the Company allocated additional enterprise value to its common stock with an increase in the common stock valuation to $0.34 per share. Subsequent to the initiation of the initial public offering process, based on a contemporaneous independent valuation performed by an unrelated valuation specialist, the Company increased its common stock valuation to $0.80 per share.
          At December 31, 2005 and June 30, 2006, respectively, a total of 228,000 and 1,678,789 shares of common stock remained available for issuance under the 2004 Plan. A summary of the Company’s stock option activity under the 2004 Plan and related information are as follows:
                 
    Options   Weighted Average
    Outstanding   Exercise Price
         
Granted
    1,225,000     $ 0.10  
Exercised
    (180,000 )   $ 0.10  
             
Balance at December 31, 2004
    1,045,000     $ 0.10  
Granted
    3,077,000     $ 0.10  
Exercised
    (2,966,000 )   $ 0.10  
             
Balance at December 31, 2005
    1,156,000     $ 0.10  
Granted
    5,549,211     $ 0.43  
Exercised
    (935,740 )   $ 0.30  
             
Balance at June 30, 2006
    5,769,471     $ 0.38  
             
                                         
    December 31, 2005
     
    Options Outstanding   Options Exercisable
         
        Weighted        
        Average   Weighted       Weighted
        Remaining   Average       Average
Exercise   Number   Contractual   Exercise   Number   Exercise
Price   Outstanding   Life (in years)   Price   Exercisable   Price
                     
$0.10
    1,156,000       9.24     $ 0.10       989,521     $ 0.10  

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Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
(a development stage company)
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
(Information as of June 30, 2006 and thereafter and for the six months ended
June 30, 2005 and 2006 and the period from May 26, 2004 (inception)
through June 30, 2006 is unaudited)
                                                 
    June 30, 2006
     
    Options Outstanding   Options Exercisable
         
        Weighted           Weighted    
        Average   Weighted       Average   Weighted
        Remaining   Average       Remaining   Average
Exercise   Number   Contractual   Exercise   Number   Contractual   Exercise
Price   Outstanding   Life (in years)   Price   Exercisable   Life (in years)   Price
                         
$0.10
    1,017,000       8.72     $ 0.10       852,394       8.69     $ 0.10  
$0.34
    3,714,471       9.86     $ 0.34       3,561,771       9.86     $ 0.34  
$0.80
    1,038,000       9.96     $ 0.80       1,005,000       9.96     $ 0.80  
                                     
      5,769,471       9.68     $ 0.38       5,419,165       9.70     $ 0.39  
                                     
          During the period from May 26, 2004 (inception) through December 31, 2004 and the quarterly periods ended March 31, 2005, June 30, 2005, September 30, 2005, December 31, 2005, March 31, 2006, and June 30, 2006 the Company granted options to purchase shares of the Company’s common stock in the amount of 1,225,000, 650,000, 360,000, 191,000, 1,876,000, 15,000 and 5,534,211, respectively. All such grants had both a fair value and exercise price of $0.10 for periods through March 31, 2006. During the quarterly period ended June 30, 2006, both the fair value and exercise price of 4,496,211 and 1,038,000 option grants was $0.34 and $0.80, respectively.
          As of December 31, 2005 and June 30, 2006, respectively, 186,813 and 341,768 of the outstanding options under the 2004 plan were vested and 2,767,875 and 3,440,257 of the options exercised were subject to repurchase by the Company since they were unvested.
          The aggregate fair value of options that vested during the six months ended June 30, 2006 was approximately $12,000. The aggregate intrinsic value of options exercised during the six months ended June 30, 2006 was approximately $360,000.
          The aggregate intrinsic value of options outstanding and options exercisable as of June 30, 2006 was approximately $2,421,000 and $2,235,000, respectively.
Shares Reserved For Future Issuance
          The following shares of common stock are reserved for future issuance:
                 
    December 31,   June 30,
    2005   2006
         
Conversion of preferred stock
    25,760,455       79,630,455  
Common stock options granted and outstanding
    1,156,000       5,769,471  
Preferred stock warrants outstanding
          385,000  
Common stock options reserved for future issuance
    228,000       1,678,789  
             
      27,144,455       87,463,715  
             
8. Income Taxes
          Significant components of the Company’s deferred tax assets for federal and state income taxes at December 31, 2004 and 2005 are shown below. A valuation allowance has been established as realization

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Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
(a development stage company)
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)
(Information as of June 30, 2006 and thereafter and for the six months ended
June 30, 2005 and 2006 and the period from May 26, 2004 (inception)
through June 30, 2006 is unaudited)
of such deferred tax assets has not met the more likely than not threshold requirement under SFAS No. 109.
                 
    December 31,   December 31,
    2004   2005
         
Deferred tax assets:
               
Net operating loss carryforwards
  $ 361,000     $ 3,528,000  
Tax credit carryforwards
    29,000       359,000  
Capitalized research and development
    591,000       520,000  
Other, net
    157,000       111,000  
             
Total deferred tax assets
    1,138,000       4,518,000  
Valuation allowance for deferred tax assets
    (1,138,000 )     (4,518,000 )
             
Net deferred taxes
  $     $  
             
          At December 31, 2005, the Company had federal and state net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $8,659,000 and $8,663,000, respectively. The federal and state tax loss carryforwards will begin to expire in 2024 and 2014, respectively, unless previously utilized. The Company also had federal research and development tax credit carryforwards of approximately $283,000 which will begin expiring in 2024 unless previously utilized. The Company had state research and development tax credit carryforwards of approximately $116,000, which carryforward indefinitely.
          Utilization of the net operating loss carry forwards and credits may be subject to a substantial annual limitation due to the ownership change limitations provided by the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and similar state provisions. The annual limitation may result in the expiration of net operating losses and credits before utilization.
9. Employee Benefit Plan
          Effective January 1, 2005, the Company established a 401(k) plan covering substantially all employees. Employees may contribute up to 100% of their compensation per year (subject to a maximum limit prescribed by federal tax law). The Company may elect to make a discretionary contribution or match a discretionary percentage of employee contributions. As of December 31, 2005 and June 30, 2006, the Company had not elected to make any contributions to the plan.

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          Through and including                     , 2006 (the 25th day after the date of this prospectus), all dealers effecting transactions in these securities, whether or not participating in this offering, may be required to deliver a prospectus. This is in addition to the dealers’ obligation to deliver a prospectus when acting as underwriters and with respect to their unsold allotments or subscriptions.
                                 Shares
(CADENCE PHARMACEUTICALS LOGO)
Common Stock
 
PROSPECTUS
 
Merrill Lynch & Co.
Deutsche Bank Securities
Pacific Growth Equities, LLC
JMP Securities
                    , 2006
 
 


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PART II
INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS
Item 13. Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution
          The following table sets forth the fees and expenses, other than underwriting discounts and commissions, payable by us in connection with the registration of the common stock hereunder. All amounts shown are estimates except for the SEC registration fee, the NASD filing fee and the Nasdaq Global Market listing fee.
           
    Amount
Item   to be Paid
     
SEC Registration Fee
  $ 9,229  
NASD Filing Fee
    9,125  
Nasdaq Global Market Listing Fee
    100,000  
Legal Fees and Expenses
    *  
Accounting Fees and Expenses
    *  
Printing and Engraving Expenses
    *  
Blue Sky, Qualification Fees and Expenses
    *  
Transfer Agent and Registrar Fees
    *  
Miscellaneous Expenses
    *  
       
 
Total
  $ *  
       
 
To be completed by amendment.
Item 14. Indemnification of Directors and Officers
          Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law permits a corporation to include in its charter documents, and in agreements between the corporation and its directors and officers, provisions expanding the scope of indemnification beyond that specifically provided by the current law.
          Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides for the indemnification of directors to the fullest extent permissible under Delaware law.
          Our amended and restated bylaws provide for the indemnification of officers, directors and third parties acting on our behalf if such persons act in good faith and in a manner reasonably believed to be in and not opposed to our best interest, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, such indemnified party had no reason to believe his or her conduct was unlawful.
          We are entering into indemnification agreements with each of our directors and executive officers, in addition to the indemnification provisions provided for in our charter documents, and we intend to enter into indemnification agreements with any new directors and executive officers in the future.
          The underwriting agreement (to be filed as Exhibit 1.1 hereto) will provide for indemnification by the underwriters of us, our executive officers and directors, and indemnification of the underwriters by us for certain liabilities, including liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, in connection with matters specifically provided in writing by the underwriters for inclusion in the registration statement.
          We intend to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director or officer against any loss arising from any claim asserted against him or her and incurred by him or her in that capacity, subject to certain exclusions and limits of the amount of coverage.

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Item 15. Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities
          Since inception, we have issued and sold the following unregistered securities:
            1. In July 2004, we issued 4,500,000 shares of common stock to a limited liability company and individual investors for aggregate consideration of $4,500.
 
            2. In July and August 2004, we issued and sold an aggregate of 8,085,108 shares of Series A-1 preferred stock to certain venture capital funds and individual investors at a per share price of $0.94, for aggregate consideration of $7,600,001.52. Upon completion of this offering, these shares of Series A-1 preferred stock will convert into 8,085,108 shares of our common stock.
 
            3. In June and September 2005, we issued and sold an aggregate of 17,675,347 shares of Series A-2 preferred stock to certain existing and new investors at a per share price of $1.00, for aggregate consideration of $17,675,347. Upon completion of this offering, these shares of Series A-2 preferred stock will convert into 17,675,347 shares of our common stock.
 
            4. In February 2006, in connection with a loan and security agreement, we issued two warrants to two lenders to purchase an aggregate of 385,000 shares of Series A-2 preferred stock, at an initial exercise price of $1.00 per share, subject to adjustment. The warrants are exercisable through the later of February 2016 or five years from the closing of this offering. These warrants will be exercisable for an aggregate of 385,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $1.00 per share upon the completion of this offering.
 
            5. In March 2006, we issued and sold an aggregate of 53,870,000 shares of Series A-3 preferred stock to certain existing and new investors at a per share price of $1.00, for aggregate consideration of $53,870,000. Upon completion of this offering, these shares of Series A-3 preferred stock will convert into 53,870,000 shares of our common stock.
 
            6. Since our inception through June 30, 2006, we granted stock options to purchase 9,851,211 shares of our common stock at exercise prices from $0.10 to $0.80 per share to our employees, consultants and directors under our 2004 equity incentive award plan. Since our inception through June 30, 2006, we issued and sold an aggregate of 4,081,740 shares of our common stock to our employees, consultants and directors at prices from $0.10 to $0.34 per share pursuant to exercises of options granted under our 2004 equity incentive award plan. During this period, 30,000 unvested shares were repurchased by us at $0.10 per share resulting in a net of 4,051,740 shares issued and sold under our 2004 equity incentive award plan.
          The issuance of securities described above in paragraphs (1) through (5) were exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, in reliance on Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Regulation D promulgated thereunder, as transactions by an issuer not involving any public offering. The purchasers of the securities in these transactions represented that they were accredited investors or qualified institutional buyers and they were acquiring the securities for investment only and not with a view toward the public sale or distribution thereof. Such purchasers received written disclosures that the securities had not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and that any resale must be made pursuant to a registration statement or an available exemption from registration. All purchasers either received adequate financial statement or non-financial statement information about the registrant or had adequate access, through their relationship with the registrant, to financial statement or non-financial statement information about the registrant. The sale of these securities was made without general solicitation or advertising.
          The issuance of securities described above in paragraph (6) was exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, in reliance on Rule 701 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, pursuant to compensatory benefit plans approved by the registrant’s board of directors.
          All certificates representing the securities issued in these transactions described in this Item 15 included appropriate legends setting forth that the securities had not been offered or sold pursuant to a

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registration statement and describing the applicable restrictions on transfer of the securities. There were no underwriters employed in connection with any of the transactions set forth in this Item 15.
Item 16. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules
          (a) Exhibits
         
Exhibit    
Number   Description
     
  1.1*     Form of Underwriting Agreement
  3.1(1)     Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant, as currently in effect
  3.2     Certificate of Amendment to Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant, as currently in effect
  3.3     Form of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant, to be in effect upon completion of the offering
  3.4(1)     Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Registrant, as currently in effect
  3.5     Form of Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Registrant, to be in effect upon completion of the offering
  4.1*     Form of the Registrant’s Common Stock Certificate
  4.2(1)     Amended and Restated Investor Rights Agreement dated February 21, 2006
  4.3(1)     Warrant issued by Registrant in February 2006 to Silicon Valley Bank
  4.4(1)     Warrant issued by Registrant in February 2006 to Oxford Finance Corporation
  5.1*     Opinion of Latham & Watkins LLP
  10.1     Form of Director and Executive Officer Indemnification Agreement
  10.2     Form of Executive Officer Employment Agreement
  10.3#(1)     2004 Equity Incentive Award Plan and forms of option agreements thereunder
  10.4#     Director Equity Compensation Policy
  10.5#     2006 Equity Incentive Award Plan and forms of option and restricted stock agreements thereunder
  10.6     Form of Amended and Restated Restricted Common Stock Purchase Agreement
  10.7#     2006 Corporate Bonus Plan
  10.8(1)     Sublease dated August 31, 2004 by and between the Registrant and Townsend and Townsend and Crew, LLP
  10.9(1)     Lease dated May 12, 2006 by and between the Registrant and Prentiss/ Collins Del Mar Heights LLC
  10.10†(1)     Collaboration and License Agreement dated July 30, 2004 by and between the Registrant and Migenix Inc. (formerly Micrologix Biotech Inc.)
  10.11†(1)     IV APAP Agreement (US and Canada) dated February 21, 2006 by and between the Registrant and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
  10.12†(1)     License Agreement dated December 23, 2002 by and among SCR Pharmatop and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
  10.13(1)     Loan and Security Agreement dated February 17, 2006 by and among the Registrant, Silicon Valley Bank and Oxford Finance Corporation
  23.1     Consent of Ernst & Young LLP, independent registered public accounting firm
  23.2*     Consent of Latham & Watkins LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)
  24.1(1)     Power of Attorney
  24.2     Power of Attorney
 
  * To be filed by amendment.
(1)  Filed with the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 on July 17, 2006.

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  Confidential treatment has been requested for portions of this exhibit. These portions have been omitted from the Registration Statement and submitted separately to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
 
  # Indicates management contract or compensatory plan.
          (b) Financial Statement Schedules
          Schedules not listed above have been omitted because the information required to be set forth therein is not applicable or is shown in the financial statements or notes thereto.
Item 17. Undertakings
          Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
          We hereby undertake that:
            (a) We will provide to the underwriters at the closing as specified in the underwriting agreement certificates in such denominations and registered in such names as required by the underwriters to permit prompt delivery to each purchaser.
 
            (b) For purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the information omitted from a form of prospectus filed as part of this registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained in the form of prospectus filed by the Registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(1) or (4) or 497(h) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, shall be deemed to be part of this registration statement as of the time it was declared effective.
 
            (c) For the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, each post-effective amendment that contains a form of prospectus shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

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SIGNATURES
          Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has duly caused this Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in San Diego, California on the 30th day of August, 2006.
  CADENCE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
  By:  /s/ Theodore R. Schroeder
 
 
  Theodore R. Schroeder
  President and Chief Executive Officer
          Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1 has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
             
Signature   Title   Date
         
 
/s/ Theodore R. Schroeder
 
Theodore R. Schroeder
  President, Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal Executive Officer)   August 30, 2006
 
/s/ William R. LaRue
 
William R. LaRue
  Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer,
Treasurer and Secretary (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
  August 30, 2006
 
*
 
Cam L. Garner
  Chairman of the Board of Directors   August 30, 2006
 
*
 
Brian G. Atwood
  Director   August 30, 2006
 
*
 
Samuel L. Barker, Ph.D.
  Director   August 30, 2006
 
*
 
Michael A. Berman, M.D. 
  Director   August 30, 2006
 
*
 
James C. Blair, Ph.D. 
  Director   August 30, 2006
 
*
 
Alan D. Frazier
  Director   August 30, 2006

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Signature   Title   Date
         
 
*
 
Alain B. Schreiber, M.D. 
  Director   August 30, 2006
 
*
 
Christopher J. Twomey
  Director   August 30, 2006
 
*By:   /s/ Theodore R. Schroeder
 
Theodore R. Schroeder
Attorney-in-Fact
       

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EXHIBIT INDEX
         
Exhibit    
Number   Description
     
  1.1*     Form of Underwriting Agreement
  3.1(1)     Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant, as currently in effect
  3.2     Certificate of Amendment to Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant, as currently in effect
  3.3     Form of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant, to be in effect upon completion of the offering
  3.4(1)     Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Registrant, as currently in effect
  3.5     Form of Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Registrant, to be in effect upon completion of the offering
  4.1*     Form of the Registrant’s Common Stock Certificate
  4.2(1)     Amended and Restated Investor Rights Agreement dated February 21, 2006
  4.3(1)     Warrant issued by Registrant in February 2006 to Silicon Valley Bank
  4.4(1)     Warrant issued by Registrant in February 2006 to Oxford Finance Corporation
  5.1*     Opinion of Latham & Watkins LLP
  10.1     Form of Director and Executive Officer Indemnification Agreement
  10.2     Form of Executive Officer Employment Agreement
  10.3#(1 )   2004 Equity Incentive Award Plan and forms of option agreements thereunder
  10.4#     Director Equity Compensation Policy
  10.5#     2006 Equity Incentive Award Plan and forms of option and restricted stock agreements thereunder
  10.6     Form of Amended and Restated Restricted Common Stock Purchase Agreement
  10.7#     2006 Corporate Bonus Plan
  10.8(1)     Sublease dated August 31, 2004 by and between the Registrant and Townsend and Townsend and Crew, LLP
  10.9(1)     Lease dated May 12, 2006 by and between the Registrant and Prentiss/ Collins Del Mar Heights LLC
  10.10†( 1)   Collaboration and License Agreement dated July 30, 2004 by and between the Registrant and Migenix Inc. (formerly Micrologix Biotech Inc.)
  10.11†( 1)   IV APAP Agreement (US and Canada) dated February 21, 2006 by and between the Registrant and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
  10.12†( 1)   License Agreement dated December 23, 2002 by and among SCR Pharmatop and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
  10.13(1 )   Loan and Security Agreement dated February 17, 2006 by and among the Registrant, Silicon Valley Bank and Oxford Finance Corporation
  23.1     Consent of Ernst & Young LLP, independent registered public accounting firm
  23.2*     Consent of Latham & Watkins LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)
  24.1(1)     Power of Attorney
  24.2     Power of Attorney
 
* To be filed by amendment.
(1)   Filed with the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 on July 17, 2006.
Confidential treatment has been requested for portions of this exhibit. These portions have been omitted from the Registration Statement and submitted separately to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
 
# Indicates management contract or compensatory plan.
Exhibit 3.2
 

EXHIBIT 3.2
CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT
OF
RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
CADENCE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
     Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the “Corporation”), formerly known as Strata Pharmaceuticals, Inc., originally filed its Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of Delaware on May 26, 2004, and is organized and existing under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, hereby certifies as follows:
     1. That the Board of Directors of said Corporation duly adopted resolutions proposing and declaring advisable the following amendment of the Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Certificate”) of said Corporation. The resolution setting forth the proposed amendment is as follows:
     RESOLVED, that the Certificate be amended by changing Section 4(b)(i) of Article IV thereof so that, as amended, said Section shall be and read in its entirety as follows:
     “The holders of the outstanding shares of Preferred Stock, voting together as a class and to the exclusion of all other classes of capital stock of the Corporation, shall be entitled to elect four (4) members of the Board of Directors (the “Preferred Directors”). The holders of the outstanding shares of Common Stock, voting together or as a class and to the exclusion of all other classes of capital stock of the Corporation shall be entitled to select two (2) members of the Board of Directors (the “Common Directors”). The holders of the outstanding shares of Common Stock and Preferred Stock, voting together as a single class and to the exclusion of all other classes of capital stock of the Corporation, shall be entitled to elect three (3) members of the Board of Directors in accordance with Section 4(a) above (the “General Directors”); provided, however, that any such General Director must be approved by (x) the holders of a majority of the Common Stock, voting together as a single class and to the exclusion of all other classes of capital stock of the Corporation, and (y) the holders of a majority of the Preferred Stock, voting together as a single class and to the exclusion of all other classes of capital stock of the Corporation.”
     2. That thereafter, pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Directors and in lieu of a meeting of stockholders, the stockholders gave their approval of said amendment by written consent in accordance with the provisions of Section 228 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
     3. That the aforesaid amendment was duly adopted in accordance with the provisions of Sections 242 and 228 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
     4. That said amendment shall be executed, filed and recorded in accordance with Section 103 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.
     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has caused this Certificate of Amendment to be signed by an authorized officer thereof, this 30th day of August, 2006.
         
    Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
 
       
 
  /s/  William R. LaRue
     
 
  By:   William R. LaRue
 
  Title:   Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary

Exhibit 3.3
 

EXHIBIT 3.3
AMENDED AND RESTATED
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
CADENCE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the “Corporation”), a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”), DOES HEREBY CERTIFY:
     1. The name of the Corporation is Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The Corporation’s original Certificate of Incorporation was filed on May 26, 2004.
     2. That by action taken by the Board of Directors at a meeting held on August 23, 2006, resolutions were duly adopted setting forth a proposed amendment and restatement of the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, declaring said amendment and restatement to be advisable and directing its officers to submit said amendment and restatement to the stockholders of the Corporation for consideration thereof. The resolution setting forth the proposed amendment and restatement is as follows:
     “THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation is hereby amended to read in its entirety as follows, subject to the required consent of the stockholders of the Corporation:
     FIRST: The name of the Corporation (hereinafter the “Corporation”) is Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
     SECOND: The address, including street, number, city and county, of the registered office of the Corporation in the State of Delaware is 2711 Centerville Road, Suite 400, in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle; and the name of the Registered Agent of the Corporation at such address is Corporation Service Company.
     THIRD: The nature of the business or purposes to be conducted or promoted is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”).
     FOURTH: The Corporation is authorized to issue two classes of stock to be designated, respectively, Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share (“Common Stock”) and Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Preferred Stock”). The total number of shares the Corporation shall have the authority to issue is one hundred ten million (110,000,000) shares, one hundred million (100,000,000) shares of which shall be Common Stock and ten million (10,000,000) shares of which shall be Preferred Stock.
          (1) Common Stock. The voting, dividend and liquidation rights of the holders of the Common Stock are subject to and qualified by the rights of the holders of the Preferred Stock of any series as may be designated by the Board of Directors upon any issuance of the Preferred Stock or any series. The holders of the Common Stock are entitled to one vote for each share held at all meetings of stockholders. There shall be no cumulative voting. Dividends may be declared and paid on the Common Stock from funds lawfully available therefor as and when determined by the Board of Directors and subject to any preferential dividend rights of any then outstanding Preferred Stock. Upon the dissolution or liquidation of the Corporation, whether voluntary or involuntary, holders of the Corporation will be entitled to receive ratably all assets of the Corporation available for distribution to stockholders, subject to any preferential rights of any then outstanding Preferred Stock.

 


 

                  (2) Preferred Stock. Shares of Preferred Stock may be issued from time to time in one or more series, each of such series to have such terms as stated in the resolution or resolutions providing for the establishment of such series adopted by the Board of Directors of the Corporation as hereinafter provided. Authority is hereby expressly granted to the Board of Directors of the Corporation to issue, from time to time, shares of Preferred Stock in one or more series, and, in connection with the establishment of any such series by resolution or resolutions, to determine and fix such voting powers, full or limited, or no voting powers, and such other powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional and other special rights, and the qualifications, limitations and restrictions thereof, if any, including, without limitation, dividend rights, conversion rights, redemption privileges and liquidation preferences, as shall be stated in such resolution or resolutions, all to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the resolution or resolutions providing for the establishment of any series of Preferred Stock may, to the extent permitted by law, provide that such series shall be superior to, rank equally with or be junior to the Preferred Stock of any other series. The powers, preferences and relative, participating, optional and other special rights of each series of Preferred Stock, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, if any, may be different from those of any and all other series at any time outstanding. Except as otherwise expressly provided in the resolution or resolutions providing for the establishment of any series of Preferred Stock, no vote of the holders of shares of Preferred Stock or Common Stock shall be a prerequisite to the issuance of any shares of any series of the Preferred Stock authorized by and complying with the conditions of this Certificate of Incorporation.
     FIFTH: (1) The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of a Board of Directors having that number of directors set out in the Bylaws of the Corporation as adopted or as set forth from time to time by a duly adopted amendment thereto by the Board of Directors or stockholders of the Corporation.
                  (2) No director (other than directors elected by one or more series of Preferred Stock) may be removed from office by the stockholders except for cause and, in addition to any other vote required by law, upon the affirmative vote of not less than 662/3% of the total voting power of all outstanding securities of the Corporation then entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, voting together as a single class.
                  (3) The directors of the Corporation, other than directors elected by one or more series of Preferred Stock, shall be divided into three classes, designated Class I, Class II and Class III. Each class shall consist, as nearly as may be possible, of one-third of the total number of directors (other than directors elected by one or more series of Preferred Stock) constituting the entire Board of Directors. Each director (other than directors elected by one or more series of Preferred Stock) shall serve for a term ending on the date of the third annual meeting of stockholders next following the annual meeting at which such director was elected, provided that directors initially designated as Class I directors shall serve for a term ending on the date of the 2007 annual meeting, directors initially designated as Class II directors shall serve for a term ending on the date of the 2008 annual meeting and directors initially designated as Class III directors shall serve for a term ending on the date of the 2009 annual meeting. Notwithstanding the foregoing, each director shall hold office until such director’s successor shall have been duly elected and qualified or until such director’s earlier death, resignation or removal. If the number of directors (other than directors elected by one or more series of Preferred Stock) is changed, any increase or decrease shall be apportioned among the classes so as to maintain the number of directors in each class as nearly equal as possible, but in no event will a decrease in the number of directors shorten the term of any incumbent director. Vacancies on the Board of Directors resulting from death, resignation, removal or otherwise and newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the number of

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directors (other than directors elected by one or more series of Preferred Stock) may be filled solely by a vote of a majority of the directors then in office (although less than a quorum) or by a sole remaining director, and each director so elected shall hold office for a term that shall coincide with the remaining term of the class to which such director shall have been elected. Whenever the holders of one or more classes or series of Preferred Stock shall have the right, voting separately as a class or series, to elect directors, the nomination, election, term of office, filling of vacancies, removal and other features of such directorships shall not be governed by this Article FIFTH unless otherwise provided for in the certificate of designation for such classes or series.
     SIXTH: The Corporation is to have perpetual existence.
     SEVENTH: The following provisions are inserted for the management of the business and the conduct of the affairs of the Corporation and for the further definition of the powers of the Corporation and its directors and stockholders:
          (1) The Board of Directors is expressly authorized to make, adopt, amend, alter, rescind or repeal the Bylaws of the Corporation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the stockholders may adopt, amend, alter, rescind or repeal the Bylaws with, in addition to any other vote required by law, the affirmative vote of the holders of not less than 662/3% of the total voting power of all outstanding securities of the Corporation then entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, voting together as a single class.
          (2) Elections of directors need not be by written ballot unless the Bylaws of the Corporation so provide.
          (3) Any action required or permitted to be taken at any annual or special meeting of stockholders may be taken only upon the vote of stockholders at an annual or special meeting duly noticed and called in accordance with the DGCL and may not be taken by written consent of stockholders without a meeting.
          (4) Special meetings of the stockholders of the Corporation for any purpose or purposes may be called at any time by the Chairman of the Board of Directors or the President or at the written request of a majority of the members of the Board of Directors and may not be called by any other person; provided, however, that if and to the extent that any special meeting of stockholders may be called by any other person or persons specified in any provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation or any amendment thereto or any certificate filed under Section 151(g) of the DGCL, then such special meeting may also be called by the person or persons, in the manner, at the times and for the purposes so specified.
     EIGHTH: (a) Subject to Article EIGHTH (c), the Corporation shall indemnify and hold harmless any person who is or was a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the Corporation) by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director or officer of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director or officer of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him or her in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if he or she acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful. The termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner which he or she reasonably

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believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that his or her conduct was unlawful.
          (b) Subject to Article EIGHTH (c), the Corporation shall indemnify and hold harmless any person who is or was a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the Corporation to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director or officer of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director or officer of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him or her in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if he or she acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation; except that no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the Corporation unless and only to the extent that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware or the court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses which the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware or such other court shall deem proper.
          (c) Any indemnification under this Article EIGHTH (unless ordered by a court) shall be made by the Corporation only as authorized in the specific case upon a determination that indemnification of the director or officer or other person entitled to indemnification under this Article EIGHTH is proper in the circumstances because he or she has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in Article EIGHTH (a) or Article EIGHTH (b), as the case may be. Such determination shall be made, with respect to an officer or director, (i) by the Board of Directors by a majority vote of directors who were not parties to such action, suit or proceeding, even if constituting less than a quorum, (ii) by a committee of directors who were not parties to such action, suit or proceeding even if constituting less than a quorum, (iii) if there are no such directors, or if such directors so direct, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion or (iv) by the stockholders. To the extent, however, that a present or former director or officer of the Corporation has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred to in Article EIGHTH (a) or Article EIGHTH (b), or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, he or she shall be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him or her in connection therewith, without the necessity of authorization in the specific case.
          (d) Notwithstanding any contrary determination in the specific case under Article EIGHTH (c), and notwithstanding the absence of any determination thereunder, any present or former director or officer of the Corporation may apply to the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware for indemnification to the extent otherwise permissible under Article EIGHTH (a) and Article EIGHTH (b). The basis of such indemnification by a court shall be a determination by such court that indemnification of such person is proper in the circumstances because he or she has met the applicable standards of conduct set forth in Article EIGHTH (a) or Article EIGHTH (b), as the case may be. Neither a contrary determination in the specific case under Article EIGHTH (c) nor the absence of any determination thereunder shall be a defense to such application or create a presumption that such person seeking indemnification has not met any applicable standard of conduct. Notice of any application for indemnification pursuant to this Article EIGHTH (d) shall be given to the Corporation promptly upon the filing of such application. If successful, in whole or in part, such person seeking indemnification in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware shall also be entitled to be paid the expense of prosecuting such application.

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          (e) Expenses incurred by a person who is or was a director or officer of the Corporation in defending or investigating a threatened or pending action, suit or proceeding shall be paid by the Corporation in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of such person to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined that he or she is not entitled to be indemnified by the Corporation as authorized in this Article EIGHTH.
          (f) The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by or granted pursuant to this Article EIGHTH shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses may be entitled under any bylaw, agreement, contract, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or pursuant to the direction (howsoever embodied) of any court of competent jurisdiction or otherwise, both as to action in his or her official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office, it being the policy of the Corporation that indemnification of the persons specified in Article EIGHTH (a) and Article EIGHTH (b) shall be made to the fullest extent permitted by law. The provisions of this Article EIGHTH shall not be deemed to preclude the indemnification of any person who is not specified in Article EIGHTH (a) or Article EIGHTH (b) but whom the Corporation has the power or obligation to indemnify under the provisions of the DGCL or otherwise.
          (g) The Corporation may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director or officer of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise against any liability asserted against him or her and incurred by him or her in any such capacity, or arising out of his or her status as such, whether or not the Corporation would have the power or the obligation to indemnify him or her against such liability under the provisions of this Article EIGHTH or Section 145 of the DGCL.
          (h) For purposes of this Article EIGHTH, references to “the Corporation” shall include, in addition to the resulting corporation, any constituent corporation (including any constituent of a constituent) absorbed in a consolidation or merger which, if its separate existence had continued, would have had the power and authority to indemnify its directors or officers, so that any person who is or was a director or officer of such constituent corporation, or is or was serving at the request of such constituent corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise, shall stand in the same position under the provisions of this Article EIGHTH with respect to the resulting or surviving corporation as he or she would have with respect to such constituent corporation if its separate existence had continued. For purposes of this Article EIGHTH, references to “fines” shall include any excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to an employee benefit plan; and references to “serving at the request of the Corporation” shall include any service as a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation which imposes duties on, or involves services by, such person with respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants or beneficiaries; and a person who acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries of an employee benefit plan shall be deemed to have acted in a manner “not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation” as referred to in this Article EIGHTH. For purposes of any determination under Article EIGHTH (c), a person shall be deemed to have acted in good faith in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation, or, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, to have had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful, if his or her action is based on the records or books of account of the Corporation or another enterprise, or on information supplied to him or her by the officers of the Corporation or another enterprise in the course of their duties, or on the advice of legal counsel for the Corporation or another enterprise or on information or records given or reports made to the Corporation or another enterprise by an independent certified public accountant or by an appraiser or other expert selected with reasonable care by the Corporation or another enterprise. The term “another

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enterprise” as used in this Article EIGHTH (h) shall mean any other corporation or any partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise of which such person is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent. The provisions of this Article EIGHTH (h) shall not be deemed to be exclusive, or to limit in any way, the circumstances in which a person may be deemed to have met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in Article EIGHTH (a) or (b), as the case may be.
          (i) The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, this Article EIGHTH shall, unless otherwise provided when authorized or ratified, continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director or officer of the Corporation and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.
          (j) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Article EIGHTH to the contrary, except for proceedings to enforce rights to indemnification (which shall be governed by Article EIGHTH (d)), the Corporation shall not be obligated to indemnify any person in connection with a proceeding (or part, thereof) initiated by such person unless such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized or consented to by the Board of Directors of the Corporation.
          (k) The Corporation may, to the extent authorized from time to time by the Board of Directors, provide rights to indemnification and to the advancement of expenses to employees and agents of the Corporation similar to those conferred in this Article EIGHTH to directors and officers of the Corporation.
     NINTH: A director of the Corporation shall not be personally liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, provided that this Article shall not eliminate or limit the liability of a director (i) for any breach of his or her duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of the law, (iii) under Section 174 of the DGCL or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derives an improper personal benefit.
          If the DGCL is hereafter amended to authorize corporate action further limiting or eliminating the personal liability of directors, then the liability of the director to the Corporation shall be limited or eliminated to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL, as so amended from time to time. Any amendment, repeal or modification of this Article shall be prospective only, and shall not adversely affect any right or protection of a director of the Corporation under this Article NINTH in respect of any act or omission occurring prior to the time of such amendment, repeal or modification.
     TENTH: Each reference in this Certificate of Incorporation to any provision of the DGCL refers to the specified provision of the DGCL, as the same now exists or as it may hereafter be amended or superseded.
     ELEVENTH: The Corporation reserves the right at any time and from time to time to amend, alter, change or repeal any provision contained in this Certificate of Incorporation, in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by the laws of the State of Delaware; and all rights conferred on stockholders, directors or any other persons herein are granted subject to this reservation; provided, however, that no amendment, alteration, change or repeal may be made to Article FIFTH, SEVENTH, EIGHTH, NINTH or ELEVENTH without the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 662/3% of the outstanding voting stock of the corporation, voting together as a single class.”

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     3. That said Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation has been consented to and authorized by the holders of a majority of the issued and outstanding stock entitled to vote in accordance with the provisions of Section 228 of the DGCL.
     4. That said Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation was duly adopted in accordance with the applicable provisions of Sections 242 and 245 of the DGCL.

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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has caused this Certificate to be signed by Theodore R. Schroeder, its President and Chief Executive Officer and William R. LaRue, its Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary, this ___ day of                      2006.
         
  Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,
a Delaware corporation
 
 
  By:      
    Name:   William R. LaRue   
    Title:   Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary   
 
ATTEST
         
     
Name:
  Theodore R. Schroeder    
Title:
  President and Chief Executive Officer    

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Exhibit 3.5
 

EXHIBIT 3.5
AMENDED AND RESTATED
BYLAWS
OF
CADENCE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.

 


 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
                 
            PAGE
ARTICLE I. OFFICES     1  
 
               
 
  Section 1.   REGISTERED OFFICES     1  
 
  Section 2.   OTHER OFFICES     1  
 
               
ARTICLE II. MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS     1  
 
               
 
  Section 1.   PLACE OF MEETINGS     1  
 
  Section 2.   ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS     1  
 
  Section 3.   QUORUM; ADJOURNED MEETINGS AND NOTICE THEREOF     1  
 
  Section 4.   VOTING     1  
 
  Section 5.   PROXIES     2  
 
  Section 6.   SPECIAL MEETINGS     2  
 
  Section 7.   NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETINGS     2  
 
  Section 8.   FIXING DATE FOR DETERMINATION OF STOCKHOLDERS OF RECORD     3  
 
  Section 9.   NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDER BUSINESS AND NOMINATIONS     3  
 
  Section 10.   MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION OF STOCKHOLDER LIST     6  
 
  Section 11.   STOCKHOLDER ACTION BY WRITTEN CONSENT WITHOUT A MEETING     6  
 
               
ARTICLE III. DIRECTORS     6  
 
               
 
  Section 1.   THE NUMBER OF DIRECTORS     6  
 
  Section 2.   VACANCIES     6  
 
  Section 3.   POWERS     7  
 
  Section 4.   PLACE OF DIRECTORS’ MEETINGS     7  
 
  Section 5.   REGULAR MEETINGS     7  
 
  Section 6.   SPECIAL MEETINGS     7  
 
  Section 7.   QUORUM     7  
 
  Section 8.   ACTION WITHOUT MEETING     7  
 
  Section 9.   TELEPHONIC MEETINGS     8  
 
  Section 10.   COMMITTEES OF DIRECTORS     8  
 
  Section 11.   MINUTES OF COMMITTEE MEETINGS     8  
 
  Section 12.   COMPENSATION OF DIRECTORS     8  
 
               
ARTICLE IV. OFFICERS     8  
 
               
 
  Section 1.   OFFICERS     8  
 
  Section 2.   ELECTION OF OFFICERS     9  
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  Section 3.   SUBORDINATE OFFICERS     9  
 
  Section 4.   COMPENSATION OF OFFICERS     9  
 
  Section 5.   TERM OF OFFICE; REMOVAL AND VACANCIES     9  
 
  Section 6.   POWERS AND DUTIES OF OFFICERS     9  
 
               
ARTICLE V. INDEMNIFICATION OF EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS     9  
 
               
ARTICLE VI. CERTIFICATES OF STOCK     10  
 
               
 
  Section 1.   CERTIFICATES     10  
 
  Section 2.   SIGNATURES ON CERTIFICATES     10  
 
  Section 3.   STATEMENT OF STOCK RIGHTS, PREFERENCES, PRIVILEGES     10  
 
  Section 4.   LOST CERTIFICATES     10  
 
  Section 5.   TRANSFERS OF STOCK     10  
 
  Section 6.   REGISTERED STOCKHOLDERS     11  
 
               
ARTICLE VII. GENERAL PROVISIONS     11  
 
               
 
  Section 1.   CHECKS     11  
 
  Section 2.   FISCAL YEAR     11  
 
  Section 3.   CORPORATE SEAL     11  
 
  Section 4.   MANNER OF GIVING NOTICE     11  
 
  Section 5.   WAIVER OF NOTICE     11  
 
               
ARTICLE VIII. AMENDMENTS     11  
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AMENDED AND RESTATED
BYLAWS
OF
CADENCE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
ARTICLE I.
OFFICES
     Section 1. REGISTERED OFFICES. The registered office shall be in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle, State of Delaware.
     Section 2. OTHER OFFICES. The corporation may also have offices at such other places both within and without the State of Delaware as the Board of Directors (the “Board”) may from time to time determine or the business of the corporation may require.
ARTICLE II.
MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS
     Section 1. PLACE OF MEETINGS. Meetings of stockholders shall be held at any place within or outside the State of Delaware designated by the Board. In the absence of any such designation, stockholders’ meetings shall be held at the principal executive office of the corporation.
     Section 2. ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS. The annual meeting of stockholders shall be held each year on a date and time designated by the Board. At each annual meeting directors shall be elected, and any other proper business may be transacted.
     Section 3. QUORUM; ADJOURNED MEETINGS AND NOTICE THEREOF. A majority of the stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at any meeting of stockholders, the holders of which are present in person or represented by proxy, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business except as otherwise provided by law, by the Certificate of Incorporation or by these Bylaws. A quorum, once established, shall not be broken by the withdrawal of enough votes to leave less than a quorum, and the votes present may continue to transact business until adjournment. If, however, such quorum shall not be present or represented at any meeting of the stockholders, a majority of the voting stock represented in person or by proxy may adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until a quorum shall be present or represented. At such adjourned meeting at which a quorum shall be present or represented, any business may be transacted which might have been transacted at the meeting as originally notified. If the adjournment is for more than thirty days, or if after the adjournment a new record date is fixed for the adjourned meeting, a notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given to each stockholder of record entitled to vote thereat.
     Section 4. VOTING. When a quorum is present at any meeting, in all matters other than the election of directors, the vote of the holders of a majority of the stock having voting power present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote on a particular question shall decide such question brought before such meeting, unless the question is one upon which by express provision of the statutes, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, a different

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vote is required in which case such express provision shall govern and control the decision of such question. Directors shall be elected by a plurality of the votes of the stock present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote on the election of directors.
     Section 5. PROXIES. At each meeting of the stockholders, each stockholder having the right to vote may vote in person or may authorize another person or persons to act for him or her by proxy appointed by an instrument in writing subscribed by such stockholder and bearing a date not more than three years prior to said meeting, unless said instrument provides for a longer period. All proxies must be filed with the Secretary of the corporation at the beginning of each meeting in order to be counted in any vote at the meeting. Each stockholder shall have one vote for each share of stock having voting power, registered in his name on the books of the corporation on the record date set by the Board as provided in Article II, Section 8 hereof.
     Section 6. SPECIAL MEETINGS. Special meetings of the stockholders, for any purpose or purposes, unless otherwise prescribed by statute or by the Certificate of Incorporation, may be called by the Chairman of the Board or the President and shall be called by the President or the Secretary at the request in writing of a majority of the members of the Board. Business transacted at any special meeting of stockholders shall be limited to the purposes stated in the notice.
     Section 7. NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETINGS. Whenever stockholders are required or permitted to take any action at a meeting, a written notice of the meeting shall be given, which notice shall state the place, date and hour of the meeting, and, in the case of a special meeting, the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called. The written notice of any meeting shall be given to each stockholder entitled to vote at such meeting not less than ten nor more than sixty days before the date of the meeting. If mailed, notice is deemed given when deposited in the United States mail, postage prepaid, directed to the stockholder at his address as it appears on the records of the corporation.

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     Section 8. FIXING DATE FOR DETERMINATION OF STOCKHOLDERS OF RECORD. In order that the corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to notice of, or to vote at, any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof, or entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment of any rights, or entitled to exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion or exchange of stock or for the purpose of any other lawful action, the Board may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board, and which record date: (a) in the case of determination of stockholders entitled to vote at any meeting of stockholders or adjournment thereof, shall, unless otherwise required by law, not be more than sixty nor less than ten days before the date of such meeting; and (b) in the case of any other action, shall not be more than sixty days prior to such other action. If no record date is fixed: (i) the record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall be at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which notice is given, or, if notice is waived, at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which the meeting is held; and (ii) the record date for determining stockholders for any other purpose shall be at the close of business on the day on which the Board adopts the resolution relating thereto. A determination of stockholders of record entitled to notice of, or to vote at, a meeting of stockholders shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting; provided, however, that the Board may fix a new record date for the adjourned meeting.
     Section 9. NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDER BUSINESS AND NOMINATIONS.
          (a) Nominations of persons for election to the Board of the corporation and the proposal of business to be considered by the stockholders may be made at an annual meeting of stockholders (i) pursuant to the corporation’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto), (ii) by or at the direction of the Board or (iii) by any stockholder of the corporation who was a stockholder of record at the time notice provided for in this Section 9 is given to the Secretary of the corporation, who is entitled to vote at the meeting and who complies with the notice procedures in this Section 9.
          (b) For nominations or other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder pursuant to clause (iii) of paragraph (a) of this Section 9, the stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary of the corporation, and any such proposed business other than the nominations of persons for election to the Board must constitute a proper matter for stockholder action. To be timely, a stockholder’s notice shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the corporation not later than the close of business on the ninetieth day nor earlier than the close of business on the one hundred twentieth day prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting; provided, however, that in the event that the date of the annual meeting is more than thirty days before or more than sixty days after such anniversary date, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so delivered not earlier than the close of business on the one hundred twentieth day prior to such annual meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the ninetieth day prior to such annual meeting or the tenth day following the earlier of (i) the day on which notice of the meeting was mailed or (ii) the date public announcement of the date of such meeting is first made by the corporation. In no event shall the public announcement of an adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a stockholder’s notice as described above. Such stockholder’s notice shall set forth:

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(A) as to each person whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or re-election as a director, all information relating to such person that is required to be disclosed in solicitations of proxies for election of directors in an election contest, or is otherwise required, in each case pursuant to Regulation 14A under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and Rule 14a-101 thereunder (including such person’s written consent to being named in the proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as a director if elected); (B) as to any other business that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting, the text of the proposal or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration and, in the event that such business includes a proposal to amend the Bylaws, the language of the proposed amendment), the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest in such business of such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made; and (C) as to the stockholder giving the notice and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made, (I) the name and address of such stockholder and of such beneficial owner, as they appear on the corporation’s books, (II) the class and number of shares of capital stock of the corporation which are owned beneficially and of record by such stockholder and such beneficial owner, (III) a representation that the stockholder is a holder of record of stock of the corporation entitled to vote at such meeting and intends to appear in person or by proxy at the meeting to propose such business or nomination and (IV) a representation whether the stockholder or the beneficial owner, if any, intends or is part of a group which intends (y) to deliver a proxy statement and/or form of proxy to holders of at least the percentage of the corporation’s outstanding capital stock required to approve or adopt the proposal or elect the nominee and/or (z) otherwise to solicit proxies from stockholders in support of such proposal or nomination. The foregoing notice requirements shall be deemed satisfied by a stockholder if the stockholder has notified the corporation of his or her intention to present a proposal at an annual meeting in compliance with Rule 14a-8 (or any successor thereof) promulgated under the Exchange Act and such stockholder’s proposal has been included in a proxy statement that has been prepared by the corporation to solicit proxies for such annual meeting. The corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as it may reasonably require to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as a director of the corporation.
          (c) Only such business shall be conducted at a special meeting of stockholders as shall have been brought before the meeting pursuant to the corporation’s notice of meeting. Nominations of persons for election to the Board may be made at a special meeting of stockholders at which directors are to be elected pursuant to the corporation’s notice of meeting (i) by or at the direction of the Board or (ii) provided that the Board has determined that directors shall be elected at such meeting, by any stockholder of the corporation who is a stockholder of record at the time the notice provided for in this Section 9 is delivered to the Secretary of the corporation, who is entitled to vote at the meeting and who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 9. In the event the corporation calls a special meeting of stockholders for the purpose of electing one or more directors to the Board, any such stockholder entitled to vote in such election of directors may nominate a person or persons (as the case may be) for election to such position(s) as specified in the corporation’s notice of meeting, if the stockholder’s notice required by paragraph (b) of this Section 9 shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the corporation not earlier than the close of business on the one hundred twentieth day prior to such special meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of

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(i) the ninetieth day prior to such special meeting or (ii) the tenth day following the day on which public announcement is first made of the date of the special meeting and of the nominees proposed by the Board to be elected at such meeting. In no event shall the public announcement of an adjournment or postponement of a special meeting commence a new time period (or extend any time period) for the giving of a stockholder’s notice as described above.
          (d) (i) Only such persons who are nominated in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 9 shall be eligible to be elected at an annual or special meeting of stockholders of the corporation to serve as directors, and only such business shall be conducted at a meeting of stockholders as shall have been brought before the meeting in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 9. Except as otherwise provided by law, the chairman of the meeting shall have the power and duty (A) to determine whether a nomination or any business proposed to be brought before the meeting was made or proposed, as the case may be, in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 9 (including whether the stockholder or beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made solicited (or is part of a group which solicited) or did not so solicit, as the case may be, proxies in support of such stockholder’s nominee or proposal in compliance with such stockholder’s representation as required by paragraph (b) of this Section 9) and (B) if any proposed nomination or business was not made or proposed in compliance with this Section 9, to declare that such nomination shall be disregarded or that such proposed business shall not be transacted. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 9, if the stockholder (or a qualified representative of the stockholder) does not appear at the annual or special meeting of stockholders of the corporation to present a nomination or business, such nomination shall be disregarded and such proposed business shall not be transacted, notwithstanding that proxies in respect of such vote may have been received by the corporation.
               (ii) For purposes of this Section 9, “public announcement” shall include disclosure in a press release reported by PRNewswire, Business Wire, the Dow Jones News Service, Associated Press or comparable national news service or in a document publicly filed by the corporation with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Section 13, 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act.
               (iii) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 9, a stockholder shall also comply with all applicable requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder with respect to the matters set forth in this Section 9. Nothing in this Section 9 shall be deemed to affect any rights (A) of stockholders to request inclusion of proposals in the corporation’s proxy statement pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act or (B) of the holders of any series of preferred stock of the corporation to elect directors pursuant to any applicable provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation.

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     Section 10. MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION OF STOCKHOLDER LIST. The officer who has charge of the stock ledger of the corporation shall prepare and make, at least ten days before every meeting of stockholders, a complete list of the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting, arranged in alphabetical order, and showing the address of each stockholder and the number of shares registered in the name of each stockholder. Such list shall be open to the examination of any stockholder, for any purpose germane to the meeting, during ordinary business hours, for a period of at least ten days prior to the meeting, either at a place within the city where the meeting is to be held, which place shall be specified in the notice of the meeting, or, if not so specified, at the place where the meeting is to be held. The list shall also be produced and kept at the time and place of the meeting during the whole time thereof, and may be inspected by any stockholder who is present.
     Section 11. STOCKHOLDER ACTION BY WRITTEN CONSENT WITHOUT A MEETING. Unless otherwise provided in the Certificate of Incorporation, any action required to be taken at any annual or special meeting of stockholders of the corporation, or any action which may be taken at any annual or special meeting of such stockholders, may not be taken without a meeting.
ARTICLE III.
DIRECTORS
     Section 1. THE NUMBER OF DIRECTORS. The number of directors which shall constitute the whole Board shall be not less than three nor more than fifteen. The actual number of directors shall be fixed from time to time solely by resolution adopted by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors. The directors need not be stockholders. The directors shall be elected at the annual meeting of the stockholders, except as provided in Section 2 of this Article, and each director elected shall hold office until his successor is elected and qualified; provided, however, that unless otherwise restricted by the Certificate of Incorporation or by law, any director or the entire Board may be removed, for cause, from the Board at any meeting of stockholders by not less than 66 2/3% of the outstanding stock of the Corporation.
     Section 2. VACANCIES. Vacancies on the Board by reason of death, resignation, retirement, disqualification, removal from office or otherwise, and newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the authorized number of directors may be filled solely by a vote of a majority of the directors then in office, although less than a quorum, or by a sole remaining director, and each director so elected shall hold office for a term that shall coincide with the remaining term of the class to which such director shall have been elected. If there are no directors in office, then an election of directors may be held in the manner provided by statute. If, at the time of filling any vacancy or any newly created directorship, the directors then in office shall constitute less than a majority of the whole Board (as constituted immediately prior to any such increase), the Court of Chancery may, upon application of any stockholder or stockholders holding at least ten percent of the total number of the shares at the time outstanding having the right to vote for such directors, summarily order an election to be held to fill any such vacancies or newly created directorships, or to replace the directors chosen by the directors then in office.

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     Section 3. POWERS. The property and business of the corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of its Board. In addition to the powers and authorities by these Bylaws expressly conferred upon them, the Board may exercise all such powers of the corporation and do all such lawful acts and things as are not by statute, by the Certificate of Incorporation or by these Bylaws directed or required to be exercised or done by the stockholders.
     Section 4. PLACE OF DIRECTORS’ MEETINGS. The directors may hold their meetings, have one or more offices and keep the books of the corporation outside of the State of Delaware.
     Section 5. REGULAR MEETINGS. Regular meetings of the Board may be held without notice at such time and place as shall from time to time be determined by the Board.
     Section 6. SPECIAL MEETINGS. Special meetings of the Board may be called by the Chairman of the Board or the President on forty-eight hours’ notice to each director, either personally, by mail, electronic mail or by telegram; special meetings shall be called by the President or the Secretary in like manner and on like notice on the written request of two directors, unless the Board consists of only one director, in which case special meetings shall be called by the President or Secretary in like manner or on like notice on the written request of the sole director.
     Section 7. QUORUM. At all meetings of the Board a majority of the authorized number of directors shall be necessary and sufficient to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and the vote of a majority of the directors present at any meeting at which there is a quorum shall be the act of the Board, except as may be otherwise specifically provided by statute, by the Certificate of Incorporation or by these Bylaws. If a quorum shall not be present at any meeting of the Board, the directors present thereat may adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until a quorum shall be present. If only one director is authorized, such sole director shall constitute a quorum.
     Section 8. ACTION WITHOUT MEETING. Unless otherwise restricted by the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the Board, or of any committee thereof, may be taken without a meeting, if all members of the Board or committee, as the case may be, consent thereto in writing, and the writing or writings are filed with the minutes of proceedings of the Board or committee.

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     Section 9. TELEPHONIC MEETINGS. Unless otherwise restricted by the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, members of the Board, or any committee designated by the Board, may participate in a meeting of the Board, or any committee, by means of conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other, and such participation in a meeting shall constitute presence in person at such meeting.
     Section 10. COMMITTEES OF DIRECTORS. The Board may, by resolution passed by a majority of the whole Board, designate one or more committees, each such committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the corporation. The Board may designate one or more directors as alternate members of any committee, who may replace any absent or disqualified member at any meeting of the committee. In the absence or disqualification of a member of a committee, the member or members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not he, she or they constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint another member of the Board to act at the meeting in the place of any such absent or disqualified member. Any such committee, to the extent provided in the resolution of the Board, shall have and may exercise all the powers and authority of the Board in the management of the business and affairs of the corporation and may authorize the seal of the corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it; but no such committee shall have the power or authority in reference to amending the Certificate of Incorporation, adopting an agreement of merger or consolidation, recommending to the stockholders the sale, lease or exchange of all or substantially all of the corporation’s property and assets, recommending to the stockholders a dissolution of the corporation or a revocation of a dissolution, or amending the Bylaws of the corporation; and, unless the resolution or the Certificate of Incorporation expressly so provide, no such committee shall have the power or authority to declare a dividend or to authorize the issuance of stock.
     Section 11. MINUTES OF COMMITTEE MEETINGS. Each committee shall keep regular minutes of its meetings and report the same to the Board when required.
     Section 12. COMPENSATION OF DIRECTORS. Unless otherwise restricted by the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, the Board shall have the authority to fix the compensation of directors. The directors may be paid their expenses, if any, of attendance at each meeting of the Board and may be paid a fixed sum for attendance at each meeting of the Board or a stated salary as director. No such payment shall preclude any director from serving the corporation in any other capacity and receiving compensation therefor. Members of special or standing committees may be allowed like compensation for attending committee meetings.
ARTICLE IV.
OFFICERS
     Section 1. OFFICERS. The officers of this corporation shall be chosen by the Board and shall include a President, a Secretary and a Chief Financial Officer or Treasurer. The corporation may also have at the discretion of the Board such other officers as are desired, including one or more Vice Presidents, one or more Assistant Secretaries and Assistant Treasurers and such other officers as may be appointed in accordance with the provisions of Section 3 hereof. In the event there are two or more Vice Presidents, then one or more may be

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designated as Executive Vice President, Senior Vice President or other similar or dissimilar title. At the time of the election of officers, the directors may by resolution determine the order of their rank. Any number of offices may be held by the same person, unless the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws otherwise provide.
     Section 2. ELECTION OF OFFICERS. The Board, at its first meeting after each annual meeting of stockholders, shall choose the officers of the corporation.
     Section 3. SUBORDINATE OFFICERS. The Board may appoint such other officers and agents as it shall deem necessary who shall hold their offices for such terms and shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as shall be determined from time to time by the Board.
     Section 4. COMPENSATION OF OFFICERS. The salaries of all officers and agents of the corporation shall be fixed by the Board.
     Section 5. TERM OF OFFICE; REMOVAL AND VACANCIES. The officers of the corporation shall hold office until their successors are chosen and qualify in their stead. Any officer elected or appointed by the Board may be removed at any time by the affirmative vote of a majority of the Board. If the office of any officer or officers becomes vacant for any reason, the vacancy shall be filled by the Board.
     Section 6. POWERS AND DUTIES OF OFFICERS. The officers of the corporation shall have such powers and duties in the management of the corporation as may be prescribed in a resolution by the Board and, to the extent not so provided, as generally pertain to their respective offices, subject to the control of the Board.
ARTICLE V.
INDEMNIFICATION OF EMPLOYEES AND
AGENTS
     The corporation may indemnify every person who is or was a party or is or was threatened to be made a party to any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, by reason of the fact that he or she is or was an employee or agent of the corporation or, while an employee or agent of the corporation, is or was serving at the request of the corporation as an employee or agent or trustee of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise, against expenses (including counsel fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him or her in connection with such action, suit or proceeding, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

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ARTICLE VI.
CERTIFICATES OF STOCK
     Section 1. CERTIFICATES. Every holder of stock of the corporation shall be entitled to have a certificate signed by, or in the name of the corporation by, the President or a Vice President and by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, or the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer of the corporation, certifying the number of shares represented by the certificate owned by such stockholder in the corporation.
     Section 2. SIGNATURES ON CERTIFICATES. Any or all of the signatures on the certificate may be a facsimile. In case any officer, transfer agent or registrar who has signed or whose facsimile signature has been placed upon a certificate shall have ceased to be such officer, transfer agent or registrar before such certificate is issued, it may be issued by the corporation with the same effect as if he or she were such officer, transfer agent or registrar at the date of issue.
     Section 3. STATEMENT OF STOCK RIGHTS, PREFERENCES, PRIVILEGES. If the corporation shall be authorized to issue more than one class of stock or more than one series of any class, the powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights of each class of stock or series thereof and the qualification, limitations or restrictions of such preferences and/or rights shall be set forth in full or summarized on the face or back of the certificate which the corporation shall issue to represent such class or series of stock, provided that, except as otherwise provided in section 202 of the General Corporation Law of Delaware, in lieu of the foregoing requirements, there may be set forth on the face or back of the certificate which the corporation shall issue to represent such class or series of stock, a statement that the corporation will furnish without charge to each stockholder who so requests the powers, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights of each class of stock or series thereof and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of such preferences and/or rights.
     Section 4. LOST CERTIFICATES. The Board may direct a new certificate or certificates to be issued in place of any certificate or certificates theretofore issued by the corporation alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the person claiming the certificate of stock to be lost, stolen or destroyed. When authorizing such issue of a new certificate or certificates, the Board may, in its discretion and as a condition precedent to the issuance thereof, require the owner of such lost, stolen or destroyed certificate or certificates, or his legal representative, to advertise the same in such manner as it shall require and/or to give the corporation a bond in such sum as it may direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against the corporation with respect to the certificate alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed.
     Section 5. TRANSFERS OF STOCK. Upon surrender to the corporation, or the transfer agent of the corporation, of a certificate for shares duly endorsed or accompanied by proper evidence of succession, assignation or authority to transfer, it shall be the duty of the corporation to issue a new certificate to the person entitled thereto, cancel the old certificate and record the transaction upon its books.

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     Section 6. REGISTERED STOCKHOLDERS. The corporation shall be entitled to treat the holder of record of any share or shares of stock as the holder in fact thereof and accordingly shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim or interest in such share on the part of any other person, whether or not it shall have express or other notice thereof, except as expressly provided by the laws of the State of Delaware.
ARTICLE VII.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
     Section 1. CHECKS. All checks or demands for money and notes of the corporation shall be signed by such officer or officers as the Board may from time to time designate.
     Section 2. FISCAL YEAR. The fiscal year of the corporation shall be fixed by resolution of the Board.
     Section 3. CORPORATE SEAL. The corporate seal shall have inscribed thereon the name of the corporation and shall be in such form as may be approved from time to time by the Board.
     Section 4. MANNER OF GIVING NOTICE. Whenever, under the law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, notice is required to be given to any director or stockholder, it shall not be construed to mean personal notice, but such notice may be given in writing, by mail, addressed to such director or stockholder, at his address as it appears on the records of the corporation, with postage thereon prepaid, and such notice shall be deemed to be given at the time when the same shall be deposited in the United States mail. Notice to directors may also be given by telegram, telecopier or other means of communication permitted by law.
     Section 5. WAIVER OF NOTICE. Whenever any notice is required to be given under the law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, a waiver thereof via electronic mail or in writing, signed by the person or persons entitled to said notice, whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent thereto. Attendance of a person at a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except when the person attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting, at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened. Neither the business to be transacted at nor the purpose of any regular or special meeting of the stockholders, directors or members of a committee of directors need be specified in any written waiver of notice.
ARTICLE VIII.
AMENDMENTS
     These Bylaws may be altered, amended or repealed or new Bylaws may be adopted by the stockholders or by the Board in accordance with the terms of the Certificate of Incorporation. If the power to adopt, amend or repeal Bylaws is conferred upon the Board by the Certificate of Incorporation, it shall not divest or limit the power of the stockholders to adopt, amend or repeal Bylaws.
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Exhibit 10.1
 

EXHIBIT 10.1
INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENT
     This Indemnification Agreement (“Agreement”) is made as of                     , 2006 by and between Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and                      (“Indemnitee”).
RECITALS
     WHEREAS, highly competent persons have become more reluctant to serve corporations as directors or in other capacities unless they are provided with adequate protection through insurance and adequate indemnification against inordinate risks of claims and actions against them arising out of their service to and activities on behalf of the corporation;
     WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) has determined that, in order to attract and retain qualified individuals, the Company will attempt to maintain on an ongoing basis, at its sole expense, liability insurance to protect persons serving the Company and its subsidiaries from certain liabilities. Although the furnishing of such insurance has been a customary and widespread practice among United States-based corporations and other business enterprises, the Company believes that, given current market conditions and trends, such insurance may be available to it in the future only at higher premiums and with more exclusions. At the same time, directors, officers and other persons in service to corporations or business enterprises are being increasingly subjected to expensive and time-consuming litigation relating to, among other things, matters that traditionally would have been brought only against the Company or business enterprise itself. The certificate of incorporation and bylaws of the Company require indemnification of the officers and directors of the Company. Indemnitee may also be entitled to indemnification pursuant to the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (“DGCL”). The certificate of incorporation, bylaws and the DGCL expressly provide that the indemnification provisions set forth therein are not exclusive and thereby contemplate that contracts may be entered into between the Company and members of the Board, officers and other persons with respect to indemnification;
     WHEREAS, the uncertainties relating to such insurance and to indemnification have increased the difficulty of attracting and retaining such persons;
     WHEREAS, the Board has determined that the increased difficulty in attracting and retaining such persons is detrimental to the best interests of the Company’s stockholders and that the Company should act to assure such persons that there will be increased certainty of such protection in the future;
     WHEREAS, it is reasonable, prudent and necessary for the Company contractually to obligate itself to indemnify, and to advance expenses on behalf of, such persons to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law so that they will serve or continue to serve the Company free from undue concern that they will not be so indemnified;
     WHEREAS, this Agreement is a supplement to and in furtherance of the certificate of incorporation and bylaws of the Company and any resolutions adopted pursuant thereto and shall not be deemed a substitute therefor, nor to diminish or abrogate any rights of Indemnitee thereunder; and
     WHEREAS, Indemnitee does not regard the protection available under the Company’s certificate of incorporation, bylaws and insurance as adequate in the present circumstances and may not be willing to serve as an officer or director without adequate protection, and the Company desires Indemnitee to serve

 


 

in such capacity. Indemnitee is willing to serve, to continue to serve and to take on additional service for or on behalf of the Company on the condition that he or she be so indemnified.
     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the promises and the covenants contained herein, the Company and Indemnitee do hereby covenant and agree as follows:
     1. Services to the Company. Indemnitee will serve or continue to serve as an officer, director or key employee of the Company for so long as Indemnitee is duly elected or appointed or until Indemnitee tenders his or her resignation.
     2. Definitions. As used in this Agreement:
          (a) “Beneficial Owner” shall have the meaning given to such term in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act; provided, however, that Beneficial Owner shall exclude any Person otherwise becoming a Beneficial Owner by reason of the stockholders of the Company approving a merger of the Company with another entity.
          (b) A “Change in Control” shall be deemed to occur upon the earliest to occur after the date of this Agreement of any of the following events:
          (i) Acquisition of Stock by Third Party. Any Person (as defined below) is or becomes the Beneficial Owner, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing twenty percent (20%) or more of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding securities;
          (ii) Change in Board of Directors. During any period of two (2) consecutive years (not including any period prior to the execution of this Agreement), individuals, who at the beginning of such period constitute the Board, and any new director (other than a director designated by a person who has entered into an agreement with the Company to effect a transaction described in Sections 2(b)(i), 2(b)(iii) or 2(b)(iv)) whose election by the Board or nomination for election by the Company’s stockholders was approved by a vote of at least two-thirds of the directors then still in office who either were directors at the beginning of the period or whose election or nomination for election was previously so approved, cease for any reason to constitute at least a majority of the members of the Board;
          (iii) Corporate Transactions. The effective date of a merger or consolidation of the Company with any other entity, other than a merger or consolidation which would result in the voting securities of the Company outstanding immediately prior to such merger or consolidation continuing to represent (either by remaining outstanding or by being converted into voting securities of the surviving entity) more than 50.1% of the combined voting power of the voting securities of the surviving entity outstanding immediately after such merger or consolidation and with the power to elect at least a majority of the board of directors or other governing body of such surviving entity;
          (iv) Liquidation. The approval by the stockholders of the Company of a complete liquidation of the Company or an agreement or series of agreements for the sale or disposition by the Company of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets; or
          (v) Other Events. There occurs any other event of a nature that would be required to be reported in response to Item 6(e) of Schedule 14A of Regulation 14A (or a response to any similar item on any similar schedule or form) promulgated under the Exchange

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Act (as defined below), whether or not the Company is then subject to such reporting requirement.
          (c) “Corporate Status” describes the status of a person who is or was a director, officer, trustee, general partner, managing member, fiduciary, employee or agent of the Company or of any other Enterprise (as defined below) which such person is or was serving at the request of the Company.
          (d) “Disinterested Director” means a director of the Company who is not and was not a party to the Proceeding in respect of which indemnification is sought by Indemnitee.
          (e) “Enterprise” shall mean the Company and any other corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise of which Indemnitee is or was serving at the request of the Company as a director, officer, trustee, general partner, managing member, fiduciary, employee or agent.
          (f) “Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
          (g) “Expenses” shall include all reasonable attorneys’ fees, retainers, court costs, transcript costs, fees of experts, witness fees, travel expenses, duplicating costs, printing and binding costs, telephone charges, postage, delivery service fees and all other disbursements or expenses of the type customarily incurred in connection with prosecuting, defending, preparing to prosecute or defend, investigating, being or preparing to be a witness in, or otherwise participating in, a Proceeding. Expenses also shall include expenses incurred in connection with any appeal resulting from any Proceeding, including, without limitation, the premium, security for and other costs relating to any cost bond, supersedeas bond or other appeal bond or its equivalent. Expenses, however, shall not include amounts paid in settlement by Indemnitee or the amount of judgments or fines against Indemnitee.
          (h) “Independent Counsel” means a law firm, or a member of a law firm, that is experienced in matters of corporation law and neither presently is, nor in the past five years has been, retained to represent: (i) the Company or Indemnitee in any matter material to either such party (other than with respect to matters concerning Indemnitee under this Agreement, or of other indemnitees under similar indemnification agreements), or (ii) any other party to the Proceeding giving rise to a claim for indemnification hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the term “Independent Counsel” shall not include any person who, under the applicable standards of professional conduct then prevailing, would have a conflict of interest in representing either the Company or Indemnitee in an action to determine Indemnitee’s rights under this Agreement. The Company agrees to pay the reasonable fees and expenses of the Independent Counsel referred to above and to fully indemnify such counsel against any and all Expenses, claims, liabilities and damages arising out of or relating to this Agreement or its engagement pursuant hereto.
          (i) “Person” shall have the meaning set forth in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act; provided, however, that Person shall exclude (i) the Company, (ii) any trustee or other fiduciary holding securities under an employee benefit plan of the Company and (iii) any corporation owned, directly or indirectly, by the stockholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of stock of the Company.
          (j) The term “Proceeding” shall include any threatened, pending or completed action, suit, arbitration, alternate dispute resolution mechanism, investigation, formal or informal, inquiry, administrative hearing or any other actual, threatened or completed proceeding, whether brought in the right of the Company or otherwise and whether of a civil, criminal, administrative or investigative nature,

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in which Indemnitee was, is or will be involved as a party, witness or otherwise by reason of the fact that Indemnitee is or was a director or officer of the Company, by reason of any action taken (or failure to act) by him or her or of any action (or failure to act) on his or her part while acting as a director or officer of the Company, or by reason of the fact that he or she is or was serving at the request of the Company as a director, officer, trustee, general partner, managing member, fiduciary, employee or agent of any other Enterprise, in each case whether or not serving in such capacity at the time any liability or Expense is incurred for which indemnification, reimbursement or advancement of Expenses can be provided under this Agreement.
          (k) References to “other enterprise” shall include employee benefit plans; references to “fines” shall include any excise tax assessed with respect to any employee benefit plan; references to “serving at the request of the Company” shall include any service as a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company which imposes duties on, or involves services by, such director, officer, employee or agent with respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants or beneficiaries; and a person who acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in the best interests of the participants and beneficiaries of an employee benefit plan shall be deemed to have acted in a manner “not opposed to the best interests of the Company” as referred to in this Agreement.
     3. Indemnity in Third-Party Proceedings. The Company shall indemnify Indemnitee in accordance with the provisions of this Section 3 if Indemnitee is, or is threatened to be made, a party to or a participant (as a witness or otherwise) in any Proceeding, other than a Proceeding by or in the right of the Company to procure a judgment in its favor. Pursuant to this Section 3, Indemnitee shall be indemnified against all Expenses, judgments, fines, penalties and amounts paid in settlement (including all interest, assessments and other charges paid or payable in connection with or in respect of such Expenses, judgments, fines, penalties and amounts paid in settlement) actually and reasonably incurred by Indemnitee or on his or her behalf in connection with such Proceeding or any claim, issue or matter therein, if Indemnitee acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company and, in the case of a criminal proceeding, he or she had no reasonable cause to believe that his or her conduct was unlawful.
     4. Indemnity in Proceedings by or in the Right of the Company. The Company shall indemnify Indemnitee in accordance with the provisions of this Section 4 if Indemnitee is, or is threatened to be made, a party to or a participant (as a witness or otherwise) in any Proceeding by or in the right of the Company to procure a judgment in its favor. Pursuant to this Section 4, Indemnitee shall be indemnified against all Expenses actually and reasonably incurred by Indemnitee or on his or her behalf in connection with such Proceeding or any claim, issue or matter therein, if Indemnitee acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company. No indemnification for Expenses shall be made under this Section 4 in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which Indemnitee shall have been finally adjudged by a court to be liable to the Company, unless and only to the extent that any court in which the Proceeding was brought or the Delaware Court of Chancery shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, Indemnitee is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnification.
     5. Indemnification for Expenses of a Party Who is Wholly or Partly Successful. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement, to the extent that Indemnitee is a party to (or a participant in) and is successful, on the merits or otherwise, in any Proceeding or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, in whole or in part, the Company shall indemnify Indemnitee against all Expenses actually and reasonably incurred by him or her in connection therewith. If Indemnitee is not wholly successful in such Proceeding but is successful, on the merits or otherwise, as to one or more but less than all claims, issues or matters in such Proceeding, the Company shall indemnify Indemnitee against all

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Expenses actually and reasonably incurred by him or her or on his or her behalf in connection with each successfully resolved claim, issue or matter. If Indemnitee is not wholly successful in such Proceeding, the Company also shall indemnify Indemnitee against all Expenses reasonably incurred in connection with a claim, issue or matter related to any claim, issue or matter on which Indemnitee was successful. For purposes of this Section and without limitation, the termination of any claim, issue or matter in such a Proceeding by dismissal, with or without prejudice, shall be deemed to be a successful result as to such claim, issue or matter.
     6. Indemnification For Expenses of a Witness. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, to the extent that Indemnitee is, by reason of his Corporate Status, a witness in any Proceeding to which Indemnitee is not a party, he shall be indemnified against all Expenses actually and reasonably incurred by him or her or on his or her behalf in connection therewith.
     7. Additional Indemnification.
          (a) Notwithstanding any limitation in Sections 3, 4 or 5, the Company shall indemnify Indemnitee to the fullest extent permitted by law if Indemnitee is a party to or threatened to be made a party to any Proceeding (including a Proceeding by or in the right of the Company to procure a judgment in its favor) against all Expenses, judgments, fines, penalties and amounts paid in settlement (including all interest, assessments and other charges paid or payable in connection with or in respect of such Expenses, judgments, fines, penalties and amounts paid in settlement) actually and reasonably incurred by Indemnitee in connection with the Proceeding. No indemnity shall be made under this Section 7(a) on account of Indemnitee’s conduct which constitutes a breach of Indemnitee’s duty of loyalty to the Company or its stockholders or is an act or omission not in good faith or which involves intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of the law.
          (b) For purposes of Section 7(a), the meaning of the phrase “to the fullest extent permitted by law” shall include, but not be limited to:
          (i) the fullest extent permitted by the provision of the DGCL that authorizes or contemplates additional indemnification by agreement or the corresponding provision of any amendment to or replacement of the DGCL; and
          (ii) the fullest extent authorized or permitted by any amendments to or replacements of the DGCL adopted after the date of this Agreement that increase the extent to which a corporation may indemnify its officers and directors.
     8. Exclusions. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Agreement, the Company shall not be obligated under this Agreement to indemnify Indemnitee in connection with any claim made against Indemnitee:
          (a) for which payment has actually been received by or on behalf of Indemnitee under any insurance policy or other indemnity provision, except with respect to any excess beyond the amount actually received under any insurance policy or other indemnity provision;
          (b) for an accounting of profits made from the purchase and sale (or sale and purchase) by Indemnitee of securities of the Company within the meaning of Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act or similar provisions of state statutory law or common law; or
          (c) except as otherwise provided in Sections 13(d)-(f) hereof, prior to a Change in Control, in connection with any Proceeding (or any part of any Proceeding) initiated by Indemnitee,

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including any Proceeding (or any part of any Proceeding) initiated by Indemnitee against the Company or its directors, officers, employees or other indemnitees, unless (i) the Board of Directors of the Company authorized the Proceeding (or any part of any Proceeding) prior to its initiation or (ii) the Company provides the indemnification, in its sole discretion, pursuant to the powers vested in the Company under applicable law.
     9. Advances of Expenses; Defense of Claim.
          (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, the Company shall advance the Expenses incurred by Indemnitee in connection with any Proceeding within ten (10) days after the receipt by the Company of a statement or statements requesting such advances from time to time, whether prior to or after final disposition of any Proceeding. Advances shall be unsecured and interest free. Advances shall be made without regard to Indemnitee’s ability to repay the expenses and without regard to Indemnitee’s ultimate entitlement to indemnification under the other provisions of this Agreement. Advances shall include any and all reasonable Expenses incurred pursuing an action to enforce this right of advancement, including Expenses incurred preparing and forwarding statements to the Company to support the advances claimed. Indemnitee shall qualify for advances solely upon the execution and delivery to the Company of an undertaking providing that Indemnitee undertakes to repay the advance to the extent that it is ultimately determined that Indemnitee is not entitled to be indemnified by the Company. This Section 9(a) shall not apply to any claim made by Indemnitee for which indemnity is excluded pursuant to Section 8.
          (b) The Company will be entitled to participate in the Proceeding at its own expense.
          (c) The Company shall not settle any action, claim or Proceeding (in whole or in part) which would impose any Expense, judgment, fine, penalty or limitation on Indemnitee without Indemnitee’s prior written consent.
     10. Procedure for Notification and Application for Indemnification.
          (a) Within sixty (60) days after the actual receipt by Indemnitee of notice that he or she is a party to or a participant (as a witness or otherwise) in any Proceeding, Indemnitee shall submit to the Company a written notice identifying the Proceeding. The omission by Indemnitee to notify the Company will not relieve the Company from any liability which it may have to Indemnitee (i) otherwise than under this Agreement and (ii) under this Agreement unless and only to the extent that the Company can establish that such omission to notify resulted in actual prejudice to the Company.
          (b) Indemnitee shall thereafter deliver to the Company a written application to indemnify Indemnitee in accordance with this Agreement. Such application(s) may be delivered from time to time and at such time(s) as Indemnitee deems appropriate in his or her sole discretion. Following such a written application for indemnification by Indemnitee, Indemnitee’s entitlement to indemnification shall be determined in accordance with Section 11(a) of this Agreement.
     11. Procedure Upon Application for Indemnification.
          (a) Upon written request by Indemnitee for indemnification pursuant to Section 10(b), a determination, if required by applicable law, with respect to Indemnitee’s entitlement thereto shall be made in the specific case: (i) by a majority vote of the Disinterested Directors, even if constituting less than a quorum of the Board; or (ii) if so requested by Indemnitee, in his or her sole discretion, by Independent Counsel in a written opinion to the Board, a copy of which shall be delivered to Indemnitee. If it is so determined that Indemnitee is entitled to indemnification, payment to Indemnitee

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shall be made within ten (10) days after such determination. Indemnitee shall reasonably cooperate with the person, persons or entity making such determination with respect to Indemnitee’s entitlement to indemnification, including providing to such person, persons or entity upon reasonable advance request any documentation or information which is not privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure and which is reasonably available to Indemnitee and reasonably necessary to such determination. Any costs or Expenses (including attorneys’ fees and disbursements) incurred by Indemnitee in so cooperating with the person, persons or entity making such determination shall be borne by the Company (irrespective of the determination as to Indemnitee’s entitlement to indemnification) and the Company hereby indemnifies and agrees to hold Indemnitee harmless therefrom.
          (b) In the event the determination of entitlement to indemnification is to be made by Independent Counsel pursuant to Section 11(a) hereof, the Independent Counsel shall be selected as provided in this Section 11(b). If a Change in Control shall not have occurred, the Independent Counsel shall be selected by the Board of Directors, and the Company shall give written notice to Indemnitee advising him of the identity of the Independent Counsel so selected and the basis for the Board determination that such counsel qualified as Independent Counsel. If a Change in Control shall have occurred, the Independent Counsel shall be selected by Indemnitee (unless Indemnitee shall request that such selection be made by the Board of Directors, in which event the preceding sentence shall apply), and Indemnitee shall give written notice to the Company advising it of the identity of the Independent Counsel so selected. In either event, Indemnitee or the Company, as the case may be, may, within 10 days after such written notice of selection shall have been received, deliver to the Company or to Indemnitee, as the case may be, a written objection to such selection; provided, however, that such objection may be asserted only on the ground that the Independent Counsel so selected does not meet the requirements of “Independent Counsel” as defined in Section 2 of this Agreement, and the objection shall set forth with particularity the factual basis of such assertion. Absent a proper and timely objection, the person so selected shall act as Independent Counsel. If such written objection is so made and substantiated, the Independent Counsel so selected may not serve as Independent Counsel unless and until such objection is withdrawn or a court of competent jurisdiction has determined that such objection is without merit. If, within 20 days after submission by Indemnitee of a written request for indemnification pursuant to Section 10(b) hereof, no Independent Counsel shall have been selected and not objected to, either the Company or Indemnitee may petition a court of competent jurisdiction (the “Court”) for resolution of any objection which shall have been made by the Company or Indemnitee to the other’s selection of Independent Counsel and/or for the appointment as Independent Counsel of a person selected by the Court or by such other person as the Court shall designate, and the person with respect to whom all objections are so resolved or the person so appointed shall act as Independent Counsel under Section 11(a) hereof. Upon the due commencement of any judicial proceeding or arbitration pursuant to Section 13(a) of this Agreement, Independent Counsel shall be discharged and relieved of any further responsibility in such capacity (subject to the applicable standards of professional conduct then prevailing).
          (c) The Company agrees to pay the reasonable fees of Independent Counsel and to fully indemnify such Independent Counsel against any and all Expenses, claims, liabilities and damages arising out of or relating to this Agreement or its engagement pursuant hereto.
     12. Presumptions and Effect of Certain Proceedings.
          (a) In making a determination with respect to entitlement to indemnification hereunder, the person or persons or entity making such determination shall presume that Indemnitee is entitled to indemnification under this Agreement if Indemnitee has submitted a request for indemnification in accordance with Section 10(b) of this Agreement, and the Company shall have the burden of proof to overcome that presumption in connection with the making by any person, persons or

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entity of any determination contrary to that presumption. Neither the failure of the Company (including by the Board or Independent Counsel) to have made a determination prior to the commencement of any action pursuant to this Agreement that indemnification is proper in the circumstances because Indemnitee has met the applicable standard of conduct, nor an actual determination by the Company (including by the Board or Independent Counsel) that Indemnitee has not met such applicable standard of conduct, shall be a defense to the action or create a presumption that Indemnitee has not met the applicable standard of conduct.
          (b) If the person, persons or entity empowered or selected under Section 11 of this Agreement to determine whether Indemnitee is entitled to indemnification shall not have made a determination within sixty (60) days after receipt by the Company of the request therefor, the requisite determination of entitlement to indemnification shall be deemed to have been made and Indemnitee shall be entitled to such indemnification, absent (i) a misstatement by Indemnitee of a material fact, or an omission of a material fact necessary to make Indemnitee’s statement not materially misleading, in connection with the request for indemnification or (ii) a prohibition of such indemnification under applicable law; provided, however, that such 60-day period shall be extended for a reasonable time, not to exceed an additional thirty (30) days, if the person, persons or entity making the determination with respect to entitlement to indemnification in good faith requires such additional time for the obtaining or evaluating of documentation and/or information relating thereto.
          (c) The termination of any Proceeding or of any claim, issue or matter therein, by judgment, order, settlement or conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not (except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement) of itself adversely affect the right of Indemnitee to indemnification or create a presumption that Indemnitee did not act in good faith and in a manner which he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company or, with respect to any criminal Proceeding, that Indemnitee had reasonable cause to believe that his or her conduct was unlawful.
          (d) For purposes of any determination of good faith, Indemnitee shall be deemed to have acted in good faith if Indemnitee’s action is based on the records or books of account of the Enterprise, including financial statements, or on information supplied to Indemnitee by the officers of the Enterprise in the course of their duties, or on the advice of legal counsel for the Enterprise or on information or records given or reports made to the Enterprise by an independent certified public accountant or by an appraiser or other expert selected by the Enterprise. The provisions of this Section 12(d) shall not be deemed to be exclusive or to limit in any way the other circumstances in which Indemnitee may be deemed or found to have met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in this Agreement.
          (e) The knowledge and/or actions, or failure to act, of any other director, trustee, partner, managing member, fiduciary, officer, agent, advisor or employee of the Enterprise shall not be imputed to Indemnitee for purposes of determining the right to indemnification under this Agreement.
     13. Remedies of Indemnitee.
          (a) In the event that (i) a determination is made pursuant to Section 11 of this Agreement that Indemnitee is not entitled to indemnification under this Agreement, (ii) advancement of Expenses is not timely made pursuant to Section 9 of this Agreement, (iii) no determination of entitlement to indemnification shall have been made pursuant to Section 11(a) of this Agreement within the time period specified in Section 12(b) of this Agreement, (iv) payment of indemnification is not made pursuant to Section 5, 6, 7 or the last sentence of Section 11(a) of this Agreement within ten (10) days after receipt by the Company of a written request therefor or (v) payment of indemnification pursuant to Section 3 or

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Section 4 of this Agreement is not made within ten (10) days after a determination has been made that Indemnitee is entitled to indemnification, Indemnitee shall be entitled to an adjudication by a court of his or her entitlement to such indemnification or advancement of Expenses. Alternatively, Indemnitee, at his or her option, may seek an award in arbitration to be conducted by a single arbitrator pursuant to the Commercial Arbitration Rules of the American Arbitration Association. The Company shall not oppose Indemnitee’s right to seek any such adjudication or award in arbitration.
          (b) In the event that a determination shall have been made pursuant to Section 11(a) of this Agreement that Indemnitee is not entitled to indemnification, any judicial proceeding or arbitration commenced pursuant to this Section 13 shall be conducted in all respects as a de novo trial or arbitration on the merits, and Indemnitee shall not be prejudiced by reason of that adverse determination. In any judicial proceeding or arbitration commenced pursuant to this Section 13, the Company shall have the burden of proving Indemnitee is not entitled to indemnification or advancement of Expenses, as the case may be, and the Company may not refer to or introduce into evidence any determination pursuant to Section 11(a) of this Agreement adverse to Indemnitee for any purpose. If Indemnitee commences a judicial proceeding or arbitration pursuant to this Section 13, Indemnitee shall not be required to reimburse the Company for any advances pursuant to Section 9 until a final determination is made with respect to Indemnitee’s entitlement to indemnification (as to which all rights of appeal have been exhausted or lapsed).
          (c) If a determination shall have been made pursuant to Section 11(a) of this Agreement that Indemnitee is entitled to indemnification, the Company shall be bound by such determination in any judicial proceeding or arbitration commenced pursuant to this Section 13, absent (i) a misstatement by Indemnitee of a material fact, or an omission of a material fact necessary to make Indemnitee’s statement not materially misleading, in connection with the request for indemnification or (ii) a prohibition of such indemnification under applicable law.
          (d) In the event that Indemnitee, pursuant to this Section 13, seeks a judicial adjudication of or an award in arbitration to enforce his or her rights under, or to recover damages for breach of, this Agreement, Indemnitee shall be entitled to recover from the Company, and shall be indemnified by the Company against, any and all Expenses actually and reasonably incurred by him or her in such judicial adjudication or arbitration. If it shall be determined in said judicial adjudication or arbitration that Indemnitee is entitled to receive part but not all of the indemnification or advancement of Expenses sought, Indemnitee shall be entitled to recover from the Company, and shall be indemnified by the Company against, any and all Expenses reasonably incurred by Indemnitee in connection with such judicial adjudication or arbitration.
          (e) The Company shall be precluded from asserting in any judicial proceeding or arbitration commenced pursuant to this Section 13 that the procedures and presumptions of this Agreement are not valid, binding and enforceable and shall stipulate in any such court or before any such arbitrator that the Company is bound by all the provisions of this Agreement.
          (f) The Company shall indemnify Indemnitee to the fullest extent permitted by law against all Expenses and, if requested by Indemnitee, shall (within ten (10) days after the Company’s receipt of such written request) advance such Expenses to Indemnitee, which are incurred by Indemnitee in connection with any judicial proceeding or arbitration brought by Indemnitee for (i) indemnification or advances of Expenses by the Company under this Agreement or any other agreement or provision of the Company’s certificate of incorporation or bylaws now or hereafter in effect or (ii) recovery or advances under any insurance policy maintained by any person for the benefit of Indemnitee, regardless of whether Indemnitee ultimately is determined to be entitled to such indemnification, advance or insurance recovery, as the case may be.

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     14. Non-exclusivity; Survival of Rights; Insurance; Subrogation.
          (a) The rights of indemnification and to receive advancement of Expenses as provided by this Agreement shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which Indemnitee may at any time be entitled under applicable law, the Company’s certificate of incorporation, the Company’s bylaws, any agreement, a vote of stockholders, a resolution of directors or otherwise. No amendment, alteration or repeal of this Agreement or of any provision hereof shall limit or restrict any right of Indemnitee under this Agreement in respect of any action taken or omitted by such Indemnitee in his Corporate Status prior to such amendment, alteration or repeal. The parties hereto intend that, to the extent that a change in Delaware law, whether by statute or judicial decision, permits greater indemnification or advancement of Expenses than would be afforded currently under the Company’s bylaws and this Agreement, the Indemnitee shall enjoy by this Agreement the greater benefits so afforded by such change. No right or remedy herein conferred is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every other right and remedy shall be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law, in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other right or remedy.
          (b) To the extent that the Company maintains an insurance policy or policies providing liability insurance for directors, officers, trustees, partners, managing members, fiduciaries, employees or agents of the Company or of any other Enterprise which such person serves at the request of the Company, Indemnitee shall be covered by such policy or policies in accordance with its or their terms to the maximum extent of the coverage available for any such director, trustee, partner, managing member, fiduciary, officer, employee or agent under such policy or policies. If, at the time the Company receives notice from any source of a Proceeding as to which Indemnitee is a party or a participant (as a witness or otherwise), the Company has director and officer liability insurance in effect, the Company shall give prompt notice of such Proceeding to the insurers in accordance with the procedures set forth in the respective policies. The Company shall thereafter take all necessary or desirable action to cause such insurers to pay, on behalf of Indemnitee, all amounts payable as a result of such Proceeding in accordance with the terms of such policies.
          (c) In the event of any payment under this Agreement, the Company shall be subrogated to the extent of such payment to all of the rights of recovery of Indemnitee, who shall execute all papers required and take all action necessary to secure such rights, including execution of such documents as are necessary to enable the Company to bring suit to enforce such rights.
          (d) The Company shall not be liable under this Agreement to make any payment of amounts otherwise indemnifiable hereunder (or for which advancement is provided hereunder) if and to the extent that Indemnitee has otherwise actually received such payment under any insurance policy, contract, agreement or otherwise.
          (e) The Company’s obligation to indemnify or advance Expenses hereunder to Indemnitee who is or was serving at the request of the Company as a director, officer, trustee, partner, managing member, fiduciary, employee or agent of any other Enterprise shall be reduced by any amount Indemnitee has actually received as indemnification or advancement of expenses from such Enterprise.
     15. Duration of Agreement. This Agreement shall continue until and terminate upon the later of: (a) ten (10) years after the date that Indemnitee shall have ceased to serve as a director or officer of the Company or as a director, officer, trustee, partner, managing member, fiduciary, employee or agent of any other corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise which

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Indemnitee served at the request of the Company; or (b) one (1) year after the final termination of any Proceeding (including any rights of appeal thereto) then pending in respect of which Indemnitee is granted rights of indemnification or advancement of Expenses hereunder and of any Proceeding commenced by Indemnitee pursuant to Section 13 of this Agreement relating thereto (including any rights of appeal of any Section 13 Proceeding).
     16. Severability. If any provision or provisions of this Agreement shall be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable for any reason whatsoever: (a) the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Agreement (including, without limitation, each portion of any Section of this Agreement containing any such provision held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that is not itself invalid, illegal or unenforceable) shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby and shall remain enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by law; (b) such provision or provisions shall be deemed reformed to the extent necessary to conform to applicable law and to give the maximum effect to the intent of the parties hereto; and (c) to the fullest extent possible, the provisions of this Agreement (including, without limitation, each portion of any Section of this Agreement containing any such provision held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that is not itself invalid, illegal or unenforceable) shall be construed so as to give effect to the intent manifested thereby.
     17. Enforcement and Binding Effect.
          (a) The Company expressly confirms and agrees that it has entered into this Agreement and assumed the obligations imposed on it hereby in order to induce Indemnitee to serve as a director or officer of the Company, and the Company acknowledges that Indemnitee is relying upon this Agreement in serving as a director or officer of the Company.
          (b) This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings, oral, written and implied, between the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof.
          (c) The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by or granted pursuant to this Agreement shall apply to Indemnitee’s service as an officer, director or key employee of the Company prior to the date of this Agreement.
          (d) The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by or granted pursuant to this Agreement shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.
     18. Modification and Waiver. No supplement, modification or amendment of this Agreement shall be binding unless executed in writing by the parties hereto. No waiver of any of the provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed or shall constitute a waiver of any other provisions of this Agreement nor shall any waiver constitute a continuing waiver.
     19. Notice by Indemnitee. Indemnitee agrees promptly to notify the Company in writing upon being served with any summons, citation, subpoena, complaint, indictment, information or other document relating to any Proceeding or matter which may be subject to indemnification or advancement of Expenses covered hereunder. The failure of Indemnitee to so notify the Company shall not relieve the Company of any obligation which it may have to Indemnitee under this Agreement or otherwise, except as provided in Section 10(a).

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     20. Notices. All notices, requests, demands and other communications under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given (a) if delivered by hand and if receipt is acknowledged in writing by the party to whom said notice or other communication shall have been directed or (b) if mailed by certified or registered mail with postage prepaid, on the third business day after the date on which it is so mailed:
          (a) If to Indemnitee, at the address indicated on the signature page of this Agreement, or such other address as Indemnitee shall provide in writing to the Company.
          (b) If to the Company to:
Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
12730 High Bluff Drive, Suite 410
San Diego, California 92130
Attn.: Secretary
or to any other address as may have been furnished to Indemnitee in writing by the Company.
     21. Contribution. To the fullest extent permissible under applicable law, if the indemnification provided for in this Agreement is unavailable to Indemnitee for any reason whatsoever, the Company, in lieu of indemnifying Indemnitee, shall contribute to the amount incurred by Indemnitee, whether for judgments, fines, penalties, excise taxes, amounts paid or to be paid in settlement and/or for Expenses, in connection with any claim relating to an indemnifiable event under this Agreement, in such proportion as is deemed fair and reasonable in light of all of the circumstances of such Proceeding in order to reflect: (i) the relative benefits received by the Company and Indemnitee as a result of the event(s) and/or transaction(s) giving rise to such Proceeding; and/or (ii) the relative fault of the Company (and its directors, officers, employees and agents) and Indemnitee in connection with such event(s) and/or transaction(s).
     22. Applicable Law and Consent to Jurisdiction. This Agreement and the legal relations among the parties shall be governed by, and construed and enforced in accordance with, the laws of the State of Delaware, without regard to its conflict of laws rules. Except with respect to any arbitration commenced by Indemnitee pursuant to Section 13(a) of this Agreement, the Company and Indemnitee hereby irrevocably and unconditionally (i) agree that any action or proceeding arising out of or in connection with this Agreement shall be brought only in the Chancery Court of the State of Delaware (the “Delaware Court”) and not in any other state or federal court in the United States of America or any court in any other country, (ii) consent to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Delaware Court for purposes of any action or proceeding arising out of or in connection with this Agreement, (iii) appoint, to the extent such party is not a resident of the State of Delaware, irrevocably Corporation Service Company, 2711 Centerville Road, Suite 400, in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle, as its agent in the State of Delaware as such party’s agent for acceptance of legal process in connection with any such action or proceeding against such party with the same legal force and validity as if served upon such party personally within the State of Delaware, (iv) waive any objection to the laying of venue of any such action or proceeding in the Delaware Court and (v) waive and agree not to plead or to make any claim that any such action or proceeding brought in the Delaware Court has been brought in an improper or inconvenient forum.
     23. Identical Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall for all purposes be deemed to be an original but all of which together shall constitute one and the same Agreement. Only one such counterpart signed by the party against whom enforceability is sought needs to be produced to evidence the existence of this Agreement.

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     24. Miscellaneous. Use of the masculine pronoun shall be deemed to include usage of the feminine pronoun where appropriate. The headings of the sections and paragraphs of this Agreement are inserted for convenience only and shall not be deemed to constitute part of this Agreement or to affect the construction thereof.
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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Agreement to be signed as of the day and year first above written.
                 
CADENCE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.,       INDEMNITEE
a Delaware corporation            
 
               
By:
               
             
Name:
          [NAME]    
 
               
Title:
               
 
               
 
               
 
          Address:    
 
               
 
               
             
 
               
             

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Exhibit 10.2
 

EXHIBIT 10.2
EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT
     THIS EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is entered into by and between Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and [NAME] (“Executive”), and shall be effective as of July 7, 2006 (the “Effective Date”).
     WHEREAS, the Company desires to employ Executive, and Executive desires to commence or continue employment with the Company, on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.
     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises herein contained, the parties agree as follows:
     1. Definitions. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
          (a) Board. “Board” means the Board of Directors of the Company.
          (b) Bonus. “Bonus” means an amount equal to the average of the bonuses awarded to Executive for each of the three (3) fiscal years prior to the date of termination, or such lesser number of years as may be applicable if Executive has not been employed for three (3) full years on the date of termination. For purposes of determining Executive’s “Bonus,” to the extent Executive received no bonus in a year due to a failure to meet the applicable performance objectives, such year will still be taken into account (using zero (0) as the applicable bonus) in determining Executive’s “Bonus” for purposes of Section 4. If any portion of the bonuses awarded to Executive consisted of securities or other property, the fair market value thereof shall be determined in good faith by the Board.
          (c) Cause. “Cause” means any of the following:
               (i) the commission of an act of fraud, embezzlement or dishonesty by Executive that has a material adverse impact on the Company or any successor or affiliate thereof;
               (ii) a conviction of, or plea of “guilty” or “no contest” to, a felony by Executive;
               (iii) any unauthorized use or disclosure by Executive of confidential information or trade secrets of the Company or any successor or affiliate thereof that has a material adverse impact on any such entity;
               (iv) Executive’s gross negligence, insubordination or material violation of any duty of loyalty to the Company or any other material misconduct on the part of Executive;
               (v) Executive’s ongoing and repeated failure or refusal to perform or neglect of Executive’s duties as required by this Agreement, which failure, refusal or neglect

 


 

continues for fifteen (15) days following Executive’s receipt of written notice from the Board [ALL OFFICERS EXCEPT CEO: or the Company’s Chief Executive Officer (the “CEO”) or the President] stating with specificity the nature of such failure, refusal or neglect; or
               (vi) Executive’s breach of any material provision of this Agreement; provided, however, that prior to the determination that “Cause” under this Section 1(c) has occurred, the Company shall (w) provide to Executive in writing, in reasonable detail, the reasons for the determination that such “Cause” exists, (x) other than with respect to clause (v) above which specifies the applicable period of time for Executive to remedy his or her breach, afford Executive a reasonable opportunity to remedy any such breach, (y) provide the Executive an opportunity to be heard prior to the final decision to terminate the Executive’s employment hereunder for such “Cause” and (z) make any decision that such “Cause” exists in good faith.
          The foregoing definition shall not in any way preclude or restrict the right of the Company or any successor or affiliate thereof to discharge or dismiss Executive for any other acts or omissions, but such other acts or omissions shall not be deemed, for purposes of this Agreement, to constitute grounds for termination for Cause.
          (d) Change of Control. “Change of Control” means (i) a merger or consolidation of the Company with or into any other corporation or other entity or person or (ii) a sale, lease, exchange or other transfer in one transaction or a series of related transactions of all or substantially all of the Company’s outstanding securities or all or substantially all of the Company’s assets; provided, however, that the following events shall not constitute a “Change of Control”: (A) a merger or consolidation of the Company in which the holders of the voting securities of the Company immediately prior to the merger or consolidation hold at least a majority of the voting securities in the successor corporation immediately after the merger or consolidation; (B) a sale, lease, exchange or other transaction in one transaction or a series of related transactions of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets to a wholly-owned subsidiary corporation; (C) a mere reincorporation of the Company; or (D) a transaction undertaken for the sole purpose of creating a holding company that will be owned in substantially the same proportion by the persons who held the Company’s securities immediately before such transaction.
          (e) Code. “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, and the Treasury Regulations and other interpretive guidance issued thereunder.
          (f) Good Reason. Good Reasonmeans the occurrence of any of the following events or conditions without Executive’s written consent and the failure of the Company or any successor or affiliate to cure such event or condition within thirty (30) days after receipt of written notice from Executive:
               (i) a change in Executive’s position or responsibilities[ALL OFFICERS EXCEPT CEO: other than a change in Executive’s reporting relationship,] that, in Executive’s reasonable judgment, represents a substantial and material reduction in the position or responsibilities as in effect immediately prior thereto; the assignment to Executive of any duties or responsibilities [ALL OFFICERS EXCEPT CEO: other than a change in Executive’s

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reporting relationship,] that, in Executive’s reasonable judgment, are materially inconsistent with such position or responsibilities; or any removal of Executive from or failure to reappoint or reelect Executive to any of such positions, except in connection with the termination of Executive’s employment for Cause, as a result of his or her Permanent Disability or death, or by Executive other than for Good Reason;
               (ii) a material reduction in Executive’s annual base salary, except in connection with a general reduction in the compensation of the Company’s or any successor’s or affiliate’s personnel with similar status and responsibilities;
               (iii) the Company’s or any successor’s or affiliate’s requiring Executive (without Executive’s consent) to be based at any place outside a 50-mile radius of his or her place of employment as of the Effective Date, except for reasonably required travel on the Company’s or any successor’s or affiliate’s business that is not materially greater than such travel requirements prior to the Effective Date;
               (iv) the Company’s or any successor’s or affiliate’s failure to provide Executive with compensation and benefits substantially equivalent (in terms of benefit levels and/or reward opportunities) to those provided for under each material employee benefit plan, program and practice as in effect immediately prior to the Effective Date; or
               (v) any material breach by the Company or any successor or affiliate of its obligations to Executive under this Agreement.
          (g) Permanent Disability. Executive’s “Permanent Disability” shall be deemed to have occurred if Executive shall become physically or mentally incapacitated or disabled or otherwise unable fully to discharge his or her duties hereunder for a period of ninety (90) consecutive calendar days or for one hundred twenty (120) calendar days in any one hundred eighty (180) calendar-day period. The existence of Executive’s Permanent Disability shall be determined by the Company on the advice of a physician chosen by the Company and the Company reserves the right to have the Executive examined by a physician chosen by the Company at the Company’s expense.
          (h) Stock Awards. “Stock Awards” means all stock options, restricted stock and such other awards granted pursuant to the Company’s stock option and equity incentive award plans or agreements and any shares of stock issued upon exercise thereof.
     2. Services to Be Rendered.
          (a) Duties and Responsibilities. Executive shall serve as [TITLE] of the Company. In the performance of such duties, Executive shall report directly to the [ ALL OFFICERS EXCEPT CEO : CEO or President] [CEO ONLY: Board] and shall be subject to the direction of the [ALL OFFICERS EXCEPT CEO : CEO or President] [CEO ONLY: Board] and to such limits upon Executive’s authority as the Board or the CEO or President may from time to time impose. [ ALL OFFICERS EXCEPT CEO : In the event of the CEO’s or President’s incapacity or unavailability, Executive shall report directly to the CEO or be subject

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to the direction of the Board or its designee.] Executive hereby consents to serve as an officer and/or director of the Company or any subsidiary or affiliate thereof without any additional salary or compensation, if so requested by the [ ALL OFFICERS EXCEPT CEO : CEO or President] [CEO ONLY: Board]. Executive shall be employed by the Company on a full time basis. Executive’s primary place of work shall be the Company’s facility in San Diego, California, or such other location within San Diego County as may be designated by the [ALL OFFICERS EXCEPT CEO: CEO or President] [CEO ONLY: Board] from time to time. Executive shall also render services at such other places within or outside the United States as the [ALL OFFICERS EXCEPT CEO: CEO or President] [CEO ONLY: Board] may direct from time to time. Executive shall be subject to and comply with the policies and procedures generally applicable to senior executives of the Company to the extent the same are not inconsistent with any term of this Agreement.
          (b) Exclusive Services. Executive shall at all times faithfully, industriously and to the best of his or her ability, experience and talent perform to the satisfaction of the Board, [ALL OFFICERS EXCEPT CEO: the CEO and the President] all of the duties that may be assigned to Executive hereunder and shall devote substantially all of his or her productive time and efforts to the performance of such duties. Subject to the terms of the Employee Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement referred to in Section 5(b), this shall not preclude Executive from devoting time to personal and family investments or serving on community and civic boards, or participating in industry associations, provided such activities do not interfere with his or her duties to the Company, as determined in good faith by the [ALL OFFICERS EXCEPT CEO: CEO or President] [CEO ONLY: Board] . Executive agrees that he or she will not join any boards, other than community and civic boards (which do not interfere with his or her duties to the Company), without the prior approval of the [ALL OFFICERS EXCEPT CEO: CEO or President] [CEO ONLY: Board].
     3. Compensation and Benefits. The Company shall pay or provide, as the case may be, to Executive the compensation and other benefits and rights set forth in this Section 3.
          (a) Base Salary. The Company shall pay to Executive a base salary of $[SALARY] per year, payable in accordance with the Company’s usual pay practices (and in any event no less frequently than monthly). Executive’s base salary shall be subject to review annually by and at the sole discretion of the Compensation Committee of the Board or its designee.
          (b) Bonus. Executive shall participate in any bonus plan that the Board or its designee may approve for the senior executives of the Company.
          (c) Benefits. Executive shall be entitled to participate in benefits under the Company’s benefit plans and arrangements, including, without limitation, any employee benefit plan or arrangement made available in the future by the Company to its senior executives, subject to and on a basis consistent with the terms, conditions and overall administration of such plans and arrangements. The Company shall have the right to amend or delete any such benefit plan or arrangement made available by the Company to its senior executives and not otherwise specifically provided for herein.

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          (d) Expenses. The Company shall reimburse Executive for reasonable out-of-pocket business expenses incurred in connection with the performance of his or her duties hereunder, subject to (i) such policies as the Company may from time to time establish, (ii) Executive furnishing the Company with evidence in the form of receipts satisfactory to the Company substantiating the claimed expenditures, [ALL OFFICERS EXCEPT CEO: (iii) Executive receiving advance approval from the CEO or the President in the case of expenses for travel outside of North America, and (iv) Executive receiving advance approval from the CEO or the President in the case of expenses (or a series of related expenses) in excess of $10,000.]
          (e) Paid Time Off. Executive shall be entitled to such periods of paid time off (“PTO”) each year as provided from time to time under the Company’s PTO guidelines; provided that Executive shall be entitled to at least four (4) weeks of PTO per year.
          (f) Equity Plans. Executive shall be entitled to participate in any equity or other employee benefit plan that is generally available to senior executive officers, as distinguished from general management, of the Company. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, Executive’s participation in and benefits under any such plan shall be on the terms and subject to the conditions specified in the governing document of the particular plan.
          (g) Stock Award Acceleration.
               (i) If Executive’s employment is terminated by the Company without Cause, by Executive for Good Reason, or as a result of Executive’s death or Permanent Disability, the vesting and/or exercisability of each of Executive’s outstanding Stock Awards shall be automatically accelerated on the date of termination as to the number of Stock Awards that would vest over the twelve (12) month period following the date of termination had Executive remained continuously employed by the Company during such period.
               (ii) The vesting and exercisability of fifty percent (50%) of Executive’s outstanding Stock Awards shall be automatically accelerated on the date of a Change of Control.
               (iii) With respect to Stock Awards granted prior to the Effective Date, if Executive’s employment is terminated by the Company without Cause or by Executive for Good Reason within three (3) months prior to or twelve (12) months following a Change of Control, the vesting and/or exercisability of any outstanding unvested portions of such Stock Awards shall be automatically accelerated on the later of (A) the date of termination or (B) the date of the Change of Control.
               (iv) With respect to Stock Awards granted on or after the Effective Date, if Executive’s employment is terminated by the Company without Cause or by Executive for Good Reason within three (3) months prior to or twelve (12) months following a Change of Control, the vesting and/or exercisability of any outstanding unvested portions of such Stock Awards shall be automatically accelerated on the later of (A) the date of termination or (B) the date of the Change of Control. In addition, Executive’s Stock Awards may be exercised by Executive (or Executive’s guardian or legal representative) until the latest of (A) three (3)

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months after the date of termination, (B) with respect to any portion of the Stock Awards that become exercisable on the date of a Change of Control pursuant to this Section 3(g)(iv), three (3) months after the date of the Change of Control, or (C) such longer period as may be specified in the applicable Stock Award agreement; provided, however, that in no event shall any Stock Award remain exercisable beyond the original outside expiration date of such Stock Award.
               (v) The vesting pursuant to clauses (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) of this Section 3(g) shall be cumulative. The foregoing provisions are hereby deemed to be a part of each Stock Award and to supersede any less favorable provision in any agreement or plan regarding such Stock Award.
     4. Termination and Severance. Executive shall be entitled to receive benefits upon termination of employment only as set forth in this Section 4:
          (a) At-Will Employment; Termination. The Company and Executive acknowledge that Executive’s employment is and shall continue to be at-will, as defined under applicable law, and that Executive’s employment with the Company may be terminated by either party at any time for any or no reason, with or without notice. If Executive’s employment terminates for any reason, Executive shall not be entitled to any payments, benefits, damages, awards or compensation other than as provided in this Agreement. Executive’s employment under this Agreement shall be terminated immediately on the death of Executive.
          (b) Termination by Death. If Executive’s employment is terminated by death, Executive’s estate shall be entitled to receive (i) Executive’s fully earned but unpaid base salary, through the date of death at the rate then in effect, plus all other amounts to which Executive is entitled under any compensation plan or practice of the Company at the time of Executive’s death, (ii) a lump sum cash payment equal to Executive’s annual base salary as in effect immediately prior to the date of death, payable within sixty (60) days following the date of Executive’s death, (iii) a lump sum cash payment equal to Executive’s Bonus for the year in which Executive’s death occurs prorated for the period during such year Executive was employed prior to his or her death, payable within sixty (60) days following the date of Executive’s death, and (iv) for the period beginning on the date of death and ending on the date which is twelve (12) full months following the date of death (or, if earlier, the date on which the applicable continuation period under COBRA expires), the Company shall reimburse Executive’s eligible dependents for the costs associated with continuation coverage for such eligible dependents pursuant to the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended (“COBRA”) (provided that Executive’s dependents shall be solely responsible for all matters relating to such continuation of coverage pursuant to COBRA, including, without limitation, election of such coverage and his or her timely payment of premiums).
          (c) Termination for Permanent Disability. If Executive’s employment is terminated by the Company as a result of Executive’s Permanent Disability, Executive shall be entitled to receive (i) Executive’s fully earned but unpaid base salary, through the date of termination at the rate then in effect, plus all other amounts to which Executive is entitled under any compensation plan or practice of the Company at the time such payments are due, (ii) subject

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to Executive’s continued compliance with Section 5, a lump sum cash payment equal to Executive’s annual base salary as in effect immediately prior to the date of termination, payable within sixty (60) days following the effective date of Executive’s Permanent Disability, (iii) subject to Executive’s continued compliance with Section 5, a lump sum cash payment equal to Executive’s Bonus for the year in which the date of termination occurs prorated for the period during such year Executive was employed prior to the date of termination, payable within sixty (60) days following the effective date of Executive’s Permanent Disability, (iv) subject to Executive’s continued compliance with Section 5, for the period beginning on the date of termination and ending on the date which is twelve (12) full months following the date of termination (or, if earlier, the date on which the applicable continuation period under COBRA expires), the Company shall (A) reimburse Executive for the costs associated with continuation coverage pursuant to COBRA for Executive and his or her eligible dependents who were covered under the Company’s health plans as of the date of Executive’s termination (provided that Executive shall be solely responsible for all matters relating to his or her continuation of coverage pursuant to COBRA, including, without limitation, his or her election of such coverage and his or her timely payment of premiums), and (v) the Company shall pay for and provide Executive and such eligible dependents with a lump sum payment sufficient to pay the premiums for life insurance benefits coverage for the twelve (12) month period commencing on the date of termination to the extent such Executive and/or such dependents were receiving such benefits prior to the date of Executive’s termination, which payment shall be paid within thirty (30) days of the date of termination.
          (d) Termination Without Cause or For Good Reason.
               (i) Termination Without Cause or For Good Reason. If Executive’s employment is terminated by the Company without Cause or by Executive for Good Reason more than three (3) months prior to a Change of Control or more than twelve (12) months following a Change of Control, Executive shall be entitled to receive, in lieu of any severance benefits to which Executive may otherwise be entitled under any severance plan or program of the Company (other than as provided in Section 3(g) of this Agreement), the benefits provided below:
                    (A) the Company shall pay to Executive his or her fully earned but unpaid base salary, when due, through the date of termination at the rate then in effect, plus all other amounts to which Executive is entitled under any compensation plan or practice of the Company at the time of termination;
                    (B) subject to Executive’s continued compliance with Section 5, Executive shall be entitled to receive a lump sum cash payment equal to Executive’s annual base salary as in effect immediately prior to the date of termination, payable within thirty (30) days following the effective date of the Release (as defined below); plus
                    (C) subject to Executive’s continued compliance with Section 5, (1) for the period beginning on the date of termination and ending on the date which is twelve (12) full months following the date of termination (or, if earlier, the date on which the applicable continuation period under COBRA expires), the Company shall reimburse Executive for the costs associated with continuation coverage pursuant to COBRA for

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Executive and his or her eligible dependents who were covered under the Company’s health plans as of the date of Executive’s termination (provided that Executive shall be solely responsible for all matters relating to his or her continuation of coverage pursuant to COBRA, including, without limitation, his or her election of such coverage and his or her timely payment of premiums), and (2) the Company shall pay for and provide Executive and such eligible dependents with a lump sum payment sufficient to pay the premiums for life insurance benefits coverage for the twelve (12) month period commencing on the date of termination to the extent such Executive and/or such dependents were receiving such benefits prior to the date of Executive’s termination, which payment shall be paid within thirty (30) days of the date of termination; and
                    (D) subject to Executive’s continued compliance with Section 5, Executive shall be entitled to executive-level outplacement services at the Company’s expense, not to exceed $15,000. Such services shall be provided by a firm selected by the Company.
                    (E) The payments and benefits provided for in this Section 4(d)(i) shall only be payable in the event Executive’s employment is terminated by the Company without Cause or by Executive for Good Reason more than three (3) months prior to a Change of Control or more than twelve (12) months following a Change of Control. If Executive’s employment is terminated by the Company without Cause or by Executive for Good Reason within three (3) months prior to or twelve (12) months following a Change of Control, then Executive shall receive the payments and benefits described in Section 4(d)(ii) in lieu of the payments and benefits described in this Section 4(d)(i).
               (ii) Termination Without Cause or By Executive For Good Reason In Connection With a Change of Control. If Executive’s employment is terminated by the Company without Cause or by Executive for Good Reason within three (3) months prior to or twelve (12) months following a Change of Control, Executive shall be entitled to receive, in lieu of any severance benefits to which Executive may otherwise be entitled under any severance plan or program of the Company (other than as provided in Section 3(g) of this Agreement), the benefits provided below:
                    (A) the Company shall pay to Executive his or her fully earned but unpaid base salary, when due, through the date of termination at the rate then in effect, plus all other amounts to which Executive is entitled under any compensation plan or practice of the Company at the time of termination;
                    (B) subject to Executive’s continued compliance with Section 5, Executive shall be entitled to receive a lump sum cash payment, payable within thirty (30) days following the effective date of the Release, equal to the sum of:
                        (1) Executive’s annual base salary as in effect immediately prior to the date of termination, plus
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the year in which the date of termination occurs prorated for the period during such year Executive was employed prior to the date of termination;
                    (C) subject to Executive’s continued compliance with Section 5, (1) for the period beginning on the date of termination and ending on the date which is twelve (12) full months following the date of termination (or, if earlier, the date on which the applicable continuation period under COBRA expires), the Company shall reimburse Executive for the costs associated with continuation coverage pursuant to COBRA for Executive and his or her eligible dependents who were covered under the Company’s health plans as of the date of Executive’s termination (provided that Executive shall be solely responsible for all matters relating to his or her continuation of coverage pursuant to COBRA, including, without limitation, his or her election of such coverage and his or her timely payment of premiums), and (2) the Company shall pay for and provide Executive and such eligible dependents with a lump sum payment sufficient to pay the premiums for life insurance benefits coverage for the twelve (12) month period commencing on the date of termination to the extent such Executive and/or such dependents were receiving such benefits prior to the date of Executive’s termination, which payment shall be paid within thirty (30) days of the date of termination; and
                    (D) subject to Executive’s continued compliance with Section 5, Executive shall be entitled to executive-level outplacement services at the Company’s expense, not to exceed $15,000. Such services shall be provided by a firm selected by Executive from a list compiled by the Company.
                    (E) The payments and benefits provided for in this Section 4(d)(ii) shall only be payable in the event Executive’s employment is terminated by the Company without Cause or by Executive for Good Reason within three (3) months prior to or twelve (12) months following a Change of Control. If Executive’s employment is terminated by the Company without Cause or by Executive for Good Reason more than twelve (12) months following a Change of Control or prior to a Change of Control and such Change of Control is not consummated within three (3) months following such termination, then Executive shall receive the payments and benefits described in Section 4(d)(i) and shall not be eligible to receive any of the payments and benefits described in this Section 4(d)(ii).
          (e) Termination for Cause, Voluntary Resignation Without Good Reason or Expiration of Employment Period. If Executive’s employment is terminated by the Company for Cause or by Executive without Good Reason (other than as a result of Executive’s death or Permanent Disability), the Company shall not have any other or further obligations to Executive under this Agreement (including any financial obligations) except that Executive shall be entitled to receive (i) Executive’s fully earned but unpaid base salary, through the date of termination at the rate then in effect, and (ii) all other amounts or benefits to which Executive is entitled under any compensation, retirement or benefit plan or practice of the Company at the time of termination in accordance with the terms of such plans or practices, including, without limitation, any continuation of benefits required by COBRA or applicable law. In addition, if Executive’s employment is terminated by the Company for Cause or by Executive without Good Reason

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(other than as a result of Executive’s death or Permanent Disability), or if the Employment Period expires, all vesting of Executive’s unvested Stock Awards previously granted to him or her by the Company shall cease and none of such unvested Stock Awards shall be exercisable following the date of such termination. The foregoing shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of, any and all other rights and remedies which may be available to the Company under the circumstances, whether at law or in equity.
          (f) Delay of Payments. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 4, the parties acknowledge and agree that any payment to be made, or benefit provided, to Executive pursuant to this Section 4 shall be delayed to the extent necessary for this Agreement and such payment or benefit to comply with Section 409A of the Code.
          (g) Release. As a condition to Executive’s receipt of any post-termination benefits described in this Agreement, Executive shall execute and not revoke a general release of all claims in favor of the Company (the “Release”) substantially in the form attached hereto.
          (h) Exclusive Remedy. Except as otherwise expressly required by law (e.g., COBRA) or as specifically provided herein, all of Executive’s rights to salary, severance, benefits, bonuses and other amounts hereunder (if any) accruing after the termination of Executive’s employment shall cease upon such termination. In the event of a termination of Executive’s employment with the Company, Executive’s sole remedy shall be to receive the payments and benefits described in this Section 4. In addition, Executive acknowledges and agrees that he or she is not entitled to any reimbursement by the Company for any taxes payable by Executive as a result of the payments and benefits received by Executive pursuant to this Section 4, including, without limitation, any excise tax imposed by Section 4999 of the Code.
          (i) No Mitigation. The amount of any payment or benefit provided for in this Section 4 shall not be reduced by any compensation earned by Executive as the result of employment by another employer or self-employment or by retirement benefits and, as provided in Sections 4(b), (c) or (d), Executive’s (or his or her dependents’) right to continued healthcare and life insurance benefits following his or her termination of employment will terminate on the date on which the applicable continuation period under COBRA expires. In addition, loans, advances or other amounts owed by Executive to the Company may be offset by the Company against amounts payable to Executive under this Section 4.
          (j) Return of the Company’s Property. If Executive’s employment is terminated for any reason, or if the Employment Period expires, the Company shall have the right, at its option, to require Executive to vacate his or her offices prior to or on the effective date of termination and to cease all activities on the Company’s behalf. Upon the termination of his or her employment in any manner, as a condition to the Executive’s receipt of any post-termination benefits described in this Agreement, Executive shall immediately surrender to the Company all lists, books and records of, or in connection with, the Company’s business, and all other property belonging to the Company, it being distinctly understood that all such lists, books and records, and other documents, are the property of the Company. Executive shall deliver to the Company a signed statement certifying compliance with this Section 4(j) prior to the receipt of any post-termination benefits described in this Agreement.

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          (k) Waiver of the Company’s Liability. Executive recognizes that his or her employment is subject to termination with or without Cause for any reason and therefore Executive agrees that Executive shall hold the Company harmless from and against any and all liabilities, losses, damages, costs and expenses, including but not limited to, court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees, which Executive may incur as a result of the termination of Executive’s employment. Executive further agrees that Executive shall bring no claim or cause of action against the Company for damages or injunctive relief based on a wrongful termination of employment. Executive agrees that the sole liability of the Company to Executive upon termination of this Agreement shall be that determined by this Section 4. In the event this covenant is more restrictive than permitted by laws of the jurisdiction in which the Company seeks enforcement thereof, this covenant shall be limited to the extent permitted by law.
     5. Certain Covenants.
          (a) Noncompetition. Except as may otherwise be approved by the Board, during the term of Executive’s employment, Executive shall not have any ownership interest (of record or beneficial) in, or have any interest as an employee, salesman, consultant, officer or director in, or otherwise aid or assist in any manner, any firm, corporation, partnership, proprietorship or other business that engages in any county, city or part thereof in the United States and/or any foreign country in a business which competes directly or indirectly (as determined by the Board) with the Company’s business in such county, city or part thereof, so long as the Company, or any successor in interest of the Company to the business and goodwill of the Company, remains engaged in such business in such county, city or part thereof or continues to solicit customers or potential customers therein; provided, however, that Executive may own, directly or indirectly, solely as an investment, securities of any entity which are traded on any national securities exchange if Executive (x) is not a controlling person of, or a member of a group which controls, such entity; or (y) does not, directly or indirectly, own one percent (1%) or more of any class of securities of any such entity.
          (b) Confidential Information. Executive and the Company have entered into the Company’s standard employee proprietary information and inventions agreement (the “Employee Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement”). Executive agrees to perform each and every obligation of Executive therein contained.
          (c) Solicitation of Employees. Executive shall not during the term of Executive’s employment and for the applicable severance period for which Executive receives severance benefits following any termination hereof pursuant to Section 4(c) or (d) above (regardless of whether Executive receives such severance benefits in a lump sum payment or over the length of the severance period) (the “Restricted Period”), directly or indirectly, solicit or encourage to leave the employment of the Company or any of its affiliates, any employee of the Company or any of its affiliates.
          (d) Solicitation of Consultants. Executive shall not during the term of Executive’s employment and for the Restricted Period, directly or indirectly, hire, solicit or encourage to cease work with the Company or any of its affiliates any consultant then under contract with the Company or any of its affiliates within one year of the termination of such consultant’s engagement by the Company or any of its affiliates.

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          (e) Rights and Remedies Upon Breach. If Executive breaches or threatens to commit a breach of any of the provisions of this Section 5 (the “Restrictive Covenants”), the Company shall have the following rights and remedies, each of which rights and remedies shall be independent of the other and severally enforceable, and all of which rights and remedies shall be in addition to, and not in lieu of, any other rights and remedies available to the Company under law or in equity:
               (i) Specific Performance. The right and remedy to have the Restrictive Covenants specifically enforced by any court having equity jurisdiction, all without the need to post a bond or any other security or to prove any amount of actual damage or that money damages would not provide an adequate remedy, it being acknowledged and agreed that any such breach or threatened breach will cause irreparable injury to the Company and that money damages will not provide adequate remedy to the Company; and
               (ii) Accounting and Indemnification. The right and remedy to require Executive (i) to account for and pay over to the Company all compensation, profits, monies, accruals, increments or other benefits derived or received by Executive or any associated party deriving such benefits as a result of any such breach of the Restrictive Covenants; and (ii) to indemnify the Company against any other losses, damages (including special and consequential damages), costs and expenses, including actual attorneys’ fees and court costs, which may be incurred by them and which result from or arise out of any such breach or threatened breach of the Restrictive Covenants.
          (f) Severability of Covenants/Blue Pencilling. If any court determines that any of the Restrictive Covenants, or any part thereof, is invalid or unenforceable, the remainder of the Restrictive Covenants shall not thereby be affected and shall be given full effect, without regard to the invalid portions. If any court determines that any of the Restrictive Covenants, or any part thereof, are unenforceable because of the duration of such provision or the area covered thereby, such court shall have the power to reduce the duration or area of such provision and, in its reduced form, such provision shall then be enforceable and shall be enforced. Executive hereby waives any and all right to attack the validity of the Restrictive Covenants on the grounds of the breadth of their geographic scope or the length of their term.
          (g) Enforceability in Jurisdictions. The Company and Executive intend to and do hereby confer jurisdiction to enforce the Restrictive Covenants upon the courts of any jurisdiction within the geographical scope of such covenants. If the courts of any one or more of such jurisdictions hold the Restrictive Covenants wholly unenforceable by reason of the breadth of such scope or otherwise, it is the intention of the Company and Executive that such determination not bar or in any way affect the right of the Company to the relief provided above in the courts of any other jurisdiction within the geographical scope of such covenants, as to breaches of such covenants in such other respective jurisdictions, such covenants as they relate to each jurisdiction being, for this purpose, severable into diverse and independent covenants.
          (h) Definitions. For purposes of this Section 5, the term “Company” means not only Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc., but also any company, partnership or entity which,

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directly or indirectly, controls, is controlled by or is under common control with Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
     6. Insurance. The Company shall have the right to take out life, health, accident, “key-man” or other insurance covering Executive, in the name of the Company and at the Company’s expense in any amount deemed appropriate by the Company. Executive shall assist the Company in obtaining such insurance, including, without limitation, submitting to any required examinations and providing information and data required by insurance companies.
     7. Arbitration. Any dispute, claim or controversy based on, arising out of or relating to Executive’s employment or this Agreement shall be settled by final and binding arbitration in San Diego, California, before a single neutral arbitrator in accordance with the National Rules for the Resolution of Employment Disputes (the “Rules”) of the American Arbitration Association, and judgment on the award rendered by the arbitrator may be entered in any court having jurisdiction. Arbitration may be compelled pursuant to the California Arbitration Act (Code of Civil Procedure §§ 1280 et seq.). If the parties are unable to agree upon an arbitrator, one shall be appointed by the AAA in accordance with its Rules. Each party shall pay the fees of its own attorneys, the expenses of its witnesses and all other expenses connected with presenting its case; however, Executive and the Company agree that, to the extent permitted by law, the arbitrator may, in his or her discretion, award reasonable attorneys’ fees to the prevailing party. Other costs of the arbitration, including the cost of any record or transcripts of the arbitration, AAA’s administrative fees, the fee of the arbitrator, and all other fees and costs, shall be borne by the Company. This Section 7 is intended to be the exclusive method for resolving any and all claims by the parties against each other for payment of damages under this Agreement or relating to Executive’s employment; provided, however, that neither this Agreement nor the submission to arbitration shall limit the parties’ right to seek provisional relief, including without limitation injunctive relief, in any court of competent jurisdiction pursuant to California Code of Civil Procedure § 1281.8 or any similar statute of an applicable jurisdiction. Seeking any such relief shall not be deemed to be a waiver of such party’s right to compel arbitration. Both Executive and the Company expressly waive their right to a jury trial.
     8. General Relationship. Executive shall be considered an employee of the Company within the meaning of all federal, state and local laws and regulations including, but not limited to, laws and regulations governing unemployment insurance, workers’ compensation, industrial accident, labor and taxes.
     9. Miscellaneous.
          (a) Modification; Prior Claims. This Agreement and the Employee Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement set forth the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, supersede all existing agreements between them concerning such subject matter [ALL OFFICERS EXCEPT CEO AND VICE PRESIDENT, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT: including that certain offer letter dated [OFFER LETTER DATE] between the Company and Executive], and may be modified only by a written instrument duly executed by each party. [VICE PRESIDENT, CLINICAL DEVELOPMENT ONLY: Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Agreement does not supersede

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the third paragraph of the Offer Letter that relates to Executive’s relocation benefits, which paragraph shall remain in effect during Executive’s employment with the Company.]
          (b) Assignment; Assumption by Successor. The rights of the Company under this Agreement may, without the consent of Executive, be assigned by the Company, in its sole and unfettered discretion, to any person, firm, corporation or other business entity which at any time, whether by purchase, merger or otherwise, directly or indirectly, acquires all or substantially all of the assets or business of the Company. The Company will require any successor (whether direct or indirect, by purchase, merger or otherwise) to all or substantially all of the business or assets of the Company expressly to assume and to agree to perform this Agreement in the same manner and to the same extent that the Company would be required to perform it if no such succession had taken place; provided, however, that no such assumption shall relieve the Company of its obligations hereunder. As used in this Agreement, the “Company” shall mean the Company as hereinbefore defined and any successor to its business and/or assets as aforesaid which assumes and agrees to perform this Agreement by operation of law or otherwise.
          (c) Survival. The covenants, agreements, representations and warranties contained in or made in Sections 4, 5, 7 and 9 of this Agreement shall survive any termination of Executive’s employment.
          (d) Third-Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement does not create, and shall not be construed as creating, any rights enforceable by any person not a party to this Agreement.
          (e) Waiver. The failure of either party hereto at any time to enforce performance by the other party of any provision of this Agreement shall in no way affect such party’s rights thereafter to enforce the same, nor shall the waiver by either party of any breach of any provision hereof be deemed to be a waiver by such party of any other breach of the same or any other provision hereof.
          (f) Section Headings. The headings of the several sections in this Agreement are inserted solely for the convenience of the parties and are not a part of and are not intended to govern, limit or aid in the construction of any term or provision hereof.
          (g) Notices. All notices, requests and other communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be delivered by courier or other means of personal service (including by means of a nationally recognized courier service or professional messenger service), or sent by telex or telecopy or mailed first class, postage prepaid, by certified mail, return receipt requested, in all cases, addressed to:
     If to the Company or the Board prior to September 15, 2006:
Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
12730 High Bluff Drive, Suite 410
San Diego, CA 92130
Attention: Secretary
     If to the Company or the Board on or after September 15, 2006:

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Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
12481 High Bluff Drive, Suite 200
San Diego, CA 92130
Attention: Secretary
     If to Executive:
         
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
   
 
       
All notices, requests and other communications shall be deemed given on the date of actual receipt or delivery as evidenced by written receipt, acknowledgement or other evidence of actual receipt or delivery to the address. In case of service by telecopy, a copy of such notice shall be personally delivered or sent by registered or certified mail, in the manner set forth above, within three business days thereafter. Any party hereto may from time to time by notice in writing served as set forth above designate a different address or a different or additional person to which all such notices or communications thereafter are to be given.
          (h) Severability. All Sections, clauses and covenants contained in this Agreement are severable, and in the event any of them shall be held to be invalid by any court, this Agreement shall be interpreted as if such invalid Sections, clauses or covenants were not contained herein.
          (i) Governing Law and Venue. This Agreement is to be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California applicable to contracts made and to be performed wholly within such State, and without regard to the conflicts of laws principles thereof. Except as provided in Sections 5 and 7, any suit brought hereon shall be brought in the state or federal courts sitting in San Diego, California, the parties hereto hereby waiving any claim or defense that such forum is not convenient or proper. Each party hereby agrees that any such court shall have in personam jurisdiction over it and consents to service of process in any manner authorized by California law.
          (j) Non-transferability of Interest. None of the rights of Executive to receive any form of compensation payable pursuant to this Agreement shall be assignable or transferable except through a testamentary disposition or by the laws of descent and distribution upon the death of Executive. Any attempted assignment, transfer, conveyance, or other disposition (other than as aforesaid) of any interest in the rights of Executive to receive any form of compensation to be made by the Company pursuant to this Agreement shall be void.
          (k) Gender. Where the context so requires, the use of the masculine gender shall include the feminine and/or neuter genders and the singular shall include the plural, and vice versa, and the word “person” shall include any corporation, firm, partnership or other form of association.

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          (l) Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same Agreement.
          (m) Construction. The language in all parts of this Agreement shall in all cases be construed simply, according to its fair meaning, and not strictly for or against any of the parties hereto. Without limitation, there shall be no presumption against any party on the ground that such party was responsible for drafting this Agreement or any part thereof.
          (n) Withholding and other Deductions. All compensation payable to Executive hereunder shall be subject to such deductions as the Company is from time to time required to make pursuant to law, governmental regulation or order.
          (o) Code Section 409A. This Agreement shall be interpreted, construed and administered in a manner that satisfies the requirements of Sections 409A of the Code. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, the Company may adopt such amendments to this Agreement or adopt other policies and procedures (including amendments, policies and procedures with retroactive effect), or take any other actions, that the Company determines are necessary to comply with the requirements of Section 409A of the Code.
(Signature Page Follows)

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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the date first set forth above.
             
    CADENCE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.    
 
           
 
  By:        
 
  Name:  
 
   
 
           
 
  Title:        
 
           
 
           
         
    [Name of Executive]    
SIGNATURE PAGE TO EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

 


 

     Schedule to Exhibit 10.2: The Form of Employment Agreement was entered into with the following executive officers with their respective titles, addresses, salaries and original offer letter dates listed below:
                 
Name   Title   Salary     Offer Letter Date
Theodore R. Schroeder
  President and Chief Executive Officer   $ 300,000     None
James B. Breitmeyer, M.D., Ph.D.
  Executive Vice President, Development and Chief Medical Officer   $ 330,000     July 31, 2006
William S. Craig, Ph.D.
  Senior Vice President, Pharmaceutical Development and Manufacturing   $ 231,000     October 7, 2004
Kenneth R. Heilbrunn, M.D.
  Senior Vice President, Clinical Development   $ 315,000     March 17, 2005
William R. LaRue
  Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer   $ 265,000     April 7, 2006
Richard E. Lowenthal
  Vice President, Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance   $ 231,000     November 4, 2004
Mike A. Royal, M.D., J.D.
  Vice President, Clinical Development   $ 275,000     April 17, 2006
David A. Socks
  Vice President, Business Development   $ 200,000     None

 

EXHIBIT 10.4
 

EXHIBIT 10.4
CADENCE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
DIRECTOR COMPENSATION POLICY
     Non-employee members of the board of directors (the “Board”) of Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the “Company”) shall be eligible to receive cash and equity compensation commencing on the first date upon which the Company is subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d)(2) of the Exchange Act (the “Public Trading Date”) as set forth in this Director Compensation Policy. The cash compensation and option grants described in this Director Compensation Policy shall be paid or be made, as applicable, automatically and without further action of the Board, to each member of the Board who is not an employee of the Company or any parent or subsidiary of the Company (each, an “Independent Director”) who may be eligible to receive such cash compensation or options, unless such Independent Director declines the receipt of such cash compensation or options by written notice to the Company. This Director Compensation Policy shall remain in effect until it is revised or rescinded by further action of the Board. All share numbers set forth in this policy give effect to the reverse stock split to be implemented by the Company in connection with its initial public offering.
     1. Cash Compensation.
          Each Independent Director shall be eligible to receive an annual retainer of $25,000 for service on the Board. In addition, an Independent Director serving as:
               (i) chairman of the Audit Committee shall be eligible to receive an additional annual retainer of $10,000 for such service;
               (ii) members (other than the chairman) of the Audit Committee shall be eligible to receive an additional annual retainer of $5,000 for such service;
               (iii) chairman of the Compensation Committee or the Nominating/Corporate Governance Committee shall be eligible to receive an additional annual retainer of $4,000 for such service; and
               (iv) members (other than the chairman) of the Compensation Committee or the Nominating/Corporate Governance Committee shall be eligible to receive an additional annual retainer of $2,000 for such service.
          The annual retainers shall be paid by the Company in quarterly installments or more frequently as deemed advisable by the officers of the Company for administrative or other reasons.
     2. Equity Compensation. The options described below shall be granted under and shall be subject to the terms and provisions of the Company’s 2006 Equity Incentive Award Plan (the “2006 Plan”) and shall be granted subject to the execution and delivery of option agreements, including attached exhibits, in substantially the same forms previously approved by the Board, setting forth the vesting schedule applicable to such options and such other terms as may be required by the 2006 Plan.
          (a) Initial Options. A person who was initially elected or appointed to the Board less than twelve (12) months prior to the Public Trading Date or who is initially elected or appointed to the Board following the Public Trading Date, and who was or is an Independent Director at the time of such initial election or appointment, shall be eligible to receive a non-qualified stock option to purchase 25,000 shares of common stock (subject to adjustment as provided in the 2006 Plan) on the later of the Public Trading Date and the date of such initial election or appointment (each, an “Initial Option”).

 


 

          (b) Subsequent Options. A person who is an Independent Director automatically shall be eligible to receive a non-qualified stock option to purchase 12,500 shares of common stock (subject to adjustment as provided in the 2006 Plan) on the date of each annual meeting of the Company’s stockholders after the Public Trading Date. An Independent Director elected for the first time to the Board at an annual meeting of stockholders shall only receive an Initial Option in connection with such election, and shall not receive a Subsequent Option on the date of such meeting as well. The option grants described in this clause shall be referred to as “Subsequent Options.”
          (c) Termination of Employment of Employee Directors. Members of the Board who are employees of the Company or any parent or subsidiary of the Company who subsequently terminate their employment with the Company and any parent or subsidiary of the Company and remain on the Board will not receive an Initial Option grant pursuant to clause 2(a) above, but to the extent that they are otherwise eligible, will be eligible to receive, after termination from employment with the Company and any parent or subsidiary of the Company, Subsequent Options as described in clause 2(b) above.
          (d) Terms of Options Granted to Independent Directors.
               (i) Exercise Price. The per share exercise price of each option granted to an Independent Director shall equal 100% of the Fair Market Value (as defined in the 2006 Plan) of a share of common stock on the date the option is granted.
               (ii) Vesting. Initial Options granted to Independent Directors shall become exercisable in thirty-six equal monthly installments of 1/36 of the shares subject to such option on the first day of each calendar month following the date of the Initial Option grant, such that each Initial Option shall be 100% vested on the first day of the 36th month following the date of grant, subject to the director’s continuing service on the Board through such dates. Subsequent Options granted to Independent Directors shall become vested in twelve equal monthly installments of 1/12 of the shares subject to such option on the first day of each calendar month following the date of the Subsequent Option Grant, subject to a director’s continuing service on the Board through such dates. The term of each option granted to an Independent Director shall be ten years from the date the option is granted. No portion of an option which is unexercisable at the time of an Independent Director’s termination of membership on the Board shall thereafter become exercisable.

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EXHIBIT 10.5
 

EXHIBIT 10.5
CADENCE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
2006 EQUITY INCENTIVE AWARD PLAN
ARTICLE 1
PURPOSE
     The purpose of the Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2006 Equity Incentive Award Plan (the “Plan”) is to promote the success and enhance the value of Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the “Company”) by linking the personal interests of the members of the Board, Employees, and Consultants to those of Company stockholders and by providing such individuals with an incentive for outstanding performance to generate superior returns to Company stockholders. The Plan is further intended to provide flexibility to the Company in its ability to motivate, attract, and retain the services of members of the Board, Employees, and Consultants upon whose judgment, interest, and special effort the successful conduct of the Company’s operation is largely dependent.
     All numbers of shares of Stock set forth in the Plan give effect to the reverse stock split to be implemented by the Company in connection with its initial public offering.
ARTICLE 2
DEFINITIONS AND CONSTRUCTION
     Wherever the following terms are used in the Plan they shall have the meanings specified below, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. The singular pronoun shall include the plural where the context so indicates.
     2.1 “Award” means an Option, a Restricted Stock award, a Stock Appreciation Right award, a Performance Share award, a Performance Stock Unit award, a Dividend Equivalents award, a Stock Payment award, a Deferred Stock award, a Restricted Stock Unit award, an Other Stock-Based Award, a Performance Bonus Award, or a Performance-Based Award granted to a Participant pursuant to the Plan.
     2.2 “Award Agreement” means any written agreement, contract, or other instrument or document evidencing an Award.
     2.3 “Board” means the Board of Directors of the Company.
     2.4 “Change in Control” means and includes each of the following:
          (a) A transaction or series of transactions (other than an offering of Stock to the general public through a registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission) whereby any “person” or related “group” of “persons” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act) (other than the Company, any of its subsidiaries, an employee benefit plan maintained by the Company or any of its subsidiaries or a “person” that, prior to such transaction, directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is


 

under common control with, the Company) directly or indirectly acquires beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) of securities of the Company possessing more than 50% of the total combined voting power of the Company’s securities outstanding immediately after such acquisition; or
          (b) During any period of two consecutive years, individuals who, at the beginning of such period, constitute the Board together with any new director(s) (other than a director designated by a person who shall have entered into an agreement with the Company to effect a transaction described in Section 2.4(a) or Section 2.4(c)) whose election by the Board or nomination for election by the Company’s stockholders was approved by a vote of at least two-thirds of the directors then still in office who either were directors at the beginning of the two year period or whose election or nomination for election was previously so approved, cease for any reason to constitute a majority thereof; or
          (c) The consummation by the Company (whether directly involving the Company or indirectly involving the Company through one or more intermediaries) of (x) a merger, consolidation, reorganization, or business combination or (y) a sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets or (z) the acquisition of assets or stock of another entity, in each case other than a transaction:
               (i) Which results in the Company’s voting securities outstanding immediately before the transaction continuing to represent (either by remaining outstanding or by being converted into voting securities of the Company or the person that, as a result of the transaction, controls, directly or indirectly, the Company or owns, directly or indirectly, all or substantially all of the Company’s assets or otherwise succeeds to the business of the Company (the Company or such person, the “Successor Entity”)) directly or indirectly, at least a majority of the combined voting power of the Successor Entity’s outstanding voting securities immediately after the transaction, and
               (ii) After which no person or group beneficially owns voting securities representing 50% or more of the combined voting power of the Successor Entity; provided, however, that no person or group shall be treated for purposes of this Section 2.4(c)(ii) as beneficially owning 50% or more of combined voting power of the Successor Entity solely as a result of the voting power held in the Company prior to the consummation of the transaction.
     2.5 “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
     2.6 “Committee” means the committee of the Board described in Article 12.
     2.7 “Consultant” means any consultant or adviser if:
          (a) The consultant or adviser renders bona fide services to the Company or any Parent or Subsidiary;
          (b) The services rendered by the consultant or adviser are not in connection with the offer or sale of securities in a capital-raising transaction and do not directly or indirectly promote or maintain a market for the securities of the Company or of any Parent or Subsidiary; and

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          (c) The consultant or adviser is a natural person.
     2.8 “Covered Employee” means an Employee who is, or could be, a “covered employee” within the meaning of Section 162(m) of the Code.
     2.9 “Deferred Stock” means a right to receive a specified number of shares of Stock during specified time periods pursuant to Article 8.
     2.10 “Disability” means “disability,” as such term is defined in Section 22(e)(3) of the Code.
     2.11 “Dividend Equivalents” means a right granted to a Participant pursuant to Article 8 to receive the equivalent value (in cash or Stock) of dividends paid on Stock.
     2.12 “Effective Date” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 13.1.
     2.13 “Eligible Individual” means any person who is an Employee, a Consultant or a member of the Board, as determined by the Committee.
     2.14 “Employee” means any officer or other employee (as defined in accordance with Section 3401(c) of the Code) of the Company or of any Parent or Subsidiary.
     2.15 “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
     2.16 “Fair Market Value” means, as of any given date, the fair market value of a share of Stock on the date determined by such methods or procedures as may be established from time to time by the Committee. Unless otherwise determined by the Committee, the Fair Market Value of a share of Stock as of any date shall be the closing sales price for a share of Stock as reported on the NASDAQ National Market (or on any national securities exchange on which the Stock is then listed) for the date or, if no such prices are reported for that date, the average of the high and low trading prices on the next preceding date for which such prices were reported.
     2.17 “Incentive Stock Option” means an Option that is intended to meet the requirements of Section 422 of the Code or any successor provision thereto.
     2.18 “Independent Director” means a member of the Board who is not an Employee of the Company or of any Parent or Subsidiary.
     2.19 “Non-Employee Director” means a member of the Board who qualifies as a “Non-Employee Director” as defined in Rule 16b-3(b)(3) of the Exchange Act, or any successor definition adopted by the Board.
     2.20 “Non-Qualified Stock Option” means an Option that is not intended to be an Incentive Stock Option.
     2.21 “Option” means a right granted to a Participant pursuant to Article 5 of the Plan to purchase a specified number of shares of Stock at a specified price during specified time periods. An Option may be either an Incentive Stock Option or a Non-Qualified Stock Option.

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     2.22 “Other Stock-Based Award” means an Award granted or denominated in Stock or units of Stock pursuant to Section 8.7 of the Plan.
     2.23 “Parent” means any “parent corporation, as defined in Section 424(e) of the Code and any applicable regulations promulgated thereunder, of the Company or any other entity which beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, a majority of the outstanding voting stock or voting power of the Company.
     2.24 “Participant” means any Eligible Individual who, as a member of the Board, Consultant or Employee, has been granted an Award pursuant to the Plan.
     2.25 “Performance-Based Award” means an Award granted to selected Covered Employees pursuant to Articles 6 and 8, but which is subject to the terms and conditions set forth in Article 9. All Performance-Based Awards are intended to qualify as Qualified Performance-Based Compensation.
     2.26 “Performance Bonus Award” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.8.
     2.27 “Performance Criteria” means the criteria that the Committee selects for purposes of establishing the Performance Goal or Performance Goals for a Participant for a Performance Period. The Performance Criteria that will be used to establish Performance Goals are limited to the following: net earnings (either before or after interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization), economic value-added (as determined by the Committee), sales or revenue, net income (either before or after taxes), operating earnings, cash flow (including, but not limited to, operating cash flow and free cash flow), cash flow return on capital, return on net assets, return on stockholders’ equity, return on assets, return on capital, stockholder returns, return on sales, gross or net profit margin, productivity, expense, margins, operating efficiency, customer satisfaction, working capital, earnings per share of Stock, price per share of Stock, and market share, any of which may be measured either in absolute terms or as compared to any incremental increase or as compared to results of a peer group. To the extent an Award is intended to be Qualified Performance-Based Compensation, the Committee shall, within the time prescribed by Section 162(m) of the Code, define in an objective fashion the manner of calculating the Performance Criteria it selects to use for such Performance Period for such Participant.
     2.28 “Performance Goals” means, for a Performance Period, the goals established in writing by the Committee for the Performance Period based upon the Performance Criteria. Depending on the Performance Criteria used to establish such Performance Goals, the Performance Goals may be expressed in terms of overall Company performance or the performance of a division, business unit, or an individual. To the extent an Award is intended to be Qualified Performance-Based Compensation, the Committee, in its discretion, may, within the time prescribed by Section 162(m) of the Code, adjust or modify the calculation of Performance Goals for such Performance Period in order to prevent the dilution or enlargement of the rights of Participants (a) in the event of, or in anticipation of, any unusual or extraordinary corporate item, transaction, event, or development, or (b) in recognition of, or in anticipation of, any other unusual or nonrecurring events affecting the Company, or the financial statements of the Company, or in response to, or in anticipation of, changes in applicable laws, regulations, accounting principles, or business conditions.

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     2.29 “Performance Period” means the one or more periods of time, which may be of varying and overlapping durations, as the Committee may select, over which the attainment of one or more Performance Goals will be measured for the purpose of determining a Participant’s right to, and the payment of, a Performance-Based Award.
     2.30 “Performance Share” means a right granted to a Participant pursuant to Article 8, to receive Stock, the payment of which is contingent upon achieving certain Performance Goals or other performance-based targets established by the Committee.
     2.31 “Performance Stock Unit” means a right granted to a Participant pursuant to Article 8, to receive Stock, the payment of which is contingent upon achieving certain Performance Goals or other performance-based targets established by the Committee.
     2.32 “Plan” means this Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2006 Incentive Award Plan, as it may be amended from time to time.
     2.33 “Public Trading Date” means the first date upon which Stock is listed (or approved for listing) upon notice of issuance on any securities exchange or designated (or approved for designation) upon notice of issuance as a national market security on an interdealer quotation system.
     2.34 “Qualified Performance-Based Compensation” means any compensation that is intended to qualify as “qualified performance-based compensation” as described in Section 162(m)(4)(C) of the Code.
     2.35 “Restricted Stock” means Stock awarded to a Participant pursuant to Article 6 that is subject to certain restrictions and may be subject to risk of forfeiture.
     2.36 “Restricted Stock Unit” means an Award granted pursuant to Section 8.6.
     2.37 “Securities Act” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
     2.38 “Stock” means the common stock of the Company, par value $0.0001 per share, and such other securities of the Company that may be substituted for Stock pursuant to Article 11.
     2.39 “Stock Appreciation Right” or “SAR” means a right granted pursuant to Article 7 to receive a payment equal to the excess of the Fair Market Value of a specified number of shares of Stock on the date the SAR is exercised over the Fair Market Value on the date the SAR was granted as set forth in the applicable Award Agreement.
     2.40 “Stock Payment” means (a) a payment in the form of shares of Stock, or (b) an option or other right to purchase shares of Stock, as part of any bonus, deferred compensation or other arrangement, made in lieu of all or any portion of the compensation, granted pursuant to Article 8.
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majority of the outstanding voting stock or voting power is beneficially owned directly or indirectly by the Company.
ARTICLE 3
SHARES SUBJECT TO THE PLAN
     3.1 Number of Shares.
          (a) Subject to Article 11 and Section 3.1(b), the aggregate number of shares of Stock which may be issued or transferred pursuant to Awards under the Plan shall be the sum of: (i) 2,100,000 shares of Stock; plus (ii) the number of shares of Stock remaining available for issuance and not subject to awards granted under the Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 2004 Equity Incentive Award Plan (the “Existing Plan”) as of the Effective Date; plus (iii) with respect to awards granted under the Existing Plan on or before the Effective Date that expire or are canceled without having been exercised in full or shares of Stock that are forfeited or repurchased pursuant to the terms of awards granted under the Existing Plan, the number of shares of Stock subject to each such award as to which such award was not exercised prior to its expiration or cancellation or which are forfeited or repurchased by the Company. The aggregate number of shares of Stock authorized for issuance under the Existing Plan was [                    ] shares of Stock and, accordingly, the total number of shares of Stock under clauses (ii) and (iii) in the preceding sentence shall not exceed [                    ] shares of Stock. In addition, subject to Article 11, commencing on January 1, 2008, and on each January 1 thereafter during the term of the Plan, the number of shares of Stock which shall be made available for sale under the Plan shall be increased by that number of shares of Stock equal to the least of: (i) 4% of the Company’s outstanding shares of Stock on the applicable January 1; and (ii) a lesser number of shares of Stock as determined by the Board. Accordingly, the number of shares of Stock which shall be available for sale under the Plan shall be subject to increase under the preceding sentence only on January 1, 2008 and on each subsequent January 1 through and including January 1, 2016. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 3.1(a) to the contrary, the number of shares of Stock that may be issued or transferred pursuant to Awards under the Plan shall not exceed an aggregate of 20,000,000 shares of Stock, subject to Article 11. In order that the applicable regulations under the Code relating to Incentive Stock Options be satisfied, the maximum number of shares of Stock that may be delivered upon exercise of Incentive Stock Options shall be the number specified in the preceding sentence, and, if necessary to satisfy such regulations, such maximum limit shall apply to the number of shares of Stock that may be delivered in connection with each other type of Award under the Plan (applicable separately to each type of Award).
          (b) To the extent that an Award terminates, expires, or lapses for any reason, any shares of Stock subject to the Award shall again be available for the grant of an Award pursuant to the Plan. Additionally, any shares of Stock tendered or withheld to satisfy the grant or exercise price or tax withholding obligation pursuant to any Award shall again be available for the grant of an Award pursuant to the Plan. To the extent permitted by applicable law or any exchange rule, shares of Stock issued in assumption of, or in substitution for, any outstanding awards of any entity acquired in any form of combination by the Company or any Parent or Subsidiary shall not be counted against shares of Stock available for grant pursuant to this Plan.

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The payment of Dividend Equivalents in conjunction with any outstanding Awards shall not be counted against the shares of Stock available for issuance under the Plan.
     3.2 Stock Distributed. Any shares of Stock distributed pursuant to an Award may consist, in whole or in part, of authorized and unissued Stock, treasury Stock or Stock purchased on the open market.
     3.3 Limitation on Number of Shares Subject to Awards. Notwithstanding any provision in the Plan to the contrary, and subject to Article 11, the maximum number of shares of Stock with respect to one or more Awards that may be granted to any one Participant during any fiscal year of the Company (measured from the date of any grant) shall be 1,000,000; provided, however, that the foregoing limitation shall not apply prior to the Public Trading Date and, following the Public Trading Date, the foregoing limitation shall not apply until the earliest of: (a) the first material modification of the Plan (including any increase in the number of shares of Stock reserved for issuance under the Plan in accordance with Section 3.1); (b) the issuance of all of the shares of Stock reserved for issuance under the Plan; (c) the expiration of the Plan; (d) the first meeting of stockholders at which members of the Board are to be elected that occurs after the close of the third calendar year following the calendar year in which occurred the first registration of an equity security of the Company under Section 12 of the Exchange Act; or (e) such other date required by Section 162(m) of the Code and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
ARTICLE 4
ELIGIBILITY AND PARTICIPATION
     4.1 Eligibility. Each Eligible Individual shall be eligible to be granted one or more Awards pursuant to the Plan.
     4.2 Participation. Subject to the provisions of the Plan, the Committee may, from time to time, select from among all Eligible Individuals, those to whom Awards shall be granted and shall determine the nature and amount of each Award. No Eligible Individual shall have any right to be granted an Award pursuant to this Plan.
     4.3 Foreign Participants. In order to assure the viability of Awards granted to Participants employed in foreign countries, the Committee may provide for such special terms as it may consider necessary or appropriate to accommodate differences in local law, tax policy, or custom. Moreover, the Committee may approve such supplements to, or amendments, restatements, or alternative versions of, the Plan as it may consider necessary or appropriate for such purposes without thereby affecting the terms of the Plan as in effect for any other purpose; provided, however, that no such supplements, amendments, restatements, or alternative versions shall increase the limitations on the number of shares of Stock (a) issued or transferred pursuant to Awards under the Plan, as detailed in Section 3.1, and (b) issued or transferred pursuant to Awards granted to any one Participant during any fiscal year of the Company, as detailed in Section 3.3 of the Plan.

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ARTICLE 5
STOCK OPTIONS
     5.1 General. The Committee is authorized to grant Options to Participants on the following terms and conditions:
          (a) Exercise Price. The exercise price per share of Stock subject to an Option shall be determined by the Committee and set forth in the Award Agreement; provided that the exercise price for any Option shall not be less than par value of a share of Stock on the date of grant.
          (b) Time and Conditions of Exercise. The Committee shall determine the time or times at which an Option may be exercised in whole or in part. The Committee shall also determine the performance or other conditions, if any, that must be satisfied before all or part of an Option may be exercised.
          (c) Payment. The Committee shall determine the methods by which the exercise price of an Option may be paid, the form of payment, including, without limitation: (i) cash, (ii) promissory note bearing interest at no less than such rate as shall then preclude the imputation of interest under the Code, (iii) shares of Stock held for such period of time as may be required by the Committee in order to avoid adverse accounting consequences and having a Fair Market Value on the date of delivery equal to the aggregate exercise price of the Option or exercised portion thereof, or (iv) other property acceptable to the Committee (including through the delivery of a notice that the Participant has placed a market sell order with a broker with respect to shares of Stock then issuable upon exercise of the Option, and that the broker has been directed to pay a sufficient portion of the net proceeds of the sale to the Company in satisfaction of the Option exercise price; provided that payment of such proceeds is then made to the Company upon settlement of such sale), and the methods by which shares of Stock shall be delivered or deemed to be delivered to Participants. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan to the contrary, no Participant who is a member of the Board or an “executive officer” of the Company within the meaning of Section 13(k) of the Exchange Act shall be permitted to pay the exercise price of an Option in any method which would violate Section 13(k) of the Exchange Act.
          (d) Evidence of Grant. All Options shall be evidenced by a written Award Agreement between the Company and the Participant. The Award Agreement shall include such additional provisions as may be specified by the Committee.
     5.2 Incentive Stock Options. The terms of any Incentive Stock Options granted pursuant to the Plan must comply with the conditions and limitations contained in Section 13.2 and this Section 5.2.
          (a) Eligibility. Incentive Stock Options may be granted only to Employees.
          (b) Exercise Price. The exercise price per share of Stock shall be set by the Committee; provided that subject to Section 5.2(e) the exercise price for any Incentive Stock Option shall not be less than 100% of the Fair Market Value on the date of grant.

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          (c) Expiration. Subject to Section 5.2(e), an Incentive Stock Option may not be exercised to any extent by anyone after the tenth anniversary of the date it is granted, unless an earlier time is set in the Award Agreement.
          (d) Individual Dollar Limitation. The aggregate Fair Market Value (determined as of the time the Option is granted) of all shares of Stock with respect to which Incentive Stock Options are first exercisable by a Participant in any calendar year may not exceed $100,000 or such other limitation as imposed by Section 422(d) of the Code, or any successor provision. To the extent that Incentive Stock Options are first exercisable by a Participant in excess of such limitation, the excess shall be considered Non-Qualified Stock Options.
          (e) Ten Percent Owners. An Incentive Stock Option shall be granted to any individual who, at the date of grant, owns stock possessing more than ten percent of the total combined voting power of all classes of Stock of the Company only if such Option is granted at a price that is not less than 110% of Fair Market Value on the date of grant and the Option is exercisable for no more than five years from the date of grant.
          (f) Notice of Disposition. The Participant shall give the Company prompt notice of any disposition of shares of Stock acquired by exercise of an Incentive Stock Option within (i) two years from the date of grant of such Incentive Stock Option or (ii) one year after the transfer of such shares of Stock to the Participant.
          (g) Right to Exercise. During a Participant’s lifetime, an Incentive Stock Option may be exercised only by the Participant.
     5.3 Substitution of Stock Appreciation Rights. The Committee may provide in the Award Agreement evidencing the grant of an Option that the Committee, in its sole discretion, shall have to right to substitute a Stock Appreciation Right for such Option at any time prior to or upon exercise of such Option, subject to the provisions of Section 7.2 hereof; provided that such Stock Appreciation Right shall be exercisable with respect to the same number of shares of Stock for which such substituted Option would have been exercisable.
     5.4 Paperless Exercise. In the event that the Company establishes, for itself or using the services of a third party, an automated system for the exercise of Options, such as a system using an internet website or interactive voice response, then the paperless exercise of options by a Participant may be permitted through the use of such an automated system.
ARTICLE 6
RESTRICTED STOCK AWARDS
     6.1 Grant of Restricted Stock. The Committee is authorized to make Awards of Restricted Stock to any Participant selected by the Committee in such amounts and subject to such terms and conditions as determined by the Committee. All Awards of Restricted Stock shall be evidenced by a written Restricted Stock Award Agreement.
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transferability and other restrictions as the Committee may impose (including, without limitation, limitations on the right to vote Restricted Stock or the right to receive dividends on the Restricted Stock). These restrictions may lapse separately or in combination at such times, pursuant to such circumstances, in such installments, or otherwise, as the Committee determines at the time of the grant of the Award or thereafter.
     6.3 Forfeiture. Except as otherwise determined by the Committee at the time of the grant of the Award or thereafter, upon termination of employment or service during the applicable restriction period, Restricted Stock that is at that time subject to restrictions shall be forfeited; provided, however, that the Committee may (a) provide in any Restricted Stock Award Agreement that restrictions or forfeiture conditions relating to Restricted Stock will be waived in whole or in part in the event of terminations resulting from specified causes, and (b) in other cases waive in whole or in part restrictions or forfeiture conditions relating to Restricted Stock.
     6.4 Certificates for Restricted Stock. Restricted Stock granted pursuant to the Plan may be evidenced in such manner as the Committee shall determine. If certificates representing shares of Restricted Stock are registered in the name of the Participant, certificates must bear an appropriate legend referring to the terms, conditions, and restrictions applicable to such Restricted Stock, and the Company may, at its discretion, retain physical possession of the certificate until such time as all applicable restrictions lapse.
ARTICLE 7
STOCK APPRECIATION RIGHTS
     7.1 Grant of Stock Appreciation Rights. A Stock Appreciation Right may be granted to any Participant selected by the Committee. A Stock Appreciation Right shall be subject to such terms and conditions not inconsistent with the Plan as the Committee shall impose and shall be evidenced by an Award Agreement.
     7.2 Stock Appreciation Rights.
          (a) A Stock Appreciation Right (“SAR”) shall have a term set by the Committee. A SAR shall be exercisable in such installments as the Committee may determine. A SAR shall cover such number of shares of Stock as the Committee may determine. The exercise price per share of Stock subject to each SAR shall be set by the Committee; provided, however, that the Committee in its sole and absolute discretion may provide that the SAR may be exercised subsequent to a termination of employment or service, as applicable, or following a Change in Control of the Company, or because of the Participant’s retirement, death or disability, or otherwise.
          (b) A SAR shall entitle the Participant (or other person entitled to exercise the SAR pursuant to the Plan) to exercise all or a specified portion of the SAR (to the extent then exercisable pursuant to its terms) and to receive from the Company an amount determined by multiplying the difference obtained by subtracting the exercise price per share of the SAR from the Fair Market Value of a share of Stock on the date of exercise of the SAR by the number of shares of Stock with respect to which the SAR shall have been exercised, subject to any limitations the Committee may impose.

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     7.3 Payment and Limitations on Exercise.
          (a) Payment of the amounts determined under Section 7.2(b) above shall be in cash, in Stock (based on its Fair Market Value as of the date the SAR is exercised) or a combination of both, as determined by the Committee.
          (b) To the extent any payment under Section 7.2(b) is effected in Stock it shall be made subject to satisfaction of all provisions of Article 5 above pertaining to Options.
ARTICLE 8
OTHER TYPES OF AWARDS
     8.1 Performance Share Awards. Any Participant selected by the Committee may be granted one or more Performance Share awards which shall be denominated in a number of shares of Stock and which may be linked to any one or more of the Performance Criteria or other specific performance criteria determined appropriate by the Committee, in each case on a specified date or dates or over any period or periods determined by the Committee. In making such determinations, the Committee shall consider (among such other factors as it deems relevant in light of the specific type of award) the contributions, responsibilities and other compensation of the particular Participant.
     8.2 Performance Stock Units. Any Participant selected by the Committee may be granted one or more Performance Stock Unit awards which shall be denominated in units of value including dollar value of shares of Stock and which may be linked to any one or more of the Performance Criteria or other specific performance criteria determined appropriate by the Committee, in each case on a specified date or dates or over any period or periods determined by the Committee. In making such determinations, the Committee shall consider (among such other factors as it deems relevant in light of the specific type of award) the contributions, responsibilities and other compensation of the particular Participant.
     8.3 Dividend Equivalents.
          (a) Any Participant selected by the Committee may be granted Dividend Equivalents based on the dividends declared on the shares of Stock that are subject to any Award, to be credited as of dividend payment dates, during the period between the date the Award is granted and the date the Award is exercised, vests or expires, as determined by the Committee. Such Dividend Equivalents shall be converted to cash or additional shares of Stock by such formula and at such time and subject to such limitations as may be determined by the Committee.
          (b) Dividend Equivalents granted with respect to Options or SARs that are intended to be Qualified Performance-Based Compensation shall be payable, with respect to pre-exercise periods, regardless of whether such Option or SAR is subsequently exercised.

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     8.4 Stock Payments. Any Participant selected by the Committee may receive Stock Payments in the manner determined from time to time by the Committee. The number of shares of Stock or the number of options or other rights to purchase shares of Stock subject to a Stock Payment shall be determined by the Committee and may be based upon the Performance Criteria or other specific performance criteria determined appropriate by the Committee, determined on the date such Stock Payment is made or on any date thereafter.
     8.5 Deferred Stock. Any Participant selected by the Committee may be granted an award of Deferred Stock in the manner determined from time to time by the Committee. The number of shares of Deferred Stock shall be determined by the Committee and may be linked to the Performance Criteria or other specific performance criteria determined to be appropriate by the Committee, in each case on a specified date or dates or over any period or periods determined by the Committee. Stock underlying a Deferred Stock award will not be issued until the Deferred Stock award has vested, pursuant to a vesting schedule or performance criteria set by the Committee. Unless otherwise provided by the Committee, a Participant awarded Deferred Stock shall have no rights as a Company stockholder with respect to such Deferred Stock until such time as the Deferred Stock Award has vested and the Stock underlying the Deferred Stock Award has been issued.
     8.6 Restricted Stock Units. The Committee is authorized to make Awards of Restricted Stock Units to any Participant selected by the Committee in such amounts and subject to such terms and conditions as determined by the Committee. At the time of grant, the Committee shall specify the date or dates on which the Restricted Stock Units shall become fully vested and nonforfeitable, and may specify such conditions to vesting as it deems appropriate. At the time of grant, the Committee shall specify the maturity date applicable to each grant of Restricted Stock Units which shall be no earlier than the vesting date or dates of the Award and may be determined at the election of the grantee. On the maturity date, the Company shall, subject to Section 10.5(b), transfer to the Participant one unrestricted, fully transferable share of Stock for each Restricted Stock Unit scheduled to be paid out on such date and not previously forfeited. The Committee shall specify the purchase price, if any, to be paid by the grantee to the Company for such shares of Stock.
     8.7 Other Stock-Based Awards. Any Participant selected by the Committee may be granted one or more Awards that provide Participants with shares of Stock or the right to purchase shares of Stock or that have a value derived from the value of, or an exercise or conversion privilege at a price related to, or that are otherwise payable in shares of Stock and which may be linked to any one or more of the Performance Criteria or other specific performance criteria determined appropriate by the Committee, in each case on a specified date or dates or over any period or periods determined by the Committee. In making such determinations, the Committee shall consider (among such other factors as it deems relevant in light of the specific type of Award) the contributions, responsibilities and other compensation of the particular Participant.
     8.8 Performance Bonus Awards. Any Participant selected by the Committee may be granted one or more Performance-Based Awards in the form of a cash bonus (a “Performance Bonus Award”) payable upon the attainment of Performance Goals that are established by the Committee and relate to one or more of the Performance Criteria, in each case on a specified date

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or dates or over any period or periods determined by the Committee. Any such Performance Bonus Award paid to a Covered Employee shall be based upon objectively determinable bonus formulas established in accordance with Article 9. The maximum amount of any Performance Bonus Award payable to a Covered Employee with respect to any fiscal year of the Company shall not exceed $1,000,000.
     8.9 Term. Except as otherwise provided herein, the term of any Award of Performance Shares, Performance Stock Units, Dividend Equivalents, Stock Payments, Deferred Stock, Restricted Stock Units or Other Stock-Based Award shall be set by the Committee in its discretion.
     8.10 Exercise or Purchase Price. The Committee may establish the exercise or purchase price, if any, of any Award of Performance Shares, Performance Stock Units, Deferred Stock, Stock Payments, Restricted Stock Units or Other Stock-Based Award; provided, however, that such price shall not be less than the par value of a share of Stock on the date of grant, unless otherwise permitted by applicable state law.
     8.11 Exercise Upon Termination of Employment or Service. An Award of Performance Shares, Performance Stock Units, Dividend Equivalents, Deferred Stock, Stock Payments, Restricted Stock Units and Other Stock-Based Award shall only be exercisable or payable while the Participant is an Employee, Consultant or a member of the Board, as applicable; provided, however, that the Committee in its sole and absolute discretion may provide that an Award of Performance Shares, Performance Stock Units, Dividend Equivalents, Stock Payments, Deferred Stock, Restricted Stock Units or Other Stock-Based Award may be exercised or paid subsequent to a termination of employment or service, as applicable, or following a Change in Control of the Company, or because of the Participant’s retirement, death or disability, or otherwise; provided, however, that any such provision with respect to Performance Shares or Performance Stock Units shall be subject to the requirements of Section 162(m) of the Code that apply to Qualified Performance-Based Compensation.
     8.12 Form of Payment. Payments with respect to any Awards granted under this Article 8 shall be made in cash, in Stock or a combination of both, as determined by the Committee.
     8.13 Award Agreement. All Awards under this Article 8 shall be subject to such additional terms and conditions as determined by the Committee and shall be evidenced by a written Award Agreement.
ARTICLE 9
PERFORMANCE-BASED AWARDS
     9.1 Purpose. The purpose of this Article 9 is to provide the Committee the ability to qualify Awards other than Options and SARs and that are granted pursuant to Articles 6 and 8 as Qualified Performance-Based Compensation. If the Committee, in its discretion, decides to grant a Performance-Based Award to a Covered Employee, the provisions of this Article 9 shall control over any contrary provision contained in Articles 6 or 8; provided, however, that the

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Committee may in its discretion grant Awards to Covered Employees that are based on Performance Criteria or Performance Goals but that do not satisfy the requirements of this Article 9.
     9.2 Applicability. This Article 9 shall apply only to those Covered Employees selected by the Committee to receive Performance-Based Awards. The designation of a Covered Employee as a Participant for a Performance Period shall not in any manner entitle the Participant to receive an Award for the period. Moreover, designation of a Covered Employee as a Participant for a particular Performance Period shall not require designation of such Covered Employee as a Participant in any subsequent Performance Period and designation of one Covered Employee as a Participant shall not require designation of any other Covered Employees as a Participant in such period or in any other period.
     9.3 Procedures with Respect to Performance-Based Awards. To the extent necessary to comply with the Qualified Performance-Based Compensation requirements of Section 162(m)(4)(C) of the Code, with respect to any Award granted under Articles 6 and 8 which may be granted to one or more Covered Employees, no later than ninety (90) days following the commencement of any fiscal year in question or any other designated fiscal period or period of service (or such other time as may be required or permitted by Section 162(m) of the Code), the Committee shall, in writing, (a) designate one or more Covered Employees, (b) select the Performance Criteria applicable to the Performance Period, (c) establish the Performance Goals, and amounts of such Awards, as applicable, which may be earned for such Performance Period, and (d) specify the relationship between Performance Criteria and the Performance Goals and the amounts of such Awards, as applicable, to be earned by each Covered Employee for such Performance Period. Following the completion of each Performance Period, the Committee shall certify in writing whether the applicable Performance Goals have been achieved for such Performance Period. In determining the amount earned by a Covered Employee, the Committee shall have the right to reduce or eliminate (but not to increase) the amount payable at a given level of performance to take into account additional factors that the Committee may deem relevant to the assessment of individual or corporate performance for the Performance Period.
     9.4 Payment of Performance-Based Awards. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Award Agreement, a Participant must be employed by the Company or a Parent or Subsidiary on the day a Performance-Based Award for such Performance Period is paid to the Participant. Furthermore, a Participant shall be eligible to receive payment pursuant to a Performance-Based Award for a Performance Period only if the Performance Goals for such period are achieved.
     9.5 Additional Limitations. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, any Award which is granted to a Covered Employee and is intended to constitute Qualified Performance-Based Compensation shall be subject to any additional limitations set forth in Section 162(m) of the Code (including any amendment to Section 162(m) of the Code) or any regulations or rulings issued thereunder that are requirements for qualification as qualified performance-based compensation as described in Section 162(m)(4)(C) of the Code, and the Plan shall be deemed amended to the extent necessary to conform to such requirements.

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ARTICLE 10
PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO AWARDS
     10.1 Stand-Alone and Tandem Awards. Awards granted pursuant to the Plan may, in the discretion of the Committee, be granted either alone, in addition to, or in tandem with, any other Award granted pursuant to the Plan. Awards granted in addition to or in tandem with other Awards may be granted either at the same time as or at a different time from the grant of such other Awards.
     10.2 Award Agreement. Awards under the Plan shall be evidenced by Award Agreements that set forth the terms, conditions and limitations for each Award which may include the term of an Award, the provisions applicable in the event the Participant’s employment or service terminates, and the Company’s authority to unilaterally or bilaterally amend, modify, suspend, cancel or rescind an Award.
     10.3 Limits on Transfer. No right or interest of a Participant in any Award may be pledged, encumbered, or hypothecated to or in favor of any party other than the Company, a Parent, or a Subsidiary, or shall be subject to any lien, obligation, or liability of such Participant to any other party other than the Company, a Parent, or a Subsidiary. Except as otherwise provided by the Committee, no Award shall be assigned, transferred, or otherwise disposed of by a Participant other than by will or the laws of descent and distribution. The Committee by express provision in the Award or an amendment thereto may permit an Award (other than an Incentive Stock Option) to be transferred to, exercised by and paid to certain persons or entities related to the Participant, including but not limited to members of the Participant’s family, charitable institutions, or trusts or other entities whose beneficiaries or beneficial owners are members of the Participant’s family and/or charitable institutions, or to such other persons or entities as may be expressly approved by the Committee, pursuant to such conditions and procedures as the Committee may establish. Any permitted transfer shall be subject to the condition that the Committee receive evidence satisfactory to it that the transfer is being made for estate and/or tax planning purposes (or to a “blind trust” in connection with the Participant’s termination of employment or service with the Company, a Parent, or a Subsidiary to assume a position with a governmental, charitable, educational or similar non-profit institution) and on a basis consistent with the Company’s lawful issue of securities.
     10.4 Beneficiaries. Notwithstanding Section 10.3, a Participant may, in the manner determined by the Committee, designate a beneficiary to exercise the rights of the Participant and to receive any distribution with respect to any Award upon the Participant’s death. A beneficiary, legal guardian, legal representative, or other person claiming any rights pursuant to the Plan is subject to all terms and conditions of the Plan and any Award Agreement applicable to the Participant, except to the extent the Plan and Award Agreement otherwise provide, and to any additional restrictions deemed necessary or appropriate by the Committee. If the Participant is married and resides in a community property state, a designation of a person other than the Participant’s spouse as his or her beneficiary with respect to more than 50% of the Participant’s interest in the Award shall not be effective without the prior written consent of the Participant’s spouse. If no beneficiary has been designated or survives the Participant, payment shall be made to the person entitled thereto pursuant to the Participant’s will or the laws of descent and

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distribution. Subject to the foregoing, a beneficiary designation may be changed or revoked by a Participant at any time provided the change or revocation is filed with the Committee.
     10.5 Stock Certificates; Book Entry Procedures.
          (a) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Company shall not be required to issue or deliver any certificates evidencing shares of Stock pursuant to the exercise of any Award, unless and until the Board has determined, with advice of counsel, that the issuance and delivery of such certificates is in compliance with all applicable laws, regulations of governmental authorities and, if applicable, the requirements of any exchange on which the shares of Stock are listed or traded. All Stock certificates delivered pursuant to the Plan are subject to any stop-transfer orders and other restrictions as the Committee deems necessary or advisable to comply with federal, state, or foreign jurisdiction, securities or other laws, rules and regulations and the rules of any national securities exchange or automated quotation system on which the Stock is listed, quoted, or traded. The Committee may place legends on any Stock certificate to reference restrictions applicable to the Stock. In addition to the terms and conditions provided herein, the Board may require that a Participant make such reasonable covenants, agreements, and representations as the Board, in its discretion, deems advisable in order to comply with any such laws, regulations, or requirements. The Committee shall have the right to require any Participant to comply with any timing or other restrictions with respect to the settlement or exercise of any Award, including a window-period limitation, as may be imposed in the discretion of the Committee.
          (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, unless otherwise determined by the Committee or required by any applicable law, rule or regulation, the Company shall not deliver to any Participant certificates evidencing shares of Stock issued in connection with any Award and instead such shares of Stock shall be recorded in the books of the Company (or, as applicable, its transfer agent or stock plan administrator).
ARTICLE 11
CHANGES IN CAPITAL STRUCTURE
     11.1 Adjustments.
          (a) In the event of any stock dividend, stock split, combination or exchange of shares, merger, consolidation, spin-off, recapitalization, distribution of Company assets to stockholders (other than normal cash dividends), or any other corporate event affecting the Stock or the share price of the Stock, the Committee may make such proportionate adjustments, if any, as the Committee in its discretion may deem appropriate to reflect such changes with respect to1 (i) the aggregate number and type of shares that may be issued under the Plan (including, but not limited to, adjustments of the limitations in Sections 3.1 and 3.3); (ii) the terms and conditions of any outstanding Awards (including, without limitation, any applicable performance targets or criteria with respect thereto); and (iii) the grant or exercise price per share for any outstanding Awards under the Plan. Any adjustment affecting an Award intended as Qualified Performance-Based Compensation shall be made consistent with the requirements of Section 162(m) of the
 
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Code.
          (b) In the event of any transaction or event described in Section 11.1(a) or any unusual or nonrecurring transactions or events affecting the Company, any affiliate of the Company, or the financial statements of the Company or any affiliate (including without limitation any Change in Control), or of changes in applicable laws, regulations or accounting principles, the Committee, in its sole discretion and on such terms and conditions as it deems appropriate, either by amendment of the terms of any outstanding Awards or by action taken prior to the occurrence of such transaction or event, is hereby authorized to take any one or more of the following actions wherever the Committee determines that action is appropriate in order to prevent the dilution or enlargement of the benefits or potential benefits intended to be made available under the Plan or with respect to any Award under the Plan, to facilitate such transactions or events or to give effect to such changes in laws, regulations or principles:
                    (i) To provide for either (A) termination of any such Award in exchange for an amount of cash and/or other property, if any, equal to the amount that would have been attained upon the exercise of such Award or realization of the Participant’s rights (and, for the avoidance of doubt, if as of the date of the occurrence of the transaction or event described in this Section 11.1(b) the Committee determines in good faith that no amount would have been attained upon the exercise of such Award or realization of the Participant’s rights, then such Award may be terminated by the Company without payment) or (B) the replacement of such Award with other rights or property selected by the Committee in its sole discretion;
                    (ii) To provide that such Award be assumed by the successor or survivor corporation, or a parent or subsidiary thereof, or shall be substituted for by similar options, rights or awards covering the stock of the successor or survivor corporation, or a parent or subsidiary thereof, with appropriate adjustments as to the number and kind of shares and prices; and
                    (iii) To make adjustments in the number and type of shares of Stock (or other securities or property) subject to outstanding Awards, and in the number and kind of outstanding Restricted Stock or Deferred Stock and/or in the terms and conditions of (including the grant or exercise price), and the criteria included in, outstanding options, rights and awards and options, rights and awards which may be granted in the future;
                    (iv) To provide that such Award shall be exercisable or payable or fully vested with respect to all shares covered thereby, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Plan or the applicable Award Agreement; and
                    (v) To provide that the Award cannot vest, be exercised or become payable after such event.
     11.2 Acceleration Upon a Change in Control. Notwithstanding Section 11.1, and except as may otherwise be provided in any applicable Award Agreement or other written agreement entered into between the Company, a Parent, a Subsidiary, or other Company affiliate and a Participant, if a Change in Control occurs and a Participant’s Awards are not converted, assumed, or replaced by a successor entity, then immediately prior to the Change in Control such

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Awards shall become fully exercisable and all forfeiture restrictions on such Awards shall lapse. Upon, or in anticipation of, a Change in Control, the Committee may cause any and all Awards outstanding hereunder to terminate at a specific time in the future, including but not limited to the date of such Change in Control, and shall give each Participant the right to exercise such Awards during a period of time as the Committee, in its sole and absolute discretion, shall determine. In the event that the terms of any agreement between the Company, a Parent, a Subsidiary, or other Company affiliate and a Participant contains provisions that conflict with and are more restrictive than the provisions of this Section 11.2, this Section 11.2 shall prevail and control and the more restrictive terms of such agreement (and only such terms) shall be of no force or effect.
     11.3 Outstanding Awards – Other Changes. In the event of any other change in the capitalization of the Company or corporate change other than those specifically referred to in this Article 11, the Committee may, in its absolute discretion, make such adjustments in the number and kind of shares or other securities subject to Awards outstanding on the date on which such change occurs and in the per share grant or exercise price of each Award as the Committee may consider appropriate to prevent dilution or enlargement of rights.
     11.4 No Other Rights. Except as expressly provided in the Plan, no Participant shall have any rights by reason of any subdivision or consolidation of shares of stock of any class, the payment of any dividend, any increase or decrease in the number of shares of stock of any class or any dissolution, liquidation, merger, or consolidation of the Company or any other corporation. Except as expressly provided in the Plan or pursuant to action of the Committee under the Plan, no issuance by the Company of shares of stock of any class, or securities convertible into shares of stock of any class, shall affect, and no adjustment by reason thereof shall be made with respect to, the number of shares of Stock subject to an Award or the grant or exercise price of any Award.
ARTICLE 12
ADMINISTRATION
     12.1 Committee. Unless and until the Board delegates administration of the Plan to a Committee as set forth below, the Plan shall be administered by the full Board, and for such purposes the term “Committee” as used in this Plan shall be deemed to refer to the Board. The Board, at its discretion or as otherwise necessary to comply with the requirements of Section 162(m) of the Code, Rule 16b-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act or to the extent required by any other applicable rule or regulation, shall delegate administration of the Plan to a Committee. The Committee shall consist solely of two or more members of the Board each of whom is a Non-Employee Director, and with respect to awards that are intended to be Performance-Based Awards, an “outside director” within the meaning of Section 162(m) of the Code. Notwithstanding the foregoing: (a) the full Board, acting by a majority of its members in office, shall conduct the general administration of the Plan with respect to all Awards granted to Independent Directors and for purposes of such Awards the term “Committee” as used in this Plan shall be deemed to refer to the Board and (b) the Committee may delegate its authority hereunder to the extent permitted by Section 12.5. Appointment of Committee members shall be effective upon acceptance of appointment. The Board may abolish the Committee at any time

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and revest in the Board the administration of the Plan. Committee members may resign at any time by delivering written notice to the Board. Vacancies in the Committee may only be filled by the Board.
     12.2 Action by the Committee. A majority of the Committee shall constitute a quorum. The acts of a majority of the members present at any meeting at which a quorum is present, and acts approved in writing by a majority of the Committee in lieu of a meeting, shall be deemed the acts of the Committee. Each member of the Committee is entitled to, in good faith, rely or act upon any report or other information furnished to that member by any officer or other employee of the Company or of any Parent or Subsidiary, the Company’s independent certified public accountants, or any executive compensation consultant or other professional retained by the Company or any Parent or Subsidiary to assist in the administration of the Plan.
     12.3 Authority of Committee. Subject to any specific designation in the Plan, the Committee has the exclusive power, authority and discretion to:
          (a) Designate Participants to receive Awards;
          (b) Determine the type or types of Awards to be granted to each Participant;
          (c) Determine the number of Awards to be granted and the number of shares of Stock to which an Award will relate;
          (d) Determine the terms and conditions of any Award granted pursuant to the Plan, including, but not limited to, the exercise price, grant price, or purchase price, any reload provision, any restrictions or limitations on the Award, any schedule for lapse of forfeiture restrictions or restrictions on the exercisability of an Award, and accelerations or waivers thereof, any provisions related to non-competition and recapture of gain on an Award, based in each case on such considerations as the Committee in its sole discretion determines; provided, however, that the Committee shall not have the authority to accelerate the vesting or waive the forfeiture of any Performance-Based Awards;
          (e) Determine whether, to what extent, and pursuant to what circumstances an Award may be settled in, or the exercise price of an Award may be paid in, cash, Stock, other Awards, or other property, or an Award may be canceled, forfeited, or surrendered;
          (f) Prescribe the form of each Award Agreement, which need not be identical for each Participant;
          (g) Decide all other matters that must be determined in connection with an Award;
          (h) Establish, adopt, or revise any rules and regulations as it may deem necessary or advisable to administer the Plan;
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          (j) Make all other decisions and determinations that may be required pursuant to the Plan or as the Committee deems necessary or advisable to administer the Plan.
     12.4 Decisions Binding. The Committee’s interpretation of the Plan, any Awards granted pursuant to the Plan, any Award Agreement and all decisions and determinations by the Committee with respect to the Plan are final, binding, and conclusive on all parties.
     12.5 Delegation of Authority. To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Committee may from time to time delegate to a committee of one or more members of the Board or one or more officers of the Company the authority to grant or amend Awards to Participants other than (a) senior executives of the Company who are subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act, (b) Covered Employees, or (c) officers of the Company (or members of the Board) to whom authority to grant or amend Awards has been delegated hereunder. Any delegation hereunder shall be subject to the restrictions and limits that the Committee specifies at the time of such delegation, and the Committee may at any time rescind the authority so delegated or appoint a new delegatee. At all times, the delegatee appointed under this Section 12.5 shall serve in such capacity at the pleasure of the Committee.
     12.6 Amendment or Exchange of Awards. The Committee may (i) amend any Award to reduce the per share exercise price of such an Award below the per share exercise price as of the date the Award is granted and (ii) grant an Award in exchange for, or in connection with, the cancellation or surrender of an Award having a higher per share exercise price.
ARTICLE 13
EFFECTIVE AND EXPIRATION DATE
     13.1 Effective Date. The Plan is effective as of the day prior to the Public Trading Date (the “Effective Date”).
     13.2 Expiration Date. The Plan will expire on, and no Incentive Stock Option or other Award may be granted pursuant to the Plan after, the tenth anniversary of the date this Plan is approved by the Board. Any Awards that are outstanding on the tenth anniversary of the Effective Date shall remain in force according to the terms of the Plan and the applicable Award Agreement.
ARTICLE 14
AMENDMENT, MODIFICATION, AND TERMINATION
     14.1 Amendment, Modification, And Termination. With the approval of the Board, at any time and from time to time, the Committee may terminate, amend or modify the Plan; provided, however, that (a) to the extent necessary and desirable to comply with any applicable law, regulation, or stock exchange rule, the Company shall obtain stockholder approval of any Plan amendment in such a manner and to such a degree as required, and (b) stockholder approval is required for any amendment to the Plan that increases the number of shares of Stock available under the Plan.

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     14.2 Awards Previously Granted. No termination, amendment, or modification of the Plan shall adversely affect in any material way any Award previously granted pursuant to the Plan without the prior written consent of the Participant.
ARTICLE 15
GENERAL PROVISIONS
     15.1 No Rights to Awards. No Eligible Individual or other person shall have any claim to be granted any Award pursuant to the Plan, and neither the Company nor the Committee is obligated to treat Eligible Individuals, Participants or any other persons uniformly.
     15.2 No Stockholders Rights. Except as otherwise provided herein, a Participant shall have none of the rights of a stockholder with respect to shares of Stock covered by any Award until the Participant becomes the record owner of such shares of Stock.
     15.3 Withholding. The Company or any Parent or Subsidiary shall have the authority and the right to deduct or withhold, or require a Participant to remit to the Company, an amount sufficient to satisfy federal, state, local and foreign taxes (including the Participant’s FICA obligation) required by law to be withheld with respect to any taxable event concerning a Participant arising as a result of this Plan. The Committee may in its discretion and in satisfaction of the foregoing requirement allow a Participant to elect to have the Company withhold shares of Stock otherwise issuable under an Award (or allow the return of shares of Stock) having a Fair Market Value equal to the sums required to be withheld. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, the number of shares of Stock which may be withheld with respect to the issuance, vesting, exercise or payment of any Award (or which may be repurchased from the Participant of such Award within six months (or such other period as may be determined by the Committee) after such shares of Stock were acquired by the Participant from the Company) in order to satisfy the Participant’s federal, state, local and foreign income and payroll tax liabilities with respect to the issuance, vesting, exercise or payment of the Award shall be limited to the number of shares of Stock which have a Fair Market Value on the date of withholding or repurchase equal to the aggregate amount of such liabilities based on the minimum statutory withholding rates for federal, state, local and foreign income tax and payroll tax purposes that are applicable to such supplemental taxable income.
     15.4 No Right to Employment or Services. Nothing in the Plan or any Award Agreement shall interfere with or limit in any way the right of the Company or any Parent or Subsidiary to terminate any Participant’s employment or services at any time, nor confer upon any Participant any right to continue in the employ or service of the Company or any Parent or Subsidiary.
     15.5 Unfunded Status of Awards. The Plan is intended to be an “unfunded” plan for incentive compensation. With respect to any payments not yet made to a Participant pursuant to an Award, nothing contained in the Plan or any Award Agreement shall give the Participant any rights that are greater than those of a general creditor of the Company or any Parent or Subsidiary.

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     15.6 Indemnification. To the extent allowable pursuant to applicable law, each member of the Committee or of the Board shall be indemnified and held harmless by the Company from any loss, cost, liability, or expense that may be imposed upon or reasonably incurred by such member in connection with or resulting from any claim, action, suit, or proceeding to which he or she may be a party or in which he or she may be involved by reason of any action or failure to act pursuant to the Plan and against and from any and all amounts paid by him or her in satisfaction of judgment in such action, suit, or proceeding against him or her; provided he or she gives the Company an opportunity, at its own expense, to handle and defend the same before he or she undertakes to handle and defend it on his or her own behalf. The foregoing right of indemnification shall not be exclusive of any other rights of indemnification to which such persons may be entitled pursuant to the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws, as a matter of law, or otherwise, or any power that the Company may have to indemnify them or hold them harmless.
     15.7 Relationship to other Benefits. No payment pursuant to the Plan shall be taken into account in determining any benefits pursuant to any pension, retirement, savings, profit sharing, group insurance, welfare or other benefit plan of the Company or any Parent or Subsidiary except to the extent otherwise expressly provided in writing in such other plan or an agreement thereunder.
     15.8 Expenses. The expenses of administering the Plan shall be borne by the Company and its Subsidiaries.
     15.9 Titles and Headings. The titles and headings of the Sections in the Plan are for convenience of reference only and, in the event of any conflict, the text of the Plan, rather than such titles or headings, shall control.
     15.10 Fractional Shares. No fractional shares of Stock shall be issued and the Committee shall determine, in its discretion, whether cash shall be given in lieu of fractional shares of Stock or whether such fractional shares of Stock shall be eliminated by rounding up or down as appropriate.
     15.11 Limitations Applicable to Section 16 Persons. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, the Plan, and any Award granted or awarded to any Participant who is then subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act, shall be subject to any additional limitations set forth in any applicable exemptive rule under Section 16 of the Exchange Act (including any amendment to Rule 16b-3 of the Exchange Act) that are requirements for the application of such exemptive rule. To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Plan and Awards granted or awarded hereunder shall be deemed amended to the extent necessary to conform to such applicable exemptive rule.
     15.12 Government and Other Regulations. The obligation of the Company to make payment of awards in Stock or otherwise shall be subject to all applicable laws, rules, and regulations, and to such approvals by government agencies as may be required. The Company shall be under no obligation to register pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, any of the shares of Stock paid pursuant to the Plan. If the shares of Stock paid pursuant to the Plan may in certain circumstances be exempt from registration pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933,

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as amended, the Company may restrict the transfer of such shares of Stock in such manner as it deems advisable to ensure the availability of any such exemption.
     15.13 Section 409A. To the extent that the Committee determines that any Award granted under the Plan is subject to Section 409A of the Code, the Award Agreement evidencing such Award shall incorporate the terms and conditions required by Section 409A of the Code. To the extent applicable, the Plan and Award Agreements shall be interpreted in accordance with Section 409A of the Code and Department of Treasury regulations and other interpretive guidance issued thereunder, including without limitation any such regulations or other guidance that may be issued after the adoption of the Plan. Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan to the contrary, in the event that following the adoption of the Plan the Committee determines that any Award may be subject to Section 409A of the Code and related Department of Treasury guidance (including such Department of Treasury guidance as may be issued after the adoption of the Plan), the Committee may adopt such amendments to the Plan and the applicable Award Agreement or adopt other policies and procedures (including amendments, policies and procedures with retroactive effect), or take any other actions, that the Committee determines are necessary or appropriate to (a) exempt the Award from Section 409A of the Code and/or preserve the intended tax treatment of the benefits provided with respect to the Award, or (b) comply with the requirements of Section 409A of the Code and related Department of Treasury guidance.
     15.14 Governing Law. The Plan and all Award Agreements shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of Delaware.

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CADENCE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
2006 EQUITY INCENTIVE AWARD PLAN
STOCK OPTION GRANT NOTICE AND
STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT
STOCK OPTION GRANT NOTICE
     Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), pursuant to its 2006 Equity Incentive Award Plan (the “Plan”), hereby grants to the holder listed below (“Participant”), an option to purchase the number of shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 (“Stock”), set forth below (the “Option”). This Option is subject to all of the terms and conditions set forth herein and in the Stock Option Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit A (the “Stock Option Agreement”) and the Plan, which are incorporated herein by reference. Unless otherwise defined herein, the terms defined in the Plan shall have the same defined meanings in this Grant Notice and the Stock Option Agreement.
                 
Participant:
               
 
 
 
           
Grant Date:
               
 
 
 
           
Exercise Price per Share:
  $
 
           
 
               
Total Exercise Price:
  $
 
           
 
             
Total Number of Shares Subject to the Option:
  shares
 
     
 
 
 
           
Expiration Date:
               
 
 
 
           
         
Type of Option:
  o          Incentive Stock Option o   Non-Qualified Stock Option
 
       
Vesting Schedule:
  [To be specified in individual agreements]
     By his or her signature, the Participant agrees to be bound by the terms and conditions of the Plan, the Stock Option Agreement and this Grant Notice. The Participant has reviewed the Stock Option Agreement, the Plan and this Grant Notice in their entirety, has had an opportunity to obtain the advice of counsel prior to executing this Grant Notice and fully understands all provisions of this Grant Notice, the Stock Option Agreement and the Plan. Participant hereby agrees to accept as binding, conclusive and final all decisions or interpretations of the Committee upon any questions arising under the Plan or relating to the Option.
                         
CADENCE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.       PARTICIPANT        
 
By:
          By:            
 
 
 
         
 
       
Print Name:
          Print Name:            
 
 
 
         
 
       
Title:
                       
 
 
 
                   
Address:
          Address:            
 
 
 
         
 
       
 
             
 
       


 

EXHIBIT A
TO STOCK OPTION GRANT NOTICE
STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT
     Pursuant to the Stock Option Grant Notice (the “Grant Notice”) to which this Stock Option Agreement (this “Agreement”) is attached, Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), has granted to the Participant an Option under the Company’s 2006 Equity Incentive Award Plan (the “Plan”) to purchase the number of shares of Stock indicated in the Grant Notice.
ARTICLE I.
GENERAL
     1.1 Defined Terms. Wherever the following terms are used in this Agreement they shall have the meanings specified below, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. Capitalized terms not specifically defined herein shall have the meanings specified in the Plan and the Grant Notice.
          (a) “Administrator” shall mean the Committee responsible for conducting the general administration of the Plan in accordance with Article 12 of the Plan; provided that if the Participant is an Independent Director, “Administrator” shall mean the Board.
          (b) “Termination of Consultancy” shall mean the time when the engagement of the Participant as a Consultant to the Company or to a Parent or Subsidiary is terminated for any reason, with or without cause, including, but not by way of limitation, by resignation, discharge, death or retirement, but excluding: (a) terminations where there is a simultaneous employment or continuing employment of the Participant by the Company or any Parent or Subsidiary, and (b) terminations where there is a simultaneous reestablishment of a consulting relationship or continuing consulting relationship between the Participant and the Company or any Parent or Subsidiary. The Administrator, in its absolute discretion, shall determine the effect of all matters and questions relating to Termination of Consultancy, including, but not by way of limitation, the question of whether a particular leave of absence constitutes a Termination of Consultancy. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, the Company or any Parent or Subsidiary has an absolute and unrestricted right to terminate a Consultant’s service at any time for any reason whatsoever, with or without cause, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in writing.
          (c) “Termination of Directorship” shall mean the time when the Participant, if he or she is or becomes an Independent Director, ceases to be a Director for any reason, including, but not by way of limitation, a termination by resignation, failure to be elected, death or retirement. The Board, in its sole and absolute discretion, shall determine the effect of all matters and questions relating to Termination of Directorship with respect to Independent Directors.
          (d) “Termination of Employment” shall mean the time when the employee-employer relationship between the Participant and the Company or any Parent or Subsidiary is terminated for any reason, with or without cause, including, but not by way of limitation, a termination by resignation, discharge, death, Disability or retirement; but excluding: (a) terminations where there is a simultaneous reemployment or continuing employment of the Participant by the Company or any Parent or Subsidiary, and (b) terminations where there is a simultaneous establishment of a consulting relationship or continuing consulting relationship between the Participant and the Company or any Parent or Subsidiary. The Administrator, in its absolute discretion, shall determine the effect of all matters and questions relating to Termination of Employment, including, but not by way of limitation, the question of

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whether a particular leave of absence constitutes a Termination of Employment; provided, however, that, if this Option is an Incentive Stock Option, unless otherwise determined by the Administrator in its discretion, a leave of absence, change in status from an employee to an independent contractor or other change in the employee-employer relationship shall constitute a Termination of Employment if, and to the extent that, such leave of absence, change in status or other change interrupts employment for the purposes of Section 422(a)(2) of the Code and the then applicable regulations and revenue rulings under said Section.
          (e) “Termination of Services” shall mean the Participant’s Termination of Consultancy, Termination of Directorship or Termination of Employment, as applicable.
     1.2 Incorporation of Terms of Plan. The Option is subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan which are incorporated herein by reference. In the event of any inconsistency between the Plan and this Agreement, the terms of the Plan shall control.
ARTICLE II.
GRANT OF OPTION
     2.1 Grant of Option. In consideration of the Participant’s past and/or continued employment with or service to the Company or a Parent or Subsidiary and for other good and valuable consideration, effective as of the Grant Date set forth in the Grant Notice (the “Grant Date”), the Company irrevocably grants to the Participant the Option to purchase any part or all of an aggregate of the number of shares of Stock set forth in the Grant Notice, upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Plan, the Grant Notice and this Agreement. Unless designated as a Non-Qualified Stock Option in the Grant Notice, the Option shall be an Incentive Stock Option to the maximum extent permitted by law.
     2.2 Exercise Price. The exercise price of the shares of Stock subject to the Option shall be as set forth in the Grant Notice, without commission or other charge; provided, however, that the price per share of the shares of Stock subject to the Option shall not be less than 100% of the Fair Market Value of a share of Stock on the Grant Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if this Option is designated as an Incentive Stock Option and the Participant owns (within the meaning of Section 424(d) of the Code) more than 10% of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock of the Company or any “subsidiary corporation” of the Company or any “parent corporation” of the Company (each within the meaning of Section 424 of the Code), the price per share of the shares of Stock subject to the Option shall not be less than 110% of the Fair Market Value of a share of Stock on the Grant Date.
     2.3 Consideration to the Company. In consideration of the grant of the Option by the Company, the Participant agrees to render faithful and efficient services to the Company or any Parent or Subsidiary. Nothing in the Plan, the Grant Notice, or this Agreement shall confer upon the Participant any right to continue in the employ or service of the Company or any Parent or Subsidiary or shall interfere with or restrict in any way the rights of the Company and any Parent or Subsidiary, which rights are hereby expressly reserved, to discharge or terminate the services of the Participant at any time for any reason whatsoever, with or without cause, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in a written agreement between the Company or a Parent or Subsidiary and the Participant.

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ARTICLE III.
PERIOD OF EXERCISABILITY
     3.1 Commencement of Exercisability.
          (a) Subject to Sections 3.2, 3.3, 5.8 and 5.10, the Option shall become vested and exercisable in such amounts and at such times as are set forth in the Grant Notice.
          (b) No portion of the Option which has not become vested and exercisable at the date of the Participant’s Termination of Employment, Termination of Directorship or Termination of Consultancy shall thereafter become vested and exercisable, except as may be otherwise provided by the Administrator or as set forth in a written agreement between the Company and the Participant.
     3.2 Duration of Exercisability. The installments provided for in the vesting schedule set forth in the Grant Notice are cumulative. Each such installment which becomes vested and exercisable pursuant to the vesting schedule set forth in the Grant Notice shall remain vested and exercisable until it becomes unexercisable under Section 3.3.
     3.3 Expiration of Option. The Option may not be exercised to any extent by anyone after the first to occur of the following events:
          (a) The expiration of [ten years] from the Grant Date;
          (b) If this Option is designated as an Incentive Stock Option and the Participant owned (within the meaning of Section 424(d) of the Code), at the time the Option was granted, more than 10% of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock of the Company or any “subsidiary corporation” of the Company or any “parent corporation” of the Company (each within the meaning of Section 424 of the Code), the expiration of five years from the Grant Date;
          (c) The expiration of [three months] from the date of the Participant’s Termination of Services, unless such termination occurs by reason of the Participant’s death or Disability; or
          (d) The expiration of [one year] from the date of the Participant’s Termination of Services by reason of the Participant’s death or Disability.
     [The Participant acknowledges that an Incentive Stock Option exercised more that three months after the Participant’s Termination of Employment, other than by reason of death or Disability, will be taxed as a Non-Qualified Stock Option.]
     3.4 Special Tax Consequences. The Participant acknowledges that, to the extent that the aggregate Fair Market Value (determined as of the time the Option is granted) of all shares of Stock with respect to which Incentive Stock Options, including the Option, are exercisable for the first time by the Participant in any calendar year exceeds $100,000, the Option and such other options shall be Non-Qualified Stock Options to the extent necessary to comply with the limitations imposed by Section 422(d) of the Code. The Participant further acknowledges that the rule set forth in the preceding sentence shall be applied by taking the Option and other “incentive stock options” into account in the order in which they were granted, as determined under Section 422(d) of the Code and the Treasury Regulations thereunder.

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ARTICLE IV.
EXERCISE OF OPTION
     4.1 Person Eligible to Exercise. Except as provided in Section 5.2(b), during the lifetime of the Participant, only the Participant may exercise the Option or any portion thereof. After the death of the Participant, any exercisable portion of the Option may, prior to the time when the Option becomes unexercisable under Section 3.3, be exercised by the Participant’s personal representative or by any person empowered to do so under the deceased the Participant’s will or under the then applicable laws of descent and distribution.
     4.2 Partial Exercise. Any exercisable portion of the Option or the entire Option, if then wholly exercisable, may be exercised in whole or in part at any time prior to the time when the Option or portion thereof becomes unexercisable under Section 3.3.
     4.3 Manner of Exercise. The Option, or any exercisable portion thereof, may be exercised solely by delivery to the Secretary of the Company (or any third party administrator or other person or entity designated by the Company) of all of the following prior to the time when the Option or such portion thereof becomes unexercisable under Section 3.3:
          (a) An exercise notice in a form specified by the Administrator, stating that the Option or portion thereof is thereby exercised, such notice complying with all applicable rules established by the Administrator;
          (b) The receipt by the Company of full payment for the shares of Stock with respect to which the Option or portion thereof is exercised, including payment of any applicable withholding tax, which may be in one or more of the forms of consideration permitted under Section 4.4;
          (c) Any other written representations as may be required in the Administrator’s reasonable discretion to evidence compliance with the Securities Act or any other applicable law, rule, or regulation; and
          (d) In the event the Option or portion thereof shall be exercised pursuant to Section 4.1 by any person or persons other than the Participant, appropriate proof of the right of such person or persons to exercise the Option.
Notwithstanding any of the foregoing, the Company shall have the right to specify all conditions of the manner of exercise, which conditions may vary by country and which may be subject to change from time to time.
     4.4 Method of Payment. Payment of the exercise price shall be by any of the following, or a combination thereof, at the election of the Participant:
          (a) Cash;
          (b) Check;
          (c) With the consent of the Administrator, delivery of a notice that the Participant has placed a market sell order with a broker with respect to shares of Stock then issuable upon exercise of the Option, and that the broker has been directed to pay a sufficient portion of the net proceeds of the sale

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to the Company in satisfaction of the aggregate exercise price; provided, that payment of such proceeds is then made to the Company upon settlement of such sale;
          (d) With the consent of the Administrator, surrender of other shares of Stock which (A) in the case of shares of Stock acquired from the Company, have been owned by the Participant for more than six (6) months on the date of surrender, and (B) have a Fair Market Value on the date of surrender equal to the aggregate exercise price of the shares of Stock with respect to which the Option or portion thereof is being exercised;
          (e) With the consent of the Administrator, surrendered shares of Stock issuable upon the exercise of the Option having a Fair Market Value on the date of exercise equal to the aggregate exercise price of the shares of Stock with respect to which the Option or portion thereof is being exercised; or
          (f) With the consent of the Administrator, property of any kind which constitutes good and valuable consideration.
     4.5 Conditions to Issuance of Stock Certificates. The shares of Stock deliverable upon the exercise of the Option, or any portion thereof, may be either previously authorized but unissued shares of Stock or issued shares of Stock which have then been reacquired by the Company. Such shares of Stock shall be fully paid and nonassessable. The Company shall not be required to issue or deliver any shares of Stock purchased upon the exercise of the Option or portion thereof prior to fulfillment of all of the following conditions:
          (a) The admission of such shares of Stock to listing on all stock exchanges on which such Stock is then listed;
          (b) The completion of any registration or other qualification of such shares of Stock under any state or federal law or under rulings or regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission or of any other governmental regulatory body, which the Administrator shall, in its absolute discretion, deem necessary or advisable;
          (c) The obtaining of any approval or other clearance from any state or federal governmental agency which the Administrator shall, in its absolute discretion, determine to be necessary or advisable;
          (d) The receipt by the Company of full payment for such shares of Stock, including payment of any applicable withholding tax, which may be in one or more of the forms of consideration permitted under Section 4.4; and
          (e) The lapse of such reasonable period of time following the exercise of the Option as the Administrator may from time to time establish for reasons of administrative convenience.
     4.6 Rights as Stockholder. The holder of the Option shall not be, nor have any of the rights or privileges of, a stockholder of the Company in respect of any shares of Stock purchasable upon the exercise of any part of the Option unless and until such shares of Stock shall have been issued by the Company to such holder (as evidenced by the appropriate entry on the books of the Company or of a duly authorized transfer agent of the Company). No adjustment will be made for a dividend or other right for which the record date is prior to the date the shares of Stock are issued, except as provided in Section 11.1 of the Plan.

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ARTICLE V.
OTHER PROVISIONS
     5.1 Administration. The Administrator shall have the power to interpret the Plan, the Grant Notice and this Agreement and to adopt such rules for the administration, interpretation and application of the Plan as are consistent therewith and to interpret, amend or revoke any such rules. All actions taken and all interpretations and determinations made by the Administrator in good faith shall be final and binding upon Participant, the Company and all other interested persons. No member of the Committee or the Board shall be personally liable for any action, determination or interpretation made in good faith with respect to the Plan, the Grant Notice, this Agreement or the Option.
     5.2 Option Not Transferable.
          (a) Unless determined otherwise by the Administrator, the Option may not be sold, pledged, assigned or transferred in any manner other than by will or the laws of descent and distribution, unless and until the shares of Stock underlying the Option have been issued, and all restrictions applicable to such shares of Stock have lapsed. Neither the Option nor any interest or right therein shall be liable for the debts, contracts or engagements of Participant or his or her successors in interest or shall be subject to disposition by transfer, alienation, anticipation, pledge, encumbrance, assignment or any other means whether such disposition be voluntary or involuntary or by operation of law by judgment, levy, attachment, garnishment or any other legal or equitable proceedings (including bankruptcy), and any attempted disposition thereof shall be null and void and of no effect, except to the extent that such disposition is permitted by the preceding sentence.
          (b) Unless determined otherwise by the Administrator, during the lifetime of Participant, only Participant may exercise the Option or any portion thereof. After the death of Participant, any exercisable portion of the Option may, prior to the time when the Option becomes unexercisable under Section 3.3, be exercised by Participant’s personal representative or by any person empowered to do so under the deceased Participant’s will or under the then applicable laws of descent and distribution.
     5.3 Adjustments. The Participant acknowledges that the Option is subject to modification and termination in certain events as provided in this Agreement and Article 11 of the Plan.
     5.4 Notices. Any notice to be given under the terms of this Agreement to the Company shall be addressed to the Company in care of the Secretary of the Company at the address given beneath the signature of the Company’s authorized officer on the Grant Notice, and any notice to be given to Participant shall be addressed to Participant at the address given beneath Participant’s signature on the Grant Notice. By a notice given pursuant to this Section 5.4, either party may hereafter designate a different address for notices to be given to that party. Any notice which is required to be given to Participant shall, if Participant is then deceased, be given to the person entitled to exercise his or her Option pursuant to Section 4.1 by written notice under this Section 5.4. Any notice shall be deemed duly given when sent via email or when sent by certified mail (return receipt requested) and deposited (with postage prepaid) in a post office or branch post office regularly maintained by the United States Postal Service.
     5.5 Titles. Titles are provided herein for convenience only and are not to serve as a basis for interpretation or construction of this Agreement.

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     5.6 Governing Law; Severability. The laws of the State of Delaware shall govern the interpretation, validity, administration, enforcement and performance of the terms of this Agreement regardless of the law that might be applied under principles of conflicts of laws.
     5.7 Conformity to Securities Laws. The Participant acknowledges that the Plan, the Grant Notice and this Agreement are intended to conform to the extent necessary with all provisions of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act and any and all regulations and rules promulgated by the Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder, and state securities laws and regulations. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Plan shall be administered, and the Option is granted and may be exercised, only in such a manner as to conform to such laws, rules and regulations. To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Plan, the Grant Notice and this Agreement shall be deemed amended to the extent necessary to conform to such laws, rules and regulations.
     5.8 Amendments, Suspension and Termination. To the extent permitted by the Plan, this Agreement may be wholly or partially amended or otherwise modified, suspended or terminated at any time or from time to time by the Committee or the Board, provided, that, except as may otherwise be provided by the Plan, no amendment, modification, suspension or termination of this Agreement shall adversely effect the Option in any material way without the prior written consent of the Participant.
     5.9 Successors and Assigns. The Company may assign any of its rights under this Agreement to single or multiple assignees, and this Agreement shall inure to the benefit of the successors and assigns of the Company. Subject to the restrictions on transfer herein set forth in Section 5.2, this Agreement shall be binding upon Participant and his or her heirs, executors, administrators, successors and assigns.
     5.10 Notification of Disposition. If this Option is designated as an Incentive Stock Option, Participant shall give prompt notice to the Company of any disposition or other transfer of any shares of Stock acquired under this Agreement if such disposition or transfer is made (a) within two years from the Grant Date with respect to such shares of Stock or (b) within one year after the transfer of such shares of Stock to the Participant. Such notice shall specify the date of such disposition or other transfer and the amount realized, in cash, other property, assumption of indebtedness or other consideration, by Participant in such disposition or other transfer.
     5.11 Limitations Applicable to Section 16 Persons. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan or this Agreement, if Participant is subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act, the Plan, the Option and this Agreement shall be subject to any additional limitations set forth in any applicable exemptive rule under Section 16 of the Exchange Act (including any amendment to Rule 16b-3 of the Exchange Act) that are requirements for the application of such exemptive rule. To the extent permitted by applicable law, this Agreement shall be deemed amended to the extent necessary to conform to such applicable exemptive rule.
     5.12 Not a Contract of Employment. Nothing in this Agreement, the Grant Notice, or the Plan shall confer upon the Participant any right to continue to serve as an employee or other service provider of the Company or any Parent or Subsidiary.
     5.13 Entire Agreement. The Plan, the Grant Notice and this Agreement (including all exhibits thereto) constitute the entire agreement of the parties and supersede in their entirety all prior undertakings and agreements of the Company and Participant with respect to the subject matter hereof.
     5.14 Section 409A. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, this Agreement or the Grant Notice, the Plan, this Agreement and the Grant Notice shall be interpreted in accordance with, and

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incorporate the terms and conditions required by, Section 409A of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (together with any Department of Treasury regulations and other interpretive guidance issued thereunder, including without limitation any such regulations or other guidance that may be issued after the date hereof, “Section 409A”). The Committee may, in its discretion, adopt such amendments to the Plan, this Agreement or the Grant Notice or adopt other policies and procedures (including amendments, policies and procedures with retroactive effect), or take any other actions, as the Committee determines are necessary or appropriate to comply with the requirements of Section 409A.

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Exhibit 10.6
 

EXHIBIT 10.6
Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Amended and Restated Restricted
Common Stock Purchase Agreement

 


 

Table of Contents
             
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I.  
Purchase of Shares
    1  
   
 
       
   
1.1 Purchase
    1  
   
1.2 Payment
    1  
   
 
       
II.  
Securities Law Compliance
    1  
   
 
       
   
2.1 Restricted Securities
    1  
   
2.2 Disposition of Shares
    2  
   
2.3 Restrictive Legends
    3  
   
 
       
III.  
Transfer Restrictions
    3  
   
 
       
   
3.1 Restriction on Transfer
    3  
   
3.2 Transferee Obligations
    3  
   
3.3 Definition of Owner
    4  
   
3.4 Market Stand-Off Provisions
    4  
   
 
       
IV.  
Right of First Refusal
    4  
   
 
       
   
4.1 Grant
    4  
   
4.2 Notice of Intended Disposition
    4  
   
4.3 Exercise of Right
    4  
   
4.4 Non-Exercise of Right
    5  
   
4.5 Partial Exercise of Right
    5  
   
4.6 Recapitalization
    5  
   
4.7 Lapse
    5  
   
 
       
V.  
Marital Dissolution or Legal Separation
    6  
   
 
       
   
5.1 Grant
    6  
   
5.2 Notice of Decree or Agreement
    6  
   
5.3 Exercise of the Special Purchase Right
    6  
   
5.4 Lapse
    7  
   
 
       
VI.  
Repurchase Option
    7  
   
 
       
   
6.1 Repurchase Option
    7  
   
6.2 Release of Shares From Repurchase Option
    7  
   
6.3 Escrow of Shares
    9  
   
6.4 Tax Consequences
    9  
   
 
       
VII.  
General Provisions
    10  
   
 
       
   
7.1 Assignment
    10  
   
7.2 Definitions
    10  
   
7.3 Notices
    10  
   
7.4 No Waiver
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VIII.  
Miscellaneous Provisions
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8.1 Purchaser Undertaking
    10  
   
8.2 Agreement is Entire Contract
    10  
   
8.3 Governing Law
    11  
   
8.4 Counterparts
    11  
   
8.5 Successors and Assigns
    11  
   
8.6 Amendment and Waiver
    11  
   
8.7 Arbitration
    11  
   
8.8 Acknowledgement
    11  
Exhibit A — Joint Escrow Instructions
Exhibit B — Assignment Separate From Certificate

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Amended and Restated Restricted Common Stock Purchase Agreement
          This Amended and Restated Restricted Common Stock Purchase Agreement (the “Agreement”) is made as of this ___ day of November, 2004, by and between Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Delaware corporation (formerly known as Strata Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) (the “Company”), and [PURCHASER] (“Purchaser”).
Recitals
          A. On July 6, 2004, the Purchaser and the Company entered into a Restricted Common Stock Purchase Agreement (the “Prior Agreement”) pursuant to which the Purchaser purchased certain shares of the Company’s Common Stock.
          B. The Company and the Purchaser desire to amend and restate the Prior Agreement to grant the Company a Repurchase Option with respect to the Purchaser’s Shares (as such terms are defined below).
          C. Pursuant to the terms of the Prior Agreement, the Prior Agreement may be amended with the consent of a majority of the Company’s Board of Directors, which consent has been obtained by the Company, and the Purchaser.
Agreement
          NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing premises and the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, the parties, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as follows:
I. Purchase of Shares
     1.1 Purchase. Pursuant to the terms of the Prior Agreement, the Purchaser purchased, and the Company sold to Purchaser, [NUMBER OF SHARES OF COMMON STOCK] shares of the Company’s Common Stock (the “Shares”) at a purchase price of $0.001 per share (the “Purchase Price”), or $[PURCHASE PRICE] in the aggregate.
     1.2 Payment. As of the date of the Prior Agreement, the Purchaser delivered to the Corporate Secretary of the Company the aggregate Purchase Price payable for the Shares in cash, cancellation of indebtedness or transfer of property. Concurrently with the execution of this Agreement, the Purchaser shall deliver to the Corporate Secretary of the Company (i) duly executed Joint Escrow Instructions (in the form attached hereto as Exhibit A), and (ii) a duly executed blank Assignment Separate from Certificate (in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B).
II. Securities Law Compliance
     2.1 Restricted Securities.
          (a) Purchaser hereby confirms that Purchaser has been informed that the Shares are restricted securities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (“1933 Act”), and may not

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be resold or transferred unless the Shares are first registered under the federal securities laws or unless an exemption from such registration is available. Accordingly, Purchaser hereby acknowledges that Purchaser is prepared to hold the Shares for an indefinite period and that Purchaser is aware that Rule 144 of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued under the 1933 Act is not presently available to exempt the sale of the Shares from the registration requirements of the 1933 Act.
          (b) Upon the expiration of the ninety (90)-day period immediately following the date on which the Company first becomes subject to the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), the Shares may be sold (without registration) pursuant to the applicable requirements of Rule 144. If Purchaser is at the time of such sale an affiliate of the Company for purposes of Rule 144 or was such an affiliate during the preceding three (3) months, then the sale must comply with all the requirements of Rule 144 (including the volume limitation on the number of shares sold, the broker/market-maker sale requirement and the requisite notice to the SEC). If Purchaser is not at the time of the sale an affiliate of the Company nor was such an affiliate during the preceding three (3) months, then none of the requirements of Rule 144 (other than the broker/market-maker sale requirement for Shares held for fewer than two (2) years following payment in cash of the Purchase Price therefor) will be applicable to the sale. The requirements of Rule 144 are subject to change at any time.
     2.2 Disposition of Shares. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, Purchaser hereby agrees that Purchaser shall make no disposition of the Shares (other than a permitted transfer under paragraph 3.1) unless and until there is compliance with all of the following requirements:
          (a) Purchaser shall have notified the Company of the proposed disposition and provided a written summary of the terms and conditions of the proposed disposition;
          (b) Purchaser shall have complied with all requirements of this Agreement applicable to the disposition of the Shares;
          (c) Purchaser shall have provided the Company with written assurances, in form and substance satisfactory to the Company, that (i) the proposed disposition does not require registration of the Shares under the 1933 Act or (ii) all appropriate action necessary for compliance with the registration requirements of the 1933 Act or of any exemption from registration available under the 1933 Act (including Rule 144) has been taken; and
          (d) Purchaser shall have provided the Company with written assurances, in form and substance satisfactory to the Company, that the proposed disposition will not result in the contravention of any transfer restrictions applicable to the Shares.
          The Company shall not be required (i) to transfer on its books any Shares which have been sold or transferred in violation of the provisions of this Article II nor (ii) to treat as the owner of the Shares, or otherwise to accord voting or dividend rights to, any transferee to whom the Shares have been transferred in contravention of this Agreement.

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     2.3 Restrictive Legends. In order to reflect the restrictions on disposition of the Shares, the stock certificates for the Shares will be endorsed with restrictive legends, including one or more of the following legends:
          (a) “THE SHARES REPRESENTED HEREBY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (“ACT”), NOR HAVE THEY BEEN REGISTERED OR QUALIFIED UNDER THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE. NO TRANSFER OF SUCH SECURITIES WILL BE PERMITTED UNLESS A REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE ACT IS IN EFFECT AS TO SUCH TRANSFER, THE TRANSFER IS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 144 UNDER THE ACT, OR IN THE OPINION OF COUNSEL (WHICH MAY BE COUNSEL FOR THE COMPANY) REGISTRATION UNDER THE ACT IS UNNECESSARY IN ORDER FOR SUCH TRANSFER TO COMPLY WITH THE ACT AND WITH APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS.”
          (b) “THE SHARES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE MAY BE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS OF AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COMPANY AND THE STOCKHOLDER, A COPY OF WHICH IS ON FILE WITH THE SECRETARY OF THE COMPANY.”
III. Transfer Restrictions
     3.1 Restriction on Transfer. Except for the escrow described below in Article VI, none of the Shares or any beneficial interest therein shall be transferred, assigned, encumbered or otherwise made the subject of disposition until the release of such Shares from the Repurchase Option in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement. In addition, the Shares shall not be transferred, assigned, encumbered or otherwise made the subject of disposition in contravention of the Company’s First Refusal Right under Article IV or Special Purchase Right under Article V or as otherwise limited herein. The restrictions on transfer set forth under Article IV and Article V, however, shall not be applicable to (i) a gratuitous transfer of the Shares made to the [EXECUTIVE OFFICER ONLY: Purchaser’s] siblings, spouse, lineal descendent or antecedent, including adopted children and stepchildren, [DIRECTOR ONLY: of the Director (as defined below)] or to a trust for the exclusive benefit of the [EXECUTIVE OFFICER ONLY: Purchaser] [DIRECTOR ONLY: Director] or the [EXECUTIVE OFFICER ONLY: Purchaser’s] [DIRECTOR ONLY: Director’s] siblings, spouse or issue, provided and only if the Purchaser obtains the Company’s prior written consent to such transfer and such transferee agrees to be bound by the terms of this Agreement, (ii) a transfer of title to the Shares effected pursuant to the Purchaser’s will or the laws of intestate succession or (iii) a transfer to the Company in pledge as security for any purchase-money indebtedness incurred by the Purchaser in connection with the acquisition of the Shares [DIRECTOR ONLY: or (iv) to any affiliate of the Purchaser].
     3.2 Transferee Obligations. Each person (other than the Company) to whom the Shares are transferred by means of one of the permitted transfers specified in paragraph 3.1 must, as a condition precedent to the validity of such transfer, acknowledge in writing to the Company that such person is bound by the provisions of this Agreement and that the transferred shares are subject to (i) the Company’s First Refusal Right and Special Purchase Right granted hereunder and (ii) the market stand-off provisions of paragraph 3.4, to the same extent such Shares would be so subject if retained by the Purchaser.

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     3.3 Definition of Owner. For purposes of this Agreement, the term “Owner” shall include the Purchaser and all subsequent holders of the Shares who derive their chain of ownership through a permitted transfer from the Purchaser in accordance with paragraph 3.1.
     3.4 Market Stand-Off Provisions.
          (a) In connection with any underwritten public offering by the Company of its equity securities pursuant to an effective registration statement filed under the 1933 Act, Owner shall not sell, make any short sale of, loan, hypothecate, pledge, grant any option for the purchase of, or otherwise dispose or transfer for value or otherwise agree to engage in any of the foregoing transactions with respect to, any Shares without the prior written consent of the Company or its underwriters. Such limitations shall be in effect for such period of time from and after the effective date of such registration statement as may be requested by the Company or such underwriters; provided, however, that in no event shall such period exceed one hundred-eighty (180) days.
          (b) Owner shall be subject to the market stand-off provisions of this paragraph 3.4 provided and only if the executive officers and directors of the Company are also subject to similar arrangements.
          (c) In the event of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or other change affecting the Company’s outstanding Common Stock effected without receipt of consideration, then any new, substituted or additional securities distributed with respect to the Shares shall be immediately subject to the provisions of this paragraph 3.4, to the same extent the Shares are at such time covered by such provisions.
          (d) In order to enforce the limitations of this paragraph 3.4, the Company may impose stop-transfer instructions with respect to the Shares until the end of the applicable stand-off period.
IV. Right of First Refusal
     4.1 Grant. The Company is hereby granted the right of first refusal (the “First Refusal Right”), exercisable in connection with any proposed transfer of the Shares. For purposes of this Article IV, the term “transfer” shall include any sale, assignment, pledge, encumbrance or other disposition for value of the Shares intended to be made by the Owner, but shall exclude any of the permitted transfers under paragraph 3.1.
     4.2 Notice of Intended Disposition. In the event the Owner desires to accept a bona fide third-party offer for any or all of the Shares (the shares subject to such offer to be hereinafter called the “Target Shares”), Owner shall promptly (i) deliver to the Corporate Secretary of the Company written notice (the “Disposition Notice”) of the terms and conditions of the offer, including the purchase price and the identity of the third-party offeror and (ii) provide satisfactory proof that the disposition of the Target Shares to such third-party offeror would not be in contravention of the provisions set forth in Articles II and III of this Agreement.
     4.3 Exercise of Right. The Company (or its assignees) shall, for a period of twenty-five (25) days following receipt of the Disposition Notice, have the right to repurchase any or all

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of the Target Shares specified in the Disposition Notice upon substantially the same terms and conditions specified therein. Such right shall be exercisable by delivery of written notice (the “Exercise Notice”) to Owner prior to the expiration of the twenty-five (25) day exercise period. If such right is exercised with respect to all the Target Shares specified in the Disposition Notice, then the Company (or its assignees) shall effect the repurchase of the Target Shares, including payment of the purchase price, not more than five (5) business days after delivery of the Exercise Notice; and at such time Owner shall deliver to the Company the certificates representing the Target Shares to be repurchased, each certificate to be properly endorsed for transfer.
     4.4 Non-Exercise of Right. In the event the Exercise Notice is not given to Owner within twenty-five (25) days following the date of the Company’s receipt of the Disposition Notice, Owner shall have a period of thirty (30) days thereafter in which to sell or otherwise dispose of the Target Shares to the third-party offeror identified in the Disposition Notice upon terms and conditions (including the purchase price) no more favorable to such third-party offeror than those specified in the Disposition Notice; provided, however, that any such sale or disposition must not be effected in contravention of the provisions of Article II of this Agreement. The acquired shares shall remain subject to (i) the securities law restrictions under Article II, (ii) the market stand-off provisions of paragraph 3.4, (iii) the Company’s First Refusal Rights hereunder and (iv) Article V.
     4.5 Partial Exercise of Right. In the event the Company (or its assignees) makes a timely exercise of the First Refusal Right with respect to a portion, but not all, of the Target Shares specified in the Disposition Notice, Owner shall have the option, exercisable by written notice to the Company delivered within thirty (30) days after the date of the Disposition Notice, to effect the sale of the Target Shares pursuant to one of the following alternatives:
          (a) sale or other disposition of all the Target Shares to the third-party offeror identified in the Disposition Notice, but in full compliance with the requirements of paragraph 4.4, as if the Company did not exercise the First Refusal Right hereunder; or
          (b) sale to the Company (or its assignees) of the portion of the Target Shares which the Company (or its assignees) has elected to purchase, such sale to be effected in substantial conformity with the provisions of paragraph 4.3.
          Failure of Owner to deliver timely notification to the Company under this paragraph 4.5 shall be deemed to be an election by Owner to sell the Target Shares pursuant to alternative (a) above.
     4.6 Recapitalization. In the event of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or other transaction affecting the Company’s outstanding Common Stock as a class effected without receipt of consideration, then any new, substituted or additional securities or other property which is by reason of such transaction distributed with respect to the Shares shall be immediately subject to the Company’s First Refusal Right hereunder, but only to the extent the Shares are at the time covered by such right.
     4.7 Lapse. The First Refusal Right under this Article IV shall remain in effect under all circumstances but shall lapse and cease to have effect upon the earliest to occur of (i) the first

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date on which shares of the Company’s Common Stock are held of record by more than five hundred (500) persons, (ii) a determination is made by the Company’s Board of Directors that a public market exists for the outstanding shares of the Company’s Common Stock, (iii) an underwritten public offering pursuant to an effective registration statement under the 1933 Act or (iv) a Change of Control (as defined below). However, the market stand-off provisions of paragraph 4.4 shall continue to remain in full force and effect following the lapse of the First Refusal Right hereunder.
V. Marital Dissolution or Legal Separation
     5.1 Grant. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, in connection with the dissolution of Owner’s marriage or the legal separation of Owner and Owner’s spouse, the Company shall have the right (the “Special Purchase Right”) [DIRECTOR ONLY: if applicable,] to purchase from Owner’s spouse, in accordance with the provisions of this Article V, all or any portion of the Shares which would otherwise be awarded to such spouse in settlement of any community property or other marital property rights such spouse may have in such shares.
     5.2 Notice of Decree or Agreement. Owner shall promptly provide the Company with written notice (the “Dissolution Notice”) of (i) the entry of any judicial decree or order resolving the property rights of Owner and Owner’s spouse in connection with their marital dissolution or legal separation or (ii) the execution of any contract or agreement relating to the distribution or division of such property rights. The Dissolution Notice shall be accompanied by a copy of the actual decree or order of dissolution or contract or agreement between Owner and Owner’s spouse which provides for the award to the spouse of one or more Shares in settlement of any community property or other marital property rights such spouse may have in such shares.
     5.3 Exercise of the Special Purchase Right. The Special Purchase Right shall be exercisable by delivery of written notice (the “Purchase Notice”) to Owner and Owner’s spouse within forty-five (45) days after the Company’s receipt of the Dissolution Notice. The Purchase Notice shall indicate the number of Shares to be purchased by the Company, the date such purchase is to be effected (such date to be not less than five (5) business days, nor more than fifteen (15) business days, after the date of the Purchase Notice) and the fair market value to be paid for such Shares. Owner (or Owner’s spouse, to the extent such spouse has physical possession of the Shares) shall, prior to the close of business on the date specified for the purchase, deliver to the Company the certificates representing the shares to be purchased. The Company shall, concurrently with the receipt of the stock certificates, pay to Owner’s spouse (in cash or cash equivalents) an amount equal to the fair market value specified for such shares in the Purchase Notice.
          If Owner’s spouse does not agree with the fair market value specified for the Shares in the Purchase Notice, then the spouse shall promptly notify the Company in writing of such disagreement and the fair market value of such Shares shall thereupon be determined by an appraiser of recognized standing selected by the Company and the spouse. If they cannot agree on an appraiser within fifteen (15) days after the date of the Purchase Notice, each shall select an appraiser of recognized standing, and the two (2) appraisers shall designate a third appraiser of recognized standing whose appraisal shall be determinative of such value. The cost of the

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appraisal shall be shared equally by the Company and Owner’s spouse. The closing shall then be held on the fifteenth (15th) business day following the completion of such appraisal; provided, however, that if the appraised value is more than twenty-five percent (25%) greater than the fair market value specified for the Shares in the Purchase Notice, the Company shall have the right, exercisable prior to the expiration of such fifteen (15) business-day period, to rescind the exercise of the Special Purchase Right and thereby revoke its election to purchase the Shares awarded to the spouse.
     5.4 Lapse. The Special Purchase Right shall lapse upon the earlier to occur of (i) the lapse of the First Refusal Right or (ii) the expiration of the exercise period specified in this Article V, to the extent the Special Purchase Right is not timely exercised in accordance with such paragraph.
VI. Repurchase Option
     6.1 Repurchase Option. In the event of any voluntary or involuntary termination of the [EXECUTIVE OFFICER ONLY: Purchaser’s employment by, or services to,] [DIRECTOR ONLY: service of [RELATED DIRECTOR] (the “Director”) as a director of] the Company for any or no reason (including death or disability) before all of the Shares are released from the Company’s Repurchase Option (as defined below), the Company shall, upon the date of such termination (as reasonably fixed and determined by the Company), have an irrevocable, exclusive option, but not the obligation, for a period of 90 days from such date to repurchase all or any portion of the Unreleased Shares (as defined below in paragraph 6.2) at such time (the “Repurchase Option”) at the original purchase price per share (the “Repurchase Price”). The Repurchase Option shall be exercisable by the Company by written notice to the Purchaser or the Purchaser’s executor and shall be exercisable by delivery to the Purchaser or the Purchaser’s executor of cash, check or wire transfer in an amount equal to the Repurchase Price times the number of Shares to be repurchased (the “Aggregate Repurchase Price”). Upon delivery of such notice and the payment of the Aggregate Repurchase Price, the Company shall become the legal and beneficial owner of the Shares being repurchased and all rights and interests therein or relating thereto, and the Company shall have the right to retain and transfer to its own name the number of Shares being repurchased by the Company.
     6.2 Release of Shares From Repurchase Option.
          (a) The Shares shall be released from the Company’s Repurchase Option pursuant to the following schedule:
25% of the Shares are immediately released from, and shall not be subject to, the Repurchase Option. As of July 6, 2004 (the “Vesting Commencement Date”), the remaining 75% of the Shares shall be subject to the Repurchase Option. 1/48th of such Shares shall be released from the Repurchase Option on each monthly anniversary of the Vesting Commencement Date thereafter, such that all Shares shall be released from the Repurchase Option on the

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four (4) year anniversary of the Vesting Commencement Date.
          Any of the Shares which, from time to time, have not yet been released from the Repurchase Option are referred to herein as “Unreleased Shares.” The number of Shares released each month and/or year, as applicable, from the Repurchase Option shall be rounded down to the next whole number of Option Shares, except in the last month of the four (4) year period when all Unreleased Shares shall be released from the Repurchase Option.
          (b) Upon an Acceleration Event (as defined below), the Repurchase Option shall lapse for 100% of the Unreleased Shares (if any). An “Acceleration Event” shall mean any of the following:
               (1) The termination by the Company of the [EXECUTIVE OFFICER ONLY: Purchaser’s employment with] [DIRECTOR ONLY: Director’s service as a director of] the Company for any reason other than Cause (as defined below). [EXECUTIVE OFFICER ONLY: Unless otherwise defined in an employment or services agreement between the Purchaser and the Company (which definition will control),] “Cause” shall mean dishonesty, fraud, misconduct, unauthorized use or disclosure of confidential information or trade secrets, or conviction or confession of a crime punishable by law (except minor violations), in each case as determined by the Board of Directors of the Company, and its determination shall be conclusive and binding; or
               (2) [EXECUTIVE OFFICER ONLY: The termination by the Purchaser of the Purchaser’s employment with the Company for Good Reason (as defined below). Unless otherwise defined in an employment or services agreement between the Purchaser and the Company (which definition will control), “Good Reason” shall mean the occurrence of any of the following events or conditions and the failure of the Company or any successor corporation, as applicable, to cure such event or condition within thirty (30) days after receipt of written notice from the Purchaser:
                    (i) a change in the Purchaser’s position or responsibilities (including reporting responsibilities) that represents a substantial reduction in the position or responsibilities as in effect immediately prior thereto; the assignment to the Purchaser of any duties or responsibilities that are materially inconsistent with such position or responsibilities; or any removal of the Purchaser from or failure to reappoint or reelect the Purchaser to any of such positions, except in connection with the termination of the Purchaser’s employment for Cause, as a result of his or her disability or death, or by the Purchaser other than for Good Reason;
                    (ii) a material reduction in the Purchaser’s annual base salary, except in connection with a general reduction in the compensation of all personnel of the Company and its parent and subsidiaries, if any;
                    (iii) the Company requiring the Purchaser (without the Purchaser’s consent) to be based at any place outside a 50-mile radius of his or her principal place of employment with the Company, except for reasonably required travel on the Company’s business;

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                    (iv) a material reduction in the Purchaser’s aggregate benefits (in terms of benefit levels and/or reward opportunities) provided for under each material employee benefit plan, program and practice of the Company, except in connection with a general reduction in the benefits of all personnel of the Company and its parent and subsidiaries, if any; or
                    (v) any material breach by the Company of its obligations to the Purchaser under any applicable employment or services agreement between the Purchaser and the Company.]
          (c) In the event of a Change of Control, the Repurchase Option shall lapse for (i) [EXECUTIVE OFFICER ONLY: 50%] [DIRECTOR ONLY: 100%] of the Unreleased Shares (if any) at the time of the Change of Control [EXECUTIVE OFFICER ONLY: and (ii) the remaining Unreleased Shares (if any) on the twelve month anniversary of the Change of Control. In the event an Acceleration Event occurs between the Change of Control and the twelve month anniversary of the Change of Control the provisions of paragraph 6.2(b) above shall apply.] A “Change of Control” shall mean (1) a merger or consolidation of the Company with or into any other corporation or other entity or person or (2) a sale, lease, exchange or other transfer in one transaction or a series of related transactions of all or substantially all the Company’s outstanding securities or all or substantially all the Company’s assets; provided that the following events shall not constitute a “Change of Control”: (A) a merger or consolidation of the Company in which the holders of the voting securities of the Company immediately prior to the merger or consolidation hold at least a majority of the voting securities in the successor corporation immediately after the merger or consolidation; (B) a sale, lease, exchange or other transaction in one transaction or a series of related transactions of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets to a wholly owned subsidiary corporation; (C) a mere reincorporation of the Company; or (D) a transaction undertaken for the sole purpose of creating a holding company that will be owned in substantially the same proportion by the persons who held the Company’s securities immediately before such transaction.
          (d) Subject to paragraph 6.3, the Shares which have been released from the Repurchase Option shall be delivered to the Purchaser at the Purchaser’s request.
     6.3 Escrow of Shares. Pursuant to the terms of the Joint Escrow Instructions attached hereto as Exhibit A, the Shares issued under this Agreement shall be held by the Escrow Agent (as defined in such Joint Escrow Instructions) along with a stock assignment executed by the Purchaser in blank in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B. Notwithstanding the vesting set forth in paragraph 6.2 above, neither the Company nor the Escrow Agent shall be required to release or issue certificates evidencing the Shares to the Purchaser more frequently than twice in any calendar year.
     6.4 Tax Consequences. The Purchaser has reviewed with the Purchaser’s own tax advisors the federal, state, local and foreign tax consequences of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. The Purchaser is relying solely on such advisors and not on any statements or representations of the Company or any of its agents. The Purchaser understands that the Purchaser (and not the Company) shall be responsible for the Purchaser’s own tax liability that may arise as a result of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

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VII. General Provisions
     7.1 Assignment. The Company may assign its First Refusal Right under Article IV and/or its Special Purchase Rights under Article V and/or its Repurchase Option under Article VI to any person or entity selected by the Company’s Board of Directors, including (without limitation) one or more stockholders of the Company.
     7.2 Definitions. For purposes of this Agreement, the following provisions shall be applicable in determining the parent and subsidiary corporations of the Company:
          (1) any corporation (other than the Company) in an unbroken chain of corporations ending with the Company shall be considered to be a parent corporation of the Company, provided each such corporation in the unbroken chain (other than the Company) owns, at the time of the determination, stock possessing fifty percent (50%) or more of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock in one of the other corporations in such chain, and
          (2) each corporation (other than the Company) in an unbroken chain of corporations beginning with the Company shall be considered to be a subsidiary of the Company, provided each such corporation (other than the last corporation) in the unbroken chain owns, at the time of the determination, stock possessing fifty percent (50%) or more of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock in one of the other corporations in such chain.
     7.3 Notices. Any notice required in connection with (i) the First Refusal Right, Special Purchase Right or the Repurchase Option or (ii) the disposition of any Shares covered thereby shall be given in writing and shall be deemed effective upon personal delivery or upon deposit in the United States mail, registered or certified, postage prepaid and addressed to the party entitled to such notice at the address indicated below such party’s signature line on this Agreement or at such other address as such party may designate by ten (10) days’ advance written notice under this paragraph 7.3 to all other parties to this Agreement.
     7.4 No Waiver. The failure of the Company (or its assignees) in any instance to exercise the First Refusal Right, Special Purchase Right or the Repurchase Option shall not constitute a waiver of any other repurchase right and/or right of first refusal that may subsequently arise under the provisions of this Agreement or any other agreement between the Company and the Purchaser or the Purchaser’s spouse. No waiver of any breach or condition of this Agreement shall be deemed to be a waiver of any other or subsequent breach or condition, whether of like or different nature.
VIII. Miscellaneous Provisions
     8.1 Purchaser Undertaking. Purchaser hereby agrees to take whatever additional action and execute whatever additional documents the Company may in its judgment deem necessary or advisable in order to carry out or effect one or more of the obligations or restrictions imposed on either the Purchaser or the Shares pursuant to the express provisions of this Agreement.
     8.2 Agreement is Entire Contract. This Agreement constitutes the entire contract between the parties hereto with regard to the subject matter hereof.

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     8.3 Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of California, as such laws are applied to contracts entered into and performed in such State without resort to that State’s conflict-of-laws rules.
     8.4 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.
     8.5 Successors and Assigns. The provisions of this Agreement shall inure to the benefit of, and be binding upon, the Company and its successors and assigns and the Purchaser and the Purchaser’s legal representatives, heirs, legatees, distributees, assigns and transferees by operation of law, whether or not any such person shall have become a party to this Agreement and have agreed in writing to join herein and be bound by the terms and conditions hereof.
     8.6 Amendment and Waiver. This Agreement shall not be amended nor any Section hereof waived by the Company in the absence of approval of such amendment or waiver by a majority of the Company’s Board of Directors.
     8.7 Arbitration. Any controversy between the parties hereto involving any claim arising out of or relating to this Agreement shall be finally settled by arbitration in San Diego, California, in accordance with the then current Employment ADR Rules of the American Arbitration Association, and judgment upon the award rendered by the arbitrators may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof.
     8.8 Acknowledgement. PURCHASER ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT THE LAPSING OF THE REPURCHASE OPTION PURSUANT TO ARTICLE VI HEREOF IS EARNED ONLY BY CONTINUING SERVICE AS AN “AT WILL” EMPLOYEE AND/OR DIRECTOR, AS APPLICABLE, OF THE COMPANY (AND NOT THROUGH THE ACT OF BEING HIRED OR PURCHASING SHARES HEREUNDER). PURCHASER FURTHER ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT THIS AGREEMENT, THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREUNDER AND THE REPURCHASE OPTION SCHEDULE SET FORTH HEREIN DO NOT CONSTITUTE AN EXPRESS OR IMPLIED PROMISE OF CONTINUED ENGAGEMENT AS AN EMPLOYEE AND/OR DIRECTOR FOR SUCH PERIOD, FOR ANY PERIOD, OR AT ALL, AND SHALL NOT INTERFERE WITH THE COMPANY’S RIGHT TO TERMINATE PURCHASER’S EMPLOYMENT AND/OR SERVICE WITH THE COMPANY AT ANY TIME, WITH OR WITHOUT CAUSE.
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          In Witness Whereof, the parties have executed this Agreement on the day and year first indicated above.
         
  THE COMPANY:


Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
 
 
  By:      
  Name:      
  Title:      
  Address:  12730 High Bluff Drive
Suite 410
San Diego, CA 92130
   
 
         
  PURCHASER:
 
 
  By:      
  Name:    
 
 
 
  Address:   
 
 
 
 
               
 
 
 

 


 

         
Schedule to Exhibit 10.6: The form of Amended and Restated Restricted Common Stock Purchase Agreement above was executed by the following persons or entities with respect to the number of shares and purchase prices listed:
                         
    NUMBER OF SHARES   PURCHASE   RELATED
PURCHASER   OF COMMON STOCK   PRICE   DIRECTOR
Theodore R. Schroeder
    1,000,000     $ 1,000.00       N/A  
David A. Socks
    850,000     $ 850.00       N/A  
Garner Investments, LLC
    1,750,000     $ 1,750.00     Cam L. Garner

 

Exhibit 10.7
 

EXHIBIT 10.7
CONFIDENTIAL
CADENCE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC
2006 Corporate Bonus Plan
Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

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2006 Corporate Bonus Plan
The Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Cadence” or the “Company”) Corporate Bonus Plan (the “Plan”) is designed to offer incentive compensation to eligible Employees by rewarding the achievement of corporate objectives and specifically measured individual objectives that are consistent with and support overall corporate objectives. Since cooperation between departments and Employees will be required to achieve corporate objectives that represent a significant portion of the Plan, the Plan should help foster teamwork and build a cohesive management team.
Purpose of the Plan
The Plan is designed to:
  Encourage high performance by providing an incentive program to achieve overall corporate objectives and to enhance shareholder value
 
  Reward those individuals who significantly impact corporate results
 
  Encourage increased teamwork among all disciplines within Cadence
 
  Incorporate an incentive program in the Cadence overall compensation program to help attract and retain Employees, and
 
  Incentivize eligible Employees to remain employed by Cadence throughout the Plan year and until the time incentive awards are paid
Plan Governance
The Plan will be governed by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors (the “Compensation Committee”). The President and / or CEO of Cadence will be responsible for the administration of the Plan. The Compensation Committee will be responsible for approving any compensation or incentive awards to officers of the Company. All determinations of the Compensation Committee, under the Plan, shall be final and binding on all Plan participants.
Eligibility
All exempt Full Time Employees Level 8 (Associate Director) or higher are eligible to participate in the Plan. To receive an incentive award, a participant: (a) must have

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been in an eligible position for at least three (3) full consecutive months prior to the end of the Plan year, and must remain employed through the end of the Plan year and until incentive awards are paid; and (b) must not be on probation at the time bonus determinations are made.
Form of Incentive Award Payments
Incentive award payments may be made in cash, through the issuance of stock or stock options, or by a combination of cash, stock and/or stock options, at the discretion of the Compensation Committee. In the event that the Compensation Committee and / or the Board of Directors elect to pay incentive awards in stock or stock options, the Compensation Committee, in its sole discretion, will make a determination as to the number of shares of stock or stock options to be issued to each Plan participant based, in part, upon the overall corporate performance and each participant’s individual performance, as described below. The issuance of stock and stock options may also be subject to the approval of the Company’s stockholders, and any stock options issued will be subject to the terms and conditions of the Company’s 2004 Equity Incentive Award Plan, as amended from time to time by the Company.
Bonus Percentage
Incentive Awards will be determined by applying a “bonus percentage” to the base salary of participants in the Plan. The following bonus percentages will be used for this purpose:
         
Grade Level   Position Title   Bonus Percentage
12
  CEO   40%
11
  EVP, SVP, CFO, CMO   30%
10
  VP   25%
9
  Sr. Director   20%
8
  Associate Director, Director, Controller   15%
Corporate and Individual Performance Factors
The President and / or CEO will present to the Compensation Committee a list of the overall corporate objectives for 2006, which are subject to approval by the Compensation Committee. All participants in the Plan will then develop a list of key individual objectives, which must be approved by the responsible Vice President or Senior Vice President and by the President and / or CEO.
The Plan calls for incentive awards based on the achievement of annual corporate and individual objectives that have been approved as indicated above.

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The relative weight between corporate and individual performance factors varies based on the individual’s assigned grade level within the organization. The weighting may be reviewed periodically and may be adjusted, as necessary or appropriate. The weighting for the 2006 performance factors will be as follows:
             
        Corporate   Individual
President or CEO
  (Grades 12)   100%    
SVP’s/VP’s
  (Grades 10-11)     80%   20%
All Others
  (Grades 8-9)     60%   40%
Performance Award Multiplier
The following scale will be used to determine the actual performance award multiplier for incentive award calculations based upon the measurement of corporate and individual performance objectives. Separate payment multipliers will be established for both the corporate and the individual components of each award. The same payment multiplier for the corporate component each participant’s annual award shall be used for all Plan participants in any given year. The award multiplier for the corporate component shall be determined by the Compensation Committee, in its sole discretion.
         
    Performance Category   Award Multiplier
1.
  Performance for the year met or exceeded objectives or was excellent in view of prevailing conditions   75% - 150%
 
       
2.
  Performance generally met the year’s objectives or was very acceptable in view of prevailing conditions   50% - 75%
 
       
3.
  Performance for the year met some, but not all, objectives   25% - 50%
 
       
4.
  Performance for the year was not acceptable in view of prevailing conditions   0%
Calculation of Cash Incentive Award
The example below shows a sample cash incentive award calculation under the Plan, which is determined after the end of the performance period. Step #1: a potential base bonus award is calculated by multiplying the Employee’s base salary by their assigned grade level bonus percentage. Step #2:  The calculated potential base bonus amount is then split between the corporate and individual performance factors by the Employee’s assigned grade level (per the weighting above). This calculation establishes specific potential dollar awards for the performance period for both the individual and corporate performance factor components.
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award multiplier, which is based on overall corporate performance, is used to calculate corporate performance awards for all Plan participants. This is accomplished by multiplying the bonus percentage established for each individual at the beginning of the performance period by the actual corporate award multiplier. The individual award multiplier, which is based on an individual’s performance against objectives, is used in the same way to calculate the actual individual performance award.
                 
Example:  
Step # 1: Potential Base Bonus Award Calculation
       
       
Position:
  Manager  
       
Base salary:
  $ 100,000  
       
Bonus percentage:
    10 %
       
Potential base bonus:
  $ 10,000  
       
 
       
       
Step # 2: Split award amount based on Performance Factors
       
       
Potential corporate performance bonus (50%):
  $ 5,000  
       
Potential individual performance bonus (50%):
  $ 5,000  
       
 
       
       
Step # 3: Actual Cash Incentive Award Calculation
       
       
Assumed payment multipliers based on assessment of corporate and individual performance:
       
       
Corporate multiplier
    75 %-performance generally met objectives
       
Individual multiplier
    125 %-performance generally exceeded objectives
       
Cash Award:
       
       
Corporate component
  $ 3,750   ($5,000 x 75%)
       
Individual component
  $ 6,250   ($5,000 x 125%)
Payment of the Incentive Award
Payment of incentive awards will be made as soon as practicable after the end of the Plan year but not before the completion and issuance of the Company’s year-end audited Financial Statements. Incentive award calculations will be based on the participant’s base salary as of December 31, 2006. Participants’ entitlement to an incentive award under this Plan does not vest until the awards are actually paid.
Participants who have been in an eligible position for less than a year, but who hold an eligible position for at least three months prior to the end of the Plan year and remain continuously employed through the end of the Plan year, will receive a pro-rata bonus based on the portion of the Plan year they hold an eligible position. Participants promoted during the year from one “Bonus percentage” level to another will have their Incentive Award calculated using their base pay on December 31, 2006. Providing the promotion occurred after April 30, 2006 but prior to October 1, 2006, the calculation will be pro-rated, based on the number of months at each bonus percentage level. If the promotion occurred after October 1, 2006, the entire calculation will be based on the bonus percentage applicable prior to the promotion. For those Employees working less than full time (40 hours / week), the calculated award will be pro-rated based on the actual average hours worked per week during the performance period as a

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percent of a full time equivalent. Other than as stated above, incentive awards will not be pro-rated for partial year service.
Termination
A Plan participant whose employment terminates voluntarily prior to the payment of the incentive awards, will not be eligible to receive an incentive award. Continued employment until payment of the incentive award is a condition of vesting. If a participant’s employment is terminated involuntarily during the calendar year, or prior to payment of awards, it will be at the absolute discretion of the Company whether or not an award payment is made.
Compensation Committee’s Absolute Right to Alter or Abolish the Plan
The Compensation Committee reserves the right in its absolute discretion to abolish the Plan at any time or to alter the terms and conditions under which incentive compensation will be paid. Such discretion may be exercised any time before, during, and after the Plan year is completed. No participant shall have any vested right to receive any compensation hereunder until actual delivery of such compensation.
Employment Duration/Employment Relationship
This Plan does not, and Cadence’s policies and practices in administering this Plan do not, constitute an express or implied contract or other agreement concerning the duration of any participant’s employement with the Company. The employment relationship of each participant is “at will” and may be terminated at any time by Cadence or by the participant, with or without cause.

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Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
2006 Bonus Plan
This is to acknowledge that I have received a copy of the 2006 Bonus Plan.
                 
Name:
          Date:    
 
               
 
  (print)            
 
               
 
 
 
(signature)
           
 
               
 
  Please return signed copy to Ted Schroeder.            

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Exhibit 23.1
 

Exhibit 23.1
Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
 
We consent to the reference to our firm under the caption “Experts” and to the use of our report dated April 21, 2006, in Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement (Form S-1 No. 333-135821) and related Prospectus of Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for the registration of its shares of common stock.
 
         
     
  /s/ Ernst & Young LLP    
     
     
 
San Diego, California
August 28, 2006

exv24w2
 

Exhibit 24.2
POWER OF ATTORNEY
     KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that the person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Theodore R. Schroeder and William R. LaRue, and each of them, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, each with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (SEC File No. 333-135821), including post-effective amendments or any abbreviated registration statement and any amendments thereto filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and all post-effective amendments thereto, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and all documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them, or his or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
             
 
Samuel L. Barker, Ph.D.
      Director   August    , 2006

Corresondence
 

         
    12636 High Bluff Drive, Suite 400
    San Diego, California 92130-2071
    Tel: (858) 523-5400 Fax: (858) 523-5450
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  Brussels   New York
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  Hamburg   Paris
 
  Hong Kong   San Diego
August 30, 2006
  London   San Francisco
 
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  Milan   Silicon Valley
 
  Moscow   Singapore
 
  Munich   Tokyo
Jeffrey Riedler
  New Jersey   Washington, D.C.
Assistant Director
       
Division of Corporation Finance   File No. 038916-0007
Securities and Exchange Commission
       
100 F Street, N.E.
       
Mail Stop 7010
       
Washington, D.C. 20549
       
         
 
  Re:   Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
 
      Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1
 
      Filed August 30, 2006
 
      SEC File No. 333-135821
Dear Mr. Riedler:
     We are in receipt of the Staff’s letter dated August 10, 2006 with respect to the above-referenced Registration Statement. We are responding to the Staff’s comments on behalf of Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Cadence” or the “Company”) as set forth below. Simultaneously with the filing of this letter, Cadence is submitting (by EDGAR) Amendment No. 1 to its Registration Statement on Form S-1 (the “Amendment”), responding to the Staff’s comments. Courtesy copies of this letter and the Amendment (specifically marked to show the changes thereto) are being submitted to the Staff by hand delivery.
     Cadence’s responses set forth in this letter are numbered to correspond to the numbered comments in the Staff’s letter. All terms used but not defined herein have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Amendment. For ease of reference, we have set forth the Staff’s comments and Cadence’s response for each item below.
General
  1.   We have received your confidential treatment request. Our comments regarding this request, if any, will be sent under separate cover at a later date. All comments will need to be resolved prior to effectiveness.
Cadence’s Response: Cadence acknowledges the Staff’s comment, and looks forward to receiving any comments the Staff may have on the confidential treatment request.

 


 

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  2.   Please provide us proofs of all graphic, visual, or photographic information you will provide in the printed prospectus prior to its use, for example in a preliminary prospectus. Please note we may have comments regarding these materials.
Cadence’s Response: The courtesy copy of the Registration Statement previously provided to the Staff included Cadence’s corporate logo on the inside front cover and a graph on page 59. Cadence confirms that it does not intend to use any other graphic, visual or photographic materials in the prospectus.
  3.   Please note that when you file a pre-effective amendment containing pricing-related information, we may have additional comments. As you are likely aware, you must file this amendment prior to circulating the prospectus.
Cadence’s Response: Cadence acknowledges the Staff’s comment and will include pricing-related information in a pre-effective amendment to the Registration Statement prior to circulating the preliminary prospectus for the offering.
  4.   Please note that when you file a pre-effective amendment that includes your price range, it must be bona fide. We interpret this to mean your range may not exceed $2 if you price below $20 and 10% if you price above $20.
Cadence’s Response: Cadence acknowledges the Staff’s comment and will include a bona fide price range in a pre-effective amendment to the Registration Statement prior to circulating the preliminary prospectus for the offering.
Prospectus Summary, page 1
  5.   We note the statement in the second full paragraph on page 2 that IV APAP has undergone six Phase III trials. Please discuss any difficulties or other issues that have necessitated six Phase III trials rather than just one. If the number of trials is caused only by multiple indications, disclose that fact.
Cadence’s Response: Cadence has revised the Amendment to clarify that the six Phase III trials in which IV APAP has previously been studied focused on pain and fever in adult and pediatric subjects and fever in pediatric subjects. Please refer to the revisions on page 2 of the Amendment.
  6.   We note you expect to submit a new drug application for IV APAP in the second half of 2008 if the Phase III trial results are positive. Please state, as you mention on page 3, that the FDA might require you to perform additional trials. Also state that you might not ever obtain approval for IV APAP in the United States.
Cadence’s Response: Cadence has revised the Amendment under the heading “Prospectus Summary – Risk Factors” in accordance with the Staff’s comment to disclose that Cadence cannot be certain that its planned clinical trials will be sufficient for regulatory approval or that either of its product candidates will receive regulatory approval. Cadence believes the most

 


 

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appropriate location for this cautionary disclosure in the “Prospectus Summary – Risk Factors” subsection, where Cadence summarizes the most significant risks relating to its business. Please refer to the revisions on page 4 of the Amendment.
  7.   Please explain what the special protocol assessment process is where you use this term at the bottom of page 2. Also explain what a Notice of Allowance is where you use this term in the last paragraph on page 4.
Cadence’s Response: Cadence has revised the Amendment in accordance with the Staff’s comment to include explanations for the special protocol assessment process and Notice of Allowance. Please refer to the revisions on pages 3 and 4.
  8.   Please disclose in the “Risk Factors” discussion on pages 3-4 the amount of your net loss for 2005 and your accumulated deficit.
Cadence’s Response: Cadence has revised the Amendment in accordance with the Staff’s comment to include in the “Prospectus Summary – Risk Factors” discussion the amount of Cadence’s net loss for 2005 and Cadence’s accumulated deficit as of June 30, 2006. Please refer to the revisions on page 4.
Risk Factors
If Clinical trials of our current or future product candidates . . . , page 8
  9.   We note the previous phase III trial for omiganan did not show statistical significance for the prevention of the primary endpoint: catheter-related bloodstream infections. Please disclose this fact in the last paragraph on page 2, where you discuss omiganan’s previous trials.
Cadence’s Response: Cadence has revised the Amendment in accordance with the Staff’s comment to note that the previous phase III clinical trial for omiganan did not show statistical significance for the primary endpoint, the prevention of catheter-related bloodstream infections. Please refer to the revisions on page 2 of the Amendment. As described in detail in the Amendment, Cadence respectfully submits to the Staff that Cadence is targeting a different primary endpoint in its trial, the prevention of local catheter site infections.
If any of our product candidates for which we receive regulatory approval . . . , page 12
  10.   The issue that is discussed in the second bullet point regarding the decreasing use of 10% povidone-iodine appears to be a material risk by itself. Please include a new risk factor covering this issue.
Cadence’s Response: After considering the merits of a separate risk factor as suggested by the Staff, Cadence respectfully submits for the Staff’s further consideration that the most useful disclosure to potential investors is a discussion of the decreasing use of 10% povidone-iodine in

 


 

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the context of two separate risks. Specifically, Cadence directs the Staff to the disclosure under the risk factors entitled “Delays in the commencement or completion of clinical testing could result in increased costs to us and delay or limit our ability to obtain regulatory approval for our product candidates” (page 10) and “If any of our product candidates for which we receive regulatory approval do not achieve broad market acceptance, the revenues that we generate from their sales will be limited” (page 12). Cadence believes the two separate discussions of the decreasing use of 10% povidone-iodine are helpful, specific examples of these two distinct risk factors. The potential delay in completion of clinical trials and the potential difficulties in achieving commercial market acceptance are distinct risks that Cadence believes should be discussed separately in order to provide potential investors with the appropriate context to understand the implications of the increasing replacement of 10% povidone-iodine with chlorhexidine in hospitals. Furthermore, because these two distinct risk factors related to clinical trial timing and commercial viability apply equally to both of Cadence’s product candidates (IV APAP and omiganan), a separate discussion specific only to omiganan would either create unnecessary repetition with the existing risk factor disclosure, or necessitate a similar separate risk factor for IV APAP. Accordingly, Cadence respectfully requests that the Staff reconsider this comment given the disclosure already provided in the Registration Statement under the two risk factors noted above.
Our product candidates may have undesirable side effects . . . , page 14
  11.   Please discuss any side effects or adverse events that have been observed in the clinical trials of your products to date.
Cadence’s Response: Cadence has disclosed in the risk factor identified by the Staff the undesirable side effects and other characteristics associated with acetaminophen and omiganan. For example, the risk factor indicates that acetaminophen has the potential to cause liver toxicity and that drug-related adverse events observed in clinical trials completed to date for omiganan have all been related to the skin. Please refer to page 14 of the Amendment.
If we breach any of the agreements under which we license rights . . . , page 15
  12.   We note you could lose your rights to IV APAP due to the actions of BMS in its relationship with SCR Pharmatop, which you presumably cannot control. Please discuss this issue in a separate risk factor.
Cadence’s Response: Cadence has revised the Amendment in accordance with the Staff’s comment. Please refer to the revisions on page 16 of the Amendment.
If the manufacturers upon whom we rely fail to produce . . . , page 16
  13.   We note you have contracted with BMS to manufacture clinical supplies of IV APAP.
    Is this a separate agreement from the agreement currently filed as exhibit 10.11? If it is, please file this agreement as an exhibit.

 


 

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Cadence’s Response: Cadence has previously considered whether the filing of its agreement for clinical supplies of IV APAP and placebo is a material contract for purposes of Item 601 of Regulation S-K. Because the agreement provides for only a single batch of IV APAP and a single batch of placebo, and no long-term commitment by either party, and because more than sufficient quantities of IV APAP and placebo have already been manufactured for purposes of all planned clinical trials for this product candidate, Cadence does not view the agreement as a material contract. Furthermore, Cadence purchases clinical quantities of its product candidates in the ordinary course of its business and does not view the clinical quantity supply agreement to be material to Cadence in amount or significance. However, Cadence would view any subsequent agreement providing for the long-term supply of commercial supplies (as opposed to clinical supplies) as a material contract and would expect to file as an exhibit any such supply agreement, if and when Cadence negotiates such an agreement in the future. Cadence has disclosed in the Registration Statement that it is seeking to establish a source for long-term supply of commercial quantities of IV APAP.
    Please discuss in the “Manufacturing” section of your Business section on page 66 the material terms of the manufacturing contract with BMS.
Cadence’s Response: As noted above, all quantities of IV APAP and placebo have already been manufactured, for purposes of all planned clinical trials for IV APAP. Cadence has revised the Amendment to make clear that the clinical supply agreement provides for only a single batch of clinical supplies of IV APAP and a single batch of placebo. Cadence has also revised the Amendment to disclose the termination provisions for the clinical supply agreement. Please refer to the revisions on pages 17 and 69 of the Amendment. However, Cadence would expect to describe the terms of any commercial supply agreement if and when it negotiates such an agreement in the future.
    Please disclose in the risk factor when BMS’s manufacturing obligation ends and the circumstances under which it can be terminated.
Cadence’s Response: Cadence has revised the Amendment in accordance with the Staff’s comment. Please refer to the revisions on page 17 of the Amendment.
We will need to increase the size of our organization . . . , page 18
  14.   Please state how many additional employees you anticipate you will need. Also state the anticipated additional cost.
Cadence’s Response: Cadence respectfully submits to the Staff that any estimate of the number of additional employees or the anticipated additional costs would be speculative and potentially misleading. Cadence believes the current disclosure sufficiently advises prospective investors that Cadence will need to expend resources in its efforts to increase the size of its organization as its product candidates advance through clinical trials and the company prepares for potential regulatory approval and commercialization. The additional bullet points in the risk factor identified by the Staff are intended to provide a specific discussion of tasks Cadence will need to implement to effectively achieve its development and commercialization goals. The discussion

 


 

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of each of these tasks provides prospective investors with a general understanding of the challenges that Cadence will face in managing its future growth. Because the items described in this risk factor are inherently forward-looking, Cadence does not believe it is possible to provide a meaningful estimate of the number of additional employees or the anticipated costs of hiring additional employees at this time. However, Cadence continues to believe this particular risk factor, even without a specific forecast of additional employees and additional cost, is significant and worthy of consideration by prospective investors.
We may not be able to manage our business effectively if we are unable . . . , page 18
  15.   We note the loss of “one or more of the members of [your] senior management team or other key employees” could threaten the implementation of your business strategy. Please identify by name and title all individuals to whom you are referring. Also state whether you have employment agreements with each of these individuals.
Cadence’s Response: Cadence respectfully submits to the Staff that the loss of any one or more of the members of Cadence’s senior management team could be a significant loss to Cadence and could threaten the implementation of Cadence’s business strategy. Cadence believes that singling out any one particular member of the senior management team, or a subset of the senior management team, could lead prospective investors to incorrectly conclude that the loss of services of the individuals that are not listed in the risk factor may not have a material impact on Cadence’s business. Cadence has not specifically listed out the names and titles of each of the members of the senior management team because they are already listed in the “Management” section, and a full recitation of the names and titles could be unnecessarily repetitive. However, as the Staff requested, Cadence now refers in the risk factor to the employment agreements that are in place with its senior management. Please refer to page 18 of the Amendment.
Recent proposed legislation may permit re-importation of drugs . . . , page 19
  16.   So that this risk factor is more specific to your company’s situation, please discuss the possibility of IV APAP being sold in Europe and then re-imported to the United States. If this were to occur, would your company be entitled to receive any revenues from these sales?
Cadence’s Response: Cadence has revised the Amendment in accordance with the Staff’s comment. Please refer to page 20.
The patent rights that we have in-licensed covering IV APAP . . . , page 20
  17.   Based on this risk factor, it appears there are no patents for the drug acetaminophen. Please disclose this fact in the first full paragraph on page 2, where you discuss patent protection. Also disclose on page 2, if true, that the only patents to which you have rights relate to the process and formulation, and there may be competing processes and formulations that are not covered by the patents.

 


 

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Cadence’s Response: Cadence respectfully submits to the Staff that the “Risk Factors” section of the prospectus summary is the appropriate section for disclosures related to risks as potential investors would likely first turn to this section for an overview of the risks associated with Cadence’s business. Accordingly, Cadence has revised the “Risk Factors” section of the prospectus summary in response to the Staff’s comment. Please refer to the revisions on page 4 of the Amendment.
We depend on our licensors for the maintenance . . . , page 21
  18.   To the extent you are aware that you have any intellectual property that is being infringed upon or that you have been notified of a third party’s belief that you are infringing on their intellectual property, please revise this risk factor or “If we are sued for infringing intellectual property rights of third parties. . .” on page 23, as applicable, to disclose the situation and potential consequences.
Cadence’s Response: Cadence supplementally advises the Staff that it is not aware of any infringement of its intellectual property by a third party. Further, Cadence has not been notified by a third party that Cadence is infringing upon any intellectual property rights of such third party. Accordingly, no revisions have been made to the risk factor referenced in the Staff’s comment.
We will incur increased costs as a result of changes in laws and regulations. . . , page 27
  19.   As currently worded, this risk factor and “We may become involved in securities class action litigation . . .” on page 30 could apply to any public company. Please revise these two risk factors so they describe your situation more specifically.
Cadence’s Response: Cadence has revised the Amendment in accordance with the Staff’s comment. Please refer to the revisions on pages 27 and 31 of the Amendment.
Future sales of our common stock may depress our stock price. . . , page 29
  20.   Please disclose the number of shares subject to lock-up agreements and Rule 144 restrictions, and state when the agreements and restrictions expire. Also, state how many shares have registration rights and when you are obligated to register the resale offering.
Cadence’s Response: Cadence has revised the Amendment in accordance with the Staff’s comment. Please refer to the revisions on page 30 of the Amendment.
Use of Proceeds, page 33
  21.   Please describe with more specificity the uses currently described as “working capital, capital expenditures and other general corporate purposes.” State the approximate amount you plan to use on each of these purposes.

 


 

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Cadence’s Response: Cadence has revised the Amendment to provide an approximate dollar amount of the net proceeds intended to be used to fund clinical trials for its two product candidates and other research and development activities: $58.0 million. Please refer to page 34 of the Amendment. Cadence supplementally advises the Staff that this amount represents approximately 80% of the anticipated net proceeds from the offering, assuming net proceeds of approximately $72.5 million. Page 34 of the Amendment also indicates that any residual proceeds are expected to be used for working capital, capital expenditures and other general corporate purposes. Because the residual proceeds are expected to represent not more than approximately 20% of the anticipated net proceeds, Cadence respectfully submits to the Staff that any additional detail on these general purposes should not be viewed as material to an investor’s understanding of the principal uses of proceeds from the offering. If the ultimate net proceeds realized from the offering is less than this currently projected amount, the portion allocated to clinical trials and research and development will represent an even larger percentage of the total net proceeds. Furthermore, Cadence already discloses to investors that its management will retain broad discretion over the use of proceeds from the offering in both the “Use of Proceeds” section and “Risk Factors – Our management team may invest or spend the proceeds of this offering in ways in which you may not agree or in ways which may not yield a return.” Finally, Cadence draws the Staff’s attention to the revisions in the Amendment which confirm that Cadence anticipates that the net proceeds from the offering, together with its existing cash and cash equivalents, will allow it to complete the clinical trials necessary to support NDA filings for IV APAP and omiganan. With this detailed disclosure concerning the stage of clinical development expected to be achieved from the proceeds of the offering, coupled with the precise dollar amount for the largest anticipated use of proceeds, Cadence respectfully submits to the Staff that no further detail is necessary to adequately inform investors of the material anticipated use of proceeds from the offering.
  22.   Based on the discussion in the third paragraph of this section, it appears the development of IV APAP is less predictable than the development of omiganan. Please clarify why.
Cadence’s Response: Cadence has revised the Amendment in accordance with the Staff’s comment. Please refer to the revisions on page 34 of the Amendment. Cadence respectfully submits to the Staff that since initially filing the Registration Statement on July 17, 2006, Cadence now has more visibility on the costs associated with the clinical development plan for IV APAP due to the recent meeting with the FDA on August 14, 2006, as discussed in more detail in the “Business” section on page 60 of the Amendment.
  23.   We note you do not know the total costs for IV APAP. Please state approximately how much of the funds from this offering you plan to put toward IV APAP. Also state how much you plan to use on omiganan.
Cadence’s Response: Cadence has also revised the Amendment on page 34 to confirm that Cadence anticipates that the net proceeds from the offering, together with its existing cash and cash equivalents, will allow it to complete the clinical trials necessary to support NDA filings for IV APAP and omiganan. Because the anticipated net proceeds from the offering are expected to

 


 

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allow Cadence to complete clinical development of both IV APAP and omiganan sufficient to support an NDA submission, and because Cadence discloses an aggregate amount of proceeds to be devoted to clinical trial and research and development activities, Cadence respectfully submits to the Staff that the allocation of proceeds between the two development programs is not necessary for investors to understand the anticipated development stage of Cadence following the offering.
Management’s discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Results of Operations, page 44
  24.   Please clarify why you had more legal fees, other professional fees, and consulting fees during the first quarter of 2006 than during the first quarter of 2005. What business activities were these fees associated with?
Cadence’s Response: Cadence has revised the Amendment in accordance with the Staff’s comment to refer specifically to the IV APAP program and Cadence’s new facility lease, which were the business activities that led to an increase of legal fees, other professional fees, and consulting fees during the first quarter of 2006 than during the first quarter of 2005. Please refer to the revisions on page 45 of the Amendment.
Business
Our Product Development Programs, page 52
  25.   We note from footnote (1) to the product development table at the top of page 53 that BMS completed Phase III clinical trials for IV APAP in the United States. Please clarify why you believe additional clinical trials will be necessary for IV APAP in the United States. Why are BMS’s trials not sufficient?
Cadence’s Response: Cadence has revised the Amendment to describe the planned clinical trial development program for IV APAP in accordance with the Staff’s comment. Please refer to the revisions to the product candidate summary table on page 54 of the Amendment and the discussion of the recent guidance from the FDA on the planned clinical trials for IV APAP on page 60 of the Amendment.
Clinical Development History, page 56
  26.   We note the reference in the penultimate paragraph on page 57 to a phase IV study. Typically, phase IV studies are done after marketing approval. Therefore, please clarify why this phase IV study took place.
Cadence’s Response: Cadence advises the Staff that because IV APAP has been approved by the applicable regulatory authorities for marketing in Europe by BMS, the Phase IV study referred to on page 58 of the Amendment is properly characterized as a post-marketing study.

 


 

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IV APAP Agreement, page 65
  27.   We note the agreement will terminate if the BMS-Pharmatop agreement terminates. Please discuss the term and termination provisions of the BMS-Pharmatop agreement.
Cadence’s Response: Cadence has revised the Amendment in accordance with the Staff’s comment. Please refer to the revisions on page 67 of the Amendment.
  28.   Please explain what the event is that is currently described in the third paragraph of this section as “an event that relates to our territory.”
Cadence’s Response: Cadence has revised the Amendment in accordance with the Staff’s comment. Please refer to the revisions on page 67 of the Amendment.
Principal Stockholders, page 91
  29.   Please identify the natural persons who are the beneficial owners of the shares held by Technology Partners and BB Biotech.
Cadence’s Response: Cadence has revised the Amendment in accordance with the Staff’s comment to include the identities of the natural persons who are the beneficial owners of the shares held by Technology Partners and BB Biotech. Please refer to the revisions on page 96 of the Amendment.
Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions, page 95
  30.   Please file as exhibits the agreements underlying all of the transactions discussed in this section.
Cadence’s Response: Cadence has filed as an exhibit the form of amended and restated common stock purchase agreement underlying an aggregate of 3,600,000 shares of common stock issued to Theodore R. Schroeder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Cadence, David A. Socks, Vice President, Business Development of Cadence, and a limited liability company affiliated with Cadence’s Chairman, Cam L. Garner. Please refer to Exhibit 10.6 of the Amendment. With respect to the underlying agreements related to investor rights, indemnification, employment and stock option grants, please refer to Exhibits 4.2, 10.1, 10.2 and 10.3, respectively, of the Amendment. Cadence respectfully submits to the Staff that there are no other agreements referenced in the “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions” section that are material to Cadence in amount or significance.
  31.   So that investors can better understand the terms of the preferred stock issuances, please explain the rights that the Series A-1, A-2, and A-3 preferred stock entail.

 


 

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Cadence’s Response: Cadence respectfully submits to the Staff that upon the closing of the proposed initial public offering, all of Cadence’s preferred stock will convert into shares of common stock. Please refer to the discussion related to the conversion of the preferred stock in the “Description of Capital Stock” section on page 102 of the Amendment. Accordingly, Cadence does not believe a detailed description of the terms of the preferred stock would be material to potential investors. Moreover, Cadence respectfully submits to the Staff that the terms of the Series A-1, A-2 and A-3 preferred stock are already discussed in the Notes to Financial Statements in the “Convertible Preferred Stock” section on page F-15 of the Amendment.
  32.   Please state the names of the “certain investors” who advanced $500,000 to the company in 2004.
Cadence’s Response: Cadence has revised the Amendment in accordance with the Staff’s comment. Please refer to the revisions on page 101 of the Amendment.
Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations to Non-U.S. Holders, page 106
  33.   Please replace the word “certain” with “all” in the first sentence of this section. Your should describe all material tax considerations.
Cadence’s Response: Cadence has revised the Amendment to eliminate the word “certain.” Please refer to the revisions on page 101 of the Amendment.
  34.   [sic] their own tax advisors. We do not object to stating that you “urge” them to do so. Similarly revise the last paragraph on page 108.
Cadence’s Response: Cadence has revised the Amendment in accordance with the Staff’s comment. Please refer to the revisions on pages 109 and 111 of the Amendment.
  35.   Please delete the first two sentences from the last paragraph on page 108. These sentences appear to disclaim responsibility for information in your filing.
Cadence’s Response: Cadence has revised the Amendment in accordance with the Staff’s comment. Please refer to the revisions on page 111 of the Amendment.
Notes to Financial Statements, page F-7
4. Related Party Transactions, page F-13
  36.   Your disclosures indicate that you have issued only 8,085,108 shares of Series A-1 preferred stock. Many of your disclosures suggest that you issued all of these shares for cash, while your disclosure here suggests that some of the shares were instead issued as repayment for advanced pre-operating expenses and an exclusivity fee due for the collaboration and license agreement with Migenix. Please revise your

 


 

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      disclosures to resolve this apparent discrepancy. To the extent shares were issued as repayment, please:
    Disclose the number of these shares and the value assigned to them, as required by paragraph 11(d) of SFAS 7,
Cadence’s Response: Cadence has revised the Amendment in accordance with the Staff’s comment. Please refer to the revisions on page F-13 of the Amendment.
    Ensure that the amount you disclose as cash flows from financing activities complies with SFAS 95, and
Cadence’s Response: Cadence respectfully submits to the Staff that the cash flows from financing activities in the Registration Statement as originally filed comply with SFAS 95. In accordance with the Staff Accounting Bulletin Topic 5T (SAB 79), Accounting for Expense or Liabilities Paid by Principal Stockholder(s), certain transactions undertaken by a stockholder on behalf of Cadence were recorded as if they had been transacted directly by Cadence. In particular, 531,915 shares of Series A-1 preferred stock issued directly to a stockholder in settlement of $500,000 paid on behalf of Cadence by that stockholder were valued at $0.94 per share, the price paid by new Series A-1 investors and recorded as a $500,000 cash investment in Series A-1 and a corresponding cash payment of $500,000 for operating expenses.
    Provide the disclosures required by paragraph 32 of SFAS 95 about non-cash financing activities.
Cadence’s Response: Cadence has revised the Amendment in accordance with the Staff’s comment. Please refer to the revisions on page F-6 of the Amendment.
6. License Agreements and Acquired Development and Commercialization Rights, page F-14
  37.   Based on your disclosure, it appears that you allocated only approximately $0.16 to each share of Migenix stock that you acquired. As it appears that shares of Migenix stock was then trading at significantly more than $0.16 per share, please tell us why your allocation of the up-front fee was appropriate or revise your financial statements to correct the allocation.
Cadence’s Response: Cadence respectfully submits to the Staff that it believes the $100,000 valuation of the Migenix stock on the date the shares were acquired was appropriate. In July 2004, Cadence completed the negotiations with Migenix to in-license rights to omiganan. As a condition to completing the transaction, Migenix required Cadence to acquire 617,284 shares of Migenix stock at a stated value of $500,000. The stock of Migenix was and continues to be thinly traded and has been declining in value consistently since July 2004 from $0.84 at July 31, 2004 to $0.35 at June 30, 2006. Cadence concluded that it could not easily dispose of the shares due to the illiquid market and to do so could be contrary to maintaining a positive relationship

 


 

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with its collaborative partner, Migenix. In addition, based on the knowledge of Migenix’s operations, Cadence believed it would be highly unlikely that it would realize the value of the Migenix equity securities in the foreseeable future. Therefore, with the concurrence of Cadence’s audit committee, Cadence allocated $100,000 of the $500,000 stipulated for the Migenix stock to the cost of the stock and $400,000 as additional cost of obtaining the license since Cadence would not have acquired the stock had it not been required to do so to complete the transaction to acquire the license. Based on the lack of liquidity for the Migenix stock, the $100,000 was the best estimate of value that Cadence might receive for the shares if it was forced to sell the shares.
In addition, Cadence does not believe that any alternative accounting would have a material impact on Cadence’s financial statements or a reader’s ability to understand Cadence’s financial results or condition.
7. Stockholders’ Equity, page f-15
Convertible Preferred Stock, page F-15
  38.   Please disclose how and under what circumstances the initial conversion ratio is subject to adjustment. In addition, please disclosure whether and by how much it has been adjusted.
Cadence’s Response: Cadence has revised the Amendment in accordance with the Staff’s comment to include how and under what circumstances the initial conversion ratio of the convertible preferred stock is subject to adjustment and to disclose whether and by how much it has been adjusted. Please refer to the revisions on page F-15 of the Amendment.
Stock Options, page F-16
  39.   We noted that you had considered the guidance in the AICPA Practice Aid, Valuation of Private-Held-Company Securities Issued as Compensation. We also noted that, subsequent to your licensing of IV APAP and the initiation of your IPO process, you took into consideration a contemporaneous independent valuation. Please revise these disclosures to further clarify whether you simply considered it or you followed it and to what extent. For example, it is unclear whether your consideration of it solely resulted in your determinations of fair value being contemporaneous or if the determinations were made in accordance with it. To the extent that you followed it, please tell us how you followed it and cite the specific paragraphs within it that support how you determined the fair value of the common stock.
Cadence’s Response: Cadence has revised the Amendment in accordance with the Staff’s comment to include further clarification that Cadence engaged an independent valuation specialist to provide a valuation report taking into consideration the recommendations of the AICPA Practice Aid. Please refer to the revisions on page F-16 of the Amendment. Cadence reviewed the report of the valuation specialist and utilized the recommended common stock valuation without adjustment. As required under Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal

 


 

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Practice, the valuation specialist considered the market, income and asset-based approaches in preparation of its valuation report. Ultimately, the valuation report utilizes a market approach to determine the common stock valuation and further supports the reasonableness of this valuation by comparing the implied internal rate of return to published information regarding required rates of returns on investments in early-stage companies.
  40.   As you had considered the guidance in the AICPA Practice Aid and as you did not indicate that you considered a contemporaneous independent valuation prior to your licensing of IV APAP, please provide the disclosures recommended by paragraphs 179 and 182 of the AICPA Practice Aid to the extent that you have not already provided them.
Cadence’s Response: Cadence has revised the Amendment in accordance with the Staff’s comment to expand the disclosures in the financial statements and in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” to comply with the required disclosures in paragraphs 179 and 182 of the AICPA Practice Aid. Please refer to the revisions on pages F-17 and 44 of the Amendment.
Item 15. Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities, page II-2
  41.   We note that a press release dated October 11, 2005 on your website discusses a sale of $25 million of Series A Preferred Stock. Please explain to us why page 45 of the filing and this section mention only $17,675,347 during that approximate time period, and revise your filing as appropriate.
Cadence’s Response: Cadence respectfully submits to the Staff that the October 11, 2005 press release describes the aggregate proceeds from two closings in a single announcement, while the discussion in “Liquidity and Capital Resources” section on page 46 of the Amendment provides a more detailed discussion of the two closings. Pursuant to Cadence’s amended and restated Series A-1 and Series A-2 preferred stock purchase agreement dated September 30, 2005, Cadence issued and sold 8,085,108 shares of Series A-1 preferred stock and 17,675,347 shares of Series A-2 preferred stock for an aggregate total of $25.1 million. As discussed in the “Liquidity and Capital Resources” section on page 46 of the Amendment, the initial sale of the 8,085,108 shares of Series A-1 preferred stock occurred from July 2004 to August 2004 and the subsequent sale of the Series A-2 preferred stock occurred from June 2005 to September 2005. Cadence announced the combined closings from the sale of Series A-1 preferred stock and Series A-2 preferred stock in a single press release dated October 11, 2005.
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     Any comments or questions regarding the foregoing should be directed to the undersigned at (858) 523-5435. Thank you in advance for your cooperation in connection with this matter.
Very truly yours,
/s/  Cheston J. Larson
Cheston J. Larson
of LATHAM & WATKINS LLP
Enclosures
     
cc:
  Theodore R. Schroeder, Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
 
  William R. LaRue, Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
 
  David A. Socks, Cadence Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
 
  Faye H. Russell, Latham & Watkins LLP
 
  Mark B. Weeks, Heller Ehrman LLP
 
  Ross L. Burningham, Heller Ehrman LLP
 
  Richard Mejia, Jr., Ernst & Young LLP