8-K

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): December 16, 2014

 

 

Idera Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   001-31918   04-3072298

(State or Other Jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

  

(Commission

File Number)

  

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

167 Sidney Street

Cambridge, Massachusetts

   02139
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (617) 679-5500

 

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

 

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

 

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

 

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Item 8.01. Other Events.

On December 16, 2014, Participations Besancon converted 110,901 shares of Idera Pharmaceuticals, Inc.’s (the “Company”) Series E convertible preferred stock (“Series E preferred stock”) into 2,218,020 shares of the Company’s common stock in accordance with the terms of the Company’s Certificate of Designations, Preferences and Rights of Series E Preferred Stock. Upon such conversion, no shares of the Company’s Series E preferred stock remained outstanding.

Pillar Invest Corporation has advised the Company that on December 12, 2014, December 15, 2014 and December 16, 2014, Pillar Pharmaceuticals I, L.P., Pillar Pharmaceuticals II, L.P., Pillar Pharmaceuticals III, L.P. and Pillar Pharmaceuticals IV, L.P. sold an aggregate of 1,101,751 shares of the Company’s common stock.

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

    Idera Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Date: December 17, 2014     By:  

/s/ Louis J. Arcudi, III

      Louis J. Arcudi, III
      Senior Vice President of Operations, Chief
      Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary