UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): October 12, 2016

 

ALKERMES PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

 

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: +353-1-772-8000

 

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):

 

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Item 1.01                                           Entry into a Definitive Material Agreement.

 

On October 12, 2016, Alkermes plc (the “Company”), Alkermes, Inc., and certain other subsidiaries of the Company entered into an Amendment (the “Amendment”) to the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of September 16, 2011 and amended and restated on September 25, 2012, as further amended by Amendment No. 2 on February 14, 2013 and as amended by Amendment No. 3 and Waiver to Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of May 22, 2013 (the “Credit Agreement”), by and among Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. (“MSSF”), as administrative agent and collateral agent, Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as co-syndication agents, and the financial institutions party thereto as lenders. MSSF acted as sole arranger on this transaction.

 

The Amendment amends the Credit Agreement to, among other things, extend the maturity date of the approximately $286 million outstanding term loan by two years to September 25, 2021 and make certain other modifications to the Credit Agreement. The interest rate applicable to the extended term loans was unchanged from the existing term loans.

 

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SIGNATURE

 

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

 

		ALKERMES PLC
Date: October 13, 2016	By:	/s/ James M. Frates
		James M. Frates
		Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

 

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