0001005201-18-000017.txt : 20181204 0001005201-18-000017.hdr.sgml : 20181204 20181204110537 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001005201-18-000017 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20181201 FILED AS OF DATE: 20181204 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20181204 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: HIGGINS ARTHUR J CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001142083 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS (NO DIAGNOSTIC SUBSTANCES) [2836] STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0630 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-13111 FILM NUMBER: 181215688 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: C/O ZIMMER, INC. STREET 2: P.O. BOX 708 CITY: WARSAW STATE: IN ZIP: 46580 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Assertio Therapeutics, Inc CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001005201 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS [2834] IRS NUMBER: 943229046 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 100 SOUTH SAUNDERS RD STREET 2: SUITE 300 CITY: LAKE FOREST STATE: IL ZIP: 60045 BUSINESS PHONE: (224) 419-7106 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 100 SOUTH SAUNDERS RD STREET 2: SUITE 300 CITY: LAKE FOREST STATE: IL ZIP: 60045 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: DEPOMED INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19970408 4 1 wf-form4_154393951707423.xml FORM 4 X0306 4 2018-12-01 0 0001005201 Assertio Therapeutics, Inc ASRT 0001142083 HIGGINS ARTHUR J ASSERTIO THERAPEUTICS, INC. 100 SOUTH SAUNDERS ROAD, SUITE 300 LAKE FOREST IL 60045 1 1 0 0 Director, President and CEO Common Stock 2018-12-01 4 M 0 34861 0 A 54621 D Common Stock 2018-12-01 4 F 0 10215 4.99 D 44406 D Common Stock 3000 I By Child Common Stock 90000 I By Trust Restricted Stock Units 2018-12-01 4 M 0 34861 0 D 2020-12-01 Common Stock 34861.0 69720 D Represents shares of common stock withheld for payment of taxes upon the vesting of restricted stock units. Each restricted stock unit represents a contingent right to receive one share of the registrant's common stock These restricted stock units are scheduled to vest 25% on December 1, 2017, 25% on December 1, 2018, 25% on December 1, 2019 and 25% on December 1, 2020. The derivative securities were granted to the reporting person, and were not sold to the reporting person. As such, the reporting person did not pay any consideration for the derivative securities. /s/ Erin R. McQuade, attorney in fact 2018-12-04 EX-24 2 ex-24.htm HIGGINS POA

POWER OF ATTORNEY
Assertio Therapeutics, Inc.

The undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints K. Amar Murugan, Erin R. McQuade and Paul Schwichtenberg, individually, as the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

(1)    execute and deliver on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as an officer and/or director of Assertio Therapeutics, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), any and all documents relating to insider reporting requirements under Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including, without limitation, the execution and filing of all Forms ID, 3, 4 and 5 (collectively, the "Section 16 Filings"),

(2)    do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Section 16 Filings, complete and execute any amendments thereto, and timely file such form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and

(3)    take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to the attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Section 16 Filings with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 28th day of November, 2018.

/s/ Arthur J. Higgins
Arthur J. Higgins