0001144204-17-000308.txt : 20170103 0001144204-17-000308.hdr.sgml : 20170103 20170103183451 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001144204-17-000308 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20170103 FILED AS OF DATE: 20170103 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20170103 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: AVADEL PHARMACEUTICALS PLC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001012477 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS [2834] IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: BLOCK 10-1 BLANCHARDSTOWN CORPORATE PARK STREET 2: BALLYCOOLIN CITY: DUBLIN STATE: L2 ZIP: 15 BUSINESS PHONE: 636-449-1830 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 16640 CHESTERFIELD GROVE ROAD STREET 2: SUITE 200 CITY: CHESTERFIELD STATE: MO ZIP: 63005 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: FLAMEL TECHNOLOGIES SA DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19960422 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: KANAN MICHAEL F CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001461953 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 3 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-28508 FILM NUMBER: 17503179 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 3050 SPRUCE STREET CITY: ST. LOUIS STATE: MO ZIP: 63103 3 1 v455877_3.xml OWNERSHIP DOCUMENT X0206 3 2017-01-03 1 0001012477 AVADEL PHARMACEUTICALS PLC AVDL 0001461953 KANAN MICHAEL F BLOCK 10-1, BLANCHARDSTOWN CORPORATE PARK, BALLYCOOLIN DUBLIN 15 L2 IRELAND 0 1 0 0 See Remarks Sr. VP, Chief Financial Officer /s/ Phillandas T. Thompson as attorney in fact for Michael F. Kanan 2017-01-03 EX-24 2 v455877_ex24.htm EXHIBIT 24

Exhibit 24

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints Phillandas T. Thompson, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Avadel Pharmaceuticals plc, an Irish public limited company (the “Company”), with full power of substitution and re-substitution, to act as the undersigned’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

(1)

prepare, execute in the undersigned’s name and on the undersigned’s behalf, and submit to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) a Form ID, including amendments thereto, and any other documents necessary or appropriate to obtain and/or regenerate codes, passwords, and passphrases enabling the undersigned to make electronic filings with the SEC of reports required by Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or any related rule or regulation of the SEC;

(2)

execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned’s capacity as a director and/or executive officer, as applicable, of the Company, Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act and the rules thereunder;

(3)

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 Form 3, 4, or 5, complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such forms and amendments with the SEC and any securities exchange or similar authority; and

(4)

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 of, 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 such 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 and re-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 attorney-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, is not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned’s responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Exchange Act and the rules thereunder.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 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 attorney-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this First day of January 2017.

/s/ Michael F. Kanan

Michael F. Kanan