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): March 16, 2020

Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware	001-38599	82-3827296
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)	(Commission File Number)	(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

30 Technology Drive

Warren, NJ 07059

(908) 941-1900

(Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)

Not Applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class	Trading Symbol(s)	Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share	AQST	Nasdaq Global Market

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§ 230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§ 240.12b-2 of this chapter).

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Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Contract

Effective as of March 16, 2020, Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into a first amendment (the “Amendment”) to the License Agreement (the “Agreement’), dated as of April 1, 2016, with Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. (formerly, Cynapsus Therapeutics Inc., and referred to herein as “Sunovion”). The Amendment was entered into for the primary purpose of amending the Agreement as follows: (i) including the United Kingdom and any other country currently in the European Union (EU) which later withdraws as a member country in the EU for purposes of determining the satisfaction of the conditions triggering the obligation to pay the third milestone due under the Agreement, (ii) extending the date after which Sunovion has the right to terminate the Agreement for convenience from December 31, 2024 to March 31, 2028, (iii) modifying the date the first minimum annual royalty is due to be paid by Sunovion to the Company from January 1, 2020 to April 1, 2020, and (iv) modifying the termination provisions to reflect the Company’s waiver of the right to terminate the Agreement in the event that the licensed product was not commercialized by January 1, 2020.

The foregoing description is only a summary of certain provisions of the Amendment and is qualified in its entirety by reference to a copy of the Amendment, which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8‑K and is incorporated by reference herein.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits

(d) Exhibits.

Exhibit Number	Description
10.1*	First Amendment to License Agreement, effective as of March 16, 2020, by and between Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc. and Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. (formerly, Cynapsus Therapeutics, Inc.)

* Portions of this exhibit have been omitted pursuant to Rule 601(b)(10) of Regulation S-K. The omitted information is not material and would likely cause competitive harm to the registrant if publicly disclosed.

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.

Dated: March 20, 2020	Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc.
	By:	/s/ John T. Maxwell
		Name: John T. Maxwell
		Title: Chief Financial Officer