0001591408-16-000017.txt : 20160125 0001591408-16-000017.hdr.sgml : 20160125 20160125194632 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001591408-16-000017 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20160121 FILED AS OF DATE: 20160125 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20160125 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ACUCELA INC. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001400482 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS [2834] IRS NUMBER: 020592619 FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1301 SECOND AVE. STREET 2: SUITE 4200 CITY: SEATTLE STATE: WA ZIP: 98101 BUSINESS PHONE: 206-805-8300 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1301 SECOND AVE. STREET 2: SUITE 4200 CITY: SEATTLE STATE: WA ZIP: 98101 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: Acucela Inc DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20070523 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: KUBOTA RYO CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001598575 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-55133 FILM NUMBER: 161359766 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1301 SECOND AVE., SUITE 4200 CITY: SEATTLE STATE: WA ZIP: 98101 4 1 primary_doc.xml PRIMARY DOCUMENT X0306 4 2016-01-21 0 0001400482 ACUCELA INC. M?????? 0001598575 KUBOTA RYO 1301 SECOND AVE., SUITE 4200 SEATTLE WA 98101 1 1 1 0 CEO, President and COB Non-Qualified Stock Option (right to buy) 9.22 2016-01-21 4 A 0 747462 0 A 2026-01-21 Common Stock 747462 747462 D Incentive Stock Option (right to buy) 10.14 2016-01-21 4 A 0 32538 0 A 2021-01-21 Common Stock 32538 32538 D Fifty percent (50%) of the total options granted (both incentive and non-qualified) are scheduled to vest incrementally over a three year period from the January 21, 2016 option grant date ("Time Vesting Stock Options"), while the remaining fifty percent (50%) of the total options granted are scheduled to vest incrementally based on the closing market price of the issuer's common stock on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. All of the options determined to be incentive stock options are Time Vesting Stock Options. The issuer's common stock trades on the Tokyo Stock Exchange under the symbol referenced in the Issuer's registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-192900) /s/John Gebhart as attorney - in-fact for Ryo Kubota 2016-01-22