0001193125-12-158077.txt : 20120411 0001193125-12-158077.hdr.sgml : 20120411 20120411084851 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-12-158077 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20120409 ITEM INFORMATION: Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers FILED AS OF DATE: 20120411 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20120411 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: REPLIGEN CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000730272 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS (NO DIAGNOSTIC SUBSTANCES) [2836] IRS NUMBER: 042729386 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-14656 FILM NUMBER: 12753207 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 41 SEYON STREET STREET 2: BUILDING 1, SUITE 100 CITY: WALTHAM STATE: MA ZIP: 02453 BUSINESS PHONE: 7814499560 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 41 SEYON STREET STREET 2: BUILDING 1, SUITE 100 CITY: WALTHAM STATE: MA ZIP: 02453 8-K 1 d332241d8k.htm FORM 8-K Form 8-K

 

 

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): April 9, 2012

 

 

REPLIGEN CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   0-14656   04-2729386

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

  

(Commission

File Number)

  

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

41 Seyon Street, Bldg. 1, Suite 100, Waltham, MA   02453
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code (781) 250-0111

 

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

 

 

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):

 

¨ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

¨ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

¨ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

¨ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

 

 

Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

 

(d) Election of Michael A. Griffith to the Board of Directors.

On April 9, 2012, Repligen Corporation (the “Company”) increased the size of its Board of Directors from seven to eight members and appointed Michael A. Griffith as a director of the Company. Mr. Griffith is currently CEO and director at Laureate Biopharma. For his services as a director of the Company, Mr. Griffith will be compensated consistent with the Company’s current non-employee director compensation policy, although his initial award of an option to purchase 24,000 shares of the Company’s common stock will be delayed until the Company’s 2012 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Mr. Griffith was not appointed to any committees of the Board of Directors.

SIGNATURES

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.

 

  REPLIGEN CORPORATION
Dated: April 11, 2012   By:  

/s/ Walter C. Herlihy

    Walter C. Herlihy
    President and Chief Executive Officer