<SEC-DOCUMENT>0000950170-23-027371.txt : 20230612
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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0000950170-23-027371
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	DEFA14A
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
FILED AS OF DATE:		20230612
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20230612

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Alkermes plc.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001520262
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS [2834]
		IRS NUMBER:				981007018
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		DEFA14A
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-35299
		FILM NUMBER:		231007205

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		CONNAUGHT HOUSE
		STREET 2:		1 BURLINGTON ROAD
		CITY:			DUBLIN 4
		STATE:			L2
		ZIP:			00000
		BUSINESS PHONE:		00-353-1-772-8000

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		CONNAUGHT HOUSE
		STREET 2:		1 BURLINGTON ROAD
		CITY:			DUBLIN 4
		STATE:			L2
		ZIP:			00000

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	ANTLER SCIENCE TWO PLC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20110804

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	Antler Science Two Ltd
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20110509
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If those royalties are included, then Alkermes would have achieved an </font><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;font-style:italic;min-width:fit-content;">operating profit</font><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;"> of approximately $50 million in 2022, representing an improvement of approximately $225 million in operating profit since 2019 on an increase in revenues of $135 million over that same period </font></div></div><div style="margin-left:0.33958333333333335in;text-indent:0.0pt;display:flex;margin-top:6.0pt;justify-content:flex-start;align-items:baseline;margin-bottom:3.0pt;min-width:0.3402777777777778in;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;text-indent:0;display:inline-flex;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman;justify-content:flex-start;min-width:4.7521786492374725%;">&#x2713;</font><div style="display:inline;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;">Alkermes has proven its R&amp;D capabilities with two recent approvals of internally developed products, LYBALVI and VUMERITY</font><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);top:-5.628pt;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:8.040000000000001pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;position:relative;min-width:fit-content;">&#174;</font><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;">, which together generated $649 million in 2022 net sales, and $212 million in revenues to Alkermes. In fact, Alkermes is one of the few mid-cap biotechnology companies to have succeeded in internally developing multiple products </font></div></div></td>
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    <td style="border-top:0.5pt solid rgba(0,0,0,1);background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-right:0.5pt solid rgba(0,0,0,1);word-break:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap;padding-left:0.08in;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:0.5pt solid rgba(0,0,0,1);padding-right:0.08in;"><p style="text-indent:0.0pt;font-size:12.0pt;margin-top:3.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:0.0pt;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:bold;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;">Sarissa had absolutely nothing to do with Alkermes&#x2019; profitability targets. Sarissa did not even approach Alkermes until a few days before the Company announced its December 2020 Value Enhancement Plan and well after Alkermes had arrived at its profitability targets following constructive dialogue with Elliott Management</font></p><div style="margin-left:0.33958333333333335in;text-indent:0.0pt;display:flex;margin-top:6.0pt;justify-content:flex-start;align-items:baseline;margin-bottom:0.0pt;min-width:0.3402777777777778in;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;text-indent:0;display:inline-flex;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman;justify-content:flex-start;min-width:4.7521786492374725%;">&#x2713;</font><div style="display:inline;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;">Alkermes announced its Value Enhancement Plan on December 10, 2020, following constructive dialogue with Elliott and other shareholders, and entry into a cooperation agreement between Alkermes and Elliott </font></div></div><div style="margin-left:0.33958333333333335in;text-indent:0.0pt;display:flex;margin-top:6.0pt;justify-content:flex-start;align-items:baseline;margin-bottom:0.0pt;min-width:0.3402777777777778in;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;text-indent:0;display:inline-flex;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman;justify-content:flex-start;min-width:4.7521786492374725%;">&#x2713;</font><div style="display:inline;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;">This was part of a broader effort by the Board focused on driving change that started in mid-2019, even before Sarissa became a shareholder</font></div></div><div style="margin-left:0.33958333333333335in;text-indent:0.0pt;display:flex;margin-top:6.0pt;justify-content:flex-start;align-items:baseline;margin-bottom:0.0pt;min-width:0.3402777777777778in;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;text-indent:0;display:inline-flex;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman;justify-content:flex-start;min-width:4.7521786492374725%;">&#x2713;</font><div style="display:inline;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;">Sarissa sent its first nomination notice on December 4, 2020, on the last day of the nomination window without any advance discussion or warning. At the time, the Company was already finalizing an agreement with Elliott and announced the settlement and the Company&#x2019;s Value Enhancement Plan only a few days later</font></div></div><div style="margin-left:0.33958333333333335in;text-indent:0.0pt;display:flex;margin-top:6.0pt;justify-content:flex-start;align-items:baseline;margin-bottom:0.0pt;min-width:0.3402777777777778in;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;text-indent:0;display:inline-flex;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman;justify-content:flex-start;min-width:4.7521786492374725%;">&#x2713;</font><div style="display:inline;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;">Sarissa learned about the details of the Value Enhancement Plan under a confidentiality agreement only three days before it was announced. At the time, Dr. Denner expressed frustration that Elliott was engaged with Alkermes &#x2013; an indication that he cares more about his own involvement than about the actual outcome for shareholders</font></div></div><div style="margin-left:0.33958333333333335in;text-indent:0.0pt;display:flex;margin-top:6.0pt;justify-content:flex-start;align-items:baseline;margin-bottom:3.0pt;min-width:0.3402777777777778in;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;text-indent:0;display:inline-flex;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman;justify-content:flex-start;min-width:4.7521786492374725%;">&#x2713;</font><div style="display:inline;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;">This Value Enhancement Plan also included Elliot&#x2019;s appointment of a mutually agreeable independent director which, contrary to Sarissa&#x2019;s claims, was </font><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;">not</font><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;"> tied to EBITDA targets (or any other metrics)</font><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);top:-5.628pt;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline;font-size:8.040000000000001pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;position:relative;min-width:fit-content;">[1]</font></div></div></td>
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Dr. Denner regularly claimed to have significant respect for Mr. Pops&#x2019; leadership and the Company&#x2019;s performance, and claimed to value their relationship, which is why the Board believed back then that it would be most productive to have Mr. Pops lead the discussions</font></div></div><div style="margin-left:0.33958333333333335in;text-indent:0.0pt;display:flex;margin-top:6.0pt;justify-content:flex-start;align-items:baseline;margin-bottom:0.0pt;min-width:0.3402777777777778in;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;text-indent:0;display:inline-flex;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman;justify-content:flex-start;min-width:4.7521786492374725%;">&#x2713;</font><div style="display:inline;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;">This belief was validated by the settlement reached between Mr. Pops and Dr. Denner in April 2021 that resulted in the appointment of Cato Laurencin, M.D., Ph.D. to the Board later that year</font></div></div><div style="margin-left:0.33958333333333335in;text-indent:0.0pt;display:flex;margin-top:6.0pt;justify-content:flex-start;align-items:baseline;margin-bottom:0.0pt;min-width:0.3402777777777778in;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;text-indent:0;display:inline-flex;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman;justify-content:flex-start;min-width:4.7521786492374725%;">&#x2713;</font><div style="display:inline;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;">It was only after Mr. Pops communicated the Board&#x2019;s decision in May 2022 not to include Dr. Denner on the Company&#x2019;s slate of directors that Dr. Denner started, both privately and publicly, to attack Mr. Pops and allege problematic governance practices </font></div></div><div style="margin-left:0.33958333333333335in;text-indent:0.0pt;display:flex;margin-top:6.0pt;justify-content:flex-start;align-items:baseline;margin-bottom:3.0pt;min-width:0.3402777777777778in;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;text-indent:0;display:inline-flex;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman;justify-content:flex-start;min-width:4.7521786492374725%;">&#x2713;</font><div style="display:inline;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;">At that time, the Board determined that it was more productive for independent directors to take the lead in the engagement with Dr. Denner and they have done so since</font></div></div></td>
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    <td style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-right:0.5pt solid rgba(0,0,0,1);word-break:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap;padding-left:0.08in;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:0.5pt solid rgba(0,0,0,1);padding-right:0.08in;"><p style="text-indent:0.0pt;font-size:12.0pt;margin-top:3.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman;margin-bottom:0.0pt;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:bold;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;">The unresolved allegations against Dr. Denner and Sarissa in the Bioverativ litigation are of understandable concern to the Alkermes Board, as they should be to any company&#x2019;s board</font></p><div style="margin-left:0.33958333333333335in;text-indent:0.0pt;display:flex;margin-top:6.0pt;justify-content:flex-start;align-items:baseline;margin-bottom:0.0pt;min-width:0.3402777777777778in;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;text-indent:0;display:inline-flex;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman;justify-content:flex-start;min-width:4.7521786492374725%;">&#x2713;</font><div style="display:inline;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;">While litigation against M&amp;A transactions is indeed common, it is not commonplace for one of these lawsuits to survive a motion to dismiss and go to trial in Delaware</font></div></div><div style="margin-left:0.33958333333333335in;text-indent:0.0pt;display:flex;margin-top:6.0pt;justify-content:flex-start;align-items:baseline;margin-bottom:0.0pt;min-width:0.3402777777777778in;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;text-indent:0;display:inline-flex;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman;justify-content:flex-start;min-width:4.7521786492374725%;">&#x2713;</font><div style="display:inline;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;">It is correct that at a motion to dismiss stage a judge must assume all facts presented by the plaintiffs as true. However, the undisputed facts alone are very troubling in the Bioverativ case.</font><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);top:-5.628pt;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline;font-size:8.040000000000001pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;position:relative;min-width:fit-content;">[2]</font><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;"> The full 126-page decision in the Bioverativ case can be found </font><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;">here</font></div></div><div style="margin-left:0.33958333333333335in;text-indent:0.0pt;display:flex;margin-top:6.0pt;justify-content:flex-start;align-items:baseline;margin-bottom:0.0pt;min-width:0.3402777777777778in;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;text-indent:0;display:inline-flex;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman;justify-content:flex-start;min-width:4.7521786492374725%;">&#x2713;</font><div style="display:inline;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;">The independent directors of Alkermes raised the Bioverativ litigation with Dr. Denner and asked him to share his perspective. When asked in 2022, he claimed he did not even know about the case, despite the significant media coverage of the decision. When asked in 2023, Dr. Denner casually dismissed the matter</font></div></div><div style="margin-left:0.33958333333333335in;text-indent:0.0pt;display:flex;margin-top:6.0pt;justify-content:flex-start;align-items:baseline;margin-bottom:0.0pt;min-width:0.3402777777777778in;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;text-indent:0;display:inline-flex;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman;justify-content:flex-start;min-width:4.7521786492374725%;">&#x2713;</font><div style="display:inline;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;">The judge in question, Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster, is the longest-tenured judge on the Court of Chancery in Delaware and widely recognized as one of the most respected business jurists in the nation</font></div></div><div style="margin-left:0.33958333333333335in;text-indent:0.0pt;display:flex;margin-top:6.0pt;justify-content:flex-start;align-items:baseline;margin-bottom:3.0pt;min-width:0.3402777777777778in;text-align:left;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;text-indent:0;display:inline-flex;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Times New Roman;justify-content:flex-start;min-width:4.7521786492374725%;">&#x2713;</font><div style="display:inline;"><font style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);color:rgba(0,0,0,1);white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;min-width:fit-content;">The Bioverativ case was only one of the reasons the Board decided not to recommend Dr. Denner as a director, but it is hard to see how a responsible Board can possibly disregard the serious, unresolved allegations from the litigation</font></div></div></td>
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