Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:SCMP) Files An 8-K Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement

On September 5, 2017, Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the Company) and Four Irvington Centre Associates, LLC entered into a second amendment to the Lease Agreement for the Company’s corporate headquarters at Four Irvington Centre (the Second Amendment). The Second Amendment expands the leased premises at 805 King Farm Boulevard in Rockville, Maryland to 37,105 rentable square feet and increases the annual rent to approximately $1,147,000, subject to annual increases over the term of the lease, and excluding the Company's pro rata share of certain real property taxes, operating expenses, common area maintenance expenses and allowances for tenant improvements. The Second Amendment does not change any other material terms of the lease.

The foregoing description of the Second Amendment does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Second Amendment, which will be filed as an exhibit to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal period ending September 30, 2017.

About Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:SCMP)

Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company. The Company focuses on research and development of drugs to treat gastrointestinal, ophthalmic and oncology-based inflammatory disorders. It operates through development and commercialization of pharmaceutical products segment. Its operations are conducted through Sucampo AG, based in Zug, Switzerland, through which the Company conducts certain worldwide and European operations; Sucampo Pharma, LLC, based in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan and R-Tech Ueno, Ltd., based in Kobe, Japan, through which the Company conducts its Asian operations; Sucampo Pharma Americas LLC, based in Rockville, Maryland, through which the Company conducts operations in North and South America, and Sucampo Pharma Europe, Ltd., based in Oxford, the United Kingdom. It offers AMITIZA for the treatment of constipation and RESCULA for the lowering of intraocular pressure (IOP). Its products under development include cobiprostone, RTU-1096 and RTU-009.

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Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:SCMP) closed its last trading session up +0.05 at 12.35 with 366,567 shares trading hands.