Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTPH) Files An 8-K Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement

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Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTPH) Files An 8-K Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement

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

Investors and security holders will be able to obtain free copies of the Registration Statement and the Proxy Statement/Prospectusand other documents filed with the SEC by the Company through the web site maintained by the SEC at www.sec.gov.

In addition, investors and security holders will be able to obtain free copies of the Registration Statement and the Proxy Statement/Prospectusfrom the Company upon written request to Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 480 Arsenal Way, Watertown, Massachusetts 02472, Attention: Investor Relations, by calling (866) 648-8133 or via email at [email protected]. The Company and its directors and executive officers may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies in respect of the transactions contemplated by the merger agreement. Information regarding the Company’s directors and executive officers is contained in the Company’s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019, which is filed with the SEC. These documents can be obtained free of charge from the sources listed above. Additional information regarding the direct and indirect interests of the Company’s directors and executive officers in the proposed transaction will be included in the Proxy Statement/Prospectus when it is filed with the SEC.

Forward-Looking Statements

Any statements in this Form 8-K regarding the proposed transaction between the Parent and the Company, the expected timetable for completing the transaction, future financial and operating results, benefits and synergies of the transaction, future opportunities for the combined company and any other statements about the Company management’s future expectations, beliefs, goals, plans or prospectus constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Any statements that are not statements of historical fact (including statements containing “believes,” “anticipates,” “plans,” “expects,” “may,” “will,” “would,” “intends,” “estimates,” and similar expressions), should also be considered to be forward-looking statements. There are a number of important factors that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements, including the risk that the proposed Merger may not be completed in a timely manner, or at all, which may adversely affect the Company’s business and the price of its common stock; the failure to satisfy all of the closing conditions of the proposed Merger, including the adoption of the Merger Agreement by the Company’s stockholders; the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstance that could give rise to the termination of the Merger Agreement; the effect of the announcement or pendency of the proposed Merger on the Company’s business, operating results, and relationships with customers, suppliers, competitors and others; risks that the proposed Merger may disrupt the Company’s current plans and business operations; potential difficulties retaining employees as a result of the proposed Merger; risks related to the diverting of management’s attention from the Company’s ongoing business operations; the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against the Company related to the Merger Agreement or the proposed Merger; risks relating to product development and commercialization, demand for the Company’s products and limited number of customers; risks associated with competition, and other commercial and other risk factors discussed in the “Risk Factors” section of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019 filed with the SEC on March 12, 2020. Any forward-looking statements contained in this Current Report on Form 8-K speak only as of the date hereof, and the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.


TETRAPHASE PHARMACEUTICALS INC Exhibit
EX-2.1 2 d888012dex21.htm EX-2.1 EX-2.1 Exhibit 2.1 EXECUTION VERSION       AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER among: ACELRX PHARMACEUTICALS,…
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About Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:TTPH)

Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Tetraphase) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. The Company uses its chemistry technology to create antibiotics for multidrug-resistant infections. It is developing its lead product candidate, eravacycline, a fully synthetic tetracycline derivative, as a spectrum intravenous (IV) and oral antibiotic for use as a first-line empiric monotherapy for the treatment of multidrug-resistant infections. It has developed eravacycline using its chemistry technology. The Company’s TP-271 is a fully synthetic spectrum preclinical compound that the Company developed for respiratory diseases caused by bacterial biothreat pathogens. The Company created TP-271 using its chemistry technology. In its development program for TP-271, the Company has conducted a number of in vitro, toxicology and animal studies to evaluate the efficacy of TP-271 against biothreat pathogens. It also develops TP-6076 for multidrug-resistant Gram- negative infections.