Current Report Filing (8-k)

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Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share

The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC

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): August 4, 2022

Amphastar Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)


Delaware	001-36509	33-0702205
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)	(Commission File Number)	(IRS Employer Identification Number)


11570 6th Street
Rancho Cucamonga, California	91730
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)	(Zip Code)

Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (909) 980-9484

Not Applicable

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

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

On August 4, 2022, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Amphastar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the “Company”), upon the recommendation of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board (the “Nominating Committee”), approved an increase to the authorized number of directors permitted to serve on the Board from eight (8) to ten (10) directors and appointed each of William J. Peters, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President of Finance, and Treasurer, and Jacob Liawatidewi, the Company’s Executive Vice President of Corporate Administration Center, and Sales and Marketing (together with Mr. Peters, the “New Directors”), to serve as Class I directors, to hold office until the Company’s 2023 annual meeting of stockholders and until each such director’s successor is duly elected and qualified or until each such director’s earlier death, resignation or removal, effective immediately. The Board also determined that Diane G. Gerst does not have a relationship that would interfere with the exercise of independent judgment in carrying out the responsibilities of a director that, including Ms. Gerst, six of the Company’s current directors are independent of within the meaning of the listing standards of the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC.

No changes have been made to the existing compensatory arrangements between the Company and the New Directors. The Company previously reported in its Proxy Statement on Form DEF 14A filed on April 14, 2022, information regarding the New Directors required by Items 401(b), (d), (e) and Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K, and such information is hereby incorporated by reference into this Current Report on Form 8-K.

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.


	AMPHASTAR PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
Date: August 9, 2022
	By:	/S/WILLIAM J. PETERS

		William J. Peters
		Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President and Treasurer