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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 11, 2006

Registration Statement No. 333-                     

 


UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 


FORM S-3

 


REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 


ANTARES PHARMA, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

 


 

Delaware   41-1350192
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)   (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

707 Eagleview Boulevard, Suite 414

Exton, Pennsylvania 19341

(610) 458-6200

(Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)

 


Jack E. Stover

President and Chief Executive Officer

Antares Pharma, Inc.

707 Eagleview Boulevard, Suite 414

Exton, Pennsylvania 19341

(610) 458-6200

(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent For Service)

 


Copies to:

Joanne R. Soslow, Esq.

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

1701 Market Street

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

Telephone: (215) 963-5262

Telecopy: (215) 963-5001

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to public: As soon as practicable after this Registration Statement becomes effective.

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If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box. ¨

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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

 
Title of Shares to be Registered    Amount
to be
Registered(1)
   Proposed
Maximum
Offering Price
Per Share
  Proposed
Maximum
Aggregate
Offering Price
  Amount of
Registration Fee

Common Stock, $0.01 par value per share

   9,170,000    $1.52(2)   $13,938,400(2)   $1,492

Common Stock, $0.01 par value per share

   7,454,500    $1.52(3)   $11,330,840(3)   $1,213
 

 

(1) This registration statement also relates to an indeterminate number of shares of common stock issued to prevent dilution resulting from stock splits, stock dividends or similar transactions in accordance with Rule 416.

 

(2) Estimated solely for purposes of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(c) under the Securities Act and based upon the average of the high and low prices on the American Stock Exchange on April 7, 2006.

 

(3) Estimated solely for the purpose of computing the amount of the registration fee in accordance with Rule 457(g) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, based upon the average of the high and low prices on the American Stock Exchange on April 7, 2006.

 


The Registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 or until the Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

 



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The information in this prospectus is not complete and may be changed. The selling stockholders named in this prospectus may not sell these securities until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and the selling stockholders named in this prospectus are not soliciting offers to buy these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted.

 

Subject to completion, dated April 11, 2006

PROSPECTUS

ANTARES PHARMA, INC.

16,624,500 SHARES OF COMMON STOCK

This prospectus relates to resales of shares of common stock and shares of common stock underlying warrants previously issued by Antares Pharma, Inc. to the selling stockholders in a private placement transaction. In addition, this prospectus also includes shares issued to a selling stockholder, Sicor Pharmaceuticals, Inc., pursuant to our Stock Purchase Agreement with it dated November 23, 2005.

The selling stockholders identified in this prospectus, or their pledgees, donees, transferees or other successors-in-interest, may offer the shares from time to time through public or private transactions at prevailing market prices, at prices related to prevailing market prices or at privately negotiated prices. We will not receive any proceeds from the sale of the shares.

The selling stockholders may resell the common stock to or through underwriters, broker-dealers, or agents, who may receive compensation in the form of discounts, concessions, or commissions. The selling stockholders will bear all commissions and discounts, if any, attributable to the sales of shares. We will bear all costs, expenses, and fees in connection with the registration of the shares.

Shares of our common stock are quoted on the American Stock Exchange under the symbol “AIS.” On April 10, 2006, the last reported sale price of our common stock was $1.54 per share. You are urged to obtain current market quotations for the common stock.

 


Investing in our common stock involves a high degree of risk. See “ Risk Factors ” beginning on page 5.

 


Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

 


The date of this prospectus is                           , 2006.


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PROSPECTUS SUMMARY

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THE OFFERING

   4

RISK FACTORS

   5

SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION

   16

USE OF PROCEEDS

   16

SELLING STOCKHOLDERS

   17

PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

   26

LEGAL MATTERS

   27

EXPERTS

   27

WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

   27

INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

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Our principal executive offices are located at 707 Eagleview Boulevard, Suite 414, Exton, Pennsylvania 19341, our telephone number is (610) 458-6200 and our Internet address is www.antarespharma.com. The information on our Internet website is not incorporated by reference in this prospectus. We have included our Internet website address as an inactive textual reference only. Unless stated or the context otherwise requires, references in this prospectus to “Antares,” “the Company,” “the Registrant,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Antares Pharma, Inc. and its subsidiaries.

You should rely only on the information contained in this prospectus. We have not, and the selling stockholders have not, authorized anyone to provide you with information different from that contained or incorporated by reference in this prospectus. This prospectus is not an offer to sell, nor is it seeking an offer to buy, shares of our common stock in any jurisdiction in which the offer or sale is not permitted. The information contained in this prospectus is accurate only as of the date of this prospectus, regardless of the time of delivery of this prospectus or of any sale of common stock.


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PROSPECTUS SUMMARY

This summary highlights selected features of this offering and the information included or incorporated by reference in this prospectus. This summary does not contain all of the information that you should consider before investing in our common stock. You should read the entire prospectus carefully, especially the risks of investing in our common stock discussed under “Risk Factors,” before making an investment decision.

Antares Pharma, Inc.

We are a specialty pharma product development and pipeline company with patented drug delivery platforms. Currently, our products include Advanced Transdermal Delivery (ATD™) gels, fast-melt oral (Easy Tec™) tablets, disposable mini-needle injection systems (Vibex™) and reusable needle-free injection systems (VISION ® AND Valeo™). Our lead ATD™ gel product is Anturol™ oxybutynin for the treatment of overactive bladder (OAB). These platforms and products are summarized and briefly described below:

Delivery Platforms

 

Transdermal Drug

Delivery Platforms

  

Advanced Transdermal

(ATD™) Gel

  

Systemic or

Topical

   

Fast-Melt Oral

Disintegrating Tablets

Platform

   Easy Tec™
   

Injection Device

Platforms

   Needle-Free Reusable Injectors (MJ Platform)
Medi-Jector VISION
® and Valeo™
  

 

Mini-Needle Disposable Injectors
(AJ Platform) Vibex™

  

 

Vaccine Intradermal Injectors

Product Candidates

Transdermal Delivery Gels

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Fast-Melt Oral Dissolve Disintegrating Tablets (EasyTec™)

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Injection Devices

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Transdermal Drug Delivery Platform

Our transdermal drug delivery platform is dedicated to developing gels that offer a cosmetically superior option to patches, while delivering medication efficiently with less potential for skin irritation and minimizing the gastrointestinal impact, as well as, the initial liver metabolism effect of some orally ingested drugs. Our gels are hydro-alcoholic and contain a combination of permeation enhancers to promote rapid drug absorption through the skin following application typically to the arms, shoulders, or abdomen. Our transdermal gel systems provide the options for delivering both systemically (penetrating into and through the subcutaneous tissues and then into the circulatory system) as well as locally (e.g. topically for skin and soft tissue injury, infection and local inflammation). Typically, the gel is administered daily, and is effective on a sustained release basis over approximately a 24-hour period of time. Our gel systems are known as our Advanced Transdermal Delivery (“ATD™”) gels.

 

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Fast-Melt Oral Disintegrating Tablets

Our Easy Tec™ fast-melt oral disintegrating tablets are designed to help patients who experience difficulty swallowing pills, tablets or capsules, while providing the same effectiveness as conventional oral dosage forms. Our tablet features a “disintegrant addition” that facilitates the disintegration of the oral drug to promote quick and easy administration in saliva without water. This could play an important role in our ability to target the pediatric market segment as well as the rapidly expanding geriatric market. Easy Tec™ tablets can be manufactured without specialized equipment and because the tablets are not effervescent (highly moisture sensitive), we believe it represents several significant processing and packaging advantages over conventional competitors. Our Easy Tec™ tablets may also be of interest to pharmaceutical firms seeking line extensions in the marketplace and could represent a step in Antares’ evolution as a specialty pharmaceutical company with its own products.

Injection Device Platforms

Our injection device platform features three distinct products: reusable needle-free injectors, disposable mini-needle injectors, and vaccine intradermal injectors. Each product is briefly described below:

 

    Reusable needle-free injectors deliver precise medication doses through high-speed, pressurized liquid penetration of the skin without a needle. These reusable, variable-dose devices are engineered to last for a minimum of two years and are designed for easy use, facilitating self-injection with a disposable syringe to assure safety and efficacy. The associated disposable, plastic, needle-free syringe is designed to last for approximately one week. We have sold the Medi-Jector VISION ® for use in more than 30 countries to deliver either insulin or human growth hormone (“hGH”). The Medi-Jector VISION ® employs a disposable plastic needle-free syringe, which offers high precision liquid medication delivery through an opening that is approximately half the diameter of a standard, 30-gauge needle. The product is available over-the-counter (“OTC”) or by prescription in the United States for use by patients with diabetes, and available through our partners in Europe, Japan and Asia for hGH. To date, we believe that more than 100 million such injections have been performed worldwide.

 

    Disposable mini-needle injectors (“Vibex™”) employ the same basic technology developed for the Medi-Jector VISION ® , combining, spring-powered source with a tiny hidden needle in a disposable, single-use injection system compatible with conventional glass drug containers. The Vibex™ system is designed to economically provide highly reliable subcutaneous injections with reduced discomfort and improved convenience in conjunction with the enhanced safety of a shielded needle. After use, the device can be disposed of without the typical “sharps” disposal concerns. Antares and its potential partners have successfully tested the device in multiple patient preference and bioavailability tests, and we continue to explore product extensions within this category, including multiple dose, variable dose and user-fillable applications.

 

    Vaccine intradermal injectors are a variation of the Vibex™ disposable mini-needle injection technology and are being developed to deliver vaccines into the dermal and subdermal layers of the skin (a preferred site of administration in the vaccine industry). The Company believes that this proprietary device will offer easier and more rapid dosing compared with conventional needle-based devices.

 

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THE OFFERING

 

Common Stock offered by selling stockholders

   16,624,500 (includes 7,454,500 shares issuable upon exercise of warrants to purchase common stock held by the selling stockholders)

Use of proceeds

   We will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares in this offering

American Stock Exchange symbol

   AIS

 

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RISK FACTORS

An investment in our common stock involves a high degree of risk. You should carefully consider the following risks and uncertainties and all other information contained or incorporated by reference in this prospectus before you purchase our common stock. The risks and uncertainties described below are not the only ones facing our company. There may be additional risks that we presently do not know or that we currently believe are immaterial which could also impair our business or financial condition. Any of the following risks, either alone or taken together, could materially and adversely, affect our business, financial condition or operating results. As a result, the trading price of our common stock could decline, and you could lose part or all of your investment.

Risks Related to Our Operations

We have incurred significant losses to date, and there is no guarantee that we will ever become profitable.

We had working capital of $965,169 at December 31, 2005, and $8,489,253 at December 31, 2004. We incurred net losses of ($8,497,956) and ($8,348,532) in the fiscal years ended 2005 and 2004, respectively. In addition, we have accumulated aggregate net losses from the inception of business through December 31, 2005 of ($91,123,107). The costs for research and product development of our drug delivery technologies along with marketing and selling expenses and general and administrative expenses have been the principal causes of our losses.

We completed private placements in March 2006 and February and March 2004 in which we received aggregate gross proceeds of $10,962,500 and $15,120,000, respectively. We believe that the combination of these equity financings and projected product sales and product development and license revenues will provide us with sufficient funds to support operations beyond 2006. However, if we need additional financing and are unable to obtain such financing when needed, or obtain it on favorable terms, we may be required to curtail development of new drug technologies, limit expansion of operations, accept financing terms that are not as attractive as we may desire or be forced to liquidate and close operations.

Long-term capital requirements will depend on numerous factors, including, but not limited to, the status of collaborative arrangements, the progress of research and development programs and the receipt of revenues from sales of products. Our ability to achieve and/or sustain profitable operations depends on a number of factors, many of which are beyond our control. These factors include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

    the demand for our technologies from current and future biotechnology and pharmaceutical partners;

 

    our ability to manufacture products efficiently and with the required quality;

 

    our ability to increase and continue to outsource manufacturing capacity to allow for new product introductions;

 

    the level of product competition and of price competition;

 

    our ability to develop, maintain or acquire patent positions;

 

    our ability to develop additional commercial applications for our products;

 

    our limited regulatory and commercialization experience;

 

    our reliance on outside consultants;

 

    our ability to obtain regulatory approvals;

 

    our ability to attract the right personnel to execute our plans;

 

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    our ability to control costs; and

 

    general economic conditions.

As we changed our business model to be more commercially oriented by further developing our own products, we may not have sufficient resources to fully execute our plan.

We must make choices as to the drugs that we will combine with our transdermal gel, fast-melt tablet and disposable mini-needle technologies to move into the marketplace. We may not make the correct choice of drug or technologies when combined with a drug, which may not be accepted by the marketplace as we expected or at all. FDA approval processes for the drugs and drugs with devices may be longer in time and/or more costly and/or require more extended clinical evaluation than anticipated. Funds required to bring our own products to market may be more than anticipated or may not be available at all. We have limited experience in development of compounds and in regulatory matters and bringing such products to market; therefore, we may experience difficulties in making this change or not be able to achieve the change at all.

We currently depend on a limited number of customers for the majority of our revenue, and the loss of any one of these customers could substantially reduce our revenue and impact our liquidity.

During 2005, we derived approximately 48% and 12% of our revenue, from Ferring and JCR Pharmaceuticals, Co., Ltd., respectively.

The loss of either of these customers would cause our revenues to decrease significantly, increase our continuing losses from operations and, ultimately, could require us to cease operating. If we cannot broaden our customer base, we will continue to depend on a few customers for the majority of our revenues. Additionally, if we are unable to negotiate favorable business terms with these customers in the future, our revenues and gross profits may be insufficient to allow us to achieve and/or sustain profitability or continue operations.

If we or our third-party manufacturer are unable to supply Ferring with our devices pursuant to our current license agreement with Ferring, Ferring would own a fully paid up license for certain of our intellectual property.

Pursuant to our license agreement with Ferring, we licensed certain of our intellectual property related to our needle-free injection devices, including a license that allows Ferring to manufacture our devices on its own for use with its human growth hormone product. This license becomes effective if we are unable to continue to supply product to Ferring under our current supply agreement. In accordance with the license agreement, we entered into a manufacturing agreement with a third party to manufacture our devices for Ferring. If we or this third party are unable to meet our obligations to supply Ferring with our devices, Ferring would own a fully paid up license to manufacture our devices and to use and exploit our intellectual property in connection with Ferring’s human growth hormone product. In such event, we would no longer receive royalties or manufacturing margins from Ferring.

If we do not develop and maintain relationships with manufacturers of our drug candidates, then we may not successfully manufacture and sell our pharmaceutical products.

We do not possess the capabilities, resources or facilities to manufacture Anturol™, which is currently in clinical studies for over active bladder, or any other of our future drug candidates. We must contract with manufacturers to produce Anturol™ according to government regulations. Our future development and delivery of our product candidates depends on the timely, profitable and competitive performance of these manufacturers. A limited number of manufacturers exist which are capable of manufacturing our product candidates. We may fail to contract with the necessary manufacturers or we may contract with manufactures on terms that may not be entirely acceptable to us. Our manufacturers must obtain FDA approval for their manufacturing processes, and we have no control over this approval process.

We have not contracted with a commercial supplier of active pharmaceutical ingredients of oxybutynin for Anturol™. We are currently working towards selecting a manufacturer to provide us with oxybutynin in a manner which meets FDA requirements.

 

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We have contracted with Patheon, Inc., a manufacturing development company, to supply clinical quantities of Anturol™ in a manner that meets FDA requirements. The FDA has not approved the manufacturing processes of Patheon. Any failure by Patheon to achieve compliance with FDA standards could significantly harm our business since we do not have an approved secondary manufacturer for Anturol™.

We have limited device manufacturing experience and may experience manufacturing difficulties related to the use of new device materials and procedures, which could increase our production costs and, ultimately, decrease our profits.

Our past assembly, testing and device manufacturing experience for certain of our device technologies has involved the assembly of products from machined stainless steel and composite components in limited quantities. Our planned future drug delivery device technologies necessitate significant changes and additions to our manufacturing and assembly process to accommodate new components. These systems must be manufactured in compliance with regulatory requirements, in a timely manner and in sufficient quantities while maintaining quality and acceptable manufacturing costs. In the course of these changes and additions to our manufacturing and production methods, we may encounter difficulties, including problems involving yields, quality control and assurance, product reliability, manufacturing costs, existing and new equipment, component supplies and shortages of personnel, any of which could result in significant delays in production. Additionally, in February 2003, we entered into a manufacturing agreement under which a third party assembles our MJ7 devices and certain related disposable component parts. There can be no assurance that this third-party manufacturer will be able to meet these regulatory requirements or our own quality control standards. Therefore, there can be no assurance that we will be able to successfully produce and manufacture our products. Any failure to do so would negatively impact our business, financial condition and results of operations. We are now in the process of outsourcing manufacturing of our AJ mini-needle products to third parties. Such products will be price sensitive and may be required to be manufactured in large quantities, and we have no assurance that this can be done.

Our products have achieved only limited acceptance by patients and physicians, which continues to restrict marketing penetration and the resulting sales of more units.

Our business ultimately depends on patient and physician acceptance of our needle-free injectors, gels, fast-melt tablets and our other drug delivery technologies as an alternative to more traditional forms of drug delivery, including injections using a needle, orally ingested drugs and more traditional transdermal patch products. To date, our device technologies have achieved only limited acceptance from such parties. The degree of acceptance of our drug delivery systems depends on a number of factors. These factors include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

    advantages over alternative drug delivery systems or similar products from other companies;

 

    demonstrated clinical efficacy, safety and enhanced patient compliance;

 

    cost-effectiveness;

 

    convenience and ease of use of injectors and transdermal gels; and

 

    marketing and distribution support.

Physicians may refuse to prescribe products incorporating our drug delivery technologies if they believe that the active ingredient is better administered to a patient using alternative drug delivery technologies, that the time required to explain use of the technologies to the patient would not be offset by advantages, or they believe that the delivery method will result in patient noncompliance. Factors such as patient perceptions that a gel is inconvenient to apply or that devices do not deliver the drug at the same rate as conventional drug delivery methods may cause patients to reject our drug delivery technologies. Because only a limited number of products incorporating our drug delivery technologies are commercially available, we cannot yet fully assess the level of market acceptance of our drug delivery technologies.

 

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A 2002 National Institute of Health (“NIH”) study and the 2003 findings from the Million Women Study first launched in 1997 in the U.K. questioned the safety of hormone replacement therapy for menopausal women, and our female hormone replacement therapy business may suffer as a result.

In July 2002, the NIH halted a long-term study, known as the Women’s Health Initiative, being conducted on oral female hormone replacement therapy (“HRT”) using a combination of estradiol and progestin because the study showed an increased risk of breast cancer, heart disease and blood clots in women taking the combination therapy. The arm of the study using estrogen alone was stopped in March 2004 after the NIH concluded that the benefits of estrogen did not outweigh the stroke risk for women in this trial. The halted study looked at only one brand of oral combined HRT and of estrogen, and there is no information on whether brands with different levels of hormones would carry the same risk. In January 2003, the FDA announced that it would require new warnings on the labels of HRT products, and it advised patients to consult with their physicians about whether to continue treatment with continuous combined HRT and to limit the period of use to that required to manage post-menopausal vasomotor symptoms only. Subsequently, additional analysis from the NIH study has suggested a slight increase in the risk of cognitive dysfunction developing in patients on long-term combined HRT. The Million Women Study, conducted in the U.K., confirmed that current and recent use of HRT increases a woman’s chance of developing breast cancer and that the risk increased with duration of use. Other HRT studies have found potential links between HRT and an increased risk of dementia and asthma. These results and recommendations impacted the use of HRT, and product sales have diminished significantly. We cannot yet assess the impact any of the studies’ results may have on our contracts or on our partners’ perspective of the market for transdermal gel products designed for HRT. We also cannot predict whether our alternative route of transdermal administration of HRT products will carry the same risk as the oral products used in the study.

If transdermal gels do not achieve greater market acceptance, we may be unable to achieve profitability.

Because transdermal gels are a newer, less understood method of drug delivery, our potential consumers have little experience with manufacturing costs or pricing parameters. Our assumption of higher value may not be shared by the consumer. To date, transdermal gels have gained successful entry into only a limited number of markets. There can be no assurance that transdermal gels will ever gain market acceptance beyond these markets sufficient to allow us to achieve and/or sustain profitable operations in this product area.

We rely on third parties to supply components for our products, and any failure to retain relationships with these third parties could negatively impact our ability to manufacture our products.

Certain of our technologies contain a number of customized components manufactured by various third parties. Regulatory requirements applicable to medical device manufacturing can make substitution of suppliers costly and time-consuming. In the event that we could not obtain adequate quantities of these customized components from our suppliers, there can be no assurance that we would be able to access alternative sources of such components within a reasonable period of time, on acceptable terms or at all. The unavailability of adequate quantities, the inability to develop alternative sources, a reduction or interruption in supply or a significant increase in the price of components could have a material adverse effect on our ability to manufacture and market our products.

We may be unable to successfully expand into new areas of drug delivery technology, which could negatively impact our business as a whole.

We intend to continue to enhance our current technologies. Even if enhanced technologies appear promising during various stages of development, we may not be able to develop commercial applications for them because:

 

    the potential technologies may fail clinical studies;

 

    we may not find a pharmaceutical company to adopt the technologies;

 

    it may be difficult to apply the technologies on a commercial scale;

 

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    the technologies may not be economical to market; or

 

    we may not receive necessary regulatory approvals for the potential technologies.

We have not yet completed research and development work or obtained regulatory approval for any technologies for use with any drugs other than insulin, human growth hormone and estradiol. There can be no assurance that any newly developed technologies will ultimately be successful or that unforeseen difficulties will not occur in research and development, clinical testing, regulatory submissions and approval, product manufacturing and commercial scale-up, marketing, or product distribution related to any such improved technologies or new uses. Any such occurrence could materially delay the commercialization of such improved technologies or new uses or prevent their market introduction entirely.

As health insurance companies and other third-party payors increasingly challenge the products and services for which they will provide coverage, our individual consumers may not be able to receive adequate reimbursement or may be unable to afford to use our products, which could substantially reduce our revenues and negatively impact our business as a whole.

Our injector device products are currently sold in the European Community (“EC”) and in the United States for use with human growth hormone or insulin. In the case of human growth hormone, our products are provided to users at no cost by the drug manufacturer. In the United States the injector products are legally marketed and available for use with insulin.

Although it is impossible for us to identify the amount of sales of our products that our customers will submit for payment to third-party insurers, at least some of these sales may be dependent in part on the availability of adequate reimbursement from these third-party healthcare payors. Currently, insurance companies and other third-party payors reimburse the cost of certain technologies on a case-by-case basis and may refuse reimbursement if they do not perceive benefits to a technology’s use in a particular case. Third-party payors are increasingly challenging the pricing of medical products and services, and there can be no assurance that such third-party payors will not in the future increasingly reject claims for coverage of the cost of certain of our technologies. Insurance and third-party payor practice vary from country to country, and changes in practices could negatively affect our business if the cost burden for our technologies were shifted more to the patient. Therefore, there can be no assurance that adequate levels of reimbursement will be available to enable us to achieve or maintain market acceptance of our technologies or maintain price levels sufficient to realize profitable operations. There is also a possibility of increased government control or influence over a broad range of healthcare expenditures in the future. Any such trend could negatively impact the market for our drug delivery products and technologies.

The loss of any existing licensing agreements or the failure to enter into new licensing agreements could substantially affect our revenue.

One of our business pathways requires us to enter into license agreements with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies covering the development, manufacture, use and marketing of drug delivery technologies with specific drug therapies. Under these arrangements, the partner company typically assists us in the development of systems for such drug therapies and collect or sponsor the collection of the appropriate data for submission for regulatory approval of the use of the drug delivery technology with the licensed drug therapy. Our licensees may also be responsible for distribution and marketing of the technologies for these drug therapies either worldwide or in specific territories. We are currently a party to a number of such agreements, all of which are currently in varying stages of development. We may not be able to meet future milestones established in our agreements (such milestones generally being structured around satisfactory completion of certain phases of clinical development, regulatory approvals and commercialization of our product) and thus, would not receive the fees expected from such arrangements or related future royalties. Moreover, there can be no assurance that we will be successful in executing additional collaborative agreements or that existing or future agreements will result in increased sales of our drug delivery technologies. In such event, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be adversely affected, and our revenues and gross profits may be insufficient to allow us to achieve and/or sustain profitability. As a result of our collaborative agreements, we are dependent upon the development, data collection and marketing efforts of our licensees. The amount and timing of resources such licensees devote to these efforts are not within our control, and such licensees could make material decisions regarding these efforts that could

 

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adversely affect our future financial condition and results of operations. In addition, factors that adversely impact the introduction and level of sales of any drug covered by such licensing arrangements, including competition within the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, the timing of regulatory or other approvals and intellectual property litigation, may also negatively affect sales of our drug delivery technology.

The failure of any of our third-party licensees to develop, obtain regulatory approvals for, market, distribute and sell our products as planned may result in us not meeting revenue and profit targets.

Pharmaceutical company partners help us develop, obtain regulatory approvals for, manufacture and sell our products. If one or more of these pharmaceutical company partners fail to pursue the development or marketing of the products as planned, our revenues and profits may not reach expectations or may decline. We may not be able to control the timing and other aspects of the development of products because pharmaceutical company partners may have priorities that differ from ours. Therefore, commercialization of products under development may be delayed unexpectedly. Generally speaking, in the near term, we do not intend to have a direct marketing channel to consumers for our drug delivery products or technologies except through current distributor agreements in the United States for our insulin delivery device. Therefore, the success of the marketing organizations of our pharmaceutical company partners, as well as the level of priority assigned to the marketing of the products by these entities, which may differ from our priorities, will determine the success of the products incorporating our technologies. Competition in this market could also force us to reduce the prices of our technologies below currently planned levels, which could adversely affect our revenues and future profitability.

If we cannot develop and market our products as rapidly or cost-effectively as our competitors, then we may never be able to achieve profitable operations.

Competitors in the over active bladder, transdermal gel drug delivery and needle-free injector market, some with greater resources and experience than us, may enter the market, as there is an increasing recognition of a need for less invasive methods of delivering drugs. Additionally, there is an ever increasing list of competitors in the oral disintegrating fast-melt tablet business. Our success depends, in part, upon maintaining a competitive position in the development of products and technologies in rapidly evolving fields. If we cannot maintain competitive products and technologies, our current and potential pharmaceutical company partners may choose to adopt the drug delivery technologies of our competitors. Drug delivery companies that compete with our technologies include Bioject Medical Technologies, Inc., Bentley Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Aradigm, Cellegy Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Watson Pharmaceuticals, Cardinal Health, CIMA Laboratories, Laboratoires Besins-Iscovesco, MacroChem Corporation, NexMed, Inc. and Novavax, Inc., along with other companies. We also compete generally with other drug delivery, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies engaged in the development of alternative drug delivery technologies or new drug research and testing. Many of these competitors have substantially greater financial, technological, manufacturing, marketing, managerial and research and development resources and experience than we do, and, therefore, represent significant competition.

Additionally, new drug delivery technologies are mostly used only with drugs for which other drug delivery methods are not possible, in particular with biopharmaceutical proteins (drugs derived from living organisms, such as insulin and human growth hormone) that cannot currently be delivered orally or transdermally. Transdermal patches and gels are also used for drugs that cannot be delivered orally or where oral delivery has other limitations (such as high first pass drug metabolism, meaning that the drug dissipates quickly in the digestive system and, therefore, requires frequent administration). Many companies, both large and small, are engaged in research and development efforts on less invasive methods of delivering drugs that cannot be taken orally. The successful development and commercial introduction of such a non-injection technique could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and general prospects.

Competitors may succeed in developing competing technologies or obtaining governmental approval for products before we do. Competitors’ products may gain market acceptance more rapidly than our products, or may be priced more favorably than our products. Developments by competitors may render our products, or potential products, noncompetitive or obsolete.

 

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Although we have applied for, and have received, several patents, we may be unable to protect our intellectual property, which would negatively affect our ability to compete.

Our success depends, in part, on our ability to obtain and enforce patents for our products, processes and technologies and to preserve our trade secrets and other proprietary information. If we cannot do so, our competitors may exploit our innovations and deprive us of the ability to realize revenues and profits from our developments.

Currently, we have been granted 32 patents and an additional 111 applications pending in the U.S. and other countries. Any patent applications we may have made or may make relating to inventions for our actual or potential products, processes and technologies may not result in patents being issued or may result in patents that provide insufficient or incomplete coverage for our inventions. Our current patents may not be valid or enforceable and may not protect us against competitors that challenge our patents, obtain their own patents that may have an adverse effect on our ability to conduct business, or are able to otherwise circumvent our patents. Further, we may not have the necessary financial resources to enforce or defend our patents or patent applications.

To protect our trade secrets and proprietary technologies and processes, we rely, in part, on confidentiality agreements with employees, consultants and advisors. These agreements may not provide adequate protection for our trade secrets and other proprietary information in the event of any unauthorized use or disclosure, or if others lawfully and independently develop the same or similar information.

Others may bring infringement claims against us, which could be time-consuming and expensive to defend.

Third parties may claim that the manufacture, use or sale of our drug delivery technologies infringe their patent rights. If such claims are asserted, we may have to seek licenses, defend infringement actions or challenge the validity of those patents in court. If we cannot obtain required licenses, are found liable for infringement or are not able to have these patents declared invalid, we may be liable for significant monetary damages, encounter significant delays in bringing products to market or be precluded from participating in the manufacture, use or sale of products or methods of drug delivery covered by the patents of others. We may not have identified, or be able to identify in the future, United States or foreign patents that pose a risk of potential infringement claims.

If the pharmaceutical companies to which we license our technologies lose their patent protection or face patent infringement claims for their drugs, we may not realize our revenue or profit plan.

The drugs to which our drug delivery technologies are applied are generally the property of the pharmaceutical companies. Those drugs may be the subject of patents or patent applications and other forms of protection owned by the pharmaceutical companies or third parties. If those patents or other forms of protection expire, become ineffective or are subject to the control of third parties, sales of the drugs by the collaborating pharmaceutical company may be restricted or may cease. Our expected revenues, in that event, may not materialize or may decline.

Our business may suffer if we lose certain key officers or employees or if we are not able to add additional key officers or employees necessary to reach our goals.

The success of our business is materially dependent upon the continued services of certain of our key officers and employees. The loss of such key personnel could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results or financial condition. There can be no assurance that we will be successful in retaining key personnel. We consider our employee relations to be good; however, competition for personnel is intense and we cannot assume that we will continue to be able to attract and retain personnel of high caliber.

We are involved in international markets, and this subjects us to additional business risks.

We have offices and a research facility in Basel, Switzerland, and we also license and distribute our products in the European Community and the United States. These geographic localities provide economically and politically stable environments in which to operate. However, in the future, we intend to introduce products through partnerships in other countries. As we expand our geographic market, we will face additional ongoing complexity to our business and may encounter the following additional risks:

 

    increased complexity and costs of managing international operations;

 

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    protectionist laws and business practices that favor local companies;

 

    dependence on local vendors;

 

    multiple, conflicting and changing governmental laws and regulations;

 

    difficulties in enforcing our legal rights;

 

    reduced or limited protections of intellectual property rights; and

 

    political and economic instability.

A significant portion of our international revenues is denominated in foreign currencies. An increase in the value of the U.S. dollar relative to these currencies may make our products more expensive and, thus, less competitive in foreign markets.

If we make any acquisitions, we will incur a variety of costs and might never successfully integrate the acquired product or business into ours.

We might attempt to acquire products or businesses that we believe are a strategic complement to our business model. We might encounter operating difficulties and expenditures relating to integrating an acquired product or business. These acquisitions might require significant management attention that would otherwise be available for ongoing development of our business. In addition, we might never realize the anticipated benefits of any acquisition. We might also make dilutive issuances of equity securities, incur debt or experience a decrease in cash available for our operations, or incur contingent liabilities and/or amortization expenses relating to goodwill and other intangible assets, in connection with future acquisitions.

If we do not have adequate insurance for product liability claims, then we may be subject to significant expenses relating to these claims.

Our business entails the risk of product liability claims. Although we have not experienced any material product liability claims to date, any such claims could have a material adverse impact on our business. We maintain product liability insurance with coverage of $5 million per occurrence and an annual aggregate maximum of $5 million. We evaluate our insurance requirements on an ongoing basis.

Geopolitical, economic and military conditions, including terrorist attacks and other acts of war, may materially and adversely affect the markets on which our common stock trades, the markets in which we operate, our operations and our profitability.

Terrorist attacks, such as those that occurred on September 11, 2001, and other acts of war, and any response to them, may lead to armed hostilities and such developments would likely cause instability in financial markets. Armed hostilities and terrorism may directly impact our facilities, personnel and operations, which are located in the United States and Switzerland, as well as those of our clients. Furthermore, severe terrorist attacks or acts of war may result in temporary halts of commercial activity in the affected regions, and may result in reduced demand for our products. These developments could have a material adverse effect on our business and the trading price of our common stock.

Risks Related to Regulatory Matters

We or our licensees may incur significant costs seeking approval for our products, which could delay the realization of revenue and, ultimately, decrease our revenues from such products.

The design, development, testing, manufacturing and marketing of pharmaceutical compounds, medical nutrition and diagnostic products and medical devices are subject to regulation by governmental authorities,

 

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including the FDA and comparable regulatory authorities in other countries. The approval process is generally lengthy, expensive and subject to unanticipated delays. Currently, we, along with our partners, are actively pursuing marketing approval for a number of products from regulatory authorities in other countries and anticipate seeking regulatory approval from the FDA for products developed pursuant to our agreement with BioSante. In the future we, or our partners, may need to seek approval for newly developed products. Our revenue and profit will depend, in part, on the successful introduction and marketing of some or all of such products by our partners or us. There can be no assurance as to when or whether such approvals from regulatory authorities will be received.

Applicants for FDA approval often must submit extensive clinical data and supporting information to the FDA. Varying interpretations of the data obtained from pre-clinical and clinical testing could delay, limit or prevent regulatory approval of a drug product. Changes in FDA approval policy during the development period, or changes in regulatory review for each submitted new drug application also may cause delays or rejection of an approval. Even if the FDA approves a product, the approval may limit the uses or “indications” for which a product may be marketed, or may require further studies. The FDA also can withdraw product clearances and approvals for failure to comply with regulatory requirements or if unforeseen problems follow initial marketing.

In other jurisdictions, we, and the pharmaceutical companies with whom we are developing technologies, must obtain required regulatory approvals from regulatory agencies and comply with extensive regulations regarding safety and quality. If approvals to market the products are delayed, if we fail to receive these approvals, or if we lose previously received approvals, our revenues may not materialize or may decline. We may not be able to obtain all necessary regulatory approvals. We may be required to incur significant costs in obtaining or maintaining regulatory approvals.

Our business could be harmed if we fail to comply with regulatory requirements and, as a result, are subject to sanctions.

If we, or pharmaceutical companies with whom we are developing technologies, fail to comply with applicable regulatory requirements, the pharmaceutical companies, and we, may be subject to sanctions, including the following:

 

    warning letters;

 

    fines;

 

    product seizures or recalls;

 

    injunctions;

 

    refusals to permit products to be imported into or exported out of the applicable regulatory jurisdiction;

 

    total or partial suspension of production;

 

    withdrawals of previously approved marketing applications; or

 

    criminal prosecutions.

Our revenues may be limited if the marketing claims asserted about our products are not approved.

Once a drug product is approved by the FDA, the Division of Drug Marketing, Advertising and Communication, the FDA’s marketing surveillance department within the Center for Drugs, must approve marketing claims asserted by our pharmaceutical company partners. If we or a pharmaceutical company partner fails to obtain from the Division of Drug Marketing acceptable marketing claims for a product incorporating our drug technologies, our revenues from that product may be limited. Marketing claims are the basis for a product’s labeling, advertising and promotion. The claims the pharmaceutical company partners are asserting about our drug delivery technologies, or the drug product itself, may not be approved by the Division of Drug Marketing.

 

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Product liability claims related to participation in clinical trials or the use or misuse of our products could prove to be costly to defend and could harm our business reputation.

The testing, manufacturing and marketing of products utilizing our drug delivery technologies may expose us to potential product liability and other claims resulting from their use in practice or in clinical development. If any such claims against us are successful, we may be required to make significant compensation payments. Any indemnification that we have obtained, or may obtain, from contract research organizations or pharmaceutical companies conducting human clinical trials on our behalf may not protect us from product liability claims or from the costs of related litigation. Similarly, any indemnification we have obtained, or may obtain, from pharmaceutical companies with whom we are developing drug delivery technologies may not protect us from product liability claims from the consumers of those products or from the costs of related litigation. If we are subject to a product liability claim, our product liability insurance may not reimburse us, or may not be sufficient to reimburse us, for any expenses or losses that may have been suffered. A successful product liability claim against us, if not covered by, or if in excess of our product liability insurance, may require us to make significant compensation payments, which would be reflected as expenses on our statement of operations. Adverse claim experience for our products or licensed technologies or medical device, pharmaceutical or insurance industry trends may make it difficult for us to obtain product liability insurance or we may be forced to pay very high premiums, and there can be no assurance that insurance coverage will continue to be available on commercially reasonable terms or at all.

Risks Related to our Common Stock

Together, certain of our stockholders own or have the right to acquire a significant portion of our stock and could ultimately control decisions regarding our company.

As a result of our reverse business combination with Permatec in January 2001 and subsequent additional debt and equity financings, Permatec Holding AG and its controlling shareholder, Dr. Jacques Gonella, own a substantial portion (as of March 3, 2006, approximately 18%) of our outstanding shares of common stock. Dr. Gonella, who is the Chairman of our Board of Directors, also owns warrants to purchase an aggregate of 4,198,976 shares of common stock and options to purchase 104,500 shares of common stock. Additionally, five investors (Crestview Capital Master Fund, North Sound Funds, Perceptive Life Sciences Fund, SCO Capital Group and SDS Funds) own warrants that are, as of March 3, 2006, exercisable into an aggregate of 6,162,904 shares of our common stock. Some of these investors plus Atlas Equity also directly own an aggregate of approximately 5,419,884 shares of our common stock. If Dr. Gonella and all of the above investors exercised all of the warrants and options owned by them, Dr. Gonella would own approximately 17%, and the six investors as a group would own approximately 13%, of our common stock. However, the warrants issued to the investors in March 2006 in connection with our private placement of securities include limitations on exercise to ensure that the shares beneficially owned by the warrant holder and any other persons or entities whose beneficial ownership would be aggregated with such holder does not exceed 4.99% of the total number of shares of our common stock then outstanding.

Because the parties described above either currently own or could potentially own a large portion of our stock, they may be able to generally determine or they will be able to significantly influence the outcome of corporate actions requiring stockholder approval. As a result, these parties may be in a position to control matters affecting our company, including decisions as to our corporate direction and policies; future issuances of certain securities; our incurrence of debt; amendments to our certificate of incorporation and bylaws; payment of dividends on our common stock; and acquisitions, sales of our assets, mergers or similar transactions, including transactions involving a change of control. As a result, some investors may be unwilling to purchase our common stock. In addition, if the demand for our common stock is reduced because of these stockholders’ control of the Company, the price of our common stock could be adversely affected.

Certain of our stockholders own large blocks of our common stock and own securities or exercisable into shares of our common stock, and any exercises, or sales by these stockholders could substantially lower the market price of our common stock.

Several of our shareholders, including Dr. Gonella, whose sales are subject to volume limitations, Atlas Equity, Crestview Capital Master Fund, SCO Capital Group, the SDS funds, the North Sound funds and Perceptive Life Sciences Master Fund, own large blocks of our common stock or could own sizeable blocks of our common stock upon exercise of warrants. With the exception of a portion of the stock controlled by Dr. Gonella, the shares of our common stock owned by these stockholders (or issuable to them upon exercise of warrants or options) are

 

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registered or are being registered in the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part. Future sales of large blocks of our common stock by any of the above investors could substantially adversely affect our stock price.

Future conversions or exercises by holders of warrants or options could substantially dilute our common stock.

As of March 3, 2006, we have warrants outstanding that are exercisable, at prices ranging from $0.55 per share to $7.03 per share, for an aggregate of approximately 22,500,000 shares of our common stock. We also have options outstanding that are exercisable, at exercise prices ranging from $0.70 to $15.65 per share, for an aggregate of approximately 4,400,000 shares of our common stock. Purchasers of common stock could therefore experience substantial dilution of their investment upon exercise of the above warrants or options. The warrants and the options are not registered and may be sold only if registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or sold in accordance with an applicable exemption from registration, such as Rule 144. The shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants or options held by these investors are currently registered or registration will be applied for in the near future.

Sales of our common stock by our officers and directors may lower the market price of our common stock.

As of March 3, 2006, our officers and directors beneficially owned an aggregate of approximately 15,200,000 shares (or approximately 26%) of our common stock, including stock options exercisable within 60 days. If our officers and directors, or other shareholders, sell a substantial amount of our common stock, it could cause the market price of our common stock to decrease and could hamper our ability to raise capital through the sale of our equity securities.

We do not expect to pay dividends in the foreseeable future.

We intend to retain any earnings in the foreseeable future for our continued growth and, thus, do not expect to declare or pay any cash dividends in the foreseeable future.

Anti-takeover effects of certain certificate of incorporation and bylaw provisions could discourage, delay or prevent a change in control.

Our certificate of incorporation and bylaws could discourage, delay or prevent persons from acquiring or attempting to acquire us. Our certificates of incorporation authorizes our board of directors, without action of our stockholders, to designate and issue preferred stock in one or more series, with such rights, preferences and privileges as the board of directors shall determine. In addition, our bylaws grant our board of directors the authority to adopt, amend or repeal all or any of our bylaws, subject to the power of the stockholders to change or repeal the bylaws. In addition, our bylaws limit who may call meetings of our stockholders.

 

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SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION

This prospectus includes and incorporates forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, included or incorporated in this prospectus regarding our strategy, progress and timing of development programs and related trials and the efficacy of our product candidates, the commercial benefits available to us as a result of our agreements with third parties, future operations, financial position, future revenues, projected costs, prospects, plans and objectives of management are forward-looking statements. The words “may,” “will,” “should,” “would,” “expect,” “intend,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “predict,” “potential,” “continue,” or “appear” or the negative of these terms or similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words. We cannot guarantee that we actually will achieve the plans, intentions or expectations disclosed in our forward-looking statements and you should not place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements. Actual results or events could differ materially from the plans, intentions and expectations disclosed in the forward-looking statements we make. We have included important factors in the cautionary statements included or incorporated in this prospectus, particularly under the heading “Risk Factors”, that we believe could cause actual results or events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements that we make. Our forward-looking statements do not reflect the potential impact of any future acquisitions, mergers, dispositions, joint ventures or investments we may make. We do not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statements.

USE OF PROCEEDS

We will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares by the selling stockholders.

The selling stockholders will pay any underwriting discounts and commissions and expenses incurred by the selling stockholders for brokerage, accounting, tax or legal services or any other expenses incurred by the selling stockholders in disposing of the shares. We will bear all other costs, fees and expenses incurred in effecting the registration of the shares covered by this prospectus, including, without limitation, all registration and filing fees, American Stock Exchange listing fees and fees and expenses of our counsel and our accountants.

 

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SELLING STOCKHOLDERS

We issued 8,770,000 shares of common stock and warrants to purchase 7,454,500 shares of common stock in a private placement of securities that closed on March 2, 2006. The private placement transaction was exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. In addition, we issued 400,000 shares of common stock to Sicor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. on November 23, 2005. We have agreed with each selling stockholder to file a registration statement to register for resale the shares of common stock and shares of common stock underlying warrants we issued in the private placement transaction. We have also agreed with Sicor Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a selling stockholder, to register the shares of common stock we issued to it. Such shares may also be sold by donees, pledgees, and other transferees or successors in interest of the selling stockholders. Except as noted in the footnotes below, none of the selling stockholders has held any position or office with us or any of our predecessors or affiliates within the last three years or has had a material relationship with us or any of our predecessors or affiliates within the past three years other than as a result of the ownership of our shares or other securities.

The information in the table below is based on information provided by or on behalf of the selling stockholders. Beneficial ownership is determined in accordance with the rules of the SEC, and generally includes voting or investment power with respect to the securities. In computing the number of shares beneficially owned by a person and the percentage ownership of that person, shares of common stock that could be issued upon the exercise of outstanding options and warrants held by that person that are currently exercisable or exercisable within sixty days are considered outstanding. These shares, however, are not considered outstanding as of March 31, 2006 when computing the percentage ownership of each other person. Percentage of ownership is based on 52,764,510 shares outstanding on March 31, 2006. The information in the table below regarding the shares of common stock beneficially owned after the offering assumes that all of the shares offered by the selling stockholders, including the shares of common stock acquired upon exercise of warrants, are sold, and that the selling stockholders acquire no additional shares of common stock before completion of the offering. Unless otherwise indicated in the footnotes to this table, to our knowledge, all persons named in the table have sole voting and investment power with respect to their shares of common stock, except to the extent authority is shared by spouses under applicable law. The inclusion of any shares in this table does not constitute an admission of beneficial ownership for the person named below.

 

Name of Selling Stockholder

   Shares of
Common
Stock
Beneficially
Owned
Prior to
Offering
    Number of
Shares of
Common
Stock Being
Offered
   Number of
Warrant
Shares
Being
Offered (1)
   Shares of Common
Stock to be Beneficially
Owned After Offering
 
           Number    Percentage  

Securities Issued in March 2006:

             

Albert Poliak

   27,200 (2)   —      24,200    0    *  

Anthony B. Fair

   70,000 (3)   40,000    30,000    0    *  

Atlas Master Fund, Ltd

   1,036,201 (4)   135,784    101,838    798,579    1.51 %

Bedrock Capital LP

   1,050,833 (5)   190,000    142,500    718,333    1.36 %

Bristol Investment Fund, Ltd.

   700,000 (6)   400,000    300,000    0    *  

 

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Christopher A. Basta

   72,500 (7)   30,000    22,500    20,000     *

Cranshire Capital, LP

   513,333 (8)   160,000    120,000    233,333 (8)   *

Crescent International Ltd.

   420,000 (9)   240,000    180,000    0     *

Dawson James Securities

   113,250 (10)   —      101,450    11,800     *

David H. Weinstein

   276,000 (11)   —      143,750    132,250     *

Davis B. Fox and Jill Spitzer-Fox

   70,000 (12)   40,000    30,000    0     *

Dennis Carleton and Margaret Carleton

   35,000 (13)   20,000    15,000    0     *

Douglas Kaiser

   27,200 (14)   —      24,200    3,000     *

Frank N. Salvatore

   27,200 (15)   —      24,200    3,000     *

Gregory C. Lowney & Maryanne K. Snyder

   105,000 (16)   60,000    45,000    0     *

Gregory P. Kusnick and Karen Gustafson-Kusnick

   110,000 (17)   60,000    45,000    5,000     *

Harborview Master Fund LP

   105,000 (18)   60,000    45,000    0     *

Howard Fischer

   53,000 (19)   —      53,000    0     *

Hudson Bay Fund, LP

   1,100,000 (20)   600,000    450,000    50,000 (20)   *

Iroquois Master Fund Ltd.

   490,000 (21)   280,000    210,000    0     *

 

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James Karanfilian

   17,500 (22)   10,000    7,500    0     *

Jay R. Solan

   35,000 (23)   20,000    15,000    0     *

John Curley

   70,000 (24)   40,000    30,000    0     *

John Peter Christensen

   70,000 (25)   40,000    30,000    0     *

KMF Partners

   210,000 (26)   120,000    90,000    0     *

Kendu Partners Company

     80,000    60,000     

Lake End Capital LLC

   431,833 (27)   —      106,000    315,833 (27)   *

Mark Alvino

   53,000 (28)   —      53,000    0     *

MDNH Partners LP

   70,000 (29)   40,000    30,000    0     *

Midsouth Investors Fund LP

   175,000 (30)   100,000    75,000    0     *

Monarch Capital Fund Ltd.

   140,000 (31)   80,000    60,000    0     *

Nathan Sugarman

   105,000 (32)   60,000    45,000    0     *

Nite Capital LP

   420,000 (33)   240,000    180,000    0     *

Nu Vision Holdings

   381,250 (34)   175,000    131,250    50,000 (34)   *

 

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Perceptive Life Sciences Master Fund, Ltd.

   2,329,700 (35)   800,000    600,000    929,700 (35)      1.71 %

Peter H. Weiss

   53,900 (36)   30,000    22,500    1,400        *  

RAQ, LLC

   455,000 (37)   260,000    195,000    0        *  

Robert D. Keyser, Jr.

   24,200 (38)   —      24,200    0        *  

Robert O’Mara

   280,000 (39)   160,000    120,000    0        *  

Roland E. Wheeler

   132,800 (40)   60,000    45,000    27,800        *  

Rubicon Global Value Fund, L.P

   87,500 (41)   50,000    37,500    0        *  

Samax Family Limited Partnership

   180,142 (42)   30,000    22,500    127,642        *  

Sanford Gaffe and Ethel Gaffe

   70,000 (43)   40,000    30,000    0       

SCO Securities LLC

   1,632,400 (44)   —      318,000    1,314,400 (44)      2.42 %

SDS Capital Group SPC, Ltd.

   3,050,000 (45)   1,600,000    1,200,000    250,000 (45)      *  

Steven M. Sack

   376,250 (46)   115,000    86,250    175,000        *  

Steven Mitchell Sack PSP

   1,055,000 (47)   480,000    360,000    215,000        *  

T2, Ltd.

   580,833 (48)   160,000    120,000    300,833 (48)      *  

 

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TCMP3 Partners

   140,000 (49)    80,000    60,000    0    *

Thomas W. Hands

   3,100 (50)    —      2,500    600    *

Trust U/W Renee Weiss

   105,000 (51)    60,000    45,000    0    *

Valesco Healthcare Overseas Fund, Ltd.

   177,450 (52)    101,400    76,050    0    *

Valesco Healthcare Partners II, L.P.

   172,900 (53)    98,800    74,100    0    *

Valesco Healthcare Partners I, L.P.

   104,650 (54)    59,800    44,850    0    *

Visium Balanced Fund, LP

   490,903  (55)    280,516    210,387    0    *

Visium Balanced Offshore Fund, LTD

   542,430 (56)    309,960    232,470    0    *

Visium Long Bias Fund, LP

   75,082 (57)    42,904    32,178    0    *

Visium Long Bias Offshore Fund, LTD

   403,963 (58)    230,836    173,127    0    *

Whalehaven Capital Fund Limited

   700,000 (59)    400,000    300,000    0    *

William A. Fox

   3,100 (60)    —      2,500    600    *

Other Issued Securities:

              

Sicor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

   400,000      400,000    —      400,000    *

* Less than one percent.

 

(1) Represents the shares of common stock being registered pursuant to this prospectus that the selling stockholder may acquire upon exercise of warrants issued in connection with the private placement. The warrants have an exercise price of $1.50 per share. The warrants will become exercisable on August 29, 2006, which is the date that is six months after the March 2, 2006 closing date for the private placement. In addition, the warrants contain a provision limiting the exercise thereof such that the number of shares of our common stock that may be acquired on less than 61 days notice upon exercise of the warrants is limited to the extent necessary to ensure that, following such exercise, the number of shares of our common stock then beneficially owned by the warrant holder and any other persons or entities whose beneficial ownership of common stock would be aggregated with such holders for purposes of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, does not exceed 4.99% of the total number of shares of our common stock then outstanding.

 

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(2) Includes 24,200 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants. Mr. Poliak is affiliated with Dawson James Securities, Inc., an NASD registered broker-dealer.

 

(3) Includes 30,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants.

 

(4) Includes 101,838 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants. Dmitry Balyasny is the natural person with voting and investment control over these shares.

 

(5) Includes 142,500 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants. James Smith is the natural person with voting and investment control over these shares.

 

(6) Includes 300,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants. Paul Kessler is the natural person with voting and investment control over these shares. Mr. Kessler disclaims beneficial ownership of these securities.

 

(7) Includes 22,500 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants. Mr. Basta is an NASD member and registered broker-dealer.

 

(8) Includes 353,333 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants, of which warrants to purchase 233,333 shares of common stock were acquired prior to the private placement. Mitchell P. Kopin is the natural person with voting and investment control over these shares.

 

(9) Includes 180,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants. Maxi Brezzi and Bachir Taleb-Ibrahimi are the natural persons with voting and investment control over these shares.

 

(10) Includes 101,250 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants. Robert D. Keyser and Albert J. Poliak are the natural persons with voting and investment control over these shares. Dawson James Securities is an NASD registered broker-dealer.

 

(11) Includes 143,750 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants. Mr. Weinstein is an NASD registered broker-dealer.

 

(12) Includes 30,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants.

 

(13) Includes 15,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants.

 

(14) Includes 24,200 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants. Mr. Kaiser is an NASD registered broker-dealer.

 

(15) Includes 24,200 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants. Mr. Kaiser is an NASD registered broker-dealer.

 

(16) Includes 45,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants.

 

(17) Includes 45,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants.

 

(18) Includes 45,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants. Richard Rosenblum and David Stefansky are the natural persons with voting and investment control over these shares.

 

(19) Includes 53,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants.

 

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(20) Includes 500,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants, of which warrants to purchase 50,000 shares of common stock were acquired prior to the private placement. Yoav Roth and John Doscas are the natural persons with voting and investment control over these shares. Mr Roth and Mr. Doscas disclaim beneficial ownership of these securities. Hudson Bay Fund L.P. is affiliated with XTF Market Making LLC and XTF Capital LLC, both NASD registered broker-dealers.

 

(21) Includes 210,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants. Joshua Silverman is the natural person with voting and investment control over these shares. Mr. Silverman disclaims beneficial ownership of these securities.

 

(22) Includes 7,500 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants.

 

(23) Includes 15,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants.

 

(24) Includes 30,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants.

 

(25) Includes 30,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants.

 

(26) Includes 90,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants. Karen Fleiss is the natural person with voting and investment control over these shares.

 

(27) Includes 431,833 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants, of which warrants to purchase 315,833 shares of common stock were acquired prior to the private placement. Jeffrey B. Davis is the natural person with voting and investment control over these shares.

 

(28) Includes 30,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants. Herbert Kurlan is the natural person with voting and investment control over these shares.

 

(29) Includes 53,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants.

 

(30) Includes 75,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants.

 

(31) Includes 60,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants. Jarid Sims and Joseph Franck are the natural persons with voting and investment control over these shares.

 

(32) Includes 45,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants.

 

(33) Includes 180,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants. Keith A. Goodman is the natural person with voting and investment control over these shares.

 

(34) Includes 181,250 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants, of which warrants to purchase 50,000 shares of common stock were acquired prior to the private placement. Steven Kavorkian and John Kavorkian are the natural persons with voting and investment control over these shares.

 

(35) Includes 1,500,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants, of which warrants to purchase 900,000 shares of common stock were acquired prior to the private placement. Joseph Edelman and Andrew Sankin are the natural persons with voting and investment control over these shares.

 

(36) Includes 22,500 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants.

 

(37) Includes 24,200 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants. Mr. Keyser is an NASD registered broker-dealer.

 

(38) Includes 195,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants. Lindsay A. Rosenwald is the natural person with voting and investment control over these shares. Dr. Rosenwald is also the sole shareholder and chairman of Paramount BioCapital, Inc., an NASD registered broker-dealer, and of Paramount BioCapital Asset Management, Inc., an investment adviser registered with the SEC.

 

(39) Includes 120,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants.

 

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(40) Includes 45,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants.

 

(41) Includes 37,500 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants. Rubicon Global Value Fund, L.P. is a subsidiary of Rubicon Global Holdings, LLC, an investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940.

 

(42) Includes 22,500 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants. Andrew N. Margulies is the natural person with voting and investment control over these shares.

 

(43) Includes 30,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants.

 

(44) Includes 1,632,400 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants, of which warrants to purchase 1,314,400 shares of common stock were acquired prior to the private placement. Steven H. Rouhandeh is the natural person with voting and investment control over these shares. SCO Capital Partners LLC is an affiliate of SCO Securities LLC, an NASD registered broker-dealer.

 

(45) Includes 1,450,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants, of which warrants to purchase 250,000 shares of common stock were acquired prior to the private placement. Steven Derby is the natural person with voting and investment control over these shares.

 

(46) Includes 86,250 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants.

 

(47) Includes 360,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants. Steven M. Sack is the natural person with voting and investment control over these shares.

 

(48) Includes 420,833 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants, of which warrants to purchase 300,833 shares of common stock were acquired prior to the private placement. James Smith is the natural person with voting and investment control over these shares.

 

(49) Includes 60,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants. Walter Schenker and Steven Slawson are the natural persons with voting and investment control over these shares.

 

(50) Includes 2,500 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants.

 

(51) Includes 45,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants. Peter H. Weiss is the natural person with voting and investment control over these shares.

 

(52) Includes 76,050 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants. I. Keith Maher is the natural person with voting and investment control over these shares.

 

(53) Includes 74,100 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants. I. Keith Maher is the natural person with voting and investment control over these shares.

 

(54) Includes 44,850 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants. I. Keith Maher is the natural person with voting and investment control over these shares.

 

(55) Includes 210,387 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants. Visium Balanced Fund, LP is an investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940. Dmitry Balyasny and Jacob Gottlieb are the natural persons with voting and investment control over these shares.

 

(56) Includes 232,470 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants. Visium Balanced Offshore Fund, Ltd. is an investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940. Dmitry Balyasny and Jacob Gottlieb are the natural persons with voting and investment control over these shares.

 

(57) Includes 32,178 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants. Visium Balanced Long Bias Fund, LP is an investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940. Dmitry Balyasny and Jacob Gottlieb are the natural persons with voting and investment control over these shares.

 

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(58) Includes 173,127 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants. Visium Long Bias Offshore Fund, Ltd. is an investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940. Dmitry Balyasny and Jacob Gottlieb are the natural persons with voting and investment control over these shares.

 

(59) Includes 300,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants. Arthur Jones, Jennifer Kelly and Derek Wood are the natural persons with voting and investment control over these shares.

 

(60) Includes 2,500 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants. Mr. Fox is affiliated with Dawson James Securities, an NASD registered broker-dealer.

 

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PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

We are registering the shares of common stock on behalf of the selling stockholders. Sales of shares may be made by selling stockholders, including their respective donees, transferees, pledgees or other successors-in-interest directly to purchasers or to or through underwriters, broker-dealers or through agents. Sales may be made from time to time on the American Stock Exchange, any other exchange or market upon which our shares may trade in the future, in the over-the-counter market or otherwise, at market prices prevailing at the time of sale, at prices related to market prices, or at negotiated or fixed prices. The shares may be sold by one or more of, or a combination of, the following:

 

    a block trade in which the broker-dealer so engaged will attempt to sell the shares as agent but may position and resell a portion of the block as principal to facilitate the transaction (including crosses in which the same broker acts as agent for both sides of the transaction);

 

    purchases by a broker-dealer as principal and resale by such broker-dealer, including resales for its account, pursuant to this prospectus;

 

    ordinary brokerage transactions and transactions in which the broker solicits purchases;

 

    through options, swaps or derivatives;

 

    in privately negotiated transactions;

 

    in making short sales or in transactions to cover short sales; and

 

    put or call option transactions relating to the shares.

The selling stockholders may effect these transactions by selling shares directly to purchasers or to or through broker-dealers, which may act as agents or principals. These broker-dealers may receive compensation in the form of discounts, concessions or commissions from the selling stockholders and/or the purchasers of shares for whom such broker-dealers may act as agents or to whom they sell as principals, or both (which compensation as to a particular broker-dealer might be in excess of customary commissions). The selling stockholders have advised us that they have not entered into any agreements, understandings or arrangements with any underwriters or broker-dealers regarding the sale of their securities.

The selling stockholders may enter into hedging transactions with broker-dealers or other financial institutions. In connection with those transactions, the broker-dealers or other financial institutions may engage in short sales of the shares or of securities convertible into or exchangeable for the shares in the course of hedging positions they assume with the selling stockholders. The selling stockholders may also enter into options or other transactions with broker-dealers or other financial institutions which require the delivery of shares offered by this prospectus to those broker-dealers or other financial institutions. The broker-dealer or other financial institution may then resell the shares pursuant to this prospectus (as amended or supplemented, if required by applicable law, to reflect those transactions).

The selling stockholders and any broker-dealers that act in connection with the sale of shares may be deemed to be “underwriters” within the meaning of Section 2(11) of the Securities Act of 1933, and any commissions received by broker-dealers or any profit on the resale of the shares sold by them while acting as principals may be deemed to be underwriting discounts or commissions under the Securities Act. The selling stockholders may agree to indemnify any agent, dealer or broker-dealer that participates in transactions involving sales of the shares against liabilities, including liabilities arising under the Securities Act. We have agreed to indemnify each of the selling stockholders and each selling stockholder has agreed, severally and not jointly, to indemnify us against some liabilities in connection with the offering of the shares, including liabilities arising under the Securities Act.

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have informed the selling stockholders that the anti-manipulative provisions of Regulation M promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 may apply to their sales in the market.

Selling stockholders also may resell all or a portion of the shares in open market transactions in reliance upon Rule 144 under the Securities Act, provided they meet the criteria and conform to the requirements of Rule 144.

Upon being notified by a selling stockholder that a material arrangement has been entered into with a broker-dealer for the sale of shares through a block trade, special offering, exchange distribution or secondary distribution or a purchase by a broker or dealer, we will file a supplement to this prospectus, if required pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act, disclosing:

 

    the name of each such selling stockholder and of the participating broker-dealer(s);

 

    the number of shares involved;

 

    the initial price at which the shares were sold;

 

    the commissions paid or discounts or concessions allowed to the broker-dealer(s), where applicable;

 

    that such broker-dealer(s) did not conduct any investigation to verify the information set out or incorporated by reference in this prospectus; and

 

    other facts material to the transactions.

In addition, if required under applicable law or the rules or regulations of the Commission, we will file a supplement to this prospectus when a selling stockholder notifies us that a donee or pledgee intends to sell more than 500 shares of common stock.

We are paying all expenses and fees customarily paid by the issuer in connection with the registration of the shares. The selling stockholders will bear all brokerage or underwriting discounts or commissions paid to broker-dealers in connection with the sale of the shares.

LEGAL MATTERS

The validity of the shares offered by this prospectus has been passed upon by Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

EXPERTS

The consolidated financial statements and schedule of Antares Pharma, Inc. as of December 31, 2005 and 2004, and for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2005, have been incorporated by reference herein in reliance upon the reports of KPMG LLP, independent registered public accounting firm, incorporated by reference herein, and upon the authority of said firm as experts in accounting and auditing.

WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

We file reports, proxy statements and other documents with the SEC. You may read and copy any document we file at the SEC’s Public Reference Room at 100 F Street, NE, Room 1580, Washington, D.C. 20549. You may also obtain copies of this information by mail from the SEC’s Public Reference Room at prescribed rates. You should call 1-800-SEC-0330 for more information on the SEC’s Public Reference Room. Our SEC filings are also available to you free of charge at the SEC’s Internet website at http://www.sec.gov. Most of our SEC filings are also available to you free of charge at our Internet website at http://www.antarespharma.com.

 

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This prospectus is part of a registration statement that we filed with the SEC. The registration statement contains more information than this prospectus regarding us and our common stock, including certain exhibits and schedules. You can obtain a copy of the registration statement from the SEC at the address listed above or from the SEC’s Internet website.

INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

The SEC permits us to “incorporate” into this prospectus information that we file with the SEC in other documents. This means that we can disclose important information to you by referring to other documents that contain that information. The information incorporated by reference is considered to be part of this prospectus. Information contained in this prospectus and information that we file with the SEC in the future and incorporate by reference in this prospectus automatically updates and supersedes previously filed information. We incorporate by reference the documents listed below and any future filings we make with the SEC under Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (other than information furnished to, and not filed with, the SEC), prior to the sale of all the shares covered by this prospectus.

 

  (1) Our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2005;

 

  (2) Our Current Reports on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on January 10, 2006, February 14, 2006, February 28, 2006 and March 6, 2006.

 

  (3) All of our filings pursuant to the Exchange Act after the date of filing the initial registration statement and prior to effectiveness of the registration statement; and

 

  (4) The description of our common stock contained in a registration statement filed on Form 8-A under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 filed on September 22, 2004, including any amendments or reports filed for the purpose of updating that description.

You may request a copy of these documents, which will be provided to you at no cost, by writing or telephoning us using the following contact information:

Antares Pharma, Inc.

707 Eagleview Boulevard, Suite 414

Exton, PA 19341

Attention: Investor Relations

Telephone: (610) 458-6200

 

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PART II

INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

 

Item 14. Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution.

The following table sets forth the various expenses to be incurred in connection with the sale and distribution of the securities being registered hereby, all of which will be borne by Antares Pharma, Inc. (except any underwriting discounts and commissions and expenses incurred by the selling stockholders for brokerage, accounting, tax or legal services or any other expenses incurred by the selling stockholders in disposing of the shares). All amounts shown are estimates except the Securities and Exchange Commission registration fee.

 

Filing Fee – Securities and Exchange Commission .

   $ 2,705

Legal fees and expenses

   $ 20,000

Accounting fees and expenses

   $ 20,000

Miscellaneous expenses

   $ 17,295
      

Total Expenses

   $ 60,000
      

 

Item 15. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

Section 102 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware permits a corporation to eliminate the personal liability of directors of a corporation to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for a breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except where the director breached his duty of loyalty, failed to act in good faith, engaged in intentional misconduct or knowingly violated a law, authorized the payment of a dividend or approved a stock repurchase in violation of Delaware corporate law or obtained an improper personal benefit. The Registrant’s Certificate of Incorporation provides that a director of the Registrant shall not be personally liable to it or its stockholders for monetary damages for any breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except to the extent that such exemption from liability or limitation thereof is not permitted under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware as currently in effect or as the same may hereafter be amended.

Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware provides that a corporation has the power to indemnify a director, officer, employee, or agent of the corporation and other persons serving at the request of the corporation in related capacities against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlements actually and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with an action, suit or proceeding to which he is or is threatened to be made a party by reason of such position, if such person acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, in any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful, except that, in the case of actions brought by or in the right of the corporation, no indemnification shall be made with respect to any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the corporation unless and only to the extent that the Court of Chancery or other adjudicating court determines that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all of the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnify for such expenses which the Court of Chancery or such other court shall deem proper.

The Registrant’s by-laws provide that the Registrant will, to the maximum extent permitted under the laws of the State of Delaware, indemnify and advance expenses upon request to each director and officer of the Registrant against any and all judgments, penalties, fines and amounts reasonably paid in settlement that are incurred by such director or officer or on such director’s or officer’s behalf in connection with any threatened, pending or completed proceeding or any claim, issue or matter of which he or she is, or is threatened to be made, a party to or participant in by reason of his or her corporate status. Unless ordered by a court, the Registrant will not provide

 

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indemnification to such a director or officer unless a determination has been made that such person acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Registrant and, with respect to any criminal proceeding, such person had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful. Such a determination will be made by (a) a majority vote of disinterested directors or an appointed committee of disinterested directors, (b) if there are no disinterested directors or if the disinterested directors direct, by independent legal counsel or (c) by the stockholders of the Registrant.

The Registrant has purchased directors’ and officers’ liability insurance which would indemnify its directors and officers against damages arising out of certain kinds of claims which might be made against them based on their negligent acts or omissions while acting in their capacity as such.

 

Item 16. Exhibits

 

EXHIBIT
NUMBER
  

DESCRIPTION

  4.1    Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant.
  4.2    Bylaws of the Registrant.
  4.3    Form of Common Stock and Warrant Purchase Agreement, dated February 27, 2006, by and between the Registrant and each purchaser (filed as Exhibit 10.57 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 20, 2006, File No. 001-32302, and incorporated by reference herein).
  4.4    Investor Rights Agreement, dated March 2, 2006, by and among the Registrant and parties listed therein (filed as Exhibit 10.58 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 20, 2006, File No. 001-32302, and incorporated by reference herein).
  4.5    Form of Common Stock Purchase Warrant, dated March 2, 2006, by and among the Registrant and parties listed therein (filed as Exhibit 10.59 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 20, 2006, File No. 001-32302, and incorporated by reference herein).
  4.6    Stock Purchase Agreement with Sicor Pharmaceuticals, Inc., dated November 23, 2005 (filed as Exhibit 10.55 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 20, 2006, File No. 001-32302, and incorporated by reference herein).
  5.1    Opinion of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP.
23.1    Consent of KPMG LLP.
23.2    Consent of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1 filed herewith).
24.1    Power of Attorney (included on signature page of the Registration Statement).

 

Item 17. Undertakings.

The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

 

  (a) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:

(i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”);

 

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(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of this Registration Statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereto) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in this Registration Statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in the volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective Registration Statement; and

(iii) To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in this Registration Statement or any material change to such information in this Registration Statement;

provided, however , that paragraphs (a)(i), (a)(ii) and (a)(iii) do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), that are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement, or is contained in a form of prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) of the Securities Act that is part of the Registration Statement.

 

  (b) That, for the purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at the time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

 

  (c) To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

 

  (d) That, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant’s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

 

  (e) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the indemnification provisions described herein, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Exton, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, on April 11, 2006.

 

ANTARES PHARMA, INC.

By:

 

/s/ JACK E. STOVER

 

Jack E. Stover

 

President and Chief Executive Officer

POWER OF ATTORNEY

We, the undersigned officers and directors of Antares Pharma, Inc. hereby severally constitute and appoint Jack E. Stover and Robert F. Apple and each of them singly, our true and lawful attorneys with full power to any of them, and to each of them singly, to sign for us and in our names in the capacities indicated below the Registration Statement on Form S-3 filed herewith and any and all pre-effective and post-effective amendments to said Registration Statement and generally to do all such things in our name and behalf in our capacities as officers and directors to enable Antares Pharma, Inc. to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and all requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming our signatures as they may be signed by our said attorneys, or any of them, to said Registration Statement and any and all amendments thereto.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/ S / JACK E. STOVER

Jack E. Stover

  

President, Director and Chief Executive Officer

  April 11, 2006

/ S / ROBERT F. APPLE

Robert F. Apple

  

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

  April 11, 2006

/ S / JACQUES GONELLA

Dr. Jacques Gonella

  

Chairman of the Board of Directors

  April 11, 2006

/ S / THOMAS J. GARRITY

Thomas J. Garrity

  

Director

  April 11, 2006

/ S / ANTON GUETH

Anton Gueth

  

Director

  April 11, 2006

/ S / RAJESH SHROTRIYA

Dr. Rajesh Shrotriya

  

Director

  April 11, 2006

/ S / PAUL WOTTON

Dr. Paul Wotton

  

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

EXHIBIT
NUMBER
  

DESCRIPTION

  4.1    Certificate of Incorporation of the Registrant.
  4.2    Bylaws of the Registrant.
  4.3    Form of Common Stock and Warrant Purchase Agreement, dated February 27, 2006, by and between the Registrant and each purchaser (filed as Exhibit 10.57 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 20, 2006, File No. 001-32302, and incorporated by reference herein).
  4.4    Investor Rights Agreement, dated March 2, 2006, by and among the Registrant and parties listed therein (filed as Exhibit 10.58 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 20, 2006, File No. 001-32302, and incorporated by reference herein).
  4.5    Form of Common Stock Purchase Warrant, dated March 2, 2006, by and among the Registrant and parties listed therein (filed as Exhibit 10.59 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 20, 2006, File No. 001-32302, and incorporated by reference herein).
  4.6    Stock Purchase Agreement with Sicor Pharmaceuticals, Inc., dated November 23, 2005 (filed as Exhibit 10.55 to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 20, 2006, File No. 001-32302, and incorporated by reference herein).
  5.1    Opinion of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP.
23.1    Consent of KPMG LLP.
23.2    Consent of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1 filed herewith).
24.1    Power of Attorney (included on signature page of the Registration Statement).

Exhibit 4.1

CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

OF

ANTARES PHARMA, INC.

The undersigned, a natural person of full age, for the purpose of forming a corporation under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, does hereby adopt the following Certificate of Incorporation:

ARTICLE I

The name of the Corporation is Antares Pharma, Inc.

ARTICLE II

The address of the Corporation’s registered office in the State of Delaware is c/o The Corporation Trust Company, 1209 Orange Street in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle. The name of its registered agent at such address is The Corporation Trust Company.

ARTICLE III

The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the DGCL.

ARTICLE IV

CAPITAL STOCK

The total number of shares of capital stock which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is One Hundred Three Million (103,000,000) shares, consisting of 100,000,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Common Stock”) and 3,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $0.01 per share (“Preferred Stock”).

The powers, preferences and rights of, and the qualifications, limitations and restrictions upon, each class or series of stock shall be determined in accordance with, or as set forth below in, this Article IV.

A. COMMON STOCK

(a) Voting Rights . The holders of the Common Stock shall have the exclusive right to vote for the election of directors of the Corporation (the “Directors”) and on all other matters requiring stockholder action, each outstanding share entitling the holder thereof to one vote on each matter properly submitted to the stockholders of the Corporation for their vote. Except as otherwise required by law or expressly provided in this Certificate, the holders of shares of Common and Preferred shall vote together and not as separate classes or series.

(b) Dividends . Except as otherwise provided by law or this Certificate and subject to the preferential rights of holders of Preferred, dividends may be declared and paid or set apart for payment upon the Common Stock out of any assets or funds of the Corporation legally available for

 

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the payment of dividends, but only when and as declared by the Board or any authorized committee thereof.

(c) Liquidation Rights. Upon the voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, whether voluntary or involuntary, after payment or provision for payment of the debts and other liabilities of the Corporation and any preferential or other amounts to which the holders of any outstanding shares of Preferred shall be entitled, the net assets of the Corporation shall be distributed pro rata to the holders of the Common Stock.

B. PREFERRED STOCK

The shares of Preferred may be issued from time to time in one or more series. The Board of Directors of the Corporation is authorized, subject to limitations prescribed by law and the provisions of this Article IV, to provide for the issuance of the shares of Preferred Stock in one or more series, by filing a certificate pursuant to the applicable laws of the State of Delaware, to establish from time to time the number of shares to be included in each such series, and to fix the designations, preferences and rights of the shares of each such series and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof.

ARTICLE V

INCORPORATOR

The name and mailing address of the incorporator is as follows:

Jeffrey L. Cotter, Esq.

Leonard, Street and Deinard Professional Association

150 South Fifth Street, Suite 2300

Minneapolis, MN 55402

ARTICLE VI

STOCKHOLDER ACTION

1. Action without Meeting . Except as otherwise provided herein, any action required or permitted to be taken by the stockholders of the Corporation at any annual or special meeting of stockholders of the Corporation must be effected at a duly called annual or special meeting of stockholders and may not be taken or effected by a written consent of stockholders in lieu thereof.

2. Special Meetings . Except as otherwise required by statute, special meetings of the stockholders of the Corporation may be called only by the Board of Directors acting pursuant to a resolution approved by the affirmative vote of a majority of the Directors then in office. Only those matters set forth in the notice of the special meeting may be considered or acted upon at a special meeting of stockholders of the Corporation.

ARTICLE VII

DIRECTORS

1. General . The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board of Directors except as otherwise provided herein or required by law.

 

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2. Election of Directors . Election of Directors need not be by written ballot unless the By-laws of the Corporation (the “By-laws”) shall so provide.

3. Number of Directors; Term of Office . The number of Directors of the Corporation shall be fixed solely and exclusively by resolution duly adopted from time to time by the Board of Directors. The Directors shall be classified, with respect to the term for which they severally hold office, into three classes, as nearly equal in number as reasonably possible. The initial Class I Director of the Corporation shall be Dr. Paul K. Wotton; the initial Class II Directors of the Corporation shall be Jack E. Stover and Anton Gueth; and the initial Class III Directors of the Corporation shall be Dr. Jacques Gonella, Thomas J. Garrity and Dr. Rajesh C. Shrotriya. The initial Class I Directors shall serve for a term expiring at the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2008, the initial Class II Directors shall serve for a term expiring at the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2006, and the initial Class III Directors shall serve for a term expiring at the annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2007. At each annual meeting of stockholders, Directors elected to succeed those Directors whose terms expire shall be elected for a term of office to expire at the third succeeding annual meeting of stockholders after their election. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Directors elected to each class shall hold office until their successors are duly elected and qualified or until their earlier resignation or removal.

4. Vacancies . Any and all vacancies in the Board of Directors, however occurring, including, without limitation, by reason of an increase in size of the Board of Directors, or the death, resignation, disqualification or removal of a Director, shall be filled solely and exclusively by the affirmative vote of a majority of the remaining Directors then in office, even if less than a quorum of the Board of Directors, and not by the stockholders. Any Director appointed in accordance with the preceding sentence shall hold office for the remainder of the full term of the class of Directors in which the new directorship was created or the vacancy occurred and until such Director’s successor shall have been duly elected and qualified or until his or her earlier resignation or removal. When the number of Directors is increased or decreased, the Board of Directors shall, subject to Article VII.3 hereof, determine the class or classes to which the increased or decreased number of Directors shall be apportioned; provided, however, that no decrease in the number of Directors shall shorten the term of any incumbent Director. In the event of a vacancy in the Board of Directors, the remaining Directors, except as otherwise provided by law, shall exercise the powers of the full Board of Directors until the vacancy is filled.

5. Removal . Any Director (including persons elected by Directors to fill vacancies in the Board of Directors) may be removed from office (i) only with cause and (ii) only by the affirmative vote of the holders of 70% or more of the shares then entitled to vote at an election of Directors. At least forty-five (45) days prior to any meeting of stockholders at which it is proposed that any Director be removed from office, written notice of such proposed removal and the alleged grounds thereof shall be sent to the Director whose removal will be considered at the meeting.

ARTICLE VIII

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

A Director of the Corporation shall not be personally liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a Director, except for liability (a) for any breach of the Director’s duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (b) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (c) under Section 174 of the DGCL or (d) for any transaction from which the Director derived an

 

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improper personal benefit. If the DGCL is amended after the effective date of this Certificate to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting the personal liability of Directors, then the liability of a Director of the Corporation shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL, as so amended.

Any repeal or modification of this Article VIII by either of (i) the stockholders of the Corporation or (ii) an amendment to the DGCL, shall not adversely affect any right or protection existing at the time of such repeal or modification with respect to any acts or omissions occurring before such repeal or modification of a person serving as a Director at the time of such repeal or modification.

ARTICLE IX

AMENDMENT OF BY-LAWS

1. Amendment by Directors . Except as otherwise provided by law, the By-laws of the Corporation may be amended or repealed by the Board of Directors by the affirmative vote of a majority of the Directors then in office.

2. Amendment by Stockholders . The By-laws of the Corporation may be amended or repealed at any annual meeting of stockholders, or special meeting of stockholders called for such purpose as provided in the By-laws, by the affirmative vote of at least 70% of the outstanding shares entitled to vote on such amendment or repeal, voting together as a single class; provided, however, that if the Board of Directors recommends that stockholders approve such amendment or repeal at such meeting of stockholders, such amendment or repeal shall only require the affirmative vote of the majority of the outstanding shares entitled to vote on such amendment or repeal, voting together as a single class.

ARTICLE X

AMENDMENT OF CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

The Corporation reserves the right to amend or repeal this Certificate in the manner now or hereafter prescribed by statute and this Certificate, and all rights conferred upon stockholders herein are granted subject to this reservation. Whenever any vote of the holders of voting stock is required to amend or repeal any provision of this Certificate, and in addition to any other vote of holders of voting stock that is required by this Certificate or by law, such amendment or repeal shall require the affirmative vote of the majority of the outstanding shares entitled to vote on such amendment or repeal, and the affirmative vote of the majority of the outstanding shares of each class entitled to vote thereon as a class, at a duly constituted meeting of stockholders called expressly for such purpose; provided, however, that the affirmative vote of not less than 70% of the outstanding shares entitled to vote on such amendment or repeal, and the affirmative vote of not less than 70% of the outstanding shares of each class entitled to vote thereon as a class, shall be required to amend or repeal any provision of Article VI, Article VII, Article VIII, Article IX or Article X of this Certificate.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, THIS CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION is executed as of this _____ day of April, 2005.

 

INCORPORATOR:

    

Jeffrey L. Cotter

 

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Exhibit 4.2

BY-LAWS

OF

ANTARES PHARMA, INC.

(the “Corporation”)

ARTICLE I

Stockholders

SECTION 1. Annual Meeting . The annual meeting of stockholders (any such meeting being referred to in these By-laws as an “Annual Meeting”) shall be held at the hour, date and place within or without the United States which is fixed by the Board of Directors, which time, date and place may subsequently be changed at any time by vote of the Board of Directors. If no Annual Meeting has been held for a period of thirteen months after the Corporation’s last Annual Meeting, a special meeting in lieu thereof may be held, and such special meeting shall have, for the purposes of these By-laws or otherwise, all the force and effect of an Annual Meeting. Any and all references hereafter in these By-laws to an Annual Meeting or Annual Meetings also shall be deemed to refer to any special meeting(s) in lieu thereof.

SECTION 2. Notice of Stockholder Business and Nominations .

(a) Annual Meetings of Stockholders.

(1) Nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors of the Corporation and the proposal of business to be considered by the stockholders may be made at an Annual Meeting (a) pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting, (b) by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or (c) by any stockholder of the Corporation who was a stockholder of record at the time of giving of notice provided for in this By-law, who is entitled to vote at the meeting, who is present (in person or by proxy) at the meeting and who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this By-law. In addition to the other requirements set forth in this By-law, for any proposal of business to be considered at an Annual Meeting, it must be a proper subject for action by stockholders of the Corporation under Delaware law.

(2) For nominations or other business to be properly brought before an Annual Meeting by a stockholder pursuant to clause (c) of paragraph (a)(1) of this By-law, the stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation. To be timely, a stockholder’s notice shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the 90th day nor earlier than the close of business on the 120th day prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s Annual Meeting; provided, however, that in the event that the date of the Annual Meeting is advanced by more than 30 days before or delayed by more than 60 days after such anniversary date, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so delivered not earlier than the close of business on the 120th day prior to such Annual Meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the 90th day prior to such Annual Meeting or the 10th day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first made. Such stockholder’s notice shall set forth (a) as to each person whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection as a director, all information relating to such person that is required to be disclosed in solicitations of proxies for election of directors in an election contest, or is otherwise required, in each case pursuant to Regulation 14A under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as


amended (the “Exchange Act”) (including such person’s written consent to being named in the proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as a director if elected); (b) as to any other business that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting, the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting, any material interest in such business of such stockholder and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is made, and the names and addresses of other stockholders known by the stockholder proposing such business to support such proposal, and the class and number of shares of the Corporation’s capital stock beneficially owned by such other stockholders; and (c) as to the stockholder giving the notice and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made (i) the name and address of such stockholder, as they appear on the Corporation’s books, and of such beneficial owner, and (ii) the class and number of shares of the Corporation which are owned beneficially and of record by such stockholder and such beneficial owner.

(3) Notwithstanding anything in the second sentence of paragraph (a)(2) of this By-law to the contrary, in the event that the number of directors to be elected to the Board of Directors of the Corporation is increased and there is no public announcement naming all of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board of Directors made by the Corporation at least 85 days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s Annual Meeting, a stockholder’s notice required by this By-law shall also be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, if it shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the 10th day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the Corporation.

(b) General.

(1) Only such persons who are nominated in accordance with the provisions of this By-law shall be eligible for election and to serve as directors and only such business shall be conducted at an Annual Meeting as shall have been brought before the meeting in accordance with the provisions of this By-law. The Board of Directors or a designated committee thereof shall have the power to determine whether a nomination or any business proposed to be brought before the meeting was made in accordance with the provisions of this By-law. If neither the Board of Directors nor such designated committee makes a determination as to whether any stockholder proposal or nomination was made in accordance with the provisions of this By-law, the presiding officer of the Annual Meeting shall have the power and duty to determine whether the stockholder proposal or nomination was made in accordance with the provisions of this By-law. If the Board of Directors or a designated committee thereof or the presiding officer, as applicable, determines that any stockholder proposal or nomination was not made in accordance with the provisions of this By-law, such proposal or nomination shall be disregarded and shall not be presented for action at the Annual Meeting.

(2) For purposes of this By-law, “public announcement” shall mean disclosure in a press release reported by the Dow Jones News Service, Associated Press or comparable national news service or in a document publicly filed by the Corporation with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Section 13, 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act.

(3) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this By-law, a stockholder shall also comply with all applicable requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations


thereunder with respect to the matters set forth in this By-law. Nothing in this By-law shall be deemed to affect any rights of stockholders to request inclusion of proposals in the Corporation’s proxy statement pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act.

SECTION 3. Special Meetings . Except as otherwise required by statute, special meetings of the stockholders of the Corporation may be called only by the Board of Directors acting pursuant to a resolution approved by the affirmative vote of a majority of the Directors then in office. Only those matters set forth in the notice of the special meeting may be considered or acted upon at a special meeting of stockholders of the Corporation.

SECTION 4. Notice of Meetings; Adjournments . A notice of each Annual Meeting stating the hour, date and place, if any, of such Annual Meeting shall be given not less than ten (10) days nor more than sixty (60) days before the Annual Meeting, to each stockholder entitled to vote thereat by delivering such notice to such stockholder or by mailing it, postage prepaid, addressed to such stockholder at the address of such stockholder as it appears on the Corporation’s stock transfer books.

Notice of all special meetings of stockholders shall be given in the same manner as provided for Annual Meetings, except that the notice of all special meetings shall state the purpose or purposes for which the meeting has been called.

Notice of an Annual Meeting or special meeting of stockholders need not be given to a stockholder if a waiver of notice is executed before or after such meeting by such stockholder or if such stockholder attends such meeting, unless such attendance was for the express purpose of objecting at the beginning of the meeting to the transaction of any business because the meeting was not lawfully called or convened.

The Board of Directors may postpone and reschedule any previously scheduled Annual Meeting or special meeting of stockholders and any record date with respect thereto, regardless of whether any notice or public disclosure with respect to any such meeting has been sent or made pursuant to Section 2 of this Article I of these By-laws or otherwise. In no event shall the public announcement of an adjournment, postponement or rescheduling of any previously scheduled meeting of stockholders commence a new time period for the giving of a stockholder’s notice under Section 2 of this Article I of these By-laws.

When any meeting is convened, the presiding officer may adjourn the meeting if (a) no quorum is present for the transaction of business, (b) the Board of Directors determines that adjournment is necessary or appropriate to enable the stockholders to consider fully information which the Board of Directors determines has not been made sufficiently or timely available to stockholders, or (c) the Board of Directors determines that adjournment is otherwise in the best interests of the Corporation. When any Annual Meeting or special meeting of stockholders is adjourned to another hour, date or place, notice need not be given of the adjourned meeting other than an announcement at the meeting at which the adjournment is taken of the hour, date and place, if any, to which the meeting is adjourned and the means of remote communications, if any, by which stockholders and proxyholders may be deemed to be present in person and vote at such adjourned meeting; provided, however, that if the adjournment is for more than 30 days, or if after the adjournment a new record date is fixed for the adjourned meeting, notice of the adjourned meeting and the means of remote communications, if any, by which stockholders and proxyholders may be deemed to be present in person and vote at such adjourned meeting shall be given to each stockholder of record entitled to vote thereat and each


stockholder who, by law or under the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation (as the same may hereafter be amended and/or restated, the “Certificate”) or these By-laws, is entitled to such notice.

SECTION 5. Quorum . A majority of the shares entitled to vote, present in person or represented by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at any meeting of stockholders. If less than a quorum is present at a meeting, the holders of voting stock representing a majority of the voting power present at the meeting or the presiding officer may adjourn the meeting from time to time, and the meeting may be held as adjourned without further notice, except as provided in Section 5 of this Article I. At such adjourned meeting at which a quorum is present, any business may be transacted which might have been transacted at the meeting as originally noticed. The stockholders present at a duly constituted meeting may continue to transact business until adjournment, notwithstanding the withdrawal of enough stockholders to leave less than a quorum.

SECTION 6. Voting and Proxies . Stockholders shall have one vote for each share of stock entitled to vote owned by them of record according to the stock ledger of the Corporation, unless otherwise provided by law or by the Certificate. Stockholders may vote either (i) in person, (ii) by written proxy or (iii) by a transmission permitted by §212(c) of the Delaware General Corporation Law (“DGCL”). Any copy, facsimile telecommunication or other reliable reproduction of the writing or transmission permitted by §212(c) of the DGCL may be substituted for or used in lieu of the original writing or transmission for any and all purposes for which the original writing or transmission could be used, provided that such copy, facsimile telecommunication or other reproduction shall be a complete reproduction of the entire original writing or transmission. Proxies shall be filed in accordance with the procedures established for the meeting of stockholders. Except as otherwise limited therein or as otherwise provided by law, proxies authorizing a person to vote at a specific meeting shall entitle the persons authorized thereby to vote at any adjournment of such meeting, but they shall not be valid after final adjournment of such meeting. A proxy with respect to stock held in the name of two or more persons shall be valid if executed by or on behalf of any one of them unless at or prior to the exercise of the proxy the Corporation receives a specific written notice to the contrary from any one of them.

SECTION 7. Action at Meeting . When a quorum is present at any meeting of stockholders, any matter before any such meeting (other than an election of a director or directors) shall be decided by a majority of the votes properly cast for and against such matter, except where a larger vote is required by law, by the Certificate or by these By-laws. Any election of directors by stockholders shall be determined by a plurality of the votes properly cast on the election of directors. The Corporation shall not directly or indirectly vote any shares of its own stock; provided, however, that the Corporation may vote shares which it holds in a fiduciary capacity to the extent permitted by law.

SECTION 8. Stockholder Lists . The Secretary or an Assistant Secretary (or the Corporation’s transfer agent or other person authorized by these By-laws or by law) shall prepare and make, at least 10 days before every Annual Meeting or special meeting of stockholders, a complete list of the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting, arranged in alphabetical order, and showing the address of each stockholder and the number of shares registered in the name of each stockholder. Such list shall be open to the examination of any stockholder, for a period of at least ten (10) days prior to the meeting in the manner provided by law. The list shall also be open to the examination of any stockholder during the whole time of the meeting as provided by law.


SECTION 9. Presiding Officer . The Chairman of the Board, if one is elected, or if not elected or in his or her absence, the Chief Executive Officer, shall preside at all Annual Meetings or special meetings of stockholders and shall have the power, among other things, to adjourn such meeting at any time and from time to time, subject to Sections 5 and 6 of this Article I. The order of business and all other matters of procedure at any meeting of the stockholders shall be determined by the presiding officer.

SECTION 10. Inspectors of Elections . The Corporation shall, in advance of any meeting of stockholders, appoint one or more inspectors to act at the meeting and make a written report thereof. The Corporation may designate one or more persons as alternate inspectors to replace any inspector who fails to act. If no inspector or alternate is able to act at a meeting of stockholders, the presiding officer shall appoint one or more inspectors to act at the meeting. Any inspector may, but need not, be an officer, employee or agent of the Corporation. Each inspector, before entering upon the discharge of his or her duties, shall take and sign an oath faithfully to execute the duties of inspector with strict impartiality and according to the best of his or her ability. The inspectors shall perform such duties as are required by the DGCL, including the counting of all votes and ballots. The inspectors may appoint or retain other persons or entities to assist the inspectors in the performance of the duties of the inspectors. The presiding officer may review all determinations made by the inspectors, and in so doing the presiding officer shall be entitled to exercise his or her sole judgment and discretion and he or she shall not be bound by any determinations made by the inspectors. All determinations by the inspectors and, if applicable, the presiding officer, shall be subject to further review by any court of competent jurisdiction.

ARTICLE II

Directors

SECTION 1. Powers . The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board of Directors except as otherwise provided by the Certificate or required by law.

SECTION 2. Number and Terms . The number of directors of the Corporation shall be fixed solely and exclusively by resolution duly adopted from time to time by the Board of Directors. The directors shall hold office in the manner provided in the Certificate.

SECTION 3. Qualification . No director need be a stockholder of the Corporation.

SECTION 4. Vacancies . Vacancies in the Board of Directors shall be filled in the manner provided in the Certificate.

SECTION 5. Removal . Directors may be removed from office in the manner provided in the Certificate.

SECTION 6. Resignation . A director may resign at any time by giving written notice to the Chairman of the Board, if one is elected, the Chief Executive Officer or the Secretary. A resignation shall be effective upon receipt, unless the resignation otherwise provides.

SECTION 7. Regular Meetings . The regular annual meeting of the Board of Directors shall be held, without notice other than this Section 7, on the same date and at the same place as the Annual Meeting following the close of such meeting of stockholders. Other regular meetings of the


Board of Directors may be held at such hour, date and place as the Board of Directors may by resolution from time to time determine and publicize by means of reasonable notice given to any director who is not present at the meeting at which such resolution is adopted.

SECTION 8. Special Meetings . Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be called, orally or in writing, by or at the request of a majority of the directors, the Chairman of the Board, if one is elected, or the Chief Executive Officer. The person calling any such special meeting of the Board of Directors may fix the hour, date and place thereof.

SECTION 9. Notice of Meetings . Notice of the hour, date and place of all special meetings of the Board of Directors shall be given to each director by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, or in case of the death, absence, incapacity or refusal of such persons, by the Chairman of the Board, if one is elected, or the Chief Executive Officer or such other officer designated by the Chairman of the Board, if one is elected, or the Chief Executive Officer. Notice of any special meeting of the Board of Directors shall be given to each director in person, by telephone, or by facsimile, electronic mail or other form of electronic communication, sent to his or her business or home address, at least 24 hours in advance of the meeting, or by written notice mailed to his or her business or home address, at least 48 hours in advance of the meeting. Such notice shall be deemed to be delivered when hand delivered to such address, read to such director by telephone, deposited in the mail so addressed, with postage thereon prepaid if mailed, dispatched or transmitted if faxed or emailed.

A written waiver of notice signed before or after a meeting by a director and filed with the records of the meeting shall be deemed to be equivalent to notice of the meeting. The attendance of a director at a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except where a director attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting at the beginning of the meeting to the transaction of any business because such meeting is not lawfully called or convened. Except as otherwise required by law, by the Certificate or by these By-laws, neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any meeting of the Board of Directors need be specified in the notice or waiver of notice of such meeting.

SECTION 10. Quorum . At any meeting of the Board of Directors, a majority of the total number of directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but if less than a quorum is present at a meeting, a majority of the directors present may adjourn the meeting from time to time, and the meeting may be held as adjourned without further notice, except as provided in Section 9 of this Article II. Any business which might have been transacted at the meeting as originally noticed may be transacted at such adjourned meeting at which a quorum is present. For purposes of this section, the total number of directors includes any unfilled vacancies on the Board of Directors.

SECTION 11. Action at Meeting . At any meeting of the Board of Directors at which a quorum is present, the vote of a majority of the directors present shall constitute action by the Board of Directors, unless otherwise required by law, by the Certificate or by these By-laws.

SECTION 12. Action by Consent . Any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the Board of Directors may be taken without a meeting if all members of the Board of Directors consent thereto in writing or by electronic transmission and the writing or writings or electronic transmission or transmissions are filed with the records of the meetings of the Board of Directors. Such filing shall be in paper form if the minutes are maintained in paper form and shall be


in electronic form if the minutes are maintained in electronic form. Such consent shall be treated as a resolution of the Board of Directors for all purposes.

SECTION 13. Manner of Participation . Directors may participate in meetings of the Board of Directors by means of conference telephone or other communications equipment by means of which all directors participating in the meeting can hear each other, and participation in a meeting in accordance herewith shall constitute presence in person at such meeting for purposes of these By-laws.

SECTION 14. Committees . The Board of Directors, by vote of a majority of the directors then in office, may elect from its number one or more committees, including, without limitation, an Executive Committee, a Compensation Committee, a Nominating Committee, and an Audit Committee, and may delegate thereto some or all of its powers except those which by law, by the Certificate or by these By-laws may not be delegated. Except as the Board of Directors may otherwise determine, any such committee may make rules for the conduct of its business, but unless otherwise provided by the Board of Directors or in such rules, its business shall be conducted so far as possible in the same manner as is provided by these By-laws for the Board of Directors. All members of such committees shall hold such offices at the pleasure of the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors may abolish any such committee at any time. Any committee to which the Board of Directors delegates any of its powers or duties shall keep records of its meetings and shall report its action to the Board of Directors.

SECTION 15. Compensation of Directors . Directors shall receive such compensation for their services as shall be determined by a majority of the Board of Directors, or a designated committee thereof, provided that directors who are serving the Corporation as employees and who receive compensation for their services as such, shall not receive any salary or other compensation for their services as directors of the Corporation.

ARTICLE III

Officers

SECTION 1. Enumeration . The officers of the Corporation shall consist of a Chief Executive Officer, a Chief Financial Officer, a Secretary and such other officers, including, without limitation, a Chairman of the Board of Directors, a President and one or more Vice Presidents (including Executive Vice Presidents or Senior Vice Presidents), Assistant Vice Presidents, Assistant Treasurers and Assistant Secretaries, as the Board of Directors may determine.

SECTION 2. Election . At the regular annual meeting of the Board of Directors following the Annual Meeting, the Board of Directors shall elect the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer and the Secretary. Other officers may be elected by the Board of Directors at such regular annual meeting of the Board of Directors or at any other regular or special meeting.

SECTION 3. Qualification . No officer need be a stockholder or a director. Any person may occupy more than one office of the Corporation at any time. Any officer may be required by the Board of Directors to give bond for the faithful performance of his or her duties in such amount and with such sureties as the Board of Directors may determine.

SECTION 4. Tenure . Except as otherwise provided by the Certificate or by these By-laws, each of the officers of the Corporation shall hold office until the regular annual meeting of the Board


of Directors following the next Annual Meeting and until his or her successor is elected and qualified or until his or her earlier resignation or removal.

SECTION 5. Resignation . Any officer may resign by delivering his or her written resignation to the Corporation addressed to the Chief Executive Officer or the Secretary, and such resignation shall be effective upon receipt unless it is specified to be effective at some other time or upon the happening of some other event.

SECTION 6. Removal . Except as otherwise provided by law, the Board of Directors may remove any officer with or without cause by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors then in office.

SECTION 7. Absence or Disability . In the event of the absence or disability of any officer, the Board of Directors may designate another officer to act temporarily in place of such absent or disabled officer.

SECTION 8. Vacancie s . Any vacancy in any office may be filled for the unexpired portion of the term by the Board of Directors.

SECTION 9. Chief Executive Officer . The Chief Executive Officer shall, subject to the direction of the Board of Directors, have general supervision and control of the Corporation’s business. If there is no Chairman of the Board or if he or she is absent, the Chief Executive Officer shall preside, when present, at all meetings of stockholders and of the Board of Directors. The Chief Executive Officer shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as the Board of Directors may from time to time designate.

SECTION 10. Chairman of the Board . The Chairman of the Board, if one is elected, shall preside, when present, at all meetings of the stockholders and of the Board of Directors. The Chairman of the Board shall have such other powers and shall perform such other duties as the Board of Directors may from time to time designate.

SECTION 11. President . The President, if one is elected, shall have such powers and shall perform such duties as the Board of Directors may from time to time designate.

SECTION 12. Vice Presidents and Assistant Vice Presidents . Any Vice President (including any Executive Vice President or Senior Vice President) and any Assistant Vice President shall have such powers and shall perform such duties as the Board of Directors or the Chief Executive Officer may from time to time designate.

SECTION 13. Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Treasurers . The Chief Financial Officer shall, subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and except as the Board of Directors, the President or the Chief Executive Officer may otherwise provide, have general charge of the financial affairs of the Corporation and shall cause to be kept accurate books of account. The Chief Financial Officer shall have custody of all funds, securities, and valuable documents of the Corporation. He or she shall have such other duties and powers as may be designated from time to time by the Board of Directors, the President or the Chief Executive Officer.

Any Assistant Treasurer shall have such powers and perform such duties as the Board of Directors, the President or the Chief Executive Officer may from time to time designate.


SECTION 14. Secretary and Assistant Secretaries . The Secretary shall record all the proceedings of the meetings of the stockholders and the Board of Directors (including committees of the Board) in books kept for that purpose. In his or her absence from any such meeting, a temporary secretary chosen at the meeting shall record the proceedings thereof. The Secretary shall have charge of the stock ledger (which may, however, be kept by any transfer or other agent of the Corporation). The Secretary shall have custody of the seal of the Corporation, and the Secretary, or an Assistant Secretary, shall have authority to affix it to any instrument requiring it, and, when so affixed, the seal may be attested by his or her signature or that of an Assistant Secretary. The Secretary shall have such other duties and powers as may be designated from time to time by the Board of Directors, the President or the Chief Executive Officer. In the absence of the Secretary, any Assistant Secretary may perform his or her duties and responsibilities.

Any Assistant Secretary shall have such powers and perform such duties as the Board of Directors, the President or the Chief Executive Officer may from time to time designate.

SECTION 15. Other Powers and Duties . Subject to these By-laws and to such limitations as the Board of Directors may from time to time prescribe, the officers of the Corporation shall each have such powers and duties as generally pertain to their respective offices, as well as such powers and duties as from time to time may be conferred by the Board of Directors, the President or the Chief Executive Officer.

ARTICLE IV

Capital Stock

SECTION 1. Certificates of Stock . Each stockholder shall be entitled to a certificate of the capital stock of the Corporation in such form as may from time to time be prescribed by the Board of Directors. Such certificate shall be signed by the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer or a Vice President and by the Chief Financial Officer or an Assistant Treasurer, or the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary. The Corporation seal and the signatures by the Corporation’s officers, the transfer agent or the registrar may be facsimiles. In case any officer, transfer agent or registrar who has signed or whose facsimile signature has been placed on such certificate shall have ceased to be such officer, transfer agent or registrar before such certificate is issued, it may be issued by the Corporation with the same effect as if he or she were such officer, transfer agent or registrar at the time of its issue. Every certificate for shares of stock which are subject to any restriction on transfer and every certificate issued when the Corporation is authorized to issue more than one class or series of stock shall contain such legend with respect thereto as is required by law.

SECTION 2. Transfers . Subject to any restrictions on transfer and unless otherwise provided by the Board of Directors, shares of stock may be transferred only on the books of the Corporation by the surrender to the Corporation or its transfer agent of the certificate theretofore properly endorsed or accompanied by a written assignment or power of attorney properly executed, with transfer stamps (if necessary) affixed, and with such proof of the authenticity of signature as the Corporation or its transfer agent may reasonably require.

SECTION 3. Record Holders . Except as may otherwise be required by law, by the Certificate or by these By-laws, the Corporation shall be entitled to treat the record holder of stock as shown on its books as the owner of such stock for all purposes, including the payment of dividends and the right to vote with respect thereto, regardless of any transfer, pledge or other disposition of


such stock, until the shares have been transferred on the books of the Corporation in accordance with the requirements of these By-laws.

SECTION 4. Record Date . In order that the Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof or entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment of any rights, or entitled to exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion or exchange of stock or for the purpose of any other lawful action, the Board of Directors may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board of Directors, and which record date: (a) in the case of determination of stockholders entitled to vote at any meeting of stockholders, shall, unless otherwise required by law, not be more than sixty nor less than ten days before the date of such meeting and (b) in the case of any other action, shall not be more than sixty days prior to such other action. If no record date is fixed: (i) the record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall be at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which notice is given, or, if notice is waived, at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which the meeting is held and (ii) the record date for determining stockholders for any other purpose shall be at the close of business on the day on which the Board of Directors adopts the resolution relating thereto.

SECTION 5. Replacement of Certificates . In case of the alleged loss, destruction or mutilation of a certificate of stock, a duplicate certificate may be issued in place thereof, upon such terms as the Board of Directors may prescribe.

ARTICLE V

Indemnification

SECTION 1. Definitions . For purposes of this Article:

(a) “Corporate Status” describes the status of a person who is serving or has served (i) as a Director of the Corporation, (ii) as an Officer of the Corporation, or (iii) as a director, partner, trustee, officer, employee or agent of any other corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise which such person is or was serving at the request of the Corporation. For purposes of this Section 1(a), an Officer or Director of the Corporation who is serving or has served as a director, partner, trustee, officer, employee or agent of a Subsidiary shall be deemed to be serving at the request of the Corporation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, “Corporate Status” shall not include the status of a person who is serving or has served as a director, officer, employee or agent of a constituent corporation absorbed in a merger, other than the merger with Antares Pharma, Inc., a Minnesota corporation, or consolidation transaction with the Corporation with respect to such person’s activities prior to said transaction, unless specifically authorized by the Board of Directors or the stockholders of the Corporation;

(b) “Director” means any person who serves or has served the Corporation as a director on the Board of Directors of the Corporation;

(c) “Disinterested Director” means, with respect to each Proceeding in respect of which indemnification is sought hereunder, a Director of the Corporation who is not and was not a party to such Proceeding;


(d) “Expenses” means all reasonable attorneys’ fees, retainers, court costs, transcript costs, fees of expert witnesses, private investigators and professional advisors (including, without limitation, accountants and investment bankers), travel expenses, duplicating costs, printing and binding costs, costs of preparation of demonstrative evidence and other courtroom presentation aids and devices, costs incurred in connection with document review, organization, imaging and computerization, telephone charges, postage, delivery service fees, and all other disbursements, costs or expenses of the type customarily incurred in connection with prosecuting, defending, preparing to prosecute or defend, investigating, being or preparing to be a witness in, settling or otherwise participating in, a Proceeding;

(e) “Non-Officer Employee” means any person who serves or has served as an employee or agent of the Corporation, but who is not or was not a Director or Officer;

(f) “Officer” means any person who serves or has served the Corporation as an officer appointed by the Board of Directors of the Corporation;

(g) “Proceeding” means any threatened, pending or completed action, suit, arbitration, alternate dispute resolution mechanism, inquiry, investigation, administrative hearing or other proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative, arbitrative or investigative; and

(h) “Subsidiary” shall mean any corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, trust or other entity of which the Corporation owns (either directly or through or together with another Subsidiary of the Corporation) either (i) a general partner, managing member or other similar interest or (ii) (A) 50% or more of the voting power of the voting capital equity interests of such corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture or other entity, or (B) 50% or more of the outstanding voting capital stock or other voting equity interests of such corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture or other entity.

SECTION 2. Indemnification of Directors and Officers . Subject to the operation of Section 4 of this Article V of these By-laws, each Director and Officer shall be indemnified and held harmless by the Corporation to the fullest extent authorized by the DGCL, as the same exists or may hereafter be amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the extent that such amendment permits the Corporation to provide broader indemnification rights than such law permitted the Corporation to provide prior to such amendment) against any and all Expenses, judgments, penalties, fines and amounts reasonably paid in settlement that are incurred by such Director or Officer or on such Director’s or Officer’s behalf in connection with any threatened, pending or completed Proceeding or any claim, issue or matter therein, which such Director or Officer is, or is threatened to be made, a party to or participant in by reason of such Director’s or Officer’s Corporate Status, if such Director or Officer acted in good faith and in a manner such Director or Officer reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation and, with respect to any criminal proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful. The rights of indemnification provided by this Section 2 shall continue as to a Director or Officer after he or she has ceased to be a Director or Officer and shall inure to the benefit of his or her heirs, executors, administrators and personal representatives. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Corporation shall indemnify any Director or Officer seeking indemnification in connection with a Proceeding initiated by such Director or Officer only if such Proceeding was authorized by the Board of Directors of the Corporation, unless such Proceeding was brought to enforce an Officer or Director’s rights to indemnification or, in the case of Directors, advancement of Expenses under these By-laws in accordance with the provisions set forth herein.


SECTION 3. Indemnification of Non-Officer Employees . Subject to the operation of Section 4 of this Article V of these By-laws, each Non-Officer Employee may, in the discretion of the Board of Directors of the Corporation, be indemnified by the Corporation to the fullest extent authorized by the DGCL, as the same exists or may hereafter be amended, against any or all Expenses, judgments, penalties, fines and amounts reasonably paid in settlement that are incurred by such Non-Officer Employee or on such Non-Officer Employee’s behalf in connection with any threatened, pending or completed Proceeding, or any claim, issue or matter therein, which such Non-Officer Employee is, or is threatened to be made, a party to or participant in by reason of such Non-Officer Employee’s Corporate Status, if such Non-Officer Employee acted in good faith and in a manner such Non-Officer Employee reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation and, with respect to any criminal proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful. The rights of indemnification provided by this Section 3 shall exist as to a Non-Officer Employee after he or she has ceased to be a Non-Officer Employee and shall inure to the benefit of his or her heirs, personal representatives, executors and administrators. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Corporation may indemnify any Non-Officer Employee seeking indemnification in connection with a Proceeding initiated by such Non-Officer Employee only if such Proceeding was authorized by the Board of Directors of the Corporation.

SECTION 4. Good Faith . Unless ordered by a court, no indemnification shall be provided pursuant to this Article V to a Director, to an Officer or to a Non-Officer Employee unless a determination shall have been made that such person acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Corporation and, with respect to any criminal Proceeding, such person had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful. Such determination shall be made by (a) a majority vote of the Disinterested Directors, even though less than a quorum of the Board of Directors, (b) a committee comprised of Disinterested Directors, such committee having been designated by a majority vote of the Disinterested Directors (even though less than a quorum), (c) if there are no such Disinterested Directors, or if a majority of Disinterested Directors so directs, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion, or (d) by the stockholders of the Corporation.

SECTION 5. Advancement of Expenses to Directors Prior to Final Disposition .

(a) The Corporation shall advance all Expenses incurred by or on behalf of any Director in connection with any Proceeding in which such Director is involved by reason of such Director’s Corporate Status within ten (10) days after the receipt by the Corporation of a written statement from such Director requesting such advance or advances from time to time, whether prior to or after final disposition of such Proceeding. Such statement or statements shall reasonably evidence the Expenses incurred by such Director and shall be preceded or accompanied by an undertaking by or on behalf of such Director to repay any Expenses so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined that such Director is not entitled to be indemnified against such Expenses. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Corporation shall advance all Expenses incurred by or on behalf of any Director seeking advancement of expenses hereunder in connection with a Proceeding initiated by such Director only if such Proceeding was (i) authorized by the Board of Directors of the Corporation, or (ii) brought to enforce Director’s rights to indemnification or advancement of Expenses under these By-laws.

(b) If a claim for advancement of Expenses hereunder by a Director is not paid in full by the Corporation within 10 days after receipt by the Corporation of documentation of Expenses and the required undertaking, such Director may at any time thereafter bring suit against the Corporation to


recover the unpaid amount of the claim and if successful in whole or in part, such Director shall also be entitled to be paid the expenses of prosecuting such claim. The failure of the Corporation (including its Board of Directors or any committee thereof, independent legal counsel, or stockholders) to make a determination concerning the permissibility of such advancement of Expenses under this Article V shall not be a defense to the action and shall not create a presumption that such advancement is not permissible. The burden of proving that a Director is not entitled to an advancement of expenses shall be on the Corporation.

(c) In any suit brought by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking, the Corporation shall be entitled to recover such expenses upon a final adjudication that the Director has not met any applicable standard for indemnification set forth in the DGCL.

SECTION 6. Advancement of Expenses to Officers and Non-Officer Employees Prior to Final Disposition .

(a) The Corporation may, at the discretion of the Board of Directors of the Corporation, advance any or all Expenses incurred by or on behalf of any Officer and Non-Officer Employee in connection with any Proceeding in which such is involved by reason of the Corporate Status of such Officer or Non-Officer Employee upon the receipt by the Corporation of a statement or statements from such Officer or Non-Officer Employee requesting such advance or advances from time to time, whether prior to or after final disposition of such Proceeding. Such statement or statements shall reasonably evidence the Expenses incurred by such Officer and Non-Officer Employee and shall be preceded or accompanied by an undertaking by or on behalf of such to repay any Expenses so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined that such Officer or Non-Officer Employee is not entitled to be indemnified against such Expenses.

(b) In any suit brought by the Corporation to recover an advancement of expenses pursuant to the terms of an undertaking, the Corporation shall be entitled to recover such expenses upon a final adjudication that the Officer or Non-Officer Employee has not met any applicable standard for indemnification set forth in the DGCL.

SECTION 7. Contractual Nature of Rights .

(a) The foregoing provisions of this Article V shall be deemed to be a contract between the Corporation and each Director and Officer entitled to the benefits hereof at any time while this Article V is in effect, and any repeal or modification thereof shall not affect any rights or obligations then existing with respect to any state of facts then or theretofore existing or any Proceeding theretofore or thereafter brought based in whole or in part upon any such state of facts.

(b) If a claim for indemnification hereunder by a Director or Officer is not paid in full by the Corporation within 60 days after receipt by the Corporation of a written claim for indemnification, such Director or Officer may at any time thereafter bring suit against the Corporation to recover the unpaid amount of the claim, and if successful in whole or in part, such Director or Officer shall also be entitled to be paid the expenses of prosecuting such claim. The failure of the Corporation (including its Board of Directors or any committee thereof, independent legal counsel, or stockholders) to make a determination concerning the permissibility of such indemnification under this Article V shall not be a defense to the action and shall not create a presumption that such


indemnification is not permissible. The burden of proving that a Director or Officer is not entitled to indemnification shall be on the Corporation.

(c) In any suit brought by a Director or Officer to enforce a right to indemnification hereunder, it shall be a defense that such Director or Officer has not met any applicable standard for indemnification set forth in the DGCL.

SECTION 8. Non-Exclusivity of Rights . The rights to indemnification and advancement of Expenses set forth in this Article V shall not be exclusive of any other right which any Director, Officer, or Non-Officer Employee may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, provision of the Certificate or these By-laws, agreement, vote of stockholders or Disinterested Directors or otherwise.

SECTION 9. Insurance . The Corporation may maintain insurance, at its expense, to protect itself and any Director, Officer or Non-Officer Employee against any liability of any character asserted against or incurred by the Corporation or any such Director, Officer or Non-Officer Employee, or arising out of any such person’s Corporate Status, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such liability under the DGCL or the provisions of this Article V.

SECTION 10. Other Indemnification . The Corporation’s obligation, if any, to indemnify any person under this Article V as a result of such person serving, at the request of the Corporation, as a director, partner, trustee, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise shall be reduced by any amount such person may collect as indemnification from such other corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or enterprise.

ARTICLE VI

Miscellaneous Provisions

SECTION 1. Fiscal Year . The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be determined by the Board of Directors.

SECTION 2. Seal . The Board of Directors shall have power to adopt and alter the seal of the Corporation.

SECTION 3. Execution of Instruments . All deeds, leases, transfers, contracts, bonds, notes and other obligations to be entered into by the Corporation in the ordinary course of its business without director action may be executed on behalf of the Corporation by the Chairman of the Board, if one is elected, the Chief Executive Officer or the Chief Financial Officer or any other officer, employee or agent of the Corporation as the Board of Directors or Executive Committee may authorize.

SECTION 4. Voting of Securities . Unless the Board of Directors otherwise provides, the Chairman of the Board, if one is elected, the Chief Executive Officer or the Chief Financial Officer may waive notice of and act on behalf of this Corporation, or appoint another person or persons to act as proxy or attorney in fact for this Corporation with or without discretionary power and/or power of substitution, at any meeting of stockholders or shareholders of any other corporation or organization, any of whose securities are held by this Corporation.


SECTION 5. Resident Agent . The Board of Directors may appoint a resident agent upon whom legal process may be served in any action or proceeding against the Corporation.

SECTION 6. Corporate Records . The original or attested copies of the Certificate, By-laws and records of all meetings of the incorporators, stockholders and the Board of Directors and the stock transfer books, which shall contain the names of all stockholders, their record addresses and the amount of stock held by each, may be kept outside the State of Delaware and shall be kept at the principal office of the Corporation, at the office of its counsel or at an office of its transfer agent or at such other place or places as may be designated from time to time by the Board of Directors.

SECTION 7. Certificate . All references in these By-laws to the Certificate shall be deemed to refer to the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation, as amended and in effect from time to time.

SECTION 8. Amendment of By-laws .

(a) Amendment by Directors. Except as provided otherwise by law, these By-laws may be amended or repealed by the Board of Directors by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors then in office.

(b) Amendment by Stockholders. These By-laws may be amended or repealed at any Annual Meeting, or special meeting of stockholders called for such purpose, by the affirmative vote of at least 70% of the outstanding shares entitled to vote on such amendment or repeal, voting together as a single class; provided, however, that if the Board of Directors recommends that stockholders approve such amendment or repeal at such meeting of stockholders, such amendment or repeal shall only require the affirmative vote of the majority of the outstanding shares entitled to vote on such amendment or repeal, voting together as a single class. Notwithstanding the foregoing, stockholder approval shall not be required unless mandated by the Certificate, these By-laws, or other applicable law.

SECTION 9. Notices . If mailed, notice to stockholders shall be deemed given when deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, directed to the stockholder at such stockholder’s address as it appears on the records of the Corporation. Without limiting the manner by which notice otherwise may be given to stockholders, any notice to stockholders may be given by electronic transmission in the manner provided in Section 232 of the DGCL.

SECTION 10. Waivers . A written waiver of any notice, signed by a stockholder or director, or waiver by electronic transmission by such person, whether given before or after the time of the event for which notice is to be given, shall be deemed equivalent to the notice required to be given to such person. Neither the business nor the purpose of any meeting need be specified in such a waiver.

Approved and effective

as of April 28, 2005

 

/s/ LAWRENCE CHRISTIAN

Lawrence Christian, Secretary

Exhibit 5.1

April 11, 2006

Antares Pharma, Inc.

707 Eagleview Boulevard, Suite 414

Exton, Pennsylvania 19341

 

RE: Antares Pharma, Inc., Registration Statement on Form S-3

Ladies and Gentlemen:

We have acted as counsel to Antares Pharma, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the filing of the above-referenced Registration Statement (the “Registration Statement”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). The Registration Statement relates to the registration of 16,624,500 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Common Stock”), issued by the Company to the initial selling stockholders identified in the Registration Statement, consisting of 9,170,000 outstanding shares of Common Stock (the “Issued Shares”) and 7,454,500 shares of Common Stock (the “Warrant Shares”) issuable upon the exercise of warrants (the “Warrants”) held by the initial selling stockholders identified in the Registration Statement.

In connection with this opinion letter, we have examined the Registration Statement and originals, or copies certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of the Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws of the Company and such other documents, records and other instruments as we have deemed appropriate for purposes of the opinion set forth herein.

We have assumed the genuineness of all signatures, the legal capacity of all natural persons, the authenticity of the documents submitted to us as originals, the conformity with the originals of all documents submitted to us as certified, facsimile or photostatic copies and the authenticity of the originals of all documents submitted to us as copies.

Based upon the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the Issued Shares and Warrant Shares are duly authorized and the Issued Shares are, and the Warrant Shares if and when issued pursuant to the exercise of the Warrants in accordance with their terms will be, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

The opinions expressed herein are limited to the Delaware General Corporation Law.

We hereby consent to the use of this opinion as Exhibit 5.1 to the Registration Statement and to the reference to us under the caption “Legal Matters” in the prospectus included in the Registration Statement. In giving such consent, we do not hereby admit that we are acting within the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act or the rules or regulations of the SEC thereunder.

Very truly yours,

/s/ MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS LLP

Exhibit 23.1

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The Board of Directors

Antares Pharma, Inc.:

We consent to the use of our reports incorporated by reference herein and to the reference to our firm under the caption “Experts” in the Registration Statement.

/s/ KPMG LLP

Minneapolis, Minnesota

April 11, 2006