EXHIBIT 10.41
POLICY OF ENDO PHARMACEUTICALS HOLDINGS INC.
RELATING TO INSIDER TRADING IN COMPANY
SECURITIES AND CONFIDENTIALITY OF INFORMATION
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All
Personnel
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Carol A. Ammon,
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
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The Board of
Directors has adopted the following Policy which applies to all
personnel (including directors and officers) of Endo
Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc. and its subsidiaries (collectively
called the “Company”) arising from our legal and
ethical responsibilities as a public company.
1. Prohibition Against Trading on Undisclosed Material
Information : If you are aware of material information relating
to the Company which has not yet been available to the public for
at least two full days (often called “inside
information”), you are prohibited from trading in our
securities, directly or indirectly, and from disclosing such
information to any other persons who may trade in our securities.
Any information, positive or negative, is “material” if
it might be of significance to an investor in determining whether
to purchase, sell or hold our securities. Information may be
significant for this purpose even if it would not alone determine
the investor’s decision. Examples include a potential
business acquisition, internal information about revenues, earnings
or other aspects of financial performance which departs in any way
from what the market would expect based upon prior disclosures,
important business developments (including FDA approval or
nonapproval of one of our products), the acquisition or loss of
major customer, or an important transaction. We emphasize that
these examples are merely illustrative. When we refer to our
“securities” we mean both the Company’s common
stock and the Company’s warrants.
Once
material information is publicly announced, trading can occur after
a lapse of two full trading days. Therefore, if an announcement is
made before the commencement of trading on a Monday, an employee
may trade in the Company’s stock or warrants starting on the
Wednesday of that week, because two full trading days would have
elapsed by then (all of Monday and Tuesday). If the announcement is
made on Monday after trading begins, employees may not trade in the
Company’s stock or warrants until Thursday. Please consult
myself, Jeffrey R. Black or Caroline B. Manogue if you are
uncertain when trading may commence following an
announcement.
The above
prohibition against trading on inside information generally
reflects the requirements of law as well as the Company’s
Policy. As more fully discussed fully discussed below, a breach of
this Policy probably will constitute a serious legal violations as
well.
2. Restricted Periods: In addition to the limitations
set forth in Section 1 above, no personnel should trade any
securities of the Company during periods that begin 10 trading days
prior to the end of each of the Company’s fiscal quarters
(including its fiscal year end) and ending two full trading days
after the financial results for each quarter, or with respect to
the fourth quarter for the full year, have been announced publicly
(the “Restricted Period”). The Company’s fiscal
quarters end on each March 31, June 30 and
September 30 and its fiscal year end is December 31. The
announcement date of the quarterly results varies, but occurs
normally around the 45 th day following the end of the fiscal quarter. For
example, you cannot trade any securities of the Company from
June 15 th until August 18 th ,
two full trading days after the second quarter results are publicly
announced. Notwithstanding the foregoing, personnel may sell any
securities of the Company during a Restricted Period if such
securities are sold pursuant to an effective registration statement
on Form S-3 or Form S-4 or any successor form thereto on file with
the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (an