# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001563880
**File Stem:** 0001563880-25-000005
**Filing Date:** 2025-8
**Character Count:** 6209
**Document Hash:** a52d91e9e26edacbde2bfe1cd7fde669
**Contains OCR:** False
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001563880-25-000005.hdr.sgml**: 20250820

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001563880-25-000005

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 10

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20250814

**ITEM INFORMATION**: Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250820

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20250820

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Trevi Therapeutics, Inc.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001563880
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS [2834]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 03 Life Sciences
- **EIN:** 450834299
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-38886
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251237226

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 195 CHURCH STREET
- **STREET 2:** 16TH FLOOR
- **CITY:** NEW HAVEN
- **STATE:** CT
- **ZIP:** 06510
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 203-304-2499

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 195 CHURCH STREET
- **STREET 2:** 16TH FLOOR
- **CITY:** NEW HAVEN
- **STATE:** CT
- **ZIP:** 06510

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**UNITED STATES** 

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

**WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549** 

**FORM** 8-K

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**CURRENT REPORT** 

**Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of** 

**the Securities Exchange Act of 1934** 

**Date of report (Date of earliest event reported):** August 14, 2025

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Trevi Therapeutics, Inc.

**(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)** 

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| Delaware | 001-38886 | 45-0834299 |
| **(State or Other Jurisdiction**<br>**of Incorporation)** | **(Commission**<br>**File Number)** | **(IRS Employer**<br>**Identification No.)** |

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| 195 Church Street**,** **16th Floor**<br>New Haven**,** Connecticut | 06510 |
| **(Address of Principal Executive Offices)** | **(Zip Code)** |

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**Registrant's telephone number, including area code:** (203) 304-2499

**Not applicable** 

**(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)** 

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Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (*see* General Instruction A.2. below):

☐ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

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☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

☐ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

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| **Title of each class** | **Trading**<br>**symbol(s)** | **Name of each exchange**<br>**on which registered** |
| Common stock, $0.001 par value per share | TRVI | The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC |

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

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

On August 14, 2025, Trevi Therapeutics, Inc. (the "Company") and Lisa Delfini, the Company's Chief Financial Officer, agreed that her employment with the Company would end on August 22, 2025 (the "Effective Date") and that she would resign as Chief Financial Officer. The Company appreciates the service of Ms. Delfini and her resignation is not the result of any disagreement with the Company on any matter, including the Company's operations, policies or practices.

In connection with the end of her employment, the Company has agreed to provide Ms. Delfini the separation benefits provided under the Company's Executive Separation Benefits and Retention Plan, subject to the execution by Ms. Delfini of a severance and release of claims agreement containing, among other things, a general release of claims, an agreement not to disparage the Company and a reaffirmation of her confidentiality, non-solicitation and non-compete obligations under her existing invention and non-disclosure agreement and non-competition and non-solicitation agreement with the Company.

As of the Effective Date, Jennifer L. Good, the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer, will serve as the Company's principal financial officer on an interim basis until a new principal financial officer is designated. For Ms. Good's biographical information, see the disclosure included under the headings "Proposal 1: Election of Two Class III Directors" and "Transactions with Related Persons" beginning on page 6 and page 36, respectively, of the Company's [<u>Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A</u>](https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001563880/000095017025059628/trvi-20250429.htm), filed with the SEC on April 29, 2025, which disclosure is incorporated herein by reference.

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| **Exhibit No.** | **Description** |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document). |

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**SIGNATURES**

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

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|  | TREVI THERAPEUTICS, INC. | TREVI THERAPEUTICS, INC. |
| Date: August 20, 2025 | By: | /s/ Jennifer L. Good |
|  |  | Name: Jennifer L. Good |
|  |  | Title: President and Chief Executive Officer |

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