# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001808665
**File Stem:** 0001104659-25-115051
**Filing Date:** 2025-11
**Character Count:** 4829
**Document Hash:** e415e4f0ea35712c4d971692de199aac
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001104659-25-115051.hdr.sgml**: 20251121

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001104659-25-115051

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 8-K

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 12

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20251117

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

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20251121

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20251121

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Assertio Holdings, Inc.
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001808665
- **STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:** PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS [2834]
- **ORGANIZATION NAME:** 03 Life Sciences
- **EIN:** 850598378
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** DE
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 8-K
- **SEC ACT:** 1934 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 001-39294
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251508845

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 100 S. SAUNDERS ROAD
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 300
- **CITY:** LAKE FOREST
- **STATE:** IL
- **ZIP:** 60045
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** (224) 419-7106

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 100 S. SAUNDERS ROAD
- **STREET 2:** SUITE 300
- **CITY:** LAKE FOREST
- **STATE:** IL
- **ZIP:** 60045

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**UNITED STATES**

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

**WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549**

**Form 8-K**

**CURRENT REPORT**

**PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934**

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): November 17, 2025

**ASSERTIO HOLDINGS, INC.**

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

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| **Delaware** | **01-39294** | **85-0598378** |
| (State or Other Jurisdiction of<br> Incorporation) | (Commission File Number) | (IRS Employer Identification No.) |

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**100 S. Saunders Road** **, Suite 300, Lake Forest, IL 60045**

(Address of Principal Executive Offices; Zip Code)

**(224) 419-7106**

(Registrant's telephone number, including area code)

**Not Applicable**

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

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

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| **Title of each class:** | **Trading Symbol(s):** | **Name of each exchange on which registered:** |
| Common Stock, $0.0001 par value | ASRT | The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC |

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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):

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| Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425) |
| Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12) |
| 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)) |

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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.** |

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On November 17, 2025, Brendan P. O'Grady, former Chief Executive Officer of Assertio Holdings, Inc. (the "Company"), executed a waiver and release agreement (the "Waiver and Release Agreement") substantially in the form included with the Management Continuity Agreement between Mr. O'Grady and the Company, a form of which was filed as Exhibit 10.3 to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on August 7, 2024. Pursuant to and in connection with his execution of the Waiver and Release Agreement, Mr. O'Grady resigned as a member of the Board of Directors of the Company, effective as of the effective date of the Waiver and Release Agreement.

**SIGNATURES**

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

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|  | **ASSERTIO HOLDINGS, INC.** | **ASSERTIO HOLDINGS, INC.** |
| Date: November 21, 2025 | **By:** | /s/ Sam Schlessinger |
|  |  | Sam Schlessinger |
|  |  | Executive Vice President and General Counsel |

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