ani-20260819

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

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

Date of Report (Date of Earliest Event Reported): August 19, 2026

ANI PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


Delaware	001-31812	58-2301143
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)	(Commission File Number)	(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)


104 Carnegie Center Drive, Suite 300 Princeton, New Jersey			08540
(Address of principal executive offices)			(Zip Code)

Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (609) 759-1810

Not Applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last

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


Title of each class	Trading Symbol(s)	Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock	ANIP	Nasdaq Stock Market

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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 19, 2026, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Henry Gosebruch to serve on the Board as a director with a term expiring at the Company’s 2027 annual meeting of stockholders.

Mr. Gosebruch, 53, has served as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of Lakefront Biotherapeutics NV, a biotechnology company dedicated to building a differentiated pipeline of medicines for patients with serious diseases in areas of high unmet need, since May 2025. Prior to Lakefront, Mr. Gosebruch served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Neumora Therapeutics, Inc., a publicly traded neuroscience company, from July 2023 to February 2025. Prior to Neumora, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at AbbVie Inc. from December 2015 to February 2023, where his responsibilities included corporate strategy, competitive intelligence, business development, and M&A. Prior to joining Abbvie in 2015, Mr. Gosebruch spent over 20 years at J.P. Morgan, where he was Co-Head of the North American M&A Group.

There is no arrangement or understanding between Mr. Gosebruch and any other person pursuant to which Mr. Gosebruch was selected to serve as a director of the Company, nor is Mr. Gosebruch a party to any transactions required to be disclosed under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K involving the Company. As a non-employee director, Mr. Gosebruch is eligible to participate in the ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Amended and Restated 2022 Stock Incentive Plan (the “Plan”). For his service on the Board, Mr. Gosebruch will receive compensation in accordance with the Company’s general policies for compensation of non-employee directors, including, without limitation, an initial grant of a restricted stock award under the Plan having a grant date fair value equal to $525,000 upon joining the Board, which will vest in three equal installments on the first, second and third anniversary of Mr. Gosebruch joining the Board.

On August 23, 2026, Muthusamy “Samy” Shanmugam informed the Board of his decision to resign as a director effective immediately. Mr. Shanmugam will remain in his executive management role as ANI’s Head of Research and Development and Chief Operating Officer of New Jersey Operations.

The Company issued a press release on August 24, 2026 announcing Mr. Gosebruch’s appointment to the Board and Mr. Shanmugam’s resignation. A copy of the press release is attached to this Form 8-K as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated by reference herein.


Item 9.01			Exhibits.

(d)Exhibits


Exhibit No.			Description
99.1			Press Release, dated August 24, 2026
104			Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded with the Inline XBRL document)

SIGNATURE

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.


Date: August 24, 2026	ANI PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.

	By:	/s/ Stephen P. Carey
	Name:	Stephen P. Carey
	Title:	Senior Vice President Finance and Chief Financial Officer