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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-25-040220"
form_type: "8-K/A"
ticker: "IONS"
cik: "0000874015"
company_name: "IONIS PHARMACEUTICALS INC"
filed_at: "2025-11-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T01:01:31.175121+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ionis enters advisory agreement with retiring executive Richard Geary

## Summary
- Advisory Services Agreement with Richard Geary effective Jan 16, 2026 through Feb 13, 2027.
- Total fee of $300,000, plus up to $400/hour for hours over 16/week, capped at $450,000 total.
- Geary will provide up to 16 hours/week of advisory services following retirement from Ionis.
- Agreement includes standard confidentiality, non-solicitation, and invention assignment clauses.
- Either party may terminate with 15 days' written notice; equity acceleration triggered on change in control.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-25-040220
- form_type: 8-K/A
- ticker: IONS
- cik: 0000874015
- company_name: IONIS PHARMACEUTICALS INC
- filed_at: 2025-11-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/874015/000114036125040220/0001140361-25-040220-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/874015/000114036125040220/ef20058178_8ka.htm

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