Katherine A. Littrell - Jazz Pharmaceuticals Plc
Analyst · JPMorgan. Your line is open
Thank you, Ashley. And good afternoon and thank you for joining our investor call. Today, we reported our third quarter 2017 financial results and updated financial guidance in a press release. The release and the slide presentation accompanying this call are available in the Investors section of our website. With me for today's call are Bruce Cozadd, Chairman and CEO; Matt Young, Chief Financial Officer; Russ Cox, Chief Operating Officer; Mike Miller, Executive Vice President of U.S. Commercial; and Karen Smith, Executive Vice President R&D and Chief Medical Officer. Following some remarks, we'll open the call for your questions. I'd like to remind you that some of the statements we will make on this call relate to future events and performance rather than historical facts and are forward-looking. Examples of forward-looking statements include those related to our 2017 financial guidance and goals; corporate development efforts; future growth or strategy, future product sales, and volumes; litigation and intellectual property-related events; inventory and supply challenges; product launches, ongoing and future clinical trials; and other product development and regulatory activities and the timing of these events and activities. These forward-looking statements involve numerous risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events, performance and results to differ materially and are identified and described in today's press release, in the slide presentation accompanying this call, and under Risk Factors in our Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2017, and our Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2017, which we will file shortly. We undertake no duty or obligation to update our forward-looking statements. On this call, we will discuss several non-GAAP financial measures, included adjusted net income and related per share measures, adjusted SG&A and R&D expenses, and measures derived there from, adjusted net interest expense and adjusted effective tax rate. We believe these historical and expected non-GAAP financial measures are helpful in understanding our past financial performance and potential future results. They are not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for comparable reported GAAP measures. Reconciliations of GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures discussed on this call are included in today's press release and slide presentation, both of which are posted in the Investors section of our website. I'll now turn the call over to Bruce.