SEC Form 4 · accession 0001209191-15-026499

NUVASIVE INC · NUVA

Statement of changes in beneficial ownership, as filed. Original on EDGAR ↗

Reporting owner

Officer — President and COO

Period of report

Mar 12, 2015

Accepted (ET)

Mar 16, 2015 · 4:47 pm EDT

Rule 10b5-1 plan

unknown — predates the checkbox

Issuer CIK

0001142596

Table I — non-derivative securities

Security	Date	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Owned after	D/I
Common Stock^F1	Mar 12, 2015	M	58,149	$32.80	A	149,837	D
Common Stock^F2,F1	Mar 12, 2015	F	50,229	$45.86	D	99,608	D
Common Stock^F3,F4,F1	Mar 13, 2015	S	7,920	$45.5198	D	91,688	D

Security	Conv. / exercise price	Date	Code	Shares	A/D	Exercisable	Expires	Underlying	Underlying shares	Owned after	D/I
Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy)^F5	$32.80	Mar 12, 2015	M	58,149	A	—	Jan 4, 2020	Common Stock	58,149	0	D

F1Shares directly held by the Reporting Person. The Reporting Person also holds conditional rights to receive or purchase (as appropriate) shares pursuant to previously disclosed Company equity awards.
F2Payment of exercise price and tax liability by Issuer's withholding of shares incident to the respective option exercise.
F3The sale reported on this Form 4 was effected pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 Trading Plan adopted by the Reporting Person on November 7, 2014, which is intended to comply with Rule 10b5-1.
F4Weighted average from 29 transactions with prices ranging from $45.4000 to $45.8850. Upon request by the Commission staff, the Issuer or a security holder of the Issuer, the Reporting Person will undertake to provide full information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price.
F5The option, representing a right to purchase a total of 122,395 shares, became exercisable as follows: 25% of the shares vested on January 4, 2011; the remaining shares vested monthly thereafter so that all shares were fully vested as of January 4, 2014, subject to continued employment through each vesting period.