SEC Form 4 · accession 0001140361-15-033920

CITRIX SYSTEMS INC · CTXS

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

Reporting owner

Other

Period of report

Aug 28, 2015

Accepted (ET)

Aug 31, 2015 · 4:34 pm EDT

Rule 10b5-1 plan

unknown — predates the checkbox

Issuer CIK

0000877890

Table I — non-derivative securities

Security	Date	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Owned after	D/I	Nature of ownership
Common Stock, $.001 par value^F1	Aug 28, 2015	P	13,926	$68.5072	A	1,996,086	D

Security	Conv. / exercise price	Date	Code	Shares	A/D	Exercisable	Expires	Underlying	Underlying shares	Owned after	D/I
Notional Principal Amount Derivative Agreement^F1,F2	—	Aug 28, 2015	J	1	A	—	Jun 1, 2016	Common Stock, Par Value $.001	1,659	1	D
Notional Principal Amount Derivative Agreement^F1,F2	—	Aug 28, 2015	J	1	A	—	Mar 30, 2016	Common Stock, Par Value $.001	361	1	D

F1This Form 4 is filed by Elliott Associates, L.P. (the "Reporting Person"). For purposes of Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Reporting Person may be deemed to be a director by deputization due to an employee of the management company of the Reporting Person serving as a member of the board of directors of the Issuer. The Reporting Person disclaims beneficial ownership of the securities reported herein except to the extent of its pecuniary interest therein.
F2Notional principal amount derivative agreement (the "Derivative Agreement") in the form of cash settled swaps entered into by the Reporting Person. The Derivative Agreement provides the Reporting Person with economic results that are comparable to the economic results of ownership payable on each settlement date applicable to the expiration or earlier termination of such Derivative Agreement, but do not provide it with the power to vote or direct the voting or dispose of or direct the disposition of the shares of Common Stock that are the subject of the Derivative Agreements (such shares, the "Subject Shares"). The Reporting Person disclaims beneficial ownership in the Subject Shares. The counterparties to the Derivative Agreements are unaffiliated third party financial institutions.