Katherine A. Littrell
Analyst · Difei Yang with WallachBeth Capital
Thank you very much, Cheverly. Thank you for joining us today on the Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc investor conference call. Today, we reported our first quarter 2013 financial results, and we've provided an updated 2013 financial guidance in our press release. The release is available in the News and Events section of the company's website. With me for today's call are Bruce Cozadd, Chairman and CEO; Kate Falberg, CFO; Russ Cox, our Chief Commercial Officer; and Jeff Tobias, our Head of R&D and Chief Medical Officer. Following some introductory remarks, we'll open the call for your questions. Please note that the statements we make on this call related to the future events constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements include our comments related to the growth potential of the company and certain of our products, corporate development initiatives, repurchases under and the effect of our share repurchase program, future financial results, future litigation, intellectual property and regulatory-related matters, future supply of Erwinaze, clinical trial and enrollments and results and other statements relating to our plans, expectations and intentions. These forward-looking statements involve numerous risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ significantly from those projected, including risks and uncertainties associated with: maintaining an increasing sales of Xyrem and other products; the potential introduction of generic competition to Xyrem; potential unchanged or increased regulatory restrictions on Xyrem; developing and protecting our intellectual property; ongoing regulation and oversight by regulatory agencies; our dependence on key customers and sole source suppliers, including our ability to resolve in a timely manner potential product supply shortages and meet product demand; pharmaceutical product development; clinical trials and regulatory approval; and our ability to identify and acquire and license or develop additional products or product candidates. These and other risks related to our business are detailed in our SEC filings, including under the caption, Risk Factors, in our annual report on the Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012, and our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2013, which will be filed this afternoon. We undertake no duty or obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained on this call as a result of new information, future events or changes in our expectations. On this call, we discuss several non-GAAP financial measures including adjusted net income, adjusted combined SG&A and R&D expenses, adjusted earnings per share and adjusted effective tax rate. We believe that these 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 GAAP measures. Reconciliations of GAAP to adjusted financial measures are included in our press release issued earlier today, which is available on our website. I'll now turn the call over to Bruce.