UNITED ~~STATES~~STATESSECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSIONWashington, D.C. 20549

~~SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION~~ ___________________________________________

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

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CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of theSecurities Exchange Act of 1934.

Date of ~~the~~Report: August ~~Securities~~9, ~~Exchange~~2017(Date ~~Act~~ of ~~1934.~~earliest event reported)

~~Date of Report: June 22, 2017~~ ___________________________________________

SciClone Pharmaceuticals, Inc.(~~Date~~Exact name of ~~earliest~~registrant ~~event~~as ~~reported~~specified in its charter)

~~SciClone~~ ~~Pharmaceuticals, Inc.~~ ___________________________________________

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


Delaware (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)	0-19825 (Commission File Number)	94-3116852 (IRS Employer Identification Number)
950 Tower Lane, Suite 900, Foster City, CA (Address of principal executive offices)		94404 (Zip Code)
(650) 358-3456 (Registrant's telephone number, including area code)

Not Applicable (Former Name or Former Address, if changed since last report)

Delaware	0-19825	94-3116852
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)	(Commission File Number)	(IRS Employer Identification Number)
950 Tower Lane, Suite 900, Foster City, CA		94404
(Address of principal executive offices)		(Zip Code)

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(650) 358-3456

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Not Applicable

(Former Name or Former Address, if changed since last report)

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Item 82.~~01.~~02 Results ~~Other~~of ~~Events~~Operations and Financial Condition

~~Supplemental~~ On ~~Deposit~~August 9, of2017, ~~Merger~~SciClone ~~Consideration~~Pharmaceuticals, ~~under~~Inc. ~~Merger~~issued ~~Agreement~~a press release announcing final financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2017. The press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.

As The ~~previously~~information ~~disclosed~~in onItem ~~its~~2.02 of this Current Report on Form 8-K ~~filed on June 8~~, ~~2017,~~including ~~SciClone Pharmaceuticals,~~Exhibit ~~Inc~~99.,1 ato ~~Delaware~~this ~~corporation~~Current ~~(the~~Report ~~“Company”)~~on ~~entered~~Form ~~into~~8-K, anshall ~~Agreement~~not ~~and Plan of Merger (as it may~~ be ~~amended~~deemed ~~from time~~ to ~~time,~~be ~~the~~ “~~Merger Agreement~~filed”) onfor ~~June 7,~~purposes ~~2017~~of ~~with~~Section ~~Silver~~18 ~~Biotech Investment~~of ~~Limited,~~the aSecurities ~~company~~and ~~organized~~Exchange ~~under~~Act ~~the laws~~ of ~~the~~1934, ~~Cayman~~as ~~Islands~~amended (the “~~Holdco~~Exchange Act”), ~~and~~or ~~Silver~~incorporated ~~Delaware~~by ~~Investment~~reference ~~Limited,~~in aany ~~Delaware~~filing ~~corporation~~under ~~and~~the ~~wholly~~Securities ~~owned~~Act ~~subsidiary~~ of ~~Holdco~~1933, ~~(“Merger~~as ~~Sub”)~~amended, ~~under which~~or ~~Merger Sub will be merged with and into~~ the ~~Company~~Exchange ~~(the “Merger”)~~Act, ~~with~~except ~~the~~as ~~Company~~shall ~~continuing~~be ~~after~~expressly ~~the~~set ~~Merger~~forth asby ~~the~~specific ~~surviving~~reference ~~corporation~~in ~~and~~such ~~subsidiary~~a ~~of Holdco~~filing.

~~Under the terms of the Merger Agreement, Holdco may be required to pay the Company a reverse termination fee of approximately~~ ~~$31.6 million~~ Item ~~if the Merger Agreement is terminated under certain circumstances~~9.01 Financial InStatements order to secure the reverse termination fee that may become payable by Holdco to the Company, concurrently with the execution of the Merger Agreement, Holdco has deposited shares of Company common stock equal to approximately $7.2 million of the aggregate Merger Consideration into an escrow account with Computershare Trust Company, N.A. (the “Escrow Account”), and ~~agreed to make a~~Exhibits ~~further deposit of approximately $24.3 million within 21 calendar days of the execution of the Merger Agreement.~~

~~On June 22,~~ ~~2017,~~ (d) ~~Holdco~~The ~~deposited~~following ~~the~~exhibits ~~additional~~are ~~$24.3 million~~filed ~~into the Escrow Account.~~ herewith:

~~Consummation~~Exhibit of99.1 ~~the~~Press ~~Merger~~release isdated ~~expected~~August ~~to occur in 2017 and is subject to certain customary closing conditions including~~9, ~~among others, the absence of certain legal impediments and approval by the Company’s stockholders.~~ 2017

Additional Information and Where to Find It

This communication does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy the securities of the Company or the solicitation of any vote or approval. This communication is being made in respect of the proposed merger transaction involving the Company and the Buyer Consortium. The proposed merger of the Company will be submitted to the stockholders of the Company for their consideration. In connection therewith, the Company intends to file relevant materials with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), including a definitive proxy statement. However, such documents are not currently available. The definitive proxy statement will be mailed to the stockholders of the Company. BEFORE MAKING ANY VOTING OR ANY INVESTMENT DECISION, INVESTORS AND SECURITY HOLDERS ARE URGED TO READ THE DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENT REGARDING THE PROPOSED TRANSACTION AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS FILED OR TO BE FILED WITH THE SEC CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE, BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROPOSED TRANSACTION. Investors and security holders may obtain free copies of the definitive proxy statement, any amendments or supplements thereto and other documents containing important information about the Company, once such documents are filed with the SEC, through the website maintained by the SEC at www.sec.gov. Copies of the documents filed with the SEC by the Company will be available free of charge on the Company’s website at www.sciclone.com under the heading “SEC Filings” in the “Investors and Media” portion of the Company’s website. Stockholders of the Company may also obtain a free copy of the definitive proxy statement and any filings with the SEC that are incorporated by reference in the definitive proxy statement by contacting the Company’s Investor Relations Department at (650) 358-1447

Participants in the Solicitation

The Company and its directors and executive officers may be deemed participants under SEC rules in the solicitation of proxies from the Company’s stockholders in favor of the proposed transaction. Information about the Company’s directors and executive officers and their interests in the solicitation, which may, in some cases, differ from those of the Company’s stockholders generally, will be included in the proxy statement to be filed with the SEC in connection with the proposed transaction. Additional information about these directors and executive officers is available in the Company’s proxy statement for its 2017 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which was filed with the SEC on April 28, 2017, and in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2016, which was filed with the SEC on March 9, 2017. To the extent that holdings of the Company’s securities by the Company’s directors and executive officers have changed since the amounts printed in the latest proxy statement or Form 10-K, such changes have been or will be reflected on Statements of Change in Ownership on Form 4 filed with the SEC.

Forward-Looking Statements

This Current Report on Form 8-K, and the documents to which the Company refers you in this communication, contain forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe-harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements represent the Company’s current expectations or beliefs concerning future events, plans, strategies, or objectives that are subject to change, and actual results may differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Without limiting the foregoing, the words “expect,” “plan”, “believe,” “seek,” estimate,” “aim,” “intend,” “anticipate,” “believe,” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements may involve known and unknown risks over which the Company has no control. Those risks include, without limitation (i) the risk that the proposed transaction may not be completed in a timely manner, or at all, which may adversely affect the Company’s business and the price of its common stock, (ii) the risk that the Buyer Consortium may fail to obtain financing, and notwithstanding that receipt of financing is not a closing condition, that the closing may not occur if Buyer Consortium is unable to secure adequate financing, (iii) the failure to satisfy all of the closing conditions of the proposed transaction, including the adoption of the definitive agreement by the Company’s stockholders, (iv) the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstance that could give rise to the termination of the definitive agreement, (v) the effect of the announcement or pendency of the proposed transaction on the Company’s business, operating results, and relationships with customers, suppliers and others, (vi) risks that the proposed transaction may disrupt the Company’s current plans and business operations, (vii) potential difficulties retaining employees as a result of the proposed transaction, (viii) risks related to the diverting of management’s attention from the Company’s ongoing business operations, and (ix) the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against the Company related to the definitive agreement or the proposed transaction. In addition, the Company’s actual performance and results may differ materially from those currently anticipated due to a number of risks including, without limitation: the Company’s substantial dependence on sales of ZADAXIN in China; the dependence of the Company’s revenues on obtaining or maintaining regulatory licenses and compliance with other country-specific regulations, including renewing the Company’s drug import license for ZADAXIN; risks and uncertainties relating to Chinese government actions intended to reduce pharmaceutical prices such as the reduction in some provinces of the governmentally permitted maximum listed price for the Company’s products and increased oversight of the health care market and pharmaceutical industry; risks related to existing and future pricing pressures on our products, particularly in China; SciClone’s ability to implement and maintain controls over its financial reporting; actual or anticipated fluctuations in the Company’s operating results, some of which may result from undertaking new clinical development projects, or from licensing or acquisition-related expenses including up-front fees, milestone payments, and other items; the Company’s ability to successfully develop or commercialize its products; risks related to the impact of the Company’s efforts to in-license or acquire other pharmaceutical products for marketing in China and other markets; the Company’s dependence of its current and future revenue and prospects on third-party license, promotion or distribution agreements, including the need to renew such agreements, enter into similar agreements, or end arrangements that SciClone does not believe are beneficial; risks relating to operating in China, including risk due to changes in regulatory environment, slow payment cycles and changes to economic conditions including currency exchange fluctuations; uncertainty in the prospects for unapproved products, including uncertainties as to pricing and competition and risks relating to the clinical trial process and related regulatory approval process and the process of initiating trials at, and enrolling patients at, clinical sites. Please also refer to other risks and uncertainties described in SciClone’s filings with the SEC, including but not limited to the risks described in SciClone’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2016 and the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2017. All forward-looking statements are based on information currently available to SciClone and SciClone assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statements.

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

Dated: June 23, 2017			SCICLONE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
Dated: August 9, 2017	SCICLONE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
	By:	/s/ Wilson W. Cheung	~~By:~~	~~/s/ Wilson W. Cheung~~
		Wilson W. Cheung		~~Wilson W. Cheung~~
		Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President, Finance		~~Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President, Finance~~

Exhibit Index

Exhibit No. Description

99.1 Press release dated August 9, 2017.

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