WILMINGTON, Del., March 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Rigrodsky & Long, P.A.:


    --  Do you, or did you, own shares of Akorn, Inc. (NASDAQ GS: AKRX)?
    --  Did you purchase your shares between April 17, 2014 and March 2, 2015,
        inclusive?
    --  Did you lose money in your investment in Akorn, Inc.?
    --  Do you want to discuss your rights?

Rigrodsky & Long, P.A., including former Special Assistant United States Attorney, Timothy J. MacFall, announces that a complaint has been filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on behalf of all persons or entities that purchased the common stock of Akorn, Inc. ("Akorn" or the "Company") (NASDAQ GS: AKRX) between April 17, 2014 and March 2, 2015, inclusive (the "Class Period"), alleging violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 against the Company and certain of its officers (the "Complaint").

If you purchased shares of Akorn during the Class Period, or purchased shares prior to the Class Period and still hold Akorn, and wish to discuss this action or have any questions concerning this notice or your rights or interests, please contact Timothy J. MacFall, Esquire or Peter Allocco of Rigrodsky & Long, P.A., 2 Righter Parkway, Suite 120, Wilmington, DE 19803 at (888) 969-4242; by e-mail to info@rl-legal.com; or at: http://www.rigrodskylong.com/investigations/akorn-inc-akrx.

Akorn manufactures and markets a full line of diagnostic and therapeutic ophthalmic pharmaceuticals as well as niche hospital drugs and injectable pharmaceuticals. The Complaint alleges that throughout the Class Period, defendants made materially false and misleading statements, and omitted materially adverse facts, about the Company's business, operations and prospects. Specifically, the Complaint alleges that the defendants concealed from the investing public that: (1) as of December 31, 2014, more than eight months after it acquired Hi-Tech Pharmacal Co., Inc. ("Hi-Tech") and four months after it acquired VersaPharm Incorporated ("VersaPharm"), Akorn did not yet integrate those subsidiaries into the Company's centralized accounting department and accounting systems; (2) certain financial and other related data related to Hi-Tech and VersaPharm, which require inclusion in Akorn's annual report to be filed with the SEC on Form 10-K, could not be timely collected and compiled; (3) due to the aforementioned factors, the Company would be unable to timely complete its assessment of the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2014; (4) Akorn's internal control over financial reporting was ineffective and material weaknesses existed relating to the completeness and accuracy of underlying data used in the determination of significant estimates and accounting transactions and accurate and timely reporting of its financial results and disclosures in its Form 10-K; (5) and a result of the foregoing, Akorn's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times. As a result of defendants' alleged false and misleading statements, the Company's stock traded at artificially inflated prices during the Class Period.

According to the Complaint, on March 2, 2015, after the close of trading, the Company issued a press release and filed a Form 12b-25 with the SEC announcing that it would need an extension to file its annual report on Form 10-K for the year ending December 31, 2014. In particular, the release stated that, "[t]he Company has experienced unforeseen delays in collecting and compiling certain financial and other related data that would be included in the Form 10-K relating to the VersaPharm and Hi-Tech Pharmacal subsidiaries which were not integrated into the Company's centralized accounting department and accounting systems as of December 31, 2014."

On this news, shares in Akorn fell over 8%, closing at $49.33 per share on March 3, 2015, on unusually high trading volume of over 6.6 million shares.

If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than May 4, 2015. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. In order to be appointed lead plaintiff, the Court must determine that the class member's claim is typical of the claims of other class members, and that the class member will adequately represent the class. Your ability to share in any recovery is not, however, affected by the decision whether or not to serve as a lead plaintiff. Any member of the proposed class may move the court to serve as lead plaintiff through counsel of their choice, or may choose to do nothing and remain an absent class member.

While Rigrodsky & Long, P.A. did not file the Complaint in this matter, the firm, with offices in Wilmington, Delaware and Garden City, New York, regularly litigates securities class, derivative and direct actions, shareholder rights litigation and corporate governance litigation, including claims for breach of fiduciary duty and proxy violations in the Delaware Court of Chancery and in state and federal courts throughout the United States.

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CONTACT:
Rigrodsky & Long, P.A.
Timothy J. MacFall, Esquire
Peter Allocco
(888) 969-4242
(516) 683-3516
Fax: (302) 654-7530
info@rl-legal.com
http://www.rigrodskylong.com

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