2023 UK Annual Report

2023 UK Annual Report

DEFINITIONS

In this LivaNova PLC 2023 UK Annual Report, the following terms and abbreviations have the meanings listed below. "LivaNova," the "Company," and "Group," "we," "us" and "our" refer to LivaNova PLC and its consolidated subsidiaries.

Abbreviation

Definition

2015

Plan

LivaNova PLC 2015 Incentive Award Plan

2021

First Lien Credit

First Lien Credit Agreement for $125 million between LivaNova PLC and its wholly-owned

Agreement

subsidiary, Borrower, and Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as First Lien Administrative Agent and First

Lien Collateral Agent, entered into on 13 August 2021

2022

The year ended 31 December 2022

2022

Plan

LivaNova PLC 2022 Incentive Award Plan

2023

The year ended 31 December 2023

2023

LTIP

2023 Long-Term Incentive Plan

2023

STIP

2023 Short-Term Incentive Plan

2024 AGM

2024 Annual General Meeting

2024

LTIP

2024 Long-Term Incentive Plan

2024

Restructuring Plan

A plan, initiated in 2024, to enhance LivaNova's focus on its core Cardiopulmonary and

Neuromodulation segments

2025

Capped Calls

Privately negotiated capped call transactions entered into with certain of the initial purchasers of the

2025 Notes or their respective affiliates

2025

Indenture

The indenture governing the 2025 Notes

2025

Notes

$287.5 million aggregate principal amount of 3.00% senior notes due December 2025, issued June

17, 2020

2029

Capped Calls

Privately negotiated capped call transactions entered into with certain of the initial purchasers of the

2029 Notes and another financial institution, or their respective affiliates

2029

Indenture

The indenture governing the 2029 Notes

2029

Notes

$345 million aggregate principal amount of 2.50% senior notes due March 2029, issued March 8,

2024

A&R 2022 Plan

Amended and Restated LivaNova PLC 2022 Incentive Award Plan

ACS

Advanced Circulatory Support

Aggressive Climate

Scenario with a 1.5°C increase in global average temperatures above pre-industrial levels

Action

AGM

Annual General Meeting

ALung

ALung Technologies, Inc.

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AOCI

Accumulated other comprehensive income

APAC

Asia-Pacific

ASMs

Anti-seizure medications

Audit Committee

LivaNova's Audit and Compliance Committee

Auditor

Statutory Auditor

Barclays

Barclays Bank Ireland PLC

BEPS

Base Erosion and Profit Shifting

Board

LivaNova Board of Directors

Borrower

LivaNova USA, Inc.

Bridge Loan Facility

Incremental Facility Amendment No. 1 to the 2021 First Lien Credit Agreement, relating to a €200

million bridge loan facility, dated 24 February 2022, and repaid on 6 July 2022

Capped Call

The 2025 Capped Calls and the 2029 Capped Calls

Transactions

CARES Act

Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act

CCPA

California Consumer Privacy Act

CE Mark

Conformité Européenne, French for "European Conformity"

CECs

Comprehensive Epilepsy Centers

CED

Coverage with Evidence Development

CEO

Chief Executive Officer

CFD

UK Climate-related Finance Disclosure

CFO

Chief Financial Officer

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Abbreviation

Definition

CGU

Cash generating unit

CHCM Committee

Compensation and Human Capital Management Committee

CISO

Chief Information Security Officer

CLO

Chief Legal Officer

CMS

The US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

CO2e

The number of metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions with the same global warming potential as

one metric ton of another greenhouse gas

Code of Conduct

LivaNova PLC's Code of Ethics and Business Conduct

CODM

Chief Operating Decision Maker

Companies Act 2006

Companies Act 2006 of England and Wales

Convertible Notes

The five business day period after any ten consecutive trading day period

Measurement Period

Court of Appeal

Court of Appeal in Milan

CPAP

Continuous positive airway pressure

CPB

Cardiopulmonary bypass

CRO

Chief Risk Officer

Current Climate Action

"Business-as-usual" scenario indicating a continuation of current warming trends

Cyberonics

Cyberonics, Inc.

D.S.O.

Days of sales outstanding

D23 study

The longest and largest naturalistic study on treatments for patients experiencing chronic and severe

DTD, published by the American Journal of Psychiatry in 2017

DEFRA

UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Delayed Draw Term

$50 million delayed draw term facility under the 2021 First Lien Credit Agreement resulting from the

Facility

Incremental Facility Amendment No. 2

DRE

Drug-resistant epilepsy

DSMC

Data and Safety Monitoring Committee

DTC

Depository Trust Company

DTD

Difficult-to-treat depression

E&I

Ethics and Integrity

EBT

Employee Benefit Trust

ECJ

European Court of Justice

ECMO

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

EIR

Effective interest rate

ELT

Executive Leadership Team

EPA

US Environmental Protection Agency

EPS

Earnings per share

ESG

Environmental, Social and Governance

ESPP

Global Employee Share Purchase Plan

EtO

Ethylene oxide

EU

European Union

False Claims Act

US False Claims Act

FCF

Free Cash Flow

FCPA

US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977

FDA

US Food and Drug Administration

FIFO

First-in-first-out

FX

Foreign currency exchange rate

GAAP

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

GDPR

General Data Protection Regulation

GHG

Greenhouse Gas

Hemolung RAS

Hemolung Respiratory Assist System

HHS

The US Department of Health & Human Services

HIPAA

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996

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Abbreviation

Definition

HITECH

Health Information Technology and Clinical Health Act

HLM

Heart-lung machine

HSE

Health, Safety and Environment

IBR

Incremental borrowing rate

IEA

International Energy Agency

IFRS

UK-adopted International Accounting Standards

ILBM

In-line blood monitor

ImThera

ImThera Medical, Inc., acquired by LivaNova in 2018, a company developing an implantable

neurostimulation device system for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea

Incremental Facility

An incremental facility amendment to the 2021 First Lien Credit Agreement, dated 6 July 2022

Amendment No. 2

Incremental Facility

An incremental facility amendment to the 2021 First Lien Credit Agreement, dated 8 March 2024

Amendment No. 3

Incremental Revolving

The Incremental Facility Amendment No. 3 provides for LivaNova USA, Inc. to, among other things,

Facility

obtain commitments for a new revolving facility from a syndicate of lenders in an aggregate principal

amount of $225 million

Indentures

The 2025 Indenture and the 2029 Indenture

Initial Term Facility

$225 million revolving facility under the 2021 First Lien Credit Agreement resulting from the

Incremental Facility Amendment No. 3

IPCC

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

IPR&D

In-Process Research and Development

IS

Information security

ISDA

International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.

ISIN

National Inspectorate for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection, a sub-body of the Italian Ministry

of Economic Development

ISMS

Information Security Management System

ISO

International Organization for Standardization

IT

Information technology

KPIs

Key performance indicators

LivaNova PLC

A public limited company organized under the laws of England and Wales on 20 February 2015

LivaNova USA

LivaNova USA, Inc.

LSM

LivaNova Site Management S.r.l.

MDD

Medical Device Directive

MDR

EU Medical Device Regulation

Merger

Business combination of Cyberonics and Sorin

Mitral

Mitral Holdco S.à r.l.

MRI

Magnetic resonance imaging

Nasdaq

Nasdaq Global Market

NCD

Non-coverage determination

NCG

Nominating and Corporate Governance

NED

Non-executive director

NIST

National Institute of Standards and Technology

NOLs

Net operating loss carryforwards

NOPAT

Net operating profit after taxes

Note Repurchases

The transaction by which LivaNova USA, Inc., entered into separate and individually negotiated

transactions with certain holders of LivaNova USA, Inc.'s existing Cash Exchangeable Senior Notes,

issued by LivaNova USA, Inc. and guaranteed by LivaNova, to repurchase $230 million aggregate

principal amount of the Cash Exchangeable Senior Notes for an aggregate cash amount of

approximately $270.5 million (including accrued and unpaid interest)

Notes

The 2025 Notes and the 2029 Notes

OCI

Other comprehensive income

OECD

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development

Option Counterparties

Certain financial institutions with whom LivaNova USA or LivaNova PLC, as applicable, has entered

into the 2025 Capped Calls and 2029 Capped Calls

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Abbreviation

Definition

Order

Administrative order from the Italian Ministry of the Environment received by LivaNova in 2021

OSA

Obstructive sleep apnea

OSPREY clinical trial

LivaNova's clinical trial, "Treating Obstructive Sleep Apnea using Targeted Hypoglossal

Neurostimulation"

Pearl Meyer

Pearl Meyer & Partners, LLC

Pillar Two

OECD BEPS Pillar Two

Plan Committee

Qualified Plan Committee

PMA

Pre-market approval

PP&E

Property, plant and equipment

PSUs

Performance stock units

Public Administrations

The Italian Ministry of the Environment and other Italian government agencies

R&D

Research and Development

RECOVER clinical

LivaNova's clinical study "A Prospective, Multi-center, Randomized Controlled Blinded Trial

study

Demonstrating the Safety and Effectiveness of VNS Therapy System as Adjunctive Therapy Versus a

No Stimulation Control in Subjects With Treatment-Resistant Depression"

Remuneration Policy

UK remuneration policy

ROIC

Return on Invested Capital

ROU

Right-of-use

RS

Restricted share

RSUs

Service-based restricted share units

rTSR

Relative Total Shareholder Return

S&P

Standard & Poor's

SARs

Service-based stock appreciation rights

SDRT

UK Stamp Duty Reserve Tax

SEC

US Securities and Exchange Commission

SECR

Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting

Securities Act

US Securities Act of 1933, as amended

Settlement Agreement

Settlement agreement between LivaNova and Mr. Damien McDonald, dated 14 April 2023

SG&A

Selling, general and administrative expenses

SNIA

SNIA S.p.A.

SNIA Litigation

A first demand bank guarantee of €270.0 million in connection with the SNIA litigation

Guarantee

SOFR

Secured Overnight Financing Rate

Sorin

Sorin S.p.A.

Sorin spin-off

The spin-off of Sorin from SNIA in 2004

SteerCo

ESG Steering Committee

Term Facilities

The Initial Term Facility, together with the Delayed Draw Term Facility

TFR

Trattamento di Fine Rapporto

Third Party Code of

Third Party Code of Ethics and Business Conduct

Conduct

Trust

LivaNova PLC Employee Benefit Trust

TSR

Total Shareholder Return

UK

United Kingdom

UK Act

Finance (No.2) Act 2023

UK Bribery Act

UK Bribery Act of 2010

United Kingdom

United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards,

Accounting Standards,

comprising FRS 101 "Reduced Disclosure Framework")

comprising FRS 101

US

United States of America

US GAAP

Accounting principles generally accepted in the US

US GAAP

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles in the US

USD

US dollar

UTPR

Undertaxed profits rule

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Abbreviation

Definition

VNS

Vagus nerve stimulation

VNS Therapy

LivaNova Vagus Nerve Stimulation Therapy

VP LL

Vice President, Legal Leader, Corporate & Securities

WACC

Weighted average cost of capital

This Annual Report of LivaNova PLC comprises the Strategic Report, Directors' Report, Remuneration Report, and the LivaNova PLC consolidated Financial Statements prepared in accordance with UK-adopted international accounting standards and the Company financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Accounting Standards, comprising FRS 101 and applicable law), in respect of the year ended 31 December 2023 contained herein.

This Annual Report has been prepared to satisfy the reporting requirements of the Companies Act 2006 and will be included in the 2024 AGM materials made available to shareholders.

Cautionary Statement

Certain statements made in this Annual Report are forward looking. Such statements are based on current expectations and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from any expected future events or results referred to in the forward-looking statements. Unless otherwise required by applicable laws, regulations or accounting standards, LivaNova does not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise. Nothing in this Annual Report should be regarded as a profit forecast.

Trademarks

These trademarks and trade names are the property of LivaNova or the property of its consolidated subsidiaries and are protected under applicable intellectual property laws. Solely for convenience, the Company's trademarks and tradenames referred to in this Annual Report may appear without the symbol, but such references are not intended to indicate in any way that the Company will not assert, to the fullest extent under applicable law, the Company's rights to these trademarks and tradenames.

  • Trademarks for the Company's Neuromodulation systems, the VNS Therapy System, the VITARIA System and our proprietary pulse generator products: Model 102 (Pulse), Model 102R (Pulse Duo), Model 103 (Demipulse), Model 104 (Demipulse Duo), Model 106 (AspireSR), Model 1000 (SenTiva), Model 1000-D (SenTiva Duo), Model 7103 (VITARIA and TitrationAssist) and Model 8103 (Symmetry).
  • Trademarks for our Cardiopulmonary product systems: Essenz, S5, S3, S5 Pro™, B-Capta, Inspire, Heartlink, XTRA, 3T Heater-Cooler, Connect and Revolution.
  • Trademarks for our advanced circulatory support systems: TandemLife, TandemHeart, TandemLung, ProtekDuo, LifeSPARC, ALung, Hemolung, Respiratory Dialysis and ActivMix.
  • Trademarks for our obstructive sleep apnea system: ImThera™ and aura6000™.

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