UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): October 25, 2010

ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware		0-21696		22-3106987
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)		(Commission File Number)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

26 Landsdowne Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts		02139
(Address of principal executive offices)		(Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (617) 494-0400

Not Applicable
(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

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ITEM 1.01		Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

On October 25, 2010, ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with Jefferies & Company, Inc. and Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. as representatives of the underwriters named therein (the “Underwriters”), related to a public offering (the “Offering”) of 16,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $.001 per share (the “Common Stock”). The price to the public in the Offering was $3.70 per share, and the Underwriters purchased the shares from the Company pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement at a price of $3.61 per share. The Offering is expected to close on October 29, 2010, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. The net proceeds to the Company are expected to be approximately $57.4 million after deducting estimated expenses associated with the Offering. Under the terms of the Underwriting Agreement, the Company has granted the Underwriters an option, exercisable for 30 days, to purchase up to an additional 2,400,000 shares of Common Stock to cover over-allotments, if any, at the same price.

The Offering is being made pursuant to a prospectus supplement dated October 25, 2010 and an accompanying prospectus dated January 21, 2010, pursuant to the Company’s existing effective shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (File No. 333-164283), which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) on January 11, 2010 and declared effective by the Commission on January 21, 2010.

A copy of the Underwriting Agreement is filed herewith as Exhibit 1.1 and is incorporated herein by reference. The Underwriting Agreement has been included to provide investors and security holders with information regarding its terms. It is not intended to provide any other factual information about the Company. The representations, warranties and covenants contained in the Underwriting Agreement were made only for purposes of such agreement and as of specific dates, were solely for the benefit of the parties to such agreement, and may be subject to limitations agreed upon by the contracting parties, including being qualified by confidential disclosures exchanged between the parties in connection with the execution of the Underwriting Agreement. The representations and warranties may have been made for the purposes of allocating contractual risk between the parties to the agreement instead of establishing these matters as facts, and may be subject to standards of materiality applicable to the contracting parties that differ from those applicable to investors. Investors are not third-party beneficiaries under the Underwriting Agreement and should not rely on the representations, warranties and covenants or any descriptions thereof as characterizations of the actual state of facts or condition of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates. Moreover, information concerning the subject matter of the representations and warranties may change after the date of the Underwriting Agreement, and this subsequent information may or may not be fully reflected in the Company’s public disclosures.

A copy of the opinion of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. relating to the legality of the issuance and sale of the shares in the Offering is attached as Exhibit 5.1 hereto.

ITEM 9.01		Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits.

Exhibit
Number		Description
1.1		Underwriting Agreement dated October 25, 2010 by and among ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Jefferies & Company, Inc. and Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. as representatives of the underwriters.
5.1		Opinion of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
23.1		Consent of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. (included in the opinion filed as Exhibit 5.1).

SIGNATURES

     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.

Date: October 27, 2010