SEPRACOR INC /DE/
424B3, 1998-10-01
PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS
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                                                FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 424(b)(3)
                                                      REGISTRATION NO. 333-51879


PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT
(TO PROSPECTUS DATED JUNE 18, 1998)


                                  SEPRACOR INC.

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               $189,475,000 PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF 6 1/4% CONVERTIBLE
                        SUBORDINATED DEBENTURES DUE 2005
                  (Interest payable August 15 and February 15)

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                        4,012,617 Shares of Common Stock
                           ($0.10 par value per share)

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        The information in this Prospectus Supplement concerning the Selling
Securityholders supplements the statements set forth under the caption "Selling
Securityholders" in the Prospectus. Capitalized items used and not defined
herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Prospectus. The information
set forth under the caption "Selling Securityholders" in the Prospectus is
supplemented as follows:

                             SELLING SECURITYHOLDERS

        The Debentures were originally acquired on February 10, 1998 from the
Company by the Initial Purchasers. The Initial Purchasers advised the Company
that the Initial Purchasers have resold the Debentures in transactions exempt
from the registration requirements of the Securities Act to "qualified
institutional buyers" (as defined in Rule 144A of the Securities Act) and
certain institutional "accredited investors" (as defined in Rule 501(a)(1), (2),
(3), or (7) under the Securities Act). These subsequent purchasers, or their
transferees, pledgees, donees or successors, may from time to time offer and
sell any or all of the Debentures and/or Conversion Shares pursuant to this
Prospectus.

        The Debentures and the Conversion Shares have been registered pursuant
to the Registration Rights Agreement which provides that the Company file a
Registration Statement with regard to the Debentures and the Conversion Shares
within 90 days of the date of original issuance of the Debentures and keep such
Registration Statement effective until the earlier of (i) the sale pursuant to
the Registration Statement of all the securities registered pursuant to the
Registration Rights Agreement thereunder and (ii) the expiration of the holding
period applicable to such securities under Rule 144(k) under the Securities Act
or any successor provision.

        In addition, 12,639 Additional Shares are being registered pursuant to
the Registration Statement for the account of certain securityholders of the
Company. The Selling Securityholders may choose to sell Debentures and/or Shares
from time to time. See "Plan of Distribution."

        Debentures and Conversion Shares. The following table sets forth the
name of each Selling Securityholder who has provided the Company with notice as
of the date of this Prospectus pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement of
such Selling Securityholder's intent to sell or otherwise dispose of Debentures
and/or Conversion Shares pursuant to the Registration Statement, the principal
amount of Debentures and the number of Conversion Shares which may be sold from
time to time by such Selling Securityholder pursuant to the Registration
Statement and the amount of outstanding


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Debentures and Common Stock beneficially owned by such Selling Securityholder
prior to the offering (assuming no conversion of the Debentures). No such
Selling Securityholder nor any of its affiliates has held any position or office
with, been employed by or otherwise has had any material relationship with, the
Company or any of its affiliates during the three years prior to the date of
this Prospectus. Because the Selling Securityholder may offer all or some
portion of the Debentures and Conversion Shares, no estimate can be given as to
the amount or percentage of Debentures or Common Stock that will be held by the
Selling Securityholders upon termination of sales pursuant to this Prospectus.
In addition, the Selling Securityholders identified below may have sold,
transferred or disposed of all or a portion of their Debentures since the date
on which they provided the information regarding their holdings in transactions
exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act.


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>

                                                    Amount of                                Shares of
                                  Amount of         Debentures                              Common Stock
                               Debentures that     Owned Before       Shares That May       Owned Before
      Name                       May be Sold         Offering            be Sold(1)           Offering
      ----                       -----------         --------            ----------           --------
<S>                              <C>               <C>                  <C>                     <C>
ICI American
Holdings Trust                   $  425,000        $  425,000              8,972                  0

Zeneca Holdings Trust               425,000           425,000              8,972                  0

State of Delaware
PERS                              1,000,000         1,000,000             21,110                  0

Starvest Fund-
Discretionary                       500,000           500,000             10,555                  0

State of Oregon/SAIF
Corporation                       4,000,000         4,000,000             84,443                  0

State of Oregon PERS              4,500,000         4,500,000             94,998                  0

Nalco Chemical Corp.
Retirement                          225,000           225,000              4,749                  0

Kapiolani Medical
Center for Women and
Children                            100,000           100,000              2,111                  0

Hawaiian Airlines
Pension for Salaried
Employees                            15,000            15,000                316                  0

Hawaiian Airlines
Pilots' Retirement Plan              70,000            70,000              1,477                  0

Hawaiian Airlines
Pension Plan - IAM                   50,000            50,000              1,055                  0



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Allstate Insurance
Company                           2,000,000         2,000,000             42,221                  0

Shepard Investments
International Inc.               14,875,000        14,875,000            314,023                  0

Silverton International
Fund Limited                      4,250,000         4,250,000             89,721                  0

Nomura Securities
(Bermuda) Ltd.                   10,000,000        10,000,000            211,108                  0

Paloma Securities
L.L.C.                            4,475,000         4,475,000             94,471                  0

Ell & Co., as nominee
for The Northern
Trust Company of
New York                            580,000           580,000             12,244                  0

Salkeld & Co., as
nominee for Bankers
Trust Company                       615,000           615,000             12,983                  0

Bankers Trust
Company                           1,500,000         1,500,000             31,666                  0

Bear Stearns Securities
Corp.                             1,500,000         1,500,000             31,666                  0

The Income Fund of
America, Inc.                     7,350,000         7,350,000            155,164                  0

The TCW Group, Inc.              12,315,000        12,315,000            259,980                  0

Deutsche Bank AG                 12,105,000        12,105,000            255,546                  0

Morgan Stanley Dean
Witter                            2,045,000         2,045,000             43,171                  0

Colonial Penn Life
Insurance Company                 2,000,000         2,000,000             42,221                  0

OCM Convertible
Trust                             3,575,000         3,575,000             75,471                  0

OCM Convertible
Limited Partnership                 100,000           100,000              2,111                  0

Delta Air Lines Master
Trust                             1,025,000         1,025,000             21,638                  0

State Employees'
Retirement Fund of
the State of Delaware               840,000           840,000             17,733                  0



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State of Connecticut
Combined Investment
Funds                             3,210,000         3,210,000             67,765                  0

Vanguard Convertible
Securities Fund, Inc.             2,200,000         2,200,000             46,443                  0

Partner Reinsurance
Company Ltd.                        280,000           280,000              5,911                  0

Chrysler Corporation
Master Retirement
Trust                             2,405,000         2,405,000             50,771                  0

Raytheon Company
Master Pension Trust              1,115,000         1,115,000             23,538                  0

Mainstay Convertible
Fund                              4,750,000         4,750,000            100,276                  0

Century National
Insurance Company                   425,000           425,000              8,972                  0

Chrysler Insurance
Company -Total
Return                               30,000            30,000                633                  0

AAM/Zazove
Institutional Income
Fund L.P.                         2,500,000         2,500,000             52,777                  0

Zazove Convertible
Fund L.P.                           745,000           745,000             15,727                  0

McMahan Securities
Company L.P.                        290,000           290,000              6,122                  0

Stephenson Ventures                 500,000           500,000             10,555                  0

Delaware State
Employees' Retirement
Fund                              2,300,000         2,300,000             48,554                  0

Declaration of Trust
for the Defined Benefit
Plans of ICI American
Holdings, Inc.                    1,030,000         1,030,000             21,744                  0

Declaration of Trust
for the Defined Benefit
Plans of Zeneca
Holdings Inc.                       700,000           700,000             14,777                  0



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Thermo Electron
Balanced Investment
Fund                                950,000           950,000             20,055                  0

Hillside Capital
Incorporated
Corporate Account                   330,000           330,000              6,966                  0

General Motors
Employees Domestic
Group Trust                      11,630,000        11,630,000            245,519                  0

Summer Hill Global
Partners L.P.                        80,000            80,000              1,688                  0

The J.W. McConnell
Family Foundation                   380,000           380,000              8,022                  0

TQA Vantage Fund
Ltd.                              1,000,000         1,000,000             21,110                  0

TQA Arbitrage Fund,
L.P.                                750,000           750,000             15,833                  0

California Public
Employees' Retirement
System                            4,000,000         4,000,000             84,443                  0

Millennium Trading
Co., L.P.                           185,000           185,000              3,905                  0

Donaldson, Lufkin &
Jenrette Securities
Corp.                               220,000           220,000              4,644                  0

Fidelity Financial
Trust:  Fidelity
Convertible Securities
Fund (2)                          7,815,000         7,815,000            164,981                  0

Fidelity Securities
Fund:  Fidelity OTC
Portfolio (2)                    14,500,000        14,500,000            306,107                  0

MFS Series Trust I-
MFS Convertible
Securities Fund                       2,000             2,000                 42                  0

MFS Series Trust V-
MFS Total Return
Fund                              1,998,000         1,998,000             42,179                  0

J. P. Morgan & Co.                3,000,000         3,000,000             63,332             81,500



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General Motors
Employees Domestic
Group Pension
Trust (3)                         8,679,000         8,679,000            183,221             47,600

Motors Insurance
Corporation (3)                   2,002,000         2,002,000             42,263                  0

General Motors
Foundation, Inc. (3)                319,000           319,000              6,734                  0

Unknown (4)                      16,695,000        16,695,000            352,449                  0
                               ============      ============          =========            =======
Total                          $189,475,000      $189,475,000          3,999,954            129,100
</TABLE>

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(1) Assumes conversion of full amount of Debentures held by such holder at the
    initial rate of $47.369 in principal amount of Debentures per share of
    Common Stock.

(2) Debentures are held in the nominee name of Mag & Co. The entity is either an
    investment company or a portfolio of an investment company registered under
    Section 8 of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, or a private
    investment account advised by Fidelity Management & Research Company ("FMR
    Co."). FMR Co. is a Massachusetts corporation and an investment advisor
    registered under Section 203 of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as
    amended, and provides investment advisory services to each of such Fidelity
    entities identified above, and to other registered investment companies and
    to certain other funds which are generally offered to a limited group of
    investors. FMR Co. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR Corp. ("FMR"), a
    Massachusetts corporation. The holdings are as of September 2, 1998.

(3) General Motors Investment Management Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary
    of General Motors Corporation ("GM"), provides investment advice and
    investment management services with respect to the assets of certain
    employee benefit plans of GM and its subsidiaries, including the General
    Motors Employees Domestic Group Pension Trust, and with respect to the
    assets of certain direct and indirect subsidiaries of GM and associated
    entities, including Motors Insurance Corporation and the General Motors
    Foundation, Inc.

(4) Certain of the Debentures are currently evidenced by a global Debenture
    which has been deposited with DTC and registered in the name of Cede & Co.
    as DTC's nominee. Therefore, the Company is unable to provide the names of
    the remaining Selling Stockholders.

    Additional Shares. Set forth below are the names of certain other Selling
Securityholders who acquired shares of Common Stock in certain transactions not
related to the sale of Debentures and the maximum number of Additional Shares
that may be sold by each such Selling Securityholder from time to time
hereunder. No such Selling Securityholders nor any of their affiliates has held
any position or office with, been employed by or otherwise have had any material
relationship with, the Company or any of its affiliates during the three years
prior to the date of this Prospectus. The percentage of Common Stock
beneficially owned by each of the Selling Securityholders identified below both
prior to and after giving effect to the offering being made hereby is less than
1%.



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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>

                                     Number of Shares of                               Number of Shares of
                                        Common Stock          Number of Shares of         Common Stock
                                     Beneficially Owned       Common Stock to be       Beneficially Owned
       Name                        Prior to this Offering      Offered Hereunder       After this Offering
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<S>                                       <C>                      <C>                      <C>
Robash Inc.                                  243                      243                        0

Beincke Investment                         1,944                    1,944                        0
Fund L.P.

Theodore H. Ashford                        4,243                      243                    4,000

Bedrock Asset Trust I                      7,778                    7,778                        0

Bankers Trust
Company, as Trustee
of the Hughes Aircraft
Company Retirement
Plans                                     80,539                    2,431                   78,108
</TABLE>




                    The date of this Prospectus Supplement is
                                 October 1, 1998






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