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): May 11, 2016 (May 6, 2016)

MULTI-FINELINE ELECTRONIX, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

8659 Research Drive

Irvine, CA 92618

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

(949) 453-6800

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

Chinese Antitrust Clearance

As previously disclosed on its Current Report on Form 8-K filed on February 4, 2016, Multi-Fineline Electronix, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (as it may be amended from time to time, the “Merger Agreement”) on that date with Suzhou Dongshan Precision Manufacturing Co., Ltd., a company organized under the laws of the People’s Republic of China (“Parent”), and Dragon Electronix Merger Sub Inc., a Delaware corporation and indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”), under which Merger Sub will be merged with and into the Company (the “Merger”), with the Company continuing after the Merger as the surviving corporation and an indirect subsidiary of Parent.

On May 6, 2016, the Chinese Anti-Monopoly Bureau of the Ministry of Commerce (the “Anti-Monopoly Bureau”) issued a written notice that it has approved the Merger pursuant to the Anti-Monopoly Law of the People’s Republic of China. The notice from the Anti-Monopoly Bureau satisfies one of the conditions to the closing of the Merger, which remains subject to other specified closing conditions including, among others, the absence of certain legal impediments; review and clearance by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States; certain other filings and approvals by governmental authorities in the People’s Republic of China; and approval by the Company’s stockholders and Parent’s stockholders.

Additional Information and Where to Find It

In connection with the proposed Merger, the Company has filed relevant materials with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), including a definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A, which was filed on April 28, 2016. The Company will mail or otherwise make available the definitive proxy statement and a proxy card to each stockholder entitled to vote at the meeting relating to the proposed transaction. Company stockholders and other investors are advised to carefully read these materials (including any amendments or supplements thereto) and any other relevant documents filed with the SEC in respect of the proposed Merger when they become available, as those documents will contain important information about the proposed Merger and the parties to the proposed Merger. Company stockholders and other investors may obtain free copies of the definitive proxy statement and other relevant materials in connection with the proposed Merger, along with other documents filed by the Company with the SEC, at the SEC’s website (http://www.sec.gov) or through the investor relations section of the Company’s website (http://www.mflex.com).

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 Merger. 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, are included in the proxy statement filed with the SEC in connection with the proposed Merger and for its 2016 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which was filed with the SEC on April 28, 2016, and in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, which was filed with the SEC on February 11, 2016. 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.

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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 Merger 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 failure to satisfy all of the closing conditions of the proposed Merger, including the adoption of the Merger Agreement by the Company’s stockholders and the receipt of certain governmental and regulatory approvals in the U.S. and in the People’s Republic of China, (iii) the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstance that could give rise to the termination of the Merger Agreement, (iv) the effect of the announcement or pendency of the proposed Merger on the Company’s business, operating results, and relationships with customers, suppliers and others, (v) risks that the proposed Merger may disrupt the Company’s current plans and business operations, (vi) potential difficulties retaining employees as a result of the proposed Merger, (vii) risks related to the diverting of management’s attention from the Company’s ongoing business operations, and (viii) the outcome of any legal proceedings that have been or may be instituted against the Company related to the Merger Agreement or the proposed Merger. 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: (i) the conditions of markets generally and the industries in which the Company operates, including recent volatility in the Company’s key industry segments, (ii) the Company’s ability to diversify its product applications, expand its customer base, and enter into new market segments as a result of the proposed Merger, and (iii) other events and factors disclosed previously and from time to time in the Company’s filings with the SEC, including the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended March 31, 2016 and its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2015. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this communication or the date of any document incorporated by reference in this document. Except as required by applicable law, the Company does not undertake to update these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.

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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, thereunto duly authorized.

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