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): August 17, 2018

AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (617) 588-1960

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

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 (see General Instruction A.2. below):

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On August 17, 2018, AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into a purchase agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with Piper Jaffray & Co. (the “Underwriter”), relating to an underwritten public offering of 2,500,000 shares (the “Underwritten Shares”) of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”). All of the Underwritten Shares are being sold by the Company. The public offering price of the Underwritten Shares is $2.26 per share, and the Underwriter has agreed to purchase the Underwritten Shares from the Company pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement at a price of $2.1696 per share. After underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses, the Company expects to receive net proceeds from the offering of approximately $5.2 million. Under the terms of the Underwriting Agreement, the Company has granted the Underwriter an option, exercisable for 30 days, to purchase up to an additional 375,000 shares of Common Stock (the “Option Shares” and, together with the Underwritten Shares, the “Shares”) at the public offering price less the underwriting discounts and commissions.

The Underwritten Shares and any Option Shares will be issued pursuant to a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 that was filed with the Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on November 30, 2017 and declared effective by the SEC on December 15, 2017 (File No. 333-221837). A prospectus supplement relating to the offering has been filed with the SEC. The closing of the offering is expected to take place on August 21, 2018, subject to customary closing conditions.

A copy of the Underwriting Agreement is attached as Exhibit 1.1 hereto and is incorporated herein by reference. The foregoing description of the Underwriting Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to such exhibit.

A copy of the legal opinion and consent of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP relating to the Shares is attached as Exhibit 5.1 hereto.

The full text of the press release announcing the pricing of the underwritten public offering on August 17, 2018 is attached as Exhibit 99.1 hereto and is incorporated herein by reference.

(d) Exhibits

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.