Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors;

Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain

Officers.

Amendment to Ulrich Dopfer's Employment Agreement and Effectiveness of Christoph Glingener's Employment Agreement Amendment

On May 26, 2023, ADVA entered into an amendment (the "Dopfer Amendment") to its employment agreement, dated January 28, 2015, as previously amended (the "Employment Agreement"), with Mr. Ulrich Dopfer, the Company's Chief Financial Officer and a member of the management board of ADVA. The Dopfer Amendment extends the term of the Employment Agreement through December 31, 2024. It further provides that Mr. Dopfer will receive an annual base salary ("Base Salary") of $410,000 commencing May 1, 2023. In addition, Exhibit 1 to the Dopfer Amendment provides that Mr. Dopfer will be eligible to receive an annual incentive cash bonus tied to quarterly revenue and adjusted earnings before interest and taxes ("Adjusted EBIT") targets set by the Company on a quarterly basis, a one-time integration bonus tied to certain synergy savings targets and related individual goals, and a combination of time-based restricted stock units and performance stock units (with the performance objectives of such performance stock units to be based on the Company's relative total shareholder return and Adjusted EBIT over three-year performance periods). Mr. Dopfer's total annual remuneration is capped at €2,800,000.

The Dopfer Amendment was executed following ADVA's general meeting of shareholders held on May 24, 2023. At such meeting, ADVA's shareholders approved an adjustment to its management board compensation system as a result of the Domination and Profit and Loss Transfer Agreement between the Company and ADVA. As a result of the shareholders' approval of the management board compensation system, the seventeenth amendment to ADVA's employment agreement with Mr. Glingener (previously disclosed in the Company's Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 3, 2023) (the "Glingener Amendment") also became effective. Exhibit 1 to the Glingener Amendment, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.3 to this Form 8-K, sets forth the approved remuneration arrangements, which are consistent with the types of incentive awards that Mr. Dopfer is eligible to receive, as described above. Mr. Glingener's total annual remuneration is capped at €2,900,000.

The foregoing description of the Dopfer Amendment and the Glingener Amendment, including the exhibits to each such amendment, is not complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of such documents, copies of which are filed herewith as Exhibit 10.1 through 10.3 and are incorporated herein by reference.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits

(d) Exhibits. The following exhibits are filed with this report:



Exhibit
  No.                                     Description

10.1*          Eighth Amendment, dated May 26, 2023, including Exhibit 1 thereto,
             to the Employment Agreement by and between ADVA Optical Networking SE
             and Ulrich Dopfer

10.2           Seventeenth Amendment, dated March 28, 2023, to the Employment
             Agreement by and between ADVA Optical Networking SE and Christoph
             Glingener (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company's
             Form 8-K filed April 3, 2023)

10.3*          Exhibit 1 to the Seventeenth Amendment, dated March 28, 2023 and
             executed May 31, 2023, to the Employment Agreement by and between ADVA
             Optical Networking SE and Christoph Glingener

104          Cover Page Interactive Data File - the cover page iXBRL tags are
             embedded within the Inline XBRL document.

* Certain identified information has been excluded from these exhibits because it

is not material and is the type of information that the Company customarily and

actually treats as private and confidential. Redacted information is indicated

by [***].

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