SEC Form 3

FORM 3

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* AKER HAZEL M (Last) (First) (Middle) C/O CADENCE PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. 12481 HIGH BLUFF DRIVE, SUITE 200 (Street) SAN DIEGO CA 92130 (City) (State) (Zip)	2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year) 04/18/2007	3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol CADENCE PHARMACEUTICALS INC [ CADX ]
		4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) Director 10% Owner X Officer (give title below) Other (specify below) SVP, GC & Secretary	5. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
			6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) X Form filed by One Reporting Person Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 4)	2. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned (Instr. 4)	3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)

Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4)	2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 4)		4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares
Stock option (right to buy)	(1)	04/15/2017	Common Stock	150,000	17.32	D

Explanation of Responses:

1. 25% of the number of shares of common stock subject to the option vest on 04/16/2008, and 1/48th of the total number of shares of common stock subject to the option vest on the first day of each full month thereafter.

Remarks:

	/s/ Hazel M. Aker	04/19/2007
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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POWER OF ATTORNEY

Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby authorizes Hazel M.
Aker, William R. LaRue, Jennifer M. Repine and Justin W. Thacker of Cadence
Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the "Company"), and each of them individually to execute
for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as an
officer of the Company, Forms 3, 4 and 5, and any amendments thereto, and cause
such form(s) to be filed with the United States Securities and Exchange
Commission pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Act of 1934, relating to
the undersigned's beneficial ownership of securities in the Company.  The
undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority
to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary,
or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein
granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could
do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby
ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such
attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be
done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein
granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in
serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming,
nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply
with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the
undersigned's holdings of, and transactions in, securities issued by the
Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered
to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has cause this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of this 19th day of April, 2007.

/s/ Hazel M. Aker
Hazel M. Aker