SEC Form 4

FORM 4		UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940	OMB APPROVAL OMB Number: 3235-0287 Estimated average burden hours per response: 0.5
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* Burke Steven Keith (Last) (First) (Middle) C/O AKEBIA THERAPEUTICS, INC 245 FIRST STREET (Street) CAMBRIDGE MA 02142 (City) (State) (Zip)	2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. [ AKBA ]	5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) Director 10% Owner X Officer (give title below) Other (specify below) SVP, Chief Medical Officer
	3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year) 02/28/2020
	4. 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 Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 3)	2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed Of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)			5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4)	6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
			Code	V	Amount	(A) or (D)	Price
Common Stock	02/28/2020		A		62,000(1)	A	$0.00	99,000	D

Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3)	2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	4. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)		6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 3 and 4)		8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5)	9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4)	10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
				Code	V	(A)	(D)	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares
Stock Option (Right to buy)	$8.87	02/28/2020		A		105,500		(2)	02/28/2030	Common Stock	105,500	$0.00	105,500	D

Explanation of Responses:

1. The restricted stock units were granted by the Issuer pursuant to its 2014 Incentive Plan, as amended. One third of the restricted stock units will vest on each of the first, second and third anniversaries of the grant date.

2. The options were granted by the Issuer pursuant to its 2014 Incentive Plan, as amended. The options will vest over four years: 25% of the options will vest on the first anniversary of the grant date with the remaining 75% vesting in equal quarterly installments thereafter.

Remarks:

	/s/ Nicole R. Hadas, attorney-in-fact for Steven K. Burke	03/02/2020
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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POWER OF ATTORNEY

	Know all by these present, that the
undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints
each of John P. Butler, Jason A. Amello and Nicole R.
Hadas signing singly, as the undersigneds true
and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

(1)	prepare, execute in the undersigneds
 name and on the undersigneds behalf, and
submit to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC)
a Form ID, including amendments thereto, and any other documents
necessary or appropriate to obtain codes and passwords enabling
the undersigned to make electronic filings with the SEC of reports
required by Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended (the Act) or any rule or regulation of the SEC;

	(2)	execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in
the undersigneds capacity as an officer, director and/or
shareholder of Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. (the Company),
Forms 3, 4 and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Act,
and the rules thereunder;

	(3)	do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf
of the undersigned that may be necessary or desirable to complete
and execute any such Form 3, 4 or 5 and timely file such form with
the SEC and any stock exchange or similar authority; and

	(4)	take any other action of any type whatsoever in
connection with the foregoing that, in the opinion of such
attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or
legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the
documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the
undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form
and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact
may approve in such attorney-in-facts discretion.

	The undersigned hereby grants to each 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 the acts such attorney-in-fact 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 each of
the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the
request of the undersigned, is not assuming any of the undersigneds
responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Act.

	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 undersigneds holdings of and transactions in
securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned
in a signed writing delivered to each of the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

       IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of
Attorney to be executed as of July 31, 2019.

By:
/s/ Steven K. Burke

Name:
 Steven K. Burke, M.D.